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They should make deductible illegal for health insurance period. The worst part is that it resets every year.

Even when I had plan with $1000 deductible, I thought twice about going to doctor. $6000? It might as well be called health scam.

Deductible may discourage people from going, but it also encourage over utilization once you go over the threshold.
Apparently the scientists have just invented a new, revolutionary device that "wakes you up every single day at your selected time".

They have called it an 'alarm clock'.
I’ve found committing a large chunk of money, in front of friends, to causes I detest it I don’t hit my goals, to be like a magic wand for this stuff.

UKIP haven’t yet received £1,500 from me, and each week I’ve been tremendously productive and done everything I set out to with that as a threat
OK I am not an economist, but here's my 2c (of my own currency...)

You're right, I phrased it incorrectly - the US could indeed default on its "debt" if it chose too - and maybe the current administration is more inclined to consider doing so - but it would be a choice - it never has to, if it chooses not to.

One thing the US can't and won't ever do is pay down all that debt. The associated contraction in the money supply would be economically devastating, and is basically inconceivable.

To quote the last line of your linked article "As far as the debt limit is concerned, the government really shouldn’t be run like a business." Sometimes this concept is bandied around, that a government is like a household or a business and needs to balance its budget. This is wrong, a government (of a country with sovereign currency and limited foreign-denominated debt) is a government, and should govern, adjusting the money supply to help balance the economy, letting off steam (by running a surplus, taxing more than it spends and taking money out of the economy) when the economy is running "hot" and opening the throttle (by running a deficit, spending more than it taxes and putting money into the economy) when the economy is running below capacity - excess unemployment and underemployment, productive capital laying idle etc. (The devil is of course in the detail, with different regions and sectors performing very differently, and lots of purely political distortions.)

Over time an economy that grows will naturally require more money to operate, so the default state of public finance should be deficit. It is somewhat inappropriate and unfortunate that we characterise this as "debt".
It absolutely is. But I'm looking at it from a perspective of whether I could put a daily or weekly podcast out there using one of these TTS services and I come out with a resounding no (today).
The Context API is of most interest for me.

I love Redux but I find myself using it less than I want to because so much stuff has to be put in place any time I want to store some stuff.
I've heard of these HOAs, but I've lived in the 'burbs most of my 50+ years and I've never had one. Clearly some people like HOAs or they wouldn't exist.
"Stratechery." When I first read it, it sounded like a break-down on startup founders' stretching of their "trajectory" as a sure thing. This includes their "strategy," i.e their well-typeset pitch deck that says they'll be making $400B in revenues next year. Then you mash those two with "treachery" for a play on words.

"Stratechery: How founders false-advertise, legally." It's almost like Amazon's Cadabra | "Cadaver."

Don't even know what the company is, but will read now.
Three reasons why the Google Pixel 2 XL is still better than the Samsung S9+
A vehicle involved death is always treated as a potential criminal case.
It's late here and maybe I am just too tired, but I am unable to figure out where you think the legitimization to blow up a North Korean reactor - correct me if you would not actually support this, you never said this, I just assume this based on what you wrote - would come from. I am not even sure whether we are really disagreeing. You said that you have no trust in their chain of command and technology and that may be valid reasons to not want them to have nuclear weapons, at least if we manage to make that judgment objective and I will grant you that we could do so. But were does the legitimization to enforce this desire with force against a sovereign country come from? It can't just be that NATO, Russia, and China want it, that would just be law of the strongest and would therefore be exactly the reason why North Korea would want their own nuclear weapons.
The problem they see is that whoever gets this working will have a structural advantage over a company that requires drivers and probably launch a competing car on demand service.

