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Amazon announced a way to get lower cost healthcare today. I can only assume they are buying out health insurance and medical groups to make a better network with lower costs, AI ML programs to diagnose illnesses and do administration via automation, ECT.

I remember in collage taking business management, that Microsoft and other super giant tech companies have to get into new markets or use tech to lower the cost to customers to beat the competition. I was told Microsoft might buy out banks and get into lending, ECT.

Problem is a lot of nursing homes, hospitals etc don't have the budget to automate things or even have a modern computer and OS. If Amazon makes a deal they can run Android apps on Fire Tablets provided for free and have access to an AWS based database.

I am sure this won't be the last area they get into, but it will provide growth.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/01/30/amazon-berks...

Edit: I found a link to cite
There is only one bitcoin and that bitcoin has a unique history that no other can have. It doesent need to be neue gold it just need to be bitcoin.
Not to mention all the fake reviews that are flooding their marketplace making it harder for consumers to trust their products.
Okay, and what happened to that company past, say, 1998-2000 ?
First off designing a whole core architecture from scratch is a huge and very expensive undertaking. Youd need to be able to get a really big competitive advantage to make it worthwhile.

Secondly theres a large ecosystem of add on components designed work with ARM and be dropped into ARM SOCS, such as GPUs, Wifi modules, Gyroscopes, wireless modems, GPS, etc.

Thirdly there are a lot of SOC engineers very familiar with ARM. You can hire them streight from competitors, or college, including PHDs that have done research on it. Youd need to train up any new hirs from scratch on your architecture.

Finally theres a huge software development tool chain built around the established processor architectures. To support a new architecture youd also need to build a set of compiler back ends, bearing in mind the existing ones benefit from many years of tweaking and optimization.
In my experience this is false and also depends on the market and your specialty. (Sorry, I don't have data - but it is my experience when looking at freelance roles in the US or when talking to my North American counterparts.)

For example in the United States, employees in many states have much less security than those in countries like Australia. My experience is that freelancers can charge 1.2x to 1.5x the hourly rate of their full-time employee counterparts.

In places like Australia, where employees have a lot of security and there's no such thing as "at will" employment, freelancers are able to charge 2x minimum the hourly rate compared to their full-time employee counterparts. This is because employees get a lot of benefits, like 4 weeks of leave, premium health insurance, sick leave, up to 6 weeks notice for dismissal and redundancy payouts etc.

I'm in a high-demand, high-value technical role and able to go above those multipliers here in Australia - but on average, say for a middle-tier generalist Java developer, 2x is very common.

The only way I find you're able to charge 4x or more your hourly rate, is if you do public speaking, write books, author a blog and participate as a (dear I say it), "thought-leader" within your local tech community. At that point your title becomes consultant and you generally only cater to clients who are hopelessly clueless in your area and want the best advice, or those with a large bank-roll to "get shit done, properly, fast".
Huh, interesting. Personally I read that as being a kind of wry, collegial, back-handed complement. Wasn't at all taken aback; it put a smile on my face. But perhaps I'm seeing British Humour where there is none. And you're right that it wasn't substantiative, and nobody wants HN to turn into Reddit.

So if earnestness is to rule the day, allow me to say that my point was more serious than mere pedantry. Because most of us here are software people living highly visual environments, and because our thinking is shaped by language that disproportionally based on visual metaphors, we tend to assume that "interfaces" are necessarily visual systems. They are not. They can be auditory and even tactile. If an audio message gives incorrect, contradictory, or badly-structured information, then that's no less an interface failure than a badly-designed web page. In this case, both the audio message and the alert interface shared a common point of failure: a deep, seemingly institutional inattention to how information is presented and interpreted. In both cases, doing a better job with the interfaces is hardly rocket science; that's not the interesting part of this fiasco. The interesting part is: why didn't the institutions care about this, how did the project managers fail to spot the problems, and how should this change procurement and management practices in the future?

