skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switzerland's system is for-profit, but otherwise pretty-much the same than Germany's or Japan's, and it works just as well. The two crucial points are that everyone in the country is required by law to have health insurance (thus distributing the cost), and that if a company offers health insurance, they have to accept anyone who wants it (thus preventing cheap plans for the healthy and outrageously expensive ones for the sick). IMO, these two provisions make the system work well. And even though it's government intervention, it actually makes the market more competitive by leveling the playing field: all insurance companies have to compete with each other.
Check out http://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/wiki/Grok. It might be able to parse incoming stuff enough you could tag them with categories.
Who else got a full page Microsoft add before they could see the article? Microsoft is paying you to view this...
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That's in 5.5 hours, right? So 6 hours from the time stamp of the post?

I'm a bit confused, I am in GMT-0 here (Iceland).

With Daylight savings, different timezones, etc, I get very confused about what time it is here/there
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The whole point of the article was about health/well-being through exercise and my point is that the gymnasts strike a very happy balance between strength/fitness and well-being. Whereas body builders exceed a lot of bounds and maintaining that much heavy/slow twitch muscle mass can be detrimental to one's health.
Ask Non-Americans: Are you aware that agreeing that something is broken is different from agreeing on how to fix it? Do you not have disagreements in your countries?
Ask HN: What software do you use for graphics in mobile games?
I was wondering what software packages are used to create the graphics in games like 'Angry Birds' and 'Plants vs Zombies'...and what are the common software packages people use for this?
Are we in violent agreement?
These are incredibly useful in discussions. Especially so in formal debates.

Logical fallacies allow one to quickly categorize and counter flawed arguments.
Double the hardware can be an expensive proposition for a startup, unless you're paying by the hour. I prefer red pill / blue pill deployment. Build an environment where you incrementally deploy and roll back new code. During a rollout some servers will run old code (blue), some servers will run new code (red). This is what IMVU and others have described in their continuous deployment processes, only with Matrix-friendly colors.
I'm wondering if there are any recovery firmwares that just let you install unsigned builds and do nothing else. Even this Amon_RA one adds things like extra menus, a partitioning tool, and an "awesome care-bear version".

I don't want any of that, I just want to be able to use applications as root. That's it. No care-bears. Any suggestions?
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It also changes what muscles you are exercising. A 100% inclined pushup works your shoulders significantly more than your chest, while a normal pushup exercises your chest more.

It makes it a completely different exercise altogether — the shoulder press exercise is not a substitute for the bench press and is nowhere near as efficient an exercise to build your chest muscles.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/exclusive-lgs-windows-pho...

The first Windows 7 phone has more than 3 buttons.
"On November 2, 1967, at age 4, he solved an advanced stochastic differential equation."

... and then gets a PhD in physics at age 16. Although the IQ score might be outdated/irrelevant - there is something special about this man and if we don't strive to quantify it we won't be able to reliably reproduce it.
Trouble is, one still has to encode one's video in 3 formats; h264, ogg/thora, and flv for the fallback.

That ain't progress my friends.
After a certain IQ, I think it's 120, the rest is about emotional maturity and how deeply your understanding goes.

I know you don't mean it this way, but this comes off as very smug. There are lots of reasons why most very-high-IQ people (170+) seem to underperform their potential-- some good, some bad-- but they're a lot more complex than a lack of emotional maturity and innate social acumen.
Software updates (some lisp libraries)
Demand for Stem Cells Growing Fast, Many Turn to Allure of Medical Tourism
Just use Google, it'll tell you the time above the organic results:
http://www.google.com/search?q=time+in+california

But to answer your question, 6 hours from the time of the post should be right.
In the US, those people tend to fall into one of a few groups:

1) They're covered by a government plan already (medicare, medicaid)

2) They have a good employer-sponsored plan and don't see the costs. My own parents fall into this category, having worked for basically one company their entire lives and gaining entitlement to that plan on retirement. However, this form of entitlement is rapidly disappearing and I doubt that people entering the workforce today will have this level of benefit.

3) Cost is no object. Some people are fortunate enough to have either made or been born into enough money that a few hundred or a few thousand per month just isn't a big expense. I hope to be in this group some day, but I realize that this segment is never going to be a majority.

4) The terrified. I have a handful of friends that also fall into this group. They are told by their choice of media outlets that the socialists are going to take away their medical care and that the Democrats' bills are just the first on a "slippery slope" to take away their guns and their freedom.

