skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Providers would still be free to set whatever price they wanted, they just could not have different rates "negotiated" for different customers

In theory, this could work in a totally free insurer market. Unfortunately, the current system relies on public insurers (Medicare/Medicaid) being able to set prices for their patients by fiat. Unless we required Medicare and Medicaid to accept providers' billing rates (which I could actually support, but would be a political non-starter), providers' prices can't be standardized.

However, even if that happened, there's the other problem of actually enforcing this. Prices are set by billing codes and collections of codes that are billed simultaneously, and they may not be linear[0]. There are 70,000 billing codes, which are far more insanely detailed than you could imagine[1]. Mathematically, it would always be easier to play tricks with the particular codes submitted for billing than it would be to prove any misconduct.

[0] So, billing for the sets {A, B} and {C} would not cost the same as {A, B, C}. Which is totally reasonable, because providing anesthesia (A) for a bronchotomy (B) is less complicated than providing anesthesia for a bronchotomy in which some complication (C) occurs during the surgery.

[1] e.g, G44.82: "headache associated with sexual activity"
It's hard for a single author/developer to fully explore solution space.

For example, it could be that Javascript acquires special primitives to decode these images, or that they be a common Javascript engine extension, with a polyfill fallback.

It could be that these extensions make effective use of CPU-specific instructions, or that the underlying hardware contains special silicon to decode these images, similar to how there are H.264 decoder chips.

It's therefore possible to do the power consumption analysis, but the results would not really indicate something fundamental about the algorithm but only its current implementation. People are willing to work on improved implementations if there are other factors, like smaller size, which suggest it's worthwhile to investigate.
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wait till you have kids then. tell them the whole world is made of lies. start em young.
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Trump phenomenon explains why a bad product still gets buy-in
Ask HN: Why did Google Buzz fail?
What exactly happened?
Absolutely agree with that, the call option is annoying as hell. And they are adding more and more pointless features that benefit maybe 0.001% of the users.

Best example is now the ability to send PDFs. Making this the first button on the sent menu will totally make me want to use Whatsapp for all my document handling activities.
Doing bookkeeping may be a waste of your time, but learning how to read it is extremely valuable.
I hate using it. I’m a Junior Dev and I get about 10x the amount of recruiter and random adds than I did at my last job finding start-up dealflow for an investment platform.

The issue is they built a revenue model that rewards quantity over quality for content and that prioritises recruiter and sales lead generation over individuals using it to keep in touch with their professional network. I’ve never used it to find or move jobs.

I was trying to think about how they might be able to reverse the spam factory it’s become and I don’t think it’s possible without a different revenue model.

I’d be interested to see if they start to move towards the ‘Linkedin Qualifications’ platform idea - if you use Linkedin for e-learning it would give you a reason to use the site every day, you would be tied in as you not only display your existing qualifications there but they also award them and it would let them generate revenue from users (charging for the courses) without the reliance on the premium ‘here you can spam people’ accounts.

This opinion piece on Tech Crunch nails why this happens is pretty accurate too > http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/23/linkedin-problems-run-deepe...
Guarantee you this is a management idea, not a developer.
It is a very cool project Kumar, and as you have pointed out an excellent example of high speed data acquisition. Doing this with the Beaglebone and a cape is much more cost effective than some of the rather expensive instruments you might buy to work with LabView or similar packages.

With a small bit of work and a flash 10 bit ADC you could have a very nice 10 - 50Mhz oscilloscope data gatherer as well. I've seen similar units used in test systems where a test waveform is programmed and the samples are compared to insure they are within bounds of the test, an indication is raised when they are not allowing an automated process to take action.

I have a number of Beaglebone boards and look forward to playing around with your code.
A fun and dynamic blog to understand accounting for entrepreneurs:

https://www.odoo.com/documentation/functional/accounting.htm...

(part of the Odoo documentation, an open source accounting software)
If you want to convince people, you could try naming a horror of war that conscripts aren't subjected to or at risk of instead of making snarky personal remarks...
LinkedIn is good if you ignore the "news feed".

Use the contact list, because people update their contact info, you can contact all acquaintances easily without having to keep track of their contact info yourself.