Hopefully that's a bit less pedantic!
One problem with Amazon is that it's terrible for discoverability. You can't really effectively browse Amazon, because there are too many items, and their categorisation is somewhat lacking due to the range of items they sell.

This is where niche websites really come into their element. JetPens comes to mind as a very good example. They sell high end pens (fountain pens etc). Their categorisation is spot on, since all they sell is pens, so I can browse their range of pens and accessories easily. They also have a really good blog and guides to help drive sales. Their price point is ideal for a blog-driven marketing/sales model. After reading a blog article or a guide, I'd happily shell out $25 to try something new, which is conveniently linked to from the blog post.
I have no opinion about the soap opera of crypto currencies but the implication that it is hard to get more than 10k in cash from a bank is ludicrous.

I’ve gotten more than that out of a credit union located in the basement of a grocery store using literally the exact same form that is use to exchange coins for bills and taking less time.

Maybe the assertion is you can’t do it without an irs notice from the bank? Sure but you can easily get the cash.
I was actually joking about the California housing shortage, but the situation in France sounds similar to much of the developed world. Walt Disney made Main Street U.S.A. an attraction at his park because by the 1950s, the hearts of small towns were already disappearing. The same goes in Japan, where Tokyo is still growing, as are other cities near high speed rail, but small towns are mainly inhabited by the elderly.
I'd be careful about such conclusions without a study. It certainly doesn't fit my usage. I'm at least twice as likely to hit "emacs -nw" for a quick edit than launch the GUI version. Being useful in a terminal is a critical requirement for me.
Do you pay the same as an individual or through an employer?

When my wife left her job several years ago (but post Obamacare) and needed to get insurance on the open market, her Northern California Kaiser plan was roughly the same price as her employee group plan (inclusive of employer contribution). Not too long ago my sister purchased a Kaiser Mid-Atlantic plan on the open market, which was also reasonable with nearly identical coverage to the group plans I've had.

As far I understand, Kaiser is largely an outlier regarding rough cost parity between group plans and individual plans. I'd be surprised if UHC cost the same as Kaiser for the same coverage on the open market, but if you confirm then I'll have to update my assumptions.
Red Hat typically opensources everything, which is one of the things I admire about them, so you should see repos going up sooner or later.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we compete with Red Hat.
But minitel was different, the charge depended on the site you were on, and to some extent the charge was shared with the site.

All sites on minitel were like premium-rate phone numbers, differently priced ones.
Bezos love for experiments and lack of fear when it comes to failure coupled with the deep pockets that allow him to fail makes it hard to beat Amazon.
The same can be said about diamonds and art, however. The only difference here is that it's a digital vs a physical asset.
Hawaii false missile alert button pusher fired
Retrospective: Looking Glass
Yes, all reasonable paranoia. However I do trust Coinbase/GDAX as far as BTC, ETH LTC are concerned.

It's a pain to store a few K USD worth of altcoins in my hw wallet (which I'm not even sure supports most of them). What if I'm at work and an event happens that makes me want to sell? The wallet requires an app to be installed.

If there's a hint of an issue with Bittrex, I'll trade to ETH and move them to GDAX.

Am I being a fool here?
Not at all, if only to tell about virtues iTerm2 and tmux to wider audience!

Short version: iTerm with tmux control mode (tmux -CC flag) is still iTerm, only now with tmux benefits like persistent shell sessions. iTerm translates regular commands like new window and split pane into tmux commands and acts otherwise like regular iTerm. Mac might crash or SSH get disconnected and tmux stays running to save you from losing anything (well, if it's running on a server..).

In addition you tmux gives you shell sharing and allows using different devices alltogether. I sometimes use iPad or iPhone with Blink.app to connect to my always running sessions. You can connect to existing tmux session attaching with CC mode and iTerm will open windows and panes to accommodate.

One caveat if you require Mosh for network issues: it and tmux control mode aren't compatible. Also, I'd like to open tmux windows as tabs instead of separate iTerm windows, but that's a minor thing.

