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IMHO this is one of the many signs that soon there will be a new kind of coffee shop that emphasizes more on the social space rather than on coffee.

What people like us are looking for is not a cup of freshly-brewed black coffee (although that definitely adds to it) but a social space with stable & fast internet. Something that is a crossover of a coffee shop and an open workspace.
In most places in the US, a DUI is a felony if someone is injured.
Funny how some people in this world want something for nothing. I'm glad some find math and science difficult. That way it weeds out those who are serious and determined from those who aren't. Makes life easier to sort out later.
You're right, at a certain point functionality and other characteristics make all the difference. It's just a generality for higher-level code I suppose.
for me this is the right solution.... the market wants a place to work, have internet, drink coffee, etc.

just charge for it... according to consumption (time)
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Erm, reliable UDP?

You can get a startling amount of the way there with sequence numbers and a few other things--it's a fun exercise.
I'm currently doing a double major in Philosophy and Mathematics part-time while working a full-time job and caring for a house and 5-month old daughter with my wife. I think one of the things that initially drew me to those subjects and keeps me plugging away is that I find both of them confounding, infuriating, confusing, and hard as shit. I have a couple tech-related college diplomas that I really didn't have too work too hard to get, but in 8 to 10 years when I'm being presented with my degree, I'm going to really feel like I accomplished something.
It's hard to imagine someone only embrace something without extending it.
Great follow-up, thanks! It's not a clear and consistent law, or law at all, you're right.
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Sorry, I should have mentioned in my earlier comment. Yes, I'm assuming that OP will be using a library computer.
For my part, I believe the robots are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way!
You mean like these folks? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfuXUr-_Rns
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Insurance price transparency != hospital price transparency.
It's actually easy to avoid insurance price transparency by manipulating deductibles, co-pays, and lists of supported medications.
I was only responding to the "GPA matters for nobody after a few years" comment, by demonstrating that for a select subset of university students (pre-med) it's simply not true.
>2) The realization that "getting everything right" is not really how any part of the real world works.

If I'm out to be a doctor or an astronaut or an engineer, I'm likely going to question my ability to accomplish these if I'm made to feel that I've missed a bunch of knowledge on the tests. Those, and many others, are careers that ought to get everything right because of the consequences (they don't, of course, but why is college teaching this lesson?). Perhaps it's an American thing, but the fear of failure made me double check and re-study things for the better. I might've been more lazy if I had grown up with the rationale that "oh well, you can't get everything right", but perhaps there's more culture that plays into that.

When I get 90% or above on a test, I like the validation that I'm successfully learning near to the pace and complexity challenges set out by the instructor. I really don't like the idea of someone aiming to keep those results lower for exclusivity or other reasons.

I'd also be curious where the increased challenge comes from.

- Are the questions longer and require more steps?

- Do they require a leap in logic to 'discover' something while you're contemplating the question?

- Is it a huge amount of recollection?

- Any combination of the above?
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why should a PHP app use a templating engine when PHP itself is one?

It's just cleaner, and makes it easier, visually, to separate layout from code. Wordpress seems to be a good example of the opposite case -- it switches directly between PHP and html and there are no 'templates' to speak of, in the way Smarty/Twig etc. people would think of them. It is 'closer to the metal' I guess but also for anyone who's had to edit a theme, really ugly.

Personally I find just not having to worry about context with opening and closing PHP tags and echoing variables (and manually escaping everything) worth the extra bit of abstraction involved with a templating system, which will do the work for me.
They just took my word for it.
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The only thing the FISC is empowered to do is to grant warrants and certifications to intelligence services. My point was, domestic criminal warrants work the same way: they're non-adversarial and often secret.

I'm having a hard time understanding how we make the jump from "warrant" to "law". The word "law" connotes a huge sweep of authority that the FISC simply doesn't have.

As a reminder: the Fourth Amendment doesn't protect foreigners abroad; the Constitution covers people on American soil, and American citizens abroad, and that's it. There's a robust meme on HN that the USG is bound by the Constitution when dealing with (say) Malaysians. It simply isn't. The distinction is important because the FISA process pertains exclusively to foreign intelligence. The FISC has no authority to authorize deliberate surveillance of American citizens.
I believe the article you're referring to is Steven Brill's 26,000 word opus "Bitter Pill - Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us", which appeared in the U.S. edition of Time Magazine in March of this year.

In it, he makes a specific criticism that not only do hospitals that purchase diagnostic scanners tend to make greater use of it, but that quite often, an above-average count of referrals to diagnostic imaging centers (which are places which only do MRI and CT scan work) are one of the leading indicators of out-of-whack pricing for a given hospital.

