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>Most businesses fail. Yet, we still do our best to encourage the formation of new ventures. We hail the small businessman as a hero. We don't lament him as a frivolous dreamer, even though purely based on the odds, that's what anyone who starts a business really is.

This is a blatant double-standard. Non-entrepreneurs who take the same level of risk that is outright common in entrepreneurial ventures are lamented as frivolous dreamers.
This is an interesting debate. During the last weeks I've been working in a concept like this, but is not ready yet.

I'm a big fan of Hacker News, and I'm trying to create something that isn't an exact copy of HN, so if someone is interested feel free to sign up to the "The Currency" mailing list in http://thecurrency.io/ or send me an e-mail to hi@thecurrency.io. I count to have some news in the next weeks.

PS: and I also appreciate to have some feedback about the landing page: brand, value proposition, etc.

Thanks.
I doubt it would be that strange.

Presumably you'd control the value of currency through the same channels as under the existing system: indirectly by influencing interest rates, and instead of doing it by the Fed buying and selling bonds, you'd do it by imposing a new variable tax on leverage created by the banking system. It would be painful to adjust to (the base interest rate would be a direct cost rather than an opportunity cost, making banks' margins thinner) but ultimately work in a similar manner to the existing system.
You have that backwards: creditors can take possession of debtors' property if the debtors fail to repay (in terms of fiat currency). Basically, whatever currency the courts deal in will be the preferred currency of creditors, and by extension of debtors.
Discussion from 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5502878
I was not aware of this. I assume this is only for folks without citizenship for the country they seek to work in?
During the last weeks I've been working in a concept like this, so if someone is interested feel free to sign up to the "The Currency" mailing list in http://thecurrency.io/ or send me an e-mail to hi@thecurrency.io. I count to have some news in the next weeks.

I also appreciate to have some feedback about the landing page: brand, value proposition, etc.
Just keep checking for it to hit version 1.0, the universal bat-signal for production-ready.

Some things become de-facto production ready before that, but if you don't have time to follow it that closely, that's what 1.0 is for.
Too bad Noctis programmer went through an hard time... Last time I checked his website he had blogged about some kind of depression that arised from always trying to be perfectionist. And you can see this if you consider he was about to write everything from scratch for his next version of noctis. He started coding something like a new assembler language (if I remember correclty) which would have later be used to code the game in.
I did, it checks out.
I live in a small village and whe have two doctors. After visiting doctor A you'll leave with a bag of drugs, doctor B will not give you anything more than you need, even if you ask for it. The crazy part is people prefer doctor A..
In the long run, the problem takes care of itself when the patent expires in 2019 in the US and 2022 in Europe.

http://www.fiercepharma.com/special-reports/avastin

Until then it's off-label usage. When the time comes, expect an absolute feeding frenzy to make a similar equivalent (with incrementally higher efficacy or slightly fewer side effects) or an alternative formulation to regain those patent rights. I would expect Genentech is already hard at work here.
>they are reimbursed for the average price of the drug plus 6 percent.

I do not understand why anyone thought this was a good idea, or even one that made sense. What was the purpose here?
In my experience (and this is going to sound weird), creativity comes from having constraints to work in. "I need an X, and it has to do Y" leads to much more creative solutions than "Let's think up a thing to do!"
That's a large part of the antibiotic resistance issue. Plenty of doctors realized sending someone with a cold home with antibiotics would shut them up and have them leave happy, even though it has no actual (non-placebo, at least) effect.
Where did you find that they were using CryEngine? It seems like a very poor fit for what they demonstrated.
It's unfortunate the New Yorker put its piece behind a paywall...it is an excellent read and makes important contributions to the topic.

As someone already commented, This American Life did an episode on confessions: one involves a woman who was coerced using the techniques described in the OP (the New Yorker piece goes into detail about her case)...and the other focuses on a teenage boy who refused to say anything, even decades later...both stories are incredible to listen to, the latter, especially, as the formerly accused man may have been the most Zen-accused-child-murdering-rapist in history:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/507/c...

And another commenter has already pointed out the Don't Talk to Police video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc&feature=youtu.be

(I can't believe it only has 3 million page views given how often it's brought up in most techie/political threads)

Both the TAL and the Youtube are worth listening/watching...the latter provides the theory, the former provides the practice.
Except that the problem doesn't take care of itself. By 2019, the same company will likely have on the market a new patented drug in the same family, with roughly the same efficacy as the other two. They can do this pretty much indefinitely.
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> I specifically did not accuse them of racism

You're sure you didn't do exactly that to an audience of about 12K followers on Twitter? https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/409697629321195520
Nexium versus Prilosec is a great example of that. Same drug, same efficacy, just a mirror image molecule.
No lay person (and a lot of 'experts') have no chance of judging the competence of a medical professional.

