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I've thought about this before. Does it mean that our libraries aren't good enough? Do we just not know how to use them?

I often wish there was an intermediate between writing a fully custom piece of software for something and using excel. This about how many times you've worked on a web service (or other technology) and how much of the code is basically identical to every other webservice in that technology minus some unique data models and a few functions of custom logic.
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"Fix something else" is right on, but "instead" is highly problematic. We can try to fix multiple things.

The root of this problem and many others is that Congress and the executive are corrupt and have no particular interest in doing their job properly. Much of that stems from a bad electoral system. Fixing that is hugely important and would be highly useful. However, that fix is likely to take a long time. Certainly there's no hope of fixing it by December 14th.
>As for a Heartbleed-esque catastrophe, apparently one is going to be announced for Intel ME at the upcoming Blackhat(?) conference in December. I can't wait to hear about it myself.

Light on details, but the vulnerabilities are disclosed and fixed [0]. ME updates are already available from many OEMs.

[0] https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...
So... adopt the UK model then?
I love Mitmproxy and how easy it is to use! One of my favorite pentesting tools!
I remember in one clinic...7-8 nurses at one docs office. 4-5 minutes time with the doctor and probably a $150 bill.

A lot of money also goes for people to process insurance claims
I think given the quantity of our planetary computation infrastructure Linux runs, it's very much a real world issue.
But when you define a function (or a class), you are also inventing your own little dialect/dsl. Operating overloading is another. They can all be used well or confusingly.

Where do you draw the line? At least with functions, there's only one syntactic structure that is user-definable, making it easy to distinguish foreground from background.
I remember when the National Foundation for American Policy research came out that someone here worked out the numbers.

Ahh, here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11310031

"about 60/215.5 = 28% of founders are immigrants" while "immigrants make up about 13% of the US population".

As I recall, some of the companies were started in the US to get access to US-based funding, that is, the founders were all from another country, moved to the US for the company, but are not immigrants in the sense of staying here for the long term.

If my memory is right, this would skew the numbers higher.
I wonder how telemedicine can change and help situations like these; whereby medical providers are more accessible through telecommunications.
"[Microsoft] wouldn’t comment on what share of [Office 365] customers are using the program for financial analysis and accounting.

Good, I would be concerned if they knew exactly what each customer was using their software for.
For what its worth, if you tried to cash out $800k today I think it would take some time to clear. The paper value of Bitcoins is grossly inflated over the actual market cap. It's a natural reaction to the inherently deflationary nature of the currency, everybody wants to hold on to them because they're only going up! This restricts supply and causes the prices to go up even more. Unless you can buy goods and services (more than drugs and burritos) with Bitcoin directly the wealth is a fantasy.
Doctors are part of a guild. They artificially limit the number of doctors available by capping the number of medical schools, which also allows the existing schools to crank costs to astronomical levels (“don’t worry, you’ll make enough to pay it back”).

One thing that would help is letting non-MD’s, such as nurses or physicians assistants, do more “doctor” things. Dentists, a similar profession, is going apeshit that states are trying to let specially licensed assistants (but non-DMDs) do slightly more advanced work like fill cavities.[0]

The entire health system from top to bottom would benefit immensely from free market forces.

[0] http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/01/dental-lobby-bares-tee...
I'm sure he already knows the earth is round. Marketing is a wonderful thing.
What issues have been reported so far other than production bottlenecks?
It's interesting that you bring this up, because she gave a quite politically charged speech at my graduation ceremony (CMU '17).

She made a lot of subtle jabs at the Trump presidency by referring to their dishonesty towards the public, then turned around and gave a generic "stop acting like snowflakes" bit that I felt was a little too broad.

Perhaps a week later, the latter part of her speech popped up on a right wing FB page with a clickbaity caption kinda like "HP CEO TELLS SNOWFLAKES TO GROW UP" or whatever. Curiously, the seemingly anti-Trump part wasn't mentioned at all.
Facebook branding on their internet would be against net neutrality: facebook would then be changing other websites.
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"The number of slots supported by Medicare has been frozen for two decades after Congress lowered it in 1997 at the request of the American Medical Association and other doctors’ organizations."

Wow, just wow..
Google was a small, unrelated startup for a long time. Google Fiber was a real threat to the ISPs, but they already had a lock on municipalities and states. Some new upstart might find a way through that. Why risk it when they can just keep them from gaining traction in the first place?
I’d advocate mandatory disclosure, from all levels, if you know of a breach, you should be compelled to disclose it. I’d close the legal loopholes using attorney client privilege to hide breaches. I’d impose extremely stiff fines for coverups, potentially criminal ones. The same for willful ignorance of a breach.

