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Interesting side note about InterSystems - I interviewed there a few times about 10 years ago, and the first step was a written exam in Mumps (the programming language). Turns out it's popular in the healthcare space, being used in both InterSystems Cache and VistA, the open-source medical records system used by the Veteran's Administration:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/256876/tips-for-learning-...
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Ask HN: Launching a startup and work on your previous company at the same time?
I have a small affiliate company which generates decent amount of revenue as commission for selling someone else products.

I'm now thinking of launching a startup and I am not sure if my startup will succeed. So is it a good idea to work at my affiliate company and do a startup at the same time ? People say to quit your previous job and then only you can succeed in your startup, why can't you work on 2 things at once ? Because I would be just betting on this startup which I'm not sure if it will succeed.

Any thoughts ?
I'm 2 years into emacs myself and end up with the same feeling, in my opinion the Advanced user uses the help before online documentation, because everything is provided in emacs the self documenting text editor, not only that but Advanced really means learning Elisp so that whatever you want to implement can be done to your liking not someone else's template, but I do know this for sure I do love emacs and I mean that It's the one tool that has the same model I think in one tool many platforms.
Slightly offtopic, but I am the author of the Rails/Mechanical Turk integration gem, Turkee ( http://www.github.com/aantix/turkee ).

The lower the cost of the HIT (and the easier the question) the more you want to make sure you're screening for bots.

Make sure you have a gold standard question. For every HIT ask two questions; ask the legitimate question that you need answered and then on top of that, ask a simple "gold-standard" question that will determine whether the answer submitted is a bot or not.

For the gold standard, I like to choose two numbers, and store the sum of their values. Along with your HIT question, be sure to ask the Turker the value of their sum.

E.g. For a survey you ask the Turker "What is your favorite color?" But then along with that, you ask them "What is four plus fve?"

Be sure to misspell one value (e.g. remove a letter, etc). If the Turker doesn't respond correctly to the "gold standard" question, programmatically reject their response.
You mentioned Toronto, do you think the immigration policy has had a gigantic boon for the country, or for Toronto? I'm really just curious.

As a young Albertan, still living and breathing here, I question how well the 'cultural mosaic' has stood the test of time. Granted, I do see some good like you mentioned, but looking at some of the recent economic impact data (I'm not an expert in this field and have merely googled and wikapedia'd for my research) it does look like there are systemic struggles that have developed over the last 25 years and that good you mentioned, is fewer and far between. It's a really interesting point of discussion though, so thank you.
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creating a small area of sterility isn't a impossible task, if you can create large one in an operating room, creating a smaller one can't be all that hard (with robotic equipment)
Have you been up to Tomales Bay near the Point Reyes National Seashore? There's a ton of amazing vacation rentals right along highway 1, including many built over the water with amazing relaxing views. You're also close to fresh oysters (season just started) and kayaking (blue waters) and great hiking so there's a bunch of team activities you can take advantage of. When you need to eat, head into Point Reyes station for some great pizza at Stellina or make a picnic with cheese from Cowgirl Creamery.

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It would be great if he turned out to have switched sides because he felt aggrieved and wronged by the people he used to defend, much like Benedict Arnold.
I would imagine it would start with restricted lanes just for autonomous cars - I would be fine doing the start and end of the drive, and letting the car take over for the long distance stretch.
Why would it need a smaller engine? The load and cargo of the car is identical.

(i.e. one passenger, and one driver weigh exactly the same.)
Without having real detail knowledge the problems seem somewhat solvable. It just appears that technology/protocols were not made with that intention in mind and are not some challenges where we would need to invent nuclear power first to get it started. I think the idea has to grow over time and we shouldn't try starting with wrong expectations such as covering a whole city from the stand, but starting with the local University campus would be a first significant step in the right direction.
Determinism is old old news. Quantum events are inherently random => non-deterministic universe. There is variability within everything, brain included.
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> raised and educated at some other nations expense

These are paid for by the other nations, not by the individuals themselves and/or their families? I.e. other nations don't have students paying their own way through college or taking out student loans, or some combo of the two?
You have that last one backwards, nuclear is cleaner than solar/wind/wave, because you are forgetting just how much land those need.
OK, plan B. First, we quantum-entangle a few billion pairs of particles...

Failing that, even without connecting the hundreds (or sometimes thousands) of square miles between cities, I think there is still great potential political, economic and recreational value in decentralized Metropolitan Area Networks, despite the fact that they won't supplant the Internet.
I am not out to defend homeopathy, but if you take a remedy (and I'm not suggesting you do), see if it has any effects on your mind or body. If it does, then accept that you don't know how or why it is doing so, but it is.

