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Hi Stephen,

Congratulations on your great aspirations and willingness to pursue them with hard work!

If it doesn't work out for you in California, I suggest moving to Buenos Aires. Although I am from California, I lived there for many years and it's a great city with tons of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial spirit as well as hacker and programmer culture. In some ways, it is much more of an entrepreneurial place than anywhere in the USA, in my opinion, due to the fact that people have necessarily developed more of a DIY attitude. Best of all: Colombian immigrants/expats are much more welcome there than most other places, especially the USA. In fact, I heard that Colombians can attend and graduate from the University of Buenos Aires (which has an excellent Computer Science dept.) so you may be able to get an education there also. FYI, University of Buenos Aires is more or less FREE. If you have skills and can show that you are developing them quickly, I think getting a good job as a software developer there should also be possible. I'd checkout Globant, OmbuLabs and Inaka first. They are software consultancies with good reputations.

Good luck and keep going!
I actually don't agree at all.

There is a big danger in the approach I gave, but it's political interference. If the god-botherers can be forced to keep their mitts off, I expect my way would create more basic research and more simple effective drugs.

Greed motivates chasing the slight change that will let your company replace an ageing-out-of-patent drug with a freshly patented one, drugs for rich people, drugs aimed at insurance payers, and it de-motivates improving the basics.
In the US the government bits of health care out-perform the private bits of health care.

One of the reasons the US has good health outcomes for some things like cancer is because of the huge amounts of government spending.
I'm a libertarian and completely in favor of private property and an open, informed marketplace.

Having said that, this is out of control. If you know you're selling me a life-or-death product which has no peer, and the government protects your property such that others can't make it cheaper? It's not a market. It's rent-seeking, highway robbery.

Bad actors are going to cause an overreaction that is going to seriously disrupt new product research. The thing for these companies to do is back down while saving face. There are real medicines that might cost this much to develop, and we need to develop them. Polluting the pharma market with even more price-gouging will not end well for anybody concerned.
Was his paper as verbose as this article? If so it's no wonder that no one would publish it.

He writes like he's being paid per word....
Can't imagine why you've been down voted for this completely accurate observation.
His point was that iOS is more secure. I don't see how security being hard is a counterpoint to that.
That's just an argument for government directed research spending (specifically: astronomy), not military spending.
Violent Video Games: Myths, Facts, and Unanswered Questions (2003)
Colin Powell Weighs in on the Idea of a Muslim U.S. President
> She, at the end of day, did.

As did Belka and Strelka.

The matter of fact is that Tereshkova's flight didn't end up in a catastrophe not because of what she did on the orbit, but despite of it. It was salvaged from the ground control, despite of her having a panic attack and going into unresponsive mode. Her claim on how she pleaded not to have the tech punished is simply ludicrous.
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lol
Virtually all national health care systems perform better (in every sense) than the American private sector one.
Can't understand why it's so laggy. Sometimes I click on one button and it's so slow I move my cursor and it clicks on another button...
A brilliant book which made me think that this is how science is really done. One of the questions is whether there is a message at all. How this message is first suspected (due to non-pseudorandom behaviour of a fraudulent table of random numbers) itself is a fresh idea. I found the various hypotheses in this book itself to be a very nice. IIRC, there is also an "opera singer" hypothesis that it is not the content of the message which matters, but its frequency.
French data regulator rejects Google’s right-to-be-forgotten appeal
The vast majority of papers in quantum information and foundations involve proofs of some mathematical results and some discussion of their physical/operational relevance. I don't see anything to prevent it in principle. What stops it working in your field?
Why does clicking on the link redirect me to the same wired article?
Do you really want Congress arguing over which drug research to fund?
Hence the manufactured outrage at "socialism". The only way to make people consciously vote to stay poor and sick is to convince them that God, freedom and apple pie depend on supporting team blue rather than team red.
Sorry, I haven't been able to find it.
Just because Snowden says something does not make it newsworthy.

It's more likely that we and the aliens wouldn't be using the same technology.
At least in the US, that actually sounds like it's already illegal from general business regulation. As in, no new laws needed, get the ones we have enforced. Wouldn't be surprised you can already pierce the corporate veil without new laws too.

This is not specifically in reply to the parent, but the point fits here: I'd observe that calling for more regulation or even outright nationalization to fix this, when it's probably already illegal, is not thinking very clearly. Regulations are already failing to prevent this... how is enacting more things that make illegal things illegalier going to actually solve the problem? How is doing the same, but more, actually going to help?
What do you use to find out which certs are popular?
So firstly, "It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system" [1].

Its obvious that this a great economic move in the short run.

What are the things that we can do so that companies aren't motivated by this type of business model? What are the long term actions people can do so that there are long term consequences for companies that do these types of price jacking?

