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59 1/2. For Traditional 401(k), you owe the taxes on it and an additional penalty if you withdraw early. You're required to take distributions from it starting at 70 (69 1/2?), because the feds want their tax dollars.

Roth 401(k) plans are less common, you'd owe a penalty but not taxes since it's pre-tax money. No mandatory distributions because they've already gotten your money.

IRAs are the same. HSAs (mentioned elsewhere) are tax-free if distributions are spent on medical costs. For non-medical costs, you owe taxes and a penalty. After age 65 you'd only owe taxes.
I'm hoping someone can help me with this. DropBox is valued at $10b. Their closest competitor, Box, has a market cap of just over $2b. Does Dropbox really offer that much more than Box?
Sort of. Once the patent expires, the R&D machine will try hard to create new drugs that are just slightly different or potentially "better" in some vague small way for some small number of people, and then the sales/marketing machine will try hard to market to doctors and consumers the idea that this new, still patented version is the right thing and the best and the old stuff is crap.

The new stuff will actually benefit a tiny number of people, but mostly, you'll end up with a lot of those future generation which you think were going to save money, not saving any because they're wrongly prescribed a newer fancier drug that doesn't actually have any benefits for them over the old generic one. This is how pharma has their cake and eats it too.
Ask HN: Where did my post go?
I submitted a post about 12hrs ago, but never saw it listed under "new" or "ask".

Searching for the title also failed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13992868
This is a really good point. Although: even if I may not agree with the revenue potential, the market does and that is basically what allowed those banks to rake in during SNAP's IPO. I mean, nobody knows for sure whether SNAP will every be profitable, but the market thinks that it will. Or maybe the market is too gullible ...
I wonder if different languages evolved as a way to encrypt communication from other tribes. Too far fetched I admit.
How we raised a £100k seed round with a single cold email
The world's biggest porn site goes all in on encryption
Agreed.

"And charging stations? Do you think that's profitable secret sauce?"

Would you drive your Leaf from LA to Phoenix in a day? Guessing not. With the superchargers it's one more piece of the TSLA ecosystem.
Did every "futurologist" miss that, you know, an autonomous car is still the same size and shape as a normal car? That they still carry most likely 1 person?

1. an autonomous car will probably be smaller and yes possibly a different shape than current cars.
2.
If you have a fleet of on demand autonomous cars, you can have different sizes of cars for different loads: small cars for individual trips, up to vans or buses for ride sharing (which would presumably be cheaper). Also everything from trucks to uhaul to big rigs for rent for moving stuff around.
HelloSign moves into digital workflow with new HelloWorks product
So how does one go about finding open source projects with easy tasks?
That's really cool :) I love me some tiny programs
It's an interesting modernization of the classic ... overall I liked it!

But ...

The grey text on the black background is horrible for those of us with "older eyes". It needs more contrast and/or a heavier font. It's especially bad that, when scrolling, the font's contrast dims even more (making it very difficult to see where I am).
> It's also keeping physicians up to date on the current science, applicability, and best practices of their products. I think it's a good thing for sales reps and MSLs to inform or remind physicians that there are alternatives to writing a script for Epipens, for example.

There are many very cheap ways of keeping physicians up-to date, such as a conference presentation of the drug, followed by a Q&A session, with a recording freely available online.

> Many drugs are cheap to make, but that neglects the astronomical development and regulatory costs.

Which are covered in the already mentioned 20% that goes to R&D (source pending). Are you purposefully ignoring information you dislike?
I'm proud of that one, but you're the first person I've seen even _mention_ it!

It takes at least a full working day to round up all the FTC actions for a year, read them, code them, categorize them, synthesize, write it up, and proofread. I had that kind of time back in early 2015, when I'd just started my own practice, and wasn't backed up with client work to do. I holed myself up in the San Francisco Law Library for it, as I recall.
Why? Amazon made billions in revenue for years and only recently became profitable.
I do not think we are in disagreement. I'm talking about the difference between someone who maximizes life and education versus someone who maximizes GPA. I'm taking it as a given that these two individuals are equally capable in whatever subject they're studying.

That said, I tutor mathematics and I hear all day long "I can't do this" and it has never once been true. For the people I help it is usually a matter of finding how they learn best (visual, verbal, hands on...) and/or finding an appropriate metaphor. And yes, even despite this, they often struggle; but genuine struggle is a good reason to put in more hours. I don't dispute that.

Your prof's answer is the kind of answer that disgusts me. It's not teaching. In mathematics it is exceptionally questionable, because it is tantamount to expecting you to derive the whole of mathematics by yourself.
I never realized all this existed!

