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In the UK, while there are some that provide only direct-pay services, most of the private healthcare is operated by, or contracted by, large private insurance companies, that offers quite cheap "add-on" insurance offered as perks by companies, or which you can buy separately.

Most of the private health-care offerings are also deeply incestuous with the NHS. Large part of the surgeons are NHS surgeons that offer additional services on their own time. Many of the surgeries happens in NHS facilities that make excess capacity available to help offset operating costs, and so on.

Additional private cover in the UK is well within reach for most people that are not that far below a median salary.
Wouldn't a more useful measure be deaths/100k per year? In general rate describes speed. What you describe is more like 'probability' of death.

Checking the definition of mortality rate, this seems closer to the general use. About the only difference is Case Fatality Rate which should perhaps be called Case Fatality Ratio instead.
It seems every time I have a dream for something, it appears on HN the next day!

In academic writing, everyone I know uses MS Word. My fantasy is to use a markdown editor that could take the generated html and produce pdf's. If this editor had a way to generate insertable references along with nicely formatted tables, it could easily be a replacement for such a thing.

It would also be nice if something like this had a git backend to it that would allow a version control of the document that allowed multiple authors to contribute. Also, author notes would be nice. Anyhow, that is my wish list. Awesome project.. really dig the simplicity!
Parent was explaining how this news story is reporting what's already known, and has no insightful point.
Google+ is slowly eroding trust in google. I've already given several nontechnical friends advice about moving away from google services as they are worried about the intrusiveness.
Why major creative breakthroughs happen in your late thirties
The ultimate example of trolling. Well played! Well played!
Weird. At least on Mail.app and Mavericks, plugins need to be properly code signed, etc.

(I had to do that for https://github.com/rcarmo/HJKLPlugin to work in Mavericks)
> We will soon have a tiered system - if it already isn't here

That has indeed been the case in the U.S. for years. The three most common health-insurance structures, EPOs, PPOs, and HMOs, each have very specific lists of doctors who accept "in-network" coverage (they differ largely on the terms by which you can pay out of pocket to go "out of network"). How big those lists are and what kinds of doctors they include is pretty noticeably correlated with price: the cheapest insurances don't get you access to a wide range of top-quality "in-network" doctors. And there are a handful of boutique clinics and surgeons who don't take any packages at all. (There's an additional negative impact of this "networks" system in that companies seem to change networks semi-regularly as they renegotiate packages, and people change networks when they change jobs, which interrupts continuity of care.)

Where I live now (Denmark) the whole system is just run publicly, except for a handful of elective things (non-reconstructive plastic surgery, etc.), which are allowed to be done in private practice since they aren't properly considered part of the healthcare system. That removes the possibility of any tiering among "regular" care, and somewhat simplifies bureaucracy (plus, kids can keep the same doctor throughout their childhood, not having to switch every few years). I wouldn't actually mind a multi-tiered system, though, as long as the "free" tier can maintain sufficient quality. I particularly don't mind differences in amenities (if people are willing to pay a lot to go to boutique hospitals that have luxurious private suites, like some of the medical-tourism-oriented hospitals in Jordan offer, that's fine). Tiering does have potentially bad consequences for the quality of the free tier, but to me those consequences are what matter more than the tiering itself, i.e. if System A provides everyone level-7 quality healthcare, while System B provides everyone level-8 quality healthcare and those who pay extra level-9, I'd prefer System B despite its inequality, due to the higher absolute standard of its generally-available care.

In terms of your worry of doctors dropping out of the insurance system to make higher incomes, I think that is something to watch out for, although afaict the big monetary lure currently isn't to keep the same general profession but go out-of-network, but rather to leave "regular" healthcare entirely and go to super-premium boutique stuff like plastic surgery, IVF treatments, sports medicine, etc., which is where the real "superstar doctor" money is. Some of this may be because it's harder to become a superstar doctor in areas like cancer treatment without being at a top research hospital, and research hospitals tend to see themselves as having a public-service (rather than income-maximization) mission, which impacts their policy decisions. If necessary the government could also probably lean on those kinds of hospitals (places like M.D. Anderson, Johns Hopkins, etc.) by adding strings to NIH funding.
There are very few things that can be said that won't insult some group of 100 people somewhere; just that in this case they happen to be Google+'s entire userbase.
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Version numbers are supposed to indicate information like that, at a high level. Under a sensible version numbering scheme, an x.0 release will have important changes, while an x.9 release very likely shouldn't.
Give me an example where Red Hat or SuSE have started a brand new project that directly competes with an existing effort with broad support from the open source community?
Have a plan for how it will integrate with your existing ecosystem such as tools, version control, continuous integration, data sources, etc if your org requires these things. I once worked as a principal at a .NET shop and had a smart engineer come to me wanting to use nodejs for part of a project and had to gently turn him down. I love to see enthusiasm for using new tools and personally like node/javascript, but his plan to use node didn't address important process concerns like hooking into our existing deployment, CI, and unit tests. Those concerns could have been addressed, but would have required significantly more effort than the actual project itself. Every org is different, but for us adding something without proper automation/tooling was a sin.
Opodo's approach to credit card security
I am french, and I disagree.
Download what, exactly?

