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Oh, sure, there's an infinite amount of (generalized) health care people might want to consume if the prices are low enough.

You can get there either by lowering the pay of health care people, or by making them more productive per humman-hour, eg via automation or just better business practices.
Very true that AT&T was no saint but it should come as no surprise that Bell Labs is romanticized when one looks at how Epic their output was. From a sample of their employees we have: Information Theory, karnaugh maps, the transistor, laser, photovoltaics, CCDs, C,R, Unix and for kicks - stumbling upon CMB hence enriching our understanding of the universe, it's age and size. It's mind boggling. No company today comes anywhere near that in terms of fundamentally rearranging knowledge and society.

I would argue that if Bell Labs was 8 or 9 on the Richter Scale then Microsoft Research, at a 4 or 5, is the closest we have today in terms of independence and diversity of research unfettered by profit concerns.

One guess for why Bell Labs was able to achieve so much is that on one hand they had decades of fundamental new insights by Brilliant physicists and mathematicians ripe for the picking (as evinced by multiple cases of identical independent inventions) and on the other hand they had the backing of a monopoly of incredible proportions. The planets don't often align like that.

Monopolies and excess profit are almost always a sign of market failure. However, some have argued that one of the benefits of a monopoly is it allows firms to reinvest some of that beyond normal profits and reduced costs on R&D (also typically argue monopolies are temporary because creative destruction). If you consider that only those like Google, Samsung, GE, IBM and Microsoft can even consider such broad-based research then it seems there is merit to the idea. Yet, the terrain of something so complex as innovative output should not have a single and global optimum.
I work on a supposedly state-of-the-art GE scanner. If I let it select parameters it wants there are real, measurable negative consequences. It is a buggy, bad piece of hardware. Sure, there are better machines out there, but codifying the processes the human operator has is not going to happen anytime soon I don't think - hell, GE don't know how to get a user selection of a bool parameter right (it has a text field for the user to type in 1 for on, 0 for off. No toggles, buttons etc). Still, the craptastic system spurred me to learn a bit of coding to make stuff happen that the scanner can't/won't do. Don't rush in to replacing the humans too soon.
I think I read a short snippet about introducing a new IT system in a doctors office. The doctors were against having to do things in a new way due to the new system, even though it probably was more efficient. I think the reason or theory behind their reluctance was that it would automate some of their regular duties. I can imagine that many doctors will not feel kindly about working with a system whose purpose is to automate (some) of their work, and which gets smarter and more independent the more the doctor works with it.
The fake paypal thing is rather inventive. I could totally imagine being fooled by such thing if I were busy and not paying attention properly to the details. Especially if the email said something like "the transaction would appear on the website in 1-2 businiess days". If the price diff is not too large it won't raise any red flags - ok, so some dude wants to pay $10 more, nothing special.
A popular ISP in one country shipped default DSL modem/routers with a SIP ALG on that didn't work. But not just the normal "totally screwing SIP up" but the alarm light would go on and the modem would be dead until power reset. On any SIP packet. This was over 6 years ago, but I think it was a ZyXEL.
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Nah, just basic incompetence and lack of journalistic integrity, and it ain't recent. Remember "Unintended Acceleration" from the 80ies? Complete and utter BS, yet they not just ran with it, but stuck with it after the BS was "exposed" (in quotes because it was obvious beforehand).

(Unintended Acceleration was the claim in the 80ies that Audis, when in reverse, would accelerate when the driver was stepping on the brake pedal without touching the gas pedal. Mechanically completely impossible and never actually happened. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cjm_18.htm)
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What will you use?

Currently, I am using bootstrap. But I want to use the rem and off-canvas navigation in Foundation 5.
As many have pointed out in the comments, the license allows for only one, personal use of the toolkit, making it more of a theme than a framework. You can't use this framework for more than one project/client and there isn't an equivalent "developer" license, that allows for developing unlimited projects based on that theme, like they usually do.
I do love what they've come up with and the demo that you can download is top notch, but both the license and the steep price point don't make much sense to me.
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Not to mention, the entire premise is idiotic. Knowing what will produce most profits is not a simple arithmetic problem. Google could dump half their profit into advanced research and just claim "it'll pay off". Pretty much any action outside embezzlement could be claimed to be done to increase profits.
At the very least we can get started by having doctors be thoroughly assisted by computers. Transition from humans to full automation is always difficult, so it's good to start with the computer being a very accessible and very powerful resource that helps inform the doctor's decisions through data.
Do it like how Reddit does it, simply replace instances of $username with [deleted].
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>> I don't think they understand that without individual freedoms reigning supreme, we'll have monopolies, lack of innovation, taxes, etc.

Agreed.

