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It works in America because student loans are non-dischargeable. It doesn't matter if you are penniless and have filed for legal bankruptcy, the lender can still keep coming after you and even garnish your wages for the rest of your life. It is extremely difficult to escape an American student loan obligation, basically you will pay it off, with interest, unless you die first.

This system is what enables American universities to put such high price tags on education, and also what allows the students to actually get approved for such large loans. Almost all of the risk is assumed by the borrower. Even if the graduate cannot find sufficiently gainful employment to repay the loan, the lender still eventually gets a return on their investment. If they were forced to take a loss, that would cause lenders to make their approval processes more stringent, and would limit most students' ability to attend these universities. So it becomes a political issue because no politician wants to be perceived as being responsible for limiting students' access to higher education. The fact is that the risks and costs must be absorbed by someone--under the current system it is the students' future selves. (My personal opinion is that this is a form of modern indentured servitude and should be outlawed.)
This is a very good point. Sometimes those "quick fixes" really aren't the best idea, I myself used to "hack" so much stuff in Wordpress when I was using it, and yes I solved whatever problem I was having at the time, but a few updates later it would come bite me in the you know what.

So much of programming is protecting the programmer from him or herself. By enforcing rules you protect yourself from bad habits. I think a separate template system and keeping the view separate would help keep everyone honest.

Eventually I started to do my modifications as plugins, which is one area where Wordpress really shines. Other systems could definitely take note of the way WP handles plugins.
Why did you pin this on Marissa instead of Yahoo? She signed her name to it, but if Bill Gates or Steve Jobs did that, you would have said Microsoft or Apple.

Granted, her name has a better brand than Yahoo still, but she's working on that. What you said sounded sexist, and I'm not even a feminist or a female.
Since these companies don't determine your sex by asking you to submit a DNA sample and then surmising your sex via genetic information, but rather by asking you to indicate 'M' or 'F' on a form, genetic protections would be unlikely to be pertinent in the vast majority of cases. At least, that's my nonlawyer layperson read of things.
ithkuil is saying the same thing as me, in a different way. I'm talking about how bikes are self-stable, he is talking about how bikes are stable with active input. Trail creates a steering feedback system. You need feedback from lean into the steering in order to create something self-stable, and trail is the simplest way of doing that.
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I think part of your mistake was in declining two other offers. I don't see where you have explained why you did that, knowing you had a visa issue. You created a situation where you were desperate. It did not have to be so. Without knowing all the particulars, I will suggest that you should have emailed them prior to declining the other offers and said "I need a firm start date and formal/official hire letter by X time (say 48 hours). If that is not possible, due to my visa situation, I will have no choice but to accept one of these other offers."

If staying in the U.S. was the most important thing, you should have made sure your choices aligned with that. If getting a particular "dream" job was more critical and you were willing to gamble with being deported if it fell through, that gamble is on you if it does not work out. If there is some other reason you made this unfortunate series of choices, you need to use this as a learning opportunity. (I am guessing you felt some sense of loyalty to them though you did not have a formal offer and then felt they "owed" you loyalty in return for the personal sacrifice you made out of loyalty to them. If so, it was a misplaced and unrealistic sentiment.)

I will suggest you take some of the other advice being offered on how to try to salvage the situation and also pick up a couple of books on negotiating. "Getting to yes" and "The mind and heart of the negotiator" are both good. The first is a quick read, so you might want to start there if you haven't seen it before as it might help you now, with your current situation. The second is meatier and more of a long term investment.

Best of luck.
How long until this comes to Windows and OSX clients? Until then it doesn't seem that this will get much use. Didn't find anything on a preliminary google search.
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"This tiny InGaAs transistor was mostly fashioned from normal semiconductor processes — molecular beam epitaxy, electron beam lithography, and so on."

It's important to note that these are normal semiconductor processes for low volume manufacturing. These are not the high volume methods that, say, Intel would use. It remains to be seen whether the material will work well with common high volume ion implant and lithography technologies.

The reason Silicon is the dominant material isn't purely because of it's electrical characteristics. We've already got better material that's costly to manufacture. GaAs, for example. In addition to good electrical properties, Silicon wins because it's extremely to manufacture chips with in bulk.

