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I have carefully compared the two languages and I do not see more similarity than between Go and Swift or any other language. You have yourself cited the different memory management models, and this is the main characteristic of Rust. The sole common feature is the use of LLVM.
So, is there any actual documentation of this anywhere?
Whenever I see examples of reported price gouging in sensitive industries like Healthcare, I try & pull up the financials of the companies. Two of the biggest owners of these hospitals are Hospital Corp. of America (Ticker= HCA) & Community Health Systems (Ticker=CHY) (1)

The return on assets (ROA) for HCA is 6.9%:
https://ycharts.com/companies/HCA/return_on_assets

The Return on Assets for CYH is ~1.9%:
https://ycharts.com/companies/CYH/return_on_assets

This is compared to Google (11.9%), P&G (6.5%) & Walmart (7.9%)

For those not familiar with ROA, it is taken as Net Income/ Total Assets. This should give you a rough idea on the return one gets on the assets / capital deployed. The higher the ROA, the better the earning power.

So, in the case of HCA/CYH, if they are price gouging so much, why aren't they generating far superior returns?

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Updated: Some people in the comments are suggesting that they are only price gouging the un-insured population. But Return on Assets (ROA) metrics are across the population base. So:

if we reduce the price gouging for the un-insured through regulation, then one of two things

a) the return on assets (ROA) go down to uneconomical levels & hospitals go bankrupt (2) - See examples

b) Costs for insured population (e.g. Medicare etc...) goes up to meet return on capital requirements.

What is the tradeoff one needs to make?

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(1)Officials at Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tenn., which operates 25 of the hospitals, and Hospital Corp. of America, based in Nashville, which operates 14, said hospital charges rarely reflect what consumers actually pay.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-so...

(2) http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-adm...
There are genetic differences between groups, but claim (a) is that there are such differences that contribute (substantively) to different outcomes -- as you wrote yourself. I don't know of any such evidence. It's controversial to say the least, but if you are engaging me in a discussion, you have the burden of proof on that point.

As mentioned, I don't really care for these types of discussions, because either way, it's not going to lead me to change my actions. My original motivation was to see what moldbug thinks of Jared Diamond's work (i.e. if he tries to refute it)

(a) and (b) aren't exclusive, but it could be that one contributes vastly more to the observed outcomes than the other. I happen to believe that this is the case with (b), as Jared Diamond explains. There is just much less evidence supporting (a) compared to that supporting (b).

I think you misread my last statement. Providing evidence for b means that you can't apply the argument that if b were false, then a. They are not exclusive, but at least one of them is necessary. I would assume (b) is false without evidence as well.
"Once you grok that it's more or less an immutable DAG"

That's problem #1. More or less immutable = mutable. Other SCMs limit mutations to additions and use a separate command (svnadmin) to do things that may permanently lose information. The svn repository may be ugly, but it can be relied on to store history.

"you just need to find the right incantation."

Incantation is the right term. As you admit, it's "just" missing a consistent command-line UI.

The combination of these two makes me very weary whenever I do anything remotely difficult in git.

A third thing that scares me is the ease with which people talk about things still being there "as long as git hasn't garbage collected them". To me, that sounds like having a memory allocator with an 'unfree' call that you can use to try and recover accidentally freed memory.
Interesting to see Apple is following Microsoft (MDIL, .NET Native) footsteps.
Giving one person a free pass (...)

terry is given the exact opposite of a "free pass." he has created at least eight accounts at this site. all of them are now hellbanned.
Regardless of whether you or tptacek has the better method for hiring coders, I have much more problem with dvt's tone in his post than yours in the article. Hope this kind of response won't discourage you from posting more, as I've had a lot of value from your writing in the past and found this article interesting as well.
are you trying to compare JS using Node.js with Swift?
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Apple is just following Microsoft footsteps.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn584397%28v=vs.110...
As someone involved in Business Intelligence, I would like to see how this venture pans out.
GitLab CEO here, in GitLab we do this too and call it protected branches, your master branch is automatically marked. See https://about.gitlab.com/2014/11/26/keeping-your-code-protec...
This thing has a lot of moving parts.
Plus that certificate will be revoked pronto.
The thing that is driving this problem is that medicare pays less than it costs for the service.

Hospitals have to make the money up somehow, so they bill everyone else inflated prices. The insurance companies know the prices are inflated, so try to negotiate them down.

Hospitals agree to be negotiated down since at least they make something. And of course some insurance companies get a better deal (for various reasons) than others.

What ends up happening is that everyone pays a different price, and standardizing the price would only hurt the hospital.

This is completely unfixable so long as medicare pays so little.

Some people want to fix this with a single payer system, not realizing that doing so would only make things worse. Either medical costs will go up for the government, or hospitals will go broke. Neither outcome is acceptable to people.