This page on iTerm's wiki explains things in detail: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/TmuxIntegration
Fantastic content, thankyou.

If I could make one request it would be a bit of margin/padding on the left of the body text. Would make it more readable on mobile.
Specifically, “Fulfilled by Amazon” inventory, including Amazon's first-party inventory, is commingled.

So if there is no third-party FBA seller for a product you buy sold by Amazon, you are as safe as Amazon's first-party sourcing, otherwise it's the wild west.
I wrote a version of this in javascript with a live demo you can play with at https://alexander.soto.io/seam-carving
> That's because you (probably) haven't used a modern text editor.

So first I have to create a problem for myself by using a "modern" editor, and then instead of fixing the problem in the obvious way (going back to the normal editor that works efficiently) I should wait around for something like this.

> If you'd follow either chrome's or firefox's changelog you'd also read about constant progress in optimizing their browser engine and dev tools.

I.e. it's not obvious from the unchangingly crappy browser experience itself, so we have to convince ourselves by believing the changelog.
Actually, considering more than 70% of gold being bought is NOT for monetary purposes[1], I'd say it is not overvalued. It is valued exactly at its market value: for jewelry, for industry, for dentistry, etc.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...
Why? jq should be able to make quick work out of it, or Postgres if you need more complex queries.
I'm more referring to Mark Zuckerberg's new year post about investing in decentatizlized tech and the power it provides. Will be interesting to see if FB will do an ICO themselves or at least built there own blockchain to address some of the data centralization concerns.
Thank god. My neighborhood has a forum run by the HOA. It's flooded with posts about neighbors running their own "crypto-businesses" trying to get other people in on it. Based on a quick read, I'm pretty sure none of them are in tech (not that that's prerequisite to understanding the technology) and most seem to think BTC is magic internet money. If/when BTC tanks, the ensuing bloodbath is going to be nasty.
I'm still kind of amazed by Dollar Shave Club ($1bil exit to Unilever) - absolutely no product innovation (private label S. Korean razor you could've bought on Amazon for cheaper) but brilliant branding/marketing.

Objectively Amazon has never had much of a personality brand-wise, and anything you can do to exploit that weakness will help you win customers.
This is a much simpler proposition than Vue. If you want a cleaner, more modern take on the "sprinkle jQuery on HTML for some dynamic behavior" style approach, Stimulus is a fantastic option. However, if you want the DOM to simply be a "render destination" and prefer to use Javascript to handle data, state, and behavior entirely (using a component-based architecture and JSON data from APIs), then Vue (or React, etc.) is still the way to go.

My belief is the vast majority of web apps that are Basecamp-like (essentially tools that let you edit stuff and post stuff in document-type contexts) will greatly benefit from the simple, straightforward approach that Stimulus provides. I'm already using it on a new Rails 5.1 project, and I'm absolutely loving it. (And this is coming from someone who's quite a fan of Vue and have used it on projects as well.)
So existing healthcare providers are perfect?
go ahead and buy EA, maybe they can fix some of it's problems. but leave valve alone! jeeze. Isn't MS big enough? Valve is a pretty prominent figure in the gaming community and have driven a lot towards gaming on linux. No way that would have happened if Microsoft owned them.
The article actually mentions that the video surveillance center monitoring these cameras will, itself, be under video surveillance. Though it doesn't say from where, or by whom.
It's not really an apples to apples comparison but before we went with Pony we did try out a number of things on the JVM.
I don't understand your point. Surely approaching a solution, even after a few false starts, is better than unmitigated suffering.

Besides, there's family history to consider, which may help rule out some drugs. The doc isn't always going in totally blind.
In the Netherlands we have no jury system.

Its your smart lawyers vs. the governments smart prosecutors and at the end of the day 3 smart judges decide. Exceedingly boring and technical.

