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If I could transport myself and goods without driving, I would. But in my present life/location, it's not possible. I could give a fuck about automobiles except for their utility.
"The accident apparently occurred after dark, when a driver swerved off the road to avoid traffic and ran into Seth’s bike from behind".
Most people who aren't used to (decent) tab completion interfaces have this misconception. Let me guess: you've never really spent much time in a CLI like bash or Emacs? It's incredibly powerful to try tabbing into what might be related. Emacs tab completion (variables, functions, buffer names, etc) in particular is very nice in that you can type part of what you're looking for and anything that matches in any part will show up in the completion list (eg M-x -mode<TAB> will get you a completion list of anything containing "-mode" anywhere in the function name).

As Steve Yegge points out in Effective Emacs (https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs), mousing through a menu is very inefficient, even when you're learning or exploring. They don't scale well, can't possibly cover all the options, and once you've dug down two or three deep, you're sort of trapped. Whereas with decent tab completion, you can backward-kill or just plain <DEL> your way back up the heierarchy.
A little more recent:

http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html
If by "some", you mean "most", and if by "most", you mean "all but one."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_...
If a person in Germany without insurance goes to a hospital emergency room for treatment, who pays for it?
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So...let's create a reverse auction platform for self-pay surgeries? Not at all sure what the regulatory issues would be around that, but seems like it would make sense especially when you add in time and availability of specialist surgeons on certain days.
"Had he obeyed the order, the whole of north eastern Japan would possibly have been uninhabitable for decades, if not centuries."

I'm a bit confused by this. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit with nuclear weapons, but people still live in these cities today. How does the radiation from a nuclear meltdown (like Chernobyl) differ from the fallout of a nuclear weapon like with Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
I dream of a day when I can walk into an area which offers 'services' and be offered a pricing chart. From hospitals, banks, loan officers, home loans, cars, etc.

A cryptic itemized list, such as a mortgage's Good Faith Estimate (GFE), which falls short of describing the items in the list still fails my test.

This hope is not for me. Its for the misfortunate who run on impulse and have weak mathematical logic. Many people will nod their heads when you mention simple/compound interest or amortization. They will easily dig themselves into holes and take on the realization far too late in the game.

Another favorite which gets thrown in the air: 'Purchase this warranty.' Countless friends and family have worried that their purchase or lack of warranty was a mistake. Asking about said warranty usually results in: 'read the small text in the agreement.' Typically, walking away from the situation completely misinformed by a seller.

As I prepare to move out of my apartment, I received an itemized list (hidden among a contract and various other documentation) which in total amounted to $11,500 in charges for potential neglect in leaving the apartment. Simple things on the list: patch holes ($80/hole), steam clean carpet with receipt ($500/room), replace drip pan ($200), etc. Nothing warns you of the potential threat.
Is that something they still do ?
Thankfully the NTSB and other accident investigators do not usually come out with a single easy cause in a newsbite size. They will examine lots of contributory factors, and they will come up with suggestions that fix those - typically dozens or more. In aviation they talk of "swiss cheese" theory - slices of cheese with holes in them. The idea is to have many in such a way as holes don't line up.

As you say, a failure like this is not "pilot error" but rather a failure of the aviation system and that is what needs to be corrected for all aviation. The "pilot error" is a symptom of the problem, not the cause.
That's not where Seth was hit. From the reports I've heard so far (I'm a Durhamite and knew Seth socially), he was hit on the south end of the block, where it's a totally different road: http://goo.gl/maps/DQxO6 .

That block of Hillandale Road changes so radically in one block for historical reasons: the narrow section you see above is just as it emerges from a golf course, and the city has been unable to expand that section of road, so I've been told, because the golf course owns the shoulders and has resisted efforts.

All the cyclists in town know it as a dangerous section, but are forced to use it as it's one of few routes over I85, the freeway visible in your mapquest link.
An even better question to help is: Who is working on the new greatest technology, and how can I help?

Paul Graham and Steve Jobs weren't magical people... they are/were people who addressed the needs of the masses. Start looking at things that annoy you and figure out a way to fix them. That is way to better society.
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The prevailing notion that "roads are made for cars" is self-fulfilling, as people use it as justification for making roads further unsafe for bicycles (and other road users).
Well, we had a nice thing for a while, and now it's time to fuck that all up. The wheel turns.

Look on the bright side--if everyone decides the public Internet is too insecure, maybe we can convince them to keep using the old standards on darknets?
Oh, I wasn't saying that. I was saying why vi key bindings and not the default emacs key bindings? I think they are a bit more intuitive for someone who hasn't used vim before.
Actually, it absolutely can, in the same way that striking a deer in a car can kill the motorists. Horrifying, but true and dangerous.

