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We're getting this complaint a lot and I'm beginning to think of getting rid of that feature, or maybe restricting it to /newest only. Any thoughts?
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Companies have those obligations, and others too. We all have many obligations, including to our communities/society. If most businesses didn't meet those other obligations for the last several hundred years, there would be no community, no market, no technology, and nobody rich enough to buy epipens. You'll notice that most companies are responsible members of their communities to some extent, but there are a few leaches of course who live off everyone else's contributions.
The non-trivial entry costs are there because of regulations and the legal environment regarding liability.

You can view the high price as the free-market finding the intersection of supply and demand given the regulatory and legal constraints but that seems like a less than useful way of understanding 'free-market'.
Surely design files can be signed...
I rather dislike the (frequently American) immediate viewpoint of assigning blame/responsibility in the case of a failure, and thus who can someone sue. This isn't an uncommon viewpoint at all, rather it seems to be the first that many go to.
Sure, let's blame Peter Thiel (how's the fact that he's a Trump supporter relevant here?), Hulk Hogan, and all the other people who dared to sue Gawker media. Let's leave out the fact that most of those people have been harmed, violated, slighted etc. in the name of... what? What has outing a gay person achieve? What is sharing someone's private video add to the world?

"It is a fitting conclusion to this experiment in what happens when you let journalists say what they really think." - You dare compare yourself to people who risk their freedom, reputation and their very lives, to expose the real evil in the world?
You are giving true journalists everywhere a bad name, sir.

Goodbye, and good riddance.
Yes, and you can use an expired or recalled medication. I'm not sure how that's relevant.

The used car will also need to pass an annual safety inspection here in NY, at least, as it's required to meet some minimum safety standards.
How is this lowering the quality of the conversation? This is an insightful comment with a relevant video that shows that each Epipen actually contains 4 or 5 doses of epinephrine. Certainly relevant, as we are discussing how people nationwide are struggling to obtain enough of this drug.

Also, I would hardly call a link to YouTube "a mystery link to a random place on the web".
Why is it protecting a monopoly? Why doesn't it say "this EpiPen can't cost more than $30"?
In both situations, the government sets a minimum permissible safety standard to sell the product. Medications and medical devices are allowed to kill/injure, but only to a point. Same with cars.
While I would agree that there are many uninformed participants in the market, it is often found that professional market analysts are outperformed or on par with a random stock picker (dartboard, spinning wheel etc). These are people trying to estimate true value and market value with models and acting accordingly.

http://www.smh.com.au/money/shares-race-week-4-the-dartboard...
"Them" is used here as singular non-gendered pronoun.
You can expect measures like this to intensify around Europe, thanks to the software engineers at WV and Audi.

If cities can't trust carmakers to be honest about the emissions their products make, then they're going to work harder to kick cars out altogether.
The ridiculous thing is even after the FCC said it was OK numerous times AT&T still refuse to do anything to work on robocalls claiming that they needed judicial approval.

The FCC had to pass a memorandum (or something) earlier this year explicitly spelling out the AT&T had absolutely no grounds for their believe and was allowed to and SHOULD work on the issue.
Found by a radio amateur at the request of local police! It's a clear public safety issue, and clearly illegal. Why didn't the police tell him to turn it off?
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I haven't tried to reverse it but it's definitely not plain RFB, performance is too good even on an iPad 3 (about the lowest CPU-to-pixels ratio of any iPad ever made). The latency is noticeable enough to be annoying for primary use but it's great for documentation, chat window, etc.
I'm pretty sure this isn't true. There are plenty of self-injector designs and many of them are off patent.

The real reason is that other companies have screwed up getting their devices approved. Other versions of Epi-pen were on the market and they were pulled since they didn't work.
Oh man, this brings back memories...

There was this company (shall remain nameless) where the product was always "around the corner". Just one more week or two! Yes it doesn't work right now, but these are minor things, let us iron out the final bugs!

This went on for almost two years.

Leadership being non-technical, they didn't know whether what the "technical team" was telling them is true or not. They couldn't check, but were not idiots, so eventually suspected bullshit. So they hired us as "crisis consultants", to do an audit and put things back on track.

Needless to say, we had to scrap everything. Which, it turns out, was about half a dozen unfinished PHP scripts and some apache configs... the result of ~4 man-years of work!

The main employee squirmed and lied and lashed back during meetings. Not a pleasant experience at all. For anyone involved. When the true horror of the situation became apparent, they had to be let go.

