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> remarked that non-life-threatening illnesses like a broken arm can have waiting times measured in months

You aren't going to wait months for a broken arm. That's just not happening.

The reason it's beloved is because when some guy sucker punches you and breaks your jaw it's not financially ruinous. You can go to emergency, get pulled out of line because a nurse sees you are actually in trouble, and then get surgery from a specialist a couple days later. It ends up costing you almost nothing.

That's exactly what happened to my father.

My mom has epilepsy. When I was a kid we had to call an ambulance multiple times because that's what we were told to do if she had a larger than normal seizure and my dad wasn't home to take care of her. We could do that because it didn't cost us thousands of dollars each time, which would have been beyond our ability to pay. My grandma has had cancer, my grandpa has had a heart attack, my other grandma had a stroke that required weeks of recovery time in hospital. My cousin was born with a hole in her heart. Another with a cleft pallet.

It's not perfect. it has a lot of holes and we have problems like shortages of doctors. It's still a "beloved" system because it saves lives and does so without costing an absurd amount.
Actually, the other way around. Without the UK blocking many integration policies, the EU will have an easier road ahead to approve them, like military, legal and tax integration.
Bitcoin has always been the game of finding the greater sucker... now more than ever.
Um, did you actually read the article? It's precisely about the ethics of ad blocking.

There is no "unspoken assumption." If content creators deserve renumeration for their work, there are plenty of systems they can use to generate it. Display advertising based on third party serving/tracking technology is proving to be a bad one. Ad blocking is merely the signal to let content creators know they should look for better options.
I've never worked at a financial firm but I have a hard time imagining the uptight social culture of finance being one that embraces employees being spotted wearing goofy headsets and waving their hands around. The boost in productivity from any such app would seemingly be negligible, especially when you consider that the popularity of the Bloomberg terminal lies in its chat function:

https://www.ft.com/content/5d6c2d9c-1f61-11e5-ab0f-6bb9974f2...

https://www.ft.com/content/f16d73ee-a910-11e7-ab55-27219df83...
At least in my town (Munich) running busses from technical POV is done by private companies, following schedules setup by the city. The question there is who does the investment and what happens the bus after a few years.

For taxi private operators can make a business by offering additional services over the mandated taxi business (chauffeur services, longer term scheduled pickups, rides between municipalities, ...) The full picture is complex, though ...
Even if it weren't being pumped the finite limit on total 'coins' would be a disaster for any real currency in any situation with an expectation of meaningful future economic growth.
It's been 45 years since anyone has been more than 300 miles away from Earth. totally pathetic.
My first PC compatible was a former CAD machine my dad's work was getting rid of. 10MB hard disk, 720x348 resolution (~2:3 pixel aspect ratio). Vertical resolution was harder due to having to accurately position the line, but horizontal resolution was limited primarily by how fast you modulate the power.
I think everyone downvoted this because it is advertised as currency, but I think this person actually hit the nail on the head. Bitcoin does have value, but not as a currency because it doesn't actually inflate enough to make it bad to hoard. Instead its value (dubious, but I'll allow it) is essentially as a commodity, with all the rollercoaster that a commodity is. This is much more honest I think.
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> It's a controlled environment with purpose-built demos for folks under NDA

Magic Leap pulled a similar stunt with The Information around the same time last year [1]. Seems like they found a more pliant journalist in The Rolling Stone.

"In March of last year, it released a video online titled “Just Another Day in the Office at
Magic Leap.” Shot from the perspective of one of its employees working at his desk, all appears normal until robots start falling from the ceiling and converging on the worker, who picks up a toy gun and starts blasting his enemies into tangled lumps of virtual metal. The video, viewed 3.4 million times on YouTube, was meant to demonstrate a game people were playing with Magic Leap’s headset. It had been used for more than a year to recruit employees to South Florida. 'This is a game we’re playing around the office right now,' Magic Leap wrote in the description of the video.

But no such game existed at the time, according to two former employees with direct knowledge. The video was not actually filmed using any Magic Leap technology. It was made by New Zealand-based special effects company Weta Workshop, which has worked on movies like 'Mad Max: Fury Road' and 'The Hobbit,' the employees said. One of them called it an 'aspirational conceptual' video. The employees said some at the company felt the video misled the public.

...

In addition to the bulky demo connected to a computer, Mr. Abovitz showed The Information a prototype of the compact device it intends to build. It looked as if somebody fastened electronics to every inch of a pair of wire-framed glasses. It had a multi-layered, flat lens. He would not turn the
device on, but assured a reporter that it worked just as well as the larger, helmet-like device. Mr. Abovitz would not discuss details of the technology, repeatedly responding to probing questions with the phrase 'Squirrels and Sea Monkeys.'"

