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>Apparently the FBI was even more scared of her than she was of the FBI, judging from the measures it took

And what extraordinary measures did they take? Picking up the phone and calling someone in the Netherlands? From what I've heard the girl practically turned herself in. I doubt anyone at the FBI spent more than a couple hours on this case.
i understand your perspective. i do, for example, think there is something seriously wrong with income inequality. limiting the good faith i give to people is hard for me; it feels to me like being a 'good person' wouldn't require me to do that. saying 'fuck it' was my way of saying 'i need to be ok with the knowledge that i will hurt people, and i even have to err on the side of not helping someone who genuinely needs it, so i can keep myself safe.'
What you propose is not at odds with what you are replying to. Imagine an alternate timeline of the US where we did not promote homeownership. This alternate US would likely have many many forms of REITs, in which regular people could invest in. No one would have to buy a whole house, just participation in one or more homes, perhaps a subdivision or even a city. This alternate timeline would promote more focus on increasing the value of the city than the value of a single home.

It would also reward those who got there early without allowing them to block all progress since there is financial benefit for all.
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are you saying the average developer is going to have to work with distributed systems in the near future (few years)?
This is part of the reason why I don't really like anti-discrimination laws.
I don't believe you.

I am a physician too and you are repeating a lot of the falsehoods that are perpetuated among those that don't understand the billing process or aren't actually physicians.

AMA is an insurance and loan agency? I... I... don't know what to say to this. How about start by reading this (poorly written, but summary nonetheless):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Association

and one of their most influential functions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_Society_Relative_Valu...

It's true that insurers set up arbitrary requirements (for sentinel effect, mostly) to try and refuse reimbursement, but often a simple change and resubmission will result in payment. These are issues that are dealt with in your contract with the insurer--have you read this contract? If not, then you can't complain! Even the CMS has a contract with its physicians.. and contrary to popular belief, they pay pretty well for most anything. It's Medicaid that is atrocious... especially since it covers children/poor and will often limit their access to healthcare.
Not one word about gardening. Fail train.
That is mostly true. So they oppose most things that make our current style of taxation--mildly progressive with a lot of deductions. So they want to make it as painful as possible for Americans so they can try to get what they want.
> Seems like Silicon Valley financiers have always thought like Wall Streeters.

FTFY ;-)

BTW, in finance terminology this is called a fund of funds (FoF). Fees on top of fees. Warren Buffett has been warning against these types of structures for years, but both professional and individual investors have always had an appetite for them since they are the closest thing to a privately held ETF.

Speaking of ETFs, here's a quote from the man behind the company from the article:

> “Some day you’re going to sit at your Schwab account or your Fidelity account and you’re going to say, ‘I’d like to take 1% of my net worth and put it into angel deals,’”

Schwab and Fidelity target upper middle class individuals, who loooove ETFs (or should love them, since, as a group, they are not very good investors).

Also this fund might charge a 30% carry, but at least there is no management fee.

Footnote: I know that there are exceptions to every rule. So please no N=1 anecdotal replies.
Granted, it's not going to make a difference for ~30 years but by allowing doctors to start younger means some of them will work as a doctor for longer periods of time. Most importantly your adding time at the end of their career when there most capable. (Perhaps add a specific associates degree as an acceptable alternative as even 1 or 2 years times a few 100k doctors adds up.)

As to reducing costs, undergrad is not free so if you reduce/remove that cost students can afford to spend more on other things. Start med school with less debt and being unpaid for the ~first year of Residency is more reasonable which means you could have more slots open for the same subsidy.

Still, I would also suggest modifying the billing rules. This may create some perverse incentives but it balances the costs between Medicare and private insurance while paving the way for increasing the number of available slots.
"I don't think there's any evidence whatsoever that the government is capable of making software to either provide a service similar to TurboTax or to correctly pre-calculate your taxes."

Yes and no. When the government wants to get quality software that solves real problems and saves taxpayer money, it manages to do so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin...

"We saw how well that worked with healthcare.gov."

Keep in mind that healthcare.gov was overburdened with moronic, ideologically driven requirements that were still being finalized a week before it was supposed to go live. It was being set up for failure from step one.
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From a pragmatic standpoint, the forms already exist. They have to be updated, but the changes from year to year are not huge. Governments have a lot of experience creating forms. We don't hear about massive budget overruns and failed government projects creating forms. We do hear this about almost every software project they undertake.

