skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tell you I have a knife in my pocket.

If you don't admit that I have a knife in my pocket, I will kill you.

If you admit I have a knife in my pocket and give me your wallet, I might spare you.

There is strong evidence to suggest that there is a knife in my pocket, but some evidence which may suggest there is no knife.

Are you skeptical by default that there is a knife in my pocket? Can you afford that skepticism?
Is this the pro or anti article?
This is definitely anti government-run healthcare.
Actually that article seems to be addressing a completely different (and indeed wrongheaded) argument that states that it's fatalities-per-hour that matter, not fatalities-per-mile. It doesn't address the real issues here, which are that:

a) The assumption that the proportion of miles walked drunk is the same as the proportion of miles driven drunk is completely unjustified,

b) They don't distinguish between different levels of "drunk"

Whether these arguments are ignored through ignorance or deliberate disingenuousness, though, I'm not sure.
Computer programming is neither science or art, but can be used for both. It is a form of expression. This article seems to take root in an urge to justify computer programming as a serious endeavor in a time where it was still new in the world of academia. In a way, this whole debate is about identity and self image (just like taking idolization of the hacker subculture to extreme lengths).
The description didn't mention taking any screen obstructions into account, so I don't think you're correct; more likely it's the effect of overlapping screen-widths and heights. I think the answer is mobile browsers and netbooks.

The bumps disappear after the 350 vertical and the 600 horizontal line, so the screens making the difference are around that size.

Some small percentage of people have narrow but tall browsers (non-iPhone mobile browsers), so that's the little bump at the bottom-left of the 99% band. And other people have very wide but short screens (netbooks), so that's the bump at the top-right of the 99% band.
Power Grid is good. Less random chance, less trying to trick your friends into making bad trades.
I wonder how long it will be before they offer this data with stats specific to your site (via Analytics). I'm curious how widely this data varies based on user population.
Experimental results can't speak for themselves. They are experiments. Only people can speak and weave stories, and only stories will move a population to action. This is the reality of communicating with human beings.

Marketing is the practical application of the science of sociology.
Wow, it's obvious. Health care is exactly like every other commodity. Why didn't we think of that before?

http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/2/PHCBP.pdf
You're correct -- the orbital speed and path tell you nothing about the mass. A grain of dust will follow exactly the same orbital path as, say, Jupiter.

It's the redshift/blueshift of the actual star that you need to measure.
A ridiculous portion of the pain of health care costs goes away if you use catastrophic insurance for catastrophes and cash for everything else.

Example: I am covered under national insurance for dentistry in Japan, but Japanese dentistry is a nightmare (in no small part due to the fact that it is covered by national insurance), so I get it done when I go back to the US to visit family. Since I have no American insurance, I pay cash. And its so easy. After spending literally 15 minutes explaining to my dentist's office that I would be paying cash (and was not unwilling to pay cash, a concept they found almost mystifying), it was simplicity it self. They told me it cost $225, I passed over the credit card, done. See you next year.

No need to send paper back and forth between a massive paper-munching machine at the insurance company and a department at the dentist devoted solely to moving paper through that machine. No complicated contracts or regulations. Full pricing transparency -- I know I consumed $225 worth of services, and if that number actually mattered to me I could shop it around fairly effectively.
I just tried it with Clozure CL. Seems to work fine, but I am going to stick with Emacs+SLIME with colored fonts, etc.
In some idealized form of math, proving theorems is indeed mechanical, but the branching factor is extremely high.
Making money from simple patents
Well, then it's incoherent. Or at least I don't understand the point he is trying to make.
I think he is arguing that healthcare is just a commodity.
The vertical scrolling is definitely deliberate for the people running a resolution that requires it -- note that once you scroll down all the way to read the article, you don't need to vertically scroll again.
Ever tried Puerto Rico?
Here's the thesis: Routine health care, like routine food purchases, should be paid for directly by the consumer rather than paid for through indirections like insurance/employment benefits/government.
As long as we're flaunting statistics for shock value, it wouldn't hurt to work out "riding drunk in a cab" and "taking the bus home drunk", too.

There are a lot of other variables, not the least of which is that the people who pass out drunk in a snowbank and freeze to death (or who ride a rusty Huffy head-on into traffic) are very likely to be homeless and/or mentally ill. (Speaking as somebody who worked in a public library in a poor neighborhood for several years and has dealt with lots of drunken street people...) It's a different segment of society than people who are arrested for drunk driving.
"If you have an FCP, they pay your bill for you. If you don’t, you eat free."

I've paid massive emergency-room bills. The author and publisher (apparently not the same person) are morons if they believe it.
There's no such thing as free chicken.
The linked article appears to be offline for me, so here are a couple of alternative links:

Coral cache: http://www.theinvisibl.com.nyud.net/news/2009/12/08/a-piece-...