Not to mention the fact that a cyclist at full speed can absolutely kill a person, especially a small person.

Any motorist driving irresponsibly should be ticketed and any cyclists doing the same should also be ticketed.
Fair enough - it does mention coupons etc though which personally I throw into together with the daily deals stuff.
This piece by James Fallows is better than the OP and touches on your comment wondering why low airspeed was not noticed:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/professi...

One supposition is that the normal system for correcting low airspeed was temporarily disabled. Key lines from the article I linked:

"The 777 can catch you out with with what is known as the FLCH trap. When you are above the glide slope and need to get down in a hurry Flight Level Change (FLCH) is a useful mode to use."

[...]

"The 777 has autothrottle wake up, i.e. when the aircraft approaches a stall the power comes on automatically to almost full power. This gives pilots great confidence; however, autothrottle wake up is inhibited in FLCH. "

Of course, time will tell, and we're all out of our depth in trying to understand what happened.
Why are all the online programs masters degrees?
> In an ideal world bicycles are given equal respect and stature on the roads.

Since you mentioned "an ideal world," I'm going to completely disagree. I think that bicycles and automobiles sharing roads is, at best, a manageable but extremely dangerous situation. Like it or not, bicycles and automobiles behave very differently, and require their surrounding vehicles to behave very differently. In an ideal world, there would be separate thoroughfares for automobiles and bicycles, and neither would be allowed on the other (like we already mostly have for pedestrians)
Oh interesting, I built something similar to this a while back https://graphit.io
I think this is exactly the direction they should take.
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The article uses the term "bidding war" like it's a race to the bottom.

Isn't clear pricing supposed to be a good thing? Shouldn't it be actually enforced by law?
Prices get equalized at Medica{re,id} prices for the procedure. Those get set by a large conference of physicians and bureaucrats. In most other markets, we'd call it price fixing.
I don't care how transparent there pricing structure is. Letting Kevin Smith practice medicine at you is a bad idea. Chasing Amy was pretty good, tho.
Nice find! I remember when this happened
Aggregate essentials (food, shelter) are generally inelastic. You don't choose if you need food or not.

Right. And there were a lot of famines in the past. It's only by "flood[ing] the market with supply (using technology to both drive down costs and replace what people do)" that we've managed (in the West, at least) to ensure that most people no longer have to worry about food.
Sure, happy to be pedantic. I meant "regular, non-malicious, normally law-abiding citizens, obviously in violation of the law this time, but not intentionally, because they got stressed out trying to make their flight on time and overlooked a (admittedly very serious) item in their bag."

There are so many laws on the books these days I'm sure even my Grandma could be locked up for a couple decades.
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This is awesome and perfect for me, and I totally understand launch issues and will definitely try them again either way. But could someone from SpoonRocket let me know if they think it will be possible to order lunch from them today? I have been trying for half an hour or so and I am quite hungry.
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Or you're reading it upside-down, making it "06/" which would mean it was taken in June (much less surprising since it is now early July).
In Singapore it's required for all hospitals to post their prices and they have some of the lowest health care costs around. This should be mandatory in the United States.
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Similarly, at least to me, Birthing Centers are offering a much lower cost alternative to the whole delivery process at hospitals. From experience, the price difference can be 10:1 which is just insane. 10 being what is billed to insurance, 1 what you'd pay directly. Still, comparing apples to apples, it's 3:1. Again, from recent experience.

Bottom line, hospitals are big business and they can get away with billing insurance for a ton... and many times the extra "care" is unnecessary.
This happened to me there too. Biking down Wilshire, where there's two lanes, no other traffic, person flew by me, honking and freaking out.
I wouldn't let anyone impresonate me, I barely trust myself with my own image!
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Because while demand for healthcare is inelastic, more healthcare can actually be a bad thing. For example, old people (who are big customers) are often best if they are told to just go home, and look after themselves. Cutting up old people can be a waste of time (since they are unlikely to live a lot longer), and can actually reduce their life expectancy (since they don't always survive surgery).

Also, the money the US spends on healthcare could be better spent educating the people who will otherwise drop out of high school, which drastically reduces their life expectancy (since they can't read so good, have trouble getting jobs which don't involve selling meth, and otherwise have terrible lives).
I really salute these guys for doing this. It's freakin' awesome. This I've added to my next letter to my representatives in Congress:

"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."

