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These things aren't cheap to build or maintain. And trying to keep 300 things secret is harder than 100. So no nation has a pile of extras lying around. Even the US/UK actually have far fewer warheads than delivery systems. Not every warhead on every missile in every sub is always armed. So counting the delivery mechanisms gives you an upper limit. I think this is the source of the 200 number. Of course Israel is a little odd. They are the one nuclear power obsessed with invasion of a very small territory. They may have some static plans, large warheads meant to be detonated at fixed positions rather than be 'delivered' by missile or bomber. That is a complication.
Obligatory nitpick:

> Yang Liwei became the first Chinese person to go to space

Should probably be the first Chinese national to go into space. The first ethnically Chinese person in space was Chinese-born Taylor Wang.

Interestingly, in a pub-quiz question kind of way, the first Chinese-born woman in space was... Shannon Lucid.
Yang's point wasn't that there should be no large scale projects, just that they shouldn't do accelerators.

"Yang argues that high-energy physicists should eschew big accelerator projects for now and start blazing trails in new experimental and theoretical approaches."

Things like the IceCube project (https://icecube.wisc.edu/) come to mind as better (and cheaper) projects to pursue. They approach the particle physics questions from a different experimental viewpoint.
Waldmann/Ginn don't describe the FDA's complaints about the competitors, but it's probably: (1) a failure to validate claims or (2) insufficient design/manufacturing controls. IMO it's very unlikely that the FDA is engaged in protectionism of the sole manufacturer of this product.

> Most definitely, the solution is not more government controls through regulation.

I agree that we likely don't need any more regulation in this space. But it seems obvious to me that this issue is related to the overall shift lately. Employers are offering high-deductible insurance plans and employees are bearing a greater burden. The outrage over EpiPens is just another symptom of the US public clamoring for what they see as something that should be an entitlement. I don't know that I prefer it but it seems pretty clear to me that it's coming (within another generation or two at max).

The point about patent protection is pretty huge. I wonder: what net effects would there be to removing patents entirely? Would we end up with less ambitious products and services because designs would just get copied by the cheapest production centers? Could we/should we restrict patents among different industries?
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I wonder if this was "hacked" (as in, leaked) as some kind of warning to Iran, perhaps following one of those diplomatic incidents that never make it to the popular press.

Not that it's very productive to wonder this sort of thing, since I don't have any way to know what's up, but I can't help to wonder anyway.
Agreed. Although, the code is in the presentation.
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> Most of Israels' nuclear arsenal is man-portable.

Do you have a source for that?
It is not made at all clear if the government is truly granting that monopoly (and if they are, did Mylan bribe the government for that privilege somehow?) or if the competing products were truly not deemed safe or effective enough. Anyone have expert knowledge in that area?

The rest of the Forbes Articles seems like the usual delusional libertarian nonsense were they point out well known and obvious downsides of regulation while pretending no such downsides exist in deregulated markets
(i.e., poor people would still die, even as prices drop, because some prices can only drop so much, and dangerous drugs brought to market by unscrupulous companies which are always common)

Also I like to remind the HackerNews community, that everything you use every day (transistors, integrated circuits, information theory, communications satellites) were invented in whole or part at a government mandated monopoly (Bell Labs). Of course there were conditions on that mandate, like not patenting what they invented.
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I've been reading about imminent address space exhaustion and the pending switch-over to IPv6 since I was proud of my five digit slashdot ID. It's easy to get cynical about it.
...says the guy with (good) insurance.
They look at the symptom, and might fix one case of high prices with public pressure, legal threats, etc - but if the system is broken, then what good is that?

The question is not "why is this company so evil and greedy?" It's "why dont McDonald's hamburgers also cost $600?", and how do we make the market for drugs as competitive as for burgers?
Its optional though.

If you don't want it, don't add it
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. If it is true then it is more likely someone breached his email rather than these simply coming from hacks of the DNC.
Is there any speculation as to where Israel got it's nukes? Did they develop them independently? If so where did they test them anyway?

