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> It's just not for entrepreneurs without coverage.

That was the claim. If you want to argue that said claim is wrong....

> healthcare costs are non-trivial even for relatively healthy people

Oh really? I've paid out of pocket for high-end healthcare plans while "old". Housing was a much bigger issue.

More to the point, you're going to pay one way or another.

And no, the US govt is not an efficent middle-man. Yes, they can cut a check cheaply, but the fraud admitted to by govt healthcare advoctes dwarfs the administration and profit of private companies. Since the likely numbers are higher....

No, you don't to point to other countries. We're stuck with the govt we've got. Fix existing govt healthcare programs (starting with IHS) and we'll talk.

> 2) It's not just about chronic illnesses, all healthcare costs money

Yes, but it doesn't get any cheaper funneling it the money through third parties.

> 3) To grow a company you need to hire people. People need healthcare.

And you're going to be paying for that, one way or another.
Great transliteration of the clojure code. We should try to scale it up and see what the speed differences are.
I could also see increased adoption if HOV lanes were set aside only for automated cars.
You seem to be under the misapprehension that VPN code never has any bugs in it.
The scorn of hangers-on is vicious indeed.
I'm just sitting back with beer in one hand, popcorn in the other, and enjoying the irony show.
So don't cheat.
D "string mixins" allow to insert any string as code, usually the result of a compile-time computation.

Some use cases:

- make repetitive code shorter [1]. Think the C preprocessor but after the parsing stage.

- operator overloading is a single template function parameterized by a compile-time string. This more or less requires using string mixins [2].

- [edit] raleks's comment has better examples [3].

Overall string mixins feel a bit dirty but you get used to it. D also has "template mixins" which do not escape parsing prior instantiation.

D mixins are neither like Scala mixins nor Ruby mixins.

[1] https://github.com/p0nce/gfm/blob/master/math/easing.d#L64.

[2] https://github.com/Dav1dde/gl3n/blob/master/gl3n/linalg.d#L2...

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4456422
Cool idea, but the first two comments on SW's blog post are about privacy and data usage. I admit I have some concerns as well.

What's Wolfram's policy about personal data usage? (And is it better or worse than Facebook?)
How is that App used? Imagine being at launch and you get
a new notification. What do you do with that kind of
Information? Why do you want that?

I for one would want that because we're so separated from our actions that even those of us who are appalled by it don't think about it daily. I say _our_ because we as a people could put the screws to our government if enough of us actually cared. As to what you do with it, I think the intent is to start a conversation then and there. Tell other people what just happened, tell them to install the app. If that happens enough times I think it might jar something loose in the social consciousness.

It sounds better than sticking my head in the sand and pretending it's not happening. As for being desensitized, are you serious? _That's_ your argument against raising awareness of drone strikes? We're already desensitized to the violence we perpetrate on others. It doesn't even make the news if it has to compete with the latest celebrity gossip.
And not to forget the $30K/year (average income of a high school grad) that you are missing out on by spending time in school instead of working. Not knocking the education, but it is something that needs to be considered.

For those who are about to say that there are no jobs without a degree, recent data suggests that people fresh out of high school have more job opportunities than fresh college graduates and the vast majority of the population, at all ages, are employed without a degree.
It is rather hard (though I believe not impossible) to find a use case where dynamic arrays and hashtables are not within a constant factor of the best possible data structure.

Admittedly, that constant may be fairly large.
I'm using Skrill Moneybookers in adjunct with PayPal, but not to replace it (yet).
This is the only part of the article I don't agree with:

In the end, it wouldn’t have benefitted me to stay in school longer, and Y Combinator was too good of an opportunity to pass up.

How do you know there would be no benefit to finishing your degree? It may be beneficial in the short term. However, you have (hopefully) many years to live and making a guess like that is silly, in my opinion.

While I think it is admirable that you got into Hacker News and are following your dream, I think there is something to say about learning to focus and get decent grades, even if you are not into it 100%. It shows that you can stick to some form of an obligation and follow through with something that you may not want to do.

I can't remember exactly which VC said this but here is a paraphrase: Not making it through college when something new comes up doesn't bode well when I give you a ton of money for a long term commitment. Will "something else" come up during that time?
I covered this in a blog post a few years ago -- probably best if I point you at it rather than trying to cover everything here: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-24-encrypt-then-mac....
I was confused too when I saw this article on Reddit. Turns out that Mixins in D are similar to Macros and not similar to Ruby mixins. Mixins in an object oriented sense (such as Ruby) are very similar to interfaces in C#.
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> Also, why not just start the damn company while you're still in school?

