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Some things that have helped me manage teams and projects going sideways:

Learn about their positive and negative experiences before changing anything. People are rarely as dumb as you think and often have to follow the instructions of their former dumb managers. Don't be another assumptive manager. Anonymous feedback forms during meetings are great for questions.

Position yourself as not their boss but being there to serve their needs, find how to support them and ultimately have the project succeed. Many employees are used to being mistreated overseas, some may not be able to handle this as they don't get moving until yelled at, others will cry out of happiness of dignity and respect. Strong emotional breakthrus are needed for turning around a project and for trust to form.

Make change plans together so the change is managed and there is an ownership in continuous improvement.

Create a culture of learning together and providing lots of mentoring and training that they didn't get in the past.

Reduce the culture of fearing mistakes and introduce one of learning. Lunch and learns are helpful to say this week I messed X up and learned Y from it. Do it yourself too.

Get lots of resources to help them learn in their own time. Lynda.com,etc. Make it clear your are here to help their personal and professional development first because that will get everyone positive results on the project.

Set the bar for work ethic. Nothing will move unless you do. You will find people who align with your message, or those who don't, and it may be required to replace some folks.

Rather than get into painting the sky magical colors, if your remaining project scope is known, implement a ticketing system like Jira with a basic workflow to teach the team how to record and build the defects. That will likely get more done to start a change that you can layer agile, etc with in the future.
If an alternative was cheaper and of comparable quality then legislation shouldn't have been required for it to be chosen by whoever was in charge of the decision.
Public by Default – What Venmo (and the Whole World) Knows About You
> Patients could answer questions on a mobile-phone app to help determine whether they should be able to access a medication without a prescription.

Day 2: Websites showing the correct answers to get anything you want show up.

This is an absolutely bonkers idea.
I'd love to see a game where cheating and scripting is the primary means of gameplay. By default the game would present a very simple UI but players would be encouraged to write and share scripts enabling varying levels and types of functionality.

As a game developer your job then would be to write interesting enough systems for players to exploit to come up with interesting gameplay. I can imagine a scenario where different Overwatch-style "classes" emerge all built from the same basic game elements.
The true root of the problem is largely systemic: healthcare is a for-profit system in this country and was poorly designed in the first place.

For example, employment based health insurance is largely a relic from WW2 because companies couldn't increase wages and offered it to entice workers. This was logical at the time, but in the 21st century makes very little sense.

Until we can turn it into a true public service, little will change. We can band aid the solution as much as we want but we will never be able to resolve the true core problems.
I disagree, I think they'd be extremely happy with it... as long as they were prevented from seeing the words "socialized" in any context around the program until they'd seen the benefits.

A large portion of the country working full time already has their employer offered health plans supplemented by Medicaid anyways.
At first glance, I think this likely qualifies for a Show HN. Let me suggest you go to that section of the site, read the rules and consider resubmitting this as a Show HN (or changing the title on it).

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
For me, the fundamental problem with web components is that attributes are limited to strings, so for anything even mildly complicated you have to stick something weird on top of them that serializes/deserializes things all the time.
Exciting news.
My only hope is they they would simultaneously dial back medication advertisements.
Anecdotal comment: it looks like Amazon is putting an audio player at the top of each press release to showcase their "Amazon Polly" deep learning voiceover. Starting at 3:18 in the audio it starts reading the entire table and (expectedly) screws up reading the table, but not too bad.

However it's a great way of proving that we are not ready for computers to read to us yet.
I work for Fitbit but am speaking only for myself.

I'm guessing that this is the chain you're referring to since it echoes the "30 minutes after waking while lying in bed" claim: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Charge-HR/Resting-Heart-Rate...

Other sources I checked did not echo that claim. As one commenter in the chain pointed out, RHR is not minimum HR.

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HighBloodPressure/G...

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/expert-...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/resting-heart-rate-can-r...

Also, one of the critics in the chain thinks Fitbit must be inaccurate after his RHR rose from 68 to 71 after "hiking at altitudes up to 14,200 feet" then fell back to 68. I think this criticism stems from a misunderstanding about how altitude affects oxygen levels and how oxygen levels affect heart rate.

All that being said, even if the devices are generally accurate, there are defects and they aren't designed as medical devices. To the extent you voluntarily share your data with a doctor or insurer (which is the only way they'd get your data), your doctor or insurer should treat it the same way they treat other useful but potentially inaccurate information.
Show HN: DreamFort – an iPhone dream diary focused on fast adding of new dreams
The introduction of automobiles permitted the development of F1 racecar drivers, but just ended up with most people dragging themselves around to get food and money. The introduction of the printing press permitted the publication of pamphlets and books that overturned world governments and dethroned kings... but most people used it to trade porn and recipe books.

