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Korea mandated through legislation that all online shopping had to go through ActiveX controls, because that was the only way to guarantee secure encryption at the time. Now it's practically the least secure way to online shop and even Microsoft recommends not using ActiveX, but it's a huge amount of work to strip that infrastructure out and make everything work 'properly' so it's still an issue even today.

In short, legislating a solution is a workaround that can turn out to be a huge detriment not too long down the road. I'm no libertarian, but it seems like a bad idea to me.
And then when you do get cancer or some other expensive disease, the rest of us get to pay for your treatment.

Costs need to come down, but opting out of the system because you're currently healthy isn't good.
As an interesting note:

Lots of companies that do background checks aren't doing them to see if you have an arrest record at all.

They are doing them to see if you have been honest and if you haven't been convicted of financial crimes, or computer crimes.

The former is a big deal if you do credit card processing and money handling, the latter may or may not be an issue depending on what it is and who you are working for.

Smaller companies give a lot of leeway to hiring managers, and there are jobs that you may be excluded from, but it isn't the end of the world. Honestly, places that believe past performance is a predictor of future results need a reality check. Peoples lives, and circumstances change enough that it isn't a good predictor of anything.

As you are a CS student, I highly recommend that you start working on and contributing to open source projects and personal projects. Working as an engineer ends one of three ways... You spend your years pushing the buttons and collecting a check, you do that same thing and get lucky with an exit or you start doing your own thing. That last one gives you mastery over your own fate and destiny and is the way a lot of us are really getting ahead.

It is much easier to try and fail when your young... eating ramen, working long hours aren't as rough on you and not having kids or dependents are big factors to you being able to sustain a lifestyle that those of us who are older don't have as easy of a time doing.
I agree. Where is Sundar? Larry? Sergueï?
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I think companies profiting on privacy is a bad thing, but how exactly is it unconstitutional?
That is the current state of academia, IMHO.
He's spot on about fairness but dead wrong about competition.

Life is not a zero-sum game.

Choose the path of abundance and create new value for others over the path of scarcity and competition.
I've been a frequent critic of Obamacare. I've personally experienced some of its shortcomings: lesser coverage, more out of pocket, higher deductibles, can't see the family doctor my other family members see, and that I saw for years, etc.

But I saw nothing from the Republicans that indicated they were fixing or improving anything.

I think a number of dissenting House Republicans know that premiums are going to go up no matter what and decided they'd rather see Obamacare go down the drain with his name on it than step up and fix what needs fixing.
They're like the 1980's GM of chat products right now: too many overlapping products cannibalizing their own userbase.
What a difference a year makes! In January 2016, Congress passed legislation to repeal Obamacare, confident that Obama would veto it:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/06/politics/house-obamacare-r...

Now that Republicans have the power, they can't agree on anything anymore. What a miserable bunch of phonies.
I'm rolling the dice.

My high deductible plan is now $400/month (I'm fully out of pocket for the first $6500); its $750 to cover my wife and my daughter on their own low deductible PPO plan. That's $1150/month | $13800/year. I spend $500/month to cover my disabled mother's health insurance and some of her medical expenses. I'm still paying off hospital bills from my daughter's birth in August.

With Trump's executive action, I can now drop my $400/month high deductible plan and still receive my tax refund next year. If I have a catastrophic emergency medical expense, I'll declare bankruptcy (Florida protects your primary residence and your retirement accounts from all creditors except the bank with your mortgage). If I get cancer? That's what my life insurance is for.

Disclaimer: I fully support single payer. These are the perils of healthcare in America.
23,000 comments at that time is huge, wondering what was the product? i live outside the states and never tried Netflix, so i don't understand "Qwikster".
"Lobbying would destroy any legislation almost immediately, and there would still be the issue of competing standards."

Oh, I agree. You're describing the effect of a corrupt government allowed to prevent or eliminate laws meant to protect its voters. I was talking about what law would be necessary if voters cared enough to push one.
What are some recent examples?

It would be particularly impressive for a team of ~2-3 people to:

- build a product

- handle legal/HR paperwork to set up a company + recruit + hire

- launch

- iterate based on feedback

- Get solid traction by demo day

in just 3 months (the duration of YC).

