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> It should be no surprise that the more government "regulates" and subsidizes health care, the more expensive it gets. And the answer to high costs is always more regulation!

I am guessing that you might be American. Do you think you have adequately considered health care else where in the world?

Looking at health care around the western world, the country where the government regulates and subsidises health care the least is the US. And in that country health care costs twice what it does anywhere else in the world.

On another topic effective markets require good regulation. For example in Australia phones work on all networks (government mandated GSM), and you can take your phone number between carriers (required by regulation) etc. This created a more effective market. One barrier to an effective market is complex pricing (deliberately introduced to avoid market forces). Regulations to limit pricing complexity would improve the workings of the market.

Similarly in health care, requiring publicly available prices and quality reporting is what enables comparisons made, and make competition possible. Economic entities don't want competitive markets, they want excess profits.

In summary markets are not an alternative to regulation. Regulation and markets work together to form a system of management.
Since he is wanting an outrageous demand, I would say DO IT! Before anyone disagrees, there is an upside. Since this is a stupid request, I would turn around and come up with an outrageous fee to do this. A fee so high that it would definitely get you smiling if he decided to pay you. Of course, justify that you will need this amount because of the camcorder you will need for the paper and pen work, the extra storage space, and the extra computer equipment you will need to "allow this to happen". Also, add in time to purchase this equipment, be sure to get the top of the line with markups, and add in the fees and related expenses. Be sure to get the money from the client as well so you don't get burned.
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>> Did you end up losing the weight and the beard?

What if he didn't?
Sounds like debit failing and falling back to a CC transaction, but I am not a payments expert.
I think that 3D-printed-guns should be controlled because, even when I'd like to think that everybody is responsible and there isn't need for control, I know there are dumb or bad people who can harm themselves and others using this. I think that every gun (3D printed or not) should be controlled because of that same reason.

Now, how can we control it? I don't really know. I'm not for DRM. I'm not for controlling 3D printers, or 3D materials. And making an automated system so 3D printers don't print guns is infeasible, error-prone and a hassle. Maybe the best alternative is leaving those 3D printed guns uncontrolled, because any other option is ineffective.

The fact that 3D printed guns control is infeasible doesn't mean that leaving them uncontrolled is a good idea.
I plan to use your app, so of course you're welcome to use my button :)
I can't see how the customer will get any value out
of the videos though.

Have you ever been in the situation where you discovered you were mis-billed for something? I certainly have. Accidental mis-charging does happen, even between parties that trust one another. Still, most businesses are willing to tolerate a certain level of error.

Given that occasional mis-charging is inevitable, how can you make sure it's below the threshold you're able to tolerate if you don't maintain audit records?

With that said, I'd fire the client assuming I wasn't desperate for work.
How many other things would it be possible to print? I do think you are right about it being a game-changing development, but at this moment I don't think there is a lot of threat from it. I think for the next couple of years, we can assume that respective detection technology will be fine.
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Bit of a misnomer - talent is not directly tied to hours spent working, especially in knowledge industries.

This simple, basic fact escapes most of our industry managers who still use management practices developed a century ago to manage steel mills.

So yes, we may be "always on" but that means inspiration and thought could come at any time.
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"The quick fix is probably to make personal purchases of health insurance also deductible, rather than removing employer health insurance deductibility."

I'm glad we agree. That's what I said a few comments ago. Though once you make insurance deductible, you might as well close all healthcare purchase loopholes.

I also said it amounts to a huge tax break, and I don't see a revenue-neutral way of getting that passed. And I don't see Congress hiking up the national deficit that much right now.
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well it's not just about the augmented reality. Both devices being glasses, both using internet to communicate. There are similarities that are striking
we had candles and fun at nights for a long time

Then they shut that home out on the range :-)
How sad is it that this article needs to exist?

It boils down to one final sentence: "The Takeaway: If you create a company that encourages people to lead full lives, you can land a full roster of talent."

Or translated: treat people as... PEOPLE and you can hire people!

Are management drones really that incompetent that they need this explained to them? (rhetorical - clearly the answer is yes)
It's nice to see more recent information. Most of the previous submissions have been from the same article(s) from two years ago, but with the mother producing a book there's a new rash of information. This is a new interview.

So anyway, here are a few submissions of those earlier items - most have a few comments ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2369094

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373586

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2378099

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2379419 <- More comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2382850 <- More comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2594284

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523702

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5673082

You can find more about him here: http://news.google.com/news/search?q=Jacob+Barnett
If you're using an iDevice it should have a nice icon too if you add it to your home :D
The top comment on that story explained why it was a dull, uninteresting story.