I think Magic Leap is another Theranos. A second, independently-developed HoloLens makes for a respectable incremental business. But that nugget of truth has been leveraged to a $6 billion hallucination. Maintaining that hallucination could have forced management to lie to investors, to the public and to their employees.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/the-reality-behind-magic-leap
With the exception of DVD and hard disk bad sector error correction, none of your examples are relevant because they are temporary conditions that are reversible. With persistent media failures there is an issue of data at stake, and replacement would cause data loss, so the next best action is to recover as much as possible. It's already in failure mode. In all of these cases graceful recovery is appropriate because there is no other alternative.

Apple does have an alternative. The battery issue is neither irreversible nor has any permanent ramifications to the remedy of just replacing the f-ing battery. In fact I have no problem with graceful degradation as a stopgap. Explicit Power Saving modes already do that.

But the issue at hand is completely orthogonal and has to do with why Apple refuses to, at the same time as undervolting, also signal to the user the one sane action to take, which is to obtain a battery replacement. By not signaling such and misdirecting (whether intentional or not), they are passive-aggressively telling the user to replace the entire phone. How else would a typical user interpret this situation? In what way could they know the appropriate action to take from observation? You think a company that prides itself on every meticulous detail of the UX just "missed" this?
Just to be clear, you _are_ talking about opinion biasing pools here, just on the side of the good guys?
Not sure about Paw, but insomnia is quite transparent. Seems to have over 30k weekly active users: https://insomnia.rest/transparency/
Blockstream is a company developing blockchain technologies that employs some of the Bitcoin Core developers and the main developer of the Lightning Network for off-chain transaction channels. (Bitcoin Core is the software usually used to run full Bitcoin nodes; it's basically Satoshi's original client, renamed to clarify that users don't have to choose it as their wallet back when running a full node started to become user-unfriendly.) It's become associated with a conspiracy theory that claims the entire Bitcoin Core development community, including the developers not employed by them, is plotting with the banking industry to sabotage on-chain Bitcoin in order to force everyone to use banks to transfer Bitcoins, basically.
yes that is my point
Ask HN: What are you programming on?
What machine build are you primarily using?
One is the fork and the other is the original. By not taking the Bitcoin name the Bitcoin Cash group has already admitted that they are the fork. They should be proud about it and give themselves a new name that stands for their ideals.

That said I personally don't believe that the name will make a difference in this battle.
Think of ergonomics though. Can you comfortably read something 5 or 6 feet away that's in 16pt font? Can you find text on a surface that large easily? I'd be willing to guess people can't do that. Otherwise projectors would be more common displays.
Gaming was one of the first markets for the Personal Computer, productivity was a sideshow for a bit.
There is no unspoken assumption that content creators deserve some kind of remuneration for their work at any and all cost to consumers of the work. The current methods go to far and deserve all the backlash they get.
It split into ~$2700 plus ~$300. Not sure what the exact numbers were, but there was a clear pattern of one falling as the other rose, and same thing the other way around.
I supported instant runoff voting until I figured out that it's difficult to explain, implement, audit. Pretty much all the reasons election administrators dislike it.

Approval Voting seems like the best compromise between fairness and simplicity (to better ensure election integrity).
Pass-Thru Income Deduction
This is hard to argue. For one since American perspective is different from my German/Europe and that's an individual, not a larger perspective on society.
Hard to use princeling in the sense to convey privilege here. His father was sentenced to labor camp during the Cultural Revolution and he himself worked in forced labor for seven years:

"The father was detained and imprisoned and spent 16 years in a labor camp, plunging the family into poverty. During the Cultural Revolution, a 15-year-old Mr. Xi was banished to a poverty-stricken village in northern China where, for seven years, he labored with peasants, eating corn chaff bread and sleeping in a flea-infested bed."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/opinion/chinas-heir-appare...
^this. Well said.
This is well into "criminal complaint" territory.
This is why I believe all bills should have to state who the authors of the bill where, even if they just fixed an incorrect punctuation or spelling error. We actual do not know who writes the legislation, only who brings it to the table.
Better hope the Javascript Mafia doesn't read that!
"You" is subjective.
It's been interesting watching 100 years of financial lessons, failures and calls for regulation playing out at 20x speed.
While that single statement might not imply that it's gone for good, everything Elon and SpaceX have publicly stated leads one to the conclusion that it isn't ever going to happen.

Heck, Falcon Heavy has turned out to be a much larger engineering problem than originally thought even without asparagus staging (cross-feed) due to issues with reinforcing the center core to handle the loads from the side cores.

Based on Musk's latest presentation regarding BFR, it seems that Falcon Heavy will be a somewhat short-lived launch platform.

