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I am not trying to support your parent comment. However, the current trend in healthcare cost is unsustainable. My roommate (stupidly, in hindsight) went to get an ER after being scratched by a small cat in our parking lot. The total bill was over $8k for about an hour of care and two shots.

This is unacceptable. There must be some sort of accountability in the system. Unless, there is a secret pact between the hospital and the insurance company to show a larger bill to make the patient think he is getting his money's worth in which case I have nothing to say.

If we can't control the price, can I write a will saying my estate will actively refuse care for anything that costs more than 5k out of pocket per day and 15k annually? In the event I do need care that costs beyond that point, please give me a quick and (hopefully) painless death instead.
Modern cellphones have many, many other ways to fingerprint them that are more economic. I doubt what Schneier suggests would ever be used in anything other than military applications for the next 10 years.
The object of torture is torture.

And so answers a question in the thread Don't fly during Ramadan. Why, when picked for examination/interrogation, does TSA threaten or actually re-search bags & people over and over knowing nothing new will be found? This.
There is a great deal of empty farmland in Ontario and New Brunswick. Many bachelors live a quiet life there. I am sure you could arrange to rent from someone and be nearly completely isolated.
I always assumed mass surveillance was established not for the sake of surveillance, but to enable government to frame any citizen of some federal crime, a.k.a. terrorize the nation in order to hold the political influence and the money in their hands tightly.
Not really news. Makes one wonder how the heck it could make it to the front page.
Italians, Germans, Russians, Irish are all just White? It's such a degenerate, lazy, anti-white breakdown. It's a disgrace.
Jeremy also gave a great Airbnb tech talk on this topic:

http://nerds.airbnb.com/reddit-netflix-and-beyond-building-s...
Group disability insurance is very often worthless and not worth even the paltry sum an employer pays for it.

Disability insurance is all about the definition of disability. Only a few people have a truly comprehensive disability policy through their employer. This is because the definition of disability for group policies usually requires that, when making a disability claim, you cannot work in your job "or any other job" (or something to that effect). As as a result, you usually must be completely and totally disabled on a permanent basis to collect long term disability from your employer.

http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Disability_insurance

Often, they don't kick in for 6 months and then because you're still able to sell pencils for 50 cents on the street corner they will not cover you.

The reason why individual policies are typically much more expensive is because their definition of disability is different. Many individual policies are "true own occupation" which means that if you're now a neurosurgeon they can't force you to work at a McDonald's drive through.
Because people upvoted it?
"There are two ways to resolve this conflict between the motivations of elected representatives and security services. One is to embrace totalitarianism, breaking all bonds of social identity between politicians and the electorate. In this (unpalatable) scenario, democracy converts to a police state in which all parts of government are seen by the populace as an outgroup."

This is the case in at least some EU nations, like Lithuania. I am not even sure which is better between this and the US-like or UK-like alternative.
I agree with your point, but 0-day exploits aren't tossed around like candy corn. They're multi-million dollar munitions.
Ahh yes, I forgot about that. CoreOS looks interesting but doesn't seem to handle paravirt, which is a serious limitation if you need to run non-Linux systems, plus it's based on vagrant, which falls in to the class of IMHO misconstrued sysadmin-automation software I refer to as PFCTs (post-facto configuration tinkerers). PFCT based instantiation is IMHO epic-fail versus cleaner methods such as cloning a blockstore as it opens large classes of potential bugs that are otherwise avoidable.

Basically, it seems like CoreOS might replace Ubuntu as the default host environment for the docker userbase, however the issue of supporting more exotic environments is apparently not being tackled.
wtf is this bullshit!
I always opt-out. And I often exchange some words with the agent. When they ask if I would like to do this in private I say no thanks, I like the public knowing that their tax dollars are at work. The officers usually chuckle and agree. Most of them don't like doing the pat down. One once went on about the lack of union benefits. It's often an interesting experience.
I'll see your anecdote and raise it one: when I was around 20, and in very, very good shape from lots of cycling, out of nowhere (no crash, no impacts, nothing I can think of), I had a collapsed lung, which I think came to around $20,000 in hospital/surgery bills. Luckily, I was insured at the time: I had not yet started my programming career, and had nothing like that amount of money available.
You are a mean person. Even if the ends justify these particular means, as you suggest (and I don't even think you've got the cause and effect right here), insulting and demeaning someone far less privileged than you was immoral.
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Humor is correlated with mental resilience. Laughter diffuses stress and improves mental well being. Additionally, being funny is associated with mental quickness and thinking on your feet.