Because it's not nearly as dramatic!
It's less than not-typical, it's just wrong.
It's funny how they think it's a problem of educating students about what isn't considered acceptable behavior. The students knew what they were doing, they just compared the probability of getting caught with the reward and made a decision.
I think it's easier to understand his argument when you think about the problem at scale. Consuming one API is meat and potatoes to most of us; with decent documentation and the REST style largely being followed, API clients can be created rather quickly.

However, if I asked you to consume 1000 "REST" APIs, this becomes problematic. There is no agreement on representation, nor is there metadata available to infer commonalities.

So what have people done? They've tried to introduce solutions from other "protocols". As mentioned in the article, HAL attempts to introduce a predictable envelope around the data, using links and embedded resources to become so HATEOAS friendly.

However, there still are holes. How do I know what to do with links? The rel can tell you only so much - back to the documentation we go. How about we introduce a rel to a schema, like XSD, WADL or JSON Schema? Not many have done that and even fewer enjoy working with them.

How about knowing if I can PUT or POST to one of these links? Well the API could support OPTIONS request, but does this suit your data intensive mobile app consuming the API? Not too snappy. We could list them out individually in the representation (thereby replicating the HTTP design through representation) but now the size of the representation is growing dramatically just to support metadata that rarely changes.

OData, GData and even CMIS have all tried to take a stab at data communication protocols. Yes, they bring solutions to some of these issues at the cost of complexity and verbosity. Plus, they use use discovery endpoints. And they still tend to fall back on XML over JSON because of use of Atom etc. And now we are halfway back to SOAP.

How about the versioning issue? Should client be aware of representation structure changes and adapt accordingly? Well WRML (http://www.wrml.org/) tried to take that one on and all the best to you if you read that through once and understand it, never mind implementing the actual clients and servers.

As ori_b summarized "REST isn't a protocol, it's a protocol pattern". REST can't fit all scenarios. But I think what's becoming clear is that no-one has found anything better, just more specialized. So the days of auto-building clients to consume APIs is far away.

I guess we'll just have to embrace the chaos and keep building snowflakes.
My solution is as I described. I make it clear that I am unhappy. I make it clear why. And if they refuse to listen, I arrange my work so that they have no excuse for trying to ruin my day.

This is not a feasible solution for everyone.
I don't know why, I do know that confidence people use the technique of telling a lie that would be trivial to cross check because it shows authority. The way it works on the human brain is that if you just said something that is something is true, that a simple fact check would prove you to be a liar, and nobody wants to be a liar, thus I can be confident what you said actually is true because it would be stupid to lie about something I could so easily verify. Oh and I won't verify it right now because I'll feel stupid if it is true.

Now people do go off to get a drink or use the facilities and do a quick check on their smartphone :-) And I know I tend to get snarky with folks who lie to me if I'm aware and not minding my manners (its a weakness I am working on).

This story reflects a much more troubled person. Hope she can work it out before it consumes her.
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Great comment. I'd also address this from the OP:

What I've found out is that it's never really about dropping out and the fascination with college dropouts is nonsensical. I never went to college expecting to drop out; the timing just made it happen.

It seems like the real question isn't dropping out or not; the real question is whether an opportunity arises that makes dropping out and pursuing that opportunity make more sense than continue in school. History clearly shows us that, in some cases, dropping out and pursuing opportunity is the better move (Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. being the famous examples).

If you're dropping out because you think you have vague plans about how you'd like to start a startup, that's probably dumb, but if you're dropping out because you've started startup X, which is going to do Y, and the time is now, then that might be a pretty good idea.
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Please take this with a grain of salt - I could only find it on Alternet[1] and I looked for the Gallup source they're referencing but shouldn't find it. The article is from December of 2011 as well.

In the top 1% of US households (those with an income above ~$550,000 a year according to this article, but I've seen lower-end figures ranging from $380-660k/yr), 72% have a college degree v. 31% of the lower 99%. "Nearly half" of the top 1% has some form of post-graduate education v. less than 1 in 5 of the 99%.

A lot of the 1% are CEOs, licensed professionals (JDs, MDs) and Wall Street executives, all positions the require baccalaureate or postgraduate degrees in almost every case.

[1] http://www.alternet.org/story/153341/10_fun_facts_about_the_...
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> it actually resulted in a net loss to the U.S. economy b/c the corporations repatrited the money without paying taxes on the repatriated and did not pay the income out as (taxable) dividends. Many corporations still have this cash lying around.

In other words, you think that money that isn't paid in taxes has no benefit to the economy. You're wrong.

Even the "cash" still lying around isn't doing nothing, it's being loaned out. Money that was spent (even on salaries) contributed to the economy.
Ugh. It's moments like this that make me, an Apple fan, really hate Apple.
In addition to facebook, it would be helpful to have twitter, linkedin, etc involved. Also, if I belong to meetup, figure out what groups I like where I am and show me the meetups / events that are happening where I will be.