Nothing the government does is free, and implemnenting online filing services would be something they (and by that I mean we) would pay billions of dollars for, and it would be poorly implemented, insecure, and it would crash constantly from overload during the month of April and especially on April 15th. I'd rather let Intuit do it for 1/1000 of the cost, and even at that, a cost that I would only pay voluntarily.
Or more likely, they were using software or hardware that was not affected by Heartbleed, and so were not at risk. Saying so would narrow down the infrastructure they are using though, and for a target like Mint, they would likely want to avoid explicitly saying so. Not going to stop a determined hacker, but it may stop the script kiddies with a downloaded toolkit.

After a small amount of research, it looks like they run Java webservers, along with (or on?) F5 Big-IP platforms, with the later likely providing hardware SSL decryption that isn't vulnerable to Heartbleed (mostly, apparently there were some vulnerabilities in certain configurations where it would fall back to Open-SSL.) The way Java webserver allocates memory is also different that the typical Apache/Linux server, so it is unlikely that even if the server was vulnerable that a hacker would actually be able to pull any data of any value from the chunks they could get.

I don't profess to be an expert on server security or the F5 Big-IP platform, but my point is, it would appear that there is no reason to not believe Mint when they say they investigated and have no reason for concern.
This guy should be Kickstarter's patron saint.
1. New schools are being built and they aren't cheaper. Quinnipiac University is the newest medical school to open (accepted its first class in 2013) and it is just as expensive as any other private medical school.

See: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/academics/colleges-schools-and-dep...

2. Inflated education costs are the result of easy access to loan money that is not dischargeable. Most university education cost increases follow from this. I'd argue we should make schools hold the loans for their graduates at the bare minimum, and then allow them to be discharged in bankruptcy again.

Or, even more radically, I'd argue we should make medical education free, but require tuition for residency. That way, if you want to specialize, you owe more years of tuition, but supposedly will make more money later and can pay it off. This way, you actually have a strong incentive for people to consider primary care specialties, as it will lead to a much lower total-loan-burden.

Or even more radically, let's lop off a year of residency for the primary care specialties. Canada seems to do fine with GPs only completing a 2 year residency. That's gaining a whole year of attending earning power. That could be huge.

I do not see medical education costs responding to general market forces so long as educational debt is easy to obtain.

3. Again, American medical school operates typically as a 2 + 2 system, where the first two years are spent heavily in class learning the basic science of medicine and the last two years are spent clinically learning the fundamentals of history taking, physical exam, differential diagnosis, and medical decision making.

The premedical requirements actually are useful for establishing a common foundation of knowledge which allow for us to only need 2 years to cover all the pre-clinical coursework. If you lop that off, you will simply transition to the non-US systems of medical training, which are only 1-2 years shorter in total duration. Mexico has a 6 year system. Chile is 7 years. UK grad entry is 4 years + 2 foundational years + residency, so at minimum 6 years before residency begins. Fine, there's some cost-savings in 2 years of undergrad removed, but most undergrad tuition is cheaper than medical school tuition. I think there will be no net savings.

4. Again, you are fundamentally misunderstanding things. The AAMC has no supply controls. They can only control how many students a medical school has. They have zero say in the amount of residency spots. Those are created by hospitals and accredited by the ACGME. Most hospitals only create as many spots as they receive CMS funding for. They could create spots and fund them themselves, provided they meet the minimum standards set by the ACGME for each trainee (sufficient case volume and teaching). If the government were to stop paying for GME funding in 10 years, either the hospitals would start paying or they would begin charging tuition, but in EITHER CASE, you've got to create quality residencies to train people. You can't just open a residency at random hospital because you want to.
Some of those examples might violate one or more Xerox patents, just as an FYI. I do think this is pretty cool though, shows some interesting JavaScript uses.
People who have to solve problems in the pragmatic world, like my QA friend above, are poorly served by your ideology. At least anecdotes are a reference to a real-world event; blindly sticking to ideology is pure fantasy.
Many foreigners are puzzled about why we Americans complain so much about our taxes, when they aren't particularly high by global standards. A major reason is that our taxes are particularly intrusive and annoying by global standards.

This also goes for consumption taxes - a 9% sales tax added at the register feels more intrusive than a 20% VAT included in the price tag, even though the VAT is much higher.
While this is a great first step, it is an amalgamation of images from over 1000 mice. Each mouse is going to have different connectome, though hopefully we can distinguish major features more clearly now.
Bullshit study. Sampling of 40 people means nothing. Also, it said that certain parts of brain changed in terms of shape and density but did not determine whether this is a bad or good thing. In addition, I would like to know who funded the study.
It looks like they are running Java servers on F5 Big-IP platform(s). I tend to believe it when they say they aren't vulnerable, and understand why they would not want to say any more about their architecture than they have to.
It's certainly possible. CA tax filing via website is now a breeze.
I don't see why Square can start the ball rolling the next day but you need anything near 7 days delay. I figured it was just a way to make more money.
I sincerely hope you can see the necessary difference in protocol for someone claiming to have a bomb and a movie with a bomb in it..

