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Without implying too much other than what can be directly inferred from this line

Private health care is sold as a luxury for the affluent
and usually only covers hospital treatment, not primary
care—that is, visits to a doctor.

I'd like to reiterate that this is where the American model of healthcare delivery is headed.

The Affordable Care Act just made this abundantly inevitable.

We will soon have a tiered system - if it already isn't here - where the wealthy shall be catered to by doctors and health professionals, who have completely removed themselves from the insurance model and thus only serve in a Direct-Pay model.

The best surgeons and experts will exclusively cater in a on-demand model, flying down to multiple locations a day to offer their premium services to wealthy clients. Concierge medicine is already here. [1]

Even with things like Telemedicine and Remote surgery, I don't see why the doctors will behave any differently in how they choose to split their precious hours.

[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concierge_medicine

http://stanfordhospital.org/clinicsmedServices/clinics/prima...
I don't mind them if they are short and part of a larger narrative about the product itself...(like Dicetower boardgame reviews where they dump all the pieces in the box)...but I can't imagine just watching that because it's an unboxing vid...I have a feeling so many people saw that kinderegg vid because they searched youtube for "kinder egg" and not because they wanted to see an unboxing vid, per se.
Yes, exactly this. I was fine with my Google Account; now I have a Google Social Networking Boondoggle. And the rare times G+ makes a difference in my use of other services, the net effect has been worse (I'm still not over the YouTube thing)
Technically, life in humans is only known to have about a 93% fatality rate, although it's likely the remaining 7% will succumb in time.
Intense. Haha.
Perhaps emacs is to blame for that.
It's not very common, but it also isn't nearly as rare as you're making it sound. I'll look for the study, but IIRC, if you're over 50, and you vigorously exercise more than 2 hours a week, your chance of a heart attack is actually greater than if you vigorously exercise only a couple minutes a week. And I think it's around 1 in 15k. Which although not common, is far from almost impossible.
If Foxconn could do better economically in Poland, you bet your ass they would be in Poland.

Wage is just one thing to take into consideration. Working conditions, forced overtime (perhaps without pay), safety, etc...
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And? Unless you're going to try to make the point that post-WWII American investment in Europe was done purely out of the goodness of the post-WWII American heart, I'm not sure where you are going with this.
A completely free market in healthcare will absolutely not work.

It doesn't work because of other reasons. And libertarianism is quite irrelevant. A good economist can point out the flaws in economic markets...using economics. A marxist alternative is clearly from the wrong century and is irrelevant. The important point that govermnet semi-intervention is part of the problem is perfectly plausible. That is a different point than no co-operation is needed for a viable solution. People co-operate all of the time without the need for a "government solution". Try staring at people in the elevator or invading the personal space of someone on the NYC subway if you want to prove this point to yourself.
Whereas Facebook is an altruistic service run by the users for the users.

Oh, spare me the breathless reporting on Skynet, please.
My evidence is anecdotal, but when I posted Clojure or Scala jobs (and recently Go) I received fewer applicants! but almost all of them were highly qualified engineers with very impressive track records. The applicants also come from all over, because of the novelty of the jobs. Java jobs tend to get local candidates, but a Clojure job gets applicants worldwide.

My observation (at a Baltimore company) was the exact same. When you post Clojure job ads, your pool becomes national and get rock-solid people who'd be top-2% in the Java pool. The difference is night and day.

The location is a disadvantage, except for local candidates. (There is a lot of talent in Baltimore-- more than you'd think based on the city's reputation-- but the set is small and quickly exhausted for a larger company.) Great programmers who don't mind using Java or C++ have moved on to hedge funds or upper management in the Valley by age 30. Convincing them to take a risk on a geographic move won't happen. The Clojure pool is national-- there are some really great people who will take that risk if you can promise them full-time work in their preferred language. (Being able to make this promise is rare.)

That said, as a sell to upper management, this argument tends to be unsuccessful in my experience. It is 100% true. But the way it sounds is, "People who like the same languages as I do are way better." You can probably understand why managers are skeptical of that claim-- as true as it is.