I've suggested that one non-controversial way in which Healthcare could be "reformed" would be to make it easier for hospitals to be transparent about their prices. Any sort of regulation that prevents hospitals from disclosing their prices is bad for the citizenry, please fix that part of the regulations.
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Wouldn't it be easier to get rid of "the" completely, instead of adding another symbol? ;)
Nice. I'm impressed with your pages telling people how long to run their experiments for as well. I think early stopping can be a problem, but there's a difficult gap there. Good experiments are difficult to set up, and may be too much for a site owner who just wants to know if he should make the damn button green or red. The more you force someone to set up a complex trial, the more they'll want to go to your competitors who give them a nice flashy message saying "GREEN BUTTON WINS BY 1.4%" without all the hassle.

It looks like you've got a good balance there :)
Is your opinion then that 20-30 people a week intend on using a weapon on board a plane?
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> This would be a very easy statistic to publish, too (only 10% of the people we stopped were even licensed to carry a handgun!)

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 agree that these are just careless or forgetful people (or perhaps people making a point about their right to etc etc) and not terrorists.

> This would be a very easy statistic to publish, too (only 10% of the people we stopped were even licensed to carry a handgun!), but since I haven't seen that statistic advertised, I would presume they find most of the stopped citizens to be guilty only of carelessness.

I really hope that careless people are not being fined, or if they are it's only small. I also really hope that someone, somewhere, with a solid stats background, is collecting and studying the numbers and giving advice to law makers. Because spending all that time and money on something that's pointless would be very very frustrating. I want to know what the future-people will say about it. What will the 2063 tenth-graders write about it?
Medicare/caid prices are standardized and public. They also release data on what specific hospitals bill for the most common procedures.

http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Stat...

Dealing with Medicare/caid involves lots of additional overhead and billing oversight, but that graf is a political shot, not a fact related to transparent pricing.
Perhaps you are correct, and average bicyclists have no trouble traveling at speeds greater than 25 mph, but for some reason they rarely choose to exercise that ability. 10-15 mph seems to be more usual, and 5 mph is not uncommon here in hilly Seattle. Maybe they get going out on the Burke-Gilman bike trail, but they certainly aren't going anything like 25 mph on the streets I share with them.
Even if they didn't, how would we know? I have seen countless 1-star reviews of restaurants that I have visited where the content of the review is just bizarre: incorrect names of people, items that aren't on the menu, server practices that are completely out of the ordinary, etc. I can't help but think they are the result of a desperate Yelp ad salesman who wants to burn someone for not buying.
I am not sure if mandating it is necessary. I think that hospitals should publish their pricing lists to differentiate themselves from their competition.
You should see the nutters on fix wheeled bikes in London I have seen so many that blast through major junctions dodging between pedestrians.

Try watching the junctions around Holbourn tube station and you will see several in a few minuets.
By Jove, you're right! Perhaps what we need is some kind of universal protocol for transferring files. We could call it the 'File Transfer Protocol' or something.
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The essence of Unix is not in the name of Unix, nor in the code of Unix, said Master Foo.

And then Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked him in the face.

Point being that if by Unix you mean an OS running a Unix-inspired kernel, then yes, Unix won. But if by Unix you mean the design patterns and philosophical principles that have long inhered to Unix development, then Unix is, if not dead, then on its last legs and soon to be discredited.

The "Unix philosophy" has long favored small, easily composable tools each with a specific purpose, orthogonal APIs which were as small as possible, and textual transmission formats which are easy for humans to read and write. There were exceptions (X, Emacs), but these exceptions tended to support and play well with the Unix philosophy even if they didn't 100% espouse it.

By contrast we may propose a Windows philosophy which favors large, do-everything applications over small tools (because that's how people are accustomed to using PCs starting from the DOS days when only one program could be up at a time), heavyweight frameworks and oftentimes entire inner platforms (because in a world where time-to-market is paramount, developers shouldn't have to think very hard to begin cranking out apps for the new technology of the week), and binary file formats (because the damn thing has to run in 640k, a text parser won't fit).

Look at the platforms you mentioned. Mac OS X, iOS, and Android are all app-centric, not tool-centric. You can treat Mac OS X as a Unix box if you want, but it's hard to do so with the other two. Furthermore, when you write an app for these platforms you are not targeting the Unix kernel or libraries but an inner platform built on top of them. Which brings us to binary file formats -- like HTTP 2.0.

The Windows philosophy has won.
Okay, a reckless cyclist can put a driver in some danger, if the driver is going fast enough that the car can't be stopped quickly enough to avoid either hitting the cyclist or swerving into an oncoming lane.