Downloading the zip file linked to by the OP gives me a folder full of source code, not an "iTunes plugin". Even if it did give me a built plugin, I wouldn't have a clue what to do with it absent further instructions. This is a very poor demonstration of whatever they're trying to prove.

The README says "Copy to ~/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins to install."

So, they're expecting the "casual user" to copy a file to a hidden directory? Good luck with that.

I did a quick search for iTunes plugins. They all seem to come in some sort of executable installer, thus being subject to the ordinary warnings. The OP even suggests as much, with "a trojan dropper can easily load a malicious plugin". How does that "trojan dropper" get on the system?

This isn't a security hole, it's a wannabe scriptkiddy who wants to make noise.
You don't need a facebook account to do other non-facebook things. You do with Google plus.
For the people recommending symlinking to a Dropbox folder, see https://github.com/lra/mackup
Do you honestly believe everything humans do isn't done out of self interest?

EVERYTHING we do ultimately comes down to trying to spread and preserve

* our genes
* our family's genes
* our friends' genes

and all the other social groups humans form, in the order of priority being group size smallest to least.

Emotions are the definable channel to that "gene preserving" desire.

Everything we do in life is to achieve a certain emotional state (think about it). We don't want money. We want what it will mean to us (e.g. security, power, fun, freedom, etc.). We don't want a relationship, we want what it will mean to us (love, belonging, etc.).

Nature's calibrated human has his emotions correctly / optimally linked to spreading and preserving his and other humans' genes.
Can you install iTunes plugin via a browser with no user interaction?
That might be a bit of an exaggeration, although on the Angular side, we'd certainly like to have it pref'd on by default this summer (as unlikely as that may be).

Anyways, I really think people are sort of attributing malice to Glazkov's remarks where none really ever existed, WRT shipping the shadow DOM in its current state.
Want brand loyalty? Scare your customers
It wasn't a very good way of expressing that idea, if so. It makes it appear that the article claims something that it does not, without actually conveying the ideas that it was supposedly intended to.
> More simply want better customer service than British GPs tend to provide, with their brief consultations and frustrating systems for booking appointments

I can definitely sympathise with this, although it isn't a UK wide problem. My local surgery (in a remote part of the country) consists of a couple of GPs who both know me personally and making an appointment involves a quick phone call (and chat to the receptionist who I also know personally).

When I was living in London it was completely different, getting an appointment involved phoning up the surgery the morning you wanted an appointment and hopping somebody hadn't done so before hand so they had space. There was no way to book an appointment in advance. It was easier to go to an NHS walk in centre, wait for a few hours, see a nurse, and have them refer me to A&E to see a doctor if need be.
Wait a second. I thought you made a library for classical inheritance in JavaScript. What's all this functional and Array#from crap you're trying to sell with it? Do one thing and do it well.

Another thing that sits a little weird with me is that this is in the "javascript" organization on GitHub. I think that's a bit misleading, people might mistake this as some official JS library.
I agree that it is hard to do. If it can't be done, though, only the death of companies with old tech will make the world move on.

I think 3) is a good tip, and I have seen it work for some local companies who moved to Scala (for parts of their code).
I just fired up plus.google.com again.

50% of the space is "ADD PEOPLE." The other 50% of the space is "DO YOU KNOW THESE PEOPLE."

Where is the V-A-L-U-E ?

Under the fold at the bottom is "Continue to Google+" Oh, I wasn't there already? That was just the interrogation before Google+ begins?

I continue. Long load time. First thing that appears in 50% of the page is a column of the same people from the previous page. "YOU MAY KNOW." I can't close that window, but I can click "View more." I can also click X on an individual, but each time I do, someone even more remote appears... seriously, really weird foreign names. I start to feel bad for laughing at some of these funny-sounding names.

So, over on the left, ah! A post from my friend with the title "get that art." I look at the preview: It's a thumbnail of a thumbnail with the word "site" above it. Probably the site designer's fault...

But what am I really doing here? There is no 'hook.' There is no reason to be here, there is nothing compelling me. There is nothing I can DO, nothing I can move around, paint, color, amplify, organize. And about these borders: fat, fat borders around everything. So much empty, white space between rectangles. Scrolling down a bit, I see a banner "Follow things you love," with buttons for "Fashion" and "Travel." This is like Yahoo in 1997. How do they "know so much about me" that they think I like Fashion and Travel?