What's happening in software is that, because 90% of the work in the industry is mindless, ticket-munching bullshit (CommodityJavaDrone stuff) the top programmers are all finding ways to distinguish themselves-- this is something you have to start thinking about by 28, and you have to have a path by 32, lest you be confused for a CommodityJavaDrone and be put on bullshit work (in which case you'll be flushed out by 40)-- as "too good" for junior-level, predigested grunt work. Some become "Data Scientists" or "Machine Learning Engineers" or "Research Engineers". Some learn a lot of nontraditional languages (Clojure, Haskell, Rust). The few who have the connections become startup founders. Others get "special" engineer titles in big companies (Principal Staff Architect XIV). You won't get anyone good (meaning top 5%) over 30 unless you can establish that the job is "special"-- that they won't be lumped in with regular ol' engineering plebes who have minimal autonomy and are basically there to do what they're told-- but managers see that price of talent as a political risk they'd rather not take. It's hard to address these sociological facts (as one of those "older" (30+) top engineers) without coming across as an arrogant twat. The CommodityJavaDrone engineer mentality is borne of a managerial misconception that those older, top engineers aren't needed, that one can just hire college kids on the cheap and mash them together as if they were all the same... but it's completely wrong. A tech company rots if it can't get top talent.
So if hypothetically Gox was the only buyer for bitcoins trapped in Gox, would they be buying them with real USD, or with 'trapped in Gox' USD that may or may not turn out to have any value?
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+1 I agree that a lifestyle business is the best way to go for most people, largely because of the control it gives us over our own lives.

I just started taking an entrepreneurship class this week, and it has helped me understand that what I have been doing the last 15 years is entrepreneurship/life style business (I live in a low cost of living remote area, and just write and work remotely helping customers as I want to - I work relatively few hours per week and almost all of my work is pleasurable).

I compare my business with two friends who were at our house last night. One owns the best Mexican restaurant in town (for 30 years) and the other once owned a bunch of clothing stores. They are also entrepreneurs who have made decisions to work harder and earn more money than I will ever make. My point is that the fun is in making our own decisions about what we want out of life and our careers.
This sounds like a "Other side of this airtight hatchway" security non-flaw. If you can convince a user to run arbitrary code, then it doesn't matter whether it's an iTunes plugin or something else. You're owned either way.
Every client in the bitcoin network needs to get all the blocks. So it should be pretty easy to get them, just run a normal node... http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10193/how-do-apis...
AHhhhh. I'll check it out!
I don't see that suggested anywhere in the article. But maybe I just missed it. Can you please point out where that claim is made?
The problem here is that it's "just" a plugin. Think of the problem like malicious sites that target windows stating that you need to download a codec to view certain media. The casual user will not receive any sort of warning when they download it, and when itunes opens, they have the keys to the castle. Also, given that a lot of users use the same password for everything, getting the itunes user password means you have a good chance at snagging root at the same time.
>This meant that not using Facebook and Google is a good thing in our scenario.

That's why there's this idea of a 'username' paired with a stored salted hash of a 'password'. This allows people to have independent accounts per service.
It seems that the only real issue is that it circumvents keychain, that would normally prompt before giving any protected value to unknown code (not signed or already prompted). So a plugin can access to protected data that iTune can fetch from keychain silently.

I don't know if there is other ways to achieve that with local attacks, but it looks like a middle of the road issue. Quite serious, but also requires the target system to be already compromised.
Facebook has an opt-in mechanism called "signing up for a Facebook account." G+'s equivalent is "signing up for an unrelated service, possibly as long as a decade ago."
I was fine with my Google account, I am finer with my G+ account. In my view, this makes the Google ecosystem better unified and from a lead generation perspective, more like Facebook.

What? You thought Google or Facebook were software companies? No, those are marketing and advertising companies. Lead generation is their business. The free software is just the foot in the door. And a nice foot it is.
trolling can describe also people like zedshaw or theo de raat even linus torvalds. People that have strong opinions often a tinge of humour, and sometimes are right against everybody.
I think being confident in your claim even if it goes against the majority can be called narcisism
I guess making a point without using the manipulation of feelings based on logic can be called psychopathy (vs empathy/fallacies)
I guess also that they speak because they care when they feel a wrong idea is spreading ...
I guess we can hardly make a distinction between a troll and someone that is disruptive (innovative)

We should tolerate trolls and love them because in the minority of this population maybe master troll bringing up new ideas.

The fact I am a troll does not mean I am a genius, nor that I have any interest lobbying for the usefullness of trolls :) But I think the non troll way of discussing is creating trolls: using fallacies, not accepting strong logical criticizes that can enforce an idea, the ad hominem based on authority rather than the construction of arguments, the lack of passion and sometimes humor that comes with.

So my point is trolling is beneficial to every communities, and it should stay fun.
So what? Lots of people think lots of things are wrong that lots of other people disagree with. That has nothing to do with anything I've said.