As for the last snipe, I'll assume it's directed at Robert Redford who directed that terrorist-glorifying movie of yours.

Would it surprise you to learn that Redford enthusiastically supported Gary Herbert (mormon, republican, A+ from NRA, wants to repeal 'unconstitutional' ACA, etc.) for lieutenant governor and for governor? The world isn't as black and white as people seem to think.
Frequency response and dynamic range are low hanging fruit in high res audio debates. They are not the only factors in accurate reproduction of an input wave. What is rarely considered is the temporal resolution of the format. Which is the formats ability to describe change over time. To plot a graph but depth is the y axis resolution and sample rate the x axis. Again I'm talking to temporal resolution. Transient response is directly effect by this. The link below shows the advantages of hi res audio formats inside the human hearing range. So if accuracy is of concern high res formats DO hold more information about the original wave form. If file size is of concern hi res is not applicable.

http://www.eirec.com/DPimages/digisqwvtest.jpg
This is an example if transient response of different sampling rates.
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I can't know what problem I'm part of until you're more specific.

The problem I see is that inconsistent enforcement of both laws and social norms, allow one side of politics to be more expressive than the other. Compare "if the rich don't start dealing with the problem of inequality, violence is sure to follow", with "if politicians don't start dealing with the problem of non-White immigration, violence is sure to follow".
Bigger story: our government can be bought for the low price of $11.5 million.
There is nothing electrically wrong, and while I agree that there have been many different connectors used and having one standard would be great, manufacturers do tend to settle on one of relatively few standard connectors (the majority being barrel plugs of various sizes.)

However, the solution is not a grossly overcomplicated standard like USB. It is a 20V barrel plug. Maybe if you want to get really fancy, include a resistor on a third pin for wattage encoding. Standardise on that instead - or pick an existing size - there are enough to choose from already ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_power_connector#Standar... ).
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So just to confirm, if we didn't receive an email or any notification on Hacker News, we were not selected, correct? Not sure if we were supposed to receive a 'Sorry' email.
"How technical do I need to be?" - not very.

Sorry, what?
I think most people would appreciate some feedback on something they work hard for, even if it's just an "atta boy, looks good, keep on going--sorry it didn't work out", or even better some productive feedback ("you need to narrow your focus" or "market already saturated").

I have never applied for YC, but I have applied to other things in life that seem like a black hole from the outside. Just an acknowledgement of something that surely took a lot of time would be a nice gesture. I mean, I'm sure you're nice folks, right? Would you ignore applicants if you met them on the street?
... this is right on. I've seen my own role in "DevOps" as being one that is less task-oriented and more toward bridging skill sets. The drive toward specialization (mentioned by the author) is leading us toward having "Ops" administrators that are completely incapable of understanding how an object-oriented system is constructed and "Devs" who seem almost oblivious to how computers (web servers, middleware containers, databases, etc.) actually work.
Not when you run a service that is a very hot target, in that case, you give as few details as possible to make sure the attack spectrum is as large as possible.
There are no double fees on this fund. The 30% is used to pay the angels their carry, out of that 30%. Whatever's left goes to the GPs. Warren's criticism does not apply here. The rest is correct :-)
The YC partners have written extensively on what they are looking for in startups and what impresses them. As have many of the companies that have been accepted. pg has even participated in the comments here on those sorts of articles and blog posts. Barring their entire public persona being an elaborate conspiracy I don't think they could possibly be more transparent about what impresses them and what they think are red flags.
I'd argue that much of D3's power comes not from the update pattern for DOM elements, but the reusable components pattern.

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/chart/

Examples in the core library, all compatible with Canvas, include scales, layouts, geographic projections, time/color utilities, CSV/TSV loading, and behaviors (drag/zoom/etc). There's some built-in canvas rendering like d3.geo.path which can be provided a canvas context.

The only things you lose are selections and the convenient transitions that go along with selections. But you can use these to modify and transition the canvas elements themselves!
V8 vs Racket: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
Or they were never vulnerable, which is likely given what has been dug up about their tech stack.
It's subjective. But also I assume error rates are higher for those who file paper forms vs electronically.
I guess it's a matter of balancing your short term interests against your long-term interests, and the likelihood of a boycott succeeding.
You raise an interesting point related to something I always point out to people in economics debates:

Every time you see a dysfunctional market, look for the policy which creates an asymptotic condition. That asymptotic condition (or the sum of several asymptotic conditions) is the likely culprit behind the dysfunction.

