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Australia gets world-first encryption busting laws(itnews.com.au)
10 points by mikekij 8y ago|4 comments
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by mikekij 8y ago
This. Why would anyone invest in Apple in 1998 instead of Microsoft?
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by mikekij 8y ago
I was with the author, until I saw the HN redesign. Looked beautiful, but not functional. Made me realize why HN / reddit / quora / etc use the format they do: it works.
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by mikekij 8y ago
Isn’t their cheapest model now $45k?
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FDA updates medical device premarket guidance to include cybersecurity(fiercehealthcare.com)
1 points by mikekij 8y ago|0 comments
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by mikekij 8y ago
not surprising. The FDA (and other regulators) didn't start talking about cybersecurity (in earnest) until 2015, so most device vendors didn't do much "securing". this has definitely started to change though. Unfortunate
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by mikekij 8y ago
I'm really glad to see this on the front page of HN. My company is building API-based security tools to help medical device vendors prevent these kinds of vulns. There is huge risk in this class of IoT device, but not a ton of engineer
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by mikekij 8y ago
A rational investor is concerned with risk-adjust returns after taxes. The fact that capital gains rates are lower than income rates allows an investor to accept a higher level of risk than if the two tax rates were lower.
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by mikekij 8y ago
Dr. Hartl, I'm so thankful for all of your ruby / rails tutorials. They were literally transformational for me earlier in my career. Glad to see you continuing to put out good content. The supportive community around Rails made it
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by mikekij 8y ago
I was blown away by this! At $5 a jar, that’s 10,500 units a year. Or roughly 350 a day. They must have a distribution deal with Whole Foods.
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by mikekij 8y ago
Great point. I should have focused on false negatives in my original comment to make my point. Thank you!
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by mikekij 8y ago
True! But a similar debate has played out in the mammography space. While routine mammograms have undoubtedly saved thousands of lives, some researchers have concluded that the complications caused by false positives (e.g. infections after
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by mikekij 8y ago
This is good to know! I'm still genuinely curious how many false positives this leads to.
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by mikekij 8y ago
Medical device engineer / founder here. I'd love for the Apple Watch to fulfill Steve Blank's aims here, but there are very real clinical problems that don't automatically go away because Apple is great at industrial and
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by mikekij 8y ago
I stopped using Facebook in December of 2015, but I desperately want to know if they count my “sign in with Facebook” SSO uses toward their DAU count. It would be really misleading if they do.
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by mikekij 8y ago
Side thought- what an interesting change from the software world 10 years ago. Who would have thought windows support was a lower priority then OS X and Linux. Onward and upward!
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by mikekij 8y ago
I tend to agree. The more experience I gain in running startup companies the more I believe the recipe for success is 1) show up 2) work hard 3) get lucky. And #3 is super important.
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by mikekij 8y ago
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but yes, there are patients that pay (or are charged) a 1,000% markup, that in turn offsets patients not paying anything. I'm not saying the problem is the patients paying nothing;
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by mikekij 8y ago
*Disclaimer: I'm not attempting to support HCA's billing practices here." HCA has profit margins around 10%, which do not appear to me to be exorbitant. ( https://investor.hcahealthcare.com/press-release/h
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by mikekij 8y ago
I legitimately love that discussions of company valuations can morph into discussions of time travel on HN. Favorite comment threads anywhere.
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by mikekij 8y ago
"A $600 phone?! Who's going to buy a $600 phone?!" -Steve Balmer
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by mikekij 8y ago
My company sells dev tools to software companies. Whenever I have talked to a startup about their tech stack and they reveal they’re on .NET, I later find out that none of the founders are technical, and they’ve outsourced development to Ea
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by mikekij 8y ago
HN Meetup at the Palo Alto Skatepark? I'm in.
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by mikekij 8y ago
So cool to see skateboarding on HackerNews! My worlds collide.
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by mikekij 8y ago
This. I know a ton of sales engineers who love the combination of technical discussion (even if theoretical) and human interaction. And it tends to be a profitable career path too!
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by mikekij 8y ago
I would argue that making $400k as an engineer at an elite school also requires some element of academic pedigree.
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by mikekij 8y ago
By "Maximize income" I mean Expected Value. The Expected Value of a lifetime of investment banking is certainly higher than that of a software engineer. While not every investment banker ends up making $5M, very few make less than
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by mikekij 8y ago
On the compensation point... If you are a smart, quantitative person looking to maximize your income, you should go into investment banking, not software engineering. Partners at an investment bank can make $5M a year. You won't make t
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by mikekij 8y ago
Wasn’t the Cuba incident determined to be caused by interference between two US ultrasound surveillance devices?
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by mikekij 8y ago
I came here to ask this exact question.

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