Keep your resume up to date. Looking for a job, somebody asks you for your resume? Point the to LinkedIn.
I admire the experimentation, I'm sure there's room to innovate on things like company structure, but
you have to balance the desire to experiment with the wellbeing and security of your staff, and this particular example seems to take that responsibility way way too lightly. It's all well and good to play around with things when you have capital and can live in an RV for the novelty of it, but your employees are working because they need to work. Participating in this experiment isn't optional for a lot of them. At some point it can become cruel.
> It's probably different if you've already got an unpaid bill in front of you, especially for a larger procedure, and you're dealing with the billing skinjob rather than the receptionist. But that's still quite far from how sane transactions work.

Yes, that's what I'm referring to - negotiating down a bill, as opposed to negotiating the price up front. This also is far more likely to work for inpatient services than outpatient services, and for large bills (4 or 5 figures) than small ones. I just chose $100 as the base to keep the numbers simple.

The reason is that hospitals would rather have you pay a small bill than risk having you default on the bill. Accounting-wise, the former is preferable, especially since they don't actually expect uninsured patients to pay the massive sticker price anyway. (That's not meant for patients; it's meant for negotiating with insurers, and it's only an unintended side-effect that uninsured patients end up having to see it).
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It's a joke.

I can disclose that, in a recent past job as VP in a tech company, I had a very generous package which was a bit above $0.5M, all included (base, bonuses, options and RSUs) - then the stock went down (options became worth nothing, stock lost more than half its value), and the actual annual comp went down by about $70k-80k.

I am sharing this here to benefit the discussion, please do not make a big thing out of it.

I know it's a ton of money, but I'm pretty sure that most purely technical jobs don't surpass 300k-350k. 1M is simply foolish.

Furthermore, if you consider income taxes, and the cost of living in SF, the number is still high but not as nice as it seems at first.

Netflix, however, consistently pays way more than any other company in the valley - and yet, it is still an exception.
This might help support the argument I've seen you make tons of time. You can use h1b data to show real people who don't need to raise their hand on hacker news and declare their income publicly.

Here's H1b data for Google and Facebook. Lots of people are above the 200k mark. Lots above 300k with options and RSUs etc, I'll wager a bet.

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=google&job=&city=&year=All

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Facebook&job=&city=&year=Al...
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How did you establish your reputation to the point that companies know it's worth it to pay you that much?
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Thanks for the clarification. Makes sense to call it "total comp" for employees at AmaGoogFaceSoft, since the stock has a liquid market.
good point, in our situation people check to see if the mail server is down etc
> This working environment looks like a cramped nightmare. How can anyone focus?

Still more space than I have now. :(
I agree 100% with your comment in the context that you establish (doing your own bookkeeping).

Having said that, as I sit here taking a short break from designing software that deals with accounting data, the fact that I have an understanding of accounting is incredibly beneficial. I use this knowledge in dealing with my clients, helping them understand how to use available technology in their business and in creating new business systems.

What I find surprising is how many software developer types working on business systems don't have this fundamental understanding; true, this is mostly in the SMB market, but still. Many mistakes are made because of this.
You can still do that. Follow the shortcuts on the map.
Let's take a step back. Why did developers start to think about how the brain perceives details and how to trick it in the first place? Out of a necessity to save bandwidth and/or storage space.
If you want feedback on your new thing, you really need to do a proper
"Show HN:" submission with a link to your new thing. This way it doesn't
get penalized in the rankings as being a "text" submission, and it gets
sorted under the 'show' link in the top menu. The rules for doing a
"Show HN:" submission are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> I've only found in the past...

Your description succinctly summarizes the 7 references in Wikipedia for that topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation#Organization... .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

"Coal Kills 4,000 Times More People Per Unit of Energy than Nuclear"

http://thebreakthrough.org/archive/coal_kills_4000_times_mor...
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You can probably find a software license fairly easy on Google or try RocketLawyer. I can't emphasize enough though, to have an attorney review anything prior to signing. A few hundred now, can save you thousands down the road. It sounds like the company you are trying to work with knows this and is insisting on a licensing agreement. Why not have them write up an agreement, and you pay an attorney to review it for you. That shouldn't cost you more than several hundred dollars.