I don't travel enough for this to be interesting, but it could be for sales people who travel quite frequently for their jobs.

As a tangent, you could make a service called whom else should I sell to there... If I am going to make a sales call in san francisco, tell me what other companies with offices there I can call on as well.
But you can always come back and finish your college.
Why do we have this notion all things you need to learn needs to fit in first 25 years of your life?
So if I do this:

wget http://example.com/file.flv;
sleep 5;
mplayer -cache 8092 file.flv

am I "streaming"?

In answering that question, does it matter what I do, or only what the guys at example.com are doing?

What if my system is diskless and file.flv is downloaded to a RAM disk? What if I turn off the system after watching? What if I don't? What if I save file.flv to a USB stick and watch it later? What if I loan the stick to a friend?

What if I do this:

ffmpeg -i file.flv file.mp3;
mplayer -vo null file.mp3

Can the guys at example.com prohibit me from doing that? Based on intellectual property law? What if some user owns the IP rights to file.flv and uploaded it to example.com and the guys at example.com do not have any IP rights in file.mp3? What if the user did not give them any of her IP rights?

What if I never put file.mp3 into "iTunes"? What if I never put it into "Dropbox"? What if I never send it to "the cloud"? What if I just leave it on a USB stick? What if I play it back from the stick? What if I move it from the stick to my RAM disk and then play it back?

OK, enough.

Enjoy your media.

To get the most from the experience, it may be necessary to stear clear of people who willingly conceal the truth or, in the worst case, lie to you in order to suit their business model.
You can cheat on a final at Harvard and not be expelled?
> I personally can't wait to read a book on the way to work.

Yes, what wondrous technology it must be that enables this!
I hate to say it, but this isn't that surprising. I recently came from one of these top universities and there's a problematic combination of factors at play:

1. Students are under a ton of stress, have very little time to do work and have very high standards for themselves.
2. Guidelines are not clear defined or communicated as to what is and isn't cheating. There's a ton of grey area.
3. It is incredibly easy to cheat and get away with it.

I doubt there is a single person that wasn't guilty of it in one shape or form. For most, it was just things like working with other people on problem sets (which for some courses is considered cheating), not "serious cheating". But still, when "cheating" is this rampant, the university needs to reconsider its policy.

Personally, I liked a grad CS professor I had. On the first day, he spend 20 minutes talking about this. He very clearly defined what was and wasn't cheating, when we were and weren't able to collaborate, and the consequences (guaranteed F in the course, for even minor transgressions, and possible expulsion from the university). It was a very strict policy. He even told us that the answers for all of our labs and homeworks were available online if we looked, and even looking up the website was tantamount to cheating. If anything seemed like a grey area, we were required to get written permission from a TA or him to do. Draconian? Perhaps a bit. But I liked that it was very black and white, and frankly I don't know a single person that even considered cheating in the course.
Take a trip down to the nearest suburban elementary school to see whether "getting dropped off and picked up at the door" necessarily translates to "never having to park again".

In many situations, you won't have to hunt for a spot. And that'll be great. But for an awful lot of trips, you'll wind up walking just as far due the line-up of cars. Or waiting an awfully long time.

Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely sold on an autonomous car for its other benefits. But the auto-parking/pickup bit is ... overstated in its applicability.
The lifetime subscription was designed to fund TextDrive as a nascent company.

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I'm curious to know how long this has taken you to achieve.
I'm not really thinking FedEX or UPS, I'm thinking of the driver for Reinhart food services delivering food to my son's school. That is a Semi-truck backed into a very small parking lot and he has to hustle a dozen or more two wheel hand trucks full of food/supplies off the truck to the kitchen, before he goes on to another school/hospital/restaurant.
Working for 15 years.
Clearly, the punishments aren't high enough if half of a course weighs their options and decides to cheat anyway. And compared to most universities a 1 year suspension for cheating on an exam seems very lenient.
> Profit is "evil" here because it creates incentives for all sorts of bad things. This is what necessitates a balancing force.

Even if that's true, unions aren't a balancing force to the "incentives for all sorts of bad things". The only role that unions will play here is in trying to get their cut.

Actually, that's wrong. Unions will often actively help commit said "bad things" because they'll benefit. For example, unions are often quite protectionist.
"Crimes for which someone wronged can sue" are actually not crimes but torts.

Copyright infringement is always a tort, but the conditions under which it becomes a criminal offense vary by jurisdiction.
Why can't it both be true that the students cheated and deserve to be punished and that there was something fundamentally wrong with the course that drove half the students to cheat?