For what it's worth, I think Colin Powell is right: Iran doesn't want to develop nukes as an offensive weapon. What they really want is a seat at the grown-up table and to prevent regime change being imposed on them.
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Works well with small teams. Small teams mostly implies smaller projects & scope, so that scales the documentation nicely. Also, you have fewer communication barriers to defeat.
As someone that lives a largely anonymous life, not that I'm engaged in anything that would interest law enforcement, bullet proof operational security is impossible, and at some point mistakes happen. If you think it's easy, it's not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_security

Yes, putting your name in a Whois record is stupid, but just because that's what was publicly disclosed doesn't mean that's how they found him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
The idea that Iranian theocracy is crazy and determined to destroy Israel even at the cost of the destruction of Iran and collapse of their state is convenient fiction. I think most IR scholars think that Iran wants to be regional power next to Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

It's easy to use threatening soundbites in both sides. Axis of evil and Death to the America are just slogans. Theocratic leaders of Iran are first and foremost cynical and calculating politicians.
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DRY is irrelevant in refactoring small pieces of big function into many small functions called in one place only.
FDA's genesis was bound pretty close to marketing. If you wanted to sell "Aunt Eliza's Magic Elixir" and claim that it "cures all ails: backaches, headaches, etc", you are required to show evidence that validates those claims. See Pure Food and Drug Act.

FDA's responsibility is mutually exclusive with USPTO which would approve/deny patents based on "novelty".
Microsoft Bing is considered to be pretty good for searching porn, or so I've heard.
And what does NYT expect him do to ? Open a charity, raise a kickstarter to provide free EpiPens ?

I hope he makes a fortune and inspires more to come up with those kind of drugs.
I don't want to argue about words :). Guilty, as in "doing bad to society" or "disobedient to the law" or "doing despite better knowledge of the contract of society" is something I still could get behind, just how to react to it and what is the cause I find debatable.

About the unrealistic utopia: As said, some of this is fixed in the german law. I think there is a maximum of about 25 consecutive years of jail and of course no death sentence. More jail time is only lawful as detention to protect society for which you have to be diagnosed as mentally ill (highly likely to do very bad things again).

edit: actually 15 years is the german "for life" and you can't get 2x life-sentences at once, even for multiple offenses. There are just a few exceptions extending it to about 23-25 years. In the sentence that caused this law it says, that a human is nothing more than a wreck after 20 years and a longer sentence neither helps resocializing nor protecting the law and that the total psychological destruction would strip the affected of his basic human rights. (german source, no Idea how to deep-link: http://www.servat.unibe.ch/dfr/bv045187.html search for "Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen" to find the passage)
How much does your insurance plan cost you per year?
If your employer pays it, ask them how much they have to pay.

Part of the reason it is so expensive is because of monopolistic pricing on many drugs and treatments.

You are paying way more than $100

Also you have to buy more than one because they expire.
Always ask yourself if you don't write vermicelli code before qualifying Bill of spaghetti coder.

And don't forget that vermicelli should be used in soup, not with bolognese.

Now the question is: will you be able not to write soup code?
Its possible he had a Chinese map showing that the Americas did exist. Which he could barely read, and concluded that India was over there. He got the distance right; just not the place.

So he had enough supplies for the journey he made, that part was actually planned. No luck involved.
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works on MY machine!
>Do you have a source for that?

Mordechai Vanunu.
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Her.
We expect her to be out of a job when healthcare becomes socialized, then she can move into the financial sector and rip people off there.
Kubernetes has first-class support for secrets: key-value lists that are stored on the API server, and can be mounted into a container as a directory of files (key -> filename, value -> content). See http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/secrets/#security-prope...
I'm not sure it is where to begin, but DeepDive is a project that attempts to manage 'dark data' and dark data is essentially what it sounds like you're dealing with here.

http://deepdive.stanford.edu/#who-should-use-deepdive

Good luck.
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Maybe too much credit? They are first, theologians. Explains much of what they do.
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You should care

You (and everybody else) pay the increase in increased premiums

Regulation prevents (cheaper) alternatives from reaching the market

Not to mention $100 for an Epipen is just a ridiculous price
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this :)
Even better, value added per employee.
That's an issue with regular bittorrent too, yet it's still there, even when most of the users have asimmetric bandwidth.

A good use case for webtorrent is streaming, where the user will keep the webpage open for enough time to contribute at least few megabytes.
Sure, but most weren't designed to be intentionally indecipherable or obtuse.
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I like this. Interviews are supposed to be proxy of how successful / valuable the team member is going to be on the job. Since the person is already contributing, makes sense to cut out the "algorithmic quiz".

Too bad I am not a java developer! :)
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People are comparing them because they serve the same purpose here.

Base and peak loads on the grid can be wildly different. Without storage, if you want to avoid brownouts or blackouts, your generating capacity needs to match the peak load, even though you might only hit peak load a few times per year. The traditional way to handle this is to have power plants that can be spun up rapidly but sit idle 99% of the time. Because they're idle most of the time, the electricity they produce is extremely expensive.