I suspect that the unintended consequence would be that Eula’s and various business relationships would be adjusted to attempt to limit liability. Maybe let liability be a court matter, just knowing about the breaches would be a huge step for consumers though.
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>Apple has demonstrated time and time again their commitment to privacy and to protecting user data.

Remind me again, which company pulled out of China, Apple or Google?
I'm a big fan of the NHS in the UK and I live in Sweden now which also has national healthcare services that are heavily subsidised. There are some things that allow the system to be cheaper- for sure. As one hospital buying cotton balls might be more expensive per cotton ball than if you decide as a country to produce or procure millions of them at a time.

But RE salaries; Is it the USA who pays too much? or is it those other countries which pay too little?

The NHS in the UK and the Vardcentralen in Sweden are both having intense crisis' at the moment due to funding and are overstretched to say the least. In Sweden in particular Doctors are more keen to be contractors and hire themselves out to hospitals and offices, mostly due to the fact that Vardcentralen has limits for how much it will pay permanent staff Doctors. And since that's so ubiquitous the Vardcentralen cannot avoid paying these contracting rates, else it would not have Doctors for people.

So, are they greedy? or are they just getting what they should really get? Eitherway we end up paying the Doctors the full amount out of tax money-
Really? I installed Spacemacs and everything "just works". Python, Javascript, Clojure, and Ruby only required to add the appropriate layer to my .spacemacs and restart the editor. Autocomplete, jump to definition, find usages, refactoring, documentation lookups and hints, etc. Spacemacs has been equal to or better than IntelliJ, Eclipse, Atom, VisualStudio Code, Kate, or Sublime out of the box.

which-key being integrated everywhere has made discovery the easiest of ANY editor/IDE I've used. Imagine if there was a consistent place where the menu would pop up if you faltered any key combination. If I'm trying to go a git command in Android Studio (InteliJ) and I forget the command, I don't get part way through and see a popup list of contextual actions. I'm left to move my mouse to the right place, click, and then hope to find my git action in the menu I picked.

More common is the unified way that helm makes dealing with files (you can find similar things in Sublime / Atom / Vim distributions using Unite (or whatever they used these days)). Even though the better editors have this, it's not universal and still a differentiating factor for usability and consistency.

Spacemacs integrates Magit by default. Magit is the first version control interface complete enough that doesn't make me immediately nope out into a terminal for proper git commands.

In my primary projects, I need to edit XML, Clojure, YAML, SQL, Java, Makefiles, and Python files. Spacemacs handles syntax highlighting, autocomplete, refactoring, repl connection and evaluation (where available), project management (makefiles and maven support), and documentation lookups.
Totally agree. I don't believe Apple either. But google is getting too aggressive and annoying.
Google's 90% of revenue comes from advertising. That means the better they track you the more they will earn with targeted ads. On the other side Apple's revenue relies on mostly iPhone sales.
Moreover, Apple started a war against tracking with 3rd party cookies. Which is a very smart move, gaining customer trust and hit the Google on it's self playground.
Calling something a state-enforced oligopoly because you need permits is a huge stretch. In almost all jurisdictions a new company can apply for an ISP franchise.

I have more choices for an ISP than I have choices for a cell phone OS. Should the government enforce app-store neutrality. I have less choices for search engines. How about search engine/adsense neutrality.

The truth is net neutrality is both underbroad and overbroad in its attempts to increase competition. Sure, a cable ISP shouldn't be allowed to block netflix. But net neutrality goes further than that and doesn't allow any paid prioritization, even if such prioritization isn't anti-competitive. On the other hand, net neutrality doesn't stop your ISP from putting data caps or just increasing prices on users.

Reducing barriers to entry is far better for increasing competition.
Let's not also forget that due to gerrymandering (for the house) and disproportionate rural control (for the Senate and Electoral College), the people in fact voted against this but we still end up ruled by a spiteful backward minority.
This is genius. Can you explain how it works?
The person complaining.
Argument 1: "Well that's how bitcoin work."

Argument 2: "Bitcoin is more than a company, so lets compare it with the costs of securing the whole internet"

Fact is the cost of a transaction is orders of magnitude bigger, and it's just getting worse with time.
There should definitely be more med school slots and more residency slots in the US. The idea of nurses prescribing pills is very bad though.

The shortage of doctors is a problem, but we should not kid ourselves -- the biggest problem in America's health care is out of control drug costs. Even with the shortage there has not been a massive inflation of doctors' salaries. In fact all of my doctor friends are constantly complaining about how they are paid less than the previous generation.