This is really about establishing a moat around their existing business.
To be clear: there is nothing wrong with my iPhone vs anyone else's iPhone. I understand you're going for the "lawl iPhone sux" kind of thing but it's really not appreciated. You can take that somewhere else.
Uber is already doing pretty well with price segmentation in the US (the Uber Express POOL comes with a forced 2 minute wait); they can certainly:

- raise prices of uberX, price sensitive riders can still use POOL or Express POOL
- reduce marketing and growth expenses; reframe KPIs and targets in term of "dollar ROI" instead of new rider/driver targets

Uber absolutely works from a unit economics perspective. How do you think taxis exist?
Yea, that is the point of me posting this. The point is that it is pretty similar.
Or maybe, gasp, companies knew this all along, but they base their salary offers on “market rate” not value added.

They were able to get away with paying senior employees less for a how because that market was scared.
While T-Mobile has 2G coverage for no additional charge outside of US/Mexico, in practice it's not very usable due to the extremely slow speeds. After trying to painfully use maps with that data plan, I had to switch to a regular 3G data plan so I could get on with being a tourist.
Self-driving cars never made any sense as part of Uber's business model. What were they going to do, buy a fleet of vehicles, build garages, hire mechanics? They're a software company.
Even the stats are pretty bad for Uber: while the sample size is minimal, an average driver is expected to drive ~33x more miles than Uber did in total before a fatality.
Doing it in places is not at all the same as doing it at the scale where you run out of the resources you were using.

Since you're interested enough to have done those calculations on SPS, I really think you'd like that book, which works out the cost and efficiency numbers in great detail.

The only comment I've seen from Musk was "You'd have to convert photon to electron to photon back to electron. What's the conversion rate? Stab that bloody thing in the heart!"

Meanwhile he wants to convert photon to electron to chemistry to electron.

To answer his question, the overall conversion rate is 40% with today's tech, and probably 60% with some more R&D. That's not bad given that you don't need storage at all, and at all times you have 30% more energy hitting your solar panels than if they were on Earth at noon on a sunny day. You're in sun 99.5% of the time.

The system works especially well with other renewables, because the ground stations are a small portion of the total cost; you can build extras, and point the power to the places you need it most.
No, I think OForth has been out for a long time. Probably not before OCaml, or even close, but still not a trolling thing. Both just use "O" to symbolize some Object stuff.
Insanity Wins as Appeals Court Overturns Google's Fair Use Victory for Java APIs
Indenting a line with 4 spaces on HN disables word wrap, making your comment very difficult to read on mobile.

We run into this problem all the time. HN really needs some markup for quotes.
Shoot, my bad. Sorry for the confusion. That is a common common complaint with redux, so I read into it.
Nah, I'd rather not be held accountable for endless scope creep and 80 hour work weeks delivering a product I repeatedly called a pile of bugs
Such an amazing tool for managing any type of process in a company!
> It’s borderline unusable internationally.

The T-Mobile plan has worked fine for me in both Australia and the UK, even for navigation.
What faulty acceleration?

You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle... ?

> The most common problem was drivers hitting the accelerator pedal when they thought they were hitting the brake, which the NHTSA called "pedal misapplication.” Of the 58 cases reported, 18 were dismissed out of hand. Of the remaining 40, 39 of them were found to have no cause; the remainder being an instance of “pedal entrapment.”
> What about Toyotas faulty acceleration?

This is a great case to read up on. The testimony from experts in this case was top notch.

I believe the criminal charges in the case were related to the degree of deception Toyota engaged in with regards to unintended acceleration in their vehicles.

edit: Someone did a case study: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...
Then it works in two browsers: most popular and their own. Ideally there would be such a large number of in-use standards compliant browsers that companies had to comply.
>AFAIK started before Meltdown was discovered

source?
PG: Weight-related deaths can affect non-obese too
I go "ouch" when my wife runs over a pothole while driving. It's a very neat trick, even after I've read things like Surfing Uncertainty and have an idea how it's done.
If I wanted to put Uber, Waymo, and other self driving companies out of business, I’d run on the platform of not allowing Silicon Valley technocrats deciding which kids in the street ate going to die the next time their reckless attempt at disruption goes astray.