They don't know that though... Instead they will rely on all sorts of proxy indicators, and prescribing lots of tests and drugs is one of them. And no, it's not reliable. On the other hand, doctors have to appeal to these indicators in order to get patients to actually take their advice seriously.
Plummeting morale has been the norm for federal employees for the last 5+ years. I'm sure the Snowden leaks have not helped things for the NSA but everyone has been on a pay/hiring freeze for ages with the public and administration seemingly very anti-federal-employee.
Being a rentier means having income without working. Traditionally, this was because you inherited wealth, e.g. in the form of land.

Most people's sense of distributive justice has some aspects of desert theory, i.e. people tend to believe the economic distribution should align with what people deserve, where the latter is typically defined via what their contribution to the economy is.

From that perspective, rentiers have undeserved income, hence the negative connotations.
Around 500 searches per month in the US and 300 searches per month in the UK, according to Google. Have a bunch of these ugly sites with redirects to Amazon or other stores and you had a nice profit with little investment.
Nonsense.

This lot being Brits of the right age it blatantly follows from the tradition of Elite and Exile, two old 8-bit titles where everything was procedurally generated in order to fit into the machines of the era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_(1988_video_game)
Exactly. We should regulate grocery too. How dare people choose how to spend their money.
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Icons look cool, but it seems to me that the constant presence of the hand creates two problems here:
1. It dramatically reduces the clarity of the signs (the dots and arrows), which is actually the part of the icon that DOES guide you (think as well of small sizes/low resolutions), and
2. (as ronaldx mentions already) it adds a repeating motif which I'm sure after a while might become uninteresting, and also may very much graphically define the app it is used in.

As a suggestion, perhaps the relative sizes between the hands and the signs could be reconsidered, and a more abstract level of representation of the hand could be thought of.
I don't find that crazy at all: I would go to see doctor A as well.

Doctors should use their expertise to advise patients, but in the end people have to be allowed to make their own health decisions. Even if I did believe that doctor B knows better (which I have no reason to), I know I'll get at least the same treatment from doctor A and I'll be able to openly discuss my options.
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You probably want to check out: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

Specifically: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/how-to...
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Wrong. Pharmacy doesn't work that way.
There will be no feeding frenzy; researching an alternative is a fixed cost, but with a competitor they will only be able to sell the drug for marginal cost. The upstart competitor would make more money investing the fixed cost amounts in treasuries at 1%.

(This is a joke; when there are just two companies they price-fix rather than compete. Not with actual price-fixing agreements, instead tit for tat signaling as in the iterated prisoner's dilemma)
The real history. A Play By Brandon Wirtz:

Nearly 20,000 years ago a man said said, "we have to stop trading seashells, they are to plentiful, people just go get more of them, and they break"

"Fine what do you propose we use?"

"Have you seen this shiny yellow stuff? You can form it with heat and it stays shiny forever."

"That Gold stuff? yeah It is pretty. I like Pretty things. But there isn't that much of it, and it is hard to find."

"Yes, that way we can control how much of it there is, so it will have value. No one will be able to just wander down to the ocean and pick up more. And we'll make different sizes of it so that we know how much each is worth"

This is why we use Gold. Because it was the first metal we could work with, it is scarce enough, and requires enough skill that only certain people (usually a government) can issue coins of it. You can still trade the raw stuff, but to fewer people and with out the trust of the minter you get a lower price for it.
You make leaving a job seem simple. Not everyone can just "choose any moment to leave." People have careers and families.
I guess we'll disagree about whether eliminating a global variable [in a multi-threaded language] is nothing more than "might feel a bit nicer". Same with using a class which specifically exists for testing.

net/http works fine with a response interface:

context := newContext(req)
response := chain.yield(context)
// the exact same code you had:
for k, v := range response.Header() {
w.Header()[k] = v
}
...

This has the added benefit of letting you use different response implementations. A streaming implementation, an in-memory implementation, or, probably the most important if you're doing high traffic, one that relies on a pre-allocated byte-pool.

A little nitpick on the side, new(sync.RWMutex) isn't needed. You can just do var cmMutex sync.RWMutex (http://golang.org/src/pkg/net/http/server.go?s=45646:46651#L...)

EDIT: Sorry, not trying to be negative (so sick of this on here), but I do think global variables are really, really bad and we probably shouldn't be promoting patterns that rely on them.
Gold. The dollar's been mostly at 1-2% inflation through that time period, reaching a high of 5-6% (I think? from memory here) for a year or two during the peak of the housing bubble.

Gold had a huge ramp-up in value after the housing bubble burst, due to people panicking that the dollar would lose value. There were a lot of people with a vested interest in hyping the idea to sell gold, as well.