Patients still reflexively follow their doctors orders. So if their doctor says an MRI or two is required before he proceeds with treatment, the patient will happily get the MRI done.

Changing the ingrained behavior of patients in this regard is a must if we expect to be able to control this particular aspect of medical cost increases.

sbercus10 has done this thread a huge favor in his comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6015542) where he provides the following link to a PDF of Brill's Time article:

http://livingwithmcl.com/BitterPill.pdf
I seriously thought that Chrome was re-implementing the <blink> tag from the headline.
You seem to labor under the misapprehension that Congress is capable of undoing its own horrible mistakes. When has that ever occurred?
Incredibly inappropriate. You do understand that a member of the community died, right?
I could do without these people in coffee shops. Nothing more dull than walking into a coffee shop and seeing a bunch of drones buried in their Apple Laptops for hours. I'd rather see people talking and socializing. Those folks might as well be in their homes doing their thing or at least cap the experience by requiring them to buy a coffee every so often or limiting their wifi experience.
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If I might ask, how did you go about declining, and what was their response?
What are you referring to? Where is "here"? Why so vague?
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> I would go so far as to say that it's barely a court at all. More like a panel of judges. Is it a court if it hears no controversies and effectively operates outside the system of review by higher courts?

It doesn't effectively operate outside of the system of review by higher courts, its just that, since the proceedings are non-adversarial, the only review likely is of decisions that are adverse to the government, which are made unlikely, since there is no constraint on the government's ability to -- even assuming no deliberate misrepresentation -- present information selectively in the initial application.

> But it would only be natural for an entity like FISC, which serves the government alone and has effectively no oversight from higher courts

FISC has a higher court (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review) which exists solely to provide oversight for it; FISCR is itself overseen by the Supreme Court.

What the FISA process is missing isn't oversight by higher courts, which it incorporates already, but an advocatus diaboli.
Thanks for sharing, some beautiful gems in it.. More specifically, didn't know about Duet. That's a beautifully designed website!
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"not adhering to Article III doesn't automatically make the FISC unconstitutional." nice try with a straw man attack.
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So, Jobs gets a free pass, but Cook doesn't?

Double standards and ridiculousness.

If they KEEP doing it, he has a point. Until then, he doesn't.
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Having to explain why something could be "huge" shows how well you understand the market.
> Engineers working on such projects should not make these kinds of mistakes.

Sounds like a plan. In fact, it's inspired me in my own professional life. Henceforth, I shall never write another software bug again.

The problem with the idea of this kind of thought is that it's turtles all the way down. You have an assembly mistake that could have been prevented by engineering. But of course now it's an engineering mistake. And you can't simply legislate the absence of mistakes. You can try to treat that with "engineering process", I guess, which mandates the use of funny gadgets or asymmetry or automated software checkers or whatever. And that probably helps. But then you can apply that process mistakenly...

At some point you have to cut bait and ship (or launch, rather).
Lest you think this sort of thing is something that could only happen to the Ruskies, consider that the same sort of mistake has happened on NASA space probes, twice.

The Galileo Jupiter atmospheric probe deployed its parachutes late because the accelerometer designed to trigger the pyro charges to release the parachutes was wired backwards. There were two different "g-switches" which provided acceleration data at different scales. When the probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere the software control system saw that the acceleration data it was getting was all wrong, it marked one of the channels as failed and attempted to use just the other channel, though the scale was all wrong so the data was bogus (leading the software to think that the probe was in a different stage of its entry than it actually was). The result was that the main parachute was deployed very late and the only reason the parachute successfully deployed at all at the speed and atmospheric density it was released into is by more or less sheer luck.

The same mis-wiring happened on the Genesis sample return probe, which caused it to collide with the ground rather than be captured in mid-air as per the plan.

The funny part is that the accelerometers on both probes were tested in a centrifuge, but the wiring harnesses for the tests were also wired backwards as well.
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Is this is because movies and media such as "popular science" magazine sex them up? They sound so cool, then reality hits. Probably kids are a lot lazier now days also...
Right, but how does that give me any assurance that the value contained within the optional is itself not null? Haskell gives me that assurance.

If all pointers can be null, then every pointer type is an implied optional type. Haskell's advantage is that it allows us to define types which cannot be null.
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Maybe they printed out an an image encoded as text? For storage?
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> You seem to labor under the misapprehension that Congress is capable of undoing its own horrible mistakes.