It doesn’t matter if you’re being intellectually disingenuous if you think you can win on the platform.
Strangely enough, this tactic has made me much less inclined to click links for the New York Times, the Washington Post, or any other online publication that uses paywalls. I think, "Hmm, I only have 3 free articles left this month, I don't want to waste one of them on this particular article" and therefore I end up never reading any articles at all.
For Australia the mobile version of http://m.bom.gov.au/vic/melbourne is great
> only it takes 9

What if we outsourced the QA to India?
Hi, this is Charles. I made Storyboarder. I used to be in YC in 2006. We are a super small team, making Storyboarder without any funding. We're just trying to make a tool to use on our own movie project. 150k people use Storyboarder and we are struggling to keep up with the response.
> Yes, as project's contributor I find your claims blatantly inaccurate and offensive

That's funny. They can't be inaccurate, because I'm talking about my personal experience using the software.

As for offending, I never even talked about anyone--just the project, and you are the one who's offended me personally by saying that I should get a grip of myself, I don't understand basic concepts in English, etc. etc.--which let me tell you doesn't look that good for GIMP as a project.

This is how many open source projects handle criticism. I've seen this before, and I'm not surprised. Like I said, thanks for reinforcing the conviction I have that many projects stay in their silos and don't listen to users--to say it nicely--because they don't owe them anything (which of course it's true, but still).

Regular users have no idea how to or have the willingness to get in touch with you, they'll just uninstall and move on. When someone in the middle like me does offer criticism, he doesn't understand basic concepts explained clearly to him--like you said--so obviously there's no solution.

> That said, my way of handling them is most likely far from being humble.

I guess we agree on this one (yay!)
> It sounded like people were claiming that WASM cannot dethrone JS, that JS will always be the language of the web, etcetc. So my question was more.. Why?

You seem to be missing the biggest (at least to me) advantage of JS - how dumb it is.

It's great that beginners don't have much to learn. They do not need any complex environment setup. And even seniors get benefit of easy onboarding.

And considering web will always be primarily about UI i.e. high level code writable by any random guy without CS degree, why would JS lose its dominance?
I can see how a person that only knows about law what they read in the headlines could come to that conclusion, but painting lawyers with a broad brush as you have is no more of a generalization than me saying that every Facebook employee is devoid of morals and ethics.
I don't agree that an iPad is more durable for kids than the education focused Chromebooks, like the new lenovos that came out with drop resistance and spill proof keyboards: https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/lenovo-n-series...

Disclosure: I work at Google but not remotely on chromebooks.
An Americana Hymnal for the Doomsday Cult of 'Far Cry 5'
>We can't measure the number of security bugs, we're measuring how many get fixed.

The number of bugs found should be trending towards zero since millions of people have the opportunity to improve the source code and prevent the bugs from being introduced in the first place. There are ofcourse other advantages to having the source be open, but if there is no security advantage to open source, that's going to put a dent in some of its marketing.

>Fewer eyeballs on Windows would imply fewer discoveries, and fewer bugfixes as a result.

Why would fewer people be looking at Windows compared to Linux? Security Researchers don't really discriminate. Or did you mean just the MS developers? Hmmm, I don't know how many windows bugs were found through external sources vs internal. Perhaps someone has already done that analysis..
>Given the numbers these people are facing, I’d be a “gambler” too.

Not me. Premiums, as brutal as they are, absolutely pale in comparison to what health care can cost you in the US under the rubric of for-profit health insurance.
I've found out that in my decades of software engineering that what I take as trivial and simple actually isn't for folks who haven't really delved into it or they are mid or junior level engineers.