Google cache: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:Oc9JEdMaZuoJ:www.theinvi...
Off-topic: why is HN ignoring my votes? E.g. I upmod misuba, and it looks like (s)he has 1 more point, but if reload the page (s)he doesn't have it any more. I've seen this many times before. What's going on?
Which people are management supposed to make happy? Because it certainly isn't the employees here.
Yes. Massively better, but time-consuming and certainly not a gateway game.
(as in if you don't want to pay for the full licence, it falls back to a subset of features).
I don't mean to endorse the ideas. I will be publishing an article arguing the opposite position as well.
Someone downvoted it?
They will hound you for ER bills until you're bankrupt. I saw a significant other dragged through years of both ill-health and debt-collectors in that situation.
any link with more info about Dyno? the article assumes readers know about this testing tool.
The point that I agree with is that running healthcare through the gov't is going to mean we get 3rd tier care at 1st rate costs.

But at least we'll all be equally screwed.
No, this happens every time now. Too unlikely.
But it is poorly written and a bad analogy.

I can't think of a situation where I needed fried chicken to prevent my child from dying.
I think (without having played Settlers) that in an ideal board game you shouldn't be able to get into a position where you know you're going to lose until the very end of the game. That's a big problem with Monopoly -- it's too easy to die a slow and painful death as you mortgage and sell your properties one by one. The further you are behind, the harder it is to get ahead.

This is why I like skill-based yet luck-dependent games like Scrabble or Trivial Pursuit. Even if you're 150 points behind in Scrabble, there's always the chance you're going to get two great racks in a row. And even if you're six pie-slices behind in Trivial Pursuit there's always the chance that you'll get a long run of questions you happen to know the answers to.
That makes sense when you keep it inside the metaphor; however there is a large difference between providing a chicken dinner, and providing healthcare. The full costs would be prohibitive for nearly everyone if everyone only paid for what they use. Meaning the system might be unfair but it is arguably better than no system at all.
Well, yes and no. Unclear what countries, languages, etc. they are including in here. Your site's audience may in fact not represent the general population, so you could be optimizing for the wrong group.

It would be helpful to be able to see these %age borders for just US surfers, for example, or from US daytime usage vs. nightime, or even IPs resolving to corporate vs. non corporate (poor attempt at separating at work from at home usage). This way you could optimize for your intended audience instead of the general populace, few of whom might be your paying customers.
I think it is only meant as a bit of fun, not as a recommendation for people. At the end of the article in the book, they mention the best choice is to catch a cab.

Drunk walkers can kill other people, if you are swerving to try and miss them, and collide with a bus full of orphans. But it is of course a lot less likely.
This is really unfortunate. At the same time, if you work in a factory where the union has achieved irresponsible deals with the company that ones your factory that are slowly choking that company to death, I do sincerely hope you have the sense to save as much of that money as possible. Not saying that's necessarily the case with the guy in this article, but there aren't a whole lot of people that manage to pull down 100k per year with only a high school education so it seems at least plausible to me.
Wow. I way misread that title at first glance.
They most likely use jgit, since they require a JRE, and jgit is under the BSD.
I think the parent's point was that blanket statements of this sort gloss over all sorts of significant nuances that render the issue in non-B&W terms, especially as it relates to his specific experience of that country's political environment.
I love the idea, well done guys!

A friend mentioned he's unable to upload artwork from Safari 4 on a mac, if you'd like to double check that. (it worked in firefox on the mac).

Also, $60USD shipping to Australia for a $40USD product? is that correct?
Inspired Design is Essential — and All Too Rare
Hacker News mentioned in paper analysing scientific paper impact
They're all in the US, too.
By definition, if you think they are truly beautiful and good, you have made a judjgement, and thus are being self serving in attempting to save them.
there aren't a whole lot of people that manage to pull down 100k per year with only a high school education

I know plenty of people who earn a lot more than that with "only" a HS education. It's about what you can do, not what you supposedly learned at uni - I don't quite understand what people think is so awesome about university anyway.

I think what you're trying to get at is that he has no marketable skills outside his narrow experience as a senior machine operator at a specific company. That was indeed a pretty big bet, and looks like he lost. It's a pity, but the days of expecting lifetime employment are over.
BigInt Library using CUDA
Or, how comments are a potential indicator of goodness and impact of a published work.
I wonder if this is because Perian has eliminated much of the need for VLC.
Well, I figured out the first and third parts. So the the Sieve of Giraffes returns every number. I guess the next step is to include it in the Java library.
So there seems to be a lot of more interesting board games than I ever realized, but they all seem to require 4-6 players and take over 90 minutes to play. Juggling two full-time work schedules and a toddler old makes these restrictions a non-starter.

