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> The propaganda about the poor's lack of access to health care is also overstated for various political reasons.

Brit here. Enlighten me as to how not being able to afford to visit a GP is 'overstated'.

As I understand it, if you are poor in the USA, there's a real chance you won't be able to pay for the pills you need, or for mental health treatment, etc. That simply doesn't happen here in the UK.

> Everybody's books have to balance.

But that doesn't mean anything. Different countries invest different amounts in welfare.
This is one of my favorite Vim tricks/guides posts:
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Having read this article, I begin to suspect that only the claims define patent rights, and not any other section of the patent.
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Your strategy is similar to mine, except that I only focus on the types.

Which types are required to define the function, both as parameters and through any global/inherited scope/other state? Which types are directly related, eg, containers to string, containers themselves, indexing, etc?

By the time you have some sense of what things go where in the program, and what they turn in to, you usually have significantly narrowed down what the program can be doing.

Note: This works considerably better with some languages than others, but can work reasonably well on weakly typed things like Python.
A few years ago, I tried to launch a service back in France similar to all these ride sharing companies that work with taxis rather than private drivers ( I guess the most comparable in the US market would be FlyWheel ). Things went downhill for us pretty quickly but I learned a lot about the taxi industry, how universally bad it is and why.
In most countries you go, you'll notice that getting a cab is not a great experience. Small cities ( very roughly less than ~100k inhabitants ) have local companies. They're ran by local businesses that mostly depend on the quality of their service to survive. They also need to provide an ok job for their taxi drivers. This is why the service is usually more reliable and the quality of your rides is typically higher.
Larger markets are much more interesting and suffer from monopoly, which often leads to what can be called mafia companies. The taxi industry is old. Very old. Small taxi companies grew from a few cabs to often controlling a third of the city they're operating in ( sometimes even more ). Laws restricted smaller guys to get into business over the past decades which we can probably put on lobbying. The lobbying part is always difficult to prove but simply looking at the stats talk by itself. Medallion are universally so expensive that taxis are forced to go through these companies that already control the market. This is a quote from wikipedia regarding NYC medallions : "Because of their high prices, medallions (and most cabs) are owned by investment companies and are leased to drivers (“hacks”)" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_States#... . This is more representative of the US and a few european markets but it points out why many of these companies have been running without any competitors for half a century. Where it gets interesting is that many cities have just as many medallions today available for purchase as there were 50 years ago when the market was half the size. So why can we define these companies as Mafia ? Well it depends. Sometimes it is actual Mafia ( in South Africa you might feel safer in a township rather than in a taxicab, no joke. ). On more developed countries, these companies simply have control on our local governments. Las Vegas is the perfect example : taxi drivers are pissed because they're not getting paid crap and are even being taken a percentage of their tip ( either they get one or not ) based on their fare... When it comes down to introduce competitors ( Uber, Lyft, Sidecar etc... ), it usually is a lengthy battle since these companies refuse to match what the taxi companies pay our local governments. I could go on and on but every market has their own things going on and iterating over old legislation rather than keeping up with modernity put the taxi industry in a very bad place.

Anyway, sorry for the long answer. I currently work to one of the major ride sharing companies (I won't mention which one but this time I'm working with private drivers instead of actual taxis), and I'd love to share some of the stats we often have access to but it's obviously confidential...
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For Google, but not for DDG. It is very well possible to compete with a large entity in a niche. DDG is doing very well if you compare it with other (much higher profile) attempts at launching a new search engine. Remember Cuil?
Traditional Parkinson's symptoms (problems w/ voluntary movement) only show up after 80-90% of dopaminergic neurons are gone. That's a whole lot of dead cells.

Symptoms of pre-Parkinsonian dopaminergic neuron loss are (anhedonia, depression, psychiatric weirdness without movement disorder) are just beginning to be described, and it's very likely that stimulant use will be shown to cause pre-Parkinsonian symptoms in human populations once we know what to look for, and after somebody decides to spend tons of time and money investigating it.