Personally, I think the entire concept of employer-based healthcare is a drag on our economy. It puts a very high incentive on remaining in "safe" employment and dissuades people from starting their own ventures or joining a startup. I ran into this recently when trying to hire a developer. Unable to offer health insurance, even the potential rewards of working for a startup weren't enough to offset the risk involved in losing health coverage. This is particularly true in a system where any lapse in coverage can result in permanent ineligibility for future coverage.

The U.S. system delivers great care to those who can afford it. Perhaps the current Congressional bills aren't the right solution. But, the overall problem is strangling our competitive advantage. And America's entrepreneurs are at the forefront of this battle. I hope they don't also turn out to be its casualties.
Even then it's quite impressive
Thats no surprise the only difference is with android you can get apps that get rejected from apple and more good free apps.
True. Obviously missing examples such as gmail, basecamp etc
Science does not rely on geniuses and programming also shouldn't. There is simply too much to do to wait for genius to do it. If your problem is too hard you should rephrase it, break it into easier parts, limit domain to what is necessary and give up some constraints. That's what people do in science and that's what worked for humanity so far.
I won't worry about BB. They seem to be the only company able to create a smartphone that works (i.e. doesn't crash etc.) at the moment.
Since it's available for Nokia, that means it's either J2ME, or Symbian, so either Java or C++.
People complain about the you-must-buy-insurance provisions of the of the proposed health insurance reform, but there’s no way around it.

The vast majority of Americans seem to agree that it’s morally obnoxious to charge people higher premiums just because they have a pre-existing health condition that makes them more likely to require care. So, under the proposal, insurers are restrained from doing that.

Under that kind of pricing system, healthy people have an incentive to put off buying insurance until right before they really need it, and if everyone does that, then the premiums for folks who have no choice will really go through the roof. So there’s the requirement for everyone to buy insurance.

If the premiums are oppressively high, then people at the lower (and even the lower-middle) end of the income scale will still have an incentive to just go without insurance and pay the penalty for non-compliance. So there are subsidies to make it easier for households in those income brackets to buy insurance.
Production Delays Mean iPad Inventories May Be Tight at Launch
I don't remember Apple licensing iPod to other manufacturers, and I don't remember Apple switching DRM formats and dropping support for the old one. As far as I know, when the iPad is released it will be able to play music purchased the very first day the iTunes Store opened, and it will be able to play music ripped by the very first version of iTunes when it was Mac only.

I see Microsoft as still compromising left right and centre, trying to get hardware manufacturers to play pricing Seppeku. The one thing they have in common with Apple is taking a technically reasonable product--Zune--and rebranding it with a more marketable product's name.

Aplle did this when they bought NeXT and rebranded it as mac OS X!
Opening up some details of OpenSolaris under Oracle
As a sort of mental housekeeping, it's nice to review pages such as this or the list of cognitive biases (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_biases) on occasion.
The Diamond Formation: Making sure your side wins the sound-byte battle
> Open-source is free like puppies are free. You don't write a check to get it, but you have to support it for life. Your employee's time is not free. Working around bugs is not free. Having nothing but the Web of Lies Internet to rely on for tech support is not free.

Nice piece of FUD.
Who cares if a guest of yours smashes a wall in your house? You starting to scream hysterically would be a bit of an overreaction. After all your house can (probably) do without.
Playing devil's advocate;
If the government takes over health care, they effectively set the terms.
Just to be sure we are all on the same page here; we all know that this is where it's ultimately going right..??

Ok if you are a startup, there is much less incentive to invest your time and energy into anything health care related as your return is noticeably less.(they set the terms)

Thus any advancements in medical care will ultimately be funded by the government via. you rather than the market.
Will it be cheaper in the long run?

I think the fundamental difference is that some people personalize everything related to the health care system; understandably; and cannot/will not look at it from a completely logical standpoint.

We hate paying high insurance premiums, but time is the most valuable asset.
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IIRC the Swiss government requires all insurers to offer plans with a certain baseline level of coverage, and the insurers aren’t allowed to make a profit on those plans. The profit comes from plans that offer goodies above and beyond the baseline.
Just develop an eye for observation. It's very difficult for me to go through an entire day without noticing a new opportunity for a start-up. There are some very obvious behaviours you can look for to identify opportunity.

Any time you see someone swearing at a product, make note. That product sucks, whoever is using it wishes they could switch to an alternative. There's an idea. Sometimes it won't be as obvious as swearing. Sometimes it is just "it's so annoying that I have to submit all my material to colleges. There should just be an API for college admissions."

People talk about what they want constantly, you just have to tune in to hear it.
I looked for, but couldn't find a fallacy that seems like it would fit this - Fallacy of fallacy: Because someone is making a fallacious argument their conclusion is automatically incorrect. E.g.,

Arguer 1: "My opponent is a rapist, therefore his assertion that 2 + 2 = 5 is wrong."

