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New Affordable Care US health plans will exclude top hospitals
I find myself guilty on that last strain of procrastination: feeling so anxious about being late on a deadline that I end up delaying it even more, closing the loop.

Gathering the courage to face the task didn't work so far. Every time I try tackling it I feel it drains so much energy from me that I soon give up, only to feel more guilty afterwards (and with even less disposition to face it from the beginning once again)
Bitmessage's solution for scaling can be implemented.

I found your paper here:
https://anonfiles.com/file/849506ebab91aa0ab90e98fc539446a2

It lacks a "summation of attacks that are possible on bitmessage" or "solutions on how to prevent such attacks."

I like that you tried to add a feature where users could choose their own anonymity/usability balance. "Users should be able to choose to remain anonymous or to disclose (partial) address information and be a ’light’ client." 200MB a day just for headers is a little bit much for a mobile 'light' client. If the protocol supports sending only headers based on a filter then why bother supporting headers? The "seeding" node could just supply a list of body messages to download that pass a filter. This would also mean that no one ever has to sync headers.
Seriously, I couldn't finish reading it. And I usually finish bad articles in order to be able to criticise them properly. This time it just wasn't worth it.
"Because who I am is the same online as it is in real life, obscuring just my name doesn't do me much benefit."

I operated like that for a few years, but then I realized that although my presentation of myself online is not that different from how I present myself in 'real life', there are examples in real life of situations where I present myself differently. For instance, I no longer discuss politics with family (in no small part out of respect for immediate family members who are now in the military. If I said to them what I am willing to say online, feelings would be hurt...)
I think people are missing what this is.

This article isn't a puff piece about NSA morale. It's a demand from the security apparatus for political support - especially for legislation to make recording of phone records legal.

Read the article - there is very little mention of morale at all, whereas there are many anonymous quotes asking for the President to get behind them:

former officials who say they are dismayed that President Obama has not visited the agency to show his support.

employees are privately voicing frustration at what they perceive as White House ambivalence amid the pounding the agency has taken from critics.

A senior administration official who was not authorized to speak on the record said that the White House would normally not endorse legislation so early in the process but that “it’s been clear . . . that we prefer legislation” that preserves the phone records program “while making some changes . . . to potentially strengthen oversight and transparency.”

The president has multiple constituencies — I get it. But he must agree that the signals intelligence NSA is providing is one of the most important sources of intelligence today.

Former officials note how President George W. Bush paid a visit to the NSA in January 2006, in the wake of revelations by the New York Times that the agency engaged in a counterterrorism program of warrantless surveillance on U.S. soil beginning after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks

I think the NSA is seeing this as an opportunity to actually increase their powers by getting legal cover for what they already do.

(Also note that it is the Washington Post this is in - ie, it is for a Washington - political - audience who will read what the leaked statements, not the headline)
It'll always be austerity no matter how much the budget increases. If asked, "how much do we have to increase ongoing activities and how many more stimulus programs do we need for it not to be austerity" you'll fail to receive a concrete answer. The idea is to treat public spending like violence. If it doesn't work, apply more and it surely will!
I suspected you were in Pennsylvania (but didn't want to say it, for I prefer not to speculate on others' health problems) based on your other posts. Yes, the state has an excellent MR/MH program (disclaimer: my father worked for the state government).

U.S. health insurance is not something to be proud of in general, but Pennsylvania's support for children with special needs is excellent.
Actually, "that there's all dem inequality" is not really my point, though I'll take full responsibility for the failure to communicate. My point is more like, the government that keeps promising to save us already has tons of power. Tons of it. It's got the direct control of a fifth of the economy, massive power over the rest, etc etc, which is what I was trying to say.

My point is that if giving the government more power was going to solve all of our problems, it should have by now. We've been giving it more power. Us libertarian types are thoroughly outnumbered by conventional rightists and leftists, who both agree that the government should have more power, they just disagree what it should use it on and who should use it, but when it comes down to the compromise vote, the government almost always ends up with more power. It has been a monotonic ratchet since at least the New Deal.

We've been promised nirvana if they just have more power, and yet, lo, we've given them all this power and apparently the situation is worse than ever, if you listen to them. Is it really such a crazy idea that these two things might be connected? Is it really such a crazy idea that maybe the fact that we keep centralizing power so we can experience a less centralized power structure is a completely nonfunctional solution? One that requires a rather extensive propaganda campaign to make sure people think in the Right Way so as to avoid noticing this rather simple question?

