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In the article there's a whole section about how hospitals are removing non-private, (aka "normal"), rooms, to replace them with more-profitable private rooms that patients pay for out-of-pocket, (and, since they're not insurance companies, can't negotiate better rates).

As someone who lives in a country with socialized medicine, (Canada), the discussion of hospitals removing "normal" (shared) rooms to replace them with more-profitable private rooms is disturbing.

Here, private rooms have become the standard that all new hospitals are built to. Not only are patients generally happier, but they drastically reduct the spread of germs between patients in hospitals. When my kids were born, (they're quite young - <6 years old), my wife had a private room. When my son was hospitalized for a couple of months last fall, he had a private room, with a couch-ish thing that I could sleep on. We didn't pay extra for these, the were the only options at the hospitals we were at. These are not special, private, hospitals in any way, they're just renovated and/or built within the past decade.

It seems like the profit-based healthcare system south of the border is keeping patients in shared rooms, which are nearly a generation out of date here.

There's a guy[1] who has been working on hiking it all for a couple of years. I think he just has a bit of the journey from somewhere in the Yukon to the Arctic Ocean left.

[1]https://www.facebook.com/thegreathike/

Also, Canada's copyright laws in general are much saner than in the USA. For example, (unless it's changed recently - I know there's been discussion), if you have a copyrighted work, (say a CD), you're allowed to make a copy for yourself for backup purposes.

It may even be legal to break the "digital lock" on things like DVDs and Blu-Rays in order to create your backup copy, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

Yes on both. I work in tech that services the trucking industry. Getting drivers, (and dispatchers, actually), to truly trust a computer is difficult. They use a lot of apps, but trucking's got a strong culture of self-reliance, and people working in trucking probably care more about single points-of-failure than DevOps do, relying on Convoy would be a pretty big single point of failure, so they'll have to prove themselves worthy of the trust.

However, 82 million should get them there. That's a ton of money to build a business with no capital costs. The big risk for them is the incumbents deciding to move quickly - most of them have the cash, so if they realize their business model is threatened by Convoy, they'll move quickly, and be supported by their existing cash flow.

That's the competing theory.

Apparently there are two camps of Earhart searchers: Those who believe she crashed in the Marshal Islands and died as a POW, and those who believe she crashed on Nikumaroro and died as a castaway. The Nikumaroro folks[1] mount an expedition & issue press releases every year or so, now it seems like it's time for the team Solomon Islands to take the spotlight for a moment.

[1]http://tighar.org/

That looks cool. Does having your electronics enclosed in a greenhouse bring them close to any temperature limits?

This could be accounted for - for example, if the weight of everything drops by 100 grams, then at least 100 grams of water has been used or evaporated. Eventually any increase in weight from the plant could probably be calculated, but for many plants, (like bush beans), it's a relatively small amount, probably less than a pound.

OTOH indeterminate tomato plant, for example, weighs a lot, and the weight would also be affected by picking the fruit.

Yeah, my understanding is they whitelist standard ports, and everything else is blocked. They say it's because of BitTorrent, but it prevented me from accessing a server on a non-standard port, so I didn't buy.

Unless they've changed their policy in the last few months, TunnelBear won't let you use SSH over any port other than 22, so if you need to SSH into a server with a non-standard port you're out of luck.

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>> (for example, hard-of-hearing passengers can't hear announcements at the airport or on the plane) > You don't have to be hard-of-hearing to struggle with that.

That's the thing about accessibility improvements. They often improve the lives of everyone, or at least many more people than the improvements are meant to improve life for. For example: if you have to push a stroller, or are carrying a lot of things, through a heavy door, you can use the button meant to open the door for wheelchair users. You can probably even hit it with your hip if your hands are full.

The headline is misleading. According to the information in the article itself most of the complaints can be solved by properly training staff to use existing tech as it was designed.

One of main complaints of the article - that airline staff doesn't get passed enough information about a passenger's disability, so, for example, deaf people get met at the gate with a wheelchair, seems to be a direct result of using inappropriate, or non-standard, SSR codes. If a deaf/hard-of-hearing person is travelling, the appropriate code, (DEAF), should be used, not HI or MAAS, (if the systems allow for multiple codes, "DEAF MAAS" would be appropriate).

According to the article these SSR codes are industry standards and are entrenched in airline systems worldwide. If they were used properly, and if staff were properly trained to understand and act on them, this problem would largely be solved. This is a training & execution problem, not a technology problem.