Maybe the appropriate clinical recommendation is to exercise caution with DAT ligands, and to use them as minimally as possible?
Here is an explanation of Ripple consensus which was forked by Stellar: http://dev.ripple.com/consensus-whitepaper.html
I would stick this in the September 2014 "Who's Hiring?" thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252715

Generally, job postings are limited to these monthly threads and to HN backed companies (under the "jobs" link)
> Well, even if one has nothing to worry about personally, it's just tiring and demotivating to see all those broad accusations all the time. sigh

You do realize that when people talk about men as a class, that isn't the same thing as a personal accusation, right?
> An example would be, after my brother created several successful startups using ex-cons, he wanted to turn the program over to the City. He quickly learned without a politician attached and 'sitting on the board' you couldn't do this. The price of this? Paying him 70% of the donations coming in to support the program. I have numerous examples more blatant in 2nd and 3rd world nations.

That sounds like an excellent situation to gather the evidence and get some newspaper coverage.
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That's a good set of pitfalls to watch out for. Mainly, I just find it odd that in Django 1.7, they are using frozen models to mitigate some of these problems, but don't remove or freeze the base classes, therefore leaving the same problem. I'm sure the migrations system will get better over time.
I admit, I've given up.

The word "cracker" has no traction whatsoever. Partly because it sounds like something you put cheese on and partly because prominent crackers refuse to embrace it.

I'm not saying the current situation is ok, I'm just saying the fight is hopeless.
+1: OP probably should have checked the English grammar and spelling when writing about... grammar and spelling
In a hypothetical future world with basic income, machines would be the ones making the petrol and booze and indeed most of the things someone on basic income would be able to afford.
We all know no one attended the party, so maybe time travelers just didn't want to disturb that part of history?
This may be true in a strict factual sense, but I think the interesting question is why people are eating thousands of extra calories on an unprecedented scope.

Is it simply because more calories are available or is it because industrial foods that are scientifically designed to trigger an addictive response are completely devoid of the nutritional value that their flavors signal? The metabolic and satiety response to 360 calories of carbs in the form of a Big Gulp is completely different to the response to 360 calories of carbs from potatoes.
I think these results are fairly good. 'Just' some neuron loss at such doses. A lot of drugs can kill you if you take 20 times the recommended dose!
The reason we can stand on the shoulder of giants and improve is because we do not carry their personal ignorances. We have our own ignorances, which will be dismissed in coming generations. This doesn't make the giants any less giant, only more human.
Yep, gettext has been working well for decades (and ported to many languages), though the syntax is a little clunky I find.
That is a major plot point in Spider Robinson's Callahan's Con. (Look, his first few Callahan stories were charmingly quirky, and I got into the habit of reading them. This is not an endorsement of his larger oeuvre, okay?) In that case, the cosmic microwave background was used as the inertial reference, probabilities were the main problem to solve (we'd be well beyond the relative simplicity of the three-body problem), and little details like delta-v were not merely hand-waved away.
It seems like a big contributor to this problem is that the culture of FOSS is largely hostile to paying for software, even if its source is open and modifiable (but probably not re-distributable). I don't much about this, but I would love to make open source libraries or application that I can sell licenses for, but I'm not very optimistic it would work, and I'm not completely sure why it shouldn't.
the claims about my platform and the competence of my team would be my focus and I'd address them head on

Why? A former employee criticizes the company they were fired from -- that carries essentially zero weight to pretty much anyone, and you seem to be among very, very few who took it at face value. Heck, even if they weren't fired and didn't have the axe to grind, people complain about "spaghetti" code with such vigor and frequency in this industry that it has become essentially meaningless: It's the standard fall-back when someone is in over their head -- attack others, malign their code and technology, and try to pull up yourself by tearing down others.

Further, how in the world can you complain about them commenting on a "personal" matter, when they are responding to a guy who posted a highly-critical extortion rant. I call it an extortion rant because he even claims that if he warned them that they need to pay up or face his public flailing.

That's incredibly lame.
Alright, so this is probably the place to ask this.

Why is there a juxtaposition between what people want and between what people are willing to give?

Specifically: why do so many people ban web crawlers other than the "large" ones, and then wonder why the quality of other search engines are lacking?
Not quite.

There isn't a large group of stupid people loudly calling themselves "gay". Nor is "gay" the only widely-known English word for stupid.
I think it is worse than this. The vast majority of people know about it but simply don't care. Jennifer Lawrence's private photos are much more important to the proleriat.