>> Oh, and don't forget tracking/passport/entry visas because of taxes

Yep, it's about taxes in the sense that Tax Farms want to retain their cattle, so they make it difficult for the cattle to leave, while still maintaining an illusion of freedom. Even a complete sheep would realize he's a slave if he weren't free to leave "his" country.

>> Oh and don't forget mandatory "collective" (but NOT state) schooling.

Mandatory collective schooling, but imposed on everyone by something else than the state? .. That doesn't sound right either. Anything that is based on aggressing against people is immoral.

>> Taxes = Theft

I'm fine with "robbery", "rape", and "theft" and so on. But extortion is more accurate.

>> Government = the Monopoly on Violence

Yes, and thoroughly immoral.

>> Capitalism (which is separate from the free market) = Wage Slavery and too much power

This is where we disagree, it seems. You seem to be referring to Crony-Capitalism, or "Crapitalism". Corporations buy State power and using it to their own benefit, and of course, that will continue for as long as there is power to be bought. If there's nothing to bribe, then you can't bribe.

But in reality, Capitalism is just what people do in their pursuit of personal gain: voluntary exchanges, contracts, agreements, and investments, etc. All backed by respect for property rights, of course. Without property rights, there would be just about no wealth in the world, because no one could expect to benefit from any value they might produce.

The absence of coercion ~ a free market ~ freedom ~ Capitalism. They all go hand in hand.
I had heard they were finally fixing that, which is why I made my comment a reference to the past. I'm glad they settled on a syntax that wasn't too far out of the norm from what you would expect, given PHP's roots (i.e. Perl). I seem to recall the RFC at some point had a different syntax, but I could be remembering incorrectly.

I'd think the mixing of associative and sequential arrays are one of the key things that lowers the barrier to entry though.

For me it fails the "similar things should look similar, different things should look different" test. Then again, they aren't really all that different in PHP. I guess it comes down to me preferring my sequential and associative data structures to be separate, which is a fairly fundamental difference to how PHP thinks it should be. I have a sneaking suspicion that the complexity this data structure tries to hide leaks out through the numerous functions used to interact with it[1], which just shifts the pain slightly farther down the line, and possibly from a one-time event (when learning the fundamentals) to a regular occurrence as it causes problems continually later.

1: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WaterbedTheory
AT&T operated under the idea of a steady rate of return for its shareholders, versus simply maximizing the rate of return. So there was money to pay for the labs, each local bell operating company paid IIRC 1.5% of its revenues to the labs for the right to use the work they produced.
Can't you negotiate the terms with your clients? I know that at least my clients have been open to that.

Perhaps not what you want to hear, but other that getting paid more quickly, the most obvious solution to cash flow problems is having a large enough buffer.
I know this is sarcasm, but law seems like a great candidate for automation. The law is literally a set of rules. And in the process of automating legal stuff, we might be forced to clean up some existing instances of ambiguity and vagueness. Wouldn't that be nice?

Regarding programmers, much of their job already is to replace themselves with computers. Once a task becomes routine, you should automate it.

Regarding money growing on trees, that's not going to happen in the literal sense. But perhaps the only way to provide for everyone is to institute a universal unconditional basic income. Without jobs, people won't be able to "earn" their livings anymore. But that's okay. They'll be free to spend their time doing things that only humans can do and that nobody may have ever thought to pay for.

How many geniuses out there are spending their time being doctors and lawyers? How many of them will generate the next innovations that propel the human race forward once they're no longer trapped spending so much time at work?

There's only one way to find out!
It's not so much that I think it's kludgy, as much as I think it may be a harmful abstraction, as faintly outlined in my sibling comment.
And let's not forget to consider a "trusting trust" attack on the hardware you use to manufacture the processor.
Want to work on any of the above? Bio-Rad is hiring in the Bay Area.
It seems we're mostly on the same page :p
> Computer Programing is something that crosses borders. It will eventually go to the lowest bidder.

Yeah, people have been saying that for years, yet somehow the salaries for programmers in the U.S. keep going up.
I kind of agree. I'm all for people getting paid, but the idea of a framework that I can only use once feels odd. Isnt this just a big template that has then been split into separate elements? Thats not too difficult to do with a $10 template.

A lot of love has obviously gone into this, but the market positioning isnt that convincing at a $249 price point.
It's really strange to discuss putting weights of importance on topics you (and I) are tangibly quantify.

I'm not even sure how anyone justifies claiming MS or Google research is _inferior_ to the other's. If we have that much insight into what is superior, then surely we've already won and know where to throw our bucks?

Regardless, Google already does plenty of work in these fields. This year, they've expanded to partnerships with NASA, USRA, and D-Wave with a new AI Lab -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdHDHEuOUE.
With due respect to your own industry experience (which does admittedly give me pause as to your objectivity)...