[1] http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/93142/1/EML_18_eng....
Have Compagnolo components ever been compatible with other maker's parts? As far as I know Shimano and SRAM are compatible, and most of the smaller players work in the same way. Compagnolo, AFAIK, is the only outlier here.

As for the seat post, it's these molded carbon frames that seem to be built for short use and then the trash that are problematic in my eyes. They're just wasteful and most of the people buying them are doing it just to buy some time for their various races.

Having gotten in to triathlons a bit lately, I'm constantly annoyed that someone can literally buy gear to make themselves minutes faster, even though our engines may be comparable. I wish the organizing bodies would standardize the equipment for competition.
The Layman's Way to Webhooks: How they work, and solve essential problems
APA Review Confirms Link Between Playing Violent Video Games and Aggression
Ask HN: Where are these avatars made?
Hi HN, I found some cool avatars that some people have used on other websites and was wondering if you might know where they're from.
Here are a couple examples: http://i.imgur.com/pWW3DuO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kX7tQbh.png
Hollywood IT proposes that people who know nothing about computers all "know" that every computer thing that has ever been invented is trivially interoperable with every other computer thing that has ever been invented on a fast hollywood movie timescale given a sufficiently advanced computer mage to recite some incantations and be treated as socially inferior if its a plot requirement. I think everyone here is experienced enough to laugh at that.

There is an EXTREMELY close analogy in EE / telecom land where people with no domain specific knowledge think all radio hardware, modulation methods, protocols, are all trivially interoperable with each other. Sure... go ahead and try to listen to trunked public service comms using a spark gap era coherer detector, good luck with that. Or try to listen to 60s era SSB voice using 30s era AM receiver. Higher order PSK/QAM is indistinguishable from white noise on a non-phase oriented receiver. This is all before we get into weirdness like trivial line coding, think of old T-1 circuits and B8ZS "scrambling" to get around the clock sync limitations of AMI line coding. Try to use an aircraft NDB receiver on GPS satellites or vice versa in order to navigate. Or connect an accurate clock built to sync to WWVB to the GPS constellation instead, or again vice versa. Telecom, being usually run at the limit of hardware when it was new, is even less interoperable than "computers in general". Given poor interoperation pragmatic results on our own planet, the odds of communicating with space aliens is basically zero, even the odds of detecting are almost zero.
Except for socialized health care?

http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourc...

And roads, electricity, emergency services, internet service...

> performing better (in every sense)

Oh, I see, you didn't really want a fair comparison. No matter how far you separate the means of two gaussians their tails will always overlap, and therefore you are tautologically correct. I'll try to remember that next time I go to pay 2x what I would pay in a contemporary social system for health insurance, I'm sure it will make me feel better.
Oh manufacturer has a choice too. Make a reasonable profit and live an extremely comfortable life, or make an obscene profit, put people's very lives in danger, and risk a long prison sentence.

The problem there is ZERO risk for them to make a pill $750, let's give them a little motivation to do the right thing.

I mean why not even $75, why go directly to $750? Because insurance, that's why. What about people in the medicaid-gap who cannot get insurance in this country? There are millions of people who cannot get insurance in the USA to this very day.
"I'm a libertarian and completely in favor of private property and an open, informed marketplace."

Price shenanigans like this is prima facie evidence that the marketplace has become closed or uninformed. I still say the best solution is to correct that, not to try to make this illegal, especially when it probably already is.
It's not like this is a 'win' for Apple - the news app isn't globally available (I think it's just US?) so this sure doesn't do wonders for my opinion of them. Oh well guess I'll just wait a day and see if I even remember to go check back. (I probably won't, I have a bad memory)
I didn't refer to Homo naledi in my comment, but nonetheless the article does touch on the fact that Homo erectus was a widespread species across Africa-Eurasia, but after nadeli was around.
I wonder if Martin Shkreli is looking over his shoulder now that this story has gotten a lot of press.
Microsoft applied another NSA patch without properly testing it first?! :)))

I've recently saw and article from a guy who did memory dump of Skype and found his SSH keys inside. This is getting out of control...
Oh, I see you have an infection that will kill you. How much you gonna pay? Why not bring back smallpox while we are at it? Just imagine the profits!

There is a special place in hell for people like Martin Shkreli.
> I'm a libertarian and completely in favor of private property and an open, informed marketplace.
> Having said that, this is out of control.

It sounds like you're well on your way to realising the flaw in straight-ahead libertarianism and joining those in the mainstream who want just enough market regulation to allow free markets without a huge social cost.

I get the feel that most reasonable souls are in agreement on this. We merely differ in how much we think is 'just enough' and the point at which social benefits should trigger an intervention.