I'm still not clear from the article why the codes used inside the hospital are proprietary. copyrighted information- what kind of legal hoop jumping allows them to claim this?

What kind of domain knowledge do you need to be able to code a procedure? Is it knowledge just of the insurance system, or is it also deeper medical knowledge / cultural knowledge of how doctors perceive / deal with one procedure over another?
Yes. Whenever you're collecting feedback from a person (or group of people), their own self-image and ego is by far the most important factor in their responses.

It would not even be considered a lie by most. There's just not necessarily any relationship between their self-conception and reality. People are terrible at assessing their own motives (and from this arises marketing, whose goal is to program the target to believe they desire a specific product/brand).

Most people do not see themselves as greedy, and I would guess the respondents to this survey are not in dire financial straits, so they wouldn't make an exceptional circumstance override for themselves (assuming they're the type who'd take such a survey seriously enough to consider that in the first place).

The question, essentially, can be interpreted as "Do you consider yourself noble or non-noble?" Of course, most people consider themselves noble.

This same ego-driven self-narrative is the reason that someone can take a lot of hollabaloo, dress it up in gaudy language, throw in some charts and equations to support the pre-conception, and get people to believe it's insightful and credible.
> That's advertising.

Anecdotally, a friend of mine was doing post-doctoral work researching and developing cancer drugs. He now works on a pharmaceutical sales team as a scientific liaison.

"Advertising" a drug involves a lot more than running TV commercials - it also includes former scientists making the current research digestible for doctors who don't have the time or specialized knowledge to do that in between seeing patients.

The notion that every practicing doctor has enough free time - or is even smart enough - to keep up on the latest pharmaceuticals, is ridiculous.
How so? There are only so many patients to treat. Sales are eroding mostly because competition has brought prices down and improved drugs allow for shorter treatments.
but only a few contain yes, so most aren't optimizable?
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Not at all.

At ~170k USD (220k CAD) in Ontario, you'll be hitting the combined top marginal rate of 54%.

It's true that California+Federal will be within a couple points of that at their top marginal rate, but that's 1m+ in California and 400k+ federally. So you won't even be within spitting distance until 400k+.

In California at ~170k USD you'll only be paying a combined marginal rate of ~37%, which is a huge difference. The brackets are lower all the way up, so you pay way less overall even if you do hit 1m+. And although payroll taxes are a bit more in the US AFAIK, Canada has higher sales taxes and lots of other hidden costs (e.g. much higher gas tax, more expensive consumer goods due to import duties, etc.).
They're free cash-flow positive.

Consider that Amazon is also mostly not profitable but has staggering amounts of positive free cash flow.
The myth of the ‘lone wolf’ terrorist
That's not the most useful lesson I'd take from that. (That's not a very useful lesson, because I guess if you're not already a Feynman level genius, too bad)

The more useful lesson, useful for anyone, is that sometimes sleeping on it (literally, or just doing a very different activity) helps.
That's a pretty shitty way of saying that somebody has to pay and it has to be us (the USA).

Shafting the American consumer because the rest of the world can't or won't pay the "true" cost (including research / marketing / profits) isn't a solution.
Mm, you're talking about a microcosm of the buy-vs-build question. Only junior developers would obliquely state that using a library is always "working smarter". A much bigger aspect of working smarter is deciding that you don't need to build something at all because it's the wrong approach to solve a business problem.
It's more complicated than that. Insurance companies negotiate rates with providers. If you just show-up at some provider and pay out-of-pocket, with no insurance, the rate you pay can be vastly different (i.e. higher) than the rate they would charge a large insurance company.
Aha!

This I did not know.

Thank!
Thought they were cash profitable??
Does anything stop you from uploading 10s or 100s of TB? I recently crossed 1TB of storage use on S3 (which costs around $20/month) and am in the process of exploring alternatives.

I've never really understood how companies can offer "unlimited" storage at low prices.
yes, that's the case.
Surely if the company isn't "living up to it's valuation" that's a problem for the people who erroneously valued it at that level, not for the company?
Read these

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13942104

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13945492

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13946588

and you will find that we cannot.
Samsung's “dream” to overcome Apple
This. Many people fail to see just how well Dropbox works for business that want a reliable, user friendly cloud storage solution. Sure its "just" a file sharing solution, but they do it really really well.
Yes, and the reader mode was not available to me a first too. I believe I used the option to request the desktop page and then the icon appeared in the url bar.
And you have to have a high-deductible plan. I recommend this to all my (healthy) younger colleagues. Max out the HSA while they don't need the money, let it grow. When they're older, married, kids, and generally find medical expenses increasing you can switch to a standard plan, but still use the HSA money you've accumulated.