Then again, with SpaceX, plans change early and often...
There isn’t much space for solar panels, so sizing is intrinsically constrained. Also, these are 32 story towers with approximately 130 units...it’s not rocket science why it doesn’t work out.

They were definitely not supplementing enough.
uMatrix is better than the new NoScript.
r/SpaceXLounge for the same people with less moderation
Oh so much this.

Google is, on a number of topics, dancing very close to the EEE behavior that MS has gotten lambasted for in the past.

You could probably plaster the colorful G over top of Vader's helmet in the old scene between him and Lando.
Windows 10 is fine, Windows 8 was the failure. Window 10 actually suffers a bit from not being enough like Windows 8 in some touch screen facets.
Ask HN: How good is the job market for .NET stack?
I've been learning a bit of C# and ASP.net on my own since the past few days and planning to enroll in a few paid courses to get better. But I've been told that the job market for .net stack is pretty limited (at-least in India, where I'm based currently). Most people I've consulted with advise me to invest in learning Java or other open source systems like php/RoR/python etc based on Linux instead.

I wanted to know how if there's any truth to the advise ? How is the job market for .net stack ? Are there good enough startups using the MS stack or is it limited mostly to enterprises ? Apart from India, I would be interested to know the status of the overall .net job market in US/Europe too.
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Any day, if someone invents wheels for the twentyfirst century. The rubber-rings are a kludge, not a fundamental condition of life.
Dying of oxygen deprivation is actually one of the most peaceful ways to go. You just get drowsy, then pass out. The physical feeling of suffocation is caused by CO2 buildup in the blood, not lack of oxygen. So as long as their CO2 scrubbers worked, they could have just turned off the oxygen valve and drift off to sleep.
Here I was thinking that the 230 was indestructible
Your post gave me a fun thought: someday, we won't buy desktop and laptop computers anymore. We'll buy hi-res VR goggles and keep our desktop environments in the cloud, using virtual keyboards and hand sensors to interact with them.
What we don't talk about when we talk about Russian hacking
Designing Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Part 1: How Porgs Were Hatched
Sticking a car in the payload is funny.

But this thing is going further from the earth than all but a few dozen man-made things in history. I have to wonder if some scientist has been waiting their entire life for an opportunity like this, and we're blowing it on a Tesla Roadster?
Aetna approves dangerous, outdated surgery, not the cheaper, safer alternative
A patient's request for minimally-invasive laser ablation surgery (a type of procedure approved by the FDA 9 years ago) to end her epileptic seizures was rejected. Instead, Aetna substituted an outdated surgery that has a much higher probability of killing the patient (and the suggested procedure costs much more, as well). Experts (including the Epilepsy Foundation) say Aetna is wrong. In my opinion, Aetna's outdated and inappropriate rules both harm patients, and further bury the US in excessive medical costs. But the problem isn't just Aetna, it's the way most medical organizations in the US work (and probably everywhere else).

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/health/aetna-surgery-denied-for-girl/index.html

A fix for this common problem could be for approved procedure rules to be based on evidence-based medicine (i.e., reality proven by real patient results, not guesses). But I suspect very few medical organizations work that way, even though all should be mandated by law to do so (Hey, Congress! Are you paying attention?). I worked previously with some of the groups that do it right (Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and IHC), but now I too am a customer of one of the other groups, stuck with whatever they decide I can have, not what evidence has proven works. I worry about becoming a victim of bad rules, instead of benefiting from the best medicine available.

A federal law to enforce evidence-based medicine could create the dramatic improvements in patient care (and reductions in total long-term costs) that Obama Care, Trump Care, and whatever else comes after them never will. Ideas?
I can't take it with me when I die, so I'll spend it at some point. Also, see marginal utility of value: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marginalutility.asp
you're telling me that a group of guys in their 20s early on in their careers working on a product that has anti-establishment flair and is the defacto-currency of all things illegal tried to make some money not so legally? I'm so shocked!
And what's Reddit but consolidated newsgroups within a single entity (and the ability to vote).

If only one could use a normal news reader to access it.
I work for a fully-remote company and a number of our engineers choose to work from coworking spaces like WeWork. It's entirely their decision and I guess they miss the atmosphere and social interaction of an office.
>Paying "$10 equivalent in bitcoin cash" (or bitcoin, or litecoin, or whatever) is using those cryptocurrencies as a payment gateway; the currency in those transactions is $.