The irony of this has simply passed them all by.
Thereis no reason to write a test that requires a calculator, so the the is no reason to demand a hobbled calculator.
Funny, I felt the same way about RS-232 switches ~40 years ago.

For example, http://tinyurl.com/poo777c
I wonder what Square-Enix aka Squaresoft aka Square would think of all this...?
Thanks: I'll have to remember to make use of that.
No, that's not quite it. Read it again.
This is anecdotal, but rodents I know never have a hard time focusing or providing requisite attention. I think that ADHD is over-diagnosed in this population. OCD, on the other hand, is prevalent, but actually beneficial for the rodent lifestyle IMHO.
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> Specifically: why do so many people ban web crawlers other than the "large" ones, and then wonder why the quality of other search engines are lacking?

Not to be difficult but is this a real problem? Do a lot of sites ban DDG's crawler and then complain about the low quality experience? Can you name a single example?
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He probably meant the number id for the electricity meter/gauge in their home.
Why not just extend the 12-char password you are comfortable with using a random 4-character-ish suffix that you change every three months? It doesn't take long to learn a new set of 4 characters.
Why was Square trademark granted after CodeSquare's trademark then? Square deals with computers, so technically its also a violation.

Or better yet, FourSquare. Square has a trademark[0] on using "Square" when describing "computer software for determining and mapping the physical locations of consumers;", yet they were given the trademark, even though there could be clear confusion, based on the legal wording.

The obvious answer is that Square has lawyers that found all the possible ways they could trademark the word "Square", even if the connection is highly suspect. Now they are using it to take down companies that cannot afford to defend themselves.

[0]http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4809:16h...
That's my point. I don't want a warning. I want it to just work ala Erlang. Injecting notifications to the threading framework that I might block is not ponies.

Out of curiousity how is Quasar detecting blocking?

To my knowledge ForkJoin doesn't detect blocking?

From the JDK 7 ForkJoin javadoc
> However, no such adjustments are guaranteed in the face of blocked IO or other unmanaged synchronization

Sure the framework has extra threads and will work around it via work stealing, but you can get a lot of blocked threads at the worst possible time when you hit a correlated source of blocking.

You also lose thread affinity once work stealing kicks off.

Notifying a framework of potential blocking is certainly less nasty than what I do to work around blocking without one, but for an existing project of sufficient scope it's tough to transition.
I wonder if there's really much overlap between the groups. Maybe the difference is that you're just describing different people who prioritize different things?
> I'm pretty sure the side effects would be utterly intolerable even at half of that dose.

I'm absolutely sure. My son takes methylphenidate for traumatic narcolepsy and hyperphagia. At ~60 kg with a 30mg dose, he's got tremors, sweats, chattering teeth, etc.

I can only assume that the researchers have reason to study using these higher doses in mice, but 1mg/kg and 10mg/kg was the first thing that caught my eye. Neurological degeneration seems entirely plausible when you're frying a brain with speed (so to speak).
> Could we make it $50/hour with no employment effects?

No, of course not. Nobody is asking for that.

> Which means the minimum wage is indirect welfare that redistributes money to low-skilled workers by taking it from some combination of business owners, employees, and customers.

That's a stretch... If raising the minimum wage caused a dollar-for-dollar increase in the price of everything then yes, but that would only occur in a business who's only major expense is unskilled labor, and even there it wouldn't be equal to the rise in wage. And for a low-income person, housing is a major expense that has a negligible labor component built into it.

> If Walmart pays a cashier $10/hour, they're helping him more than you are, but somehow they're the bad guy.

If people at Wal-Mart work and don't have enough money, and then they get welfare in order to make ends meet, that's you and I subsidizing Wal-Mart. I would rather that extra money for the worker come out of Wal-Mart's profits than your and my taxes.
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Number on your utility meter, likely functioning as an account number with the utility company.
Needs to light up.

(I love the above comment as it both critiques the idea and explains why so many good things end up as POS -- mission creep)

Seriously, if you could order different colors, they lit up, and you could stick them on the walls? You could have a lot of fun with these things. (Think IFTTT)

I am also waiting for the reusable post-it notes that use e-ink.
Bravo! I thought there was something wrong with my technique, but never knew what it could be.
So your advice is...?