To be fair, the article does touch on this.
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That's great. But I'm more interested in plans in the UK to get the entire genotype from about 100,000 people (mostly cancer patients) for research.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20663090)
As you describe it, it would not be resurrection. Resurrection to me implies that the new being would have my memories and personality, but your propose something more like a delayed identical twin: identical in genes only.
Liberty Interactive buys majority stake in TripAdvisor for $300m
Highly doubtful, their structure is pretty set in place and they have a large ecosystem of plugin and template developers that tie into this structure. Changing that would be a bad move on their part.
As a programmer of 13+ years ... YES, YES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES
While I think it is important for people to understand the difference between health insurance and a health care plan, there's no actual problem with people banding together and creating health care plans that are no longer, strictly speaking, insurance.

I do think a nontrivial amount of the mess in the health care system is the confusion between the two. People want to create health care plans, but they are trying to make it out of insurance companies, which is going to be problematic at best. Further, people want health care plans but don't want to think about it from an actuarial perspective... because they don't like the answers that come out. That doesn't prevent the answer from coming out, but it does mean we end up trying to build glorious systems that seal themselves away from reality from the get go, and that also can only be problematic at best, total failures at worst.
This is a good example of how not to comment on HN. This is being a jerk for the sake of it.

Lester Chambers is a great soul musician. You may not have heard of him before this, but I sure have. There are probably a lot of reasons why he didn't win the pop culture lottery, but one of them is the long, shameful history of exploitation of artists, a history that you must not know anything about or you wouldn't have posted something that makes you look so mean. There is nothing to gloat about here.
Education is not enough. It needs to be converted into "knowledge that can be applied". That is the part that college handles. I would much rather go to a surgeon that has gone to college/univ over someone who has read all about surgery on wikipedia during his travels to Thailand.
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As of today: Python3 Wall of Shame is Python 3 Wall of Superpowers
It does. Starting from iOS 6, UILabels can display attributed strings out of the box. If you need to support iOS < 6, the best approach is to use TTTAttributedLabel or NIAttributedLabel.
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I'm pretty sure the spirit of the law is to prevent those types of situations from happening. Wouldn't this cover your situation?

"`(1) IN GENERAL- A health insurance issuer offering health insurance coverage in the individual market may not, on the basis of genetic information, impose any preexisting condition exclusion (as defined in section 2701(b)(1)(A)) with respect to such coverage."
That's not how insurance works now; if you already have insurance for your family, they don't render family members ineligible for therapy based on evidence of predisposition to illness.

And as of 2014, regardless of the nature of the evidence, insurance companies will no longer be allowed to exclude customers based on predisposition to illness or preexisting conditions.
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FWIW this is exactly what Google does: announce availability for some small sliver of users and quietly expand that set over time. The announcement never comes once it's available for everyone.
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You can. Insurance spreads risk across population pools. You have to carve out those pools somehow, so you use broad variables like age and gender. The problem is genetic information has potential to make the pools too small.
> I am somewhat of a misanthrope.

you use that word. I don't think it means what you think it means - or that it has the implications that you think it has; I am a misanthrope, but that does not influence my reaction to the floor plan of the office I work in. actually, I'd most likely go insane in a cubicle farm. there are ways around to signal that you don't want to be disturbed in an open space.

given that you write:

> I don't trust most people. I don't expect them to trust me.

followed by:

> The social bullshit and paranoia are intolerable.

I do assume that you're referring to your own paranoia, here...

> [snip the rest of the workplace description]

... which leads me to think your problem is not the office planning, or your social issues (with or without medications): I think it's your current job. my entirely serious suggestion is to either change it, or ask to work remotely, if you still think that you'd enjoy it more (and if they don't allow remote work, I'd seriously consider changing jobs anyway).
Remember - these funding platforms did not exist a few years ago, and a few years before that neither did 'social media.'

What makes me so optimistic is that we're still so early and already thousands (tens of thousands?) of albums alone are getting funded that simply never would have before -- and that's just on kickstarter.

I can absolutely imagine a world of 'micro-patronage' where a small monthly contribution (something we see working wonders with http://awesomefoundation.org) to an artist you like starts looking like a real income when micro-patrons number in the thousands or tens of thousands. These patrons get access to exclusive, personal content and first dibs on all the art they want said artist to be free to produce.

Again, this doesn't work for everyone. None of these will work for everyone. But they're all examples of progress that gets us further from the broken music industry model that preyed on artists like Lester.
Agreed. I actually wrapped this library with a simple HTML parser that can understand basic tags (<strong>, <b>, <a>, etc.) and translate them into calls to Nimbus.

At some point, I'd love to incorporate a Fireball markdown parser so that authored and styled content from our servers can just be pulled from our app.
I am not a business with employees owner yet, but for me their pricing does not look bad assuming it saves quite a lot of time. Spending ~$5 per employee a month will be something like 0.1% or even less of their salary. Even if you have 2 employees, it is still $35/month which might be something like may be 0.3% of their salary?