A person who can't laugh at himself and the absurdity of the world and situations that tend to happen when you are creating a startup ... he won't last long as an entrepreneur.
Makes me happy that I wasn't a rich kid coddled my entire life. I wasn't accepted to the college of my choice. I've come to enjoy hard work and realizing the pay off, even as I attempt to push myself harder every year at my own pace.
Atlantis, the new virtual drug marketplace
not having a FB account or refusing to link it would be just as strong (if not stronger!) of an indicator to their scoring algorithm
Please change the title to "Google Palestine defaced" or "Google DNS entries maliciously changed". Google Palestine was/is not hacked.
I think cutting off a key piece of the title counts as editorializing, don't you?
Can you clean up your words so we can know what opinion or point you're trying to get across?
Because HN readers are highly interested in how to game the same system the same way.
"Listen to rihanna and be cool :P"
Yeah, it sure is terrible that auto makers are removing excess capability the majority of their customers don't need, and gaining fuel economy and safety in the process. Talk about a travesty of waste.

If any car should be a niche product, it's a truck

You figure a truck is more niche than a V10 supercar? Trucks fill an important role, and I think more people have a use for them than you realize. It's easy to lose sight of that when you live in the city, where trucks have limited use, but the gross majority of the USA is rural.

The other thing that bolsters their sales numbers is use as fleet vehicles, which makes perfectly good sense. Trucks are generally simple, reliable, easy to maintain and inexpensive to build. So they are popular in fleets. Surprise, surprise.
How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers Case Study
Endless popups, pop downs, moving content around.
The absolute worst is pages that create a 'popup' at the top and move the content down just as you're about to click something. So you end up clicking something else.

And for what!? To scare the user about cookies? We had the scare about cookies in the 90s when they were explained as "bits of code that websites can infect your machine with".

Cookies are ONE method websites can use to track you. If you click "don't use cookies", the website will just use another method to track you. It's absolutely trivial to bypass.

And it's trivial for any user to configure their browser to reject cookies for any website they wish to.

So what has been achieved by this idiotic law?

Absolutely nothing.

It's yet another fantastic demonstration why the EU is such a bad idea.
Just like the Federation
Well this is the EU and countrys ignore or adjust EU directives to suit all the time - Spains implementation of TUPE is a total FY to the eu has no relation to the Spirit of the Directive.

Italy also does this a lot remember the you tube fiasco where they ignored EU law.
Heil Netanyahu!
If I had never gone to college and decided to just work as a burger flipper the rest of my life and spend all my money on cigarettes and sky-diving (see, I can make up low-likelihood hypotheticals, too), then I'd be contributing even less. Are we going to start mandating that people actualize their full economic potential, as well?
"Wont", pronounced like "want". It means being accustomed to something. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wont#Adjective
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Taro Fukuyama(AnyPerk YC W12) is Keeping His Eye on the Prize
Disclaimer: Am Indian, and have no detailed knowledge of US policies.
From a summary of the replies to this one:
I personally, would be willing to sign a forfeiture to the effect, if i am medically in a bad state and can't afford treatment, would be allowed to die. So it seems, there might be room for allowing people who don't want insurance, and neither penalty to sign a forfeiture.

Personally, my choice is dictated by an attempt to understand my body and live a fuller life and some of those attempts suggest to me that insurance is overrated in light of Bayesian reasoning.
-- not to suggest i actually sat down and calculated, just a guess.
You frequently mention nice things about Go in comparison to Haskell. I'm learning Go at the moment, and must admit that I find myself struggling to stay motivated. Given your background in FP (and apparent enjoyment), what do you find appealing about Go?
I love this map, but really hate the implementation. Dots overlaid on white makes dots really hard to see. I'd love to be able to set the background to black or something.

Also, last time this was featured on Fark the map became quickly unusable. Would be nice if they could generate some KML files or something that could be used outside of their website.
I don't think that there were any real/complete implementation of Marx's theories. Bits and pieces were collected together and bound by authoritarian/totalitarian states.

Lenin actually advocated a blended socialist/market approach, including private enterprises and private property, but that quickly disappeared when Stalin took real power even before Lenin's death.
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This is true in most cases, but merchants have a lot of tricks they use to try to reduce the amount of credit card interchange fees they pay. A lot of businesses actually do charge a "convenience fee" for using a credit card, or offer a discount for paying in cash, or they set a minimum purchase amount at which they will accept a credit card, etc. A lot of businesses also flat out refuse to accept cards like AMEX and Discover because of their higher interchange fees.