A second complaint, that information is not passed to disabled customers quickly, (for example, hard-of-hearing passengers can't hear announcements at the airport or on the plane), is also mostly solvable by using the tech that is installed in airports today. For example: "Visual paging — when an audio page is posted in text form on screens — is becoming very easy, but it’s not yet ubiquitous." Why is it not ubiquitous? Haven't most airports, at least in wealthy countries, got some sort of a screen up at each gate that has the Flight #, departure time, weather at the destination, and all that? If announcements aren't going up there too that seems to be laziness or lack of training on behalf of the gate staff, or laziness or lack of concern in whoever makes decisions about how the software that runs those screens works.

For in-flight announcements it's harder, especially now that seat-back displays are being removed from aircraft in favour of handheld devices. It probably comes down to a flight attendant making sure that a disabled person gets told what's going on, (because he or she saw the appropriate SSR code on the passenger manifest).

The final complaint, in-flight entertainment, is ridiculous. Why isn't everything that's available on TV, (closed-captioning, described video, and whatever else I'm not aware of), available on in-flight entertainment? The tech exists, it looks like it just hasn't been installed, or has been installed but isn't activated, on aircraft. This should not even be a problem and I don't understand why it is.

Edit: To clarify, I'm not disabled, and haven't experienced these problems myself. This comment is based purely on the problems as described in the linked article.

I totally missed the "Statement of Opposition" - a testament to the amazing design of the paper I guess - but it's pretty dripping with sarcasm.

For comparison, Delta had a huge number of overbooked flights over the weekend due to weather cancellations. They handled it by raising the compensation for giving up your seat until they had the right number of passengers for the flights.

As a result they got some great press on a weekend when they might have had horrible press: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2017/04/09/why...

This is a stockholder recommendation and the Board of Directors is recommending [1] that stockholders vote against it, so it's likely dead in the water. The headline "to discuss" is a probably overstating what will actually happen.

A similar situation has happened the last couple of years with Apple, where there's a shareholder proposal for greater diversity[2], and it gets clobbered at the meeting.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312517...

[2]http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-diversity-shareholder-p...

What vulnerability might this be? I saw nothing else related to security this weekend. Might they just be super-slow in reacting to the CloudFlare thing from a couple of weeks back?

Came here to post that - it's not experimental at all - it's dead.

Candles are still magical. Henry Sugar is part of the reason.

This is called the "grandparent scam." It's a common tactic. Your grandfather's a smart guy and avoided it.

Too bad. My UP3 is pretty new, so I can't comment on longevity, but I like the idea of something that doesn't try to be a watch, and, in the case of the UP3, knows its limits and doesn't try to measure active heartrate when it can't do it right.

Hopefully this is just clearing out the warehouse before releasing something better.

But yeah, the app could use some bug-fixing.

datalist

"If you are building something which is genuinely extraordinary, that’s always the right answer."

The gold rush is never over for extraordinary companies.

That's not an absurd statement. If you're trying to fly "to a destination" and don't have an IFR-qualified pilot, and the weather changes, you'll be in IFR conditions without someone who doesn't have the training to keep you in the air in those conditions.

If your destination doesn't matter, or isn't set in stone, then a non-IFR pilot is free to choose to fly somewhere else, where the weather is better, or land at the closest airport.

For those who don't know: IFR means "Instrument Flight Rules" or flying by instruments only. An IFR-qualified pilot is allowed to fly in conditions where he/she cannot see out of the aircraft, such as at night or through low-visibility weather.

That's probably what he did - it's the best practise, I believe.

Yup. Finished the article before I realized the design was all wrong, (figured Paul Graham had a guest poster or something).

It might be worth trying to get in touch with Balsillie - he may be willing to spend a couple of dollars to get something like you describe up & running - if he hasn't already started on it.

If I had a bug that met the criteria I'd give Apple first dibs. That way the bug would get fixed, and I'd still get my $1M.

When I saw the HN headline I wondered what "Hack the North" was. As a Canadian I wondered if it was to tackle "uniquely northern" problems, then went down the pessimistic path if it was for northern problems, it would be pretty douchey & ignorant to pretend that a bunch of brogrammers in a southern city could use their laptops to solve the social problems of a place where many lack safe homes & potable water.

Luckily, "Hack the North" is branding, and it makes sense if you're trying to attract an American audience, although if most of your attendees are from Canada, having them fly south to "Hack the North" is kind of ironic.

For anyone thinking about organizing a hackathon to solve northern problems: Make sure your hackers are actually helping solve problems and not trivializing them.