However, in this constructed situation, it seems to me that the driver is being more unsafe by driving that fast.
NC General Statute 20-4.01 (49) defines a bicycle as a vehicle with the same rights and responsibilities as other vehicles:

"bicycles shall be deemed vehicles and every rider of a bicycle upon a highway shall be subject to the provisions of this Chapter applicable to the driver of a vehicle"

source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/...
> I dream of a day when I can walk into an area which offers 'services' and be offered a pricing chart.

I don't want to be offered a pricing chart when I have a kidney stone or get violently mugged. When that happens I don't want to have to deal with that sort of thing.

The free market in medicine is plain weird. Everyone needs the doctor on occasion, and everyone needs tyres on their car. Both things are pretty standardized, medicine is an established science, and tyres just need to have the correct dimensions and speed rating.

You show up at the doctor's, and they will treat you according to established procedure, most patients do not have complex illnesses, and you show up at your mechanic, and they will put new tyres on. It's very simple.

Yet on TV you see many many more ads for the local hospital or medication for condition X that you see for tyres. How come?
I could see it with a graphical programming language -- one where a FOR loop is a large box into which you'd drag other commands, where each variable and equation is an icon you drag out from the side. Almost like a physics flash game.
>There is no such thing as a rational demand side, as you don't get to choose if you need healthcare or not

That's not true in many cases. I bump my head or get a sore throat, I can choose to seek medical treatment or not. There are also lots of things like "yearly checkups", etc...
Copying my comment below. The government not only allows healthcare providers to reveal their prices, it encourages it. The graf about the government is a political statement, not a policy fact, and does not belong in a news story.

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Medicare/caid prices are standardized and public. They also release data on what specific hospitals bill for the most common procedures.

http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Stat...

Dealing with Medicare/caid involves lots of additional overhead and billing oversight, but that graf is a political cheap shot, not anything related to transparency.

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Hijacking my top comment with a more info edit -

If you don't know, Pricing Data in the US for health care is super insane, partially because both insurers and regulators need billing to fall into a semi-standardized set of 'billing codes' that don't really map well to actual care.

There are regulations about only billing the government for 'procedures' and not 'overhead', and medical procedures often don't map well to billing codes because they're new or slightly different. So basically after a procedure or hospital stay, the care givers make up a basic list of the things they did and the drugs given, etc, and it's passed on to a billing department, who maps to a set of codes that might differ depending on who's paying (gov't vs insurer 1 vs insurer 2). This is by definition lossy.

It's an oversimplification, but one hospital might say "Well we've got a superstar brain surgeon here whose time is 3x as expensive as normal, but can only bill for 'BRAIN SURGEON - 1 HOUR', so we'll crank the prices up on the scalpel and the tylenol to compensate", where another picks totally different things to compensate the prices on because they have a different cost structure.

Big insurers expect to be negotiated with separately for competitive advantage reasons, and sometimes use different billing codes anyway, so even if you had the closely guarded master price list of the hospital, it wouldn't necessarily do you any good.

For the uninsured, the occasional price-insensitive person rolls in (aka the "Saudi Prince wants his own wing for cancer treatment" situation), so they jack the uninsured prices WAY up only expecting a few percent back from 98% of patients. This further breaks the pricing data, and causes major problems for less-saavy people who are used to seeing a bill and being expected to pay it, as opposed to negotiate.

Bottom line: It's complicated, and politically fraught. If you're interested, Oreilly's "Hacking Healthcare" is a great intro to how billing and the new CMS Meaninful use stuff works.
> Maybe a future Firefox OS phone will run a new processor that was specifically designed to execute JavaScript.

I haven't heard of any such plans, but that would be fun. Ah, the good (?) old days of the Lisp machine...

> Any sufficiently complex UI toolkit contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of HTML and CSS -- and then probably contains a full Web browsing engine, too.

Let it be said that the Mwcampbell Law was first enunciated on Hacker News on the Ninth of July, 2013.

> Can you explain why you think the Java storage APIs are ill-suited to mobile devices?

Generally, it's a set of simple things. The File API, for instance, should forbid execution of any I/O call on the UI thread, or on any high-priority thread, as the duration of any I/O call is unbounded (Dalvik can be executed in a "strict mode" that prevents I/O calls on the UI thread, which is good, unfortunately that's not the default mode).

Also, the default manner of doing any copy with the File API is a read/write loop, which is very inefficient in terms of memory copies, especially when Linux offers in-kernel copy.

etc.
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This seems like the most basic functionality db could add to mailbox - I wonder what's next. Maybe automatically storing attachments sent to you in db as well?
Neither source says that the car went off-road though. They just say that the driver braked suddenly and then swerved.