By asymptotic condition I mean and hard cap or limit that is unchanging based on circumstance (such as time). The reason asymptotic conditions are so toxic is because they become barriers to natural market corrections.
You're making bad assumptions and your logic doesn't hold water. I have very much worked on teams responsible for protecting computers from breaking zero days. Most memorable for me was probably when the Debian SSH key generation bug was released. I was there that morning, writing a scanner to find all the vulnerable machines my team was responsible for (and actually racing against the scanner a colleague on my former team who had responsibility for the whole org's security was writing) and trying to get them patched as quick as possible. (Most of ours were found and patched by the time my former team put up their version of the list out, and another bunch had been patched before their scan even got to them, so we did a good job that day.) What I'm trying to say is, I know exactly what it's like. That operational experience informs my work today even though I don't have a large operational role for many machines these days. (I'm only responsible for about 40-60 machines now.)

That all aside, the job of the security community is not to make your life or my life easier. And neither you or the person I was replying to gets to be angry at someone for exposing a problem because it inconveniences you or your colleagues.

The only thing that will do you any good is to fix your shit.

Pretending that it is someone else's fault that you have to scramble to fix your shit is not okay. I think my comment was phrased bluntly, but was both truthful and appropriate. I understand the emotions that cause it, but no one who blames others for their own problems has much high ground to stand on when it comes to empathy.
Hey where was this from? I probably just forgot but I don't recall reading this in any of his books...
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> gamut between mundane restaurant work and YC applications.

Talk about splitting hairs...

It's all service industry work.
He missed Erlang, heavily used at Wall Street.
A "flat tax" means moving from the current 10%, 15%, ..., 39.6% rates to a single tax bracket. Tax brackets are one section out of thousands in the Internal Revenue Code and one line on the 1040. We could move to a flat tax and still have the current overcomplicated mess of deductions, credits and penalties in place, and that's what takes up most of the time and effort.
I don't particularly enjoy using TurboTax, but hey, who enjoys doing their taxes. However, after using it for 10 years, I'm pretty used to it. When I have a question about how to do something, I can just look a a previous year's return and find a similar situation. While it isn't the most straightforward, at least it's relatively consistent.

I've been told by friends that there are less expensive programs out there, but the ~$80 that it cost me to do my taxes on TurboTax (Deluxe + State eFile fee) doesn't seem horrible (ie it isn't worth it to switch to something else to save an insignificant amount of money).

It does seem a bit backwards to have to pay to eFile in CA - I used to mail in my returns to get around this. But, at the end of the day, it's easier to just pay to eFile, and it only costs me maybe $20 more (plus I save a trip to the post office).

Overall, I've optimized to just using TurboTax, and I'm sure there is some laziness involved in that decision, but overall, unless something else is much much better, there isn't too much impetus to switch.
Exactly what I meant. I have done many transfers in the US as well. I think the fastest was three days for me. The average more like 4-5 biz days (which ended up being a whole week as the weekend was in between).
Well said Steve, we have 500+ issues on Docker and are going through the same process.

The most valuable contributors are those who show up day after day and are not afraid of repetitive and unglamorous tasks. Those are worth their weight in gold.
1. There is a concrete advantage of shared code.
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+1 in doubt, err on the side of trust.
They haven't sent out the mail yet. You will get a mail (be sure to have your mail id in the profile with which you applied) even if you are rejected
Outraged that 1) someone tweeted a fake bomb threat, 2) that someone actually got arrested over it, 3) that an entire industry finds itself in the legal position of having to take action to respond to something as utterly effortless as some asshat sending a tweet, or 4) that a self-described journalist seems to be wringing his/her hands over the lack of credibility (gasp) in the Twitterverse?
19 here. on the contrary, i would say our generation, unlike yours, does not give law enforcement or the gov't the benefit of the doubt as you describe, because we have had a precedent of hostile gov't and law enforcement our entire life. we weren't here for Eisenhower, JFK, Carter, or even Clinton. we became politically aware during the Bush era. we are extremely aware of the possible consequences of our actions and have no expectation that we will be treated fairly by authority figures.
Whether there are laws in place or not, at times it is much smarter to pick the candidate with lesser credentials that has higher upside potential. In sports the intelligent teams don't draft the guys that have the best statistics right now. They draft the people that they can train to be the best. Its the same with schools. If someone went to a nice school and had better credentials than someone that went to a bad school with bad teachers, the latter student is the one that the schools very well should take because with the proper training they will be superior in the long run, even if they aren't currently.