And that is how we ended up in the pathetic state we are in today.
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I had the same opinion as you until I started some code with it.

The true is that I had never been so productive writing code. The friction from what is in your head and the code is almost 0.

It is true that I ended writing a few functions that were there only because the lack of generics, the type system and other stuff being "built-in". But at the end, I think it was an order of magnitude less often than I was expecting it to. I was wrong.
Under what circumstances should a work enter the public domain, if ever?
If I understand algebraic effects correctly, the computation "emit 3; fail" might emit or bury the 3 (or do something even more strange) depending on which effect handlers you pass to it. Keeping effect handlers outside of computations is what allows for commutativity etc.
If only they put as much effort into their product as they do toward defending their honor.
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I wish you could send a request by hitting the enter key in paw. I seem to remember that not being possible.
I don't use mobile browsers a whole lot because I quite commonly find mobile websites work poorly. The only thing I actually enjoy about any of the gadgets I own is the music player on my ipad. That's It.

Among the reasons I enjoy HN is that the pages load quickly over my mom's dialup. Mom doesn't get broadband because she doesn't need broadband just to email our family and her friends.

I particularly enjoy the linked articles because I learn so much by reading them however my hard experience is that devoting myself to learning all that stuff means I get nothing else done.

I greatly enjoy the discussions here; they are commonly better than anywhere else. Like the way slashdot was in 1999, or Usenet in 1989.

My most serious gripe is that HN often tells me I'm posting too fast, then I have to wait hours to post a reply.
Windows NT is sad for its missed opportunity. MS could have done something inspired by these newer architectures. They did depart from Unix, but to do something in no way better and in many ways worse.
Did you read what he said? It doesn't matter when on the world he lives because his argument is based on a ratio, and that's invariant.

That people that can drop money on Apple hardware but can't afford $100 per year doesn't make sense, for the obvious reason that Apple hardware costs many times that.
From the technical point of view, it is a cool project.

From the business point of view, I don't see any value over the existing options.
Well if the iPhone6+ is in landscape, it would fit two "portrait" mode apps side by side.
Every year the new XCode comes, and I'm less excited about new features and more worried about how many more Macs will I have to buy. Last update on XCode 6 made it impossible for some 2012 models to run it.

This update is almost surely for Yosemite and above. The cost of developing on Apple platform is crazy these days. I miss the days when they could mock Microsoft for having an expensive Visual Studio. Now they make you buy a new Mac per developer every 2 years.
40% of mobile developers don't have good apps. Heck, more like 90% of them don't (Sturgeon's law).
Because these prices only apply to the 13% of people that are uninsured. The remainder have an insurance company that negotiates with the hospital on their behalf.
Obviously the answer is that the uninsured are getting gouged because they have no leverage. When the negotiation is between giant corps the playing feel is more competitive.
I've just gone through Warfighting, the USMC's military doctrine pamphlet. Well worth a read, and surprisingly applicable.
I don't know why this is surprising, since it's purely an outgrowth government policies. The state mandates hospitals provide certain kinds of care without providing funds under EMTALA. That money has to come from somewhere, so it comes from the patients who can pay.

Since insurance companies and the government can get negotiated rates (or just dictate rates, in the case of the government) the only people left to squeeze are people without insurance but with enough money to pay.

What this map is really telling you is which hospitals have large concentrations of patients who can't pay for care. Before they shut down King-Drew Medical Center in LA six out of seven patients couldn't pay their bill, so if you showed up at the ER without insurance they were going to try to charge you enough to cover the six people in front of you.
Highlights of iOS 9 Unveiled at WWDC-2015
The only way they would not be leaving money on the table is if their work was so irrelevant that making it public domain would be a waste of time anyway.
Cooperative multiple inheritance for CoffeeScript
Devils advocate here. Would wikileaks qualify?
Would iOS32 be supported at all?
This is magical. I'd love to see you try to submit this again. I'm at WWDC all this week and would be willing to show it to the App Store Lab, where actual App Store employees could hear your argument in person. If you want to make this happen, get the app running again and email me.
Man, stuff like WWDC and in a wider sense, Apple, is really becoming a religion. Some of those hearty reactions on Twitter were so euphoric, that for me it cannot be explained by regular, adult, technological excitement anymore. It's not like they announced cold fusion or life on mars.

But anyways, a cordial +1 for being a nerd with all your heart! :)
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>Uh oh. Remember Paycoin, with its "Prime Controllers" and "guaranteed minimum value". That didn't end well. The whole point of all this cryptographic machinery is supposed to be to eliminate the need to trust some central party or parties.

