skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your earlier comment is entirely irrelevant then, seeing as we're not talking about bread delivery, but delivery of healthcare, where - irrespective of whether we'd agree on the feasibility of efficient delivery of "singlepayer bread" - it has been conclusively proven by example that efficient delivery in a single payer model is possible.

In fact, not only is it possible, but almost every country in the world that has it does it cheaper than the US (depending on currency fluctuations, Norway is ironically one of the less than a handful of countries that is occasionally more expensive than the US - largely driven up by high salaries).
Unfortunately, not much interesting happens outside of politics. CRISPR and exoplanets spring to mind as exceptions, but software field definitely stalled.

Politics seems to be the force that can bury any amount of advancements in other fields, hence interest.
I'm not familiar but to hazard a guess, I know how hard finding an apartment in New York can be (a couple of friends living there presently). Outside of other notables (like SF), it doesn't seem as big an issue. In Austin the market is really hot right now, but finding an apartment is still very easy. We were using an agent (also house hunting) but she wasn't adding any value; that may not be the case somewhere like NY, especially if you're unfamiliar with the market there.
"commits other people have access to"

That's authorization.
Disclosure: I'm a Discord developer.

Discord works in a browser or with the native apps. Just visit the website and click 'Open Discord in your browser'
The US system is great if you have money.

When some asshole sucker punches you and breaks your jaw, I'd rather be in Canada where getting it fixed is affordable.
Maybe it's because of my sentimental mood, but I can't help but think, perhaps we're too focused on achieving maximum productivity in a competitive market. It's like for the first time in history abundance for every human being is a possibility yet humanity has not broken free of its mindset to claim ownership over scarce resources. A means to an end has become a means in itself. There was an article on here recently about humans becoming more like preprogrammed automata by the living environment we have set up, in our global hyperconnected society with it's carefully constructed sociocultural normativity it's like we're building a cybernetic collective concious inside some Huxlean dystopia.

Drugs and human augmentation to fuel the rat race, good grief, anyone actually think that's a noble thing to strive for?
Everyone rations.

The difference between the US and the single-payers is that more care is given and better care is given vs. the rest of the world where gov't budgets are constrained so care is constrained.

I'm in Ontario and I can't even get a general practitioner. This is worse than communism.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12306284
I can't speak for NYC, only London, which also has severe housing issues. The basic problem is a shortage of affordable supply of something that is long-term and immobile. So better search tools can't on their own fix that supply issue.
Judge may order Oracle v. Google retrial over evidence unwisely withheld by Goog
>While true, this also gets into the ethical, moral and legal obligation a company has when for all practical purposes they have a monopoly on a market segment.

First off, companies do not have ethical or moral obligations at all. Corporations are purely amoral. It's up to customers to penalize them for unethical or immoral actions by refusing to support them. If the customers refuse to stop throwing money at them, it's the customers that are to blame.

Secondly, MS does not have a monopoly, except for having an OS that runs software designed to run on Windows, just like Apple has a monopoly for the market of "OSes that run software designed to run on iOS or OSX". Lots of people run Macs rather than Windows-based PCs, and some run Linux. If you're not happy with Windows, it's your job to look for alternatives, just like if you're not happy driving a Chevy, it's your job to look at Hondas and Subarus instead of whining that Chevy isn't living up to your expectations.

MS didn't have any legal trouble in the US, ever. They "lost" an antitrust trial in the 90s and the penalty was absolutely nothing, and that trial was all about their OS forcing the bundling of their browser. Their OS still forces the bundling of their browser, except these days, only clueless morons actually use IE/Edge, and everyone else uses either Firefox or Chrome or some variant (while some use Safari). In fact, last I heard, Chrome had the largest marketshare of all browsers.

The lesson here is that if you're hoping for the government to step in and save you, you're hopelessly naïve, as proven by history. The US government in particular is never, ever going to do anything to rein in MS, and really, why should they at this point? As I pointed out above, if you don't like Windows, there are viable alternatives now (the alternatives were much worse in the late 90s, now they're actually much better). If your 3rd-party software vendor doesn't support non-Windows platforms, then maybe you should find a better one.
The only place I know that actually has a market is Switzerland. Insurers are required to offer "basic insurance." Everyone in the country is required to buy it. If you are below poverty line, it is paid for by the government. What is covered by basic insurance is set by the government, and so independent of insurer. Likewise, what insurers can ask to set rates is set by the government (age, income, sex, and smoking status basically). Insurers are required to sell basic insurance to anyone who wants to purchase. All insurance billing uses the same set of forms, so there's very little office overhead. This actually produces something that looks like a market. You can get on a website, put in a couple of values, and get a lot of quotes instantly, pick one, put in your credit card, and you're insured. Companies also sell further insurance beyond basic, and compete on quality of service for basic.

