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> - Someone else pointed out that the article isn't about a choice, the dialer was forced on the user.

If you want the phone to come with a dialer (I think most people do), then some dialer will inevitably be forced on people. And unless you think phone calls are an optional feature, it makes perfect sense that the dialer cannot be deleted.

The only complaint I can see here is that phone manufacturers can make bad choices for their default, undeleteable dialers. Well, yes, just like they can make bad choices for other software on the phone. The only reasonable remedy for that is to buy a phone from a manufacturer that makes software choices you like.

That phone manufacturers can make bad software choices is not an argument against having replaceable dialers. Quite the opposite. A manufacturer can make the exact same bad dialer choice if the dialer isn't replaceable. The only difference is that if the dialer is replaceable you might be able to do something about their bad choice some of the time.
Yeah, I tend to agree with you. But at the same time, none of the existing insurance companies have good enough analytics to handle this well. The thought is that "maybe Oscar can find a better way? Or at the very least build a software platform we can license to other insurance companies..."

My thought is that Oscar is ultimately a platform play; not an insurance company.
> Haskell doesn't make superior software; it just (as far as I understand) allows you to make software of equivalent quality, faster.

But the same question applies to that claim: If it is true, why aren't Haskell developers taking over the world with their ability to deliver the same software, faster?
In Swedish, the term "stordator", literally "big computer" refers to a mainframe.

I really like your idea of nano and picocomputers. It's consistent, and really reflects on the miniaturisation that we have seen since since the invention of the computer.
i used oscar for the past 3 years in NYC as a self-employed freelancer. yes, oscar has great customer service.

but that doesn't make up for the limited network of crappiest doctors at the crappiest facilities - mount sinai beth isreal is NOT a network of quality doctors or a "quality" facility. and i had the most expensive platinum plan. i bet these oscar execs don't use the dr offices i used.

thank gaia i took a staff job with decent insurance.
The solution to false positives is not to artificially rate-limit testing or blind yourself to potentially useful data. It's to understand that 5% is an insufficient significant threshold when your prior belief in a correlation is low.

There are really three solutions to the problem of multiple comparisons: Either (1) you use a different threshold, (2) you use a different test, and/or (3) you correctly interpret that p=5% does not imply the effect is 95% likely.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with exploring a data set, as long as you are responsible in the conclusions you draw.
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The big win is "suburb", but also consider smaller cities. Suburbs can be OK for city dwellers who have cars, which isn't all of them. The daily commute runs backwards of the norm, so traffic is reduced for them. Smaller cities are really affordable. You can pay people less and they still get bigger houses.

Keeping work tasks at the workplace is important. There is an extra benefit for you: security. The best practice is to store proprietary stuff on a network that isn't connected to the Internet at all. Instead of suspending email delivery, just deliver it exclusively to devices at the office.

Babies at work is important if you hope to keep mothers. Nursing works best when there is no delay. The problem with special rooms for nursing is that they create the expectation that they will be used, but nursing is far easier if people are comfortable nursing wherever they happen to be at the moment.

If you can do flex-time, do it. (depends on nature of business) I'm at a place where some people come in randomly, some come in before the Sun is up, and others come in in the late afternoon. Missing a day entirely isn't a big deal; you just make it up. (we do timecards) I'm sure this helps non-parents too: some people want to take college classes, some people want to go surfing, etc.

Timecards may be helpful. Without them, people may feel pressured to work unreasonable hours.
MINDSZ is a perfect place for you to list your inventive ideas and creations
AFAIK you can get a number from a different carrier and then transfer it to the VoIP carrier. When queried, it will still show up as "owned" by the original carrier.
Maybe the code isn't that good? If it were, it would be nice to have Fabien Sanglard take a crack at it.
> So whether you have 2 copies or 1 copy or umpteen copies, if you've economically affected someone, you will lose that fight in court.

First, I never argued that it was or wasn't against the law.

Second, it's not clear that releasing the source would economically affect Blizzard. It's not like someone could start releasing competing StarCraft games. They still don't own the brand etc.

> (and thank you for having the arrogance to explain that on board full of developers, btw...).

I mentioned it because of your argument about a house being 20+ years old.
Thanks for explaining! I am a bit skeptical, though, of the claim that the insurance company sees "everything."

The insurance company has its own view and maybe that's unique, but the paper trail isn't going to reveal everything. Isn't this view going to have distortions too?
It just occurred to me that specific strains which don't induce hunger may be marketed as... "diet weed"?
This is not about corporate speak, but about social group speak. I am sure you use words and terms on your own social groups that could be expressed with an old english word.
Why? Facebook has been a crazy positive growth story for so long now, and has > 1.9Bn people on the platform (monthly active users I believe?)