Personally, I'd compare this to Ripple; semi-centralized transaction timestamping seems to work ok for them.

>It's conceptually elegant, but the process is complex and delicate. Lots of things can go wrong, and it needs "challenge periods" of about a day during which things get sorted out.

I agree.
He probably (obviously?) has some corrupted Spotlight index.
Airtel sends Cease and Desist letter to Indian coder who exposed code injection
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[I'm a Rust user, and not particularly fond of Go, but...]

Not having great static typing doesn't make it not pragmatic.

Given Go's purpose, it is extremely pragmatic.

One of the reasons Google uses Go is because their employees are often fresh out of college and might not be familiar with the depths of type systems.

If you look at most professional Java/C++ code (starting to see this with Rust too), the features of the language are used to their full extent to create really convoluted APIs (to an outsider not familiar with the language). So, to work on it, one must first become familiar with the intricacies of these languages (this is not as easy as picking up a book, you need experience), and then with how the language is used in context, which is another time consuming thing.

Instead, go trades off some higher level features for compilation speed and ease of learning.

After programming in Go for a week I was able to pick up any Go code -- ranging from the standard library to various other applications, and know what was going on. I cannot say the same about Java or C++ or Rust; generics/templates/virtual/friend/advanced typesystem gymnastics all are used to great extents in the code for a standard library or some large application. one may be able to use the language for your own stuff after a week of learning and hacking, but one will need much more time before they're well suited to contribute significantly to existing codebases.

A course I took recently was taught by a PL aficionado. He knew Rust, Nim, and Go, along with many older languages. Go, Rust, and Erlang, among others, would have worked beautifully for the project topic (concurrent stuff). He made everyone write in Go because he wanted a uniform language for project evaluation, and because Go is something students could reasonably pick up in a week without constraints on their background.

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At the same time, the Go community is pretty awesome. There is a "go way" of doing things, and while it is pretty rigid, that doesn't make it not pragmatic. From my (admittedly limited) discussions with them, they do seem to think practically/pragmatically. There are good reasons for wanting to use Go. These folks know those boundaries, and think practically within them.
What's the incentive for people to merge mine this? Namecoin issues its own currency, and it only has a third of the hashrate of Bitcoin. If this sidechain follows that example, it seems like it will be much easier to mount 51% attacks and forge proofs.
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CodeWarrior academic was much, much cheaper.
I want to watch this movie.

What about Pony?
There's a good reason for that requirement. Loading 32bit apps on a 64but device requires loading all the 32bit version of shared libs, massively increasing the memory footprint.
Is there any substantial new technology a major company gets that another competing company wont try to match sooon?
Wow. ClickHole
In case y'all are curious it would make sense if this is LLVM bitcode: http://llvm.org/docs/BitCodeFormat.html

Seems like a very smart way to keep things binaries up to date without developer intervention -- and possibly even allow re-targeting to different CPU architectures after the fact. That would eliminate the need for something like Rosetta if Apple ends up switching major CPU architectures again some day.

I really think that LLVM is one of the best things to happen to computer science in a long, long time.
Look, here google is trying to solve the problem of government surveillance and security. Web servers are a very weak point because you can shut them down if you have the law on your side, and recently the law has been abusive. And even if you can change your DNS, the root servers are still an important part of the internet, and they're subject to control and legal issues. Control and authority makes those aspects of the internet centralized. This applies to your hundreds of mail and web providers, which are not free by the way (datacenters). Decentralized technologies are entirely free.

What I'm talking about, is protocols that make services impossible to shut down, like bittorrent or bitcoin. That's what I mean by a decentralized internet. Those technologies are different and were made especially with the goal of avoiding control, and they are exactly the solutions to breaches of privacy. Here every computer is equal, and that's a true decentralized internet, in term of hardware AND software. What I was talking about, is generalizing bitcoin and bittorrent to messaging or even hosting databases.

Such software would run on many domestic computers that want to use it and host chunks of data in a redundant manner. The issue is authenticity and signing of data. But other than that, that's where the future is.

I'm sorry but I can't trust the html/http web one bit. HTML and javascript are awful technologies, which are slow to parse, building web browsers have been a race that resulted in no interesting progress and the web2.0 has been a joke. All those techs have been the base google have been making its money on, which also makes easy to mine, so to me centralization is a privacy issue.
Network proximity in Web applications
Off topic for this thread, but still of interest I think: when buying text books not for college (i.e., when exercise order and page numbering don't matter), I've saved hundreds over the last years buying international editions through e.g. Abebooks. Like, the book mentioned in the parent is 6$ (!) with free shipping (!!!) from India: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=sipser&sts=... .