Its capable, if it wants to.

If it doesn't want to, the problem isn't "nothing Congress can do about it". Its that Congress is content with the results and uninterested in doing anything about it.
I'm having a hard time understanding how we make the jump from "warrant" to "law". The word "law" connotes a huge sweep of authority that the FISC simply doesn't have.

I think the point is that, since there are no appeals from the FISC proceedings, a changed interpretation on the part of that court (what Senators Wyden and Udall alleged to have occurred) is effectively a change in the law.
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Kindle is the only product where the Amazon review system is guaranteed to be "fair" -- Amazon is delivering the entire experience.

Many other products on Amazon (where people look for reviews, even if they are buying elsewhere) have bad reviews because the "shipping was slow" or the "price went down right after I bought it" -- things that shouldn't fairly be attributed to the product.
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It's interesting seeing the toll on the love-to-teach ones. My course in the mid-90s had a fantastic lecturer, my favourite by far, who loved teaching and researching. He'd be there 12 hours a day by default.

I went to see him again in the late noughties and he was haggard (not surprising, given he was around approaching 60 and always working heavily). He said he'd lost his spark to teach, and that current day students just weren't interested in doing the work - it's hard to be passionate when you're teaching uninterested people.

He said that my group's era was a great one for teaching. I accused him of blowing smoke up my arse and how bad could it be? These things are hard to make metrics of, but he gave the example - out of a course of 60 people in my final year, there were two applications for 'special consideration', one of whom was an eight-month-pregnant woman who didn't want to risk disturbing exams in case she went into labour. 'special consideration' was used for serious issues - close relative died, that kind of thing. By comparison, the current year had around half the students asking for special consideration.

He had other stories of change as well. I started a PhD under him (quit it early when I realised I would be relegated to academia) and we were treated as cattle by the department, mere cash-cows to bring in money. He mentioned that when he did his PhD in the 70s, doctoral students were considered gold and pretty much equivalent to a member of faculty. Now (late 90s) they're packed into an uncomfortable broom closet and their resources are, quite literally, commandeered by admin. As a literal example, we saw one doctoral student have her work stalled because the number crunching machine she had incoming was redirected to an admin temp.
This isn't true. They only have to provide emergency services, and they still charge for them, just not up front. If anyone did that, they would still receive bills in the mail and have derogatory information on their credit report.

Otherwise, please tell me which hospital is giving away free service to the uninsured.
That's a cute argument, but Microsoft never held a gun to a developer's head and said "use this feature or else!" Neither will Google.

IE was just a nice feature to have available. If you happen to need a web browser control, there's one built in for you right there on every copy of windows. You could get in touch with Netscape and figure out what's required to redistribute their runtime, or just make the call to load up the ActiveX control. whichever is easier for you, dear developer.

Notifications will work great on chrome, and non-chrome clients will kinda degrade gracefully by throwing a javascript error. It's fine. it's just there if you decide you need it, no gun to your head.
The fact that you have to use the IO monad, to me, feels like something completely ugly and different from what I get from haskell algorithm wise. IMHO.
Three more questions:

* If the information obtained from the FISA process is useful exclusively in extrajudicial activity (or, perhaps more accurately, activities in the bailiwick of Article II) and can't effectively be deployed against citizens in criminal proceedings (not least because to do so would open up a can of worms regarding new standing to challenge FISA), AND the FISA process is targeted exclusively at foreigners and collects substantial information about citizens but only inadvertently, what injury is being inflicted on Americans?

That's a fuzzy question. Two specific ones:

* You say FISC warrants have no enforcement mechanisms and are exclusively permission for NSA to engage in surveillance. But the FAA 702 process has FISA engaging directly with American corporations. NSA appears before the FISC to obtain a 702 certification, which is nonadversarial and extremely unlikely to fail because a certification describes a target and FISA only allows targeting of foreign nationals. But once that process finishes, NSA gains from the 702 certification the ability to issue 702 directives, which compel Google to act. How does FISC enforce that action? If Google refuses, petitions FISC (as Yahoo did), loses (inevitably), and then refuses, what then? That's what I was thinking when I asked about enforcement.

* Why can't Google simply challenge the Constitutionality of the FAA 702 directive nondisclosure requirement? Didn't Google (or Microsoft, I forget which) just threaten to do exactly that?
That's not the point I was addressing. It's obviously true that mobile is slower than desktop by a factor of 5-10x. However, the author uses Sunspider as a metric to claim that "JS engines haven't really gotten all that much better since 2008".

That's not true at all.

