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>A private healthcare sector offering low-cost treatment. That never happens in reality.

Did you actually bother to read their recommendations? I can't speak to the NHS, but the second one alone would save a fortune if implemented in the US when you consider how many doctor appointments are scheduled just to obtain prescriptions or to renew them:

> Perhaps most importantly, the compulsory licensing of medical professionals should be abolished. Anyone should be at liberty to practice as a doctor or nurse, with patients relying on brand names or competing voluntary associations to ensure quality. Ending current restrictive practices is essential to enable private firms to increase productivity in the sector.

> Restrictions on the types of treatment available ‘over the counter’ should be lifted to enable patients to obtain medication without recourse to registered doctors and regulated pharmacies.

> Burdensome drug licensing regulations should be rescinded. Instead, the testing of new drugs should be left to private firms and free markets. Reputable companies would have strong economic incentives to ensure the safety of their products, while there would also be far more freedom for experimentation and innovation by new market entrants, with huge potential benefits for patients.

> Prohibited recreational drugs, such as cannabis and opiates, should be legalised to allow the sick to benefit from their numerous medical applications.

> Some form of tax rebate could be introduced for patients choosing to opt out of NHS treatment (see, for example, this study from the Adam Smith Institute).

> Private firms should be free to bring in low-cost medical professionals from abroad and at liberty to determine rates of pay and working conditions through private contract.

> Legal reforms could enable patients to waive their right to clinical negligence claims.

> Planning controls and building regulations should be liberalised to enable the rapid development of new private healthcare facilities.
Indeed. These people who seem to want violent insurgency as a political right should take a look at how that works out in situations other than the US war of independence. It's usually indecisive with a lot of people getting killed more or less at random.

Mind you, last time I ran the numbers, it was safer to be in Belfast during the troubles than in Detroit over the same period.
Has Alan Kirman ever read Hayek?

Here's a quote from the Road to Serfdom:

"The state should confine itself to establishing rules applying to general types of situations and should allow the individuals freedom in everything which depends on the circumstances of time and place, because only the individuals concerned in each instance can fully know these circumstances and adapt their actions to them. If the individuals are able to use their knowledge effectively in making plans, they must be able to predict actions of the state which may affect these plans. But if the actions of the state are to be predictable, they must be determined by rules fixed independently of the concrete circumstances which can be neither foreseen nor taken into account beforehand; and the particular effects of such actions will be unpredictable. If, on the other hand, the state were to direct the individual’s actions so as the achieve particular ends, its actions would have to be decided on the basis of the full circumstances of the moment and would therefore be unpredictable. Hence the familiar fact that the more the state “plans”, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”

Hayek's entire argument in that book is that central planning allows for strong favoritism towards those in power and with access to those in power. He specifically mentions that some industries need heavy regulation and moderation - but under set rules with choice being supreme as much as possible.

Kirman focusing on the fact Hayek is "horrid" is telling at a time when half of Europe was engaged in genocide and mass colonialism.

That said - Kirman benefits from saying these things in his career and so he will say them. It fits with behavioral economics models.
Yes, you'll get all the digital assets needed to be able to re-create the hardware yourself as well as access to the software.

Obviously, we'll be documenting the MicroPython implementation. Other partners will do their own thing.
My only thought when I read this was that Siri, Cortana and Google Now are getting used more. This means a lot of searches that used to be done on the Google search app are now being made through other means.
The majority of money Sequoia invests is on behalf of non-profits and schools
> No scheduled flights depart between 0300 and 0359 local time anywhere in the world.

Yes, they do. Take DXB for example.
A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco.

https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/428914681911070720
Building logical qubits in a superconducting quantum computing system
In your experience, what kind of methodology do you think works?
I know I have.

I've gotten a job because an ad for a job search website that looked interesting, I've found out about new products and (after some of my own searching) purchased them, and i've definitely gone back to products i've left because of newly advertised features. (Microsoft Azure being one of them)

I don't remember if these were specifically on a search page (chances are they weren't) but they were ads on the web.
employee agrees to "make myself reasonably available" to SunTrust

and: The severance agreement itself says that this assistance from former employees "will be requested at such times and in such a manner so as to not unreasonably interfere with my subsequent employment."

