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> Shipping is never free (and it's often more expensive than most would assume). It just means the retailer/manufacturer has baked into the product price

No, in this case the shipping is not part of the price. When you want to send a post card to someone anywhere in the world you pay USPS for the stamp, but the post service on the other side doesn't get a share - it's delivered for free. If they mail you back they buy a stamp, the proceeds go to their USPS equivalent, but USPS doesn't get a cut. It makes sense as long as the amount of mail sent abroad is similar to what's received from other countries, which probably was the case when postal services were used for actual letters. Shipping goods as "letters" skews the system, because Chinese vendors get to send whatever they want for nothing (subsidized by their govt) and national postal services in destination countries have no other choice than to deliver it for no compensation.
Maybe relevant, a while ago wrote a post about using an Arduino to interface a NES gamepad as HID device.

http://eskerda.com/arduino-nes-gamepad/

Repo with full instructions: https://github.com/eskerda/arduines
Wasn't this the plot of Jacob's Ladder?
"the Ladder", a drug that massively increased aggression, taking people straight to their most primal urges.
I didn't know (and I'm assuming many people don't) this was even possible! Thanks for the tip.
They did it at least once over the Christmas holidays two years ago. Probably didn't pay off for them in terms of ad revenue by flying web browsers.
For most fields of medicine, new drugs (and not reiterations of previously-approved drugs) are rare. Further, a new drug will have generated extensive hype before its approval, given the requirement for Phase I, II and III trials for most approvals.

I don't think it's at all unreasonable to state that physicians are more than able to track all drugs relevant to their core patient populations.
Corporations care a great deal more about short term profit in general.
does anyone know a highly reliable mobile satellite internet solution? price is less-ish of an object but i've been looking for something to take with me on extended camping trips and remote locations to do work or for emergencies (also thinking of buying property somewhere without good wired internet).

haven't found much so far except for extremely expensive (5-figure) expedition type rigs.
I use airline wifi quite a bit. This has been my experience:

Gogo (Delta/American/Virgin) - Meh (anywhere between 50-1000 KB/s)

United - Mostly crap (anywhere between 5-200 KB/s)

Jet Blue - Free tier was pretty solid (anywhere between 500-1500 KB/s)
Crucible essentially does this as well, when you create a review it will suggest reviewers based on commit history to the file. Sometimes handy, sometimes the bane of my coworkers life since he created the repo and migrated the 12 year old code base from svn repository, so he's defacto the default suggestion for any file that hasn't been touched in the last 2 years.
What the hell did I just watch??
Dave from Fictiv here -

Thanks for the contribution and wiki article -- will update the post accordingly and welcome any other feedback/suggestions. Teardowns are all about learning + community input so keep the comments coming :)
True! But the healthcare market is grossly inefficient. Prices are hidden from users. Drug makers can pitch straight to consumers, who aren't medical professionals.

I'd agree that consumers would shop around given the proper incentives, and as long as those incentives didn't diminish the healthcare they receive (or their health in general).

Single payer seems to be the better option. It streamlines collecting revenue for the program, and the program is large enough that it can bargain or set pricing with healthcare providers.
I don't claim this myself, but I believe his or her argument is that the freedom to choose should take precedence over the cost to taxpayers, regardless of the cost.
Great news, so pharma companies could focus more on drugs itself and less on marketing. It's huge money waste with mysterious intention - if your drug is the best, doctors should use it anyway, and if it's bad but you can increase its usage with huge marketing campaign, then mankind just gets screwed for own money.
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According to this study http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/healthy-vs-u... healthier diet patterns--fresh meat, vegetables, etc.--cost about $1.50 more per day. So, yes, there is some difference and meal prep etc. certainly takes longer. However, the processed food is so much cheaper argument can also be overstated.
Also, tying health insurance to employment is a direct result of the Feds wage and price controls of the past. Business couldn't compete in cash, so they went for the next biggest benefit.
I had posted stuff in the past that got to the front page and it was pretty much the same sort of thing - hosted on GitHub, forkable, starrable. I don't see what the rule is behind not being able to prefix something you made that you want to show HN as a Show HN. Oh well.
I took this class last Fall at MIT and it's really really good. I would recommend it to anyone interested in this topic.

Also it's great that all their code is open source.
It's amazing what they can achieve with trajectory optimization.

I was also impressed that they were able to run MATLAB code live. Although to be fair, they are calling efficient commercial solvers implemented in C++ or other languages under the hood.
Well let's say you have a discussion with your doctor and they note there is a drug for your gastroparesis.

They might mention some names or might not.

