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>I'm struggling to think of a company form that has a field for 'continent'.

You'd be very, very surprised then. Sometimes even continent is more specific than required. Where I work, I'm part of the North American team. I also have clients who have datacenters in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) or APAC (Asia/Pacific), both of which terms cover far more than one continent.

A client I'm working with right now has a South American datacenter, it's located in Peru but it covers all of their South American operations and is handled by our South American support team. If you asked them where the datacenter is, they'd say South America (and we did ask, and they answered that, and it was good enough for us to schedule resources for them).

Our official forms will accept continent or geographical region because most of the time this is granular enough. If you're in Africa, you want a datacenter in Africa... or at least in EMEA. A North American datacenter is a last resort for you, no matter which state or city it's in.
Below is the spend by the major groups from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638261/

All individuals with chronic conditions and functional limitations - $909 billion

Individuals aged ≥ 65 y with chronic conditions and functional limitations - $543 billion

Individuals at the end of life - $205 billion.

I am not sure you can save any healthcare costs unless
1. People change their eating and lifestyle habits.
2. End of life care is about 13% of the entire cost. Not sure how it compares to other countries but I think it can be optimized.
3. Most of the costs are due to Medicare and Medicaid which due to the volume set the prices for the entire healthcare market. Due to a law passed by congress Medicare is prohibited from negotiating prices. The most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
Its entirely orthogonal to Capitalism, surely?
I think the name for that is "Survivorship Bias" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias), though it doesn't inherently have to do with being critical of noticeable/successful entities; just focusing on them.
Why not? Novelty domain names are awesome.

As is swearing; you can say fuck, we're all adults here. It's not like using stars hides the swear word you intended to use.
It's in the dictionary:

hustle noun

1 busy movement and activity: the hustle and bustle of the big cities.

2 [North American informal] a fraud or swindle.

Edit for your edit: The word 'hustle', I believe, nicely captures the author's attempted meaning: That people turning their hobbies into Etsy shops promoted with fake followers aren't running a well-organised criminal enterprise, but rather participating in a scheme where they tend to cut corners for rather low payout.
If it’s done with respect to people’s privacy and able to reduce/deter crime, why not?
Do you think self-driving cars will have different shapes in future, or is the existing typical look of cars the optimum shape?

TBH, I can see lots of problems even in existing cars for people - too many blind spots, too uncomfortable to get in and get out, more dangerous for those sitting on the driving side.

I wonder if all these problems will go away with self-driving cars, or are they necessary consequences of an optimum design to meet safety regulations.
>It sounded more like fitbit with cloud services than insurance.

If there are healthcare providers involved giving direct healthcare, there will need to be systems and development around medical records. That could easily be sold as a product to hospitals and providers outside of the AMZN/JPM/BRK company down the road.

Taking a "beginner's mindset" to me sounds like they plan on writing their own stuff, except for interoperation like HL7, which is great because most of the stuff from EPIC/Allscripts/Cerner is drowning in technical debt.
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If you want an investment you can invest, if you want insurance you can get insurance. I'm not sure why you think overpaying for insurance and getting a dividend back sounds like a great way to do both. If you pay for insurance for 40+ years you certainly got something out of it--you have been insured for 40+ years!
I wonder if we could collectively use civil disobedience and refuse to pay for healthcare and insurance until major changes are made to the system. Non violent civil disobedience. Essentially a strike against the system.
Out of curiosity, what pushed your team towards Pony rather than Erlang? It seems your team (or at least part of it) has experience with both languages which is interesting.
Spelling correction: Kaomoji, not "kamoji".

"Kao" is the japanese word for "face" and "moji" is "character".

That said, I don't think there's a "correct term" yet for these things. That's just what some people call them.
> That sort of epistemological nihilism isn't really supported by the facts

It is supported by a given subset of facts though.
I'm pretty sure the hospital in the developing nation doesn't sell in the EU, so they don't need to comply.

Phew, crisis averted!
I could imagine piping system stats into this and then setting up alerts when something "unusual" is happening.

The super amazing thing would be multivariate analysis of multiple series so you could see when the relationships between variables becomes anomalous as well.
I use mosh on my bus commute. Under tunnels, changing cell towers, mosh is just amazing. That’s how I expect all my services to work.
Can't use the object content since that can change. So you need a unique identifier.

Memory position can't be used because the gc moves objects around.