I think the "reasonable" and "unreasonable" here severely restricts what the company can expect here. I mean, if the severance pay is a million bucks each, "reasonable" is quite a lot, but it seems more likely to be a pittance.
I would be careful of a self-answered question like this, I would suspect a lot of people will say 'no' when the actual answer is 'yes' just because they didn't even realize they were clicking an ad or because it's something they do so rarely they think they never do it when in fact they very rarely do it. But very rarely is in fact 'woohoo loadsa money!' for everyone involved.
Cryptography in a Quantum World
It appears that Amazon is so fargone in its determination to decree its cultural superiority that it can no longer see that reputation must be earned.
One way to look at it is that maybe they want to take the hit now and fight the fight? It might discourages any future journalist from thinking they can write a story and expect Amazon not to try and discredit them. Secondly, as a potential candidate of a finite ecosystem of engineers, I do not forget. To have them put out facts from their files, while messy, at least puts doubt about me ever working there.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dillo ?

Seems reasonable, not like it's called "the gimp" or something. Perhaps it's from "armadillo"?
People outside the US probably don't find any voice-assisted tools productive at all.

TLDR: They all suck. Terribly.

Assuming your users will fall back to voice-search is not an assumption you should make without having the data to support it.
> That's a cost and a vendor lockin that will need to be addressed at some point regardless. Governments of all stripes are trying to migrate away from proprietary things like this as it's a risk to governance.

[citation needed]
Sudolikeaboss: Get 1password access from iterm2
How to give a killer presentation?
I didn't say it didn't.

Just that our system is being eroded and is clearly intended to be consigned to the dustbin of history if the Tories have their way.
> "Just like atom"

No, just like Sublime Text. Atom copied these features and shortcuts from ST.
Carney should be fired (my guess is, he will be). His entire job is to try and make sure that kind of snafu never happens, or if it happens, to make it go away as quietly as possible.

He worked with the reporters about this story for six months, and a very bad article was produced. He probably feels a little betrayed, and must have endured quite his share of head washing from Bezos.

But now, two months later, he should really try to change the conversation; instead he's throwing former employees under the bus and revealing personal details about them, to make up for failures that are mostly his own.

He's really doing a terrible job.
Ask HN: Super resolution from single image
Can this method in yesterdays link be used to generate smaller images that can scale to a larger image? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10409239
You're still missing the benefit side of the cost/value equation. It might not seem like this to you but having a child is a major value to many people.

A woman has multiple options to prevent unwanted children (including two after the fact options). She therefore has full control of the child/no-child outcome based upon cost/value for her personal situation. A man has two options to prevent childbirth: a permanent vasectomy or using a condom (these fail and they fail too often in real world settings). A man has limited (or in the case of a condom mishap potentially no) control and potentially if the woman decides it should be so no value whatsoever.
Apple CEO Defends Encryption, Opposes Government Back Door
> A free, universal healthcare system should be a primary goal of any civilised society.

What premises lead you to conclude that our highest duty is to guarantee our fellow citizens the unlimited attentions of doctors, surgeons, nurses, chemists, biotechnologists, etc? Keeping in mind, of course, that fellow citizens = collection of complete strangers circumscribed by some invisible line in the dirt.

> The fact that we had one and it has been eroded by decades of corporate self-interest and Tory backhanding is abhorrent.

Surely that's not the only thing standing between society and your goals for it. I might start with the fact that voters have resisted paying for the things you'd like them to pay for.
You might wish to delete this comment, as it could be used by a competitor to easily filter out such flights…
Tim Cook at WSJDLive: Apple TV Is Future of TV
There's a pretty old (but apparently updated) patch-set for using x509 certificates with openssh. I realize commenter above made a typo, but it might be of interest in this thread:

http://www.roumenpetrov.info/openssh/
I agree to a point, but actually Microsoft wouldn't have to be heavily involved really. With ODF, that push didn't come from Microsoft and eventually landed with standards bodies. Microsoft fought it all the way, and even though they muddied the water with OOXML, they had to stop implementing binary, opaque and hard to manipulate file formats.

They were then forced (by market demand) to implement ODF. I can see something similar happening in terms of document automation: only maybe this time it might be quicker given there is experience around the DOM in web browsers already, so a model is already usable.
There is currently a version of Espruino for the Micro:bit too, so kids will have the ability to use JavaScript. You can even program/debug it over BLE as well :)

However there's been virtually no interest in it so I haven't spent as much time on it as I'd have liked. Hopefully that'll change when the boards start appearing though.
I really like surf and its model, but it needs ad blocking. I was working on that a few months back, but got distracted by other projects. Incidentally, the AdBlock list format is…insane.
Have you never come across a site that looked so shitty, that you just left, thinking there could be nothing valuable there? This site is like that. And having to click through the popup, after first scanning it for the extremely non-obvious link, well that just makes the site sleazy. These things lend credibility or take it away.
My first smartphone was an iPhone but I switched away. For minimal text entry like a search term I'll use the keyboard, it's easier than waiting for the voice input interface, hoping it works, etc.