It would be interesting to see how this equilibrium might change if CC companies tried to increase interchange fees across the board. I think they would see a lot of resistance from merchants and possibly even government scrutiny and lawsuits. Don't forget that the CC companies have to compete with each other, and cannot collude to raise interchange fees.

Anyway, my point was not that higher interchange fees wouldn't get passed on to consumers somehow, it was more that if most cardholders stopped carrying a balance and paid much less interest to CC companies, and CC companies then increased their interchange fees to try to compensate for the decline in interest revenue, consumers as a whole might still be better off than they are now. There's more than one variable in the equation here, and right now credit card interest is probably a much bigger cost to consumers in the economy as a whole, than interchange fees are.
Yes it was. Let's not quibble.
I wrote this last night as a way to vent some of my frustration and was really floored by the responses I received in the morning. These solo protests are small battles, and It's easy to get discouraged when the victories feel so insignificant. But as many people pointed out, the losses can also be small (especially when compared to some of the truly horrifying TSA stories we come across every now and then).

For me at least, being tired and stressed can really add to the feeling of hopelessness and defeat, but a few words of encouragement from strangers can be immensely empowering. I can't say for certain that I'll be up for another small battle next time, but I'll certainly consider it.

To all who added to the discussion or offered support, your words have not fallen upon deaf ears. Thank you.
>The media’s treatment of video games has moved from being merely bad to actively shameful.

I would go further and say libelous. The video game companies really need to start suing.
> it will be difficult for you to answer the questions without delays, inconsistencies or other signs of prevarication.

What if I'm a little absent minded and I already have a hard time answering without delays and inconsistencies?
Uhh... Wouldn't it make more sense to just create a PhoneGap wrapper in Javascript?

I mean, PhoneGap is mostly just javascript bindings for things like camera og sensors, which Firefox already has js bindings for, right?
I would never read the Atlantic since they started pandering to the reddit/HN/internet populist crowd (well, they're banned from reddit). Their hugely successful "digital-first strategy" to maximize web ad revenue is covered well by n+1: http://nplusonemag.com/the-intellectual-situation-issue-15‎
Many OS updates will change something in the boot process (maybe the kernel, maybe some init scripts, etc.) and you need to reboot to be sure that stuff is still working

That's precisely why a manual upgrade process should not exist for system environments. Instead of live upgrades, you name, version, and test a newer and known-good image of the environment with the applications required on it on test infrastructure prior to final staging/deployment.
> That shouldn't usually require any explicit support from the runtime; it can exist as library code

Well, of course. People writing their own logically implies that such can exist as library code. But if you build in support from the runtime, then it might be possible to squeeze out a bit more performance. For example, perhaps it's possible to tell the GC that certain objects don't have to be considered as roots. (And to the extent that this is possible with current libraries, it's because there is support built into the runtime.)

EDIT: Also, having these mechanisms as library code probably opens up more opportunities for introducing implementation errors.
"Yes, and" refers to one of the techniques of improvisational theatre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisational_theatre#Applyi...

Basically you must accept the reality your scene partners put forth and build on it. Otherwise you end up with a confused, amorphous environment with no clear direction.

Improv theatre still needs tension and conflict to emerge. This comes out of the structure of the scene spontaneously. It could be some kind of repetition, pattern, contradiction, physical motion, etc. Ideally, the players don't just rehash old games but are eager to make a new, unusual play.

"Unusual" in this sense relates to the context of the world you're playing in. In a scene, it's not unusual for a coven of witches to kidnap children and boil them in a brew. But it could be unusual for a scientist to discover that brew has miraculous healing properties and to publish the results in Nature. This could be humorous to an audience, because normally there's absolutely no legitimate utilitarian imperative to mix children into a brew.

There are more interesting ideas in improv that relate to politics/business. I recommend anyone interested check out Impro For Storytellers by Keith Johnstone.

http://appliedimprov.ning.com/profiles/blogs/7-keith-johnsto...
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This sounds retardedly stupid. If you need to "shock" yourself to stop using facebook then you probably got much worse problems.
Stallman has been harping about GNU/Linux since the mid-90s at least. He gave me a hard time about it back in 1998 or so.
I used to use Debian Stable.

In December 2002, Python 2.2 was released.

Seven months later, Debian 3.0 was released - with Python 2.1.

...time passes...