Random number it is.
I still think the number one reason people buy Windows is that it's what comes with their computers. I don't see that changing.
Waymo says there are 1.25 million deaths worldwide per year due to car accidents. 94% of them have at least some human error component.

Honestly, we have to get over this "someone must pay" mentality. If the rate of deaths falls from 1.25 million to 125,000 that will be a 90% drop in deaths. We should not be looking to punish Google or other companies for their contribution in reducing deaths because the status quo isn't good.
Your comment seems to overlook the fact that insurance companies negotiate better rates on many (most?) services than an individual would get going at it alone. From that perspective, I think it's reasonable to say that in our current system, insurance can allow you to essentially avoid high prices even for things that are predictable/regular.
...how many people do you file taxes with?
> probably isn't that big of a deal.

It's a huge deal, we've just accepted it as normal. If I were to create something online today, where users were allowed to comment, I'd be an idiot if I didn't predict it would get abused by spammers and trolls as quick as you could say "4chan". Anonymity was previously believed to be a barrier to that, but comments on local news sites and Youtube comments continually prove otherwise.

While our systems have become more centralized (Twitter/Reddit/Facebook) compared to connecting to your ISP's Usenet server, there's no real digital-social-etiquette training system for new users given by those centralized authorities because we've simply accepted the ramificiations to Eternal September.

If I try to make a new Reddit account to post a bunch of hate speech, Reddit itself does little to dissuade me from doing so. There's a huge amount of effort to dissuade bots from creating accounts, but other than drop a link to "reddiquette" during account creation, what does Reddit do to teach me social norms during account creation? Better yet, what could they do before letting me roam wild, hurtling death threats and hate speech until the post-per-second rate limiter kicks in?

Laughably little, that's what. Thats Eternal September's penalty.

The idea of giving an hour long lecture, followed by an hour long interview and training session, for every single person that wants an account on a site the size of Reddit, before granting them an account, is ludicrous on the face of it simply due to the sheer number of new users.

Moreover, Internet culture is not a single monolithic thing. /r/AskHistorians has wildly different standards of acceptability from /r/Nintento,and those are wildly different from /b/ or Facebook.
My SW eng program did not even hint at these. Is there a good edX or coursera course that goes through more extensive material than the pdf? I'm also curious what tools are used by professionals? Matlab, simulink???
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Very true. The risk applies at almost every stage.
Ask HN: What would you use the domains import.sh and export.sh for?
I'm sitting on import.sh and export.sh domains and wondering what you might envision using them for.
My best friend for Regex: http://www.txt2re.com/

With code examples!
So, this article is in response to the NYTimes piece that came out 2(?) days ago; however there also seems to be chatter about Twitter being bought out[1] by Salesforce that has subsequently sent it's stock higher.

Are we seeing the press trying to knock Twitter down a few pegs as it seeks acquisition?

Hitting the company with a "your user base is fake and thus ain't worth as much as you think" would certainly have an affect IMO.

[1] http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/twitter-stock...
Something like C could be seen as a simple language. You don't have to do everything in the language and you don't have to handle the edge cases. But being able to use functions and variables would be awesome and I would totally pay for something like that.
That's what our company do: we charge per week (we do 1-week sprints). Works exceptionally well!
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> But then why partner with an investment bank?

Financial security in exchange for points?

Amazon already did the profitless thing for a decade+. It's betting on its ability to do it again in a bigger market, but a market with a ton of unknowns. Having some financial backing by an investment bank might be something of a safety net.

Maybe Amazon was never certain AWS would work out, but look where it is now. If you could get in as an investor on Amazon's next AWS, wouldn't you take the risk?
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But couldn't the hash be based on the object pointer or something?
OK I know the city has encroached more recently - but the pyramids aren't 'in the middle of the desert with nothing around for miles' - https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/aerial-vie...

and

http://www.geographylists.com/egypt_sphinx_backside
I wasn't getting as specific as "championing the glory of the market". But in a general sense, what you are referring to the "market" is really the origin of control. Who is in control over your life and decisions in it and the consequences from it ... are you in control or some other party like politicians or bureaucrats who lord and decree and impose what you can choose if you have a choice at all, which invariably must include the ability to exclude oneself from matters that are not a common expense and value, which cannot be individually separated out like defense or cost of core governmental functions.

It's the age old question, who is a better person to make decisions for yourself, you yourself, or some person somewhere that believes they know better what is best for you in your particular set of circumstances. Some call it communism, some marxism, some authoritarianism, some totalitarianism ... but ultimately they are simply differing degrees and characteristics of the same question ... who controls your life?
>banning glitches

How can you even define glitches?