(I note I've now posed it on HN three or four times, and I'm yet to get even a smidge of a response to it. I find this often Means Something.)

I'd suggest the sheer opprobrium shot at libertarians is itself just the dominant power structure trying to prevent you from being exposed to ideas that may result in them having less power.

(I am simplifying a bit such that power == money; it's a pretty decent approximation.)
> SFX seems convinced the live music business is more lucrative than recorded music, which has become harder to sell in the digital age.

This is nice to hear. Let me get to the music easily, and I'll gladly pay for your shows & festivals.
Austerity isn't about government spending, it's about shifting government spending away from the poor and disenfranchised. Politicians preaching austerity rarely mention defense budgets, corporate tax loopholes, or the cost of incarceration, but they often rant against entitlement and moochers.
I always used a pseudonym and even change it from time to time. But if I want to have a job in software development, what choice is there? If you can't rely on past experience you have to build something from the ground up.

I feel forced to have something on the net that screams "me".

I'm unimportant. But who knows what the future brings? I don't want to feel like _why. And to be honest, the whole archiving is beyond annoying. Barely anything we write is relevant in 10 years. Archive.org saves 99.999999% stuff that will not be looked at or even be of relevance, but might be enough to discredit you or even find you. Why does the internet even need to be this way? For me the internet was always about the present and the future.
depending on the plan, on tmobile, you don't even have to swtich the sim. they have international calls included.
Bought by Microsoft, but you wouldn't know they are affiliated with Microsoft by just looking at their site:)
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I think we'd see sites implement some sort of check to see if their ad scripts loaded properly, and ad/analytic providers enabling this through hooks. There would probably be "good" providers that would get whitelisted.

As a web user, I welcome this extension. It's my browser, and I should be able to control its IO.

As a web developer... well, I've never been a fan of advertising-based revenue, but I'd like accurate analytics.
I think the GP was on the right track, but somewhat confused. They obviously don't do this on all models, but some dual-core models are disabled quad-cores. Remember the Athlon X3? That was a binned chip that usually was created from X4s with a broken core. Most buyers didn't mind, and some of them got lucky and were able to re-enable the disabled core.

It seems like the GP might be suggesting that a quad-core CPU will swap in another core when one dies. That doesn't happen. But the binning process allows them to still sell slightly defective silicon with disabled parts (cores, cache), which saves money.

On a related note, a lot of GPUs actually do have a few dozen execution units that are disabled by default and can be swapped in after stress testing at the factory. I believe some can even do that in the wild, but I could be wrong.
It's no different in the US when it comes to generics. Most state have laws that force a pharmacist to fill a prescription with the cheap generic alternative unless the Rx specifically say to fill with the branded version.

However, in the Avastin vs. Lucentis case, they are no therapeutically equivalent.
No, because special relativity had plenty of quantitative corroborating evidence for it, gathered both before and after the theory was actually proposed.

Seriously, this is insane. You have a theory that makes quantitative predictions but when I ask whether those predictions line up with reality you protest that it's just too hard to actually come up with any numbers. You loved equations and graphs before, but now, perish the thought of actually looking at quantities, let's just wave hands and pretend that this theory is definitely right even though we can't be bothered to check.

You have a few blog posts with no quantitative reasoning whatsoever even though all of the math is present and straightforward, no actual papers, no evidence, no nothing, and you're sure that this is proof that academia is suppressing new ideas, not, say, proof that the author is a complete crackpot.

Sure.
There seems to be some confusion about the term "externality" in this thread that I want to clarify.

Not every effect that a person has on someone else is an externality. In general, externalities are direct physical impacts you have on others. In this case, noise is a good example, though the general "vibe" of having strangers moving in and out, and the risk of violence from these people, assuming it is higher, is also an externality.

On the other hand, anything that operates via prices is never an externality. If AirBnB increased demand for rental housing and therefore raises prices, this wouldn't constitute an externality.

The ethics of free market economics basically states that the government should regulate externalities, but if someone is only effecting you via market prices, that's your own problem.