I am not sure I understand why you think it will "kill the project". There are really only two reasons you would think that. First is you are afraid of the cost, and any cost alone would kill the project. The other reason is that the type of project and agreement is so confusing and one-off that any formal agreement is impossible, in which case I would seriously reconsider the project itself.
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Since I am under 30 y/o I never really understood what AIDS meant to the generation that dealt with it head on. To me it was background noise of red ribbons, charity walks, and celebrity tributes on television. When I went to college one of my mentors (an immunology researcher) gave me a copy of And the Band Played On (http://fave.co/1LMbq5A) and it opened my eyes to the real physical, emotional, and political history of AIDS in the United States. I recently saw the movie adaptation and it was decent but the book is just incredible. It's one of those history books that reads like a thrilling work of fiction.
Why bet365 is open sourcing its Erlang code
Early Palantir backers, some workers would like to cash in without going public
Would the core team really be interested in that? The bytecode interpreter relies on implicit invariants from the codegen, re-checking these invariants on the bytecode means slowing down the interpreter for very little value.
In this case you do have to give an explanation, because it's expected by the conformists.
It's funny, this is the exact opposite advice I've heard from most business owners. They all have recommended learning enough accounting to make sure that you understand what's going on with your books so that you're never fully trusting someone else to handle your money.
Medical abortions are expensive, and home abortions are dangerous. It's much safer to carry the female infant to term, and kill her after birth, or abandon/neglect her and let nature take its course. Female infanticide has a long history in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_China

The problem has been exacerbated in recent years because of limitations on how many children couples could have, but a lack of financial resources could also place pressures on people to have fewer children, and make as many boys as possible. But this is certainly not "just" a modern problem created by modern abortion technology.
People are going to need to take this more seriously. Bosses are cracking down on pronunciation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs
What About Trump's Comments on H1-Bs?
Because it had a very disjointed user interface and most people just didn't see the point.
I don't know what you define as rich but if you can pull down $300k/year, keep your cost of living low, and save in a disciplined way, you will definitely retire with many millions of dollars in the bank. You will get rich slow, rather than get rich quick, which may be what you (and most other people) mean by 'getting rich'.
Why is Self-Organization such a bad thing? Why are we hitting it over and over, esp. in the traditional offices where people are spending time in busy-ness instead of business productivity. I swear, 90% of traditional workers work 2 hours of their 8 hour day and middle management is lucky to be 50% right or worse, parrot what ever the megalomaniac who works higher in the hierarchy says. What is really Zappos doing, at least unlike many people in SV they do not claim to put a dent in the Universe. They are SouthWest on steroids, where employee happiness is central to the mission. Even if Zappos fails in its mission, there would be great lesson. I would love to work in a Halocracy, it will have its downsides, and people pretending to be busy and important does not seem to be one of them.
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(437 points, 1 day ago, 65 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234008
It's also helpful when building any kind of system that deals with money. That system will inevitably integrate with some more elaborate ERP/Sales/other system, and for that it's quite helpful to know about the principles of accounting, even for the developers.

(Especially helpful if you live in countries like Germany, where the tax authorities can pretty quickly finish your company if you can't account for every single cent. But I think also in the US (SOX etc) this might be helpful.)
> Carbon emissions can be (and have been) reduced without culling humans.

Really? That's news to me. When did that happen? But before you answer, take a look at:

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/glo_2011.html

> Effective public transport infrastructure

OMG, where are you getting your information? Transportation only produces 25% of the world's carbon emissions, and most of that is industrial transport (trucking, shipping) and air travel and freight. Even if you got to 100% public transit across the globe that wouldn't make even a tiny dent.

> Equitable trade

> Less corruption

How are those going to reduce carbon emissions?

> Sustainable development

Ah, there you have hit the nail on the head. How exactly are you going to do "sustainable development" in the face of an exponentially increasing population?
Hacking TicketLeap for Bulk Discount Codes
Are you objecting to advertising in principle? I don't have anything against advertising as a means of improving sales.
We just need to stop talking about 'advertising' and start focusing on 'annoying' and 'tracking'.
I object to anything that tracks me and to ads that annoy me while I'm trying to read an article. To be fair, it's not just ads. I hate any form of animation while I'm trying to read. It makes it harder to concentrate. I wish all bloggers (and news sites) would avoid using GIFs and ensure their content rendered fully without JavaScript (vain hope). As far as I'm concerned if adverts are unobtrusive, don't track and have a light download, I'm OK with them. Mostly I'll ignore them (just like I do with TV ads) but at least they provide revenue for bloggers.
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Scientist calculated the cost of not being a straight man, she wants a tax cut
Verizon provides fascinating behind the scenes details to data breaches
Basecamp has 14 office employees (though they have more employees, and are big proponents of remote working) sharing a 10,000 sq foot space, compared to every office it's going to be open and airy.
Unions just create another power structure that has to be appeased. I'd love to see the union rep telling the kind of engineers I work with why they're not allowed to fix something right now. Cue lynch mob!
I know of 3 SD4/principal engineers at Amazon who are making $1m/year. I believe there are only about 150-200 engineers at this level in the entire company, so it's obviously a hard position to get. Anyone with experience building out cloud infrastructure has been a hot commodity given all of the companies that are entering the market. Remember that you don't just get a great engineer but you also get the years of experience that person has gained actually building out what you yourself want them to build out for you. Some other company paid for all of the mistakes, learnings, etc. No trade secrets or confidential information but just a ton of valuable experience that the new employer benefits from day 1.
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Localization: A Cheatsheet for Developers and Managers
I don't understand why people continue to live in increasingly unaffordable city, with vanishing funds, and expect a miracle (which they might get, yeah, coming from pockets of others). Why not move?