I'd rather do skim reading on stuff that I already know than for them to skip over it just in case there was a fundamental issue that was missed (or deemed trivial).
To be efficient as a power plant a reactor needs to spend most of its time operating. If you want to make nuclear material for bombs with this kind of reactor it will enter a number of startup-shutdown cycles, which would make it inefficient, and would be very noticeable. Of course they recently extended the coolant outflow quite a bit to mask the thermal signature of operation, but it should still be possible to determine a rough operational schedule.
I just wrote that because it's how I feel, and it's free software. I answer to no god but myself.
A fun chart on where 3 trillions actually end up.

https://wire.ama-assn.org/ama-news/analysis-health-care-spen...
Once you play with it, you'll see it's really early. There's so much I want to do with it. It's very much v.0.1 of shot generator.
What's the power demand actually like in NK?
My feedback: you definitely need to add tags.
Because I'm quite good at, say, classic or jazz, but I suck at other styles. And I don't want to listen uselessly to 90% hummings from styles I don't know before starting to become helpful...
Excellent idea, though!
Processor Architectures and Why You Should Care
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The bad news is that a lot of system builders like us (we build pre-built systems pre-installed with Deep Learning software http://lambdalabs.com) are now used to paying more than MSRP for our GPUs. MSRP for a 1080Ti is supposed to be $699. They haven't been available even in large bulk purchases at that price for a while now. I don't see it going back down any time soon.
IANAL - no idea what "erasure" as in the "Right to erasure" means http://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/article-17-right-to-eras...

But... if deleted data is no longer processed, does that mean it can not longer be used for targeting etc?
you can email me: charles@wonderunit.com
It was a seminal book on software engineering for me.

Kind of like Effective C++, More effective C++, the old Win32 Charles Petzold book, GoF, etc.

To me, it was a classic, and much appreciated it as that was also when the whole TDD thing took off.
Not true

Everything down to the fonts you have installed can be used to track you

https://amiunique.org
To be more clear, when you run poisson.test(1, conf.level = 0.95) with the default values of T and r (which are both 1) you are performing the following two-sided hypothesis test:

Null hypothesis: The true rate of events is 1 (r) with a time base of 1 (T).

Alternative hypothesis: The true rate is not equal to 1.

The reason that you end up with a p-value of 1 is because you've said that you've observed 1 event in a time base of 1 with a hypothesized rate of 1. So given this data, of course the probability of observing a rate equal to or more extreme than 1 is 1! As such, you're not actually testing anything about the data that you claim you are testing.

I'm not trying to be harsh here, but please be careful when using statistics!
IBM Plex
"... the hardware is going to keep getting more performant at the same price"

That is the hope but there are no guarantees. Perhaps specialized hardware can pick up where Moore's Law has tapered off.
You aren't using the same definition of polymorphism as maire is. In the context of software, polymorphism is the practice of having an interface, one side of which has multiple alternatives which do different things.
Do you seriously think that any country in the world is naive enough to trust the US ?
This is pretty cool! I would love it if you could create custom-sized objects by inputting basic dimensions (l x h x w). It's hard to grasp the size of e.g. different powerbanks just by reading the numbers.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and if you are suffering emotionally/mentally please seek professional help.

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My anecdote:

I used to frequently suffer from (undiagnosed) anxiety and depression.

For about a year, I would respond to sudden anxiety by seeking comfort in various forms of isolation/depressed behavior (watch TV as a distraction, try to take a "nap", etc.). The most insidious thing about this was how it seemed to happen so quickly that it was practically subconscious. Days would disappear.

It took me about a year to recognize this pattern, but eventually I learned to catch myself whenever I was seeking this form of comfort, and instead chose to do one session of push-ups, instead (when possible).

This worked really well for me for two reasons:

1. It caused me to stop myself short of falling into any kind of depressive spiral -- physical exertion is a great distraction!

