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If my employer buys health insurance for me, neither they nor I pay taxes on the premium cost.
If I buy the exact same policy for myself, it is fully taxable to me.
The amount of taxes is not small, about $1000 per month.
So, the government is already imposing a very strong centrally planning effect on how health care works by tax policy.
Given the large number of startup people who read and write on Hacker News, I'm always surprised to see comments like this. You can create an extremely valuable company without running a profit, and many highly-profitable companies that exist today lost money when they were young.
I'm with Kaiser Permanente (switched from a PPO) and have been for two years and I absolutely agree with your comment - in SF they have brand new world class facilities in the dog patch neighborhood near me and I can book and see a doctor and orthopedic specialist and get an xray and scan in the same day and in the same building, and be about $30 out of pocket all in. That is awesome health care.
why? Did Apple achieve something that was difficult or unexpected?

IIRC, it was Apple who asked Samsung to collaborate with Intrinsity, most known for their FAST tech, to develop the Hummingbird core which was used in both Samsung and Apple's AP's. Only after having tested Intrinsity's tech, Apple acquired it -- so it's a bit stretch to agree with your narrative Samsung didn't see what was coming. Apple also took their time developing and releasing their own first AP about 4 years later. It also seems like while Apple is focusing on the single-core performance as their marketing point, Qualcomm and others are focusing on power-saving, having first implemented multi-core, then octo-cores on their chips. I'm not sure if that's a surprise or unexpected, since Apple's AP remained a single-core AP for a while.

As for the 64bit, was there any compelling reason to go 64bit mobile? I remember when I used to work for wall street banks in the 1990's, the shortcomings of the 32bit arch limited our ability to scale and SUN's UltraSPARC which was widely used by in the industry came to relieve that problem.
It does do negative lookahead though -
https://regexper.com/#%2F%5Cd%2B(%3F!%5C.)%2F

Negative lookbehind only appeared in Chrome in v.62 (https://v8project.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/v8-release-62.html) it's not too surprising that tools haven't caught up yet.
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Yikes, that link sent me down a rabbit hole of white nationalism and Holocaust denial. No thanks.
Been Heck show also console verified the TAS (they ran a TASBot like machine to play)

The score has also been achieved by humans on real hardware.
80 and rising. Can we hit 90?
“Need More Time” or Lack of Product-Market Fit? Going to Market Pre-Chasm
There are extraordinarily high expectations in the finance industry but the only barriers are regulatory compliance (with regards to fiduciary duty) and convincing people to throw money at you.
This is a nifty tool, and to be honest I was unaware that regex visualization was a thing before now. I usually write comments in BNF next to my regex, so that I can make sense of them later. I'm going to keep doing that, but visualization is going to be great for debugging and for figuring out other people's less carefully commented regex.
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That last link shows an error.
You have to take into account Soviet intent. Stalin was not interested in liberating Poland or the other countries occupied by the Nazis per se. Stalin was interested in Soviet domination. He had already tried to conquer Poland in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920 (in which Pilecki fought, as the article mentions). They lost to the Poles. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was essentially a temporary agreement (that really, neither the Nazis nor the Soviets intended to stick to ultimately) that explicitly had as its aim the division and dismemberment of Poland between Germany and Russia. "Soviet liberation" may mean that the Soviet occupation of Poland and the countries of the Eastern bloc had the result of removing the Nazis, but the ultimate goal was not liberation but also occupation.

That many Russians died to secure Soviet control over Central/Eastern Europe is not proof that the Soviets were self-sacrificial liberators, but rather that in Soviet, and ultimately Russian, culture, human life is much more dispensable to those in power than it is in the West. The Tsars, and their Soviet successors, were tyrants who could decide the fate of any subject. To this day, the Russian leadership has no problem in carrying out assassinations of politically problematic people, even abroad. The Soviet-installed government in Poland following WWII operated according to similar principles and under Soviet directives, though not to the same extremes as the Soviet leadership. Pilecki is one of many who were brutally tortured and executed by the communists, many of them members of the Home Army. Both Nazis and Soviets took part in exterminating swathes of Polish society they saw as a threat or an inconvenience to their rule (e.g. Katyn massacre), during and also, in the case of the Soviets, following the War.
Ask HN: Startups – how are you using contractors / consultants?
I'm new to consulting and my niche (based on experience and expertise) is on helping startups scale. I find that most meetings I take with startups often turn into a bait-and-switch: they ask me to come in and meet their team after their initial interest, but once I'm in the door, it turns into an interview for full-time.