Colin has very patiently reasoned with you about what may have happened (for the record, I didn't flag that story, and I would never have visited it at all but for the question I'm seeing in this thread). There is no reason to be argumentative with Colin; he is just trying to help.

I agree that lists of three-letter domains, or four-letter domains, with this or that top-level domain suffix make for dreadfully boring submissions. I think some people massively overestimate the usefulness of a cute domain name. Hacker News gets plenty of interest even with a domain name like

news.ycombinator.com

and other sites too have better eyeball-attraction value than their names might suggest.
This customer sounds like a bad apple and should be fired, but there is some justification for such an idea.

ODesk enforces the use of their time tracking software for hourly projects. Their staff economist, John Joseph-Horton, has some interesting papers about the justification for this. He argues it is actually in the interests of freelancers to have such a system in place.

Basically, freelancers prefer to be paid hourly (or daily, or whatever), rather than per-project, because clients love ratcheting and requesting endless tweaks otherwise. But clients prefer to pay per-project, so they can predict how much stuff will cost and not have to risk paying for freelancers that pad hours. ODesk's solution removes some of the risk for hourly billing, making it a more acceptable solution for clients, which works out for the benefit of freelancers.

A similar concept is how companies benefit from being able to be sued. Because you can sue them if they screw you around, you feel more comfortable dealing with them.
There have been various trials with MDMA/LSD showing efficacy in treating some mental disorders. And they are probably even more effective than SSRIs, seeing as how we don't even know how or why SSRIs seem to work, if they even do. (But, of course, don't self-medicate, talk to your doctor.)

SSRIs are not strictly addictive but they do cause very unpleasant withdrawal effects as your brain gets used to a 'normal' level of serotonin again.
You might appreciate this book: A first rate madness. It's about how some of the best crisis leaders are manic-depressives. Depressive periods give them the ability to see the world as it is, and the mania gives them the energy to do something about it.

http://www.amazon.com/First-Rate-Madness-Uncovering-Between-...
I think there's a reasonable argument to be made that mathematical constructs are part of the universe.

David Deutsch has a method for ascertaining whether something can can be said to exist or not - ask whether it "kicks back" when you interact with it, in the sense that simulating the response of the thing you're considering in a totally convincing way would involve an effort as large as building a new universe for that thing to exist in.

Rocks "exist" because, if you wanted to build a totally convincing simulation of a rock, you'd need to include all of modern physics as we currently understand it.

Other minds "exist" because simulating them convincingly would basically require you to construct a true articificial intelligence (strong AI).

Mathematics "exists" because giving someone the genuine experience of doing mathematics when they really weren't would involve a simulation of almost unfathomable complexity.

There is a very real truth in the statement that '1 + 1 = 2', or the statement that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers, or any number of other mathematical results. The world of mathematics is a very real part of the universe, that "kicks back" by constantly surprising us when we think about it.

So I don't think the article, which is very well written and researched, deserves the middlebrow "Um, no" scorn that you treated it to.
>If no one agreed with them then theirs would be the only flag and there would be no effect. If several people agreed then there would be several flags, and that's what appears to happen.

Or a moderator. Or something else that's nixing submissions.

>If you feel strongly that the data you presented is on topic then perhaps you would fare better not simply to post a bare list, but write a blog post about why short names like this are of value to startups, and how having a short domain name can radically improve your chances, and how you wrote a script to create the list, and now you're sharing it because you believe it to be of value.

Actionable data isn't useful? From the comments:

"Amazed how many good names are still available. Looking to do a real-estate startup? How about:
crib.io (available)"

"I was amazed that nag.io was still available. I snatched it!"
I've had exactly the same problem. I have had tree-manipluation AI problems which run for > 30 minutes (seems like an ideal thing for pypy, before I rewrite them in C++). pypy is almost always slower, and never more than about 15% faster, whereas a simple line-by-line C++ rewrite can be 20x faster.
> If the client is 'not worth it' you're just not charging enough. Just work out what your price is and send them a new quote. Don't ever fire a client, that's just silly. Make the client say no.

I disagree. The more you charge the more you put yourself at risk—nominating some insane figure to scare him off is just as silly as his request (or close to it).

There is nothing wrong with not taking on work or firing a client. It is a risk assessment, and the risks with a client who asks these kind of questions are huge.