Technology doesn't make people better. It lets people do better things if they have the desire to do so. It also must enable them to do worse things if they have the desire to do so. You can not have one without the other. And on the balance things have historically gotten better so there's not too much reason to be worried about the fact most people just use global communication to bicker. They won't be remembered. Those who are, however, wouldn't have been possible otherwise.

As for where quantum computing factors into this, I don't have the slightest clue.
One of my friends has type I diabetes, in more than one times, she needed urgent visit/call to her doctors just to get the medicine she has being taken for years.
Interesting, I mostly just use Bootstrap 4 (internal enterprise application so the massive adoption and long release cycles help there).
This seems quite different; pharmacists are trained professionals, and not a mobile phone app.
I think the numbers may not come out the way you think they will. Sedentary lifestyles are by far the largest medical expense in the country as a whole, so office jobs I would expect to have much higher premiums.

Sure you're not gonna get your sternum crushed by a falling 2000lb pallet - but those situations are already typical covered by workmans comp and other company insurance.
I don't understand why a payment processing company is putting out books? Too much funding?
I'm in the same boat here. Naming is _hard_! I'm thinking of changing the name to binarytask instead, what are the drawbacks of a name change?
I agree fully, it's absurd to think of wiping out the human race. There is basically no disaster that would leave the Earth intact but wipe us out. We're the most adaptable species the world has ever known and we're everywhere.

I said civilization would collapse in a dire nuclear war scenario, which is not the same thing. Advanced civilization itself may actually be quite fragile - we see glimmers of that fragility now and again when government / order / utilities break down for prolonged periods.
> The very top layer is nice and you can configure it relatively easily, but as soon as you go one level deep, it's configuration hell if you're not lucky.

That was my experience with Ubuntu, too. They add a lot of infrastructure for some misguided sense of convenience, partly because of their Debian heritage. I switched to Arch and found all layers to be much simpler to understand. Arch's documentation explains layer by layer and hardly touches upstream projects when packaging them instead of expecting you to use an interface that works only for their distro.

For example, Arch's installation guides you to setup basic DNS on /etc/resolv.conf which is read directly by libc domain resolving functions. If DNS is not working, I know the most basic mechanism responsible. There's no, "/etc/network/interfaces looks right, but whatever reads it is not reading it!" problem.

Anyway, if Ubuntu's not right for you, then maybe another distro is. A bad experience with Ubuntu doesn't necessarily mean that it would be the same with all distros.
I got into developing by modding doom with a hex editor. Giving my SimCity virtually unlimited money. Cheating in a video game is fun and standard practice in my opinion.
I tried doing Bootstrap 4 with Webpack and finally switched to UIkit about 30 milliseconds before committing seppuku.
IBM Seeks $167M from Groupon in E-Commerce Patent Suit
These animations fall under a non commercial transformative use context so I really doubt LucasFilm would have any issue. I like BB-8 and wanted to give this experimental design a go so animating him in different ways was exciting to me. Maybe the next few articles I'll use Porgs!
> Presumably only for trivial conditions id [sic] hope

I'd hope not. I used to be asthmatic. At one point in my life, getting--and paying co-pay for--a doctor's appointment was not easy. There were nights when I weighed suffering a little longer against the risk of triggering an ER visit. Being able to go to a pharmacy to get albuterol would have made a tough time easier with minimal risk to anyone else.
^ this.

"find a friend to be your senses" is my wording of it (from long ago).. And do this in all possible aspects (of culture or else) - common-people, company/companies, devs, management.. and once and again.

Technical stuff might be in dire state but is usualy fixable... unless people/culture simply prevents it. So beware.. esp. of things you are not told, like why these devs, why this project, why finish it, why now, .. why you?

Fish starts smelling from the head first.

and... Westerners might not be too welcome everywhere. Watch and Listen.. before doing anything. YMMV
Back in the day I would occasionally play counterstrike on low reputation servers to see all the cheaters. It was amusing for about 5 minutes.
Oh hey Elad! You are welcome.
You should know that everyone I know who has interacted with you, speaks incredibly highly of your wisdom —- I am amazed by the breadth you cover —- as these people work on things ranging from Longevity to SaaS to Crypto! I have always admired your wide ranging interests and sharp wisdom (We have never met, but have been an indirect beneficiary of your wisdom — we have a number of common folks). Your personal investing track record is enviable too! Any insights on how you pick who/what to bet on? (Is there a self interview in the book ? :-))
I would say the other big deciding influence is that Vue leans towards the idea of a persistent state object with watchers that you update in place, while React leans towards disposable state objects that you update by calling a method that re-renders with a new disposable state object.
That seems like a good "wonder", definitely not deserving of downvotes.