It seems to me that in the early days of YC, most companies would finish the YC program while still in the idea phase or barely past it, whereas most recent YC companies already have solid traction by demo day.
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I haven't done any in depth analysis of gryadka but I think the premise of the argument here may be wrong. Even if a particular value isn't accepted by a majority of nodes, that doesn't necessarily make it a dirty read. As long as anyone participating in the algorithm sees the history as if it was committed right before the cas result is committed, it could still be linearizable. I would need to create a formal model to be sure whether it is correct or not, but don't just assume it's wrong because it isn't paxos (which it isn't and it shouldn't advertise like it is).
Maybe the point is that Javascript is JIT compiled?
What you wrote isn't a universal truth. In Go, + is not a function like any other. There's no argument to this.
if that's your stance then i'd steer away from soa
Similar island in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashima_Island
This legislation was a complete mess. Republicans have been warning about the Obamacare "death spiral" for years. For the life of me I can't figure out why no one is talking about the much worse, much faster death spiral embedded in this legislation: no one would be forced to buy insurance, but insurers still have to take your preexisting condition, and can only charge 30% more for one year for the extra risk. Hello adverse selection!

I'm a pretty free-market guy and can get behind healthcare reform in general, but this bill had holes big enough to drive trucks through from the right and left simultaneously with plenty of room to spare. I could believe it coming from Trump, but I have no idea what Paul Ryan was thinking... the guy is supposed to be a policy wonk.
> Other than resolution improvements, it would be nice if someone would attempt an HDR light field display.

Light field displays just mean even more resolution increases because they're usually created by throwing more pixels at the problem and sticking microlenses over it. Although it doesn't have to be planar, afaik you can also achieve light fields by modifying the phase by altering the properties of the medium in its depth dimension. But you still need to encode a lot more informaation, so whether you have 2D or 3D pixels... you still need more resolution.
Sand is a very benign word for what is going to be tailings.
Yes. That would be a story worth reading about because the octopus has a PhD!
Losing SMS from Hangouts is the bigger deal for me.

I liked having one app on the home screen for voip and text and sms and videochat. It was simple and clean. Splitting it into 3 is a terrible user experience.

I get the Unix philosophy of lots of small tools applying here, but the Unix has the shell to tie them together. If Google made their Contacts app work as a hub - every chat system logs their history for a given contact into their contacts app, so I can open up a contact and see every communication app (even multiplayer games) and an interlined history for them all? That would make this work.

I could take the SMS, the chat, voice, even the dialer off the home screen and just have contacts - even a shortcut to my wife, so I could just open a person and then open a communication app for that person. That would work.

But without that, having a zillion small communication apps does not provide a good experience because the android home screen is a bad shell for lots of small apps. It's just a launcher that's good for big monolithic ones.
"And the result is OOXML"

The result of open-sourcing all data formats and protocols would obviously be all the data formats and protocols released as open-source. OOXML is not the only one in existence.
non-Americans: can you describe what dealing with your health care system is like? I want to understand: is it a supply constrained, health-care rationing, expensive bureaucracy; or is it an affordable, convenient, healthy paradise; or something in between? I see reports from people who create a portrayal of European and Asian health care systems that match their narrative of these systems either being excellent, or horrible. Can I hear from actual people who live in this systems if they are good or bad?
> I want the same DPI scaling my desktop uses and I want the same UI standards followed, not some giant mess of whatever every individual dev decides seems nice that day.

You must not use OSX native apps then with multiple monitors then. They don't work right (at least not for me!) One of the reasons I use Chrome for so much is that when I change my workspace (as someone who does both coding and project management this is increasingly a requirement) I don't want my UI to clip off the frame unrecoverably or render as a blurry mess.

> I'm not so sure it's mitigated by the web - people may browse Facebook and a few news sites, but those aren't complex applications at all and they have very simplistic UIs

You should look at the Chrome Web Store. But... also... "Facebook?" "Simplistic?" Simplistic is hacker news, where I can't use an Emoji.