PS: I actually find it concerning that someone has to ask how to respond. Some people need to learn to say "no".
I tried to avoid going there, but there's there is the issue that Consumer Reports have generally terrible subjective reviews.

They're great at objectively layout basic facts. Poor at subjective measures.

Worse, over the past few years they've become rather attention crazed, so it's an endless sea of "iPhone not recommended"-type attention eliciting narratives.
From a purely technical perspective, the biggest difference is that the Berkeley team (Snap) re-implemented in JavaScript, and MIT (Scratch 2.0) in Flash. The former also uses XML as a format, the latter JSON (in 2.0).

Like you say, Snap's main difference is it makes some more advanced CS concepts more overt, primarily for use as a teaching tool for older students. To this end, it doesn't have the deep social integration that Scratch does: remixing and sharing are a big part of Scratch.

But that isn't to say that Scratch isn't suitable for high school or college level courses - Harvard's been using Scratch in the first week of it's intro CS class for several years now, with great success. The advantage of Snap is that transitioning from it to pure coding can be less of a leap, due to support for things like recursion, procedures, and continuations.

The Lifelong Kindergarten's remit at MIT means that they tend to place emphasis on a certain age range. In addition to Snap there's also an offshoot of Scratch targeted at very young children (Scratch Jr, which I think is developed by Tufts).
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> The majority of immigrants aren't going to be the likes of Elon Musks or Sergey Brin.

If you look at numbers, they will tell you that more immigrants than "natives" start businesses.
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You're arguing with the wrong person in the wrong place. It got flagged, learn from it. Sometimes it's not what you say, but how you say it. If you think this is of interest then write a post explaining why, and include the data as part of the post, don't just submit raw data and expect everyone instantly to agree that it's interesting and of value.

I think I've pretty much said everything I have to say on the subject now. If you have a question or comment that isn't already answered in one of my other comments, fine, but otherwise I won't repeat myself further.

To quote Samuel Johnson:

"Sir, I have found you an argument;
but I am not obliged to find you an
understanding."
I think you crashed their site :).

>>Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Too many connections in /var/www/html/hackertyper/config.php on line 6
DB Error, overload!!!! Crap, system crashed :/<<

Interesting how a single well placed post can achieve so much.
IMO, you should parent your children until they go off to University. They live under your roof and need to follow your rules. If they do not follow your rules they need to argue their case in a rational adult manner and to your satisfaction. If they cannot and act like petulant children you need to treat them as such; i.e. tell them to shut the hell up and eat their dogfood.

I don't care that the same arguments could be applied to adults. Adults are grown individuals who by virtue of their age have earned their right to be bone-headed and make stupid choices. As a parent all you can do is try to instill in your children values that prevent them from turning into boneheads.

Clear enough?
> an expectation that people eat lunch together. That's not to say you can't duck out to have lunch with a friend a few times per month, but your default behavior should be to eat with colleagues, not alone in a hurry.

Ah, yes, the "nobody ever really wants to be alone" supposition. Having lunch by myself, or at least in a non-work context, breaks the day into two "at-work" chunks, allowing me to start semi-fresh in the afternoon. Most days I need that break from other people for a while, and would certainly not want to work someplace that tried to take that respite away.
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At $50,000 per hour, I'd do 40 hours of work for a hideous client.

We're not talking about murder or anything with risk to life. We're talking about dealing with assholes. There is a price (theoretically) that makes that OK, so long as it's time-limited. Of course, the client will almost certainly not agree to $50k per hour, but isn't that kind of the point?
Let me ask you this:

What good is it doing you to argue with me that this submission was of value, and shouldn't've been flagged?
Does it concern anyone else that the chairman of Security Innovation Network uses the phrase "cyberspace".

Well anyway, I'm just going to take a little trip on the Information Superhighway, I'll be back later.
Thanks for the reference. It's what I am.
Well, the ‘warning signs’ are definitely there, but then it doesn’t appear entirely unlikely that he simply invested so much time to build up an entirely new field that it will be impossible to explain it in a few lectures. And given that Perelmann apparently still lives with his parents and refused this fancy price, I don’t know exactly what to expect from a successful mathematician.

So, yes, something is fishy, but so was the weird idea of curved spacetime.
Well, if you see it from the perspective of a corporation then procurement is probably one of the fields most ripe for fraud.

If you're just able to hand in an invoice to accounts payable then it's very, very easy to come up with bogus invoices. In fact this used to be a quite common scam.

Thus those rigid controls on all things procurement.