Meanwhile in the US it is a circus. Literally anything can and will happen. This leads to people taking risks.
This is a great reply! I consider myself far from a socialist, but have often had the same reaction to that argument about capitalism implying competition. Perhaps we draw different conclusions though: I conclude that this seems like a good framework for regulators to work within, ie. by writing regulations with an eye strongly toward fostering competition.
They can both be true, actually! Wow!
You’d think that 9 years in there’d be plenty of examples of it solving problems for normal people, too. The bubble talk will go away as soon as that changes.
It sounds like exchanges are using Tether because offering to cash out USD can be difficult if the exchange isn't in the US, so they let people use Tether as a proxy USD. e.g. If someone thinks the market's about to crash, they can sell their Bitcoin for Tether, then buy back Bitcoin when the price drops.

So if your coin has the same use case as Tether does now, people may not buy MyTetheredCrypto off you directly for USD, but they might buy it off you for Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies you accept if it's not easy for them to convert to USD. Then you sell those coins immediately for their value in USD (you presumably having more access to do this than the buyer does) so you have your USD-backed tethered cryptocurrency with every MyTetheredCrypto backed by a real dollar USD.

Obviously I'm not really suggesting all this seriously though, there are lots of potential problems all over it.
I am continually surprised with the focus on attacking the "packaging" of healthcare at the insurance / network / reimbursement level. That isn't the problem that needs to be solved. The problem with healthcare costs is that there is a lack of competition of costly services provided by large hospital and clinics. In many areas, there is a single provider that runs unchecked. Two factors limiting competition are:

1) Huge barriers to entry. How do you start a new hospital or sizable clinic? Regulation, costs, training, etc make it prohibitively difficult
2) Science/data isn't good enough yet. There is not sufficient data to show which providers (hospitals/clinics/treatments) are better than others, enough to allow disruptive entrants into the system.

Only breakthroughs in biotechnology that displace incumbents in healthcare services will move the need. Re-shuffling the insurance / network / payment deck of cards aren't enough.
Taxes like that are exceedingly rare and minimal where they exist. Property taxes on office furniture?
So they can pay money to Kodak for the hardware needed to mine their 'coins' and not even get the hardware, just be stuck in a two year lease burning electricity night and day to create these comically funny not-even-sh1t-coins.

Some respect can be given to those that find many greater fools, take their money and pull off a classic scam, e.g. the Tether incident, brilliant in its crookedness.

However this Kodak effort is a joke. Kodak are not in master scammer league and they have an inflated ego regarding their brand worth yet at the same time shaming that brand quite badly.

It is as if it is a parody told to a boss that didn't do deadpan, maybe German was the first language. I know people are gullible however:

Kodak's January 9, 2018 announcement of KodakCoin and the KodakOne was accompanied by its announcement of the Kodak Kashminer cryptocurrency mining system. The Kodak-branded "Kashminer" rigs would be available for two-year leases and allow owners to mine for cryptocurrency, a focus in Kodak's currency pivot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KodakCoin

They are having a laugh.

However it is definitely 'with' and not 'at' for everyone else that learns of this. Have they gone mad? What next, pivoting into homeopathic remedies? Rhododendrons or KodaTulips?
Everyone who works in XX-Sec will tell you that every system has weaknesses, in this case I think that it is those weaknesses which shouldn't be photographed.

I think the logic is that the bad guys would use the pictures to identify the weaknesses and evade the screenings.

Now, whether the point of Airline security really is to catch the bad guys is a whole different story...
Gold is pretty light for its value. A gram of gold is worth about $50, whereas a US dollar bill (of any denomination) also weighs 1 gram. So gold is 2.5x denser than $20s.