> that don't attempt to imitate familiar desktop controls

One last thing: this is much more a sign of the current UI style of the time, and is very much a product of a post iPhone world where unique visual styles are expected. Even then, a text editor is such a specialist piece of work even native apps struggle and cheat, doing things like avoiding sheet animations and providing unique UI and UX components. Native apps have been introducing their own file hierarchy and multi-modal buttons since the time of emacs.
The thing is, and this is the current state of email in general, aka not just google, using an email server other than from [big cloud], like say from my local ISP or a large shared hosting provider, you will run into issues. Usually fine, but every few months your (my) server's ip will randomly get blacklisted for a few days, and for a small biz you'll have customers occasionally not receive your email.

Random blacklisting maybe is less of an issue if you run your own server with a unique ip only you use, but for most people it's getting harder and harder not to use gmail/outlook/lycos.

So ya fuck spammers.
Here is a link not hidden behind an ad-wall

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The 'freedom' of Lisp that you're describing comes from a different relationship between the language and the programmer than you have in other languages. In almost all non-lisp languages (including all the popular languages you've heard about), you're a user of the language. There's a set of syntactic and semantic rules provided by the language designers, and you're supposed to use them to express your programs. There's a strong separation between the language designers and the users of that language.

On the other hand, Lisp languages (affectionately called "programmable programming languages"), remove that separation almost completely. As a programmer using a Lisp, you're provided with enough tools to build new syntax and semantic rules, so that the language better matches your problem domain. This is a very powerful technique, but obviously also dangerous.

As a simple example, say you wanted to do OOP in Python, but for some reason Python didn't provide the "class" keyword. At this point, you'd be totally out of luck. Your best bet would be to send a request to language designers, and in the meantime try to program OOP-style in structural code. On the other hand, if someone took away the "defclass" macro from Common Lisp, you could quickly reimplement it yourself and thus introduce OOP facilities that look and work as if they were a part of the language from the start (in fact, building your own simple OOP is pretty much a textbook exercise for lispers).

That much of power can obviously confuse people who didn't do much programming before. It's good to start with a simpler language first - be it something like Python, or even subset of Scheme that's used in SICP, which sacrifices some of the Lisp power for making it suitable as an introduction to programming.
> The law can say whatever it wants.

You understand that the law, is a thing unto itself. The language of the law may use english but the words start to take on very different meanings.

If you haven't you should listen lenny bruce. His take on the law is second to none. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klrml3tI29E
I manage the newsletter signups for a developer-focused company. I have a graph on a dashboard that shows "Fucks Given" for the newsletter signup. Essentially how many `fuckoff@fuckyou.com` type signups happen per week. Any time we try and increase the number of signups by changing the form, we also make sure that the number of "Fucks Given" stays as close to zero as possible. (Some people are just angry.)
Interesting how one person is a common denominator in all those interactions ;)
Classic example of trends vs facts in journalism.

SF chronical article today (like any of you read that hah!) talks about recession-level net migration in the Bay Area last year. Meanwhile in NY prices have supposedly declined (can only site annecdotes and others claims unfortunately).

The predicted future is already here.
We also wal-e in production and it's been great. Storing your wal logs also allow you to do point in time recoveries, so you can restore your db to a particular time before a stuff up happened.
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At least in my district the ISP could simply paint it as a way to create more jobs for their business.
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Then why did FedEx explicitly told me that the 50EUR was the charge for the paper to pick it up and not for the package itself ? Why did the customs told me that there was no charge for books and that anyone with the paper for the package could pick it up free of charge ?
I don't think the AWS datacenters would disappear in thin air either.
Bitcoin is AP not CP.
Thanks - that looks good, will check it out.
Ask Trump to veto it. He may oblige.
This headline should really say $5 off coupon or $5 discount as it is a very different thing from giving people $5 in cash.
The leadership drove the bill the wrong way. They should have hung the Freedom Caucus out to dry, moderated the bill, and tried to peel the necessary votes from Democrats in red states.

Torpedoing essential benefits without a more fundamentally comprehensive replacement was like strapping engines to a car and expecting it to turn into a plane.
If you took three semesters of post-secondary maths and never encountered "∈", you should ask for your money back.
uh, no Democrat voted for this.

"The Senate" didn't vote for this. The Republicans did.
Because being constrained by existing standards, rather than being free to make the changes to the protocol that you think will make the product better, is a huge trade-off. The benefit is that your users get that interoperability with e.g. MSN Messenger or Skype or whatever.