Then, eventually, I reach stuff that's just like facebook: my friend's kid eating a donut. another friend talking about cleaning hairballs in the drain of his shower.

Ok, there's a link I'd like to send to my friend, so I'm going over to facebook an give it to him.

Aren't computers and the internet capable of being fun and interesting or informative and useful? I'll tell you, one facebook is enough. I don't need two of them with friends reposting their shrill political screeds from their personal internet silos. I want to do something useful and valuable with my time on this planet. As a matter of fact, I think trying google+ has made me just want to go for a nice walk! It's a beautiful day outside!
Yep, standing up now to put on clothes, open the windows and stumble around the block in the ice and snow!
>> Before Google released Plus, the company might not have known that you were the same person when you searched, watched videos and used maps.

They did know that you were the same person. You maintained the same session. They may have had limited legal ability to actually use the data from the different services, but I imagine that could have been accomplished with a Terms of Service change without a new over-arching social application.
Firefox OS seems like a joke, and I'm sure it only being on low-end Chinese phones reinforces that.
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The Bitcoin malleability attack graphed hour by hour
People unfamiliar with the Apple ecosystem of products might not realize what a problem this is.

It's not an attack in its own right, but a powerful step in a non-elevated attack against Apple products.

If someone were to end up running malicious code (say, due to a recent Flash Player zero day code execution exploit ...), without the need for administrative rights, they could install this plugin into the iTunes environment for that same user.

Why is this a problem?

This plugin successfully MITM attacks an iTunes purchase and extracts your Apple ID and plaintext password. Network proxying at the machine level to attack SSL traffic would normally require admin rights.

Now that the attacker has the Apple ID, they can:

- Send a remote lock or wipe command to the user's Apple devices that are using Find My Mac/iPhone.

- Log in to Messages and receive copies of everything sent to them / they say to everyone. (They will get email notification of a new device, mind you)

- Potentially find out their home address, phone number, and real name information from the Apple service portal if they've ever taken in a device to be worked on (turning it into an identity theft attack of sorts)

Etc.

Just an FYI if you're not familiar with what an Apple ID does for the average Apple user.

Mind you, without admin rights, fake alert software could also be installed on the Mac, prompting a user for credentials of some sort with a dialog specially crafted to imitate the real thing.

The difference here, however, is that it is all legit dialogs. There are no crazy unknown processes listed on the machine that a more paranoid person might notice (once the iTunes plugin is dropped). The iTunes process itself has been made malicious.

I, for one, will be changing ownership and permissions on the plugin folder on my machines to make it non-writeable without elevation.
I was going to write a reply like this:

"Congrats, you just implemented what `extends` does in CoffeeScript!"

And then I saw your username. This is still the best implementation of inheritance in JavaScript that I have seen.
Not really. Some products like YouTube used a separate account. Most products had incompatible ToS so any integration was difficult or impossible. Each product that had comments, like YouTube or Blogger, or a concept of marking something as good/bad/favorite/starred/etc., or sharing, did that in a different and incompatible way, etc. The gmail account was only good enough as a basic authentication token for several products, nothing more. Yes, we could have fixed all these problems by unifying all these features around the gmail account without introducing a traditional social network as a 'bonus' (one that not all users want), but guess what? If you upgrade your account to G+ but you never post in the stream, or circle anything, there's absolutely no difference to that hypothetical scenario of "full integration without introducing plus-the-social-network". Just go to plus.google.com/settings and disable everything and be happy.
Does 60 hours mean you're doing work the whole time, or is 1/2 of it browsing the Internet?
"This is quite insulting to G+"

Please clarify, how an insult to G+ becomes an insult to you?
I am french and I don't think playing the dick contest on who has the biggest freedom is smart.

Freedom in USA and France is decreasing because citizens are not involving themselves in the functioning of the Republics we live in.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Nice design and it streams very well
It's a proof of concept showing a flaw in a core, non-sandboxed application. Someone with better social engineering and/or or someone interested in targeting specific people could turn this into something rather nasty
Read what I wrote again, I am not considering the whole of people exercising, but those who don't exercise regularly and overexert themselves on some occasions
Could you link to a good explanation of how that stuff fails please? Not doubting you, just want to read more.
It's strange that people have so much trouble understanding this.
Depends on the 0day.
I love how it's completely unreadable on mobile. Try clicking on the feedback button and none of the options are selectable.
By whose account? I think you've made your intentions clear with your other comments on this thread, and it's indistinguishable from trolling.
It may not always be so obvious, so I think this is good advice. It can be hard to understand where everybody comes from, and expressing the upsides in terms that others really understand can be even harder.
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Calling activity that raises your heart rate exercise makes it seem like something you have to go out of your way to do, like to join a gym or buy a machine.