For longer text, voice dictation also doesn't fix the problem. Sometimes it works but often you have to seek to arbitrary points in your sentence/paragraph and fix errors. I preferred a physical keyboard.
Accountability for Torture: Out of the Darkness
Navigational searches still display ads. (I'm told)
It seems that a correlation exists between work-life balance and the "hypeness"/"buzzwordiness" of a job/position held. Which is, indeed, very sad.
I do not believe those two responses are unrelated. Amazon is a company for whome PR is a key product. While excellent customer service is key to their growth, their PR campaigns are key to their stock valuation. This is why they put out non-starter products like the Fire Phone and hoaxes like "Drone Delivery" and release numerous il-concieved but good for a press release products (amazon menus, amazon movie listings, the whole search engine fiasco, etc.)

Bezos takes the high road-- "Oh, we're not like that" (which to anyone who has worked there rings really hollow as Bezos is someone for whome reality is pretty plastic. He has a reality distortion field of significant power)... meanwhile thru backchannels work to discredit the employee telling the truth.

Given what I experienced there, I can believe that all the dirt they are slinging at this employee is post-hoc ergo propter hoc rationalization.

When I attempted to transfer within Amazon, I was attacked by my boss and HR, and when I resigned I was fired. (Of course, you can't fire someone who has resigned but that's a truth that is not reflected in Amazon's employee records.)

Now I'm a "disgruntled" employee who was "fired" for the "crime" of attempting to transfer departments after getting an offer from AWS, and then resigned when his transfer was blocked by his boss (something explicitly forbidden in Amazon's policy handbook, but of course such rules are there for propaganda more than anything else.)

This allows them to spin anything the former employees says as sour grapes.

BTW, as part of leaving I was made to sign a terrible agreement, under threats that I now understand to have been extortion (because they were illegal under Washington State law) that included, among other things, that I would never publicly speak ill of the company. I am doing so now because I'd be happy if they sued me- I have lots of stories to tell reporters.
Modelling the Evolution of Programming Languages
Same here. I know 2 people who went there, both after short startup stints after college. They both lasted under 2 years and are now at Mozilla and Facebook and would never go back. So many awful stories...
Encrypting your disks will only keep people from reading them for a century or two. Technology from the future will be able to break today's encryption in a heartbeat, whether it's simple Moore's Law, quantum computing, cryptographic loopholes in today's algorithms, or something else entirely. So if historians from the future care about you, nothing you leave behind will be truly safe.

If you really want to mess with people from the future, do what Beale did, make up a bunch of bogus stuff, and throw it in with all your encrypted documents.
Earth Art: NASA ‘artist’ Stuns Twitter with Sahara Desert Pics
I just don't get this attitude. I'm asking for the compiler to break my code if something I depended on changes. The alternative is the risky one! This is the safe alternative.

Compiler errors aren't evil. They're a tool. They work best when there is a one-to-one correspondence between problems and errors. That's not possible in the general case, but the closer we get, the better. And the worst case is not when I get a spurious error. That's easy to deal with. The worst case is when I don't get an error I should have. If you're going to worry about "riskiness", that's the risk that should keep you up at night. Not compiler errors for things that turn out to be no big deal, and can quite likely be fixed with one quick go fmt -s.
I agree, typing on a touch screen is horrible. The android "gesture typing" where you drag your thumb over the keys isn't too bad. I refuse to talk to machines, but that's just a personal thing I guess. I've never even tried the voice response features.
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Startling Starts: Smart Contact Lenses and Technogenesis
Er... you're trusted by a CA that's owned by a company that resides in Austin Texas...

Texas hasn't exactly got a glowing reputation in the software industry due to its mountain of intellectual property lawsuits filed by patent trolls... er, sorry, I mean non-practicing entities

Excuse me while I reserve some skepticism about just how trusted your security certificates should be.
Have you checked what user OpenSSH usually runs as on a linux machine in order to allow key-based authentication? I'll give you a hint: it's root. That's no different than running as SYSTEM on Windows.
Add in, that sex makes people act irrationally. Options like condoms can be even less effective if they're not used.
Company vs 'the press' usually does not end well for the company, they can fight all they want but they are not in control of what gets written about the fight and journalists as a group tend to look down on companies trying to control the media reporting on them, especially if there is plenty of corroborating evidence for that which is reported (and some of that is echoed right here in this thread).

Amazon has a problem. By failing to recognize it and act on it and trying to squelch the bad news they make the problem a (potentially much) larger one.
Real world lessons from AWS re:Invent 2015
MySQL performance tuning between disk types
Probably not a good idea to use [citation needed] as an argument in discussions with the guy who created [citation needed] (me).

1. http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/open-formats

2. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-and-o...