Arguer 2: "You're argument is fallacious (ad hominem), therefore 2 + 2 really does equal 5."

Did anyone see this sort of fallacy in the list. Or should I add it to the wiki page?
Grass Valley, California. Lots of trees, animals, great mountain biking, starting point for this year's Amgen, and host to a number of technology companies (including 2Wire, Spectrum Sensors & Controls, Grass Valley Group (known for producing very high quality video control boards), and a number of others, and formerly one of the original homes to Atari.)
Maybe he "doesn't want to spend the rest of his life explainin' shit to people".
Thanks for posting this! This is one of my favorite articles on the web. (Doh! why didn't I think of posting it.) If only the advocates on different sides of important issues could learn to adhere to these principles.

I blame the low and ever-dropping level of journalism for the low level of political discourse today. Reporters, commentators, and moderators encourage using logical fallacies instead of calling out their use.

Here's an article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky on someone who brought the ad hominem attack to the level of genius. And of course he is widely celebrated today.
And thus the marketing guys swing into action.

Panic apple faithful, queue up outside the stores before launch day - or else you might have to wait to get the shiny new Apple toy.
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Gear6 throws self at Memcached Achilles heel
If there are more people interested in reading about this kind of stuff in a more organized way, I can wholeheartedly recommend Keith Stanovich's Robot Rebellion ( http://books.google.com/books?id=VRsgtSBMh0YC&printsec=f... )

There is a fair amount of literature on the topic, varying from science popularization to "too hard". Right now I'm plowing through Thinking and Deciding, by Johnathan Baron. It's pure gold, but it's also the driest read in a long time.
This is pretty much what EngineYard does.
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Announcing the winners of the Street View trike contest
Maybe he is smart enough to have decided that a star drive or unifield field theory are not possible and decided to do something else that interests him more.
Albert Wegner: Startups should take a page from Undercover Boss
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Very Short But Amazing Speech by Coca Cola CEO Bryan Dyson
I'm really not as anti-tax as most of the American folks here, but ... yeah, no thanks. Of the various things that I think should be supported by taxes -- like scientific research, exploration, health care, infrastructure -- television in any form is not on that list. As much as I love NPR and PBS, I don't think they'd be better off if they were funded by taxes.

And since I can't easily or directly watch the BBC's coverage of the Olympics, then they're still acting against the spirit of the Olympics, which was one of my complaints about our not-tax-funded NBC.
Becoming a gymnast is not a realistic way of adding muscle mass, unless this epiphany strikes you at about the age of seven.

Even if you do decide to go the gymnast route, you'll still be lifting weights (though not until you've been at it for years, and you probably won't be making some newbie gym mistakes like prioritizing biceps), it'll just take longer to achieve results because you're mostly focused on acquiring the skill and technique to do actual gymnastics.

As for your other claim, body builders do not accidentally add too much muscle. It is a wide-spread fear among people who don't exercise at all, but it does not actually happen. You absolutely, positively, won't wake up one day and realize that you've accidentally put on too much muscle.

Accidentally putting on so much muscle as to be detrimental to your health would be akin to walking home from school or work and suddenly realizing you accidentally walked around planet earth and the soles of your feet have been completely worn down — you will not suddenly complete a journey that takes most people extreme dedication and hard work over many many years.
4 easy steps to enable remote desktop on your ec2 ubuntu instance
Enabling remote desktop on an ubuntu ec2 instance is pretty easy by using NX. We will use FreeNX at the server and NoMachine NX client on the client machine. NX is a much better alternative to VNC. You can install NoMachine client on windows, mac or linux.
Also worth checking out: http://reason.com/blog/2010/01/28/fdr-tax-increases-dont-app...

FDR: Tax Increases Don't Apply to Me

(Quoting TaxProfBLog:)

Throughout his first term, President Franklin Roosevelt paid taxes at the rates in effect when he took office, even as statutory tax rates increased. His position was that paying tax at a rate higher than that in effect at his inauguration reduced his salary, which violated the Constitutional provision that states that the president's compensation "shall be neither increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected."

He also claimed his 1937 return was too complicated for him to figure out.
I'm currently in this session of Alphalab and I wish this existed when I applied. The people that were around to give advice are some of the most brilliant in the area. After talking with a lot of the applicants it was quite evident of how useful this was for them.
We have been kind of low key about this project within the tech world, choosing to launch slowly to local interests in our city. We launched to Austin, TX on Feb 15th. The mobile site is at http://dealbk.com/m or you can browse to dealbk.com on a smartphone. HN community is important to me so any feedback is appreciated.
That's silly, it's not as if rejected App Store apps magically get rewritten and submitted to the Android Market, and the "more good free apps" comment is, so far as I can tell, pulled from thin air.