You aren't ready so you basically don't ask for a script.

Later a week a month whatever there is an ad for Reglan on TV and you think "hey that was what the Doctor mentioned".

The ad is an ad, well done, so you in theory are now more receptive to taking the med. Especially since your symptoms haven't gotten any better. You are more willing to consider a solution to your problem.

So next appointment you ask more questions and walk away with the prescription.
It's not like doctors get a cut of the drug sales. They're probably sick of patients demanding a drug because they saw it advertised during the news.
But that means the congress are implying that resources in space are free for anyone to take in the first place, bring brack and claim ownership of. Not something you normally can do on terra firma. Looting abroad is rarely ok, even if you pay taxes on the value of what you took when you get home.

The question of the ability for private enterprises and persons to claim rights to resources in space is interesting and needs to be regulated (if its not already so) in order to open up opportunities. But at I don't see how the regulators of one nation could do this regulation.p by themselves, it needs to be an international treaty. Imho.
It's not any different than wireless companies and cell phones - they will use the reason of not controlling the firmware causing connection issues with their proprietary networks
Santa Monica police chief's perspective:

http://santamonicapd.org/Content.aspx?id=54286
People are easily manipulated. It's why marketing works so well.
Because the (American) airlines will say no. Or, they will accept the offer and then charge $12 per seat anyway. I think they get perverse joy out of nickel and diming people to death. When not-uncomfortable seats are a premium feature, there's nothing they won't charge for.
How does this work? Is there a specific legal principle in play? Certainly some laws cannot be broken; how do you decide?

Looks like these are called "exemptions" and narrowly scoped to specific codes, e.g., "Exemption of Authorized Emergency Vehicles (California)" https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/vctop/vc/d11/c...
You're welcome! I'm uploading Bernie Sanders' speech today at Gerogetown University as we speak :D

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If you have a problem with someone's code, tell them about it, and be an adult about it. I've read Linus' numerous public outings of what he thinks are less talented developers, and it's childish, end of story. Nobody works well in that environment.

It's a simple cost/benefit thing for me; the costs are you lose talented developers who may be more sensitive to criticism, which people like Linus say is a good thing because apparently the quality of your work is partially determined by your ability to handle assholes. The benefit side is you get to act like a child publicly and not be treated like one. The cost doesn't come close to justifying the benefit.

In short: Linus and everyone like him need to grow up.
I work for ViaSat (the satellite provider for FlyFi)! You'll never have latency fast enough for "gaming" speeds, as your signal has to travel halfway to the moon and back meaning a physical limit of at least 500ms.
Not good enough for gaming, but streaming/torrents/large downloads work great.
> But that means the congress are implying that resources in space are free for anyone to take in the first place, bring brack and claim ownership of. Not something you normally can do on terra firma

Its not something you can usually do on Earth because most of Earth is subject to sovereignties which have prohibited it, and to whose prohibitions other sovereignties have generally elected to give some effect.
A slur like that has no place here. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all.
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I really don't think it would, alcohol is pretty heavily used in the USA and it's a pretty dangerous substance.

There are definitely more dangerous drugs than alcohol but legalization of all drugs isn't going to destroy society.
Would you choose it over Datomic?
People with addictions don't have preferences in the sense you mean. The nature of addiction is that it subverts and overrides the (delicate) mechanisms of rational choice.

It's an interesting point to discuss. Presumably they did (in most scenarios) have a choice when beginning the drug, but then once addicted, you have a good point. So should we argue that that initial choice was made freely, and that we have no right to use force to break you from that addiction (presuming you aren't hurting or posing a threat to anybody else)? Or should we say that since you aren't truly making willful decisions, then intervening isn't violating your personal notion of agency, and going "against your will"?

I'd have to give this one some more thought to be honest. It strikes me that it isn't a simple question. OTOH, I still have no problem saying that anyone who is free to make conscious, willful decisions (whether we consider than rational or not) should be free to make the choice to put anything in their body that they want.
One of these things is designed to hurt other humans, while the other is not.
Presumably much of the information in Wal-Mart's daily cycle is feedback from the market in which Wal-Mart participates. Would central planning work as well in a "closed" system?
So, an app builder will need to simulate signals in a purely functional way, rather than using the top-level, native signals. But if you want to write a debugger for the child apps, you need something like an interpreter anyway.

At the top level you might just have a single native signal for all events delivered to any child app.

But I agree that the ability to start and stop reactive sub-programs would be a useful thing.
The picture of the three women is amazing.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

-Winston Churchill
Yay! I was thinking they should be unable to use actors and only be able to use people with the conditions they treat.
"A patient will never be able to make a rational decision when buying a drug. "

Nonsense.
Balance. Take the long term view.