Both the right and left are also probably in agreement that historically speaking - intervention has been problematic and flawed.
They forked the last GPLv2 release.
One way to "avoid health issues" is to treat people when they get sick, not wait until they get sick enough that their terror of bankruptcy is overridden by their suffering. This is what the "national health service" in the UK will do. You go in when you have an infected hangnail, not wait until you have blood poisoning. And they treat you. And it's free.
I agree, a healthcare system, the question is at what cost per patient/treatment. The healthcare system, is a system, not an industry per se. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for public healthcare... but the comment feels like a knee jerk reaction.
> I've yet to see any one industry that has been nationalised as is performing better (in every sense) than the private sector.

The nationalized health care programs seem to be performing better in other countries than ours.
Why would Congress be micromanaging it? They don't do that for NASA.
Secure you say ? Source code or GTFO !
Used Daraprim in the 80's when in Southern Africa. It was a mainstay and, as far as I can recall, not expensive then either. I find this whole procedure revolting; no innovation either.
Kickstarter Is Now a Public Benefit Corporation
Doesn't Germany have a "church tax" which is essentially supporting another destructive cult, except this time it's enforced by the government?
I am a fund manager and I have followed Martin Shkreli since his prior company, Retrophin, went public about two years ago. Simply put, Martin is a sociopathic criminal with a well-established, and consistent track record of deceit, recklessness, failure, and just plain old stupidity. But he is also hyper-aggressive. He is currently living in Switzerland, and it's my understanding that he fled the country in order to avoid prosecution and asset forfeiture.

Anyway, Martin is running the same playbook at Turing that he did at Retrophin, which is to find some old orphan drug and raise the price by orders of magnitude. It's believed insurers won't have a choice but to pay since there are no competitors. If you want to see how this has worked out in the past, feel free to google "KV Pharmaceuticals Makena" which did something similar a few years ago, only to have it bankrupt the company (which would be an outcome completely consistent with Martin's history and tactics).

For a fun read, check out the lawsuit filed against him by Retrophin. In all my years of investing, he is one of the most unique scumbags I've ever come across.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1438533/0001193125152...
Compiler warnings are harmful
https://web.skype.com/en/ works!
I tried this on my phone last week when I read the article. One I can't cut/paste on my Note 4 Lollipop (At the emergency password screen). Two if you even try to cut/paste or take longer than a second to the phone locks and you have to start over on the password.

Maybe it's because I use the finger print reader and password is for emergency. On my phone this hack seems virtually impossible after 10 minutes of trying really hard to get it to work.
That's definitely untrue. Check out the cancer survival rates. The US exceeds most countries by far.

Now, if you had said "Virtually all national healthcare system provide better care based on cost" I would have agreed with you.
We wouldn't have any of this stuff if it wasn't for the military.. we'd all be dead.
It's one more ridiculous example of the 'Internet of Shit'.

If it's not secure, I could imagine people fiddling with the weights just to scare the crap out of parents. It's something my younger self would do.
Big pharma/biotech spends about 2x what the NIH spends on research.

And that doesn't include the tens of billions in biotech VC funding.
I'm not sure I agree that there's a problem here.

Time limited exclusive content on puff pieces just isnt a priority for me.

I mean, wired is given ng the content away free. I don't have a "human right" to read this.

Is it a slippery slope? Perhaps. What if real news gets walled off like this? US presidential debates being on cable only (or TV only for cord cutters) seems a bigger problem to me.

There's a lot of nuance to this issue, but I lean towards wired being fine. Though, I don't think the headline should have been displayed on the main page of non apple news devices, I don't know if it was. We all got there via a hacker news direct link.
This is why I believe in corporate death sentences.

You ship millions of cars that don't actually slowly poison the drivers but the people on the side of the road instead, you should have more than a little justice coming your way.
No, this will just make a bad problem worse. Overreaction in the extreme.

There may be a need to look at enforcing some more openness to formulas and manufacturing process so that after patents expire it's less possible to maintain an exclusive on a generic. That is consistent with the intent of patent protection and encourages open markets and competition.
It's actually a bizarre thing when anybody gets security right the first time. If Apple happened to do something well, that's a huge credit to Apple. Heck, even Android's experience here is above the baseline for our industry.
> (sidenote: disqualified if used in the pits during a race)

Off topic, but why would using reverse in the pits disqualify a driver / team?
It looks like the stock is pricing in an enormous fine, because otherwise a 500k recall would not do anything like this to the price. Even adjusting for VW's disgraceful wrongdoing, do I smell veiled protectionism? Payback for Europe's hounding of GOOG in there somewhere?
> With the price now high, other companies could conceivably make generic copies, since patents have long expired. One factor that could discourage that option is that Daraprim’s distribution is now tightly controlled, making it harder for generic companies to get the samples they need for the required testing.