On benchmarks like Kraken and Octane, which actually take multiple seconds to run instead of just milliseconds, both V8 and SpiderMonkey have improved significantly even just over the past year.

Speaking for SpiderMonkey (only because that's the engine I'm more familiar with), we've bumped Kraken by 20-25%, and we've bumped Octane by around 50%.

On real-world app code like pdfjs, and gbemu.. we've improved performance by 2-3x over the last year.

JS has gotten significantly faster over the last couple of years, and we're working quite hard on making it faster yet.
I am not smart enough to understand what this objection means. A stab at a response: perhaps you're not aware that there are Article I courts as well as Article III courts.
July 11 will be release of 4.0. A lot of Web API fixes to make things consistent and much more fine-grained control over orientation, location and other device APIs. Follow the hacks blog for updates.
Did GitHub go through FISMA certification for their public site? How are these govt agencies using the system to host code without getting the platform accredited?
> I'm quite happy to let words retain their shock value without people like you trying to mainstream the words, and then be required to coin new ones.

They're words. Why are you afraid of them?

> Golly used to be a really serious swear, now it's quaint and old fashioned.

What? Golly was never a "serious swear". That's why it existed in the first place -- because people were afraid of uttering a completely different word.

> You think you are mainstreaming the words by making people OK with offensive words.

This sentence is offensive. Far more offensive than "shit" has ever or will ever be. And not because any of its words are offensive, but because you presume to tell me what I think. And you are very, very wrong.

The idea conveyed is offensive. The words used are irrelevant.
"Dr. Smith said federal Medicare regulation would not allow for their online price menu.

They have avoided government regulation and control in that area by choosing not to accept Medicaid or Medicare payments."

This is simply not true. If they were undercutting Medicare with their pricing, the government would likely have issue with it (i.e. if they were contracted with Medicare but charging Medicare more than what they charge other insurers/patients - this never happens). But their pricing is multiple times what a Medicare claimant would have to pay, so it's a non-issue.

Take, for example, the One Medical Group. They accept Medicare and although the services they provide are limited to primary care, they are transparent with their basic fees.
http://www.onemedical.com/nyc/pricing/insurance

Our own medical group is heading in the direction of transparent pricing as well, and we accept Medicare.
I think HN web site penalizes direct links to youtube.
That's why blogspam links win.
First, there are appeals from the FISC proceedings; there's a FISCR review court, and like any proceeding of the US Government FISC is subject to the oversight of SCOTUS.

Second, what are you thinking when you think about changes to the law? What are the contours of the changes you're imagining are created by FISC precedent? Maybe we don't disagree at all, or maybe we're football fields apart in our understanding of what FISC precedent can actually do.
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A thing that people are often unaware of when trying to understand how the IO type works in Haskell is that you cannot define the IO type in Haskell.
>I don't understand. You're saying that there is a mismatch between what the programmer knows and what the compiler can deduce? That you know, from the state the program must be in, that the map has to contain the value associated with the given key? I can't think of an example were that would be the case off the top of my head.

Maybe you just put it there or it wasn't Maybe when you checked it?
Some of my best experiences as a parent have come because I started young and had to struggle about which priority in life was most important. It changed who I am. I wouldn't trade the extra time I have to be a father and grand-father for the freedom and flexibility I could have enjoyed. I find deeper joy in the "boring" slog of being a dad.
It's a relatively new trend in the US for corporate owned rental properties to use essentially fraudulent nickel-and-diming on the damage deposit as an additional revenue stream.

If you move to the US and have to rent, find a private owner renting their condo or similar. Never live in an "apartment community" with a corporate owner.
People who program because they like puzzles, puzzle me. I like things that are straight forward and obvious when I program.
The FISA process concerns surveillance of foreign nationals who enjoy extremely limited constitutional protections.

People are fond of pointing out that the government rarely loses at FISA hearings. But as it turns out, of course, the government also rarely loses when it files for domestic wiretap authority. Relative to other transactions investigators and prosecutors have with the courts, the process of obtaining authority to wiretap is extraordinarily difficult; prosecutors don't waste time doing wiretap paperwork if they're not sure the request will be granted.

Two different processes, neither of them adversarial, both of them secret, both of which produce an authority to surveil people. My question: why would the process that surveils foreigners without Fourth Amendment rights require a devil's advocate, when the domestic wiretap process has no such mechanism?

I ask in part because I think synthesizing an adversary is unlikely to create a meaningful restraint; a synthetic adversary doesn't have the same incentives as a real one.
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