In my experience, homeopathic remedies are very powerful and absolutely do work in evoking a reaction, but in terms of curing illness, it becomes more difficult to work out the remedy and dosage: and within such difficulty a skepticism is born.

According to my research, homepathic remedies often contain no molecules of the source substance.
These things fix themself to some degree. If it's that bad people move out (or don't move in). Then it becomes not as bad.

You end up with a steady state where things are as pad as people are willing to tolerate, but it never reaches "disaster".
A slow-motion run on Greek banks has been underway for more than a year.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/02/capital-f...
One thing is to deeply understand the business domain and how to work with business domain people. That always helps.and those skills seems much less prone to outsourcing and automation.
Well, this one is interesting.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/10/03/04/No-Gimmick/

Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to a claim that
this deficit reduction is achieved only through a
business-as-usual Washington budget gimmick: paying for
just a few years of costs with many more years of savings.

This charge is simply false—and let’s get the facts
straight.

...

Third, this is not a budget gimmick. The purpose the
tried-and-true gimmick described above is to make a
proposal that adds to long-term deficits appear fiscally
responsible. But if that were the course we were taking,
we would expect to see a large fiscal hole at the end of
the first decade and larger and larger deficits in the
second decade. Instead, over the long-term, the savings
under the President’s plan are expected to grow faster
than the costs. So, when the Congressional Budget Office
is done with its scoring, we expect it will find that the
President’s plan reduces deficits by roughly $100 billion
in the first 10 years and roughly $1 trillion in the
decade after that. In other words, health reform should
reduce the deficit by growing amounts over the long-term.

Put simply: Health reform will reduce the deficit in this
decade, and it will reduce the deficit by even more
thereafter. There’s no gimmick in that.

A program which was supposed to save $86 billion is declared insolvent and discontinued before it was put into production, by the people who were intimately involved in designing it. They pushed hard to pass the bill and made statements like Orszag did above.

In the interest of being nonpartisan, I think that history will look on these kinds of statements in the same way we now look on Colin Powell's presentation to the UN in the context of the runup to Iraq. At best the WMDs/savings just weren't there, and it was an honest mistake. At worst, they lied. Somewhere in the middle one might call them guilty of wishful thinking and exaggeration. But whatever you call it, it's hard to continue to maintain that those who claimed the presence of WMD/savings were empirically correct.
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Money is fungible; tax breaks are no different in function than charging the full tax rate but handing Apple a pile of cash equivalent to what they'd have saved with the tax break.

It's a subsidy. The argument that they made more with the subsidy than they would have without it is separate from the idea that tax breaks don't amount to a subsidy (which was yummyfajitas assertion).
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Di Pulau Langkawi, Malaysia, teripang sohor sebagai obat alami nyeri sendi akibat asam urat. Kepada Trubus, ahli nutrisi Walter Kee Mun Yee alumnus Wisconsin University mengatakan teripang mengandung kondroitin sulfat dan glukosamin.

Kondritin sulfat berperan memulihkan penyakit sendi. Sedangkan glukosaminoglikan merupakan zat antithrombogenik pelancar peredaran darah yang menggumpal. Pada penderita asam urat, jumlah glukosamin dan kondritin sedikit.

Riset Dr Mittchell Kurk dari Pusat Revitalisasi Biomedis, New York, Amerika Serikat, menunjukkan teripang berkhasiat meningkatkan kesehatan fisik bagi 70% penderita radang sendi akibat asam urat. Ini akibat glukosamin merangsang tubuh mensekresikan cairan sinovial untuk lubrikasi persendian. Menurut dr Zen Djaja MD, dokter di Malang, Jawa Timur, satwa anggota famili Holothuriidae itu mengandung asam lemak 12-MTA alias metthyltetradecanoic acid.
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Wow. That is truly amazing. Creative work my friend.
To me the damning evidence is that these problems still haven't been solved for decades even with a fair amount of work by professionals. Solutions probably exist, but will a decentralized group of redditors really be the ones who solve them?

I personally figure if people just accept the low speeds of HF instead of expecting full Hulu streaming for everyone, a lot of the problems will be immediately mitigated, but that's unlikely- if only because HF gear is not nearly as cheap and ubiquitous as WiFI.
Creating even a small sterile environment is actually quite hard. What is the robot going to do, autoclave or boil everything in my bedroom? The main reason that most patients actually survive surgery now is that a huge amount of effort goes into keeping operating rooms sterile.
Just do it.