Swiss healthcare is regarded as decent but far too expensive for what it is compared to the single payer systems in all its neighbors.

Paying for healthcare isn't the place you worry about inefficiencies and waste. It's going to get paid for, and the possible efficiencies of pushing paper around are dwarfed by the cost of actually delivering medical care. So what you actually care about is delivery of health care. Italy does this really well. They have public hospitals and clinics and private ones, too. If you go to a public one, you're covered. If you go to a private one, the government pays the same to the clinic that it would pay to the public clinic. So the public system serves as a reference that the private system has to match in efficiency, performance, and price.

There is no medical or macroeconomic justification for private insurance companies. It's historical accident perpetuated by monied interests.
We have choices outside of the win32 bubble -

https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429
Not sure. I'm American. My wife is Canadian. My children, by virtue of being my children, have dual citizenship.

Edit: Just to be clear, I can't fairly compare. My wife has an easy time because of me and my children, and I had an easy time moving and working in Canada because of my skills.
> What exactly can justify this?

Basic Humanity. Belief that existing laws in the US are pathetic and don't go nearly far enough.

Or staff retention, if you insist on degrading human relationships to purely economic terms.
He doesn't have a "fully fledged server". He's sharing some servers with tens of thousands of other people. It's literally less hardware investment then a RPi let alone a laptop, and it's priced accordingly. And it runs even when his home computer isn't powered on or online.
Anecdotally, any course of action depending on "synergies" being realized will not happen.
Url changed from http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/08/17/49020234..., which points to this. Strange world when HuffPo has the more original source and the more substantive piece than NPR...
IMHO if VA, Medicare and federal employee coverage were a gov't backed NPO insurance company, that could provide a baseline and competition. Of course, that would have to also cover the administration and congress. That would act as both a baseline and incentive to compete, with that corporation open to state, company and individual plans.

As to pharmaceutical costs, there's two things that need to happen First is that extension patent approvals must be significantly reduced (requiring moving more of the patent fees up to the application stage to cover more review/appeal costs). The second would be statutory licensing for all patents on medication after say 5 years, allowing for generics at a fixed patent licensing fee after the patent is 5 years old.

Those would be things to improve competition.
I hope to one day have children and experience these things, but this runs counter to the narrative that parents put forward rationalizing why these kinds of benefits should not be afforded to people who choose not to have children. Often I've seen the argument that having and raising children is, itself, a form of work not a vacation or that having children is a form of public good and that's the reason why we can't all just have a standard paid "leave of absence".
Eastern Europe didn't have equality. It had less equality than Western Europe and the US - the party elite basically carved up their countries as fiefdoms.

To blame equality for problems caused by systems that never implemented anything like equality is quite bizarre.
If it's free software it won't just disappear. If it's proprietary and hosted by an org that isn't making real money from it, that's a different story....
For example, in Canada (until recently)

Until recently. This means that all people can obtain health care regardless of their ability to pay, and that the system is flexible enough to continue to experiment with the ideal implementation.

Are public schools better than private schools?

Public schools are exactly 100% better than private schools for students who can't afford to attend private schools.

Is the US postal system better than FedEx?

They are if you want to get a letter delivered anywhere in the world cheaply.

You have made a lot of good arguments for socializing care here.
Remember when we had tools like Dreamweaver to do HTML for us? What went wrong?
Can you check the first sentence under the section "Saying No"?
NYC broker fee problem will really take a generation until the existing stakeholders literally die out. The deeply entrenched real estate industry here has no incentive to change. Not all, but many (most?) no-fee apartments are new construction "luxury" buildings (luxury == not 30+ years old) that handle leasings themselves, and always have very high rents.

Edit: You _can_ find other no-fee aparments but it will in general severely restrict your choices; the odds of looking for an apartment by normal criteria (location, size, condition, amenities, price, etc) and stumbling on a no-fee listing are low.
Ask yourself what those studies measure and if you can honestly consider those measures fair measures of quality, quantity and equity in providing care.

It usually boils down to $5,000 for surgery X in one country, $8,000 for same surgery in another. What an analysis like this always skips is the care that wasn't provided that should have been provided.
How long would a government run tech company survive in the valley? Now tell me again why you want them centrally planning your healthcare?
No where did I say it was a 'vacation'. However getting paid to stay home, and raise your children sounds like a better alternative to sitting in a cubicle all day. If it doesn't, then you probably shouldn't have kids.
I would love to use Linux for gaming, but the vast majority of the games I play and plan to play are Windows only despite the advances made in Linux gaming systems. I ran Steam OS for a while and I play some games in Ubuntu but Linux Gaming just isn't there yet, at least for me.

This likely won't change (again, for me) because not only would more games need to be released on Linux into the future, but a significant portion of my existing gaming library would need to be ported. I have spent years and considerable money building my gaming library and with minor hiccups almost all of them can be run on modern Windows due to its focus on backwards compatibility along with the efforts of the community.

