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Blair stepped down after Tom Watson, the soft-left hardman mentioned upthread, organised an open letter demanding Blair's resignation, and loudly and publicly quit his own position when he didn't get a response. But it's amazing how those unfamiliar with party their history have reinvented him as an ardent Blairite for orchestrating the same sort of attempted coup the next time he thought the party needed a change of leader.

I don't think it's realistic to believe that a man whose only column inches for most of his thirty five year political career have been attacking every aspect of his party's foreign policy (from the justified to the ridiculous), speaking out with none of his usual caveats against the West at solidarity campaigns for the Cuban government and attending memorial ceremonies for terrorists isn't the initiator of all the foreign policy grandstanding. Or that having the odd good word to say about better relations with China (who, even?) is quite the level of blind spot as insisting the real problem with Hamas is that the British government doesn't understand its dedication to "bringing about long-term peace and social justice" at a Meet the Resistance fringe meeting. Or that the likes of Andrew Murray don't exist or have any influence, or spent 40 years in the CPGB because they were natural bedfellows of the soft left.

I'm not really sure that arguing that people might actually object to the stuff they complain about and not the stuff they don't is likely to fall on anything other than deaf ears though...
If you voluntarily go out of network for non-emergency care, then yes, you pay a ton. If you have an emergency and go to an out of network ER, that is still covered (at least for plans purchased on CoveredCA) because of provisions in the Affordable Care Act. The billing may be a logistical challenge, but it should not bankrupt you!
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Who's arguing that the American economy is exceptionally free market? It's certainly not centrally controlled as much as in other places, but I'm not sure "free market" is any more accurate. Large sectors (probably even a majority) of the economy is heavily regulated, monopolistic, monopsonistic, oligopolistic, etc.

The original point, that it's not fair to blame the free market for the dysfunction in the American healthcare system, is still a valid one. A main point is that "shopping around", even for commodity procedures, isn't really possible. Also, there aren't many remedies for consumers caught in undesirable contracts with health insurers. Quitting a job or moving states to fire an insurer is wholly unreasonable.
The most important metric for me already exists

It's called Google analytics on my website, instead of an opaque counter on a private - somewhat shady - business web site
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Do you know what a skid loader is? My point is that it'll just punch a hole in the wall, ATM and all. Then pick it up and drive away.
Given how highly multithreaded mobile OSes are, that is only advantageous for lazy coding.

Any proper iOS application with be doing lots of GCD dispatchs, for starters.

Likewise on Android, Google had to change the OS behavior to just kill apps that insist in misusing the UI thread for long running tasks.
But in every other aspect of what I said, they are the same. For all practical purposes, most people must simply cooperate with whatever they say in the moment because simple not cooperating will land you in big trouble with big consequences. So although on paper they have limited power, they really don't.
IEEE consultant surveys indicated ~$150/hr for a well trained consultant in software is median last time I checked. But what you get depends on how you get your business and what your approach is to selling your services.

I think I'd find it impossible to charge more than $200/hr for embedded firmware (Boston), but could probably get $400/hr for systems engineering or industrial design to develop an integrated complex solution to a business problem that they don't have the in-house expertise to deal with.
From the American Banker article:

FBI and SEC agents stormed AriseBank’s office in the middle of the night where the team had been sleeping after a long night spent coding.

"I got woke up with guns pointed at me," he said. "It was, 'Put your hands up where we can see them.' I didn't know why they were there. They brought us outside, handcuffed us, and put us in a Suburban in the driveway."

Upshot:

If you break the law to disrupt the taxi industry, expect some lawsuits.

But if you break the law to disrupt the financial system, expect to see the business end of the state's monopoly on violence.
So a company develops their own processes and tools for handling software development and lo and behold! THEY are successful! What a surprise!

Rather than looking at why open source software succeeds (amazing - people working on what they want to work on tends to yield good results) they should look at why actual software projects typically fail. It's all about people, process and tools - and the process and tools are not usually an issue.
Pedants, all of you.
The replies in this chain are just joking around in a geeky and pedantic way (which is one of my favorite ways), but the original comment is serious and has a point.

The point of the original comment is just that we've entered a period where people are aware (perhaps hyper-aware) of any evidence that conflicts with other people's interpretation of events. This often happens to both sides of an issue, and they both denounce the others as hopelessly misled.

This doesn't mean there is no good way to view the overall events in question, and that facts are dead, just that we need to step back and try to view it all from a wider angle, with more facts in general.