In November 2004, Python 2.4 is released. Debian stable is still using Python 2.1, and will continue with it up to June 2005.

June 2005, Debian stable finally upgrades off its 4+ year old Python version.

Needless to say, many 2.2+ scripts I ran in early 2005 broke on my Debian stable.

I understand that the late date of that particular Debian release was partially due to Ubuntu hiring away developers. I also understand that I could have always ran unstable. But it put me off of Debian stable.
Does it say much that I didn't even know they did that?
I'm really disappointed that this was Paul's top of mind criterion for rejection, "One quality that's a really bad indication is a CEO with a strong foreign accent."

That reminds me of an incident earlier in my career when a recruiter ranked candidates on their 'communication skills', which really was a proxy for whether they were an immigrant or not, in order to try to avoid discrimination laws.

http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/07/23/immigrant-quebecoi...

Besides, it's failing to communicate clearly and be understood that makes a bad leader, regardless of the behavioural cause (foreign accent, mumbling, random trains of thought).
You're not subjecting HN readers to a site under the control of a malicious party who may have done more than just deface it.

I don't see any malicious action here.
http://i.imgur.com/BNspAdZ.jpg
It'll be interesting to look back on StackOverflow posts one day to find little gems like this where users are trying to get help on what may become the next Google or Facebook.
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>In fact EU law claims "The European Union rejects theories which attempt to determine the existence of separate human races."[1], and anti-racism law talks about "racial or ethnic origins"[1]

Very clever. "We'll deal with the subject by pretending it doesn't exist!"
Old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6267478

Top two comments were:

"Is anyone else tired of tesla PR and seeing 2 tesla articles here everyday?"

and

"Are these sales to Californians, or does this include sales made in California and delivered to another state because of the dealership issue?"
No it was not. It implies something under Google their control was compromised which was not the case.
unfortunately, it looks like it isn't going anywhere right now:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-dev/QtSIOFsNFrQ/dis...
Hasty translation into simple english, at the cost of all snark and subtlety: “An article in the New York Post on the subject of rich people is likely to be of low quality."
Perhaps. But this doesn’t feel like news or commentary. This feels like allegory.

It’s a bedtime story about following your dreams, and the independence of children, and people in general.

And it’s good. It reads well. Better than anything in the Post has a right to be. (But I suspect that I think that as I don't read the Post enough to find these fairy-tales.) Well worth the 3 minutes.
Another hypothesis, which is probably mostly wrong but still extremely interesting, is that put forth by Julian Jaynes: that the Incas, and most other early peoples, were not conscious (by Jaynes' very specific definition of "conscious"), but instead were unconscious agents guided by hallucinations, and that attempts to reason about them with modern models of volition and awareness are doomed.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
And why did they do that?
My wife's working through the social security disability process, and it's not something you can rely on for months if not years (assuming your appeal of the nearly guaranteed initial denial even works!). If she had been our family's single income we'd be destitute.
The first paragraph is unclear, but RMS actually wrote the second two paragraphs.[1]

[1] https://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
The beautiful thing about gun people is that as adamant as they are that their fantasy paranoia world exists and that children need to be armed at all times for 'protection' from 'Obummer', they are equally adamant about removing themselves from the gene pool.
The mp3 is "Hard", by Rihanna. Doesn't seem to have any exploits attempted (it plays fine in mplayer, with no funny business).
"Evolution" describes an unguided process which is declared successful as long as there are still living descendants.

Just sayin'.
ICANN is not in a position to mandate such requirements for ccTLDs as they are not empowered to. ccTLD governance differs from gTLDs in that each country code is managed and overseen locally within the country. This is why there is such a diversity in ccTLD policies. For better or worse this model of subsidiarity is what we have today.
How is defacing a page not "malicious"?
I was thinking about it. I came to a conclusion, that there would be no practical way of avoiding such channels. For example wireless mesh nets - too complicated and too fragile for even basic connection. And any kind of network architecture with central routes, like it is now - in case everyone would start to use secure encrypted connections, could just be shut down, laws would be established on what kind of communications are allowed and maybe even online ID pass would be a requirement. It is really a tough spot for our generation, it is a breaking point. If we fail this, people might be enslaved in such a way it would be near impossible for the future people to reclaim their freedoms we have lost. And we have not too much freedoms left when you think about it. We can't communicate freely, we can't travel freely, we can't even live on our own, we can't trade goods on our own.
So what? I don't get it, this and the top comment are trying to scare people from seeing a hacked page?