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Getting into the city has gotten significantly worse over the past handful of years. As you say, the congestion is such that even coming into the city from the west where I live after work is sufficiently slow that I've cut back on doing it.

>If Amazon came to Boston, it would be compound this problem exponentially, though whoever owns property currently would definitely make a good return.

The proposed location (Suffolk Downs) is sort of an odd one from a housing perspective. It is on the T but that's all very blue collar neighborhoods around there, some of which have gentrified a bit but still not places your typical software engineer would normally choose to live.
One of the most worrisome predictions about climate change may be coming true
A computed property is a function... It's the same thing. Especially when combined with reselect.
The danger here is that you push too much, but the actual response will still be delivered almost as fast (due to non-blocking behavior in HTTP/2 connections), so sure, it's not optimal, but there are a lot of use cases besides static assets where it is very useful.
Yes: https://spa.mnesty.com/

Sadly the service is not working at this time due to this issue related to Mailgun: https://gitlab.com/stavros/Spamnesty/issues/97 .
I really loved this one:

Paul Scherz & Dr. Simon Monk's "Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition" [1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourt...
Bronze ACA plans are pretty much catastrophic coverage. $7300 individual, $14,500 family deductibles.

There's plenty of people that could afford higher deductibles than that (and would prefer the accompanying lower premiums), but not really the majority of people.

Cutting the basic benefits out of them wouldn't even really save that much money (because insurance negotiates reasonable prices for basic office visits...).
I'm not talking about a platonic relationship. I'm talking about a family with 3 equal intimate partners. It's clearly not for everyone, but there is a massive financial advantage for those who could live like that.
You say that these laws "surpass any knowledge at the time", but aren't they in fact evidence of such knowledge?
My experience has been that MariaDB is NOT a drop-in replacement for MySQL.
> Since the introduction of motorized transport the arrangement of our cities has changed in such a way that the majority of people no longer live within walking distance of their place of employment, shopping areas and recreational opportunities, so that they HAVE TO depend on the automobile for transportation. Or else they must use public transportation, in which case they have even less control over their own movement than when driving a car.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabo...
This is pretty much what I mean by "willy-nilly". Little concern seems to be paid to how well it integrates into some holistic information access theory or paradigm. I would expect some adherence to relational algebra, and if that isn't sufficiently powerful, I would like a transition to some more powerful theory rather than welding on the new hotness. I'm not saying I could do it better, mind you.
Well, I guess someone missed the point that the carriers control SMS, not Google. 'Chat' is a consumer friendly name for Rich Communication Service (RCS) which is built on top of SMS. Google is simply advocating adoption of RCS after failing to get adoption for any of their own rich messaging protocols.

Blame lazy, cash obsessed carriers if you want to blame anyone. Next we will be blaming Google for making a phone app that only uses A5/1 stream cipher which the FBI can intercept and decrypt easily when they want to snoop[0].

Yes Google failed so many times to compete with iMessage, but they did try. I can't blame them to rethink their strategy, I mean most people are using SMS already, I for one would like to at least be able to send full res photos.

[0] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/29/feds-fbi-wa...
Can someone give ma a rough estimate of what $18B buys you?

Is that a 100 storey skyscraper in New York? 18 of them? (I am guessing that an apartment there must cost > $1 million looking at the prices here in Barcelona).
I was talking about nicely designed non-native UX/UI. Why are you talking about electron performance?
Similar, sure, but US is ranked:

* 31st for Life Expectancy [1]

* 32nd in infant mortality [2]

* 5th for colorectal cancer survival [3]

* 1st for breast cancer survival [3]

* 19th for cervical cancer survival [3]

* 7th for heart attack mortality [3]

The actual numbers are reasonably close, but the cost is also about 25% more per captia [4] than the second highest-spending country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Yes, I remember some right wing US rag saying the following in 2009:

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

Forgive me while I laugh uncontrollably
> I really like this push towards transparency but hopefully people who use the data / develop will make sure to understand the system and the data they're dealing with.

They won't. Having clear, sinple, unambiguous per-procedure price information widely available while quality information (including on induced downstream needs and costs) is less clear will produce strong downward pressure on quality, while also not controlling aggregate cost. That's a pretty clear pattern in human behavior that is often leveraged both as a competitive tactic and to increase total revenue.
>Then gave him a remediation option, like destroying the discs, and dropping the matter.

This strikes me as the far more reasonable outcome that didn't happen.

>I'm curious if that statement was based on what he ultimately got convicted of or something else?