Basically, think about history books for semi-recent US history. While they may still be biased in many cases, they generally have a good idea of what both sides thought and their motivations, and can describe them, and have the benefit of seeing how what they were arguing about turned out. That's obviously a hard or impossible view to get during most events, but it is something we can strive for by widening our view to encompass more information and points of view.
I hope one of your coworkers takes a screenshot of this comment for the next time you make a mistake based on miscommunication.
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Another rule of thumb is : take the salary you'd get for whatever level of work is required (e.g. $150K) and divide by 1000. That produces the hourly rate you should charge (e.g. $150).

I agree that failure to understand costs is a common cause for undercharging. Same thing with other fields though : construction, remodeling etc.
> $143k is almost 3 years pay. I would have rather had it paid to me. Then i would have spent my money for my healthcare

What would you do in the unfortunate event that you required medical treatment that cost 10x your annual pay (a real possibility)?

Absent an insurance policy, who would you expect to pay for that? Or would you instead expect your employer to pay you (and everyone else) the maximum theoretical health care costs you might incur? That's not possible in any system.

The point of shared risk pools is to protect people against such extreme outlier costs, and you've been the beneficiary of other people keeping up their end of that contract.
Man, it's too early in the morning to handle to unbelievable level of irony of this coming from Scott Adams of all people.
Insurance companies are more like gyms, actually.

They profit much more if you pay them money but never use their service.
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Which action has the strongest retention in a fashion app like yours?
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I wanted to get clarificaton from the SEC and contacted them here: https://www.sec.gov/forms/corp_fin_interpretive

Mark Vilardo ended up calling me, the same guy I read about here: https://hackernoon.com/the-sec-called-about-our-ico-i-answer...

He was super friendly but basically left no window open for a legal ICO in the US outside of somehow ensuring that your token will never go up or down in price.

EDIT: No option for a legal ICO... UNLESS you register with the SEC as a security, which is very expensive and subjects you to strict regulations.
With those kinds of currents, it'll be interesting to see if point of load DC-DC converters become integrated into the motors themselves so as to reduce the wiring requirements for distributing the power to the motors. The batteries will need to stack more cells in series to support this but I wonder at what currents the wire gauge, and hence weight of the wires, become a big concern.

Maybe modern quads already do this?
Sometimes I wonder that even the therapists in psychotherapy can be humanly flawed and biased--thus failing to root out people's issues, or in the wrong manner.

Maybe a sophisticated bot/system might, generally, be better at rooting an individual's issues. But I would fear that a human experiencing deep emotional stress would be much safer in the psychotherapy environment v.s. with a bot in any random place where that person is most likely alone.
Especially since this was in Hawaii. The first message from Pearl Harbor to the fleet during the attack in 1941 was, famously,

“AIRRAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NO DRILL.”
I love it, I wish there was support for more regex, c#, etc
ECJ already ruled against the UK on this issue and because they did Tom Watson was able to apply to the UK courts (CoA) for a review of the legislation.
Ask HN: Has anyone gone part time to pursue their side project?
I'm wondering if anybody else in the same position.

Have you had any issues managing your time? Legal issues with keeping your side-project IP at the same time as a "regular" employment?

I'm also wondering how coworkers will react, and if there's any other complications I should be aware of.

For context:
I'm a Software Engineer at a mid-size company. Side business could technically sustain us full time, but I really love the team I'm working with (as well as mgmt) and really appreciate the stability of keeping my employment.
This is a great idea. I haven't done it myself, but a friend who is an artist got an agent for exactly this reason. You always undervalue the work you do because to you it's easier than to everyone else.
What if instead... You still paid the money... But it was actually an investment fund like vanguard. If you get sick it pays, it also negotiates cheaper rates for prescription, procedures, copays. If you stay healthy you get most of it back plus interests minus broker fees as retirement when you enter Medicare.
I've seen sand used in the upper Midwest, I'm not sure how often it's used in other parts of the country. My understanding is that it's better than salt once the temperature gets cold enough and the salt can't help melt things.
True, and I think ultimately it is merely a fault in our thinking. Many people think "I'm going to suffer through this process because the end goal is worth it."

Where they are wrong is equating a process that does not necessarily bring pure pleasure and joy with "suffering."

You must be able to change your state of mind to see that there is no concept of pleasure without pain, there is no warmth without cold, and there is no joy without sadness. When we are sad, we should embrace it and revel in it as a natural part of life.
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They were the first 'big' client of Epic Software. Many other hospital systems around the US now use Epic, and have similar features.
Yep. I primarily use Go, so you are often forced down this way because it uses a simpler regex engine. I used to complain but in hindsight I realized it was a blessing in disguise. Particularly in Go's case, it has excellent character set library support, especially unicode, so those really tricky corner cases with unicode characters are non-existent now as well. I will be happy if I never see a regex with a unicode range again.
It's always neat to see where one's ideas go! AFAIK, I was the first person to create dynamic railroad diagrams for regular expressions (maybe 12 or 13 years ago). I got the idea from json.org, which I think was Douglas Crockford's brainchild.