Your skills don't stagnate because you have the weekends off coding. No one is a 100% efficient human being [the word for that is robot].

My advice would be to set a baseline of working hard during work hours, but also develop habits and routines outside of work hours where you actually attend to the other things you want to do (exercise, hobbies, and socialising).

With that basic balance and limits in place, then you add a little bit more of the thing you want to excel at (in your case coding). By a little bit, I mean maybe an extra hour or two per day, if you have the time and energy.

Your big achievements will probably come from chipping away a little bit each day, and making whatever you work on a little bit better each time you work on it. Not from busting a gut when you are 23 and burning out by 25 [ignore my assumptions about your specific age].

PS, working for a conventional company can be very satisfying, you might just need to try a few different ones until something clicks into place.
Haven't tried Reflux but I would recommend trying Redux before it. It is heavily inspired by Elm and has been very pleasant to work with. Reflux also bypasses the 'unidirectional data flow' part of Flux, which gives you added convenience for some things at the cost of more complexity.
I mainly do trans-pacific flights. In such long (>12h) flights I can't use wifi even if its on offer, as it chews through precious battery time too fast. I would kill for plane seats with power plugs, or even just USB power.
The Linux project is probably not the best place to look for this sort of thing. It's huge. It's completely plausible that a project big enough to have multiple layers may have different optimal levels of politeness in those different layers.

It's also plausible that larger projects may simply not be able to function with total politeness, as they face threats that smaller projects can only dream of facing. Even if you've only followed the kernel development via HN over the years, you've heard of any number of instances of someone who has a very strong opinion about where the kernel should go, and basically can only be fended off with a flamethrower. Sometimes the fault lies not in the person wielding the flamethrower, but in the person who would not be dissuaded by anything less. (That's a general comment, not about any specific controversy.)

It's also possible that Linus' attitude is a complete disaster, that the only reason the project is successful is a major case of right-place-at-the-right-time, and in the parallel universe where Linus is a perfectly polite person Linux is much farther along.

Again, my real point is that the outlier projects may not be the best places to look, because they intrinsically live in environments very unlike the environments most open source projects live in.
Can something like JSX be used with this? It looks like a cool language, but I was never able to get behind HTML "DSLs". Their only advantage is ease of implementation and that you get to write in your current language, at the expense of write/read verbosity and comprehensibility.

Even Jade/HAML/Slim I'm ok with, since they're a terse iteration on HTML rather than a nested monstrosity of code blocks. But I prefer JSX or Handlebars.
One thing I really worry about with the future of cars is ownership.

If you are renting your car, you cannot do as you like with it, and if you stop paying, you lose transportation. Today, if you own a car it might be an absolute beater if you don't maintain it, and it might be illegal to drive without insurance, but as long as you have gas, odds are it will actually run.

Further, I wonder about the subscription model as it is applied here. Many people buy cheap cars outright because they don't like ongoing payments. If the future is a subscription model, it seems they can raise the price whenever they like (market forces aside).

While I think the whole concept of owning a car is definitely something in flux (as it should be), I hope the alternative is not just "car + subscription" and ultimately paying a higher price in the end.
The results don't surprise me but I do think there is more than one way to have a thriving development culture. While not mutually exclusive, I think blunt/transparent environments are just as, if not more effective, than polite environments.

A blunt environment requires a certain level of professionalism but actively knowing you will be challenged when its called for and knowing everyone is simply striving to do whats best for the cause can be really refreshing.

I'm known to request that people tell me when I'm full of shit. I'd much rather have a moment of subtle hostility than a stretch of time where I operate under false assumptions. Once people acknowledge it's not personal, it allows everyone to move much faster.
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I thought it was one of those who focused on encryption.
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It's not only meal prep (which I think you are understating the cost of), it's also having access to a kitchen and cooking supplies (knives, pans, bowls etc.) that allow you to easily cook, which is not cheap.
Most of these are for chronic conditions, where people are seeing their doctor on a fairly regular (once every few months) basis. And yeah, at least some patients absolutely do ask, "hey, I heard about X, is that good for me?"

There are of course also the extreme cases of specifically asking for a given prescription, but like the parent mentioned, just having a few patients persistently ask the doc about X is enough of a motivator to get the doctor to pay [marginally] more attention to the doctor-facing literature/ads/sales force.
Bear in mind that they may not be seeking to move product for little/no profit so much as they are seeking to assemble demographic data on their buyers for use/resale elsewhere.
Hmm, wonder if this has anything at all to do with the
Saudi Prince Reportedly Caught With Two Tons of Speed on Private Plane in Beirut...