Not saying that FB's growth approach is better than Google's - I'm just not sure why the dismissal.
Everything will increase in price to absorb the basic $12K. Don't you think for a moment it won't.
Why? Its supposed to be significantly more efficient, given that its breathing air for launch which enables much higher specific impulse than anything a chemical rocket even could do, and it'd have the operational advantages of being a pure single stage to orbit skyplane, which SpaceX also can't do.

Hard to imagine what else one could even want a launch system to do (except perhaps to be a nuclear turborocket ala http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C46Dt-X0V8c , if that were politically feasable). And you can hardly say that of anything SpaceX is doing, given that those are simply incremental improvements of existing rocketry tech.

Presuming they ever manage to make it work (which is prob the big question), it should bring significantly more to cheap launch than SpaceX ever could on their current trajectory.
Not exactly OK, but it along with most everything else instills the spirit of muddling through to victory even with big screw ups. Better to fear extinction than mere war.
The problem with this is that there are Foldables that do not behave in the way that is implied by the above re-write of the parameters.

I think this is kind of the problem when you are really high up in abstraction-land. The functions that you're using are so generic that it's hard to say that they operate on anything in particular, except that the arguments fulfill certain properties or laws.
> runs on a 250k CPU cluster

Yes, except you are not allowed to run the software on their cluster, instead you are expected to run it on your own machine.
Which VR headset are you using?
I've tried HTC Vive and I had no problem with glasses on.
I also own a Gear VR and the lenses are adjustable enough so I don't even need to wear glasses.
I may be wrong but I don't think you can label something as "civil disobedience" when it is done by a corporation or when it is done for profit.
They attempted an indigo and sugar strategy? The player to their right was new and didn't know how to play?
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The only question I have, in this particular case is: what about the victims of the original app? Are they possibly the subject of re-victimization if the app on their device is compromised further by 3rd parties?

Though I completely agree with HackerOne's moral stance here, does this particular scenario complicate things?

EDIT: I do see they took this into consideration in their writeup... still curious.
While Conan still has some room to grow, I love the approach they take to package management for C++.

Too many C++ tools couple package management and build which increases their adoption cost and makes it more work to package third part packages. Conan takes the approach of managing dependencies and then giving your build system of choice the information it needs to access those dependencies via conan plugins. I think I had read that the author of Conan was involved in biicode and that the third party packaging problem is what inspired him to create Conan.

Some other cool things about conan

- Can be used for more than C++

- SCM independent

- Artifact caching

- Options allow clients to customize your package (creates distinct artifact)

- Scopes allow developers to modify your build (like conditional build steps so doesn't create a distinct artifact)

Some things I think can be improved

- Needs to separate out dependency lock file like Cargo or Poet

- Build tools need to be packaged in Conan for tracability / reproducibility

- Plugins are in Python which is heavy for deployment and has a large compatibility surface

- Easy to hit limits of declarative dependency files, being forced into implementing them in Python (see above)

- Project templates are hard coded.
It is an option with trade-offs and variables (distance, hours, how busy they are)

Is "a fruit" really a healthier alternative as a meal replacement?

"Which fruit" is also a question that requires some overhead to answer (bananas are convenient but I don't like the flavor, oranges are delicious but messy to eat, etc)

I actually do prefer to have a Soylent in addition to whatever fruits I have available. It's not like you're swearing off all other foods if you choose Soylent as an option.

Everything that was an option still remain to be options, Soylent adds to the list of available options
Being an indie developer for 10 years feels too much for me.

I mean, once you do 2-3 games and you have a little success, I think you should use that notoriety to gather more talent and assemble a team. Forget starting a startup, studio, being an entrepreneur. I say you should continue doing what you do, but instead of doing all the development yourself and outsourcing the graphics or the sound effects, just bring them in.

A team of 2-3 developers, 1-2 artists, and a composer should level up faster. Watch Fullbright[1], they had amazing success together, while on their own they were.. just ok.

There are any former solo devs here that could share their story? What was the next step for them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullbright_(company)
Noise cancelling headphones don't really drown out conversations. You should get in-ear headphones.
I have a (reasonably) cheap high deductible HSA plan with something like a $5k out of pocket max.

> They let young people gamble but are a shell game

Given that I'm required to have insurance, how is this a gamble? I can easily cover $5k cash, and most years I never even go to the doctor. Why is this plan bad for me?

(I'm not suggesting it's great for _all_ young people, but I think a very large percent are better on them than other expensive gold plans).
I remember when HOWTOs were actually maintained over time so their instructions were up to date. Blogs killed HOWTOs.
Ask HN: I need a better way to present information
Greetings my fellow starving startup friends. My little startup has an opportunity to partner with a humongous company in order to develop leads and potentially be an acquisition for them a little bit down the road. I've got some information I want to share with them about who we are, what we believe, and why we believe it.