My initial implementation was strfriend.com (in Lisp: well under 1,000 lines, including views), and I think its main claim to fame was that Jeff Atwood made fun of it on Twitter. (I was truly clueless at promoting myself back then. Not only did I not have a Twitter account, but it didn't occur to me to submit it to HN.)

Every so often, I toy around with the idea of making it into a proper local/native application -- maybe someday. In the meantime, my obsession with regular expressions lives on in my current application (see bio) where I parse and rewrite the user's entered regex syntax (ICU) into whatever regex syntax the backend requires. I don't know of any other application that does this, but I predict that in 15 years it'll be commonplace (and I'll still be poor)!
He's not acting like it's the default situation. For the distributions he mentioned, it is the default situation.
The secondhand life of books is an ongoing fascination of mine. I liked an NPR piece about where books go after they are donated[0]. Mostly to giant warehouses trying to flip them on Amazon for a few cents at scale...or something more exotic, like "books-by-the-foot" sellers.

EDIT: also a little about Amazon's "penny books" [1].

[0] https://www.wnyc.org/story/business-books-foot-2/
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/a-penny-for-your...
Nothing wrong with Go protobuf, but if you need a lean and mean Protocol Buffers implementation I can recommend Nanopb. It's just a few kB and you can run it even malloc free.

[1] http://jpa.kapsi.fi/nanopb/
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I mean really though you shouldn't be using BEAM languages for scientific and computational tasks. For starters, there isn't a native array type (everything is lists). That's fine, because lists can give you flexibility while preserving immutability guarantees when passing across functions.

If you're doing an n-body simulation, then this benchmark is a good benchmark for deciding whether or not to use erlang/elixir. If you're doing a server which is mostly parsing JSON inputs over HTTP and spitting out more JSON with HTTP, and needs to handle thousands or millions of parallel connections without hiccuping, is an nbody simulation the right thing to use as your benchmark reference?
I’ve personally sent Jeff Bezos an email to take on more for-purpose capitalism.

Something can be good for the bottom line and good for society. It’s not one or the other!
The time and resources spent on Mir have nothing to do with Wayland not being ready for production. It was wasted not doing other things at Canonical; who had, and still have, no obligation to make Wayland better.

(And complaining that nobody gets your article says more about you than them.)
My employer has a very good kaiser plan, basically I pay $15 for any office visit, and nothing for lab tests, etc. The total unsubsidized price is $1450/month for two people.

I don't know if $725/per person is good or not, but when I've looked around at other plan, I've found plans with far worse benefits (high out of pocket costs) for more money.
True, but this also means stupid decisions have no consequences and people prone to making stupid decisions stay in places where they can cause harm with these decisions, or even promoted to places where they cause more harm. Now, everybody makes stupid decisions now and then, so single stupid decision is not necessary damning. But a systemic pattern of it should have consequences. Of course, government employment is a bizzaro world, so making it work there may be hard.
I find it hard to figure out what to charge people for my services. I personally think most computer services charge way more than they should.
>What would it take to build a US-based electronics hub to rival Shenzen in, say, one of the Rust Belt states?

The repeal of American labor, environmental and copyright laws, to start.
> "There is no such thing as a legitimate price for anything in health care,” says George Halvorson, former chairman of Kaiser Permanente, the giant health maintenance organization based in California. “Prices are made up depending on who the payer is."

When you can game the pricing you can always just slice 80% from an ever increasing pie.
This is a great short overview, and timely for the First Robotics Competition season.

I took a course on this in college, and while that course mentioned the notion of sampling the D signal directly from feedback instead of from error, it never laid out why. This guide's practical explanation of why one might want to do that is great.
Fired? From a government job? Pssh. http://reason.com/reasontv/2018/01/26/remy-wedu-nagivafaka

(NSFW language)
Also on TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/30/gitlab-acquires-gemnasium-...
Hitler had this list of peoples to exterminate:

* Jews
* Romanies ("gypsies")
* Slavs (Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Czechs, modern Macedonians, Serbs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Slovenians...)

Jews took the biggest blow, but Hitler didn't plan to stop there. And not all of it was even ethnic. For example, he hated homosexuals and disabled people. He was going to clean the race. Communists were a target, too.

The reason he didn't exterminate everyone at the same time is that he needed slaves and collaborators in the transitional period. People down the list could be used to exterminate those higher up (indirectly, but sometimes directly).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
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That reminds me of a slightly off-topic story.