These are usually either used or new international/Indian editions. The quality is not as good as the 'real' versions (very thin paper, binding not very solid) but the savings are substantial. I bought a book a few weeks ago that I couldn't find for less than 120 euros here in Europe, and it cost me ~20 euros including shipping from India.
So let me put it this way. Your description of mathematics is not very amusing to me.
::shakes Magic 8-ball:: Outlook not so good.

A nearly identical situation has been unfolding over the past 10 years for a certain Taiwanese tea train.[1]

Constructed in 1906, the Alishan Forest Railway has so many similarities it looks like a joke. Narrow ~2 ft gauge, ~87km in length, 2,000+ meters in vertical elevation gain serving high mountain tea farms, 6%+ grades, ~5 Z switchbacks, Class B Steam for special occasions, Diesels for regular days, in the running for World Heritage sites, and in terrible financial straights after a long fight to make it go private[2].

The line was government run for most of it's life, privatized in 2008, and returned to government control in 2011. It makes $2 million USD in revenue each year but costs $6.5 million to run and needs another $30 million in repairs to keep it going[3] (due to a landslide as well). That said, if you get a chance, go on a Wednesday. Shay's are fantastic and we're down to 5 of these kinds of lines throughout the world.

I am really routing for Mr. Banerjee here but the odds seem stacked against him. Ultimately it was the installation of a two-lane highway with a plethora of shuttle services that made the Taiwan high mountain rail obsolete. If he can command a monopoly on the road as well, of course he will come out ahead. But from the sound of the taxi business in Ghum it looks like that battle is already lost.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alishan_Forest_Railway

[2] http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/05/01/2...

[3] http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/05/01/2...
You can parse streams of text in PS too, so it's not like cmdlets are making the pipeline any less powerful.

As for binding to .NET, I don't think that's very limiting. A surprising amount of stuff is already easily hosted in .NET.

I would argue that all PS needs to be more competitive is: Ports to Linux/*BSD/OSX and a terminal implementation for Windows that doesn't suck.

Cmd.exe is a piece of shit that needs to die:

- Command editing. Is support for at least ^A, ^E, ^W, and friends too much to ask?

- Completion. Who wants to cycle through 4253 possibilities one at a time?

- Copy/paste. Programs actually STOP executing when you select text, like as if you ^Z in Unix. Even with quick edit enabled so you don't have to ALT-SPACE-E-ENTER<select stuff>ENTER, the fastest way to paste is 4 keys: ALT-SPACE-E-P.

- No SSH. Microsoft is addressing this. It's borderline criminal that Windows doesn't just ship with OpenSSH server already.

- No screen/tmux. I can't even talk about how it deals with resizing without using a lot of profanity.

- Lack of echo by default is seriously annoying.

In short, make the terminal feel like Putty and the editing/completion features feel like bash and I think PS could give all existing shells a run for their money.
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git checkout is what I want to do most of the time, but I always have been confused with svn checkout, so I never could remember it.
What value would FFOS really provide on a phone that was sold with Android? Is replicating the guts all that important, if Mozilla's innovations are elsewhere?
I find it interesting this hasn't gotten as much attention as other announcements. It seems to hand over a great deal of responsibility to Apple, at least in terms of performance. Something some might feel comfortable with or not. I can imagine this lack of control about what instructions will actually run on the hardware might not fair well with some developers?
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the social security number isn't actually unique. Is that true?
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In my experience you need to do both!
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Good to know. I switched sometime before that, but I've been meaning to start tinkering with my Nexus again!
The Art of Start 2.0 was amazing...
I'm thinking that Apple sees a new threat to their mobile (profit) dominance: Fully portable Mobile+Desktop OS enabled through Core M, i.e. Windows 10. "Bitcode" is them preparing to unify their OSes just in case Win10 is successful and buyers suddenly want to have one device to rule them all (i.e. MS Continuum). This could very soon be a reality - and Apple seems to be preparing themselves. Smart move [1].

[1] http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130701185217/jurassicpa...
That argumet doesnt make sense because hospitals are not forced to take Medicare. It is a profitable business decision to take Medicare otherwise they wouldn't do it.
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This is amazing how long they can go on without a basic functionality as renaming ...
So- if we reduce the price gouging for the un-insured through regulation, then one of two things 1) the return on assets (ROA) go down to uneconomical levels & hospitals go bankrupt (1) - See examples 2) Costs for insured population (e.g. Medicare etc...) goes up to meet return on capital requirements.

What is the tradeoff one needs to make?

(1)
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-adm...
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If you refer to the original comment you will see this refers to non-emergency treatments. In this people have choice and can largely travel to an alternate locations making this solution feasible for the majority. For emergency treatment, a different model would be needed to reduce gouging issues, likely more direct market intervention for areas the discussed wouldn't benefit. I'll leave that for another day.