I'm at the age and activity level (and higher risk ones) where that's not a sound economic option for me, unfortunately, and didn't know about HSAs until health insurance started paying me more than I paid in (after a shoulder surgery next month, I think I'll have gotten more out of it than I've ever put in).
With all due respect, saying the article is a little one sided doesn't tell me much. Can you outline what the other side of the story is?
Here is what we are "supposed" to do:

You are supposed to be afraid because you are competing with ruthlessly efficient machines who may replace you more cheaply. Fear will get you to focus on the AI threat/utopia and not be bothered with minor ethical/efficiency issues.

You are supposed to accept lower wages because of the above.

You are supposed to accept reduced worker safety to keep workers competitive with machines.

You are supposed to invest money in companies marketing AI.

You are supposed to support fewer regulations for innovative AI companies. If this means a few pedestrians get run over by self driving cars, then that is a risk AI companies are willing to accept("Move Fast and Break Things"). Fewer regulations mean AI markets can keep trade secrets protected and not reduced to easily regulated commodities.

You're supposed to buy "smart" products. Smart tvs, smart cars, smart dishwashers, etc. It's the least you can do since dumb products are going away and the new smart products are priced at less than exorbitant rates because AI companies are making up the difference by selling their data about you. It's okay if you don't fully understand these products, that's why they're smart and you are smart for buying something smart. Dumb products are for those who are in a lower socioeconomic class than you and for tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists unless they are expensive(in that case they will have an appropriate expensive label to advertise their high quality: "organic", "vintage", "antique", etc).

You're supposed to not let other issues distract you from the coming AI revolution, especially immigration. AI companies need immigrant labor to program the self-programming AI machines and to provide a human interface to the machines for the machine's owners and users. In some cases at first, the human robots will need to serve as the main AI, until their pure electronic and metal replacements arrive. Cheap human robots can fill the gaps, but regardless of cost, these humans must be controlled rigidly, just like robots.
It's going to depend on the material of your object. If it's perfectly reflective, you'll want to trace different rays than if it's perfectly diffuse, and if it's a rough surface (and how rough).
Right on, something seemed off in the name but I just didn't look it up. Should have known too, 23x2=56.
What a great opportunity for you to pull this so easily available and understandable information, and destroy my entire argument by showing how efficiently pharma allocates revenue to important drug research, and how little is wasted on marketing, sales, generics, and other stuff!
Mikeal Rogers of the Node Foundation has been in my ear about this more than once. I've done some work on new, plain-language permissive terms with clear patent license, but haven't anything to show publicly for it yet.
Except if your return has no deviations from what the tax authority sent you, why would the computer flag it for an audit? You're essentially going to be in the randomly-selected pile, and the auditor won't see anything at all suspicious.

Besides that, unless you have income above $1M per year or so, it usually costs the government more to audit you than they will get from you as a result of the audit. So unless you're evading so egregiously that it makes sense to prosecute you criminally, pour encourager les autres, it's better to let little cheats slide. Like over-declaring the value of the clothes you dropped off at the thrift shop as charitable deduction. There's no way those jeans are worth $20 now, you cheater. But as long as your total charitable deductions are under $500, no one cares enough to nail you for it.

Most of the people who would sign and return the pre-filled forms probably haven't ever filed a schedule A, anyway, as it would turn out to be less than the standard deduction. Unless you really care about how much you pay in taxes, there is a huge incentive to just sign and return the form the instant you get it, without even looking at it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13992576
> Toulouse noted that Poincaré kept very regular hours.

I feel that this is key. I remember an old post about someone's account about another phd candidate they worked with (my memory may be hazy). He noticed that whenever she made good progress, it didn't matter when during the day; she would take off and stop for the day (a lot of times before 2pm) for happy hour. His hours by contrast were less regular and he would work longer streaks, working much longer hours overall. If I remember correctly she finished her thesis a few months before he did.

> The rest of the time, they were hiking mountains, taking naps, going on walks with friends, or just sitting and thinking. Their creativity and productivity, in other words, were not the result of endless hours of toil. Their towering creative achievements result from modest “working” hours.

As others have noted, while you stop working consciously when you're 'relaxing'; you never really stop working subconsciously.

Adam Grant and others (like Napoleon Hill) have elaborated on it, but I can only find his account

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_o...
Senate was party line which was introduced first by Jeff Flake R-AZ, House had a handful flip but for the most part party line.
Which app do you use for it?
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I eat mostly food prepared by my SO. You're right, a lot of packaged foods contain sugar. When I eat those, I look at the label and usually avoid them.