Who knows. As a practical matter, I do see a chilling effect coming out of this judgement for those reselling Windows boxes - either don't do it or make damn sure you have your legal ducks in a row.

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What time tracker do you use?
I think you're a super anomalous member of any programming language's community. I doubt even one programmer in a thousand has written F# professionally (not being hipster here — I haven't done it myself).
Those are impressive sounding achievements. I haven't heard of all of those, can you provide references or details about the stories?
Insurance is for unusual procedures

In healthcare you'd not only like to even out expenses over time, you'd also like to spread expenses over a group, else people with chronic conditions are still screwed.
What's the stop the other parties from simply running a round without you in order to find out what the secret is?
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> We like to champion the "free market" but then completely fail to implement policies that make that even remotely possible

We like to talk about free markets, but we don't really want them, at least our elected representatives don't. This is the reason why Medicare is _legally prohibited_ from negotiating drug prices (something that blows the mind of pretty much everyone the first time they hear it).
If they're going to kill people you'd think the illegality of prostitution wouldn't be an impediment.
We have a dedicated WG now actively working on it https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-formal-veri...
They are. A free market model typically has five basic assumptions built into it. See my comment above.
I want to shake those officer's hands for not putting up with that attitude, and for being respectful while doing it.
I read Dan Pink's book "When" recently, and made a conscious effort to schedule all of my meetings in what Pink calls admin time between 1 and 3 in the afternoon. It's a win-win - I can go to the meetings having just been to the gym, and my morning is freed up for making.
"I think x is like goto."

"I disagree; I don't think x is like goto."

"Now that we've agreed that x is like goto, not wanting to give up x makes you like a big dinosauric dummy~"
The specific problems I had I don't entirely remember (It was around 3 - 4 years ago at this point). The bug I encountered was relating to escaping the UEFI environment. My code was written to the UEFI 2.6 standards document, and it turns out that TianoCore diverged from that document with relation to how memory allocation was dealt with, and how setting up the post-boot environment was done.

EDIT: I think that it was something along the lines of some implementations (including TianoCore) required the ExitBootServices call to be performed more than once to exit the UEFI-controlled environment correctly? Even after doing that I had some problems with it.
A lot of tech (outside of biotech) in MA is still outside Boston. After all, when Teradyne moved out (in the 90s?), they were at that point pretty much the last tech company in Boston. A lot of the new tech offices are the west coast company satellite offices.

My company does have an office in the Seaport but it's in Boston specifically because it makes more sense to have a customer briefing center there. Most MA employees are about 45 minutes west.

ADDED: And when biotech started going into Kendall Square that area was pretty much old warehouses. Of course, now it's some of the most expensive real estate in the Boston area. I know someone whose company moved out of Kendall Square to move to the Finance District because it was cheaper.
There is some interesting stuff about this in the /r/programming thread https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8es8x3/notes_o...
Yup. Investor's Business Daily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor%27s_Business_Daily#Er...

> In July 2009, an editorial in Investor's Business Daily claimed that physicist Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the [British] National Health Service (NHS) would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless." Hawking has always lived in the United Kingdom and receives his medical care from the NHS.
Re: "list prices are often incredibly far removed from the actual dollars paid, and the actual amount paid is all dependent on insurer contracts"

Would be great if they were required to provide list, min insurer price, max, and median.
Inbox UX is not info dense enough and I don't like the auto categorizing it does for me. Makes me feel like I'll miss stuff.
Zero effort, but also next to zero reason. You are assuming that people will seek out these films and go out of their way to see them at odd times. The cinema is missing out on the money it would make showing a blockbuster. There is a reason why the big movies show on a ton of screens at once, they bring in more people than all the other movies combined on big weekends.
I think you need to reconsider the things you're saying. "A couple crumbs" rendering a key useless is a problem, not something to hand-wave. And yes, the issue is widespread enough that I've read several blog articles, stories, and comments on several websites about how terrible the keyboard is. This isn't some cheap $20 keyboard part that is expected to fail; this is Apple hardware, frequently claimed to be the best in the business.

Why "you" in scare quotes? Do you think people are lying about their problems with the keyboard? People don't want to bring in their workhorse machines (MacBook Pro) for repair because of a couple of crumbs. They don't want to be faced with repairs into the hundreds of dollars. They expect the newer MacBook Pros to be as reliable as the old ones, and this isn't happening.

