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>Highly knowledgeable people

Who? You're some guy on the Internet. I should take it on faith that you can tell who is knowledgeable and who is a blowhard?

> have commented on it and not said it was anything unusual, so, yes, I'd say it's reasonable.

Again, instead of providing a fact I have to trust the judgment of a person I do not know.

> Jet engines don't change their output on a dime.

It should have been obvious from my question that I know that much about turbines. Do you have any information specific to 777 engines or something comparable?

>Experts commenting on their field of expertise don't count for anything, or what?

They might. It depends who they are. I don't always believe everything I see on television or the Internet. Sometimes I like to know their reasoning.
I had a landlord in Wisconsin which kept the deposit and charged an extra $200 (for weathering a high traffic area of the carpet). My current landlord is in Texas. My landlords from Mississippi were much shadier and would shame your reputation just for moving out if anyone called.
I completely appreciate that and am not automobile free myself! I just want 4 wheel solo travel to be the exception, and treated with constant caution.
Let me start off with I worked in a medical billing office for the last 5 years and here are some things you'll never hear about:

Medicare pays only 15-25% of what they are charged, that is to say, if a surgery costs $40,000 they will only pay the doctor $10,000.

This isn't only medicare, it's literally every company. Every single insurance company pays only a fraction (usually 50%$ or less) of what the hospital actually charges you. If you don't have insurance you can just call up and usually if your semi-nice and fairly strait forward you can get the bill reduced to a fraction (30-40%) because that's about what they accept from insurance anyways.

Their prices are simply what they'll get paid in either case, so good job to these doctors, hope it helps less people get scammed and pay their full bills.
What I learned (mistakes) trying to build and launch an app in 3 days
http://3dayapp.us/blog/2013/07/09/launching-the-3-day-app/
Secret government: America against democracy
Is there any validity to the claim that people develop cancer independent of nuclear power plants? Absolutely. Cancer predates nuclear power by millennia.
Let friends upload files straight to your Cloud storage.
> does it automatically get the latest version of FF when it's released for desktop/Android?

Firefox OS is its own Operating System, so it won't be "released for desktop/Android." The initial versions was forked from gecko 18 so it's missing many SpiderMonkey optimizations such as the Baseline Compiler, Type Inference, Odin Monkey, and Ion Monkey. Luckily, updates (or building from source) have these and add quite an improvement! Whenever I updated my iphone, I felt every update left it slower. Now imaging upgrading your phone it it getting faster!
Em, considering that this comment of yours is just a blanket accusation, without any arguments at all, whereas I replied to the parent point by point, the proverb "people living in glasshouses", etc comes to mind.

I, for one, in my comment:

1) reminded that the availability of "dirt cheap VMs" doesn't make PHP installation any easier compared to a hosting provider (just drop PHP files into folder -- or just select a PHP app to be installed from a Web panel).

2) Having lots of documentation is a benefit, even if "much of it is wrong" in some way. It it works, people will use it, be it wrong or not, and they will get bootstrapped enough with their app to eventually replace it with something better. If we demanded near perfection from everyone, the web would be 1/1000 the size -- it's the ability to also have "wrong" stuff work that made it huge.

3) That "most of PHP developers posses shockingly small amount of knowledge" is not against but in favour of the language. Those people also need to get something done, and if they can achieve that with PHP, more power to them.

The complaints are elitist cries, that only some deeply knowledgable programmers should be allowed to code stuff for the web.

I find the possibility of somebody with limited knowledge writing a webpage or even a webapp in PHP empowering. And if you don't like to consider my opinion, ask Derek Shivers.
One of the major problems with U.S. healthcare is that, financially speaking, patients have been increasingly taken out of the mix beginning in the fifties. Providers and insurance carriers shield consumers from actual costs giving a false impression of the value of competent healthcare.
Insurance companies’ reimbursement rates are a fraction of the billed amount. Of course, it is the person without insurance, who is stuck with what can be a very inflated invoice.
Of course, there are manifold problems with this industry; but until patients are exposed to accurate financial comparisons, the costs will continue to escalate.
I think you are confused. Valentina Tereshkova was selected by the USSR not for any noble reason, but for the equally sexist-reasons "Miss Kelly" was denied -- because she was a woman.

If you think the USSR was less sexist than the USA in the 50s and 60s, you are vastly mistaken.
Owning a firearm is an individual privilege. A well armed militia is a community right.
If you think binary protocols are so great, you have to then explain why text protocols are winning all over the place. People tried to do binary for a long time before HTTP won. We had all kinds of RPC mechanism - CORBA, DCOM, etc. Even the winning data serialization formats are mostly text (JSON, XML) despite the fact we know it's less efficient. Even where people make binary versions the ones that succeed are direct one-to-one translations of the text (eg: BSON).