Of course, this "worked out" only because we had the leadership's full backing (they really felt more shameful than angry, on account of their mismanagement), and because we could stand our ground technically. Now what to do if you're a grunt employee, without good access to leadership, observing such bullshit unfold... difficult. Chances are, the bullshitters are better at politics & smooth talking than you are, so confrontations are risky.
If you want pen functionality so that your iPad Pro functions like a Wacom tablet, take a look at astropad http://astropad.com
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You're not banned. Your post hit a spam filter. Sorry—those are more aggressive on new accounts. We'll mark your account legit so it won't happen again.

You can repost your site, but you should put Show HN at the head of the title and add a first comment to the thread introducing yourself and explaining how you came to work on this. That way it will be clear that you're participating in the community and not just trying to promote something.
Hmmm... from your description, it sounds like the market is working, just not fast enough for everyone.

It's not worth it for a company to develop their own Epi-pen since profits are so low. Eventually enough drop out that one manufacturer raises the price. Significant profits result which attracts other competitors. Prices drop.

Would you just prefer the gov't to step in and set the price? What happens if companies decide it's not worth the effort? Have the gov't force them to produce the product?
Yep, got it. I will write a blog post and will share rather, than being too much generic.
And you compare that to the many stories you hear about Amazon waiving invoices when people inadvertently ran up multi thousand dollar AWS bills by accident or when credentials were exposed. (Happened to an ex-colleague of mine years back - AWS creds committed to a public git repo - minutes later there's like 40 10xlarge or g2.8xlarge or whatever instances mining bitcoin. First thing he knew about it was Amazon ringing him up saying "this $10,000 spike in your typical use, that's not really you, right?" and shutting it all down for him and reversing the charge...)

Then you consider this when you decide whether to base the next big business decision on an AWS or Google Cloud platform…
Are people who receive warnings from the chrome cleanup tool representative of people in general? It seems to me they've preselected for a high risk population.
Not working in Firefox.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8751414
360 performance reviews suffer a similar problem in that the savvy folks will all give each other positive feedback. In fact this is the ultimate solution to the prisoners dilemma. Management is looking to divide and conquer which in the long run will hurt even the best performers. Because even the best are human and occasionally have performance issues outside of their control. Not to mention the inequality in work assignments with respect to high value business goals.
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I've been using Duet for some time now.

Pros:

- Simple to use. Install the drivers on Mac, run the program on your iPad, and go.

- Acts like any another monitor. You can adjust orientation with other monitors and resolution. Different choices in performance. Adjust vertical orientation on iPad and screen just updates.

- Very responsive, if not always very performant. No lag or jitter in image/sound, but graphics performance can be slower (lower FPS). You can play video games on it, but I wouldn't do it for a living.

- Sometimes you just want to sit down in a coffee shop and have a second monitor handy. This does that.

- Touch screen triggers mouse input, if that's useful for you.

Cons:

- Your CPU is doing all the graphic card duty. On my i7 at retina resolution, you'll chew 50% of a core. This will eat battery and your machine will run warm. But not hot, like a video game.

- Odd graphic issues when you also have a secondary monitor plugged in through HTML. Works just fine, in general, but sometimes it will loose track of what to refresh or update on the monitors. Disconnecting and reconnecting always clears this up. Most often happens when I lock the computer.

- Sometimes, it just gets confused about connecting. Again, stop and restart the app on iPad fixes it.

It's not perfect, but it works well enough that I certainly don't regret getting it.
You mean issue security updates for multiple major versions, like Marshmallow, Lollipop and KitKat?

That's an overhead to code, backport and test. These resources could be spent elsewhere.
>Each bidder is allowed only a single bid

Its been a while since I bid in an eBay auction, but this is or was definitely not the case. If you were outbid, you could bid more.
That only works if you can actually tell if it misfired or not - if you're administering it to someone else, you may simply not be able to. With that, part of the problem was that the misfires would deliver some of the drug but not all, and only sometimes would completely fail to deliver any of the drug. Telling if you got 50% vs. 100% would probably be tough - and even if you could, if you took two because the first gave you 50%, you might end-up getting a big overdose or still get an underdose. So having multiple of those pens really just doesn't solve the problem if the pens themselves are unreliable.
> Markets exist in order to answer these questions,

Well in this case it answered that the price should be $600. This means people, kids, astamatics are going to die at some point in higher numbers because of that.

I say the market is drunk or evil and should not be allowed to make medical decisions.