Does anybody know of a good tactical game, preferably playable by two people who used to have time for Risk and Monopoly, that can be finished generally in about an hour?
How Diverse is Facebook?
"Taking into account the learning curve to VLC development, I think it is fair to say that the situation is now critical."... Yikes.

I'm a big fan of VLC, and hope to see someone jump on board with them. VLC has an amazing suite of tools under its hood, although most casual users simple reference them it as a Media "Player". If I knew a hint of Mac OS development, I'd be jumping on board.
What tier care are we getting now, at what rate costs? Sincerely curious as to your opinion.
i dont swear in my commits, but i write dirty jokes in the comments of my code..
If they had the public option, it would have been at least better than a bunch of private insurers across the country. A national plan would have a larger pool of people to spread the risk apart, lower cost as a result.

The downside would be that employees from the existing insurers would probably lose their jobs because their employers can't compete against the goliath, but some private ensurers would probably still exist.
Burn Rate Norms
Interesting that it took 10 days for this news to get out. Kind of makes me feel like Mac OS X isn't exactly a high priority for the people behind VLC?

I do hope that they find a dev though.
I'm glad craigslist appears to have done the right thing in this situation. However, it stands as a warning to all startups relying on someone else's data (especially craigslist). Don't be obvious and don't tell Craig Newmark how you're getting your data.
I have to consider whether killing mosquitos creates a world where I'll eventually have to teach my kids to painlessly kill themselves, a la The Road, but apart from that for my own family it's an absolute no brainer.
To me, one of the interesting things about how mathematical results have been discovered historically is that they have often been accidental (or intended for something else).

eg. eigenvalues were originally looked at for use with quadratic forms, but people later found that its interesting properties (orthogonality, symmetry, etc) were useful for lots of other things.

There is often also a large gap in time between when a mathematician playing around with a problem discovers an interesting result and when it is actually applied to something useful.

eg. Euler's law regarding complex exponentials was developed around 1740, but it wasn't until around 1807 when Fourier used it in harmonic analysis and 1897 when Steinmetz started applying it to electrical engineering.

But you wouldn't know that from reading a textbook, which is (understandably) arranged in such a way that omits historical context and why people bothered to study it in the first place. Most linear algebra books are classic examples of how to introduce abstract topics without any context.
Not much detail in the article, but it's right about GA engines not changing much in the last 40 years.

It's a classic example of regulation stifling innovation - aircraft engines must by law be completely disassembled, inspected and then rebuilt at regular intervals. All new engine designs are effectively penalized with shorter inspection periods until they've proven their reliability. Possibly not a bad idea from a safety perspective, but terrible if you want to modernize anything.

Given that it costs several thousand dollars to overhaul an engine, not to mention the more regular grounding of the aircraft, higher insurance and the lack of trained aviation mechanics, most manufacturers will just choose a "good old" (and I do mean old) Lycoming.

I wish these guys luck. Unfortunately they're not the first to have tried...
I just logged on to post the exact same paper.

To anyone who doesn't want to download the pdf linked above: it's Kenneth Arrow's economics paper "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care." It launched the field of health-care economics. It demonstrates that health care is not like fried chicken. It was published in 1963.

Of course, there are counter-arguments to be made. But an argument comparing health care to fried chicken without taking Arrow's work into account is a worthless argument.
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It is by logic we prove, it is by intuition that we invent. - henri poincaré

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Poincare.htm...
Perian is nice, but VLC is great to have as a fallback: it works on everything up to and including scratched DVD's, and it's easy enough to use being a standalone app.
UK to phase out cheque payments
997143 / 600 = 1 661.905
Ignite Portland - Geeks on non-geeky things
Ask HN: Can niche ad networks work? 
I was browsing the deck today (http://decknetwork.net/) and noticed they have a small but well-known network and get a decent rate ($7,600 per month per advertiser).

I think I have the connections/resources to build something similar in a niche industry (weddings) and find some advertisers.

Could it be a decent source of additional revenue? Could it grow into something bigger?

Anyone ever done something like that?
Quicktime can't crank the volume up like VLC does. It sounds like a small thing, but when you're on a laptop with little speakers it makes a big difference.
Does that go back all the way? I can only find entries back to Sept 2007, but seems like I was on before that.

Or perhaps my memory is going. They say the mind is the first thing to go. Or at least I think they do.
The Great Abdication: Consumer Internet, VC, and Angels
Oh no, have they started to embed scribd on web-pages. I absolutely hate scribd. Worst thing to hit the internet since that guy crying about Brittney Spears on youtube.
What's the Deal with Fish Oil?
The last guy had to bring up 3-strikes laws. Sorry but that idea is as bad as the DMCA at protecting both copyright owners and customers.