Storage (including batteries, but also many other technologies) can substitute for these plants. You fill the storage when demand is low, then drain it when demand is high. Yes, the energy still needs to be generated somewhere, but you can generate it using existing plants during periods of low demand. If this is cheaper than maintaining peaking plants that mostly sit idle, it's a win.
Get out now! If the investors believed that the startup had legs, they would put more money in, not suggest cutting costs. Reducing salary is a huge red flag, and there is no upside for you with no equity. You'll never get the lost salary back even if they become profitable.
For me spaghetti code is called so because when you start pulling on one string of the code you end up spilling everything. A 5-layered for/if statement does not have this property but using abstractions everywhere does.
>> Does the FDA have the authority to deny marketing approval for minor improvements?

They certainly don't. Look at Nexium, it is something close to a blatant scam but the FDA approved it and between Medicare and Medicaid alone the federal government has rewarded the scammers (AstraZeneca) with billions of dollars never mind private insurance companies.
I think the history of the state of Israel shows it is much less than trigger sensitive.
I would think if they aren't adding new customers that's a problem. Are there any new customers in the pipeline? how long is the sales cycle? I would think they need to replace some of that salary with equity. Also, you have to question that leadership of a company that's cutting salary's of employees over themselves. Unless, they're already working for free.
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Yeah, this is bizarre to me. Kind of like adding an mp3 player to a word processor. Toothpaste has a purpose. If you want caffeine have coffee, tea, Red Bull, 5 hour energy, Monster, expresso beans, caffeine gum, or one of the million other ways to get caffeine.
This seems wonderful, especially for mobile. A quick search of AMO and google doesn't turn up anything similar for Firefox. Anyone know of a similar Firefox extension?
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iPhone 6s and safari. If I zoom in on a picture and touch the image at all, when I let go the page navigates to the image as if I clicked on it.

Also in my efforts to zoom in on things, the page registers a left/right swipe and decides I want to go to the next/previous blog post.
Here is the announcement on mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00018....

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00019....
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Even if massive demand for batteries driven by grid storage makes EVs uneconomical, Tesla is setting themselves up to build and sell the batteries, so they win either way. (Well, aside from their goal of having the entire planet transition to EVs. They win financially.)
Italy, not Australia. Released in 2004 (according to Wikipedia, did not dig further).
I guess the exact same way Polish people working in the UK benefit Poland, even if they pay taxes in the UK. They come back eventually, and use the money saved to buy/build a house, start a business etc. I know people in building companies saying that more than 50% of all new houses they build are funded by people who worked abroad and saved for them.
> As soon as you are diagnosed you are excused.

Not excused, but allowances made. Unless somebody is an actual danger to others, if they exhibit some behaviour they have little or no conscious control over (such as is the case in schizophrenia, Tourette's, &c.), then they deserve at least some leeway. If it's possible for you to consciously work towards controlling such behaviour, then they deserve some leeway, just not as much. But regular assholes don't get a free pass in my book, though. Terry Davis has delusions he can't do much about, and that makes him different from somebody not dealing with schizophrenia, whose problem isn't due to delusions, but attitudes. This is an important difference, regardless of whether you consider free will to be a thing or not.

You might find this episode of the Rationally Speaking podcast interesting, as the guest aligns in some interesting ways with your point of view, and diverges in some even more interesting ones: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-163-gregg-carus...
> but they see nothing wrong with hundreds of tiny functions that are only called from one place

> only called from one place
If we don't know their names then how do we know they're no longer there?
Or to simplify, I can mangle my arm with heavy machinery without it wanting to harm me. It's somewhat ridiculous that people view conscious things as more harmful, if anything they've shown to be less harmful. Before you throw the nuke example at me, please consider we have yet to see what a being who was not conscious but capable of nuking would do.
I'm not suggesting that the FDA could deny a patent. I'm suggesting that the FDA could simply refuse to approve the new version of a product.

In the case where there are generics and the improvement is small, it doesn't matter if the company decides to take their ball and go home. It might be a fine line to walk, but the improvements to the Epipen don't seem to be very substantial (it's kind of hard to figure out what the improvements are with so much coverage of the recent events).
I think you mean the CGA palette, the one used in the CGA text mode and as the default palette in some of the EGA and VGA graphics modes. EGA could pick from a palette of 64 colors.
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I left a more detailed reply (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12514009) to the other person in the thread, but basically while trying to zoom I get sent to other posts or images.
One of the things that's burned me in the past with React Router is not just that the API changes from version to version but that documentation I'm reading at any given time doesn't indicate which version it refers to. I've wasted time trying to debug why things weren't working the way the documentation stated only to find that I was reading the wrong version of the documentation.