I'm pretty sure I want to play games in which there is no cheating though.

You could do handicapping, so in an FPS rather than allowing wallhack lower players get a call from control "someone is closing on your position [from the North"]". Or new players are 'fresh' and can move faster. You need to weight it very carefully though.
yes, good points (along with user zck). My point is that it's a bit misleading to say these types of negotiations are all or nothing. There are incremental steps that work towards the ultimate 100% goal, which are valuable on their own, without reaching 100% goal.
Clearly achieving 100% of their goal is always the objective, but I don't see "splitting the difference" as being contrary to that.

Example:

FBI: release all the injured hostages, and as a good faith measure we'll turn the water back on.

HOSTAGE TAKER: I'll only release 3 critically injured if you turn the water on now.

(some back and forth, where the hostage taker offers the 3 critically injured + 1 child, and doesn't seem willing to move their position any further, and precious time is being lost for the critically injured)

FBI: Ok, the water is back-on, we're waiting to receive the 3 critically injured + 1 child.

I'm no expert, so possibly that's not how it would go. Would the negotiator only take their initial offer while risking the lives of injured hostages? But the "all or nothing" label belies that there surely must be some back-and-forth with compromises along the way.

Of course you're never splitting humans, but you are splitting groups of humans, and perhaps plenty of other differences.
D-Wave’s quantum computer successfully models a quantum system
As some one who has lived with a serious chronic condition id say the opposite - I don't have anyting against my local pharmacy (and they have been good and even hand delivered meds )

But I suspect that they probably have two at most patients like me as opposed to the nephrology specialists who see dozens of people like me each week.
Thank you, that's brilliant! It is unfortunate that the source code is lost to humanity, as an example of what is possible.
Just because something happens when you enter a command, this does not make a REPL. The original idea of a REPL was that one reads Lisp code as data, evaluates it and returns the result as Lisp data, which gets printed as such and stored as a side effect.
They will return with a vengeance.

20 Republican states are suing to remove it arguing it unconstitutional and the Republican party gutted the penalty for not having insurance it was tied to. The Republican Party President, Donald J Trump, argues this mandate is inseparable from the entirety of the ACA. The Republican controlled Judicial Branch politically favors of the Republican Party.
Even if they move a memory value when it's changed they still need to have a pointer somewhere to it's new location. If you can find that pointer you can still read/write at will. This is actually one of the things covered by Cheat Engine's tutorial.
Dell XPS uses almost the same wifi as the macbook stuff AFAIK - the fullmac broadcom chips.
>A social network is only worthwhile if it gains a critical mass of users such that there are enough friends on it (or sometimes, i.e. Twitter, enough interesting people on it) to make spending time there worthwhile. Massive growth is more important to the survival of a social network than to any other business model.

You can have a place that's worth spending time in without needing "massive" growth.

When the Internet first started to become a cultural force it was still sort of a niche thing. Normal people were on it, but the scattered mess of blogs and online bulletin boards were all over the place. You didn't need to have EVERYONE on every board, you just needed the board for your website to have enough cool people on it to build a community. They rarely got much bigger than a few hundred active members.

You can't make decaf coffee by making regular coffee and taking the caffeine out. You have to prepare the coffee beans in a different way. If you want a social network that doesn't repeat the sins of the current social networks.

For Facebook I don't think their revenue model was their original sin, the revenue model became as invasive and problematic as it was because the company was built by a creepy dude who didn't actually value individual privacy or community very much. If you want a social network that's not dehumanizing and doesn't contribute to atomizing individuals you're going to need to focus on more intimate, community focused interactions.
I built a private car sales search engine. Feedback appreciated
I would like to second and strongly advise this advice to contact the ombudsman.

I got cheap UK travel insurance, got my jaw broken in Australia, racked up huge hospital bills, hotel bills, curtailment bills...

They tried every trick in the book to not pay.

Although it took over a year the ombudsman made them repay every penny.