Internet is fast becoming a necessity for most people. Cutting off a family for one kid's actions is not the way to go. Or a whole coffee shop as another example.
Funny, the Canadians I know don't go across the border to the US for dental services. I think you're really commenting on the inefficiency of the japanese system more than anything else. No arguments from me on that, but other countries are much, much more efficient.

Anyway, I don't think the average person has the option of venue-shopping between two countries, one in which he has nationalised health insurance, according to preference.
Apologies for this misdirected comment.
The OP:

VLC is looking for MacOS X developers
Postby ajmas on Fri May 29, 2009 5:55 am
or that clinics should be combined with taco bells.
Again (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972462), there's no mention of PLT scheme.

I've been noticing this lately to understand why it took me so long to notice mzscheme. I kinda was aware of it, but I didn't really focus on it until arc came out. It's a weird blindspot..
Well, in theory this is how insurance is supposed to work, and is how it works in other fields. The general idea of insurance is risk management: I have a huge unpredictable risk which worries me, so I transform it into a small, predictable risk by purchasing insurance.

And, true to form, with other types of insurance I pay "routine" types of costs myself; for example, I have auto insurance, but I don't expect it to pay for a tank of gas or an oil change. I pay those myself, and have the insurance available for things like accidents, which are unpredictable and far too expensive for me to pay for all in one go.

And yet... health insurance tends overwhelmingly to pay for predictable routine treatments (yearly checkups, for example) while balking at paying for precisely the sorts of large unpredictable costs it's meant to help manage. How'd we end up with that system?
by Rémi Denis-Courmont on Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:00 pm

There are now effectively zero active developers for MacOS.
It also doesn't take into account the number of destitute alcoholics that walk everywhere because they don't have the ability to pay for a car, or because the state doesn't allow them to drive one due to prior DUIs. These are more likely to be drunk more often than casual drinkers and could therefore account for the high number of drunk pedestrian deaths.
The maximum expires header you can set with Rackspace's Limelight offering is 3 days. Fine for software delivery, one-off large images and files, etc., but not suitable for static object delivery. If I were a cynical man, I'd say this either drives up Rackspace's revenues or pushes larger customers up to CDN contracts directly from Limelight.

It's a shame, because Limelight has a strong offering. I would have spent hundreds of dollars a month on that service if the headers were truly configurable.
First Twitter app for the Zune HD is nothing to write home about
Short version I would rate US as tier 1 care, at tier 1 pricing.

I dont know a simpler aggregate measure than life expectancy.

For the way that Americans live, the average life expectancy is nothing short of a medical miracle.

We don't rate at the top of the scale, but like everything, you have to take that in context - interesing argument here ->

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/why-does-th...

As for costs, it's not cheap, but it's not out of reach for average working people - especially when you're solution oriented as commentator above who notes catastrophic only as a solution.

My fundamental problem with this entire debate is that true national health care tugs heart strings yet there are clearly much more effecient proposals than what the gov't is proposing.

In my experience the US gov't - eg the largest employer in the world - has one interest, and that's expanding their business.
Wonder how many of them are just almost idle, running something like memcached?
Yeah it can. There are two ways, in the sound section of the video properties ("boost") or by holding shift and pressing the up-arrow key. Normally the QuickTime volume control widget stops you at 0db (any more than that and you would be clipping the signal) but if you hold shift and keep pressing up (up and down control the volume widget) it will go beyond 0db, even though it doesn't visually indicate it.
Ask HN: What Tech Startup Law Book can you recommend?
What books do you recommend that go in depth into Startup Law specifically for tech?

So far, I have found:
Lifecycle of a Technology Company: Step-by-Step Legal Background and Practical Guide from Startup to Sale

http://www.amazon.com/Lifecycle-Technology-Company-Step-Step/dp/0470223928
"... How old are you in HN years? (ID of your most recent post / ID of your first post) ..."

999899/425 = 2352 HNY

latest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=999899
first: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=425
It's too bad they didn't cover SoftLayer's deal with Internap. Not quite in Akamai's league, especially outside of the US and Western Europe, but far better than some of the smaller CDN upstarts. Pay-as-you-go pricing, large network, and reasonable flexibility via web and API tools. We use them at Wikispaces for international static object delivery and have been happy with the service.
The people behind VLC are whoever shows up, so I'd say VLC isn't a high priority for OS X open source volunteers.
Another fully homomorphic paper recently on eprint:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/616

It's also on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=995203
Well, first of all, many health insurance plans don't cover routine care (annual physicals, etc.).

Second of all, those plans that do cover routine care generally do so under the theory that, by paying a small amount of money for routine care, they're avoiding paying much more down the road when the cheap problems that would have been caught at a routine physical turn into big, expensive problems.
In a system where routine healthcare was paid for out of pocket, it would inevitably be more affordable. Right now, it's priced by a colluding insurers and providers, and the high costs of non-routine care are subsidized by overpriced routine care.
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