For me, the big change was desserts. I was a fiend for those. I've tried a lot of things to ween myself from eating and binging on sugary treats. I wasn't expecting IF to be the thing that worked. That was totally unexpected.
How-to's for using Composer for PHP package management
I agree. It just works, and it works really well. My only complaint is that they don't yet have Smart Sync [1] (aka Project Infinite) for premium home users.

I love it though, and I use Cryptomater [2] to sync my docs folder across machines without having it be on Dropbox's servers in the clear.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/30/dropbox-launches-smart-sy...

[2] https://cryptomator.org/
Very kind!

If and when you find typos or misfires, please feel free to send me patches via GitHub. I'm always happy to give credit where it's due.
Well, your car might actually get distracted and/or drive too fast for road conditions. Making sensors that work under all conditions is very difficult.
The people who erroneously valued it are shareholders in the company, the company exists to benefit its shareholders, ergo (the shareholders would say) it's a problem for the company.
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> Object literal containing a getter and object literal containing a setter

Isn't this something Babel does quite often?
I read it differently from you. What I read is that there are two "modes", one with free will but with no knowledge of the future, and one with knowledge of the future but that effectively "forces" you to play your part in what you know the future to be. I feel that this explanation agrees with the two "interpretations" of refraction mentioned in the book.

However, then the question arises: How do you reconcile the fact that some beings can see the future when there are other beings in the world that have free will (and thus are able to change the future that the former see)?

I consider the explanation in the book sufficient, though. I don't expect my fiction to be perfectly consistent with everything, and this particular story passes my personal, subjective bar.
Bitrise! Both the open source CLI (https://www.bitrise.io/cli) and bitrise.io (hosted service).

I'm obviously biased (CTO and Co-founder), but I love automation, that's why I'm part of the bitrise team in the first place ;)

The CLI is similar to something like rake, but the config lives in a single file which can be moved anywhere, and you can get a list of available "tasks" (workflows in the bitrise terminology) by running `bitrise workflows` or `bitrise run` without any parameter.

There's also an open source editor (UI) available for it (https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/offline-workflow-editor-workflo...), which is now part of the "base plugins" which gets installed by the Bitrise CLI. It's also really light weight, as the CLI is a single binary distribution (written in Go).
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"roughly what the wholesale price is plus a very small markup" .. is not my experience. I just had a pharmacist friend show this to me.

Blink charged the customer $10 for generic Lipitor (atorvastatin) 20mg, 30 pills. And reimbursed the pharmacy $4.90. Hence keeping > 50% of what the customer paid. As per the pharmacist, he would be happy to fill the prescription in cash for $7.50, lowering the price for consumer and making him more margin.

These are real numbers. Blink is in fact contributing to increasing the price for consumers, while being yet another middleman in the process.
"Finally one of the challenges with moving to a centrally managed pricing solution like what works so well in Canada and most of Western Europe is right now R&D into pharmaceuticals is largely financed by the opportunity size available in the US market. If you were to just adopt the centralized model tomorrow R&D would grind to a stop, at least for some period of time until we found new ways to finance it."

That would be bad. Based on 5 minutes of googling and 10 minutes of reading, the largest US pharma company is Johnson & Johnson. Their latest earnings report has the following for the 12 months in 2016 (not all expenses are listed here):

- Sales (i.e. revenue): $71.8bn

- Marketing expense: $19.9bn

- R&D expense: $9.1bn

- After tax, after expenses profit: $16.5bn

So, on behalf of my fellow Australians, I'd just like to thank J&J for selling into my country at a substantial loss (and, in doing so, bravely running the risk of breaching their fiduciary duties to their shareholders).

I'd also like to express my gratitude to consumers in the United State, who are apparently so generous that they are willing to subsidise my country's single-purchaser medical system. It's a shame you can't have one as well, but at least you have the world's gratitude for your sacrifice. USA #1!

EDIT: Link - http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/JNJ/4178180194x0x9249...
Enterprise container DevOps steps up its game with Kubernetes 1.6
I can't speak for all medical schools, but at my ex's school they have Honors/High Pass/Pass/Low Pass/Fail; so basically (ABCDF).

Other than being required to get at least Pass in order to remain in good academic standing, I'm not certain what effect these grades have.
A library providing Vue applications with “asynchronous-first” state management
I don't know much about the different router brands and models. Which would you consider to be some of the good ones?
It has already got systemd, so why another layer?