My advice was specific and achieves the goal of not going bankrupt for a startup. I have been through lawsuits before and I know how expensive and distracting they can be.
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I'm talking about something I don't understand....
Why hasn't anyone come up with a way to make these less hard on the eyes? Reading code in mono-spaced is divine, but reading prose in mono-spaced actually causes my brain to almost shut down and refuse to read. It's less bad in a terminal with a dark background, but on a white webpage, I really have issues.
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> There is a clear link between minimum wage and unemployment.

This is not an accepted fact. There's a variety of scholarly literature that argues both sides of this issue.

> Those jobs will be gone for good.

That's an entirely different problem.
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Sure, you can - the publisher needs an agreement with Apple to publish stuff on App Store; but it's perfectly legal to have a hundred "unlicenced" developers (as in, out of Apple Developer Program) working on that product as long as you've got someone "licenced" to handle the submission process.

And it's also perfectly legal to develop iOS stuff without any license whatsoever, simply then it won't be distributed by Apple in it's store, and will be usable only on jailbroken devices. There's nothing illegal about jailbreaking devices nor about developing for them.

iOS development as such isn't a licenced profession, simply the main distribution channel is very controlled.
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Er, you can easily write a Java thread that just terminates or restarts itself if it crashes ...
One thing that your recipe format helps with is timing, which is one of the things that I always found fun about cooking. Which is, how to have everything work to come out about the same time. So how do you prep and cook, and work in a special detail at the same time.

Do you have plans to incorporate full meals on the site, such as a meat dish with two sides and how to cook them all together, to come out at the same time?
How is that easy to break? It protrudes like a quarter inch from the surface of the keyboard, and that's only the top third or so of the knob. I guess you could turn it too hard, but you're switching between three options, you really shouldn't be torquing it hard at all.
Has anyone used the Kanex Multi-sync keyboard [1]? Feature-wise it looks much better, just not sure about the reliability.

Turning a knob to switch devices seems terrible.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Kanex-Multi-Sync-Bluetooth-Keyboard-QW...
If I recall correctly, most dealerships won't actually charge you that much more to custom-order a car, because the car won't be sitting on their lot for very long compared to the cars they have to keep in stock and hope they sell.
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$100 dollars?! $100 DOLLARS?! How? How do you justify that price? For a button? Admittedly, a button backed by a web service described in very flowery language, but still. A button for $100
Is their selling point revision control for blueprints, or is it viewing them on mobile devices? On the latter point blueprints are very large, so I can't see how viewing them on a mobile device is useful.
I've had quality issues with some of their previous keyboard mouse combos, particularly bluetooth mice and perishing rubber.

However currently I use a M325 wireless mouse and its very tough. Carry it in my dusty laptop bag, dropped it a few times - no problems at all. No issues with rubber degradation. Highly recommended and works with unifying receivers.
Your point is valid for the current Tesla model line up. When they finally get down to their "affordable" model then these problems will have a clear effect.
Having moved to the US from the UK it's really noticeable how poor security culture is here in general. Plenty of things are secured by "the last 4 digits of your social security number", utility companies operate mainly on your address, very limited support for chip and pin (credit cards are still all signature based, and no one ever checks the signature).
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I dont think they can yet interopt. I would try zeromq there is some example code for both. Julia is improving rapidly and it has lots of tools, but only for data analysis. If you want create a web service for exampe you are better off with Python.
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Apparently one of Tesla's concerns is that they do not want their cars to be sold by anybody who also sells other cars. They don't think that electric cars will be treated fairly by sales staff that also have the opportunity to sell ICE cars.

Maybe they could put terms into their hypothetical franchise setup to forbid franchises from also being dealers for other companies, or sharing sales staff/floor space with another dealership. I'm not sure about that though.
this is why i browse with js disabled by default. i can enable what i need, but that's a small percentage of what's out there.
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Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with your advice, nor was I the down-voter. It just sucks and I completely understand the author's frustration. Money wins in court though.
> Bitcoin wallets are far easier to create than bank accounts.

What's the recommended wallet software to use these days that doesn't need tens of gigabytes of blockchain storage? All of the non-full-blockchain clients seem shady to varying degrees.
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I think it also has a built in GSM module so that you don't need to pair it to WiFi. If it's completely standalone then that's particularly nice for the shop/hotel use case. And makes it easier for average home users.

But still - $100??
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