You may want to make this thread about opinion and morality, since you can't "win" any other way, but that's not at all what it's about. The subjective merits of licenses are not at issue in any way, shape, or form.
Am I missing something here? It sounds like all he's complaining about is that iTunes plugins don't execute in a separate address space from iTunes itself, which is hardly unusual for most applications that have a plugin architecture. Maybe I am missing something. The amount of hand wringing and hyperbole implies a much worse issue but I don't see what it is.
About the political orientation, I do know that we are considered as a socialist country abroad, and even more in the States. I am just sharing what I have witnessed from inside. For instance, in the mind of most people, the left wing (PS, the "Socialist Party") is even considered to be right-wing-oriented. I think that French do no realize that they tend to think in a "leftier" way that the States (well, you could say that the US tend to think in a "rightier" way due to the Cold War).

> and thats exactly why you end with shitty companies like SNCF and the former France Telecom who did not care about their users at all. Having competition does not solve all issues, but God, it can't be worse than State monopoly services.

Some context for non-French: SNCF is the Société Nationale des Chemin de Fer (litteraly national railway company), that now manages most train traffic in France (but not the railways themselves, ironically); France Télécom (sometimes abbreviated FT) is the company which set up the infrastructure for land-line phones and started using it. Both SNCF and FT are public companies.

The statuses of SNCF and FT were logical at the time of their creation as it was an initiative of the state to build the infrastructure so that most people could benefit from it. However, this also meant that the companies had the monopole and, even when it was finally broken (legally speaking), they were considered as the "by-default" company so they still detain most of the market in their respective domains. Because of this, they were never really threatened by competition and evolve very slowly, leading to a degradation of the services they provide. Additionally, it is difficult to privatize those company because of social protests that raise whenever the topic is discussed.
The point is market forces can apply most arguments against nonsocialized health care focus on the emergency aspect.
I think he meant implementing at least two of his own objects where one inherits from the other.
I was being absolutely sarcastic about Facebook being run by and for the users. G+ and Facebook are both artifacts of their respective owners' lead generation businesses.
I declined G+ for a while, but eventually pressed a button and consented to convert my accounts. I am not aware of any automatic conversion, especially from 10-year-old accounts. I assure you, my Gmail account is older than that.
> Just because we prefer one arbitrary kind of reference frame above others here on earth (ie. euclidean) doesn't make it any more real.

You got it all backwards. Our preference for a certain reference frame is exactly what makes it real, because that's what 'real' means.

Certain frames of reference are almost useless, while others are very useful in our everyday life. This is why "I'm going to the store" is true, while "the store is moving toward me" is false: it is our application of those words in everyday life that defines what we would call 'true' and 'false' here.

It is ridiculous to claim that the above are equally true because supposedly we can choose our reference frame however we like: this is simply not what we mean when we talk about "true" and "false" here. By focusing too much on physical vocabulary, you are losing sight of what certain words mean in the first place.

If you develop a theory that says the fridge is moving toward me when I'm hungry (= I'm going to the fridge, from a different frame of reference) - you are not making a discovery, you are simply making up new definitions of existing words, and you are confused.

Also, mathematical models are just that - math, useful abstractions we can predict stuff with. Assigning to them an ontological status is a matter of choice and of personal belief, not of knowing anything about physics.
This. Node.js and Rails are sexy right? Show your boss how. Do a video screen capture of the time savings you get. Also, execs like what we used to call "The NASCAR Slide™" - which is a presentation slide with all of the logos of companies who use those technologies. The more Fortune 500 companies, "the faster your NASCAR car goes".

Pro Tip - Just give them his link http://www.walmartlabs.com/

Note - Be prepared to have the ugly discussion around support and ecosystem. These are arguably the biggest cons to "newish" frameworks. The problem for any technologically lagging organization is that they don't have the resource (both human and capital) to support change.
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So.. If a user runs arbitrary HTML or JS in their browser, they are owned?
It doesn't really matter, except for people that think it is a good idea to transfer assets into MtGox.

(Because fraudulent trades hiding that they can't cover their accounts aren't much worse than the situation where they can't cover their accounts)
We will wait and see if my advice is worth something, and it is called an advice take it or leave it is up to the reader.
this article is useless, why did it get up voted? there is nothing new or insightful about g+ just the same old arguments.
From what I've seen, Apple is like any other company. A part of the company understands security. Another part thinks it understands security but only pays lip service to it and in reality doesn't understand security and considers it a pain.
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Except you can't know that the changes are minor without looking at the release notes. Between that and the fact that even minor changes multiply in importance across the large number of git users, it's apparently interesting enough.
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Bit different than something that inherently has full access to the parent processes memory space like an iTunes plugin no?
Right. That's pretty widely understood at this point. Were you just repeating what's already known, or was there some insightful point that you were trying to make?
If I were in your shoes, I would spend some time trying to research why your company is actually resistant to change.