(https://news.vice.com/article/saudi-prince-reportedly-caught...)
I typically find I can get ~6 hours on most modern laptops, which means far more hours than I have the patience to stare at a computer screen for.
this + telegram 2.0 = best update ever
I like this idea in general, as a non-lawyer who tries to read things I'm signing, but I wonder if foot-noting or other in-document attribution system is a better answer? I can see struggles where a contract written with LawPatch is consulted in 10-15 years, and there are dead links or other similar technical problems. I don't see where LawPatch addresses that, unless I'm missing something?
"never" was the wrong choice of word. In general there are many cases when patients are not able to make a rational decision. And rarely, if ever, a better decision than a doctor will.
A little bit of context for this story. We sometimes give our fighter pilots an identical drug[0]. Sometimes we give our children an identical drug. We call it adderall or amphetamine. This article sounds to me very much like a scare piece.

But I guess "Syrian rebels and government soldiers accuse each other of using adderall" is not catchy enough :).

[0] Technically Captagon also has theophylline which is a methylxanthine similar to caffeine that is in chocolate.
Also we use just one isomer of amphetamine as opposed to both.
It's not really a mixture of the two so much as a pro drug.
There are power plugs on all the Trans-Pacific United flights I fly. What airline are you using?
That would meet the great entertainment criteria 'informative AND entertaining'.
Release a competing product?
The Swayze Effect
It's not quite that simple. In some cases it's telco infrastructure that's owned by the customer. In that case I'd say the demarc is like to be somewhere inside the modem, which is sort of nonsensical.
Supplement the fresh produce with lentils, beans, and other nutritionally dense items that store well and you'll be far more competitive. Beans are insanely cheap, $0.44 for a 200g serving with 650 calories and 39g of protein. So $0.25 matches the calories/protein of a MD and leaves you $0.75 for fresh produce.
Yes, this is pretty much how it works. Brand drug makers buy data to track how well this is working, for their drugs vs competitors.
What is a DOCSIS modem and why can't an open source one be built? Also, how does putting your router behind your DOCSIS modem help?

Genuinely curious, don't know much about networking.
Wikipedia says about half of US pilots involved in the Gulf War were taking government-issue amphetamines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substit...
This used not to be a problem when pension benefits were shifted to the public sector (which doesn't have a solvency problem by definition).

Nonetheless, neoliberal dogma says that the market does a better job of investing than the government will.

Coincidentally privatized pension contributions provide ample opportunity for profiteering.

It's more that we let this happen to us through inaction rather than we asked for it, though.
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If you can always find a job and have side projects to fall back on, I don't see the point. However, if you imagine yourself taking a shot at climbing the corporate ladder at a huge company, a degree is absolutely essential.

I also have a side project that would be able to support me, but I do attend college. In my opinion, having that piece of paper (provided you don't go into massive debt for it) is much better than not having it.
You chose the major and then didn't succeed with it. What does that have to do with college? College is not a guarantee for success and if someone told you otherwise and you believed them then I have a nice bridge to sell you. College is a path like any other. You have to walk that path and make the most of the journey.

That said, there was an article on HN a few months ago showing a strong correlation between having a college degree and earning more over a lifetime.
He's a freakin prince, does he need to numb himself that much??
Thanks man for posting this.

I was about to post a link to this story and call them out on their hypocrisy since they touched on that drug and Lebanon and didn't mention this big story that made waves in the region recently.
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This logic applies to all consumer products.

The best way to tell which car is safer is to read the original cash-test reports. Furthermore, if you make a mistake in choosing your car, there is some chance you'll die as a result. Should we ban car commercial? Even car commercials that merely report (as they usually do) summaries of the crash-test reports ("best is class safety!", "4 stars from the car insurance safety board!"), because they may be biased in how they do so?
I assume you have the same problem with Tesla?
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Eh, sort of. Captagon is a produg to amphetamine and theophylline and is controlled level 1 meaning it's completely illegal in the United States. It is rampant in Saudi Arabia
I've seen large gallon+ sized bags of fiji apples at Safeway for $1.99 (containing maybe 15 apples). At my local grocer, I've seen 'bruised' bags that contain about 10 apples for 99c (with only one or two actually really bruised).

The problem is that people assume that good food has to look good, and that fear of bruised/uncharismatic food is what drives prices of healthy base-ingredient foods up.
He's a dealer not a user.
In case anyone is curious — here is the lamp used in the study: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00PCN4UVU/ref=mp_s_a_1_1/184-...