Am I missing something?
bns_aggregator.py, not even once?
Damn, I bought it 2 weeks ago!

They keep mentioning the benefits to science, but can you actually access their database as an academic?
International shipping cost is pretty prohibitive. Maybe time for lab in Europe?
I know someone that quit his job because he was making enough money on advertising alone on just Windows Phone 8 apps. He's got even more apps in the store now, so I don't know how much he's making but I think he's doing very well. Then there's Windows 8 which promises to be much bigger!
Why not buy a gift credit card, and not use your actual identity to purchase the registration? They don't appear to require any rigorous proof of identity.
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To make the analogy work I think you have to assume he's referring to the complex of pipes hidden in the walls.
"Needless to say, it’s a big market. One dominated by not 800 pound, but by 800,000 pound gorilla’s. ADP. Paychex. Intuit. Combined, they represent $50 billion in publicly traded market cap. They also represent slow-moving incumbents, disincentivized to pursue innovation."

The last sentence is why I have not added PandoDaily to my feed subscription list. The fact that they list three companies competing in a market means they are unlikely to be "disincentivized to pursue innovation." In fact, Intuit has regularly been acknowledged by the likes of Forbes[1], Inc and Fast Company and Eric Ries's Lean Startup book as being one of the most innovative public companies. Not only does it show a lack of critical thinking on the subject at hand, but it's passing that lack of knowledge onto the reader.

ZenPayroll is tackling a huge and highly profitable market. They're probably attacking it faster than their public counterparts. But to say a company like Intuit, along with Paychex and ADP, are not innovating because they're "disincentivized" does a disservice to ZenPayroll and its competitors.

I'm just guessing, but I don't think ZenPayroll takes any of its competition lightly and is working as hard as it can to break into this market precisely because it has formidable competitors.

[1]: Why Intuit is More Innovative Than Your Startup: http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/09/04/intuit-the...
The sed and dc combo are perhaps not as readable, but there was a time before the dawn of the One True Awk. :-)

sed '1s/.*/0/; s/;[^;]*$//; s///; s/.*;//
s/00$//; s/:..$/+1++/; s/:$/++/; s/:/ 60*/; $s/$/p/' |
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I don't think we admire good engineering because it has some "aesthetic" merits. It's beautiful because it fits its purpose.

Planes are beautiful, but if they looked differently, they wouldn't be able to fly. Cheetahs are beautiful, but every feature in their body has been designed by nature to make the fastest animal on earth.

I think it's the same with software engineering. We don't think a program is "beautiful" because the author decided to use that particular algorithm or fancy data structure, it's because this algorithm or data structure allows them to solve the problem at hand correctly and within imposed limitations on resources. It fits nicely with the overall purpose.
The author and OP are the same person (MarinaSprava).

They did a good job of getting traffic for their site. We should stop rewarding them for this tripe.
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Nice to see some big guys give a little back. Its an impressive building they have there.
Where did I say there was no cost? My point is exactly what you just said.
This covers only lucky ones, who are employed and have access to group insurance plans, isn't it? In this case entrepreneurs who just starting will be screwed.
I wonder if your app goes well on tablets as well as phones and so Windows 8 will be big for you.
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Bless you for taking up the cause of the soul classics and one of their great original creators. It's astonishing how good that music was and is.
VS2012 for Windows Phone development is free: http://aka.ms/winphone8sdk
That's a good point. Back when it was created, doing that with the toolchain wasn't so straightforward as I understand it is now; I'll raise it on the groff@gnu.org list.
>All I'm saying as a HN reader is I am seeing the same type of post

Ok, I can definitely see that. I personally hate seeing clones and "me-too" offerings.

My idea, in case anyone cares: naming. The "From Holden" debacle has reminded me how people struggle with naming and I've kicking around the idea of a naming tool for a while.
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Of course they care, but they are also willing to compromise with an over bent towards getting the job done. At least observing my dad and grandfather who have been in the plumbing industry their entire adult lives.

Software Craftsman, on average, trend towards the code is the ultimate goal and/or product. The job WILL NOT get done if they don't like how the code will be written. They've swung the pendulum too far in the opposite direction.

Ultimately, its a give and take between the business and software. In fact, this holds true FOR ANY DEPARTMENT in a business. Marketing I'm sure feels some of the same feelings development do, as does UX, as does finance, as does sales, etc.