But there has been a massive inflation of drug costs.
> In other words, 70% of the code on GitHub consists of clones of previously created files

I interpret this as code reuse which is almost the opposite of duplication.
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So Project Titan is not really 'dead'?
https://grsecurity.net/announce.php

Reading between the lines, it seems to be a money thing.
This seems like an alternative to Airtable and Fieldbook. Am I wrong?

I know these tools and I like them, but this wasn't what I was talking about in my comment. I meant something more flexible and more arbitrary, like a key-value store non-tech people could edit.
So why is not the world running on C64s?
Quality of life matters to people. There are worse things than dying.
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some people can appear sober but you will see they are not when you give them a complicated task.

A lot of use huge and dangerous machinery such as forklifts or saws
I'd suggest adding sources of fat or protein to their snacks: https://www.thespruce.com/good-bread-for-birds-385833
Yeah, it's pretty good, and they give you free concatenation of assets. Not really necessary with HTTP2, but it's nice that I don't have to bother configuring my site generator with webpack.
I really wish AWS would stop enabling master API keys by default. As soon as you create an AWS account you are given API keys which basically have SUDO permissions to your entire account. That is super dangerous and is probably the same key set that these hackers got ahold of. AWS needs to disable these full access API keys by default and instead should encourage users to generate keys for specific access to limit what they can do.
Personally I believe that the good doctors are underpaid for the skill and training they have.
If Apple cannot gain on their competition by being able to better detect bikers, what would be their incentive to put money into developing that technology?
This is everywhere. This is the reason I say that every company and organization, whether they realize it or not, needs software engineers. The things that grow (and they do grow rather than being built) in the absence of access to software engineers are overly complex and fragile.
$500 Tylenol anecdotes make for an even better distraction. The likely problem is a little of both.
There is an interesting related paper "Copy and Paste Redeemed" [1] that is based on the assumption that a lot of copy/paste happens (and discusses why this is not necessarily a bad thing). [1] investigates how copy/paste can be auto-detected, how similar pieces of code
can automatically be
merged together, and how abstractions can be automatically created from copy/paste code.

I have not used the tool myself, so I cannot comment on how well it works in practise. But I found the idea intriguing.

[1] K. Narasimhan, C. Reichenbach, Copy and Paste Redeemed http://creichen.net/papers/cpr.pdf
It’s a good foundation for future open-source development, uses wxWidgets toolkit for cross-platform desktops. Author has graphics background, now busy at BigCo.
What is “most”? Who decides which people with chronic illnesses have a low quality of life?
Err, no. It started in the 1960s. There were massive city-wide programmes up and running well before Blair.

The IRA (or their reactionary counterparts) are who you should blame for the amount of CCTV in London, but it all comes from the same place. If it wasn't them, it would have been something else.
I do think that there might be too much regulation in medicine. It seems strange that someone should study for 20 years to learn how to perform the same operation on a specific human organ...

Most doctors tend to specialize anyway so why should a heart surgeon spend so much time learning about other organs which they're never going to sink their scalpels into?

Doctors are extremely well rounded these days, maybe they don't need to be. There are plenty of very good software engineers who never went to university, could it be the same for doctors; if we allowed it?
Oh good, I'm not the only one who gets really bothered by this! I hate seeing these kinds of errors. It happens to everyone, I understand that. But when you're an internationally read journal, you should really be holding yourself to a higher standard than, say, the twice-a-week village newspaper or your aunt's emails.
Maybe is different then what Android is already doing to you. There will always be maybe to anything
But there is so much low-hanging fruit in automated driving! People are really pretty bad at responding to road hazards, anomalies (dog runs into road) etc. Also people are terrible at attending to repetitive tasks. And people fall asleep.

Its arguable (measurable) that automated drivers would be safer than human drivers. Resisting this is simple FUD?
Let psychologists prescribe common, low-risk psych drugs (instead of scarcer psychiatrists), let optometrist prescribe glasses, etc.
Something like F#'s type compilers would work on the JVM. You can make the build reproducible by just making sure that the inputs the type compiler uses are consistent. Practically speaking, the biggest difference between that approach and more traditional code gen is that you don't have to add a whole bunch of build steps and you don't have to have team arguments over whether generated code gets checked into source control or not. It's actually great for the IDE, which does know all that type information at development time because it can invoke the type compiler as a service. F# is the only language I've seen where you can write inline SQL queries and get a red squiggly if you mistype a field's name. (IntelliJ comes close, but, as far as I've been able to find, it only works if you stick all your SQL queries in resource files.)