My thoughts are that consultants can be cheaper over the long haul because our engagements can be shorter or turned off/on for exactly when you need me, saving a cash-strapped business (like a startup) money while delivering oversized value. Also, if they're worried about not being invested in the success of the company, I'd love happy, long-term clients, so their success is my success.

That's my pitch, but it doesn't seem to be converting. Perhaps my thinking on the applications of where startups use consultants is wrong? How do you use contractors and/or consultants to get your startup work done?
I think the parent is objecting to the use of the word "insurance". By definition, insurance is a form of risk management, to protect yourself against unexpected cost or loss. You can't be "insured" for regular wellness checkups and screenings; that word just doesn't make sense there, as those are expected, regular costs. Coverage for that is more like a "health plan", which is, in reality, what we have, despite the industry's insistence on calling it insurance.

(But yes, admittedly, this is just pedantry.)
Considering their already extensive ground in insurance and JP Morgan's financial acuity, Amazon is in good hands. I know I'm hoping they encounter some success.
> especially when the UK doesn't even have a constitution

Yeah we do. British Constitution is ace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Constitution_(solitair...

Oh, if you meant the government thingy no, we kinda accept that stuff changes... which I think is more useful than holding any one thing as particularly holy and untouchable. The US has got its knickers in a proper twist with all that "money is speech" "what the framers intended was" stuff. It's fetishised. Your 21st amendment even repeals the 18th amendment, what's the point?
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I think this is good advice, but sometimes you never really know what work you are missing out on. Non-essential projects may be put on hold or farmed out to others because your price is too high.
I don't know. I dabbled with freelancing on the side a few years ago and never did land a gig. The potential clients I managed to get on the phone didn't want to pay more than $30/hour or so (I started off asking for $60). I decided freelancing wasn't a real thing for US-based software developers and dropped the idea.
They're in Colorado
Welcome to HackerNews.
Can we get some of this for the US? Asking for a friend.
Most doctors in my area will charge less in cash for people who don't have insurance vs. what they charge insurance companies for the same services.
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I worked in health care and saw so much money wasted. The ACA was suppose to bring the same risk factors to everyone, so you got the same premiums based on age, gender and smoking status. Big companies got big breaks for employees and the rich paid less.

This might have worked if everyone was required to buy from the market place and there were no employer plans. Obama's famous "You can keep your existing health coverage" was a terrible, terrible decision.

I watched the Medicare/Medicate group for my company and they might have complained about not getting enough money, but I really think they did. Things had fixed prices and there'd be plenty of money if BlueCross didn't spend money on advertising, useless wellness programs and shitty IBM technology.

Everyone should just get Meidcare/Medicade. The government won't control healthcare, it will just get contracted out to providers. They'll have to cut costs and not waste so much money (they waste A LOT!)

Capitalism + Health care is a failed experiment. Socialized health care does work, in every high income country that's not the United States. Australia fought against the Abbot government when they wanted to introduce copays. That's right, Australians don't have doctor co-pays (they kinda do now, but wavers are in place and the plan was effectively defeated).

The fact that the US government requires us to buy private health insurance at insane rates is absolutely insane and the Supreme Court should have struck it down. You are not a car. Your body shouldn't have a fee for existing.
We weed according to the CREW method, which you can read about online [1]. Our first goal is material that is used, but we do have a local history collection and have some allowance in our collection for stuff that is of special interest.

[1]: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ld/pubs/crew/index.html

EDIT: The other thing worth mentioning here is that well weeded collections are better used than poorly maintained ones. Though there is a subset of customers who want the "lived in" library, most like a continuous cycle of new and interesting content. When they see the same stuff each time they go, they stop being interested. A small public library in a town near mine still have numerous books on the OJ Simpson trial.
Add ')' at the very end (you can see it is not included in the clickable link and it's also what the error says).
> doesn't actually mean that everything they did was a lie or a crime

Nobody said that

> they are a horrible, detestable human

Nobody said that either

All that's being said is that it's more likely he would do something nefarious, given his background.
There are some games where you can modify the program state to glitch to the end, like Super Mario World: https://youtu.be/vAHXK2wut_I The explanation for the glitch is really interesting.

But something like this has to be given its own category. There's a Super Mario World category that allows for that "Credits Warp" glitch. The other categories have different rules for what you can and can't do.

So it's possible that Todd did something funky, but that would still make his scores illegitimate.
Study: Delivering Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Young Adults With Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Using a Fully Automated Conversational Agent (Woebot): A Randomized Controlled Trial

Citation: Fitzpatrick KK, Darcy A, Vierhile M. JMIR Ment Health 2017; 4(2):e19.