I am truly disgusted by the "on average" behavior and attitude that accompanies most "software craftsman".
Used more loosely, it is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, typically the first, largest, fastest, most heavily armed, or best known.[1]

Basically the best phone around in an eco system. You wouldn't want to test on that because it's the best one around the block and not everybody will have that performance/resolution/possibilities.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship
That's probably tongue in cheek. In case it's not it's worth noting that Yahoo is the second largest Web mail provider (after Hotmail). One source:

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-...
The US bill explicitly excludes gender: "`(C) EXCLUSIONS- The term `genetic information' shall not include information about the sex or age of any individual."
Mobile first still makes sense when you are talking about consumer products. This is a B2B product and sales approach where mobile does not matter as much.
Stories in local media in those states do:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/12/11/mass-8th-graders-among...

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_22168278/states-8th-g...
yours is a fatalistic perspective. I would change my behavior if I knew.
Pipe hidden behind the wall still has to be beautiful in relative to how the plumber have to work with it. If some plumber hide pipe behind the wall in a way that makes any maintenance impossible, then it's probably "ugly" for plumber standard.
I highly recommend making the switch. They've been doing the package management thing the longest, and it shows, both in package selection and how smoothly it all generally runs. And I've never had less trouble upgrading from one version to the next than on Debian.
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It is amazing how hard this concept is for businesses to grasp. If you build your service and brand around trust with your customers, you will earn long-term value that far exceeds short term gain of focusing on money first. Unfortunately most companies don't have the patience or luxury to stay true to this approach, or have investors who push them away from this approach. We are really fortunate at Riot Games that we had great investors (Benchmark, FirstMark, Tencent) that let us stay true to our culture and approach.
> A substantial portion of the risk for these types of diseases is related to lifestyle, so take it with a grain of salt.

In the case of cardiovascular disease specifically, one might not want to do that.
A more apt analogy would have been testing for a specific number of gears with a specific number of teeth in a specific configuration. Choosing very specific hypotheses purely based on your ability to falsify it and no other supporting theory or evidence seems like a low reward strategy.

I'm certainly not trying to argue against pure research in any way.
My grandfather, who is a master by rank in the union, always told me, "there is no 'right' way. It's a matter of communicating and balancing the trade-offs".
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If you read the bill, it covers individuals as well. I just didn't go copy-pasting the entire gazillion page document :)
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"This stuff is priceless, because in the past, you had to pay thousands of dollars to get these same tests"

You still have to pay thousands of dollars if you need the results for actual medical purposes. 23andme only tests for a few of the common SNPs that can cause each disease, but the testing isn't as comprehensive as what you'd get from a doctor.
Also, I would prefer to employ a plumber who runs a nice clean length of piping in the loft and fastens it down properly, or who explains that they'd recommend an approach that's a bit more expensive because it's more long term reliable, and so on. This kind of thing is a sign that they actually care about what they're doing, and suggests that they're less likely to, for instance, forget to actually properly complete a connection so that the next person who bangs into that pipe causes it to break apart and flood the place. [That last happened to my parents the other month.]
Fair point, but even the tiny screenshots show that the new interface has dropped all the crappy display ads that were part of the reason I stopped using Yahoo. (Their spam filter suckage was the other.)
Does the law even matter here? If it's illegal to discriminate, then the insurance becomes unprofitable and is no longer available. If it's not illegal to discriminate, then the insurance can remain profitable by jacking up the price, but then is no longer available to the vast majority of those who suffer from it.

Insurance really only works when either 1) what it covers is truly unpredictable or 2) everybody is required to participate regardless of whether they really need it.
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Right. But the parent used life insurance as an example, not health insurance.
This allows developers to see what their programs are doing in more detail. They can then use that information to optimize their code.
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I remember seeing a shift in CS student populations, say around 1999, from people who already had a self-developed interest in computing to people who wanted to learn programming as a trade to make money. The first group had probably taught themselves programming and had already been tinkering with system internals and hardware. They were programming because they were drawn to it for whatever reasons.

I think the author of this piece is from the latter group. To that group, software as craft just doesn't fit into their world. Whereas I think the first group has an understanding that beauty on the inside of a program shows on the outside too, especially over time.
How much crime really occurs? Don't ask the feds.
Yup, WordPress follows all bad practices of a typical PHP project: mixed PHP and HTML all over the place, lots of global functions instead of classes and direct calls to the MySQL functions instead of PDO so you can't use another database like Postgres.

Pity it's so widely used, and there's little competition...
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