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> 2 years ago, she received a letter from her insurance company stating that because the FDA refuses to guarantee compound (made by hand) drugs, they will no longer cover her current nasal spray and she must move to one of the alternatives.

I wondered who lobbied for the FDA to make such a refusal, and who lobbied the insurance companies not to cover such unguaranteed drugs.
Drugs are often covered by patent monopolies and do not operate in a free market.
Given that the mission of the register is "biting the hand that feeds IT", I would not see this as hate but rather as an opinion that is unpopular among programmers (see corn-pone opinions).
You know that's the first time I've ever heard that argument. People usually just freeze and don't know how to respond. I'll have to think about this
are we for the legalization of drugs today or against?

Heroin, basically a form of Morphine, has legit medical uses. Just like LSD and other fairly simple, potent molecules. Banning any R&D outright on them was a huge setback for medicine.
Ooh, forgot about that one.
Might be we should also campaign to give Snowden the peace nobel price.
To be fair to the "hackathon," it was a concept started by the devs at OpenBSD.[0] Not exactly a bunch of poseurs, that group.

[0] https://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html
> self-driving car

> two drivers in every car

I want to buy dictionaries for every reporter who writes about these issues.
Dang it, Now I can't tail-call optimize.
Startups and a City's Live Band Scene Have More in Common Than You Think
> That's what we do, this generation buys drugs for the previous generation.

Not really. Indeed, given voting patterns it's more like the older generation empowers enforcers to rob the younger generation and then empowers others to use those stolen funds to buy them drugs.
Feature Toggles Are One of the Worst Kinds of Technical Debt
I don't have any evidence about this, but the most compelling argument I've heard is optionality.
Automate all the things!

If you are spending an hour a week tracking bills, or even 1/2 hour, you aren't taking advantage of your bank. We set up auto bill pay whenever we can. I prefer to have it through my bank or my credit card rather than through the service provider doing EFT, because it's easier to shut off and it centralizes the view.

That doesn't mean you can totally put this task on autopilot, just that automation can make sure you don't have late fees and that you don't spend money on stamps.
Just looked into this myself, and yeah, they quite literally just released some new figures.

I think the point still stands, but it's good to have more accurate data.
What is the possibility of having Swift added upstream to Debian or Ubuntu so that I can just apt-get install it on those platforms?
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Behaviour Driven Development. A Better Agile?
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Funny, pretty much every interview I've been through (20+) kicked off with simple OOP principle questions.
This also happens in the case of Shkreli-types. Part of the problem is that the market size for the drugs tend to be small, but the R&D and regulatory costs are high enough to keep out competitors so you have these "orphan drug" companies able to jack up prices even in the absence of patent protection.
This is a detailed at times but quite worth following through to read overview. Certainly adds context to why I favor Costa Rican coffee over several others that I've tried over the years. Lots of factors to consider.
File editing/locking/merging isn't great, particularly if we've got Excel in our Source Control. We can either have everyone lock files or everyone merge. You can't merge Excel files so it means everyone has to lock or we store Excel elsewhere.

Unix Client is flaky and inconsistent and doesn't get much love.

I can't put a version number into a file so I can see in Prod what version the code is.

I could go on.
That's just the news cycle right?

Until another terrorist attack happens on a favored Western city, Westerners will be ambivalent about ISIL.

Until a newspaper prints another photo of a child dead in the sand, Westerners will be ambivalent about refugees.
It's amusing or distressing to see that "socialist" has became such a bad word in the US. Basically, if you're for things such as public education or healthcare, you're also suspected of being some kind of Stalin supporter. Successful propaganda.
This is great. The HN crowd amusingly isn't the audience most startups should cater to.
Looks like a cool project. What language will be targeted for code samples?
AppCode delivers fantastic refactoring support. $20 per month is not that expensive, and licenses for open source development are free.
Make money out of oil, what could go wrong?

Polymer notes are also better for the environment. This is because they last longer and so we have to print fewer notes, which means less energy is used in manufacturing and cash transportation. When a polymer note has reached the end of its life it will be recycled into new plastic products.

Oh yes, I'm sure the manufacturing of plastic is much more environmentally friendly than paper, and the yield of recycling plastic is much higher and more efficient than recycling paper.
> just that the law accept that the "free speech" of a corporation and special interest groups will always overpower that of individuals.