In the original Super Mario Brothers, you could dash and then crouch and then slide through narrow tunnels while crouching. It wasn't documented in any official manual or anything, but everyone did it. Is that a glitch?
I mean, you can always pay for healthcare the day you need it. It's just incredibly expensive.

And don't forget, one day you'll be old or sick, so I hope you have a lot of money saved :)
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Other articles I read talked about Phoenix, but I can't cite the source.
One thing that I would be more interested in is either targeting LLVM IR, JVM or .NET instead of doing straight assembly with NASM.
One thing I personally value in something like this is the ability to opt in or out of features, so that I could use it a fairly low level set of utilities (think large user-facing piece) but also as a full-blown opinionated UI library with lots of things ready to go (think internal piece).
I mean no suggested working hours. Most time management, work management tools assume, that you work similar hours every day. So when you try to log something outside of those hours, either it is difficult, or time-consuming.

If I work - let's say - at 9am to 4pm today and 5pm to 3am tomorrow, I would like to be able to log that.
Too many tools are ignoring people, that work crazy hours, and usually, those are the people, that could use time management tools the most...
In my area on the individual exchange they were one of two providers available with the other being a for profit insurance company. At every level of plan the for profit had cheaper premiums, co-pays and lower deductibles.

At least in my area Kaiser also likes to centralize certain specialties at a single one of their health clinics. For instance mental health providers are only available in one location. I live in a large metro area with severe traffic issues. The clinic mental health services are provided out of may be the worse location for the majority of the service area to reach. For me an appointment would have involved a 45 minute to hour drive each way.

A couple of years ago Kaiser decided not to renew their contract with the non-profit hospital system which dominates this area and instead signed a contract with a for profit hospital system. This means there is a single hospital within a reasonable drive of me which I would be able to utilize. Even then there are 3 hospitals in the non-profit system which are closer or equal distance. It gets worse if for some reason I would have had to use the next closest hospital Kaiser will cover. There are 5 hospitals in the non-profit system that would be closer. Also the non-profit system is nationally recognized as the top or a top 5 care provider for several specialties. The for profit is not.

I have no love for Aetna, Cigna, United Health, Anthem or any of the other large health insurance companies, but Kaiser also doesn't seem to be the model to follow.
True. Those can add up. I just thought of something controversial Homosexual soldiers do exist, and I do acknowledge there are same-sex rapes of both genders. Perhaps some of them used this rape opportunity to mask their homosexuality and even as a way to get their sexual urge out of the way (beside masturbation).
Cool project! I had always thought 3D printers needed steppers for more accuracy (as opposed to servos). Is it the 3 arm config of the 3d printer that makes lower accuracy servos work? Curious where you sourced the hw pieces?
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It's rather entertaining to see the fallout of costs becoming more transparent in America's healthcare system. There is a reason why the medical field is so lucrative in the US, and it's because for decades it's been subject to extreme price obfuscation. This is great for the merchants (pharmaceuticals, doctors, hospitals, medical software providers, nurses, etc), especially for such inelastic goods such as healthcare.

Now that organizations in the US have reached a breaking point, those costs are becoming clear to the consumers and they don't like it. You're absolutely right that the term insurance is bastardized in the healthcare setting, but people will have no choice but to understand.

If people want to blame somebody, they can start with the doctors union that restricts the number of residency positions open.
Isn't that just conservative-capitalism? Specifically the US Republicans? Get rid of regulations, lower taxes on corporations and billionaires and put our trust in benevolent billionaires to solve our problems for us with no oversight or democratic controls whatsoever.
> I realized that PID loop only works well for linear systems

In practice, PID is applied to nonlinear systems too. The catch is the nonlinear system need to either be:

1) locally linear within the region of interest (very often the case)

2) mildly nonlinear

3) linearizable (by doing a mathematical transformation)
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Interesting insight – Can JavaScript win or is there nothing to win?
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I think the "uncomfortable to get in and out" needs to be addressed. Without the steering wheel, perhaps the seat can swivel, or perhaps passengers can exit from the front or back.

I doubt, at typical car speeds, aerodynamics is a big factor. It's not like a jet.
But it also means that people with perfectly acceptable configurations are left in an insecure state, without an unexpected magic incantation (a registry hack) that most probably will never know about.