3. https://www.data.gov/open-gov/

4. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Office_Format (China, that great bastion of transparency!)

I think that will do for now :-)
I agree. But the industry is hurtling down a tunnel of weak typing and runtime checking. So compiler features are diminishing in relevance at a geometric rate.
The answer to lowering demand is clearly to encourage preventative medicine over reaction medicine.

Not really: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/29/us-preventive-econ...
I'm under NDA, but I believe we can talk about things that have already been disclosed.

If you do a google image search for large micro:bit images, you'll see there's a Nordic NRF51822 chip (Which is an ARM Cortex M0, with BLE), and a Kinetis ARM chip connected to USB. It's running an mbed-compatible bootloader that appears as a USB mass storage device. You just copy hex files onto it and it programs the NRF51822.
How Mobile Apps Are Driving Omni-Channel Retailing
Are there unions active within Amazon?
Absolutely pointless and irrelevant. This is the same logic that Donald Trump uses to dismiss all Mexican people as rapists.
Which option do the drug manufacturers typically take? The second option would require a government that actually cares more about society in general vs special interests. How has it worked out in practice?
Good questions in the comments from Kristian Köhntopp.
relevant links:

* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

* http://gizmodo.com/the-fake-places-that-only-exist-to-catch-...
Ricoh+Production+Print
this is interesting, it does explain why now on tap is such an important feature for Marshmallow. lets you cross check without switching out of the app
I have a 4 year old phone. Without all of the kernel optimizations, forced removal of Google App and Google Play Services, I wouldn't be able to do anything. My battery lasts 4 days of normal use. Before my changes it couldn't last 10 hours.

So much amateurish bloat. I'm baffled by those engineers.
I suspect the real intention was to put the fear of Bezos in the golden-handcuffed employees who have to stick it out for longer to vest their options, knowing that bad words about their (former?) employer will hurt their equity gains as well...
He worked with the reporters about this story for six months, and a very bad article was produced. He probably feels a little betrayed

But the guy was a damned reporter himself. He should know all the tricks of the trade and moreover, he should know that a reporter is never your friend. She's after the story and if you're in the way: tough luck!

That said. You may be totally right. But such a reaction due to a bad case of bruised ego from a reporter is hard to fathom.

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One thing that consistently bothers me about a "down economy" is the ability for some companies to feed off the desperation of good people seeking honest work. This applies both in technology-skilled positions, and also manual-labor positions in the case of Amazon. In different economic conditions, and with the ability of sites like Glassdoor or Medium to spread stories and reviews, I'd like to think Amazon would be forced to hire the least-employable members of society, like Ex-Cons, because nobody else would want to work there.

I'm not laying waste to Amazon as a hopeless pit of despair, but do I give credence to the stories about life in their warehouses? How people are treated? What toll it takes on the human body? Yes, I do. That doesn't start from the concrete floor and go up to the Executive Suite in my experience...

Long ago I remember reading stories on BestBuySucks.org. At one point in my life, I needed a job and got hired on at Best Buy. It did, indeed, suck...but it definitely motivated me to attain my first professional gig.
> What premises lead you to conclude that our highest duty is to guarantee our fellow citizens the unlimited attentions of doctors, surgeons, nurses, chemists, biotechnologists, etc?

Our status as a social species that works better when it works together and looks out for other members of the group.

Refusing to contribute to a country's social programs and welfare is basically giving the middle finger to everybody who is less fortunate than yourself. Fuck you, got mine.

How charitable and humanitarian.

We have a much healthier and more productive society when we aren't entirely focused on material self-interest and and irrational fear of strangers or 'welfare scroungers'.
I am not sure I am adding much to the conversation, it may be unfair to Mr.Carney, but when I see a Politically involved person like Mr.Carney who worked as press-secretary, I do not trust his message. I simply do not. Even though I spent some time reading his entire posting, my biases were yelling at me, "do you want to really take this political hack seriously?". Amazon has to find a better spokesperson for public tussle, better in this case would be someone who is not already labeled.
The Future of Scalable NGS Genotyping in the Cloud
Pipefy – Why Use Kanban in Software Development?
Code for Downloading any Instagram image (Full size HD),Star it
If you're doing this, it is, by definition, on structs you choose to do it on. If you lack the judgment ability to decide when you want that, fine, never do it.

And the noob that is so noobish that they change code and don't even compile it to check to see whether it works is a menace well beyond this issue. That's an overpowerful argument; the real problem is the noob that isn't even running the compiler. The noob doesn't "break struct initializations" specially, they break everything.
I'm not sure what you think CAs have to do with patent trolling. If there was a patent on the PKI, many large companies would have been sued already.