Some managers are extremely resistant to change because they work in organizations with extremely vertical power structures. Consequently, they know that even if they think it is a good idea, they are going to have to sell it to 15 different people and get each to sign off on it. In some organizations (government is an excellent example), a manager would have to write a report to get permission to write a report investigating a new technology. In organizations like this, experienced people (aka - management) generally have horror stories about the time they spent three years getting permission to upgrade all the computers to Windows ME...

That brings up another reason that some organizations are resistant to change. When the kinds of people who read Hacker News think of a new tool, they're usually excited. People like us equate change with learning and improving. Consequently, change is an adventure. Unfortunately, end users don't always feel the same. For these types of users, "IT change" is synonymous with "pain and torture". Consequently, getting permission to use a different tool is usually only the first step. When you actually implement the project, you get to deal with six weeks of whining, followed by another four weeks of training extremely resistant people. And then, for the next several months, every problem on earth is 'the new system's fault'...

And then, there are the sales people. Many managers have horror stories where a sales person convinced them that this great new system would do A, B, C, D, E, and F. Unfortunately, once the system is implemented, lo and behold, the system barely does A and B. If you've ever been through a situation like this, you'll be extraordinarily resistant to any new solution.

Once you know a little more about why your company is resistant to change, you'll be in a better place to make a decision. Maybe you work for a giant, monolithic entity that changes about as fast as granite erodes. In this case, you might have to decide whether you feel comfortable in a company like that. Or, maybe your direct manager got burned by a new tool and is forever paranoid. In a situation like that, you'd be better off implementing a one-off project with the new tool and proving that your solution actually works.

The general advice in situations like this is to show that a new tool will have a positive return on investment. That advice isn't wrong, but unfortunately, when people write about the ROI of a new tool, they usually focus on developer hours saved. While that is a good metric, in most cases, developer hours are just one component of a system's true cost. If you start your analysis earlier, you'll have a better sense of all the other costs involved and be able to speak to the real objections you will face.
Get yourself a proper computer.
You should be over the 'Youtube thing'. Many Google services employ commenting/voting/rating etc, handling these in different, separate siloed systems makes no sense. G+ makes a great deal of sense that its detractors are unwilling to admit.

As for the Youtube commenting system which all those who want to be derisive about G+ are quick to point to, they fail to mention how Youtube comments weren't that great to begin with and that the G+ comments they refer to are the ones rolled out immediately after the change, they omit mentioning and don't account for the numerous iterations the system received since then, and they haven't bothered to check on the comments situation since then because it would destroy their strawman arguments.
If it's an insight that people have with the wrong expectations are disappointed for the right reasons, then you're welcome.

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You are right.

I am actually in a phase of archeology where I read a lot of rob pikes, ken thompson, ted nelson, linus torvalds, esr ... (http://harmful.cat-v.org/) and I begin to question myself a lot of things. Even the statu quo.

At work I deal with a lot of dependency hell (system and distributed software requirements, confinments (VM and chroot or jails)) and I begin to doubt some of "the wisdom and progress" I have been adopting.

I search for answers now because I think some old "conceptual bugs" are bitting us very hard (like the way http url are built, threading, shared libraries, the abuse of concurrency) and I don't know anymore what progess is.

I just kind of feel status quo is a very old hard rock band that should be forgotten :)
I forgot about Windows, and cannot speak to it.

On the Mac, iTunes plugins are generic ".bundle" files that don't open iTunes when double-clicked, and need to be manually installed via drag-and-drop into the appropriate folder.

These .bundle files DO seem to circumvent the untrusted code warning dialog though, which I'd say is an actual vulnerability here.
How do I use Facebook Chat and Facebook Photos without a Facebook News Feed account, and without Facebook Like buttons recording every web page I visit?
Gecko wasn't GPL either. And Gecko was actually originally meant to be embedded by others, before the community decided to productize and do Firefox (originally Phoenix).

I'd like to think they noticed it because it was good. KHTML at the time had quite strong CSS support compared to its competition (not necessarily the best, but it competed well), had done some important advances in l18n support compared to others (e.g. strong support for bidi text layout), and the design of its render tree which e.g. allowed for hardware-accelerated layer compositing was later adopted by competitors like Gecko. It was a pretty good codebase.

Sure, it's been a decade since those events, and the majority of the engineering effort by now lies chiefly on the WebKit side of things. Apple employees working on WebKit have done a ton of good work, as have other stakeholders. Apple was an important factor both in terms of workforce increase and popularity increase for the project. But I think it's very legitimate to continue to credit the KDE community with its inception.