Besides, if it was that simple the Android numbers would beat the iPhone, and if you actually treat this as "App Store" vs "Android Market" it's more like 10.5 to 8.1 (respectively).
I use solr for the Wikipedia paragraph index. Let me know if you want to know any more about my setup. Also, if it turns out well, I'd love to add this source to DDG :)
I tried that one too (3.141 actually); then I tried 'pi', but it told me to check Google.
Cheap bandwidth, hardware and programmers: Entrepreneurial crack?
If the law permits the murder of tens of thousands every year by health insurers, then what is wrong (morally speaking) with breaking it, so long as one doesn't get caught? Law that allows such configurations as we have now has no moral authority.

That doesn't mean I advocate most crimes. I wouldn't kill or rob someone except under extreme and highly improbable circumstances, but that's because those actions are wrong, not because they're illegal.
Depends on the open-source project. For e.g. Apache, Linux, MySQL, you're right it's unfair. For things like RoR, it's pretty accurate. For small projects, it's definitely true, but then again most companies don't depend on relatively unknown OSS projects.
Graphs like that might actually say something if they included a "lifestyle" axis and a "uses car insurance for oil changes" axis, as munctional puts it.
It is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
Two quick first impressions:

1. It seems to require 1200px width, which is pretty rare outside of the developer crowd. My road laptop, which I'm viewing your site on, maxes out at 1024px. As a result, I need to scroll horizontally to to basic things on your site.

2. The name is hard to read from the URL, impossible to remember, and just doesn't roll off the tongue at all. I'd suggest changing it to something good and memorable, since this seems like something that would get a lot of type-in traffic. As it is, people will google "deal" and not find you, since they'll never remember which two random letters followed it.
Looks like this one is already on there: "Argument from fallacy: if an argument for some conclusion is fallacious, then the conclusion is fallacious."

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
Personally I'd have been surprised if it hadn't been the case...

I recently got myself a server, and even though I'm really newbie at this, I already understand how crucial logging is. I have only a handful of users on my (niche) service and already I gained really valuable insights from scouring my logs, for example there are some concepts that I thought were self-obvious that some users obviously didn't understand so I'm updating the site to explain these simply and clearly so that there's no possibility for confusion. I'm planning on adding much more detailed logging, as long as it's not unnecessarily privacy-invading and as long as it doesn't degrade the user experience at all (ex: I wouldn't add tracking via extraneous GET parameters because it clutters the URL location bar).

Now, I just one newbie and already I want to log everything. Now scale this to a megacorporation. How can you be surprised?! If you start logging something at the moment that you realize it's good to know, it's probably already too late, you can't go back in time to log it.
I'm sure 0 is a fine number, but I only like to talk about positive things.
Will it be possible to timeshift this?
Pick up the phone and call potential customers or even better you could meet with them in person.

Cold calling / meeting is tough in the beginning if you are introverted like I once was, but in my case the motivation to pick up the phone was knowing I would be able to put food on the table and pay the rent.
On the contrary I'd say that the difference between 1.8 paid apps and 1.1 paid apps per month is pretty big.
Have you actually lifted heavy for any amount of time? If you have you'll know that you need times where you let your tendons and ligaments rest. Your joints will thank you too. Muscles recover much faster than your connecting tissues (and your CNS for that matter).

Look at something like the 5/3/1 workout. It's set up in a manner that you can do it indefinitely because it has built in periodization. For 3 weeks you work up to near maximal weights then a 4th week of deload. This 4th weeks gives everything else (again - connector tissue, CNS) a chance to fully recover.

A complete program is not necessarily complicated. Running is NOT a replacement exercise for a squat and DL variation.
People who think the healthcare system works great as-is are fucking morons.

This is similar to how I can respect someone who conservative on firm intellectual grounds, and who may be a Republican who voted for Bush, even though I don't agree with him; but not someone who liked and supported Bush.
The PDF of the full report (much more interesting) is here:

http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/AdMob-Mo...

I'm not sure if it's worth re-submitting the AdMob post, but I did so here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1158960
But at the very least there is one simple client side mechanism for doing all this, you just worry about the encoding and you let google worry about rendering it. It is good progress. We just need about an inch or two more till we hit the finish line though.
I'm not seeing how RoR is any different than other OSS. Could you elaborate?
Interestingly enough, some parts are still relavent:

"Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen."

"Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading."

I feel it's getting better though...
Will do. Would you add everything or just questions with a certain amounts of points or answers or answers with a certain amount of points?