But because it has a religious following, we don't want to make it angry so we can't say "we mandate EpiPen cost to be $25". Instead we dance around it and say "oh we'll create this health insurance thing, and then that will pay for it". But only if you work. Or ... if you don't you have to buy it anyway, or you have to pay a penalty. But unless you are old, then we kind a let you off the hook a bit and you sign up for this other thing. All of that is done in paper and in how it is presented to the public because we don't want to upset the free market gods.
Exactly! I wouldn't want to be working at the FDA to be honest. On one hand you get blamed when an unsafe drug hits the market and the next day get blamed because you're holding up innovative.

They can't win!
I can think of many products which are life-saving which are readily available from countless producers for relatively cheap. The difference here is just as gwright has pointed out and you have a corpus of regulation which makes this particular product more expensive and/or chokes out competition.

The only sectors of the economy where significant, lasting shortages occur are the ones most heavily regulated.
The drug itself is very cheap. With an Rx you can purchase an ampule with about 3 doses for < $10.[1] You can administer it with an insulin syringe, which I don't think requires an Rx. Of course administration is a lot more tedious and requires some training.

I worked at a summer camp where we would carry 1 or 2 pens plus a bunch of ampules if we were in a wilderness situation where we couldn't get to emergency care and needed more than one dose.

[1] http://www.buyemp.com/product/epinephrine-ampule
Some on HN bemoan the lack of a "true" meritocracy. Maybe these never-ending, always-on performance evaluation and feedback loops are a dream come true for the HN majority. But as the author states towards the end of the article, everybody else will be left by the wayside as inequality grows between the be[st|tter] performing and "other" people.

The question remains to be seen which side of the line the majority of HN readers fall.

Of course, the more cynical amongst us may sneer and think "yet another social system for fakers to game." They probably wouldn't be wrong either, but seems on the surface that continuous performance evaluation will be slightly harder to game.
> Would you just prefer the gov't to step in and set the price? What happens if companies decide it's not worth the effort? Have the gov't force them to produce the product?

Cut out the private market and have the government manufacture it directly.
That's from the date of initial introduction. The relevant number is 18 months from the date you bought it.
Did they just buy a license for ARM or announce they'd let people use their fabs for ARM?
This makes me wonder, which do people dislike more: not having access to support in almost any capacity except "help desk tickets" which might not get answered for days, e.g. how Google handles non-free support tiers, or horribly long wait times on phones? My gut says that the former is worse, especially in this case, because you can just turn your phone on speaker and wait for the queue to finish up (or with some systems, have them call you back when the queue is to you).

I almost can't believe that Google doesn't have a support line for its account holders for Google Cloud, when you have companies like Paypal and United Airlines, which have many more users (paying or not) and have support lines.
How is this different than Air Display (http://avatron.com/applications/air-display/)? That's been out for a few years and as of iOS 8 supports connections over USB. I use it daily and it works quite well. Same pros/cons as cdumler mentions above.
"If the government is able to keep secrets from us, then we cannot give informed consent on whether their governance is appropriate or not for our nation's citizenry."

This is completely false - and there is not a single state in all of the history of the world wherein this was the case.

Oversight - yes.

All public information - no.

If you have ever worked with a team of more than 5 people, you'd realize that your statement cannot hold true. Do you really think that every email, every correspondence, every bit of government data should be public?

Should Barack Obama have to do everything on a 'live cam' so that every citizen can see his every move and word?

Should the Nuclear Launch codes be 'public information' ???

Of course not!

Government agencies have absolutely no obligation to release any information unless it falls under the auspices of 'freedom of information' (which is a good bit of data) - and then various levels of clearance.

We have other people in government: elected officials, oversight committees, and judiciary, NSA, FBA - to keep an eye on one another.

The information released by Manning was 100% within the bounds of information that the government can keep private.

Private conversations between state officials and diplomats are definitely not something that should be published.

In 40-50 years or so, the US eventually releases pretty much everything, you can read what the US Diplomat to Libya said to Gaddafi if you want then. But not in real time.
> It's also possible that you never have a real need to do these things.

What I don't have a real need for is the ability to destroy the internal invariants of other modules. :-p

> True, which is why I'm pretty confident that 15 years of Smalltalk development on many large code bases without running into a heterogeneous collection debugging conundrum is possibly a valid data point.

Who says homogeneous collections are the only use case for parametricity? Parametricity is useful whenever you need to make sure that unrelated parts of your program don't accidentally rely on (or, even worse, alter) each other's implementation details. “Modularity”, as they call it elsewhere. Of course, Smalltalk has none of this.