Another kind of externaility is network externalities. Even though pricing residential housing out of the market isn't itself an externality, there may be a network externality associated with residential housing which means that the market wouldn't provide the optimal balance of residential housing and hotels (even if there was no noise issue). Because of this, the government may also want to intervene by restricting the total amount of hotels. However, I doubt this is a big factor in real life since the demand for hotels is clearly much smaller than the demand for residential housing (who spends more than a tiny fraction of their life in a hotel?)
I'm not saying he explained it well ;)
Beastie Boys known to let the stream ... drop!
Yeah sure, if your system doesn't have any CA cert installed you will be asked to accepted every new certificate you receive when you start a TLS connection, and you can permanently accept it. Would be pretty manual, since you also need to ask the issuer to digitally sign the fingerprint and then check it...
I don't understand PulseLocker's subscriptions. What does the track count mean?

I can't imagine only 25 tracks being useful for anything. Heck, a single mix can be 30 tracks, and that's whittled down from 100+ easily.
Done: https://blockchain.info/tx/953f52b1bf1e55e85c59e28e319093c0a...
Simple question for those of us not up to speed on the specifics: did spending get cut to less than revenue? or not? If not, does the debt continue with a concrete plan to pay it off toward greater revenue? If no to both, it's not "austerity".
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"Could I just subscribe to the internet so I never hit a paywall?" - Mrs. 'Rayiner.
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Liberty students demonstrate that a little mistletoe shot down by their President can be a great stress reliever at exam time.
It's hard to read and comment on an article behind a paywall...
deterrence doesn't work when what you're doing is secret.
I'm genuinely curious, what are examples of the typical work product you produce for "UX"?

I must be biased into thinking it is either visual mockups (ranging from paper to balsamiq to powerpoint to adobe) or working prototypes (ranging from a UI builder on the web, a UI builder in an IDE, or HTML/JS/CSS coded by hand).

The former case I would label "design" and the latter case I would label "front-end developer" (with low technical skills and high artistry).

What am I missing? What else is "UX" for freelancers?

Edit and P.S. I just read through http://www.jaysonelliot.com/about/, and I like the candor and approach. One bit of a small friendly feedback: Please add measurements for the outcomes of the projects you want to highlight.

For example, it looks like Preferio (the first example) is no longer around. That's cool, we've all worked on failed projects. What are some of the decisions you made while working there and designing the app? You had to have had some influence... was there a visual style or conversion flow you updated that increased X% of some valuable activity? Of course there was, so add it :) That is the kind of behavior and thinking I want to see from UX people. The entire presentation talks about things you did and omits outcomes. The things you did are great, but please add more outcomes. They will complete an otherwise good message.
If you hit a paywall:

http://pastebin.com/3badDzhY

> "Americans who are buying insurance plans over online exchanges, under what is known as Obamacare, will have limited access to some of the nation’s leading hospitals, including two world-renowned cancer centres."

"Amid a drive by insurers to limit costs, the majority of insurance plans being sold on the new healthcare exchanges in New York, Texas, and California, for example, will not offer patients’ access to Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan or MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, two top cancer centres, or Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, one of the top research and teaching hospitals in the country."

"Experts say the move by insurers to limit consumers’ choices and steer them away from hospitals that are considered too expensive, or even “inefficient”, reflects the new competitive landscape in the insurance industry since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law."

Isn't this the same as existing insurance plans where you have a certain network of doctors or hospitals you have access to, and if you access services out of network, you have to pay?

I guess there is some controversy if insurance companies drop your plan which provides coverage to top hospitals, and you can't find a similar plan on the new exchanges to replace it, and if one does exist you have to pay an arm and a leg for it.
How do you avoid thus when it comes to national security? Not every single person in the Army needs to know that Bin Laden is getting rolled on tonight.

I think what happened is the citizenry picked security over privacy. And our elected officials who oversee these organizations thought they were making the right tradeoff.
I think `*object = unreached->next;` does that, since it's using a pointer to a pointer.
I have seen it happen one time that I can remember, where I was sure it was the CPU. We had 8 dual socket 5400-era Xeon servers in a VMware cluster. Whenever 64bit Windows 2008+ virtual machines were started on or were vmotioned to one of the hosts, they would bluescreen. We did not experience this behavior at all, then one day we did. I replaced both CPUs and the problem disappeared. I have to assume it was one of the CPUs.

It's entirely possible that they overheated, but if they did it was due to poor cooling; we did not overvolt or overclock these machines.
I totally totally agree. A lot of buzzwords, and fancy jargon ... and things that try to make the writer look intelligent. But nothing substantial.
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Tangentially related:

http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/morenoise/morenoise.htm

http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/fog/fog.htm

http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/compilingsmall/compilings...

and the finished product is "Elevated" on http://iquilezles.org/prods/
If your own government spies on you, it is a tool of tyranny, and easily destroys democracy.