My college library had multiple floors. They decided with their grand collective genius, to replace the entire first floor with a knockoff Starbucks "cafe", and tons of Apple computers and tablets (99% of which were just used for Facebook).

They moved the good books upstairs, but any book that didn't make the cut, was literally thrown out. They announced it and you could see a generation gap. I was almost in my 30's. The 18 year olds didn't seem to mind (though some did, I'm not bashing 18 year olds). But anyone my age or older, was appalled. They wouldn't let you buy the books. They wouldn't even let you just take them. They had to be burned. BURNED.

Some of the older students (30+) literally said "Fuck it." and went out of their way to smuggle books out of the library past the theft detectors. They all had their different (strong!) personal reasons for "protecting history" or "not being apart of burning books."

As long as people like that exist--people willing to fight stupid decisions by people at the top--I think we're going to be okay in the long run.

And that reminds me of working for Sam's Club for 5+ years. We threw out so much food that was "out of date" when there were literally homeless people half a mile away. We kept telling management it was wrong but they said "We can't give it away because of liability reasons."
(Which I think is bullshit because you can make someone sign away their liability. And Good Samaritan laws exist.) But the real proof that it was bullshit was 10 years later, they now... actually give away day-old food to the local food banks. (Now I'm getting flashbacks of Elaine giving away Muffin stumps to the Foodbank. I should stop now before I derail into another dimension.)
I think the most critical problem this revealed is not in the chain of events leading to the false alert (which contains several real problems), but that the State of Hawaii apparently has no clear process for sending an all clear and informing the public of the resolution after a live alert.
99 parts greed, one part hubris, to be precise.
It was not really ESPN 8 but it was pretty far down there
> go bags

where are they planning to go?

It's a common mistake to make up "go bags" but forget they're only supposed to last you the 24 hours that it takes to get to a new refuge should your home/wherever else you're in become unsafe. I'm not sure how that works on Hawai'i after a nuclear missile attack, so I'd love to know what the plan is for such an event for these individuals.
Tell me about it:

> Harnessing on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & trustless Smart Contracts, Viola.AI sets to revolutionize the dating and relationship space in the world

It almost reads like a parody. What on earth do blockchains have to do with dating?
They were already above that. Especially the not-for-profits (e.g. Blues) had to scramble to get under the cap.

There was a huge amount of waste in the system. 15-20% is a marked improvement.
This is a little surprising to me since all of the airline seatbelts I've ever seen could be pulled right up against the seat by pulling far enough on the loose end. Are you saying the buckle hit the end of the strap before the kid was fully secured?
Actually, many/most libraries participate in exchange with other libraries. You may be able to request the book back (and you CAN request many books your library doesn't have)
> distributism

Thank you for giving a name to something I have been pondering a lot. I have come to this conclusion by thinking about automation and technological unemployment. If people own land, or productive tools, they can be self reliant and exist without jobs from corporations, or help from the state. Naturally people would organise as a cooperative or a market of services, exchanging services for services, because they have little money and no corporate jobs. Yet they can work, so they can create a kindergarten for children of the neighbourhood, or a medical clinic, or a mechanic repair-shop, or a construction company, and so on.

By combining these skills a neighbourhood, or a city could be self reliant. In the future, with the advent of solar energy, agro-bots, 3d-printing and other empowering technologies it will be even easier to be self reliant. I see this as a better solution to UBI which depends on the state, which is corruptible and the corporations, which are greedy. People would retain their agency, unlike in the UBI scenario, where they would be wards of the state.

There is no purpose to automation that does not exist in the service of humanity at large, but only for a few. Automation must be owned by the people directly. We need to have the means of production in our hands in order to survive. There is one single job the advancement of automation can't take from us - the job of taking care of ourselves! And that's hard work.
How many computers are in your computer?
Who knows what WWDC 2018 might bring.
As a soon to be Computer Science and AI graduate in London where should I apply?
I am about to finish uni and looking to get a job in London as soon as I finish. I have had two software engineering related internships and have built countless apps and products.

I am really passionate about building products and not so much doing “nitty gritty” programming for a very small feature of a very large project.

I have studied computer science and AI and looking like I will graduate with a 1st class degree.

Unfortunately I have no idea of what company I should be looking at joining. I am planning on applying for graduate jobs at Facebook and Google in their product related departments. I am not really bothered about money as I have the rest of my life for that. I just want great experience and to be around people who are way more creative and talented than me.

Where else should I look at applying?
Article suggests they are using perceived value of an outfit to train their Machine Learning model. I wonder what are those actions, Likes? Add to cart?