> The switch from drugstores to controlled distribution was made in June by Impax, not by Turing.

This is the culprit, and honestly I have no idea what "controlled distribution" means in this context. Anybody would like to clarify?
This is an absolutely ridiculous statement. Last year Gilead sold a drug that cures hepatitis C. Cures!

The error in your thinking is that curing a patient results in less money than just chronically treating one. Not so!
The notice that it's not available is the content in this case.
As much as my compassionate side is siding with hospitals and patients, the company should be allowed to charge any price it considers reasonable for its product. Also I didn't like the inconspicuous ad hominem attacks on the supply-side players. The side-effect is that it leads the reader away from a subtle observation that the fair market controls to prevent these policies are simply missing and regulators have done little if nothing to prevent it. For instance, what does it mean 'controlled' distribution? Why is it difficult for the FDA to maintain reference formulas and manufacturing blueprints for all approved drugs past their patent-expiration date?
So, I have a great but perhaps hare brained new idea for a drug/treatment. I'm willing to throw my tens of millions (heh) at it.

Instead I have to go ask permission from the government, fight for funds, wait for approval, build massive infrastructure just to prove to the government I'm not wasting their money, and so on?

I've worked on government contracts - defense - most of my career. It is not a model of innovation, low costs, fast delivery, friction-less pivots, and the like. It's a story of incumbents, outdated regulations (waterfall for the win!), inability to get money for great ideas, buckets of money thrown at bad ideas, cronyism, lobbying, you get the idea.

It's trivial, and lazy, to talk about "big pharma" - to paint them as evil. Yes, there is plenty of less than stellar activity, and I had a gf that was in the business. But she also worked for a small start up that would probably be impossible under your model. That world is full of idealistic people that want to do good in the world. And yes, there is also unsavory business practices. But so much good has come from people with a dream. Bethesda is the pharma equivalent of SF in tech. Lots of money flowing, lots of great ideas, lots of moon shots, lots of quick failures, lots of success. It ain't ideal (great ideas, no funding, for example), but I'd suggest your idea needs substantial sketching out to explain how it would successfully replace this sort of activity.

edit: my first job was working for a small company that contracted for NIH. In my short time there I heard so many stories of research being started, then something becomes the hot topic of the day, funding is withdrawn to throw it at this new topic, and the old project is left to die. Not that the new topic was a bad thing to pursue, but if you keep switching focus before getting results you are wasting tons of money. The NIH is regularly criticized for taking only 1 approach to a problem - investigate drug X or treatment Y. It's unbelievably hard to convince Congress that you should spend a ton of money on a research program, but then go and run 10 other programs that assume that that research program will not pan out. No, that's stupid. It's incredibly believable. I recall pulling all nighters, being called on the phone by congressmen or their aides, trying to pull data together for a presentation on the hill to get or continue funding. Ultimately politicians were making research and health decisions. Madness. Everyone I worked with had their hearts in the right place (beware the easy, lazy assumptions!). Individual politicians that I've run across are intelligent and trying to do the right thing as they understand it, and often that understanding is very sophisticated. But the system doesn't have a heart, whether that system is capitalism, start ups, or government.
I honestly believe this is largely the result of the U.S. performing the vast majority of sorties flown.

Deploying air forces in an expeditionary capability is difficult and expensive. It's much more difficult than deploying a ground unit. Few forces have this capability.

When you're in Afghanistan, and 90% of the CAS sorties are performed by the U.S., then it stands to reason that if an incident occurs, it'll likely have been a U.S. aircraft based on odds alone.
There's no defense for what they did. I mean it's so silly it's the sort of thing you expect to be part of the evil guy's plans to destroy the world in a Bond film... not something that a stupid corporation actually does.
I'll just take it in my ready room.
> I don't know why you're getting downvoted.

"A is not B"

"but A has C properties"

Native apps are not defined in terms of having benefits; they have specific technical characteristics that embedded webpages just don't have. So the fact that embedded webpages may or may not have benefits is irrelevant to the statement that they are just not native apps. I guess that's where downvoters are coming from.
Thread on reddit says it is 2 cents per pill in India and entire treatment costs $1

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3lp6kr/
> Clearly its pilots, soldiers, staff are not trained properly. Just a bunch of reckless idiots. Much like the government that sent them.

And this is not "entirely predicated on anecdotal evidence"? You've described two incidents, and extrapolated from there to call an entire military (in this case, more than 2 million people) improperly trained "reckless idiots."

The incidents are serious. But without any attempt to qualify the rate of these accidents relative to the number of engagements, or a comparison to other militaries in other conflicts around the world, it sounds like you're just riding an axe.