If some foreign government spies on you, it is unpleasant to think about, but it holds little to no power over you, so it's much less of an issue.
179 off contract, on contract it will probably be $0-$50
Joining the armed forces voluntarily means you voluntarily entered UCMJ jursidiction. Espionage is illegal under UCMJ. That's the actual, formal law. It's not a failure of due process.
You pay more per month if you need more tracks. The subscriptions I see go up to 1000 for $60. Then you can rotate tracks in and out.

FWIW, I'm not a DJ, so have no expertise here. But the founder is one of the guys from Dirty Vegas. I'm guessing he finds this model useful, or at least knows people who do.

Article: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/09/pulelocker-a-streaming-and-...
I've started using [1] state.js for state management with backbone. It has the wonderful ability to extend any owner object with a state machine, so you can turn models, views or whatever into fully functional FSMs.

I'm actually dying to get around to a project that requires server-side rendering again, because I think having this logic abstracted will make this stuff so much more straight-forward.

I'm already able to replay the entire navigational flow of the site entirely on the server, as part of the tests.

[1] http://statejs.org
Time is very, very precious. One piece of advice to learners: A math book takes a very long time to read. Optimize for "best", and best fit only. If it's free, good, if not, it's still ultimately the best return on investment! You can borrow it from a local library, much better to spend one hour doing that, than hundreds of hours on a sub par work. Good books are a good investment.
My doctor injects medication into me every few months. I go to the pharmacy to pick it up first, and then go to the doctor to get it injected.
It's not a paywall. They let you read 8 articles a month, without giving them any money to support their operations.
Although true that they couldn't have been sure, they were better off than 99% of dropouts. Zuckerberg was just taking a leave of absence and planned on returning. Before entering Harvard, he had already been noted on Slashdot and in PC Magazine. Gates entered with a nearly perfect SAT course and took the legendary Math 55 course. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_55)

In other words, they were already exceptional before dropping out. That key point gets lost a lot of times. I think the exception is probably Jobs and WoZ.
My understanding is you get a DropBox-esque directory where you can download n tracks, in addition to whatever you own otherwise. The tracks are all DRMed and log the number of plays, etc. You could have 30 PulseLocker tracks, and they can co-exist with all your other music. If you find you don't like some of your current 30, you can swap them out at any time for different tracks. I think the idea is that you can try out as many songs as you want, but you'll probably buy them if you use them regularly (so you can free up more slots to try out more tracks). Of course, the 1000 tier seems pretty bountiful, but I don't know anything about EDM.
There was an interesting quote/anecdote, Joe Armstrong likes to tell, it is about people who claim they've built a reliable or fault tolerant service. They would say "This is fault tolerant, they are multiple hard drives in there, I have done formal verification of my code and so on..." and then someone else trips over the power cord and that's the end of the fault tolerance. It is just a silly example, of course they'd properly provide power to an important rack of hardware, but the point is, in the simplest case the system is only as fault tolerant as its weakest components. It is that one bad capacitor from Taiwan that might the whole thing down, or just a silly cosmic ray.

One needs redundant hardware to provide certain guarantees about the service being up. This means load balancers, multiple CPUs running the same code in parallel and comparing results, running on separate power buses, different data centers, different parts of the world.
Wow, thank you so much! I'm very grateful.
Hopefully they had fire insurance.
> If no one from 100,000 people within Microsoft is deemed to be worthy of leading it then its yet another fail from Ballmer's part.

Even if there is a capable person inside the company, it still makes sense to also look externally. A fresh take on things. In fact, I'd argue they'd be crazy if they didn't at least look outside the company.
This reminds me of this wonderful reddit bot: http://www.reddit.com/user/bitcointip
Regarding the MBTI test, take it with a grain of salt.

As for spirituality, if it is how you feel, it's nothing wrong. The way human body functions is not a matter of agreement between people anyway.

Also being reasonable and logical doesn't automatically make you emotionless.
I've never been to FT.com and I instantly got a paywall. Are there sister sites that would count against their monthly limit?
It was posted here on HN a few days ago, but you might find the DEFCON talk on single bit domain errors relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPbyDSvGasw

In summary, some data centers are run hotter than recommended, which leads to a lot of mostly ignored domain resolution errors, which leads to a security risk.
Read 'Better Builds with Maven'.

This problem was solved many years ago.
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I think you're thinking of Yammer, not Asana.