It seems you documented everything well - the ombudsman attaches a huge weighting to the medical opinions of treating doctors, so you have a good shot.
looks like this is a draft guidance document, so it may not actually come into effect for a while. something like this seems like it would be massively controversial, and thered probably be a lot of debate on both sides. overall though the idea is very interesting.

something like 20% of US health spend is on outpatient care. i dont know how much of that relates to medication management, but id imagine a lot does. PCPs get paid more when they manage a patients medication, and many psychiatrists make nearly all their income from adjusting prescriptions. im sure other specialties are similar. so this theoretically enables some of that work to be done without the physician. this could significantly reduce cost of outpt services, although it will depend very much on how hard it is for pharma companies to demonstrate non rx use of their products is safe and effective. it may be the case that only a few meds actually are eligible, or that many are, once the guidance is finalized

i havent read the guidance doc yet so dont really know how this would play out in terms of who decides what to rx if not a doc.

i personally am sort of disappointed to see doctors becoming even more sidelined. doctors really do an important job of filtering info for patients, advocating / negotiating with insurance companies, and looking out for them. this could potentially be one less protection for patients as large companies get more power to control info. id like to see cost taken out of the system by reducing pricing power by breaking up large providers rather than disintermediating doctors, but that isnt within fda's mandate, so i understand why fda would go for something like this

this could be good for patients if it is implemented in a way that doesnt give pharma too much power over patients. cost would decrease and access to meds could increase. however there may be more patients taking medicines for reasons other than the health benefits (ie marketing power / influence)
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Although a single player game and a game that must be hacked instead of extended with new functionality, maybe you like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_%27n%27_Slash
Sure, but in a single-player, local context: do what you want and experiment.

League of Legends is a multi-player game, and a competitive one at that: you having fun by cheating is likely leading to another player not having fun, which is bad for the game (and Riot as a revenue-generating company!).
For a consumer the cheapest and easiest way to backup important documents or files is to encrypt it and store it across multiple storage providers, e.g. Dropbox and Google Drive.

They usually give you a reasonable amount of free storage, and it's unlikely all accounts would be terminated or locked at the same time.

And of course, you should always have your local backups as well.
Well, I live in one of those counterexamples - the Great Basin in the US west.
I think the only concrete criticism here is that the Vue ecosystem is new, which is (admittedly) perilous.

But with the KISS approach Vue takes, I've only very rarely cared about the ecosystem at all. I think that the weakness you are seeing here is a straw man from the nature of React's over-architected approach, which Vue does not significantly suffer from (sort of, we don't need a bunch of apps, just a good phone).

Is there a particular situation you are thinking of when you say we are in need of said ecosystem?
Joana is an open source Eclipse plugin for information flow control. Afaik the most precise one which still scales reasonably well.

The core technology is not the thing to commercialize. The valuable thing is to be an independent third party which provides the guarantees. It is about image and prestige.

The hard question imho: Are such guarantees valuable enough? Do end users care enough that it is worth it?
Can't you just logon and order a repeat prescription which is then delivered to your local pharmacy.
I can't say you are wrong. But also remember the industry is lobbing against many things right now which have come around in the past few years, including the perception of opiate prescriptions where they are trying to moderate the discussion. Hence spending has gone up considerably.

My personal logic is they typically have lobbied to keep most drugs regulated (or split) so to keep their reimbursements as high as possible. Most drugs once they go into the OTC market drop in margin, and volume does pick up but only to a point plus it comes with increased competition now.

The last few allergy medications like Zertec, Allegra, Claritin etc that were once prescription only went OTC and margins dropped for the OTC versions. However, you will find at least in the case of a couple of them the companies were pushing for them to be OTC from the beginning because they had developed the drug with the intent to be OTC. However, even if you look at OTC allergy meds, most can still be prescribed and hence paid for by medical insurance and the per pill price is drastically higher, but the out of pocket expense for the consumer is lower (which is just screwed up IMO). Last point on this, once it goes OTC the competition on manufacturing skyrockets, again driving down margins for everyone, similar to when a prescription med comes off patent initially.

I could see an argument though where the AMA and other physician lobbying groups here may diverge from the pharmaceutical lobbying but in general from my knowledge they work pretty close together.
Cheating in single-player games is absolutely fun and a good way to introduce oneself to reverse-engineering. The key difference, though, is that cheating in multiplayer games can directly (usually negatively) impact the experience of other people playing the game.
> What if I don't want to use webpack and npm and babel?

You may want to look at Parcel, which gets you most of the Babel/Webpack benefits (minification, ES6 syntax, using image files as imports in JS, etc) in a way that "just works".

npm i --save-dev parcel-bundler
npx parcel src/index.html # where index.html has <script src="whatever.js"></script>

...and that's it, if you're not doing anything really weird.
There's an austere beauty to the laws, but physics restrictions do take all the fun out of speculation, it's true. And it does place the stars out of reach of the individual, at least until we cure aging. Empirical truth has a heavy price.
> You're just another guy with good motives until you succumb to investor pressure

This. Always chose “open” by design, never by charity.

Funny thing, the marketing seems very close to what we're used to coming from Facebook. Happy-go-lucky language, bright colors, the "be good" attitude and the founder in the center of the spectacle. This whole thing is just a bad joke.