It's all case by case. If you think it will work, make it work.
Someone with family resources is most probably a small portion of student population and they have other easier options to immigrate if they want (investor, marriage, to name a few).

The major problem with current system is on employer side. The H-1B created bodyshopper contractors because employers didn't want to hire foreigners directly and pay equivalent wage as other employees. Any visa system where majority of applicants leaves employer soon after receiving green card show the system is flawed. Applicant is a slave of employer and green card is his/her ticket to freedom.

There is no reason to believe that The proposed entrepreneur visa will not create bodyshopper VC or VC services firms. It will create again same slavery but now master will be a different group.

Even a simpler approach as I suggested may create bodyshopper universities.

Confirming revenue/income/number of employees through IRS Tax return is not as difficult. We already have some visa categories like investor and person of extra-ordinary abilities that require extensive proof and onus is on applicant.
Maybe he was a double-agent for the copyright cartels all along. Or a triple-agent now.
Could you write a little more about this, please?
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Interesting comment, how about some context? Where is here? What do you mean by illegally?

If you are doing the work for the pay, then you are not "underpaid". You might prefer to get more money for the job, but then who doesn't?
> just fill out the appropriate exception form online.

Do you also have to agree to pay the fines / go to court / appear in news when anything serious goes wrong?

RSA (pretty much the definition of a clueful security company) got hacked because someone opened a malicious email attachment. Imagine how much harder that is to prevent when people are using a bunch of different softwares.
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When you are in a crisis situation, you do what you need to do to fix the problem, then you go about making sure it doesn't happen again. There is a solution that will prevent the eurozone from collapsing and triggering a world-wide recession (depression?) that will make 2008 look like peanuts: print money. The crisis could be averted tomorrow, if Germany would just go along with ECB quantitative easing. Then we can focus on austerity and balanced budgets without brinkmanship. That's what this article is about.
We don't even disagree on this.

In the 1990s China privatized many areas of its economy and that triggered the development of private companies and businesses. The coal mining in Shanxi is an impressive yet frightening example what happens when the gov't goes from one extrem (gov't run) to the other extrem (no oversight at all). Alternatively just google for deadly coal mining accidents.

Wenzhou is interesting not because of the "anarchy", but because it has a working network of overseas Wenzhounese.
Stovepipe wells in Death Valley. It's an intriguing place, the heat is OK right now, and I could easily spend a week or so. The desert, the soltitude, the deserted gold-rush era ghost towns, it's just fascinating. Ask for a room near the lobby for wifi coverage.
I've personally lived in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Waterloo, and London (yeah, one of those is not like the others), and I've been to many other cities both urban, and rural. The immigration boon is nearly universal across the board in all the places I have been. I've worked in 3 industries in Canada - traditional mechanical engineering, software, and astrophysics. Immigrants are extremely dominant in all three, and many of the top names are first or second-generation. I think, for the most part, Canada's immigration policy has turned out remarkably well, and needs to be commended for rather deftly avoiding the common pitfall that plagues a lot of countries: integrating immigrants into the middle class, instead of letting them fall into minority ghettos.

It's not perfect - I'm sure if you look at the data you will still see an income gap between native-born Canadians and recent immigrants, but having lived on both sides of the border I have to say America's problems are at least an order of magnitude worse than ours. The socioeconomic stratification of immigrants in the US means that several ethnicities are automatically assumed to be poor and uneducated - an assumption that largely doesn't hold water in Canada. With the sad exception of the aboriginal population, there is no real ethnic group in Canada that's as systemically impoverished and and marginalized as the blacks and latinos are in the USA. Sure, we have ghettos, but by and large they're not defined along racial and ethnic lines. The wide gaps between races in the US really does encourage a very pervasive undercurrent of racism that's largely impolite to mention in company, but easily felt. I simply do not get the same vibe in Canada, and that's a very good thing.

Having never lived in AB though, I'm interested in hearing your perspectives on it - I know the racial/ethnic balance there is not quite the same as Vancouver or Toronto, so maybe the scene is different. I can tell you that in the extremely industrial town of London, Ontario, the economic stratification between immigrants and non-immigrants can be more easily felt, but even then for the most part the poverty that pervades that city is blind to race.
First time I've seen this book anywhere, may check it out. I recommend the Happiness Hypothesis. Whether the theories in it are true or not, they're incredibly well developed arguments.
That's not a problem, that's the entire point. The PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) switch to national currencies, print money to pay their debt, and suffer the effects of inflation. That's precisely the mechanism by which a breakup would 'solve' the euro crisis.
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The robot would probably bring its own portable sterile bubble.
When did the US switch to "family reunification" (even for extremely distant relatives) as the primary form of immigration, and why?
The baffling thing to me about healthcare in the US is that there are a number of models[1] from other nations that have desirable characteristics, and yet everyone is the US seems to think it's this huge problem that is brand new and that no one has ever looked at before. It should be well known by now that most developed countries spend less money on healthcare and get higher coverage rates and better outcomes. Surely the sane thing to do would be to research those models and figure out which one seems the best fit to us and then adapt it. I'm not opposed to innovation, but our approach to solving the healthcare problem seems seriously fettered by a bad case of not-invented-here syndrome.