Disabling security patches is not acceptable in current year without A LOT of nasty and annoying warnings.
I think the Qubes team desperately needs more funding. Give them some of your money. Tell them your priorities.

Qubes + Whonix has been an enormously tremendous success.

I'm so happy to have Qubes as my daily driver at home. However, because of so little money coming in, development seems much more limited than it could otherwise be.

It's a wonder what they've been able to do so far with no budget and few external developers contributing.
I don't have numbers but I was thinking to spectacular failures like Google Wave or similar software projects. For sure they were also built by large teams and costed a non trivial amount of money, but this kind of research on autonomous vehicles, it's spawning a much larger amount of time and requires non common experts, there are tons of legal issues related, and you don't stop because people are not using it... it is a technological problem so you spend more and more resources trying to crack it. So I've the feeling that it's significantly more costly than other attempts that Google did in the past, but I've no numbers. I guess the Waymo numbers are simpler to get, because now it's a spin-off (but we should add all the money spent before the spin-off), but the cost of things like Wave are near impossible to obtain, I can imagine.
No I haven't tried it. I am making the assumption that a chatbot allows you to input freeform text for it to analyse and process? Is that not how it works?
Twilight of the idols: the only philosophy HPE and IBM do these days is with an ax
That is because providers can't refuse healthcare to someone that needs it and can't afford it, so those costs get inflated just to be able to get a fraction of it. As rsync says, it's still not insurance, it's just the ability to be part of a group large enough to negotiate pricing, and has enough credibility for providers to trust them to be able to pay.
What happens when a sober driver, following the rules, runs over someone? I suppose the same will happen here. If negligence will be found on the part of the engineers, that could get tougher though.
As some other people have mentioned below, the much lauded[1] vertically integrated health provider Kaiser Permanente started this way, as the health provider caring for the workers of an enlightened large employer, Kaiser Steel, which at the time was a massive shipbuilder for the Navy and others headquartered in California with a major presence in the SF Bay Area.

I was briefly covered by a Kaiser plan, and have a lot of old friends who are either covered, work there, or worked there, and can say people really appreciate not only the relatively low costs but also the ability to just come to one place no matter the ailment and know you'll be able to get an appointment quickly and be taken care of, and won't have to haggle to get the care you need or deal with insurance company roadblocks. To the extent there are downsides (and of course there are) they are around not being able to have your own doctor (though I do think there is an approximation of that) and overzealous cost cutting (see the kidney center scandal).

My understanding is Kaiser has not spread much beyond California due to regulatory issues.

(Interestingly, Kaiser Steel was a major setting for Atlas Shrugged.)

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/business/kaiser-permanente...
I think you will see the interior of cars change but the exterior will be fairly similar for aerodynamic reasons
Insurance and investment are two different things. Why combine them?
In lawyers terms: a payment apparently is just a contract. So you can store the data needed for the payment under that legal basis.

IANAL
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It's worse if you get the surprise "Out of Network" doctor that assisted in the delivery. Nothing like getting a surprise $1,200 bill when you're sleep deprived. Long story short, we didn't have to pay any of that $1,200. But the last thing we needed with a new born was more stress.
>liberal-communism

What's next? Anarcho-Capitalism?
I don't know about other cities in North America but heated sidewalks would work only for a very small area in the city I live in and is covered by at provincial, federal and each municipalities jurisdiction. The entire are that would need to be done to stop snow ploughs being needed is almost 100 square kilometers. Most of the city is laid out in a fairly spread out way almost entirely the opposite of the European cities and small American towns used in the example. The cost to implement a heated road and sidewalk system here would be ridiculous and the city already seems to leave their roads more unmaintained than they should anyway.

I just don't see such a system of water heated roads being feasible in North America not the the parts of it I've seen have been designed, without drastically rebuilding most cities.

Not to mention we get a lot of snow and already have flooding problems in the city when there's heavy rain or big snow melts. This just changes things to a different problem.
I'm as much a capitalist as the next man, but lining your pockets when you're already a billionaire, at the expense of middle class, is downright pathetic.
> Given the above, convince me I should care about how hard it is to break into passive keyless entry cars?

I don't really care if you care or not, it's your car, but I care.

Also, the issue with passive keyless entry isn't just theft of the car itself, its more often theft of its contents. It makes break-ins much easier to do undetected.
Maybe it's time to break that down into "creation" and "consumption" based technology activities? This way we can co-opt the inevitable rise of technology and teach kids to add value.
Exactly. We're social creatures and relationships matter.