The main flaw with gold as a currency is that it's tempting to shave little bits off each coin so you can melt the shavings into some new coins. Or recast them with 20% lead. Paying in gold coins involved the buyer searching through his pockets for the lightest coins he could foist on the seller, and the seller skeptically hefting and biting them.
thx! i have been following gun for a while.. very interesting project!

but its decentralization features are not all too clear to me (have to dive deeper).
things like peer discovery, nat traversal, gossiping, etc.

does that come with the package?
It may not be incorrect. It seems that if it was significantly affecting their bottom line it’d be a low-hanging optimization that they’d have tackled by now.
FWIW this issue infuriates me also - to a degree
Man have I really enjoyed CoreOS/Container Linux, etcd and generally all the work the CoreOS guys have done, and boy have I hated Red Hat's business practices. I moved away from Red Hat back when they split the OS into Enterprise and Fedora flavors.

I was a big fan of Red Hat back when they were leading the way in the early days of linux with things like application packaging, and a general vision towards simplicity. This is the same thing that attracted me to CoreOS' elegant engineering. I don't object to companies focusing more on revenue, as Red Hat's Enterprise move clearly was. But I cannot abide the erosion of vision in pursuit of profits. In particular when elegance and simplicity are replaced with complexity, and user hostile design to increase switching costs.

I realize there is probably a natural selection process at work here, and user hostile design is clearly a more profitable strategy, but I can't keep from hoping that one of these times the well engineered, simplicity focused, user centric design will find the right business model and survive... vision intact.
Congrats to the CoreOS team, although I’m a little bit sad to see this happen it’s a way better outcome than what happened with RethinkDB!
> The problem with healthcare costs is that there is a lack of competition of costly services provided by large hospital and clinics.

That doesn't seem to be the problem. Particularly, it is not a differentiator between the US and many systems with better cost-for-outcome profiles.
Would it be possible to add a search or lookup of some kind? Needing to know the Bundle ID makes this a bit tricky to use for anything but your own apps.
I wonder if person died, and his clone waking up can be compared to a person getting into a deep coma from an accident and waking up a year later. In both cases a consciousness disintegrated and a consciousness was integrated?
As per my other comment above, I find it infuriating that they didn't delist Tether months ago. The printing of Tether, so to speak, is absolutely a spiraling problem. There is a qualitative easing inflationary quality to the entire crypto marketplace so long as it is allowed. It's a huge disappointment that that thing wasn't yanked late 2017 from all half-respectable exchanges.
If you don't know how to beat Amazon, read the Innovator's Dilemma.

Just don't buy it on Amazon.
Banks can repossess your property if you don't pay. If you're not putting in much money as a down payment, they'll also force you to pay for insurance (PMI) on the mortgage.

They're also not promising otherwise and claiming to be regularly audited while firing/being fired by their auditor.
> betting it all on black.

At the blackjack table.
I'm a lead dev at a small, but fast-growing healthcare IT company and I can say that healthcare is nothing like the markets that amazon is currently in. It is so incredibly fragmented and the laws vary state to state. In Maryland, where I live, we have a single, very competent and well-funded HIE called CRISP. California, in contrast, has like 20 different regional HIE's with not much support from the state AFAIK. I think they're going to be surprised how crazy the healthcare markets are.
Almost never take a fixed bid contract. They're pretty much always a net negative.

This is not the best approach, honestly.

No one would pay me the effective hourly rates that I make off fixed rate projects, and everyone is happy. Clients almost always prefer to know what they’re going to pay upfront.

Additionally, hourly seems simpler and low risk, but it’s all downside for you. If you’re way more efficient, you get penalized. But if it takes longer than your estimate, clients get pissed. At extremes, they may just refuse to pay. Tell a client your estimate is $10k and then try to bill $30k, tell me what happens :)

Just like value-based pricing, flat rate takes a bit more skill to learn, but it’s dramatically more profitable in the long run.
Eh. Different Amazon verticals are ran very differently and have their own set of problems.

I've used Amazon Fresh a few times and I've never received "fake salmon".
yeah, agree. but this is low-level protocol.
many mail (email) applications, but event-based application messaging frameworks? i could find some that come close..

do you have some good pointers?
Searching on Amazon has always been very sub-optimal, including the inability to sort by price when you need it... not sure if that ever will become a nuisance to Amazon...