They might be attached to the place, but frankly - they arrived into the city in their 20-s. Now there's a new wave of 20-s aged guys and gals who would like to take their place and have money/jobs to back this up. Why previous generation is considered to be entitled to living where they want and getting subsidies on that, while next generation is supposed to cope (and pay those subsidies also)?
thanks for sharing -- I work in network security but I have not had opportunities to work direct with applications and forensics. clearly have some research to do and how to get in.
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Ask HN: Raising money for the first time, any tips?
hey guys so I have narrowed it down to 3 or 4 domains with functional MVP. I had about 10 but I really asked is this a vitamin or a painkiller and was able to narrow it down to a 3.

I want to raise money to hire 1 engineer to polish up the MVP and be the go to guy for changes.

I want a sales guy who will work on base salary and 15% comission.

I want a marketing guy who will spin content and accountable for inbound lead generation.

I am located in Vancouver, BC. Here's why I think Vancouver is a great place to start, #1 salary is super cheap because of the exchange rate. I don't need a 100x engineer. I already laid down the bare paths and need a few more bodies to help maintain the ship.

So about how much I need to raise I'm thinking to cover salary:

1 intermediate engineer = $65,000 CAD / year = $48,888 USD / year.

1 sales guy + SDR intern ($10.25 cad/hr minimum wage in BC) = $45,000 CAD / year + 15% comission cap + $21,320 CAD / year for SDR intern = 66,320 CAD / year = $49,890 USD / year.

1 marketing guy = $35,000 CAD / year = $26,000 USD / year.

So all together salary burn rate is $124,778 USD / year.

$10,398 USD / month + rent + supplies = $12,398 USD / month.

So roughly 13k USD / month to upkeep with 1 year of runway will be $156,000 USD. I want to target 1 million USD in sales in that period.

These are all B2B SaaS products that I've been able to spin off from my main SaaS that I've been working on for 2+ years alone.

No free plans, no $19.99/month, charge money and earn revenue from day 1.

Is this a realistic figure to raise in the beginning? What local meetups should you attend? Do you think it's wise to raise money from your own network instead?

Basically I'm looking to see if anyone is interested in going naked call on an option that expires in 1 year without time decay.

absolutelynotalking@gmail.com
If AppAmaGooBookSoft are happy to spend that much on talent, why don't they let it be known, rather than complain about a talent shortage ?
For France,

Areva[0] is in big trouble, losing a few billions (yes billions) every year. At the same time, the nuclear regulation authority have found some defects on EPR construction site and in La Hague plant.

The government is pushing EDF to take a major stake in Areva to save it. But today in the press there were multiple articles on a 100 billions "wall" that EDF will have to overcome to maintain, upgrade or decommission the current nuclear plants. And this is further complicated by the fact that the price of electricity is fixed by law, so EDF don't have many ways to increase its revenue. (This will likely have to change because it is not sustainable)

I don't know about safety, but financially this is looking bad. And with drastic cost cutting measures will likely come more incidents (or accidents..)

That's one negative point of nuclear power, we don't really know the price of decommissioning because it has never been done on large scale. So the total life cost of a nuclear plant, and thus nuclear power, can only be estimated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areva
I used to do lot of DIY neurostimulation, until one day I accidentally stimulated the part of my brain that made lose interest in it.

Intellectually, I know I should just unstimulate that part but meh.
Most likely hypothesis to me is that they scanned the object, produced a low quality scan, then somebody rebuilt the scan using surface primitives from the low quality scan. The result is not accurate, but is very precise.