The other approach is to just handle these sorts of things at run time, using the richer run-time information that your code has access to. So, e.g., if you're binding an XML file to a List<Record<Employee>>, in C# it's possible to actually express something like List<Record<Employee>>.class. The mapping function can just look at that and figure out how to map data dynamically. You, the developer, then get to own your own domain objects instead of having to rely on ones that are auto-generated by some code generation process. You don't have to accumulate a bunch of XML files and XML schema files and associated obnoxious-to-maintain clutter. And you can do it without resorting to a bunch of custom weirdness like Jackson's TypeReference class.
Crashing randomly for no good reason isn't the same thing as crashing on a security exception.
in such a scenario, tether collapsing in value, the demand for Bitcoin (or other coins) would be from those who held the collapsed token. So the price of Bitcoin in tethers might skyrocket, but since the one to one peg to the US Dollar will be broken, I don't see why the effect of the dollar price of Bitcoin would rise? Maybe if even those who held actual dollars on the very few exchanges who allow them panicked as well, it might. The overall panic could cause the bitcoin price to go down too. A lot of uncertaint mass psychology at play here.
I'm aware that that many of doctors' high salaries are due to the government creating artficial shortages and I support less government regulation in order to make helathcare better and more affordable.

That having said, I don't think high doctors' salaries are the most important societal problem in healthcare. Years and years of studying, long working hours, great responsibilities, saving lives and healing patients: doctors are welcome to their high salaries.
the standard windows user will not read the system log.

some people just use computer to do stuff to them there is little difference between "i lost my work because of a bug" and "i lost my work because of a security policy"; from a UX point of view both of them are the developer fault for releasing inadequate software.
I remember one IronPython book that made a spreadsheet application that allowed the user to use python itself for the spreadsheet functions. I think it was a great idea.

The software itself was available for download for a time.
I hope the earlier agreement contains language that allows it to be voided, and put all the original violations back on the table. If there is no such term, this is one relatively straightforward way to improve the handling of these matters in future (if a company was unaware of other breaches at the time and appeared to act in good faith, the FTC could always choose to let the original agreement stand.)
Headlines like "Airbnb hosts violently murder houseguest, police say" have stuck with me.
It blows my mind that people can’t see this is as one of the glaring issues with out healthcare system. In addition to the outrageous costs of higher education and the litageous nature of our judicial system, it’s pretty obvious why healthcare costs so much. We can talk about insurance and Medicare until we are blue in the face, but those are just symptoms of a system that was broken from the start.
Make an objectively true statement, watch it get voted to the bottom. You are now my Punxsutawney Phil for US healthcare: Six more years of overpriced healthcare.
Why are nurses unable to prescribe? Nurse practitioners (mid-senior nurses) have been able to prescribe a limited set of drugs in the UK for quite some time now, quite successfully.
> most of the health care cost is NOT due to doctors salaries.

It bothers me that people continue to oversimplify problems and spin yarns about how "these people did this" and "those people did that" and that it's all due to one or two groups of bad or greedy actors.

The problem is so huge and so complex that it's worth considering that all of the proposed causes are contributing factors. There is now a systemic dysfunction that is broad, multi-faceted, and tough to dissect and study. Ultimately, many incentive systems are misaligned. The fact that the problem does have so many facets seems to always give rise to these distracting conversations where well-meaning commenters drive the discussion away from the actual findings to their favorite hobby horses instead.

RTFA. Doctor pay is an actual issue. They did not claim it is the whole problem. But it is a problem, and there are things we can do to tackle it.

And no, for the record, I am not disagreeing with you. But please, don't distract. Solve problems instead.
"It's not your place to tell people what to do with their own bodies."

Come on, that's ridiculous.

E.g., if a loved one is abusing alcohol, it is definitely your place to intervene.
It's too bad this is the case. My experience with the medical professionals in my area isn't particularly positive. Many of them just look up symptoms on some kind of medical Google and regurgitate what the screen says.

I had RSI in my wrists for years. I had several different diagnoses, and none of the treatments worked. Finally I found Dr. Sarno's book and my RSI has been gone since then.

I guess my point is - we pay these people a lot, and they aren't even particularly competent at what they do. I'm sure the Mayo Clinic specialists are, but those folks are making more like 500k a year. To be competent.
I understand the reluctance to trust new technology. If we are talking about the risk/cost of new developments, we should not forget the baseline costs we pay today.

Self driving car tech will be the only method that can provide a hundred fold decrease in driving fatalities. Slowing down progress has a cost too.
As it stands right now, I have to disagree with letting nurses or PAs do more "doctor things". Their training isn't anywhere close to what it needs to be. Also, the term nurse is very loaded to your average patient. You could be talking about a CNA with 16 weeks of training, or a DNP with 8 years of schooling.
> Breaking user space is ok; users already expect breakage, and the cost of the additional breakages is low (to users and to society as a whole)

Which is why everyone loves rolling releases so much that Windows 10's forced upgrades are universally praised and Linux Desktop has a dominant market share.