Link: https://doi.org/10.2196/mental.7785

DOI: 10.2196/mental.7785

Abstract:

Background: Web-based cognitive-behavioral therapeutic (CBT) apps have demonstrated efficacy but are characterized by poor adherence. Conversational agents may offer a convenient, engaging way of getting support at any time.

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a fully automated conversational agent to deliver a self-help program for college students who self-identify as having symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Methods: In an unblinded trial, 70 individuals age 18-28 years were recruited online from a university community social media site and were randomized to receive either 2 weeks (up to 20 sessions) of self-help content derived from CBT principles in a conversational format with a text-based conversational agent (Woebot) (n=34) or were directed to the National Institute of Mental Health ebook, “Depression in College Students,” as an information-only control group (n=36). All participants completed Web-based versions of the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7), and the Positive and Negative Affect Scale at baseline and 2-3 weeks later (T2).

Results: Participants were on average 22.2 years old (SD 2.33), 67% female (47/70), mostly non-Hispanic (93%, 54/58), and Caucasian (79%, 46/58). Participants in the Woebot group engaged with the conversational agent an average of 12.14 (SD 2.23) times over the study period. No significant differences existed between the groups at baseline, and 83% (58/70) of participants provided data at T2 (17% attrition). Intent-to-treat univariate analysis of covariance revealed a significant group difference on depression such that those in the Woebot group significantly reduced their symptoms of depression over the study period as measured by the PHQ-9 (F=6.47; P=.01) while those in the information control group did not. In an analysis of completers, participants in both groups significantly reduced anxiety as measured by the GAD-7 (F1,54= 9.24; P=.004). Participants’ comments suggest that process factors were more influential on their acceptability of the program than content factors mirroring traditional therapy.

Conclusions: Conversational agents appear to be a feasible, engaging, and effective way to deliver CBT.
Healthcare companies are getting rich.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...
I'm not saying the developers actually are moving, or would make any difference to buggy software if they did, but Apple can shift iDevices by the shipload, faster than they can build them. They've become a phone company first and foremost, and it feels like their computer lineup is suffering as a result. As such, I can easily believe that developers see no future in macOS and are willingly moving over to iOS.
Once you get past the article fluff to what Woz actually said, it's usually pretty interesting. I prefer interesting content to statements from influential people.
Don't worry, only some of the cameras are maintained and operational, if we can trust a 3rd season plot-line from the fictional show Treme.
Pitching app ideas to investors: How to get buy-in
>Both goo.gl and bit.ly refused to shorten it, and when I tried to paste the link here HN refused to accept my comment.

github gist?
>This also resulted in an 18% improvement in one of the benchmarks in the Emberperf benchmark suite that tests Ember.js.

Somebody alert Atwood!
I'm coming from this as somebody who often has to rewrite a lot of library code because of certain performance issue and poor decisions from library writers often regarding things like garbage collection and hidden resources, like thread pools or an event loop, that cannot be hooked into. I see it all the time. I can no longer count the number of times I've had to rewrite parts of the JDK or networking libraries because of these issues.

Now, this is what I'm hearing from what you are saying:

> 1- We can't use a JVM implementation because we aren't using a JVM language.

Makes sense.

> 2- The C library is okay, but hides its thread pool with no way to access it.

Ugh. Hate that. Its like these people writing these have never had to use them in a real project. The sign of a mediocre library.

Pony's actor model might have to rewrite almost any library used by it when concurrency is involved.

But now, I think you answered your own question in the titles now:

> Why we wrote our Kafka Client in Pony

1- Because the C library is mediocre and hides its threads from users making it not very useful for high-performance applications.

2- Because the rest of the system is in Pony. Really, you could write it in C/C++ or even Rust as long as you wrote it in a way that played well with Pony's concurrency model, but why bother with that extra effort, especially if you believe - as you seem to - that Pony's concurrency story is superior.
Well, it is the ultimate click-bait title geared to hit at the heart of everyone's confirmation biases.
You're referring to the radar provider? Tesla doesn't use LIDAR except on a few test vehicles occasionally spotted near HQ.
On the other hand, servers are running more GPU / ML workloads these days and semiconductor designs are more automated. It’d be interesting to see if they could cost-effectively sell those designs with, perhaps, capacity tweaks similar to what they’ve done with the iPad X-series releases where the chip design is very similar but they’ve added extra GPU cores, cache, etc.

That’d also be consistent with their past history of trying to pick some edge for a particular market: optimized for media processing, ML, VR/AR, etc. rather than just competing with x86 for the generic workloads. I still don’t see it as a high probability but I’d expect a niche if it happens at all.
Virtually all applications can benefit from long reads. There are already hybrid assemblers out there which take Illumina, Pacbio and Nanopore reads. The long reads tie the short reads together, whereas the short reads improve the accuracy.