I could make a nifty little powerpoint, but gah...I just can't show information that way. I've seen prezio, and it's cool, but I'm just wanting to do something totally different.

Any ideas??
Happens to me all the time. I don't take it personally. Is this over email? I find short emails more likely to be read and answered.
I think it was roughly 3 years ago that some people were saying Uber would be the first trillion dollar company...
I dunno, I use both and most of the time I need restaurant reviews it isn't in my neighborhood.

That being said, I rarely bother opening yelp since I'm usually on Google maps in the first place and in my area they have plenty of reviews.
Note to self: if I find a car following me, I should immediately turn myself in to authorities or face "repercussions".
> Types / Type-driven development Rating: Best in class

> Haskell definitely does not have the most advanced type system (not even close if you count research languages) but out of all languages that are actually used in production Haskell is probably at the top.

What are these other research languages, that have such incredible type systems? Do they usually have implemented compilers, or would they only be described in an abstract form? Can I explore them for fun and curiosity?
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> 2. Sure, corporations are people too, but, nonetheless, only people engage in civil disobedience. Related, for courts, a company that profits from violating of local laws is not a protester or freedom fighter battling injustice, it is criminal enterprise.

This point seems out of place to me. To my understanding as a lay person, the law does not distinguish between a crime committed as civil disobedience and the same crime otherwise. Neither corporations nor private citizens can use a defense like, "it was civil disobedience," to avoid criminal liability. This has nothing to do with corporations being people or not. Could you please bring your lawyerly knowledge to bear and correct whatever deficiencies in understanding I have here?
"Valve doesn't have to do anything"

I've never heard anybody say this about a company before.
> for several months of work

Not quite, the submission deadline is already in 8 weeks. And before you see any code, you need to go through their approval process, which they say takes several weeks. So you only have maybe 4 to 6 weeks to get the actual work done...
It is normal for people to eat lunch halfway through the work day.
Exactly. And the old I get, the less appealing alcohol is (and vice versa for weed). And weed leaves little to no hangover.
Not that I've heard about. A local taxi company has an app that doesn't install properly and won't respond to emails about it. But they are running huge ads talking about how they're so "friendly" and "trusted". At the same time, the taxi drivers are threatening violence if the government doesn't boot Uber.

Uber in Guatemala actually visits the drivers' houses, in addition to requiring police backgrounds on them and so on. It's far safer. The prices are far lower, too. Drivers make more than they'd make working in a call center, where unskilled English speakers can make $600-$700.

It's also providing some investment opportunities. Use Uber's fleet management system to buy a bunch of cars and rent them out to drivers that don't own their own car.

On the whole, Uber, in Guatemala, seems entirely positive.
You might also consider just using brown noise. I find it very useful.
Much easier question to answer: there aren't that many of them, and network effects are important.

There's a reason code-bases like Facebook Chat get successful, and then get rearchitected from niche languages (Erlang) to popular languages (C++), and it isn't ease of development or quality of result. It's the ability to hire people to maintain the thing. And, in large corporations, that reason is usually considered early-enough on that nobody lets development happen in such languages in the first place.

As such, it's only small ISVs that will end up using niche languages. (Sometimes small ISVs that get crazy successful—like WhatsApp—but still, small.)

Even then, the problem is that a code-base that's full of elegant abstractions... is still a codebase you have to learn. The fact that not everybody understands those abstractions is a bad thing for hire-ability, just as much as it's a good thing for ease-of-development and maintainability.

It's just like use of macros in a code-base: they (usually) make the resulting code better once you have taken the time to understand it—but the code starts off more opaque to anyone who hasn't yet taken that time.

Haskell's elegance happens when people who read math papers write software. People who haven't read those math papers can't maintain that software. Thus: Not Viable In The Enterprise.

And, to bring the point home: if you write better software, at the same speed, you can win as an ISV, because your software is, well, better. But if you merely write the same software faster (or for less cost), your bigcorp rival is going to win. No customer cares about how little time or money it took you to build the software. They just care about the result. If FooCorp can spend 10x the resources to make a product that's 10% better than yours, they'll still capture your whole market.
Um, you have it backwards. CF server is not free (ignoring the open engines like Lucee Server) and CF Builder is nagware. I use the free version all the time. It just has a little pop-up when you start it and locks down a few of the features.
I can't take this seriously when their style is broken in the docs: https://postimg.org/image/k13bpu1hn/
That sounds as fake of a crime as money laundering. Certainly misleading officials that haven't identified as being on official business should not be a crime.
It’s a VR play. That’s the frothiest space in the Valley right now. Nobody understands it but everyone wants in. Any idiot could walk into a fucking room, utter the letters ‘v’ and ‘r’, and VC’s would hurl bricks of cash at them.

