$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system
The treatment for hepatitis C is so effective that patients and doctors are clamoring for it, but heath insurers are balking at the steep costs
Hasnain says:
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, pharma needs money to fund expensive R&D to develop drugs (one estimate says the acquisition cost $11B). On the other hand, paying $90k to get rid of hep-C is a bit crazy.
Posted on 2014-04-04T16:41:43+0000
5-year-old Ocean Beach exposes Microsoft Xbox vulnerability
An Ocean Beach boy is in the spotlight after he discovered a back door in to one of the most popular gaming systems in the world.
Hasnain says:
All spaces? Really, Microsoft?
(and yes this is genuine, he's acknowledged at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc308589.aspx)
Posted on 2014-04-04T16:30:45+0000
• Build Your Own Lisp
If you're looking to learn C, or you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language, this is the book for you.
Hasnain says:
A book on building your own lisp in C.
This is cool.
Posted on 2014-04-04T16:27:24+0000
Sysdig: The New (Definitive) System Troubleshooting Tool
Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce. With a little Lua cherry on top.
Hasnain says:
This is awesome and really useful. And it comes from the creators of Wireshark...
Posted on 2014-04-03T20:12:48+0000
First Round Capital
firstround.com
Hasnain says:
This is a great piece by Jeff Atwood.
"What’s the most consistent piece of advice you get as a startup?
Always hire the best people. Never compromise in your hiring standards, no matter how big your company gets.
And it’s true. A great team can take an okay idea and transform it into an incredible, world-beating product.
But something has always bugged me about this advice. There’s an elephant in the room in the form of an implied clause: Always hire the best people… who are willing to live in San Francisco."
Posted on 2014-04-03T19:23:48+0000
Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it. We know why people are ...
.NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn")
"Roslyn" .NET Compiler Platform
Hasnain says:
Microsoft just open sourced the .NET compiler platform. This is pretty cool.
Posted on 2014-04-03T17:12:13+0000
lelandbatey/whiteboardCleaner.md
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards! - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others.
Google splits into GOOG and GOOGL today
Google stock is set to split Wednesday in a move meant to give founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin more control.
A nation of slaves - Charlie's Diary
George Osborne has committed the Conservatives to targeting "full employment", saying that tax and welfare changes would help achieve it.
Hasnain says:
"Today, in the political discourse of the west, it is almost unthinkably hard to ask a very simple question: why should we work?"
Posted on 2014-04-03T16:49:02+0000