What about a body of individuals acting together — viz., a corporation? Do individuals lose their right to free speech in your world when they group together? If so, that seems like it would put power firmly in the hands of the already-powerful.
I know the feeling. In the last few months, I've wanted to play though some video games so I can "review" them on my blog... but there's not much point since I haven't gotten around to setting up my web server since I reformatted it last month with the new Ubuntu LTS and encrypted it.

What have I been doing instead? Riding my bike around town. Hanging out with friends. Not bad, but I've also taken up watching Youtube for hours every night.
ACPU Studio is powerful development platform on mobiles with Livecoding. True IDE, built near to Bret Victor & Eve principles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAcv12eBqcc

Another sample: use Xcode on iPad for publish to AppStore remotely.

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I think that's agreeable but you're just asking for legislation that results in a balanced outcome.

In this case there was clearly a public good. There was also a massive national security compromise in the US ability to conduct surveillance.

Which effects national security more in the long run strikes me as a difficult thing to speculate about. However in the short term I'd imagine every organisation of interest to the US in the world promptly switched keys, hardware, routine, whatever after the story broke...
Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers
By the way, the top left number (one decimal point) is the G force.
Not only that you can't know for sure that you're not living in a simulation, you actually can't surely tell that you existed before this point in time. Imagine that you are instantiated in a simulation with pre-installed memories that give you the illusion that you existed prior to this point.

This line of thought is really old and goes back to Plato (see allegory of the cave) but formalized by Descartes (see evil genius https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon)
Anecdote, i.e. me dating a girl with 3 boyfriends in the Bay Area.
I'm not attempting to be a smart arse. However, I really think you should google it :). It is too common a trend for one to latch on to popular names as if they're the only ones doing anything important in a space. There are many cases whereby they're doing the least important work.

I mentioned George Hotz to highlight a capable individual with vision, passion, and capability who 'thinks different'. With many individuals, the capability is there. However, often times the vision, passion, or capability to think different isn't. Funny then that there becomes this hiring norm which attempts to find the 'most capable' individual and ignores the other more important characteristics.

Time will tell. I'm personally looking elsewhere beyond the names everyone mentions when it comes to development in this space.
Why Exploding Rockets Are Not Always a Bad Thing
I find the vocabulary isn't that hard to learn as you pick up new words each day and eventually they stick. The grammar required to put those words together is another matter though.

It really does depend on your situation though. I have one to one lessons twice a week but it's not really enough as I manage to get by without having to speak that much during the week.

However, I know people who have picked it up fairly quickly because they are working in a public facing environment where they really have to learn fast.
"I won't admit this out loud, though."

You should give it a try, my wife and I get occasional nights and weekends off, its pretty nice. Also we live in an area with an active city parks and rec, and we have a childless date night with each other this very Friday night, I don't even know what parks and rec class my wife signed the kids up for (probably the fall kickball tournament, the Halloween party is next month). We also send them to day camps a couple times each summer so we have some married adult time while the kids are theoretically getting exercised, educated, and socialized.

My experience is "For profit" camps tend to charge what the market will bear ($$$$$) and always have openings. Parks and rec charge what it actually costs to provide the activity (maybe $20/day/kid?) but reservation slots fill up fast every year.
Yeah, I guess with 3.0 it is time to dust off the ol' ~/hak/swift/ dir and see what it'll take to bring previous hacks forward ..
Yes but that's very different. Most accidents aren't the suing a company but a driver. This would be more like someone suing a car manufacturer because they made a faulty steering wheel or something. And I based that on the economic value of life, as estimated by various government agencies to be around that number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#Life_Value_in_th... But it should also include legal fees which aren't cheap at all.
If it takes that long, there's no way Uber will still be around. They're planning on much sooner.
How Did GM Create Tesla’s Dream Car First?
Well this is clearly written by someone without committments and children. Young adults used to be having children.

With young kids around, the laundry and responsibility for dependents figures become hours daily, not weekly. When they're a bit older there's less cleaning but now you're running them around more and ensuring they meet their commitments.

With more gadgets, chemicals and domestic appliances we've just invented higher standards and hundreds of new things to do. The to do list is 20x longer, but each task takes less time.

Whilst we might not want to return to weekly bathing and keeping a room, only for visitors, "for best" of Victorian times, some rebalance might be a good idea. Might even turn out to be good for skin and gut bacteria and the rise of eczema etc.