By the time they find out it’s vaporware, it’s too late. I’ve got to get into this.

— Erlich Bachman
Yes. It also needs a kinetic shield.
The fact that he mentions type driven development probably means that he has dependent typing around, probably as seen in the language Idris, whose recently published book is called the same. Idris is very much not just an abstract language.
I never knew there was a rule against that. Wouldn't it potentially drop the cost and environmental impact of trans pacific cargo if hawaii was used as a refueling station?
It is my hope that there will be a contingent of people that can effectively resist, or maybe even destroy, this coming wave of rentals. If not, people will more often find themselves at the mercy of far more, and far larger, organizations that are not likely to care about them. You can see this already with Apple's App Store and the like
I have no doubt it is what they're selling. But the question is if the tool does something, then the marketing message shouldn't really be relevant. If a FlexiSpy clone comes along and is less direct about spouse-spying, and plays a stronger line of "you need authorization", then it's suddenly OK?
Civic Hacking
Yeah, that's a different topic.
>Straight out of the horses mouth, that's not a strawman, it's literally what you said.

>We shouldn't take money from the rich and give to the poor

You're ignoring the part where I said twice that taking money from all the rich with a tax would be okay. So "we shouldn't take money from the rich" is not my stance at all.

But sure I should explain a bit better.

Levying taxes on all the rich and giving to the poor is fine.

Taking money arbitrarily from one rich guy can degrade ownership-of-money, which is a bad thing.

Taking copyright away from all old code is fine.

Taking old code arbitrarily from one company can degrade ownership-of-old-code, but that's not really a bad thing, because that type of ownership is unimportant to society.
For anyone that just wants to lay on a tropical beach for a week they are.
I don't think any of this is true (eg some cities have medallion systems, some don't; some are more & less corrupt). But for argument's sake, lets say all of it is true. So what?

If Uber's big innovation was being able to order a car via an app, its neither that protectable or even all that innovative. Afterall Google was the 11st search engine. Given that each of Uber's rides is significantly subsidized by VCs, it remains unclear if such a service could ever be profitable. And now every competitor, be it Lyft or taxi companies, offers the same service, with exactly the same drivers & exactly the same cars.

Are you suggesting that no matter what Uber & its execs do, folks are supposed to be loyal to Uber because a few years ago it was a hassle to get a taxi?If Uber disappeared, do you really think their competitors would suddenly stop using apps?

Uber
Forget software, here in Miami where Uber drivers were initially operating illegally (cited with violating 2 municipal ordinances each being a ~$1,010 civil fine, but escalates to criminal charge after the 3rd such violation) Uber sent emails to driver training them on avoiding detection (e.g. When at airport take down phone; have drivers sit up front; etc...). I imagine there are similar emails for every county, city that were actively citing drivers for legal violations.

Worse the drivers usually use a Lawyer selected and paid for by Uber, and guess what that lawyer isn't some independent traffic lawyer it's Uber's FL lobbyist. Though these charges are years old, last I check none were resolved and still $2M-$3M in fines owed to Miami.

To this day in Miami, it's not uncommon for drivers to allow undocumented immigrants without drivers licenses to use their Uber car/account.
Yes, the author mentioned Idris shortly afterwards, but I get the impression that this is just the tip of an iceberg. Idris was presented as the one example that is most likely to evolve from a research-only language, to a production language.
I took SAT in Hong Kong, 2009 and saw this happen in person. There were even hidden ads for hiring test takers. That explained why there were international students with 2200+ SAT score but could barely read/write/speak in English and had trouble catching up with lectures.

I for one absolutely loathe such dishonesty and the fact that some parents even helped hiring test takers for their kids made me sick.
I've demonstrated and gotten literally hundreds of users to fall in love with it. Thanks for that!
At least as to rents, the inflation argument makes no sense. Yes, if everyone continues to live where they live now, basic income will drive up rents. But people won't do that. Basic income eliminates a major structural constraint that keeps rents high: the need for low-wage service workers to live near jobs, which are disproportionately located around expensive urban areas.

The immigrant working as a minimum-wage bellhop doesn't live in the Bronx and commute an hour to work every day because he loves the New York City nightlife. He does it because that's where the bellhop jobs are. Basic income allows that immigrant to move to Iowa. Housing prices in Iowa will go up, but eliminating the jobs constraint unlocks so much more supply that the increase will be a drop in the bucket compared to how much money he saves moving from New York to Iowa.

Of course that'll drive up wages for those who choose to remain as bellhops in New York, and thus hotel rates for people who stay at New York hotels. Those people can carry their own damn bags.
Kalanick's first startup was a P2P that was sued for 250 billion. He filed bankruptcy and made another P2P startup that got acquired and then started Uber

Every startup he's run has been built around breaking the law