Precisely. We're entering some real fiat currency inception here. Bitcoin is worth whatever people value it at, similar to most forms of currency (backed by the faith of the issuing government). Now we're going to faith upon faith.
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I still don't understand why Disney has historically been so paranoid of Steamboat Willie entering the public domain anyway - Isn't Mickey protected well enough by trademark (which is perpetual so long as it's defended) that copyright on a 1928 cartoon is no longer instrumental in maintaining the proprietary protection of the character?
I'd pay $300 (maybe more) right now for a tiny, durably-housed (I'd be letting my kids use it) 486-alike machine with a smallish integrated-into-housing LCD and keyboard, and maaaaybe a mouse and an old-school joystick/pad or two, but their absence is in no way a deal-breaker, running legit MS-DOS 6.x or something 100% compatible (not sure how FreeDOS is on the compatibility front) with some reasonable solution for getting software onto it over USB or SDCard or something. And a foolproof factory-reset hardware switch. No moving parts a must.
Looks like astroturfing for fake spot. Why is fake spot reliable? Nothing on the page seemed convincing to me.
Authors can still get publishing deals etc. But those deals won't be required by copyright law.
CTRL - F "HB-1"

1 mention in the whole article... seems like its missing the point.
I guess that's a case of YMMV, here in Uruguay Google wins on several of these.

OpenStreetMap wins on street numbers and other, because they're maintained by the municipal government.
That should have gone to the person to whom I replied
>But Obama didn't propose that accusations alone should be able to get someone expelled. He proposed applying the same preponderance standard that applies, and works just fine, in civil litigation.

You can't reduce civil litigation to just the preponderance standard.

Civil litigation has all sorts of rules and procedures, that ensure that the burden of persuasion rests on the plaintiff, that only fair evidence is admitted, that the accused has the benefit of his counsel. It has opportunities for dismissal, summary judgment, judgment notwithstanding the verdict. It has a fair judge and a jury of your peers (that you can shape through voir dire), not a panel of political college administrators. It allows you to question your accuser. It allows you to acquire evidence through discovery, and gives you the benefit of an inference if the other party destroys it.

For what it's worth, here is what a bunch of professors at my law school had to say about Obama's Title IX policy: http://media.philly.com/documents/OpenLetter.pdf

>I pointed out that in the case of both false negatives and false positives, someone is denied the opportunity to pursue their education or their employment.

Except, again, this is not true. The third option is the status quo, that both persons may continue to pursue their education.
According to this[0] there is still a Falcon 9 Zuma launch scheduled for 2017. Anyone know if that is still happening? I ask because it happens that I'll be in the Canaveral area right after Christmas and would love to see the launch in person!

[0] https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/event...
Ive been having a lot of fun walking into stores and giving personal reviews.
Title remains true if at least one review is 100% fake.
My Home build: I run Win10 for casual things and Ubuntu 17.10 for developing.

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/Rdq48d
I got curious how it compares to Saturn V.

Low Earth Orbit Payload: Falcon Heavy: 140,000lb, Saturn V: 260,000lb

Launch cost: Falcon Heavy: ~$140M, Saturn V: $185M ($1B+ in 2016 dollars)

It blows my mind how crazy Saturn V was and it was 50 years ago.
It's difficult to argue that touchscreen isn't more natural in some sense. I've seen a 2 year old competently use an iPad to access media and play simple games. Programming seems to require a more sophisticated UI though, so I worry that touchscreen people will be even less inclined than usual to hack on internals, etc.
Why would it be? macOS's APIs are architecture-independent and have been since day one, which is what enabled the smooth transition from PowerPC to x86.
I live in Oregon, where I am pretty sure my representatives will oppose this bill (as they have a history of doing so). What I really want to do is voice my opinion to my old state of Pennsylvania, where I am less confident.

As more people move to where the jobs are at, the country will become more blue/red divided.
ideological beliefs about the nature of money (liberals not interested in non-state currencies, and Austrians believing that currencies must have intrinsic value)

https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/bitcoin-what-took-...
Angel Investor Bubba Murarka on Venture Confidential
> And more obscure consoles are doomed to be forgotten.

That’s why projects like MAME are very important.
Or they have kids (or spouses) too immature to respect the sanctity of the home office during working hours.
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I pick you: you people are insane. they have raised based off of demos. vcs come in, get the demo, sign a check (because it's that fucking good). I know at least 4 people personally that have gotten demos and it's very real.
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Where does it say what the colors mean? What is yellow? And the dotted lines?
Looks a lot like the good ol' zenity: https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.24/
Yeah, very good point, we should clarify what we mean by "for our own purposes."

What that means right now is that we use this data to improve query performance, and for internal monitoring. We do not use that data for commercial purposes, outside of the fact that we are ourselves a business.
Once digital currencies are dead they can no longer be traded for value. There is no limit to the world-wide supply of digital currencies.
This article is about Magic Leap, not Leap Motion.
It won't be orbiting Mars, it will pass by Mars.
No thanks!

I'm going to put it into a savings account or low risk investment, and write a check to the US Treasury at a time when I have more faith in the federal government.