> My impression is that the damage caused by "hubris coding," or the gratuitous worship of "cleverness," far outweighs that caused by insufficient type information by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude.

I don't separate concerns to be “clever”. Au contraire! I separate concerns to deal with my own brain's limited ability to simultaneously process multiple pieces of information. (And I'll be perfectly honest: I also separate concerns because it's beautiful.)

“Hubris” is a term I would reserve for those who write large programs whose constituent parts don't have fixed structure, yet claim they understand what's going on in the code. (Or perhaps they claim “the tests do the understanding”?)
> Under the LINQ API, if you try to do anything with an instance of your Option/Maybe, its static type gets obliterated into an IEnumerable, which destroys the semantics.

This isn't true. It's only true if you derive your Option type from IEnumerable, but you can provide your own implementation of Select, SelectMany, and Where to maintain the Option type - this is my implementation [1], with SelectMany returning Option [2]. Granted, it doesn't make it a higher-kinded type, but you don't have to use IEnumerable to use LINQ.

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/blob/type-classes/Lan...

[2] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/blob/type-classes/Lan...
I agree. My hack is safer than 3D printing medical devices, as its simply a geographical arbitrage.

Thank you Canada.
Why do you think the proactive customer outreach is "not respecting you"?

I view it as providing high level of customer service, before and after sales, in B2B space. It is no different than Amazon displaying related products that you might be interested in or Netflix showing you a queue based on your past viewings, in consumer space.

For example, if a visitor's company produces widgets and as a vendor we have previously helped other producers of same widget. It is in both our and visitors interest to share such and related information. Similarly, a visitor from an existing customer might be searching for a solution to her problem with the vendor's product and doesn't believe the problem is big enough to warrant a support/service call or it is a user and not administrator/manager of the product. A proactive engagement by vendor support group goes a long way in understanding the potential user issues with product, a valuable insight for future product enhancements.

In B2B settings, sales cycles are long and require lot of information exchange between various stakeholders within the potential customer. Both vendor and potential user of the product inside the company (who might become internal champion of solution) benefit by build the relationship early, quickly and efficiently.

IMO, this is the main reason for DropBox failure in penetrating the enterprise despite its high usage by individual users within enterprise. Delays in engaging enterprise users allowed Box to get in to enterprise accounts by targeting decision makers and overriding individual users' preference.
Interesting. Where do you see the plan?
Or ones from my bank that include a lovely advertisement at the bottom... But you know what, I just let them stay in my spam folder because they are spam (and important emails usually don't have advertisements attached).

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If you instantiate `t` as a promise then you have to always consider that it isn't there yet, even if you're saying that it's going to be. If you instantiate `t` as `Identity` [0] then you have a type level guarantee that your value is there. You have a guarantee that your program blocks when you say it will.

And that's the point of a lot of these abstractions. It's not about being able to write something that you couldn't in another language. After all, we could create the same functionality in assembly.

[0] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/transformers-0.2.2.1/doc...
The wealthy can afford to move their properties back/up a few feet.
>or regulations that set the price by law, the high cost remains

It is important to note that even such a law does not magically remove the high cost. Certain products have a high price for a reason and setting the price by fiat is guaranteed to cause shortages. That's when people really start dying. See Venezuela for a prime current example.
Out of curiosity, what is exhausting about it?
Great! I will love to introduce the story behind starting this startup.

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"Governments aren't (supposed to be) private entities."

Governments are not 'private entities' but they certainly can have 'private information'.

It's really quite difficult to debate this with you guys.

If you can't imagine that diplomats can't have private conversations with their counter parts, that bureaucrats can't have private conversations with employees - then I have nothing to say to you.

Once you accept that there is a lot of information that should not be publicly available, both 'secret' and 'mundane' (HR records etc..) - then you accept the government can keep private information - and then it becomes a matter of how that is regulated: oversight by congress, committee, judiciary - and access to information wherein it's appropriate.

And once you accept that - you accept that Manning's release was totally immoral and unlawful. There is nothing in his cable releases that should have been released - though you could debate the release of the video of reporters dying in friendly fire.
And engineers with Libertarian slants happily go along with it while their masters laugh.
You really need to buy a flagship to compare with iPhone.
"Without balls to practice with..."

...because he had just kicked them all into the stands. I think the point was, he kicked the balls away so he wouldn't be embarrassed in front of his new fans.
Yep, this happened to me once when I was house hunting earlier this year. I was pretty livid, and the poor rep on the other end found that out pretty quickly.