I worked for a variety of global companies and government entities. Setting up the whole invoicing process is generally a pain and usually you'll have to wait for a couple of month until the process works flawless.

Once it works it usually does work flawless.

I'm not arguing that this is great. But I can understand where a company is coming from, since the whole field of procurement is just a huge invite for fraud and abuse, if it's not rigidly controlled, which, I'm afraid, also involves an approved supplier list.

[EDIT : Spello corrected]
Wow - That is a really amazing question. I'll be wondering about it for a while...

The following is speculation.

On AliBarBar, you can find wholesale pans at source in china for $1 each. The price of pi like devices is about $30 dollars.

So, why do pans get so much more expensive as they cross the ocean?

1. Cost of postage

2. Protectionist import taxes. Here is Europeans list of things they are thinking of levvying punative taxes on. It's long. http://trade.ec.europa.eu/tdi/notices.cfm

3. Regulatory approval. The burden of bringing a new electronic device to market is pretty high. You need specialist facilities (or to pay a lot of money to a test lab) to prove electrical emissions are fine. This is why so many Chinese designs never make it to the UK. Alibaba is full of lovely android powered arm net-tops, but you note the ones you see in electronic stores are from the same limited range, even the cheap ones. This is why.

I presume the same is true for pans. So although designing a pan and bringing it to manufacture is simpler than manufacturing a new ASIC or even embedded computer, only a very few pan designs can be sold in the UK. It just isn't worth bringing another one through approval (unless it's much cheaper). And the approved designs can sell for much more.

One hears about western companies keeping as much of the 'value add' as possible out of China and India, possibly because it's so expensive to retrieve money once it's in there. I wonder if this also is part of it.
I think that given Snapchat's advertising ('the snap disappears') they should really be doing more on the client to make sure third parties don't get access to the picture, for example, by not storing it on the device at all.
According to the article:

"...The customer considers that if I don't want to record the video, it's because I have something to hide and want to lie about the real time spent on his project".

Dealing with a client that tells you from the outset that they believe you are going to lie to them isn't merely an annoyance. It presents a risk to your career. This client will never be satisfied, or trust a word you say. He will inevitably sue or trash your reputation because, in the end, it isn't possible to satisfy delusional clients. That risk isn't worth any amount of money.
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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
Depression is different for everyone. My depression is quite different from the one described in the article. My depression is usually mixed with anxiety and is triggered by a stressful life event. To me depression is like falling into the sea of sadness. I feel an immense amount of sadness partly because that the stressful event has a reason to make me sad. Along with the sadness is the feeling of disappointment for myself and for others. But sadness is the most prominent feeling. My depression could get a lot better very quickly if the stressful event reaches some sort of satisfactory resolution. But if it doesn't, I would just feel sad,sad, sad ,and eventually escalating to feeling hopelessness...then wishing I could be dead...
I think the weirdest thing is that id Software have all their games ported for Linux (Excluding Rage) but haven't released them yet.
But there is a record. A printed 3D gun has no serial number or identification. Someone gets shot and killed with one, and there is no trace.
I wouldn't advice trying the technical arguments ("the video could be faked!" etc) since the client is clearly unfamiliar with freelancing and these arguments would simply serve to confuse. Either 'yes' or 'no', the 'yes' having whatever caveats you want to go with it.

I've never freelanced, but I've spent a lot of time doing support, and I know what kind of personality is being dealt with here. The solution the poster has come up with is probably the best one apart from firing the customer (not always fiscally possible)
"Pointless hipster-TLD is pointless. Utterly pointless."

So pointless that GitHub and codepen.io use them.

edit: You edited your reply...
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If I was working for you, I'd wonder why I should put my interest in CS / software in the hands of your company. If the necessary minimum to work for a paycheck is 3 hours per day, I'd work 3 hours per day and spend the rest of my time doing my own projects at home or in a place of my choosing.

This has at least two advantages:

- I get the benefits of whatever I create (e. g. sales)

- I choose the projects that I want to work on and I never ever have to justify anything to anyone.

Your plan works only if people are as passionate about the stuff your company does as you are without having any interest in pursuing their own ideas. Developing own ideas in a company environment and outside of it are two entirely different things.

I believe employment ends up in a Nash Equilibrium. The most rational thing to do for an employee is to work the minimum amount of time required for a paycheck (and considering working overtime mostly for career advancement). For an employer, the rational thing to do is to somehow "motivate" people to work more on company-related stuff, because it makes the company more money.
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