It seems we benefit from having a healthy lifestyle -- like walking or biking to work, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, playing sports for fun, playing with our kids, running around with pets instead of just walking them, gardening, and so on. Our evolutionary ancestors probably lived like (though I can't cite sources) that and led our bodies to evolve to thrive best with that kind of activity.

So many people are big on paleo diets. I wonder when a paleo lifestyle will become popular.
Ex-VMware vShield chief starts endpoint Security Start-up Hillview Technologies
I convinced the company I work at to use Haskell for REST services.

The technical leadership team was already interested improving the reliability and rigor of our web backend, but weren't thinking about exploring other programming languages. (we primarily use PHP)

I knew Haskell would be hard to sell, but I also had concerns about it myself, so I ran a live-fire test:

In my spare time, I wrote an interface-compatible Haskell implementation of a particular service that drove a lot of load, but was noncritical. I load-tested this service by flipping an nginx switch to divert traffic to the Haskell implementation. Leadership was ok with this because we could just flip the switch back if there were any issues: The risk of customer impact was miniscule. After some initial tests, we left it to run for a few months without manual intervention.

Over the course of this side-project, I got a few curious coworkers to learn Haskell to help out.

When the right project came along, leadership still had concerns, but I had lot of hard evidence to show that Haskell superbly fit our technical requirements and that the nontechnical problems (like hiring and training) were probably surmountable.
Did you find a link to that study? 2 hours of vigorous exercise a week can still represent a vary sedentary lifestyle.

I would in no way be surprised that people who are over 50, overweight, and start a strenuous exercise program as if they where still in there 20's had a significant risk of heart attack. On the other had if there only looking at healthy people with long term exercise programs that's another issue entirely.
Very true - this is still the case now. The added an "Urgent Care Centre" to our local hospital to absorb people coming in because their GP was overbooked. They're really good though to the point people just go down there straight away rather than going to their doctor. You can get in and out within an hour with a prescription handed over to you with no prior appointment.

Ultimately, the GP should disappear and more of these centres tied to the hospitals should appear. They are more than walk-in-centres as well at which they are sometimes limited to what they can prescribe. Our local walk-in-centre can't even prescribe antibiotics or provide any help to anyone under the age of 3.
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No, it's demonstrating (poorly) the ordinary functionality of application plugins.

The most iTunes could possibly do is display a warning dialog on unsigned plugins. Not a bad idea, perhaps, but its absence is hardly a flaw. You're already postulating sufficient social engineering that I can't believe the warning would stop anyone.
IANAL, but "giving away" billions of dollars of prime ad space to entice businesses to sign up for G+, how is that not predatory pricing? [0]

> The company has also pushed brands to join Plus, offering a powerful incentive in exchange — prime placement on the right-hand side of search results, with photos and promotional posts.

> “It is literally promotion that money can’t buy,” Mr. Elliott said. “It is something that Google could make billions off of if they sell that space tomorrow, and they’re giving it away to try to get people onto the social platform.”

[0] http://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-an...
I like a 60 hour work week. There are several projects or even different "jobs" in that 60 hours. I like getting a lot done because I like the money it gets me.

I like the momentum of those 50 - 60 hour weeks. More importantly, makes it easier for those weeks I want to do a 20 hour or a 0 hours work week.
Out of work?
Out of work?
Yes, that's fine, unless you plan to use a database engine like MySQL that doesn't support arrays. You have the option of using an SQL statement that doesn't require the fields to be in the same array.

In other words, don't let your logic be defined by something that databases don't support.
Basic Structures in C
How exactly are they dead now?

[Checks a 3-day old PewDiePie video. 15K comments.]
This article should be renamed, "How I hacked iTunes to steal your credit card information (probably)", to get more votes on Hacker News.
A screen capture sounds like a very good idea, as a nice way to visualize. People tend to buy based on emotions, and then rationalize with logic. The screen capture sounds like an appeal to emotions, while "the NASCAR slide" would work as justification.
why are registrations running out in the first place?

And they're not working now either, I guess maybe they ran out again?
I think that's what the author meant when he said "You become far less productive."
Private stuff in the UK is also reasonably common in employment contracts for anyone above middle manager level, since you effectively get the same treatment as the NHS for the reasons mentioned, but with a much shorter waiting period, so companies can get their employees back to work faster.
While the site is extremely professional looking and well done, the existence of some questionable people in this arena makes me very cautious about installing something that could potentially have privacy or security issues. I'd welcome any thoughts or opinions on this.