2. Needless to say, I did a LOT of push ups, which are a great form of full-body exercise. The benefits are well known.

These days, I don't need the push-ups as a distraction; most of the "bad habits" I used to have don't appear nearly as much (although I still need to exercise regularly to avoid depression).
No worries, I was just confused what you meant. :)
What’s your monetization strategy
Fiber Lasers are set to make laser weapons practical
I was a huge C64/Amiga fan, but I honestly don't think it would have been Atari or Amiga, both companies were horribly managed. And the Mac was just horrifically overpriced for what you got. At the same time Apple was shipping a $2k non-multitasking, B&W, 128k computer with shitty graphics and sound, Commodore was shipping the Amiga 1000, with twice the memory, and a custom chipset that was not equaled until years later by VGA, or to be honest, SVGA, and at half the price of the Mac 128k.

IMHO, the Amiga 1000 was the 'iPhone' of personal computers, ridiculously better than the Mac and PC at its launch date, it was a step-function better than the Mac. But Commodore was a bungling, mismanaged company that flushed a great opportunity down the drain. It's like if you invented the iPhone, but didn't know how to sell it, market it, and get product market fit.
Except for the fact that due to historical precedent, our society isn't built in a way that enables affordable urban life outside of areas that have been historically considered blighted. If we had more urban spaces, there would be more cities that are affordable to the middle class, whereas now, the places that are affordable to the middle class are largely suburbs.
Adding an "A" to STEM is replacing STEM with STEAM. If it wasn't about replacement the post would be about a new word, STEAM. Or, there wouldn't be a post at all, OP would just start using STEAM.
And that's why you measure batteries in Watt hours and not Amp hours.

Silly mobile power bank makers.
We have a totally new drawing system we are working on: https://s3.amazonaws.com/test.wonderunit.com/index.html
Yes, but there's a big difference between perfecting the tech and implementing it for a use case. Uber would have the logistics and infrastrcuture to implement it, that's an easy call to license the tech from someone that has the tech down pat but no interest in being a taxi company. Heck they could probably have partnered with Google as a testing partner.
UPCALL (W17) Is Hiring a Sales – Inbound Lead Conversion
Exactly, and this issue is highly emotive for many. The rational counter argument, that humans are generally terrible drivers, is just guaranteed to piss people off more.
Cities destroyed by North Korea : 0

Cities destroyed by the US : Hiroshima, Nagasaki...

I wonder whose weapons and nuclear reactors we should be worried about.
Facebook Delays Home-Speaker Unveil Amid Data Crisis
Thanks! I haven't made up my mind on the LIC yet. As for the launch page, it's a thing that comes easy to me.
Interesting that pains were taken to require an email before downloading, even an extensive blacklist to block throwaway email services like mailinator. Yet, the release is freely available on the linked github page.
Developer tries to fast-track housing at Vallco Mall under new state law
Thank you for this and everyone who has downvoted an incorrect and misleading statement
> Am I the only one who thinks Thiel was just being true to his Libertarian views and wanted to

Given Trump's blatant admiration for authoritarians and authoritarianism, I'm skeptical that Thiel's support had anything to do with libertarianism.

Indeed, given Thiel's founding and constant promotion of Palantir (which feeds at the trough of the military-industrial complex and government contracts), I'm skeptical that he makes many life decisions based on libertarian principles.
Researchers making progress on lithium-sulfur batteries
SMTP Protocol Explained
Legacy CUDA software would exist if OpenCL ecosystem was better. This is not the case. Code translation from CUDA to OpenCL is solution looking for a problem.
Ask HN: Have Google's search changes made finding solutions harder for you?
Hmmm - is DNS not responding? I was switching to cloudflare earlier, maybe I screwed something up. Had no idea I was going to be on HN
LTE is already faster in theory and in practice than most people's home connection. My parents just got a brand new internet connection thanks to the Australian Government, that costs about 2500$ per premises, that maxes out at 25mbps and will never go faster due to being DSL. 4G however can hit 100mbps easily. Mine tests at 130mbps.

The limiting factor for 4G on a laptop is data caps, not speed.
> an electric cattle prod that is wired up to the mains (three phase)

"Have you seen the boss's new toy?" "Yeah. Coincidentally, I'll be working remotely moving forward. Good luck!"