In the end, it is formats that people can understand that win the day. You can't just write that off as if it has no value. It plays out in technical ways: all the CORBA implementations ended up having very poor interporability partly because they were hard to debug. Nobody could actually look at a CORBA exchange and see what was wrong with it.
Not quite true, it is in some ways similar to the US, with public and private insurance. However the majority is part of the public insurance, and in general health insurance is mandatory. There are some awkward ways by which you can fall out of private insurance and can't get back into public insurance, but these cases are rare.
In case of not having an insurance you'd be billed like any privately insured patient.
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Here's the NYTimes on the same story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/world/asia/masao-yoshida-n...

Key graf: "Mr. Yoshida took a leave from Tokyo Electric in late 2011 after receiving a diagnosis of esophageal cancer. Experts have said his illness was not a result of radiation exposure from the accident, given how quickly it came on."
Doctors running all over the ER and into operating rooms plays well on TV... but in real life most surgery is scheduled days or even weeks ahead of time.

Even in emergencies, if you knew the reputation of a hospital and were responsible for paying your own bills, you'd likely go to the one that had the price/performance reputation that you were most comfortable with.
Math, Science Popular Until Students Realize They’re Hard
The article's statement is misleading, but arguably true if you parse it the right way.

Medicare very likely does not allow for the prices featured on their online price menu. You could therefore say that it "won't allow for their online price menu" since without the underlying prices, there can be no menu.

I agree that as written, the statement is misleading and feels politically motivated. No way to know if the spin was applied by the doctor or the journalist.
Windows 8.1 OEM is late August
Cool, that's really great feedback. I'm certainly more unfamiliar with the Perl community than with the other 3 languages, so thanks for sharing and offering your help!
On what basis are you saying that "online dating isn't going anywhere?" One could call Facebook the most successful online dating site, one-third of married couples last year met online, and couples who meet online are less likely to divorce. That sounds pretty impressive to me!
> As I understand it TSA only do the finding of the guns and it's local law enforcement who does the rest. So TSA have no idea about who's allowed to carry the weapon or not.

I have no idea if this is true, but let's assume it is.

So what? How does that prevent TSA's Office of Public Relations from following up with law enforcement after the fact? Is there some law of which I'm unaware that prevents the TSA from asking the local PD for statistics about this sort of thing?
The principal architect showed me a build running on geeksphone. [1] Still bugs but it pretty much works. We'll probably make an announcement about it.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/WebRTC/Peak
The anatomy of distributed development
It has a class system that was bolted on after the fact, leading to tons of inconsistencies. It has "closures", but they're not proper lexical closures since you have to explicitly declare what part of the lexical scope you want your anonymous functions to have access to (rather than the interpreter figuring out the free variables like a sane implementation). Named functions can't even do that much (the fact that they're separate implementations being an indicator that they're designed poorly. Unsurprising, given anonymous functions were added post hoc). If by "good reflection style features" you mean the god-awful isset-on-every-line-of-code garbage, I'll pass, thank you. It's Turing complete and can get the job done, yes, but there's absolutely no part of it that I would call "very good". The best it ever reaches, in my experience (several years, for what little that's worth), is "doesn't quite make me want to vomit".

(Yes, I'm a bit bigoted towards PHP. I recognize that. Having to write it every day can do that to a person.)
FYI for all Florida patients, under the FL Patient Bill of Rights FL Statute 381.026(4)(c)(3): "A health care provider or a health care facility shall, upon request, furnish a patient, prior to provision of medical services, a reasonable estimate of charges for such services."
We use Jira, I think it pretty much does what you want straight out of the box, except the gant charts that you can get as a paid plugin.. (I use the ondemand SAAS version)
> In NYC, drivers are seldom cited at all even when a cyclist or pedestrian has been killed.

Your link does not say that drivers are ‘seldom cited’; it says that drivers are cited slightly over half the time. A priori, an even split in responsibility across all cases seems perfectly reasonable.
I'm still not convinced. I did read the whole article, but the subhead sums it up well:

> That new 17-million digit Mersenne prime number might matter. Someday.

(Emphasis mine, but that's not much of ringing endorsement of the usefulness of prime numbers.)
Full paper with annotations: http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1002/adma.201301400?

Meanwhile, http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57592867-1/3d-printing-w... has a video which I really recommend you watch. I don't often use the phrase 'mindblowing' but it applies here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5382339
Easter egg: Up up down down left right left right b a
The solution to this is govt. supported training programs with a stipend that make it possible for people with no savings to learn a different trade, not paying them unsustainable amounts to do unskilled things.
This headline is scaremongering at its worst.