It seems to me that a 5" mattress with superior technology could easily replace a 10" mattress of traditional manufacture. It wouldn't be the first time, either - who would have thought 10 years ago that the running shoe market would successfully be inundated with a bunch of "barefoot shoes?"

However, it might NOT be so easy to convince consumers that a 5" and 10" mattress are comparable, because for decades, that industry has been slapping layer upon layer of foam and pillow tops onto its mattresses to make the mattress LOOK good and justify increasingly higher margins.

I just ordered a mattress from Tuft & Needle because I want to give it a try myself. But I suspect that, if T&N want to be successful, they'll need to find analogies like the running shoe version (which is, admittedly flawed in that barefoot trainers aren't much cheaper than standard shoes) to explain how they can produce a 5" mattress that is as comfortable as a traditionally sized one.
Why should we let non-citizens decide how we run our country?
As I said, the same is true of food or any other necessity. But we aren't going around claiming farmers are exploiting us.

The problem with the person holding a gun to your head scenario, is that they are abusing your rights in the first place by putting a gun to your head. We don't want people to do that for various reasons. But in this scenario it isn't the employer or farmer holding the gun, it's mother nature. They are just offering assistance from that.
It certainly doesn't help that no matter where I seem to go on their site, I always come back to the video. I couldn't find the demo, or any screenshots of what it looked like, or what components it contained. So much for good design.
Enhanced by, assisted by, supported by, reminded by, taught by - yes, sure

Replaced by? Do me a favour.
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Noticing he is a veteran reminds me of the phrase "barrack-room lawyer": http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Barrack%20roo...

The constitution was intended to defend and hold together the nation, not to allow people to weasel out of trouble. In my view: if you get caught you pay, if you don't get caught you count yourself lucky.
Python is elegant, and my first real commitment to a language, but imo nothing beats Haskell in elegance (though scheme has a certain beauty about it). Perhaps this is just me being temporarily enamored though, I can't help but to link to this post:

http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20070219/0441...

Haskell and I have been doing well so far in the "RealWorld" and I hope it keeps going that way :D If not, I'll probably put more time into python and C again.
Right on the mark there.

>> I truly don't think anarcho-capitalism is an abomination. I've come to this stance FROM being a socialist because it's the only moral way of doing things. Thoughts?

My suggestion would be to embrace anarcho-capitalism fully, if you're not quite there yet. It's the only moral, reasonable, logical, and consistent way of viewing societies. The Non-Aggression Principle explicitly forbids the initiation of force, which includes any coercion. The flipside of that is that everything should be voluntary, which should be really hard to reasonably argue against.

Are you already aware that free markets produce the most wealth to the largest percentage of people anyway? It's all about letting people produce wealth and spread it around through voluntary exchanges, after all. Check out http://mises.org
Yeah, I looked around for something other than a video with no luck. Even the video doesn't show any content.
Possibly speaking out of turn here, but latex allergies are not insignificant. It would take a big bite out of their potential market.
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Did you like the movie?
This is amazingly short-sighted and dumb. A lot of the cash cows like Spongebob and Scooby Doo make an epic amount of money, and they aren't particularly tailored to one gender or the other.

In 2003 alone, Scooby-Doo generated more than $750 million in revenue from licensing and merchandising

http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/scoobymonstermexico.php
Ok i will admit it, i didn't understand a thing. Would someone care to explain it to me?
It's indicative of an interesting, less corporate future.

As knowledge workers become more important, then it's the personal capabilities (and integrity) that matter most - and that's not something that can be applied across a 100,000 person "enterprise" or mandated in policy procedures.

We shall see smaller companies, and more fragmentation of working relationships - so protect that reputation and that brand folks !
Looking at the marketing site, there's no overall navigation, there's hidden links (the carousels that don't look like carousels...), the screenshots can't be viewed in a bigger size with a lightbox, there's somewhat unnecessary animation, the code is littered with inline styles, there are empty tags, there are comments like "end content-wrapper" without a corresponding "start content-wrapper" comment…

It looks lovely, no doubt about that, but for a $249 single-use license I would expect it to be backed up by bulletproof code. If that website is an example of what you end up with, it's not.
Devs of this app: Don't be disappointed by these harsh comments because most of them contain technical fixes you need to do asap!

These suggestions, if implemented/fixed will surely get you some really dedicated early adopters!
This is one way to do it, but it still creates stark discontinuities in discussion threads.
Almost none of the prescriptions you offer have any measurable impact on healthcare spend.
Blood pressure readings -> performed by $18 Medical Assistants
Step by step diagnosis -> office visits are < 4% of total healthcare spend
etc.