The area where DNA sequencing will first be revolutionizing clinical practice is in sequencing pathogens for sake of identification. In these instances nanopore sequencing rules, because it can give answers in minutes.
I think I can check this one off by introducing modularity. The way I see it is that you have a download page where you can check all the features you want your kit to consist of and get just that.
Unless we're talking about something different than I'm imagining (like sliding through a wall or something), that seems obviously not a glitch. Mario has momentum that continues to apply when he changes to a crouching state and it would look really weird if it didn't. (I recognize that this is just proving the point that "glitch or not" is hard to define... and probably harder to define than one would expect.)
Generally speaking, insurance companies profit if they don't have to pay out, which is why they sometimes pay for prevention.

But this has other problems. Incentives are tricky.
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As a European I would disagree. We have helathcare for the purpose of keeping people healthy rather than for profit. It seems to work out a whole lot better than your system in the states.
Haven't used yet, but this should be named the Python tool of the year.

`pip freeze` is broken, this is the solution.

I didn't even know it was possible to do this sort of thing with Python packages.

--

Also, you should add the description to the Show HN submission: "Like `pip freeze` but lists only the packages that are not dependencies of installed packages."
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It does seem silly to start a health insurance company when it will only be a couple of years before we nationalize health care.
Don't be so sure of that. There is a bookstore in the main branch of our library, and they will take donations for sale, but the library will not place them in the collection (they buy new materials that often come partial processed) and the bookstores generally have limited space to store stuff. My library generally asks people to keep drop offs to 2 or 3 boxes.
There would still be competition for attention. If I want my ideas propagated, then I want lots of real people actively reading my tweets (or re-tweets of my tweets).

Fake followers do not read my tweets, and by and large nobody reads what they re-tweet. Their only use is to put a big # on my profile. Removing that prominent # only breaks twitter for bots.
I think about this every time I look at a piece of code that does nothing. I mean after I think of smashing my screen in.
Tip: you don't want to work on non essential projects.
I don't need the "Wall Street" job. I just want to use my skills to solve challenging problems and do some interesting work.
Agreed. Care continuity is certainly important, but it's not $30k-out-of-pocket important...
that is the correct answer
The guidelines say you can post whatever is interesting to hackers, whether it's new/news or not.
Thanks for such a great info!

- Modularity: If i need only a few components i should have the option to include only those and not any unnecessary bloat. - Check

- Availability as package [npm etc.] - Check

- Example apps and landing pages. Some UI kits give email ui, todo list ui etc. - Check, but this will surely be introduced later

- The kit should be lightweight + clean css [sass/less] + clean html. - Check

- Browser compatibility. - Still to be tested, but works fine on most browsers

- Easy customization. - Check
Seed pods ain't trees. There's a reason that when forestry companies replant trees, they are planting seedlings that have been cultivated for planting purposes. They aren't just shoving seeds into the ground and hoping for the best.

It's a very good idea to make planting trees cheaper. I've often pondered robotics for tree planting. But will it be as cheap as human labour in terms of stems that make it to maturity? Hand-planted seedlings have a fairly good survival rate and tend to be well spaced, even if the planter is relatively negligent. Typically, the planted trees will need to be thinned later on, because so many survive.

As it stands, it costs a licensee $2-$3 CAD per stem to reforest an area. Typical densities are 1400-1800 stems per hectare. That's actually pretty cheap. Mature trees at harvest are worth thousands.

Source: worked as a tree planter for three seasons, have friends in the forestry sector.
I think it's worth noting that cascaded PIDs are no more expressive than having a state-space controller. But probably it is easier to tune, as you say.

Each integrator is one dimension of state.
I think this statement is a reach. There are plenty of concurrent collectors for the JVM, and there are tons of architectural and coding strategies to mitigate inconvenient GCs. This is not a one-of-a-kind problem, this is well studied and the path is well trodden. Azul is a convenient solution that wouldn't involve having to do a whole lot of case study, but it's certainly not the only one. And this is as-if perfect deterministic latency was the only factor that was important (then why not use C?).

What it sounds like instead was very minimal benchmarks or science was performed ahead of time, then a lot of justification written afterward. I know that's a reach as well, but this is a well-trodden path, so the answer "Pony is the best possible solution for the interest of our business" just seems like a very strange conclusion.
Wow, that is really cool.

I actually started typing in random characters and tracing the matches through the graph for the Regex from StackOverflow mentioned earlier. I didn't know what the regex matches, so I played it like a game , trying to reach the finish by typing one character at a time.

When I finished, I saw that I had typed "01/31/1691" and then realised that it's a regex for dates.