The dollar's been very stable compared to other currencies or compared to baskets of dollar-denominated goods other than gold.
I would be interested learning about peoples techniques for including database dumps into their dev environments. I've been tweaking a Dockerfile for the past few days and its pretty enjoyable to watch the screen go by as it's getting built. Ideally I'd like to replicate everything in terms of our production environment in docker containers so our devs and test changes, but right now I'm taking the small steps. Currently I have a few different bash scripts that are initiated outside the Dockerfile to handle stuff like MySQL, Apache, and Redis configs. But I'm open to a different approach since this isn't cached. I assume after building the base docker container I can just IMAGE it as the future starting point.
I think questions need to begin to be asked about Google getting close to giving the hardware away in return for user information. It gets dangerously close to the kind of practices that got MS in trouble, especially the way it ends up poisoning the market for anyone else.

The problem is competition is good, and if users want their privacy they probably should be going to pay for it, but I'm profoundly uncomfortable with essentially condemning those that can't afford it to having to surrender their rights to privacy.
Awesome, thanks for this list!
Maybe we should regulate grocery too. How dare people think they know how to spend their own money.
I do not think they are racist. I think they said something that sounds like they're racist.
Wouldn't it be a lot better choice to make this a post-receive hook on your Git server? E.g. run the tests before code gets accepted to master.

I often intentionally commit code that doesn't work (pass tests or even compile), but not to master branch. One of the big advantages of Git is that you can share code with your team mates even if that code doesn't work yet.
Very cool, thanks for the pointer!
I thought this sort of thing is what insurance companies are expected to handle: to advise on cost-effective alternatives for standard diagnosis codes.
done, thank you. Spook-backed CAs should not be allowed to get away with this sort of shenanigans.
> The Man Who Does Not Exist tells me he is a libertarian, an Ayn Rand disciple, and, in the parlance of Silicon Valley, views himself a disrupter.

Making money by breaking regulations and lease terms is hardly the stuff of the heroic inventor. What other criminals count as "disrputers"? Insider traders? Identity thieves? Insurance fraudsters?

This guy is sociopath and I hope he ends up in prison.
I invested a small amount in the "startup" and I'm glad that the startup is living upto my expectations.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nsa+employee+spying+on+ex
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This is why the whole CA mechanism is fundamentally flawed. The only real way to move forward is going to be a web-of-trust model which is admittedly harder, and will result in messy situations, but does at least ensure people can control who they want to trust.
Good resource. Thanks for the pointer!
I'll bet Dr. Reddy is already on the case if you don't mind the occasional moldy smell:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Reddy%27s_Laboratories

With up to 10M cases in the US alone, it seems like an excellent target for competition.

http://www.blindness.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=a...
Did your cook1929 account get hell banned?
Good resource, thanks!
At my work I setup a pre-commit hook that my team uses to run Uncrustify, a source-code beautifier. If the style of the commit doesn't match our rules for that language it will spit out a command for you to run to fix it. I think overall it has been a big win for our team. Uncrustify runs almost instantly and having a uniformly styled code-base is worth the small inconvenience.
Yeah, I hate the fact that his actions will have for consequence to even increase the rents and real estate prices in New York, which, from what I heard, are already expensive enough.
If you have an 8Gig machine, stack might be 0x1E0000000. The stack cannot grow. The heap is the same sort of address. The code heap, however, is 0x7F000000.

TempleOS is 100% identity-mapped. Think about that for a long time. The stack in one task is different from every other task. Memory gets fragmented. You cannot grow the stack.

TempleOS is ring-0-only. You don't have higher half kernel addresses.

TempleOS places all code in the lowest 2Gig addresses, known as the "code heap".
The article talks about Medicare, and how it's forbidden by Congress from negotiating prices, among other things.

I'll give you one guess on which industry lobbied for that restriction.
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Yes, it does. They add something like calcium carbonate (tums) to an existing med and patent the combo, or they find an isomer of the drug. Happens all the time.
Meet User A. Rather than trust the certificate signing activities of a random selection of "CAs" who have all paid a fee to a self-appointed "CA root" (as do all "modern" browser), she has created her own CA root using openssl and prefers to sign her own certificates for the websites she uses. She does not "trust" other CAs, she only trusts the certificates she herself issues and signs. User A can thus, if necessary, monitor her own SSL traffic by using a small program running on her computer called a proxy. (No Python is necessary.) As with non-encrypted traffic, she can run tcpdump to see what is being sent to and from her computer to remote websites. She can then assess the implications and block, filter or redirect certain connections and sanitize the traffic if she wishes, with the help of DNS (because she runs her own root.zone and local cache), and her packet filter, also known as an in-kernel firewall.