Now, what actually costs money is getting your spine surgery at Stanford rather than the outpatient clinic which costs more than getting physical therapy. It takes a person (often a doctor) to help guide a scared patient towards the most effective option, not the most expensive one. We, as patients, are not experts, so we choose the expensive option as the best proxy for quality. Computers can't engage in a meaningful discussion.
This is a fantastic and insightful article, and I'm sure the relatively few comments are a result of people's minds slowly bending to this new way of thinking :)

I particularly liked the list of related resources of the end. I have been looking through academic papers, open source, and also "enterprise integration" stuff, and it always strikes me how people re-invent the same things under different names.

One question though: What about access control and security? Everyone having the chance to subscribe to all data at a company is of course fantastic for product development and productivity. But as a company grows it will also become the case that not every system should potentially access all information.
> "Look at the steps to get PHP installed versus other languages"

Not much different to getting CGI working. If you need it working well, FastCGI is as much effort as PHP-fpm. SUexec is as much effort as SUPHP.

Any language could supplant PHP in terms of ease of deployment, there's little out there that doesn't have some CGI library to handle the mucky parts.

Not that I am advocating use of CGI for anything non-trivial.
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Thanks, I didn't know about the license restriction - I assumed you'd be able to use it for as many websites you wish (hence the "framework" name). I guess I'll wait until a developer license comes out then.
I can hear the meeting now, "Let's say it's for startups and then, startups will buy it!", "Yah perfect!".
You just need to scroll down from the video. I missed that too... I fault Apple for killing scroll bars.
Alright. Keep up the good work, fellow sane person :p
Wow, way to throw an entire religion under the bus to "prove" that the NSA is only looking for mindless zealots.

I have heard intelligence and law enforcement agencies like Mormons for things like being bilingual (many have learned a second language while serving a two-year mission full-time) and being drug- and alcohol -free.

Disclosure: I'm a Mormon. I can't blame people too much for thinking we are all unquestioningly loyal zombies, but I think we all know it's not really a fair point if you're trying to make a logical argument.
> How can you take an evidence-based approach to newborn and infant care when no studies have been done?

What do you call the alternative? And why can't computers be trained to do it, too?
>I know this is sarcasm, but law seems like a great candidate for automation. The law is literally a set of rules. And in the process of automating legal stuff, we might be forced to clean up some existing instances of ambiguity and vagueness. Wouldn't that be nice?

Lovely. Unfortunately, most of the practice of law is arguing over its interpretation.

If we can automate product management (giving vague instructions to a computer that can figure out exactly what you want from it), we can automate law.
>Oh, they're fine? Is that why they're fucking striking?

They are also not primarily striking because of the working conditions as you apparently seem to think.

They are striking for more money. Plain and simple.

And here comes the kicker you also apparently don't seem to know/grasp. They are being paid what they currently earn not because Amazon willingly pays them slave wages just because, they are being paid what is normal in the logistics industry! The union says the workers are working in the retail industry and should therefore earn more. THAT'S why they are striking.

They are in disagreement over what industry the workers should belong to which will directly affect their pay. Amazon does not choose how much or how little they pay their workers. They pay what the tariff dictates. The current question right now is what tariff shall be used.

And that is the outrageous thing about this whole deal. That has not been the first strike about this very topic nor will it apparently have been the last. Instead of finally getting a judge to answer the question, once and for all, to what industry the workers belong to, they pull one strike after another with the customer getting the short end.

Both sides should finally quit their antics and get the official ruling and then all this hoopla about pay can stop. And once they stage their next strike solely because of working conditions, then you are allowed to come back and white knight for the workers all you want.
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Comments from previous discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6265613
I've always had the impression that MSR (Microsoft Research) was generally doing much more fundamental research than Google.

Google still has a ways to go to even be on par with HP Labs or PARC, let alone Bellabs.

Let's not forget all the research IBM Research Labs did over the years (less so now due to focusing on profit, but they still were doing more fundamental research than google even in recent memory).
I like the overall design, and the video is damn inspirational. Very fond of how they made little cardboard widgets and put the HTML on the back, cute :-) However I didn't even know there was anything below the fold, until I read this comment thread, looked like a video page, is all. And as I scrolled, the page lagged like a wild goose. Designers might not have the chops needed to analyze the JS onScroll render/paint cycle times. Scroll performance is so essential on a parallax scrolling effect - and there are so many hacks to get it done performant. Doesn't look like this makes the cut.
So weird that Schneier was working for BT - As a Brit, this is the company that you have to buy a phone line from to get broadband, and that then spams you to buy their broadband with snail mail glossy leaflets once a month.
Yep. I tend to fire and forget with charity, and it's always awesome to get those emails and see you've really helped someone.
Simplistic article to say the least.