>The ex-head of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Masao Yoshida, 58, died at a Tokyo hospital of esophageal cancer on July 9, 2013. Doctors have maintained repeatedly that Yoshida’s illness has had nothing to do with exposure to high doses of radiation.

> [...]

> On November 28, 2011, Yoshida was admitted to hospital, where cancer was diagnosed.

It's fortunate that the article points out that the exposure does not correlate to the incident in the first place, but I get the feeling that the headline given here is link-bait at its worst.

As far as I can tell you, you cannot get cancer six months after being exposed to a high degree of radiation. You either die shortly after a large dose or something appears years if not decades later.

Cancer is a seemingly random, yet likely event.
While the Linux kernel may rely on task-switch safe-points, user-land implementations can't which means they require an entirely different grace-period mechanism to work. This is what makes user-land implementations tricky to get right. I won't go into the details here since it's somewhat involved and I need a white board to explain it properly. That being said, if you feel brave, head over to my github repo[1] and look for src/rcu.h and src/grcu.* .

[1]: https://github.com/RAttab/lockless
Punishing someone from running away from an accident, however, is important. These people are not good for society and we need to make them a pariah, so people push away from that behavior.
Excellent points, particularly with respect to looking outside of hackerdom.
This 19 year old self-taught developer will not be stopped
So, that doesn't answer the question. If i write the module and port the examples, will you put it on your website? (If you agree, giving me a github repo to make a pull req to, or an email to send the data to would help too.)
You mean like SCTP ? It's struggling to get traction.
All standard carry models I'm familiar with either have a hard trigger pull, or have a manual safety. I'll grant you that someone carrying the latter had better have it in a holster or some arrangement where the safety can't get pushed off ... but then again, if this is how they normally carry, e.g. a normal purse, if they don't do that they're always in danger of a negligent discharge. And there are modified guns out there with unreasonably light trigger pulls, but the same considerations above for protecting a manual safety hold.

So I'd say "very low", while agreeing that it's not zero.

BTW, it's almost never an accidental discharge, almost always a negligent one, and in this hypothetical case most certainly so.
Just responding to the specific example, I've been very happy with square / square wallet in this regard. The system recognizes my card, and offers to send me an itemized receipt via email for any transaction. I can use this to clearly see the merchant, date/time, and what I paid for. Simple (the bank) is making inroads in this as well, and even PayPal's receipt emails are more descriptive. Maybe a bit too complex of an issue for a startup to hit now (look at what happened to Dwolla) but certainly still a lot of "pain points" to solve left.
As memory use goes up, GC takes more time. But with more RAM available, GC (under certain strategies) can take less time. It's triggered less often, but each time it's triggered, it only copies the (no-larger-than-before) 'live' set.

What kind of GC does HN/ARC use?
I’m not sure what alternatives they had. Of the top 10 languages on GitHub (https://github.com/languages), only C and C++ do not have garbage collection. Those are quite a different beast from Java of Objective-C.

There’s a selection bias here but I struggle to come up with a popular non-GC, compiled language that operates on the same sort of level as Java or Objective-C.
I know there is some study of it in left-wing political groups, both writing by people within such groups, and some sociological study of them by outsiders. One of the manifestations of dissatisfaction with both Leninism/Stalinism's ultra hierarchical style on the one hand, and the emergence of "union bosses" in the trade-union movement on the other, was a strong ideological attachment to radically non-hierarchical organization among groups like anarchists, council communists, etc. And one of the immediate problems that comes up is non-transparent, de facto cliques and networks of behind-the-scenes leaders. There's been a bunch of ink spilled on trying to come up with consensus-based organizational methods and best practices that aim to avoid that and produce "actual" non-hierarchy rather than just the superficial look of non-hierarchy. In some brief searching I haven't come up with any particularly good summary to point to, though, and I don't know if there's any consensus (ha ha) on whether any methods are more successful than others.

In a different vein, there's a lot of academic stuff written on Scandinavian workplace management, which is not precisely flat, but has flattish hierarchies based more on rotating and interlocking committees, rather than boss-and-subordinates tree structures. The goal there seems to be to make the sub-groups that are making decisions overt, so informal cliques don't make the decisions. So there are a lot of committees, with rotating membership to make sure they don't develop into hierarchies. E.g. 5 people are chosen to be responsible for something like working conditions, or strategic direction, or integration of foreign workers, for a term of a year or two, and then a different 5 people will hold that power next year. A big controversy there is how much Scandinavian workplace management is tied to Scandinavian culture, i.e. would it work anywhere else?
I agree. The first thing I did when I saw this announcement was look for the REST API. Surely, those existing platform specific libraries are built on a REST API, so why not document and release them.
Such a weird topic to me. Wifi as a free service became popular as a way to attract people to establishments but the side effect is they get leeches. So at this point they want to reduce them, some taking steps far enough to remove the wifi. But now if they need to remove the wifi to keep their customer's flowing and happy why did they need it in the first place? Knee jerk reaction to a fad? Maybe it helped them grow in the first place?