What we don't have, as it's been gadgeted away, is downtime. Kids, and many adults, today can not cope with being bored (the normal state for kids in the 70s for perhaps an hour or two daily). I saw that very clearly with my own kids and all their friends over the years. What used to be a trigger for inventing a game, building a den, or making something new with lego is far more filled with minutes on YT. More and more we've filled every second with things to do - by "necessity" and by choice.

In trying to make life easier most of us no longer seem to have time (or often inclination) to just chill watching the world go by for an hour a day.

Seems it all got too fragmented.
> In the meantime, I'm thinking of reverting to Xcode 7.3 and running the two versions side by side... Is that possible ?

I think you're probably better off just keeping Xcode 8 by itself, but use Swift 2.3 for projects if you need to. There are very very few differences between 2.2 and 2.3, converting existing code over is much faster than 2.2 -> 3.0.
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Building a shack isn't that hard, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE

Try building it in the forest though - it is most likely illegal due to some rentier (or government) already owning it. I think the grandparent has some truth to their words.

Existing outside the dwelling is illegal. Dwellings are owned by the elite rentier class, so you need some money just to exist (unless you are a rentier).
I'm really happy for her victory. But I guess I'm a little confused by the government having to pay for her transition surgery. I mean, I'm happy my tax dollars are being used for something beneficial to someone (as is often not the case) but I'm not sure what sort of precedent this sets. Maybe this comment is very ignorant - I am not very familiar with gender dysphoria. Could anyone chime in as to why access to hormonal treatments (if not already being used) and transition surgery is considered part of the standard of care a prison inmate should receive?

On a final note, it's weird that a prison would acquiesce to this, but not acquiesce to the dozens of arguably more important changes that would improve prisoner mental health and rehabilitation for everyone.
> China actually tried to formalize this some time ago [...] The "funny" thing is, our governments are probably doing very similar things (though still to a lesser degree, and secretly).

They may be doing it to an even higher degree (given they are far more sophisticated than CCP) but the key feature is that they do it like criminals that they are and in "secret".

The Chinese are stuck with the CCP and a techno-Scientific ruling elite unless they manage to have another rovolution. The generation that survived Mao is, imo, probably psychologically shorn of any will to express robust dissent given the state terrorism that they had to endure. The new generation is fed hyper-nationalism and has front row seat on the gloabally televised hypocrisy of American governing elite. (Isn't it so fine that in 21st century USA has become the enabler of autocrats the world over?)

We have a constitution that if ever resurrected would deal with all this. We need to focus on that.
How can I get Swift 3.0 going on my Mac if I don't want to upgrade from Mavericks?
Show HN: Aggregating remote jobs with AI
During the week it would be tough but on weekends I have all the time in the world.
looking at the pictures of the cars, I'm starting to realize (fear) these images will be used for data collection as well! The cars are roving 360-degree cameras!

Not that I'm paranoid personally, but these will give the owners a lot of information about peoples' movement patterns, a competitive advantage, an asset. For example, they could tell how many people wait at bus stops and sell that info to municipalities... They could look for trends in fashion on the sidewalks and sell it to clothing companies...

Even if they don't achieve autonomy, just putting cameras any vehicle and re-selling the footage data-miners could be profitable.
What's the benefit of a headless CMS?
I'm not usually one to complain about names like tumblr that omit the last vowel before the ending r, but those usually omit an e. For some reason omiting an o this way makes my brain stumble over it, every time it reads the name.
I agree with this, and I'll add that the system we have now actively prevents me from trying to apply price sensitivity.

I have a chronic illness that requires me to take medicine every day; some prescription, some not.

For the prescription medicine I get a prescription from my doctor. It does not tell me the price of the drug, nor does it tell me whether there is a generic available, or another brand-name drug with similar effect. Even if I ask, the doctor typically has no idea how much the various drugs cost, and which are less expensive. They just say "your insurance will cover this."

I take it to the pharmacy. None of the pharmacies advertise their prices for this drug, so I have no reason to choose one over another.

I fill the prescription and go to checkout. The price will be different depending on which tier the drug is on at my insurance company, the copay for that drug, or whether I've yet satisfied my deductible. The only way to predict these things in advance is to read through dozens of pages of dense literature from my insurance provider. And by the way, I have no choice in insurance provider because my employer only offers one.

For the non-prescription medicine, the price is clearly marked in every store, and generics are clearly identified and merchandised right alongside the brand name. I have great opportunity to choose where and what to buy. And, no surprise, these are way cheaper than the prescription drugs.