1: What I mean by this idea of different models is that everyone seems to assume that all universal healthcare schemes are created equal, but this is simply untrue. Some examples:

- Potential single-payer systems proposed in the US are most often compared to the Canadian system, but Canada actually has one of the worse systems (according to my previous metrics) among OECD countries.

- People also assume that a single-payer system is the only way to achieve efficiency, but Germany has a very effective healthcare system which is not single-payer.

Of course, even setting aside that we seem bad at considering the details of a solution to this problem, the real problem, in my opinion is that we can't even agree on what role government should play. If we can't even agree that the government should solve the healthcare problem, how can we even begin to agree on a solution?
I suppose everybody interprets this comment differently. My reading of it is one of extreme ignorance of what computer science is. Computer science is part applied math, and part pure math. It is most certainly not in any way a liberal art.

Further, it is crucial to most of Jobs own technologies in a very deep way. Indeed it is crucial to all of computing. Learning to program teaches you to think, but doing math and applying math does not? This is not a comment to be proud of.

Every applied science crucially depends on mathematics in some form. Thus, I take this as ignorance on Jobs part. It fits right in line with Jobs feeling justified in taking the entire credit for technologies that he mostly copied from academia. Yes, he and Apple modified some of them, especially the early GUI days. But more recently they lifted others like Siri verbatim. But Jobs has never acknowledge the huge shoulders he stood on.

In my opinion, Jobs' primary skill was art. Not technical innovation, not science. One could argue he recognized good engineering I suppose, but software architecture is also arguably more art than science in that there are few objective measures of it that people agree on.
Will something like Microsoft lightswitch, which might enable business experts to write application with relatively little help solve this problem ?
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My problem with Jobs quote is that it seems to imply that learning math is somehow not learning. Thus I assume he means liberal arts not as in mathematics or anything practical, but as in a pursuit that is mostly not immediately practical as one might argue about modern philosophy.

Jobs'own technologies are often based on solid computer science principles. I'm somewhat surprised that he could recognize the utility of these technologies yet not recognize the source of them.

The quote could probably use a lot more context.
Didn't they bring up ending the employer deduction for insurance during the 2008 Presidential election? I'm all for it, but to make it politically viable you need to spin it in a way which doesn't look like raising taxes or reducing benefits, which is hard when eliminating a deduction. The only way I think it would work is to make personal insurance deductible, and somehow ensure that salaries take into account the implied value of current healthcare.

(Personally, I am so glad I have $100/mo $3500 deductible HSA coverage, personally; I'll eventually set up employer healthcare at my startup, but in the perfect world, I'd rather pay employees 1.5x as much to manage it themselves, and maybe another .5x to the government for other people's care; trying to find and manage benefits like that is a big pain.)
To some extent, it depends on the context . Personally, I think you should give your startup 100%. I've had to make a similar decision before and chose that route for a few reasons:

1. for most startups, except with the exception of some lifestyle startups, it won't succeed if you give it 50%.

2. it matters to you, personally. leaving the comfort zone was, to me, a statement to myself that I'm committed to this and have no fallbacks. With this point, I was really influenced by that one HN post about how Alexandar the Great would burn the ships they used to go somewhere for war, basically to say "theres no retreat"
Yeah, "you never see people have that conversation", and then you go and use that exact conversation as existing to back up your argument:

"""are just as annoying as people who drive expensive cars and think that everybody else should too."""

So, Linux people wanting "networks effects", are "just as annoying" as exotic car driving people that DON'T EXIST.

Writing skills, FTW. Maybe next time you can invoke unicorns to back up your arguments too. You never see them, either.
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So would you say that the same goes for Steve's article --which makes exactly the same point?
It's great to be able to get peeks into the development of a compiler toolchain. I'm always wary if I can't dispel magic, where "magic" means guardedly opaque. Corollary: Answers to questions about magic are typically, "you don't want to know." At least, that's the mood I've found surrounding GCC.