I think any service, free or paid needs some sort of regulation from those who will take advantage of it. Having rules which state you need to be paying a customer and limit your stay to 30 minutes or whatever per order is probably the absolute maximum you require since its privately owned property. Having the rule covers your ass when you need it but doesn't require you to enforce it when traffic is slower.
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=hyper+loop

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Elon+Musk&star...
Is there going to be an offline version of this?
for me it doesn't
Facebook. I heard they paid 1 billion USD for the privilege.
What's your point? I very rarely drive, even more rarely in a city, and I almost never even encounter bicyclists while I'm driving.
I'm also unable to view the article because of this.
I find it pretty astounding that she is bitter considering they let her take all her research and hardware developments when she left with no stings attached. You would never get that a most companies.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/08/hardware-hacker-spills-on-...

From that link too it sounds like she gave Gabe Newell an ultimatum, but here she's claims she was fired because she was a trouble maker.

EDIT: The ultimatum appears to be after she was already fired, thanks for the clarification.
There's always a pyramid, all that changes is who sits atop it and how everyone else is placed within the strata. All libertarianism says is that you can't initiate violence or take what's not yours to find your place in that pyramid.
> 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.

Obama, better close up that loophole! Wouldn't want people to find out that capitalism works in every. single. industry.
Do all applications include something like that? If not, what makes you think that they will in your hypothetical "binary is king" future?
Hmm I didn't need one. here's a direct cut/paste of the article for you:

http://pastebin.com/y4LcHVAx
Sadly, you're going to need to encrypt before uploading. Just as the webserver should never trust the client, the user should never trust the server with sensitive data.

Try boxcryptor - works with more than just Dropbox.
> after glancing around I've come to the conclusion that home ownership is unthinkable to anyone who hasn't had a cash-out event.

Or they are a two-income family where both make good salaries. Then it's eminently thinkable, even advisable.
Apple and Amazon stop suing each other over 'app store' trademark
Any time someone claims there's no power hierarchy within their group or organisation, I pretty much automatically assume they're mistaken and there's all kinds of informal power struggles going on. It seems to be true of groups as diverse as Wikipedia and the very early feminist groups, which claimed to be non-hierachical but really weren't.
90% of New Gamers Unable to Finish Level 1-1 in Original Super Mario Bros
I don't think it's accurate to say that most states require a license just to own a firearm. There are age, mental health, and criminal background restrictions, but that's not quite the same thing. Some states do have gun ownership licenses, but most only require licenses to carry a firearm, and in many of those states, that is technically only required for concealed carry.
As a telecommuter, I recognize when I go work from a coffee shop that I am using their resources. But that's why I 1) buy stuff while I'm there, and 2) tell all of my friends what a great place it is.

If one of my local shops pulled this on me, they'd not only lose my business, but that of friends when I tell them about the experience. Perhaps this isn't a big concern (I'm not particularly important, after all). But if it happens with enough customers, it could be bad for business in a more broad sense.
It never stops loading for me, I'm assuming the wildcard character forces it to search and return all HN articles?
VideoLAN doesn't come out of this looking particularly mature or professional. A lotta buck-passing...
Why would I use this over something like Parse?
Just use

header("Status: 400 Bad Request");
Sure, as long is away from our city, and the toxic waste is moved out of our state too.
A 777 is about $250m. But yes, the total cost to the airline of the accident will be in the billions.
People that don't like being surrounded by laptops will take your and your friends' place. No worries, cafes without wifi work just fine.
Yes, because MS haven't implemented it.
Well luckily, "(and soon OS X app)."
I think most non-freeway roads technically allow pedestrians (with local exceptions), but under strict rules that place them well outside the flow of traffic. I'm not aware of any areas where pedestrians can walk with the direction of traffic while occupying a lane.
Worth bearing in mind that she's not an isolated case. A lot of talented people have unexpectedly left Valve recently. There's a possibility that Valve's culture is failing.
More importantly, tires are low margin products, newly patented drugs are extremely high margin products.

The higher the margin a product is, the more valuable it is to market.
"UN scientists have concluded that the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster is unlikely to push up cancer rates in Japan. Some scientists remain sceptical of this claim, as the findings of the UN’s Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) differ from those of several other studies, including a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report that predicted increased cancer risks among people living in areas with the highest radiation levels."

That's literally the first paragraph of the article you linked. Doesn't sound like there's consensus on the matter.