However, if no one else is doing that, if no one else is playing fair (like Microsoft accepting things like typing or presence notifications but not sending them in return), then it turns out you're being constrained, and possibly doing additional work to add features, and the person benefitting the most is someone else's users and not your own.
- You make a snide comment

- Someone misinterprets it as an honest mistake and tries to explain things

- You take on a condescending tone attempting to ^educate^ this obviously clueless person who doesn't know what word they ought to be using

- Someone patiently points out that it is you who is wrong

- You now use humour and pretend to be dismissive (instead of either not saying anything or acknowledging that yes, you did learn something new).

Bravo! Now everyone knows just how witty and smart you can be!
To allow the eyes to actually refocus based on distance you want light field displays in your VR headsets
You can make a compelling case for pretty much anything if you don't have to present conflicting views. That's what lobbyists are experts for.
Has nothing to do with that. Put yourself in the shoes of the people behind a new messaging platform that needs a competitive advantage. Using XMPP is a massive technical restriction, and would give almost no benefits (Discord gets to be opinionated on how servers and channels are organized).

Discord's product isn't a hosting service, their product is the quality of the service as well. This quality would be impossible with XMPP as it exists today, within the constraints of a startup. Remember, they do voice and they want to do video as well. Google's own efforts on Jingle failed due to performance.

As for mobile, it's not just power consumption, it's connection lifecycle. XMPP last I heard had extremely poor support for lossy connectivity.
I've heard people say that banning DDT caused more human death than all of our wars throughout history combined.
Hunger is India's (and the World's) greatest problem even today. Help us in our analysis by answering a few questions and we will FEED ONE PERSON for every completed response.

Despite being among the top 10 percentile of fastest growing economies, India remains home to the largest hungry and undernourished population in the world. Almost 200 million people sleep hungry every night and around 7000 die of hunger everyday.
Of course, not that simple.

In the future, every other website will ship their own rendering engine (from some big CDN, of course) that prohibits you from messing with their precious spam. Heck, I honestly do expect some startups doing just this kind of "innovation" as soon as WebAssembly gets slightly more polished and cross-browser, so probably just another year or two from now.

(That shit will be fought with AI/ML nextgen ad-blockers, that would try to "see" what that positioned <div> is - a spammy modal or some legit navigation sidebar... and I don't dare to think any further, as we approach the singularity.)
No, lol, it's exactly normal compilation. It's a buzzword that differentiates languages without normal compilation (esp using VM's or interpreters) from special implementations of them that do support that. The latter have "AOT" compilation. Wikipedia states the difference is AOT compiles the bytecode of an existing VM. It's still just a compiler, though, given the end result is mostly the same.
I suppose the contrast is with JIT compilation, which has a lot of mindshare now so it's valuable to make the distinction
Hangouts was until recently, a combined videochat/IM/sms app for desktop and mobile, tied to your google account. If you had a Google Voice service account, it could also be used to send SMS messages from the desktop.

But then Google decided they didn't want Hangouts to be that anymore, and are stripping out features to focus it as the "corporate" messenger while they split its functionality into three different Android apps - Allo, Duo, and Messages.

So now Hangouts is just a desktop/mobile videochat and IM. No more SMS. And they have a "consumer-oriented" pair of voicechat and IM apps in Duo and Allo. But they're not compatible with Hangouts so if one user uses Hangouts and the other one uses Allo, they can't communicate directly.

Google has gone mad.
You have me almost sold.

Is there a way to buy some on a one time basis without subscribing?

I would like to sample the coffee before committing to a subscription.
That's a good point - especially important if someone's thinking about legislating a particular technology. On the other hand, maybe in this case it would be enough to legislate a requirement for openness of the protocol? I.e. whatever it is, if it has enough many users, it has to be fully available to third party integrations.
I don't know why, but I have this Deja Vu feeling...
At this point it would be better if they would just discontinue Talk, Hangouts, Allo, Duo, etc, etc, etc and focus on a single communications app. Give them a 6 month deadline and for the love of God, have a single app that I can use for chat, voice and video.
Nay: 46 D, 2 I actually.