Some advice for anyone that hosts docs outside of the git source tree, make the version information clear. For example, the express documentation http://expressjs.com/en/api.html states very clearly "4.x API".
I like. It would have been better if the math topics made more sense, so each stanza would tell a story rather than just name drop.

On the other hand the production quality is awesome, beat is good, and voice is good. It sounded like a professional rap song.

@nfixx get in touch by email if you would like to collaborate on lyrics. I have lots of ideas for math topics.
If you haven't looked at it already, Patio11 has written and talked considerably about marketing SaaS projects: http://www.kalzumeus.com/

Good luck.
My noise cancelling headsets are ostensibly Bluetooth, but it doesn't mean I ever use them with anything other than a cable.
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I'm confused by "New" and 10,000+ customers. What part of it is new? Certainly getting 10k customers takes a lot of time.
Bill is also surely a part of management.
When I didn't have much else going on with my life, the excitement of getting a high score on a video game made me feel better and gave a sense of accomplishment.
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This whole drug company argument -- that the only thing that really matters is what end users pay as a co-pay or co-insurance and that no one should care what insurance companies (including governments) pay -- is so breathtakingly bad I can only imagine it is in bad faith. Where do they expect us to believe the institutional payments are coming from, out of thin air?
> The motto for this goes like 'teams work better if they are collocated, yada, yada'. The real reason is that managers want to feel in control (plus they want to drive away a lot of people by taking RW away).

Sorry, but I've got to be the party pooper in this thread. I have worked with teams over the years that indeed DO work better co-located, and who ARE more productive when forced to communicate in an open office environment, etc. Night and day difference. When not in that environment they reverted back to the ol' "do something in isolation, throw it over the fence, wait days for feedback, then iterate" mode. I will stress that not all teams needed co-location, but many absolutely did.

This whole thread needs to be filed under the category "different people/teams thrive in different environments", because right now it's a "remote Work is best for everyone" echo chamber.
This is becoming dangerously political. You think it is the fact, I think it is the opposite of the fact; not a good dialogue.
You need to purchase EpiPens, and you happy how your insurance pays most of the price. Somebody else on your insurance plan needs some other drug that is overcharged, but subsidized by an insurance. You both think that you've got good deal, but actually you both (or your employer) paying for your drugs (almost) full price anyways - through insurance premium. Or you think the premium will stay same if drug prices keep increasing?
> With regards to the article's example, refactoring your code for unit tests is making life easier for the computer, not humans.

I often find that writing programs with testability in mind leads to more self-contained code, with less dependencies and cleaner interfaces. All this tends to make the code easier to reason about. I'd be curious to see an example of code that's good for unit testing but bad for humans.
Thanks for that clarification! It is a great pleasure to talk with an knowledgeable person like you.
I strongly recommend ProduKey from NirSoft. It'll pull BIOS keys as well as keys in your registry like your Office key and such.
>> they see nothing wrong with hundreds of tiny functions that are only called from one place. It annoys me that the original point of those terms, that code is for humans, is lost.

I write code that way (hundreds of tiny methods/functions) because I find it easier to read and modify, and therefore maintain and I've largely done this from a junior dev's point of view where maintainance was most of the job I was doing day in, day out. If you find it hard to follow that sort of program flow maybe it's a sign that there's no rule and different people find different types of coding easier to maintain.

In which case we're all a bit screwed as we inevitably eventually will have to handle the code of someone who's had the opposite view than ours.

On the plus side, that means we don't have to sweat it so badly with the "right" way to write code and just accept that code eventually becomes one big mess with a gigantic, horrible 50-case switch statement in the middle.
Here's an interesting retweet from ProDOS's author last month.

@JBrooksBSI
[59]Aug 17
Was MS-DOS copied from CP/M?
[60]embedded.com/electronics-bl...

60. https://t.co/mOR5mLBHwC

http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/say-what-/4442498/...
A related reason, that I mentioned in a comment a few weeks ago, is that some people in management who are required to be in the office resent the fact that their reports (who by the nature of their role definitely do not need to be working every day in the main office) are remote and that it helps their work/life balance.

The solution, I think, is for companies to properly define which roles are open to remote — perhaps it might be time for developers to receive a comp differential for being office-based — and to make work in the main office more appealing. Good food, a nice office, and other quality onsite benefits are ways this can be achieved.

[Disclaimer: I'm working remote now]