If I had to guess it was a basic requirement students had to take whether interested or not and cheating seemed like the easiest way to pass while devoting more time to other pursuits perceived to be more intellectually stimulating. Pure conjecture though.
Looks really cool, but it keeps timing out on me. Been longing for this kind of information, so here's hoping it will work soon!
The idea that DDT was not as harmful as claimed is a modern myth with no basis in fact. It's obvious to even the most casual birdwatcher with a few decades of experience that the fish-eating birds and top-of-the-food-chain birds have come back dramatically.

There are plenty of fine modern pesticides which are just as effective as DDT without the side effects. Unfortunately, DDT was so bad the many modern consumers equate pesticide with poison.
While I would like to beleive that they will fix all the problems, my previouse experience with Joyent tells me that this may be an attempt to try to get away from the a lawsuit.

I posted a coment here two weeks ago [1] and I received dozens of responses - if anyone would like to join the class action to ensure our rights are not lost please conact me. I am not really interested in lawyers - I hope we can work something out.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4392052
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So set it to "child-safe" mode by default, and require a credit card or other age-verification mechanism to unlock it.

I really don't understand what problem Apple is trying to solve.
I like where it's going, though didn't find relevant topics that I like in there.

If you were looking to jump start it, perhaps looking at the "programming collective intelligence" examples with delicious could be a good start. For every website someone submits to a bundle, have the machine overnight generate so websites related to it and then display the updated bundle or sister bundle. That would be neat to compare the machine generated ones versus the crowd sourced ones.
Yet another hackathon demanding IP agreements from their attendees
We've known for a while just how widespread this is. Surveys have shown 2/3 of undergrads cheat at some point in college. Students just don't feel they're doing something immoral when they cheat.

[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1286242...
The same way chromium has become obsolete with chrome becoming less and less open-source. The same goes with MySQL. In case of android, most consumers will deal with what the manufacturers decides to put on their phones and less than 1% will resort to installing another O/S. Keep in mind even with Android you are forced to register a Google account. What if you din't want to use Google or worst case, they ban you from their network?

The point is, just because something is open-source now doesn't mean it will remain that way in the future.
Not that case study vs news is a real dichotomy

In fact, we see case studies as news (and even less-than-news) all day long here and elsewhere. You can tell by the titles that generally come from blogs and usually look clickbait-y: "How Company/Developer X achieved goal Y," "Why Language Z helped us triple our revenues," etc.
> How are the crops doing in the US this summer, btw?

Not particularly well. We'll have to reduce our exports and draw down some of our reserves.

In other words, our poor people can continue to be fat, not starving. They might buy fewer TVs for a while or reduce the amount of processed calories to handle the extra cost.

We can have several years of bad crops before we'll have a food shortage.

Of course, it would help if we stopped using food for automobile fuel. (The brazilians would love to sell us methanol for less but they don't have an early presidential primary.)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/privacypolicy.html

While they say they do not sell, rent, or lease your information to third parties they do not say they delete it. So if you let them get your facebook data, they will have and keep it.

No-go for me. This is a perfect example of why I prefer applications that run "locally" on my computer. There seems to be nothing in this report that would not be possible to do with a combination of open-source solutions.
This is the same hold policy at every regulated bank. It comes down from Visa and MasterCard's operating agreements. Its presence in standard merchant contracts predates PayPal's very existence. It's not arbitrary, either; it's the period in which the people that paid that money can file a chargeback or bank reversal to recover it.
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IIRC, If you are under 26,001 Lbs GVW you don't legally need a CDL (unless Hazmat). Some carriers like UPS/FedEX may require a CDL anyway, but that is a company policy.
She clearly has deep-seated psychological issues. Her behavior reminds me of another impostor, Azia Kim, who fooled her parents that she was accepted into Stanford a few years back.

She packed up her things and went to Stanford.

She subsequently enrolled in NJROTC at Santa Clara University to explain why there were no tuition bills.

Once at Stanford, she fooled a couple RAs and students to crash for 8 months in a dorm.

What is most intriguing about impostors is the need to build lie upon lie. Forge a Stanford report card to enroll at Santa Clara? Sure.

Photoshop your head into a photo with a celebrity? Yes, I think I can get away with it.

I'm not sure if it can be said they're pathological liars, or they get so wrapped up in their lies they must continue the farce.

Edit: of course, it should be noted that stealing is an unrelated (yet still serious) issue. That just makes her a really awful person. A really awful person who needs help.
I'm guessing there was a business plan (if yc threw money after them) -- but I don't see it. No ads, no subscription fees. That leaves just selling aggregated consumer data, and doing trend research?

Yeah, I'd rather host my private data somewhere they stay private.
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