Meet User B. User B has the same basic computer skills as User A, but User B uses the Chrome browser. Thanks to "certificate pinning", User B cannot monitor what is being sent from her computer to Google.

User B wants to see what is being sent to and from her computer by Google. Can she do this and still use Chrome?
He knows that neighbors despise what he's doing, but he doesn't see any reason for us to have hotel regulations. That might stop him from making money.

Color me surprised that he's a Rand disciple.
No, it doesn't. Generic companies can make replicates of the original drug easily when the original patent expires.
Every project has a price at which you know it is worthwhile. Sometimes it feels funny to estimate high...even 3-4x your normal rate. But trust yourself. Understand the additional costs in your time or energy. Likewise, some projects or clients are worth working below your normal rate.
> “The agency, from top to bottom, leadership to rank and file, feels that it is had no support from the White House even though it’s been carrying out publicly approved intelligence missions,” said Joel Brenner, NSA inspector general from 2002 to 2006.

Publicly approved? Publicly approved? The amount of rage-induced facepalming this causes is immense. No one in the public has known what they're up to, and Congressional attempts to get insight have been stymied and shut down. No one knew, that is, until Edward Snowden did HIS duty to country.

> “They feel they’ve been hung out to dry, and they’re right.”

Well, that's good, then. What the NSA does is despicable, unconstitutional, ineffective and a waste of treasure. No threat is worth the cost of what they do. I hope everyone from the rank and file up to Alexander feel like complete shit.
You sound like it is a bad thing...
Dot (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371647/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3) is a satire of the dot com boom. Even though it's a comedy, it's by far my favorite movie that has anything remotely to do with tech.
A doctor whose patients always leave with a bag of drugs is likely not a competent doctor. The statistical chances of every patient having something in need of medication is slim.

Who says you can't discuss options openly with doctor B?
When I was growing up my father told me a parable of three brothers, all of whom had grown to be doctors.

One brother was a miraculous curer of all injuries and ills. It did not matter how far a disease or injury had progressed, he could cure the patient. He was known throughout the continent.

One brother was exemplar diagnostician of all injuries and ills. It did not matter what was wrong, he could diagnose the problem and if he was unable to solve the problem he would make a personal introduction the most knowledgeable expert on the matter. He was known throughout the country.

The third brother was just a humble backcountry physician. He wasn't very good at diagnosing or curing diseases. But he visited his clients frequently, and gave them advice on their diet, and home and work conditions. On the rare occasion when his clients got ill or injured, he tended them back to health and when possible helped them to remove the conditions leading to the ill or injury. He was only known throughout the village.
I'm going to start selling drugs to kids on the playground of their elementary school so I can get some shady investors and be labeled as a disrupter.
Furthermore, whatever safeguards they might put on the data are completely irrelevant. They shouldn't be mass collecting data without a warrant in any case.

You were just arguing about whether their lawbreaking was competently executed or not.
You also have to also ask why it is that these arbitrage opportunities exist in the first place. It seems to me that the fact that these folks exist is essentially the market arguing that there are inefficiencies in government regulation of the hotel industry. Perhaps the government shouldn't be implementing arbitrary taxes to direct to the politically connected.
Does anybody know what platform this game will run on? Xbox One, PS4, Wii, PC, Mac, iOS, Android? None of the promos gave us a clue as far as I could tell.
"Learning this skill won’t necessarily make you a better software engineer, or entrepreneur, but it can get information from people that are otherwise not willing to reveal it."

Pfft, every successful entrepreneur I've met from the Kansai area of Japan does this. The first step is knowing the price of everything, isn't it?
Drug companies have tackled that in a variety of ways.

Outright bribery of generic companies to hold off on production (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/17/supreme...), scaremongering over safety of the generic (the article being discussed in this thread), paying doctors for prescribing the more expensive versions, etc.
i believe chrome uses NSS which can be configured by environment variable to dump session keys

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Psst+Your+Browser+Knows+Al...
In my experience, NULL is the least-supported UTF-8 character. Whenever software claims conformance, that's the first thing I check.

Personally, I'd have preferred they disallowed it in the standard, but it's too late for that now. Anyone know why it was included (other than the obvious reason that it obeys the encoding rules)?
If they were only reimbursed for exactly the cost of the drug, they'd lose money on expensive drugs because of inventory costs. Inventory costs include interest on money for the time they're holding it, damage and spoilage, security, theft, insurance, etc.

6% is probably a reasonable guess at the average costs. Large, high-volume operations can make a profit by keeping their costs below 6%, and that may create a wrong incentive. But the right answer isn't to change 6% to 0%, because nobody will want to handle expensive drugs.