Keep in mind that my need for, and usage of, these drugs is exactly the same. But the price is radically different depending on whether they come to through the clarity of the market or the opacity of the current health insurance system.
I had explored a lot of job boards and aggregators while I was searching for a job. I discovered that they only difference between them is solely in the elements of design. Therefore, I built this project.

Sagfi significantly differs from other job boards. Firstly, it provides developers with controllable hiring steps. Secondly, Sagfi is much smarter thanks to AI. It uses natural language processing and machine learning to detect the most important aspects from the text of a job and display them as keywords. In the near future, the algorithm will be updated and improved.

Any suggestions or thoughts are welcome.
It's possible you two just hang out in social groups with different norms.
Or you can do like me and spend the first half of the meal eating so much junk food that you end up having to have veggies for dessert.
This is the only HN comment I have bookmarked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932261
tbh I don't think the founders had many alternatives if they wanted to justify a valuation significantly greater than than Sabre plc (who have a larger, higher-end room inventory and that's only one division of their business). AirBnB had to find new revenue streams and opportunities to scale up their inventory growth somewhere. It's certainly a risky doubling-down on the very sound business they've built though: I have a feeling they're going to need a few more lawyers.

One group I haven't seen mentioned yet are the various startups aiming to offer property management services to AirBnB customers - yet another example of why building on someone else's ecosystem is always a potential gamble.
If I had to guess, probably the people who make Lazanda (the pre-packaged version of what she lost that doesn't work as well).
I don't think the paranoia is unreasonable, however, it is exactly this sort of self censorship that dictatorships bank on to stay in power. People don't speak out for fear of repercussions. Snowden sacrificed almost everything to do what was right by not only the people of the U.S. but what was right for the people of the world.

I think it's only right that we all put our neck out for him, the same as he did for us - if only to say thank you for having our backs. I'm signing it.

Edit: I have signed it
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The problem with the "can't negotiate" argument is that insurers have every incentive to negotiate on behalf of the patients they cover. And they have scale—United Healthcare covers more lives than the NHS.

You would think, but they don't. That's the problem. Why? I don't know.

Car insurance is a similar thing. My SO barely tapped the car in front of her at a stop light. No damage, even though the woman flew out of the car claiming her car was damaged (we have pics of no damage) and that her children were injured (two boys in the back seat without seat belts or car seats). My SO asked the boys if they were OK and they laughed and said "yes."

So, a month or so later I get a call from the insurance company they've settled for medical bills of > $10k and damage to the car for ~$4k. I was livid and told them I wanted them to fight this fraud. Nope, they wouldn't do it. I begged the agent for 20 minutes. It's cheaper to settle.

It would clearly be in the best interest of the insurance company to crack down on fraud, but they feel it's "cheaper" to settle and move on.

I think the same mindset exists in the medical insurance industry.
You could make the case that the Epi-pen is just a form of marketing. As people have noted, the molecule is the same as other generic products, but the company developed a device that delivers substantial benefits to the customers and makes their molecule more important. Absent a free market and financial incentives it is very likely that the standard of care would be clumsy syringes.

I worked on a number of diabetes devices that greatly improved the quality of care for patients with diabetes and none would have been feasible as stand alone devices. They were marketing tools to make our test strips and insulins more attractive.

It's easy to criticize marketing, but the field goes far beyond tv ads.
I'm on the maintainers team. We've done supplied english readme by the time you comment here, go check again ;)
I'd like to sign the petition. I generally try not to think too much about implications of free opinion actions, to avoid these worries stop me from voicing my opinions. In these case also I'm not an US citizen so it is somewhat easier to do. But looks like only US citizens are allowd to sign this. Do you think that the signature of a non US citizen worths something?
And get rid of the EPA and the federal department of education right?

Libertarians are interesting. Them wanting a small gov always has something anyone would agree with.
Title should be "Why are American adults so busy?"

Once you leave the U.S. and live in other nations for a while, in some of those you will quickly realize that the ideas and observations in this article are so clearly Americanized. Life doesn't have to be the way it is described here, and without giving up any contributions to the world or standard of living.
Can they connect my google searches on my PC with those on my phone? Are they able to identify maps stuff coming from the same phone as my searches? Are they also able to collate incognito searches?

I'm not exactly hugely bothered - but I assume not being signed into google limits them to cookie based aggregation?
What is REST, and why do you need it?
Oh, yeah I I don't view some opinion on "20commitee.com" as authoritative. Opinions differ. The only actionable part is Klintsevich's quote, which is also speculation.

Not much to discuss there.