Why are you so sure the keyboards will "continue to improve" with each generation? They haven't. The current trend is that they're getting worse. Have you tried typing on a hard, flat surface for a lengthy period of time? It hurts. Fingers were not designed to bang against unyielding surfaces for hours on end.
When I was in a poly triad the numbers worked pretty well. No kids made it even more affordable; we were free to have one person do part-time stuff in the field they wanted to be in rather than the one they ended up in.
Probably s.tolower() or whatever it is in Python.
I know, which makes me wonder how/why people are doing algorithmic trading on the side when they don't have a reliable way to backtest.

I don't want minute by minute data. Average price for the day is fine with me. Or max/min/average.
> "It depends" or "we can't tell you until after we bill you" is not acceptable. Can you imagine any other market working that way?

Auto repair. Computer repair. Probably most kinds of repair. Even when prices are posted, there's always a ton of wiggle room, and by the time you find out the work is already done.
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Somewhat agree.

Supervision trees (or sync.WaitGroup in Go) are good tools for achieving the same end result. But it isn't as semantically protected as the article states. In Trio, the property is given by the programs scope.

However, if process creation/termination follows the scoping rules of the program, I have a hunch you run into situations where certain things are not only hard, but outright impossible to express.

Now, the author gambles that this is a good thing and we will eventually find good structural solutions to all the problems. I, on the other hand, is a bit more pessimistic because it has been tried before and found to be lacking.

I wonder how Trio handles error propagation.
Yes, this is definitely the more rational conclusion. Even if no one knew about germ theory or parasites there were likely observations made that certain foods/preparations resulted in certain outcomes and then codified this information in the laws. It seems that the grandparent comment is starting from the premise that god exists and looking for evidence to support the conclusion they already hold.
Two things complicate the realization of a free market in this sector:

1) It's standard practice to proclaim one's love for free markets when one is trying to enter a market. "Competition is good!" (for me) But then as soon as one's company is entrenched in said market, one mysteriously starts doing everything possible to make it less free. "Competition is bad!" (for me) The one consistent part here is, of course, the "for me" part.

2) In most of the healthcare industry you are not the customer; your insurance company is. So the incentives are perverted accordingly. Higher prices for providers means more revenue for them, obviously; that part is straightforward. Higher prices paid by insurers, you would think, means it's harder for them, but just like any business, they adjust their prices (premiums, rates) accordingly, so they can pass costs on to the consumer and still make a profit. So higher prices from providers just means the insurer is essentially insuring a higher "volume" of claim dollars and collecting a higher volume of premiums; in other words they're doing more business and making proportionately more profit.
Sure, the author is saying "pay attention to yourself and things will change" that's a "selfish" viewpoint, but if your take away is that the author is "evil" because of it, I think is a stretch. I think he's using "winning" as a proxy here for "being fulfilled".
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The most worrisome climate change is the end of the current interglacial. We can easily live in a somewhat warmer world (note: the last interglacial was much warmer than today) but the coming return to the Ice Age will make our large-scale civilization very difficult.
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How does astrology work and how can it improve your life?
If they developed hardware based VR movie setups -> you could watch movies in pretty much any resolution.

Right now we are stuck with software decoders because tech is not there yet
In Lisp pattern-based programming has been first implemented in 1962 in by D.Bobrow (METEOR). From then on there are many implementations of pattern matching in Lisp based software, from Planner, to rule-based systems, LISP70 (Tesler, ...)...
This addresses the wrong problem. The real issue is control over data shared between threads, not control flow.

C/POSIX type threads have no language support for indicating what data is shared and which locks protect which data. That's a common cause of trouble. The big question in shared memory concurrency is "who locks what". Most of the bugs in concurrent programs come from ambiguities over that question.

Early attempts to deal with this at the language level included Modula's "monitors", the "rendezvous" in Ada, and Java "synchronized" classes. These all bound the data and its lock together. Rust's locking system does this, and is probably the most successful one so far. (Yes, the functional crowd has their own approaches.)

Go talked a lot about controlling shared memory use. The trouble with goroutines, as Go programmers found out the hard way, was that the "share by communicating, not by sharing" line was bogus. Even the original examples had shared data. But the language didn't provide much support for controlling that sharing.

Python is basically at the C level of sharing control over data, except that the Global Interpreter Lock keeps the low-level data structures from breaking. This prevents Python programs from doing much with multi-core CPUs. Since this is just another thread library for Python, it has the same limitations.

Real concurrency in Python with disjoint data, and without launching a heavy-weight subprocess, would be a big win. But this isn't it.
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Rust has co-routines on nightly ("generators"), and it's an important underlying aspect of async/await.
> Given that the indigenous Australian languages hold the record for the longest-running oral traditions (70,000 years worth of story-telling)

It isn't possible to verify a claim like this (and therefore, it also isn't possible to honestly make a claim like this...) - there are plenty of traditions that claim to draw on 70,000 years of history, but no reason to believe that they actually do.

