torkins

Which article did you read? Not only was there no discussion of the cost of false negatives, there was very little treatment of the actual cost of false positives, just a nebulous assertion that its bad for kids to be on pills.

I would say the point of the article is here is a list of reasons why it might be over-diagnosed, some people on both sides of that, 50% puffed up with human interest pap about the Boy Whisperer

I didn't get it when he mentioned it but thanks to your comment I'm pretty sure I do. Might want to remove the clue for others' benefit

premiums rose by 4% for 2013, so that's the right direction, even sub 5%

edit: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/business/survey-finds-mode...

As others have said this GAAP/FASB principle makes sense. The only thing I'll add is that you mentioned not being able to ask for that money back. The accounting activity involved in a refund of prepaid liabilities would be to reduce both their cash and their prepaid liabilities. This would be a perfectly sensible transaction, so GoDaddy could certainly accommodate this from an accounting perspective.

look at it from the other side:

Do you think it is criminally negligent for a parent to bring up their child without any education whatsoever?

Do you think the state should intervene to protect criminally neglected children from their neglecting parents?

Most people I know, myself included, would say yes to both questions, and therefore the establishment of compulsory education is at least in part directly intended to benefit the children. Education is shown to be one of the very few reliable indicators around the globe of both individual and societal prosperity. How we educate is always up for debate.. should we educate is typically not.

Median senator age is 62. Most Senators are highly educated (many from highly-paid professions such as legal before they became highly-paid senators) and married.

Thirty years of high income (100-150K family income in today's dollars) with 10-15% saving and investing in the market can easily result in a net worth in the low millions, not including inherited investments, long-term real estate property appreciation, etc. People in their 60s have seen an incredible appreciation over the past 30 years in most sectors (Just the S&P Index itself is over 9% annualized over that time frame).

Long story, short, $2.5M is not by any means exorbitant for retirement age people with an educated and successful life.

It would be a bizarro world where we would want idiot paupers to be Senators, or even a socio-economically equivalent demographic.

I think most government workers, elected or not, would find the idea that you work in government for the money amusing to say the least.

"Education loans has led to restore[sic] slavery" is one of the most hyperbolic comments I have read on HN. I don't agree that giving students credit secured by future income is equivalent to forcibly converting a free human into the property of another.

The point you made was that India et al are bad too, so why are we judgmental Westerners always harping on North Korea.

North Korea is a grotesque among nations, reminding the Western observer more of dystopian, cautionary literature more than a nation-state in the modern era. It has a theocracy founded on a religion invented by its reigning family, it has profound poverty, it is militant and provocative in a way that overshadows even Iran. Especially recently this is the case, with North Korea making nuclear threats against its neighbor and the United States which we know are backed up with at least some know-how. It engages in such bizarro control measures to keep its population as isolated as possible from the rest of the world.

It couldn't be more clear to most why it is a country of focus for the international community.

I wouldn't argue that it is a modern Western democracy, a great place to live or a place of reasonable social equality. However, Indians do have the fundamental right to move about India and to leave India without special permission. It may be a meaningless right for those unable to convey themselves out of India (true for the abject poor in any nation), but it fundamentally separates India from Iran, North Korea, China, etc.

Not every place that has injustice is the same. There are gradations, and drawing equivalencies between places that are not the same only makes legitimate critiques less so. I think you have a lot of good points about India, and my reply was not to say they are invalid. I just don't think it is helpful or correct to compare them to theocracies and dictatorships.

India simply does not belong in the same group as North Korea, Iran, or even China. Fundamentally, whether it struggles with poverty or not, it is a democracy, not a totalitarian regime. Indian citizens vote in elections and enjoy the freedom of movement. Unlike North Korea and Iran, it is not a theocracy. Having a huge population and struggling with poverty is not grounds to damn them into the same ignominious group as you have done.

At LogicBlox (http://www.logicblox.com/), we use it to deploy our customers' applications both for testing and production. We also use hydra (http://hydra.nixos.org/) to run our buildfarm. We're soon going to use NixOS for our deployments. If it wasn't clear from that, we're fans... :)

I think you're misinterpreting the meaning of one-way mirror. He means that you're hanging out with your friends while being observed surreptitiously by people on the other side of the one-way mirror (a one-way mirror is reflective on one side, and see-thru on the other, often associated with police interrogation rooms)

how about just making it so people can share what they want with who they want, without difficulty? I don't want my software to preach to me about how to democratize my social whatsit, I just want to find a replacement for emailing pictures out to a list of people (notice how GMail wouldn't force me to email the pictures to everyone I know).

The article treats the 'open' and 'closed' status of APIs as if it somehow relates to being open-sourced or something. Really they are just referring to access control, which is both irrelevant to the issue at hand (whether an API is copyrightable) and also not at all relevant to the actual APIs being discussed (Java). Access rights for linked APIs mostly don't exist, and if they do its by way of authorizing the runtime the library is running within, not by using security tokens + authentication.

If you'd bother to watch the video you linked, you might notice he doesn't actually say that... in fact he says that is a stupid thing to say.

No, he's wrong. Natural selection doesn't speed up or slow down, it just is. Each passing generation there are pressures put on the spreading of human genes, and those pressures are the manifestation of natural selection. Whether those pressures are different now than before, or whether they shape "the future" is irrelevant to the biological impact of natural selection.