Some versions of the Sumerian king list document that a single king reigned for 36,000 years.
Then they will just rebase their misplaced sense of grievance onto them having to pay for sex while the "Chads" get it for free.
I completely agree, and no, it shouldn't be a prerequisite for voting. Using a mountain of indigestible information to assuage potential ignorance doesn't make much since... Like I said, I don't know how it should be presented.
Relationships are already hard enough to maintain with two people.
Ask HN: Go developers, how do you do your project analysis?
What I've learnt at school is mostly centered around UMLs and Use Cases. I'm somewhat afraid that object oriented approaches to analysis will be off when I start to write code with Go. How do you do your project analysis?
I don't think this snarky remark is warranted. I think the point was that in Lisp-style languages (such as Clojure/ClojureScript) new features such as pattern matching can easily be added without "changing the language", as libraries. This is how core.async was added to Clojure, to pick a non-trivial example. Or more to the point, how core.match works.

Additions such as those do not have to be one lonely programmer's macros, they can be libraries widely accepted by the community.

I had a similar thought when reading the ECMAscript extension proposal: I'm glad that in the languages I use, features like that can be provided by libraries.
> I’m not sure information is requisite in “free markets”; is it?

No, but information (specifically perfect information about cost and all benefits, to an infinite time horizon, of economic decisions among all market participants) is a (but not the only important) central assumption in the theory underpinning the conclusion that free markets are optimal in terms of economic efficiency.

You can have a free market where this isn't even approximately true, of course, but the farther it is from true—ceteris paribus—the weaker the argument for the desirability of free markets is.
Twitter earnings growth relied on selling user data
"Even with a massive drop in rents, rents would still more than cover development costs."

Citation needed. You might also want to tell the construction finance industry of your discovery.
So, sort of like a secret generating linked list, where one node (you) are a bad actor?

What prevents the participant right before you from simply circumventing you or secretly passing to the next participant directly?

It also seems that once someone receives the correct answer for their step in the chain, they no longer need anyone beneath them?

(A) -> (B) -> (C) -> (you) -> (D)

Once C has participated in this one time, why do they need A or B?
> That effect goes both ways: medicare gets patients that are old and have more expensive and chronic diseases, thus their spending per service might be very efficient.

It doesn't really matter, if they're reimbursing below COGS (which they are). If the expected value of a set of numbers is negative, you can't make it positive by adding a bunch of other numbers which are also negative (even if they might be closer to zero, which in this case they oftentimes are not).
We assume "perfect information" because that's what lets us create simply supply and demand functions. Obviously in the real world you rarely (if ever) have perfect information—and we have models to deal with that—but healthcare has almost zero information. You either can't make a choice because you literally can't (only one provider in your area) or you can't make a choice because you don't have pricing information. So you can't maximize your own utility, because you don't know what options lead to that outcome.

Just about the ONLY assumption that holds true in healthcare is that firms maximize profits. And, in a twist of irony, the only healthcare provider to provide information on pricing is Kaiser Permanente—which is a non-profit. Yeah, they still do maximize profits, but not for shareholders. So you could make the argument that healthcare as a whole meets exactly zero of the assumptions necessary for any kind of free market model to apply.
The Soviets did similar experiments, the end result was the invention of heart-lung and dialysis machines [0].
Makes one wonder what this will lead to down the road? But it will probably be a while before we get there due to ethical concerns of doing something like this with a human brain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_...
NIMBYism isn't restricted to the Bay Area.
All SQL databases are "heavy" users of fsync. Though, this problem is not relevant on FreeBSD nor Illumos.

Error handling for a operating system is really complex stuff. I'm surprised that this isn't working properly, fsync is not about speed, but reliability. Userland applications expect it to work and behave as intended.
Glad you like the idea! Thanks for the feedback about the website. Would love to learn more - is there a particular part that especially falls short (or something that, if included, would have sold you)?
I considered doing something like this when I saw how wide the differences between exchanges could be, but the problem I ran into was that the fees for trading on most exchanges are insane. Which is probably why those huge difference exist.
I don't think that making sure that insurance doesn't cover checkups and preventative care would have a very desirable effect. Putting people (and their young children) on high deductible plans has the very predictable effect of discouraging treatment or even 'well baby' checks. That is part of what leads to such an abysmal (third world) infant mortality in the US.

You can argue that hospitals and ERs in particular are not a good place for checkups, but discouraging them is likely to be more costly (in $ and human lives) than not.