I suppose there is a breaking point where there are enough newer games being released, older ones ported, and continuing annoyances from Microsoft that I would use Linux as my main gaming OS. I wonder how long that will take? It's frustrating to say the least as gaming is far and away my favorite hobby.
Nice work.

Turning ON/OFF status, notifications based on some value would be nice addons.
>I think it's possible to argue that people who leave doors unlocked shouldn't be considered to have done something wrong, but I hear almost nobody making that argument.

I hear this every once in a while. My country used to be a police state and people often say "back then we could leave our windows open without fear" to argue that we should go back to authoritarianism to reduce crime.
I actually learned a couple of things from this article even though it's satire. I struggled through the de-monolithing of an application into microservices and then into Docker containers. Do people actually do this without having pressing issues that haven't lead them to this path? Is there any reason to spread into microservices unless the monolith is not keeping up with requests?

I would have never considered Docker containers unless artifact preservation/isolation and deployment issues hadn't forced me to look toward a solution.
I also realized I'm dumb, you can't really mash raw carrots.

I'm still not convinced that putting in a kitchen is a better approach than having parents bring food; parents need to feed their children at home anyway, so they're going to have food. And if children have specific needs, parents will be better able to handle those as well. (For instance, the room my kid is in has children aged 4-10 months - the very small kids can only drink milk, mine is at the age where she can eat some pureed foods, and the older kids are happily eating crackers and other stuff.)

Kitchens also take up space - which is probably a bigger concern here in New York than your rural area.
Pick your favorite (the area you tend to find yourself spending more time on) or the one most in demand, high paying, or secure (whichever matters to you).

It seems Machine Learning / AI / Data Science (though maybe it's "maturing" after becoming such a hot field), mobile development, React + Redux, etc are what's in demand these days.
The one exception that proves this rule that comes to mind is Jack Parsons of Caltech.
> There is probably a registry value you can change to do so though.

Thanks, but with "probably" I sense that I'm about to get into what I call "mud wrestling" or hours or days of just throwing wild guesses against a wall to see if any appear to stick. I've only got 365 days a year, and I've given away far too many of them to such mud wrestling. GOD knows I do NOT want to do more of that.

For physical things, say, an alarm clock that won't quit making a noise, often can use a big hammer or an axe to solve the problem. Too often in mud wrestling with sick-o software, I wanted such a hammer or axe.

The EFF OP and this thread have me literally just TERRIFIED that my work with Windows will have me spending a huge fraction of my time that I do NOT have mud wrestling with some version of Windows. Again, GOD knows well I do NOT want mud wrestling.

To Microsoft: I am trying, desperately trying, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, to the limits of strength of my body, to get my software written for my Web site startup. For my software, I have 80,000 lines of typing for the real-time parts and another 20,000 for the off-line parts. I want, desperately NEED, to do the rest of the work of my startup. NO WAY do I have in addition the time, money, strength, and energy to fight Microsoft software for no good reason. I want NO updates, NO changes, without my well informed, explicit permission. I want NO data sent from my computer elsewhere without my well informed, explicit permission.

Cortana or whatever it is called? I wouldn't hit a hog in the butt with all the copies of Cortana on the planet. To me the work and objectives of Cortana are insulting, outrageous, patronizing, demeaning, intrusive, and worse. I don't want it.

What do I want from Microsoft? (1) Fix the outrageous security problems Microsoft has been struggling with back at least to XP. (2) Do much better technical writing in technical documentation of Microsoft software.

Then I want to finish my startup with no more attention to anything from Microsoft.
It wasn't real socialism canard.

…the story about the two fellows in the Soviet Union who were walking down the street and one of them says: Have we really achieved full communism? Is this it? Is this now full communism?

The other one said: Oh no, things are gonna get a lot worse.
The saddest part about it for me is that Windows 10 made some of my friends cynical regarding privacy. If you asked them before they would have at least acknowledged the value of privacy, but now it's just "Why not upgrade to Windows 10? Everything you use is already data-mining you." They see all the bad news about privacy in Windows 10 and I guess that's the only way you can rationalize using it.
Facebook for example would risk an 'accessible' website gaining a network effect and displacing them. So, it's not always a good idea to ignore small groups of users. Also, for organic growth you might end up with 1% more users at the end, but get there much faster as your compounding faster. Ie at 30% per month over 2 years (1.31 ^ 24 months) = 542.8 but at 31% per month that's (1.31 ^ 12) = 652.4
Yeah I'm not buying this and never have. You're going to need to cite some kind of scientific statistics or stats or studies.

When people get sick they come to the US for treatment if they can. You don't see world leaders and those with money going to Canada or Europe for treatment. Not when it's dire. The US is hella expensive for many reasons one is that we have the most bleeding edge medical technology.
> The US system is great if you have money.

Which has no role in the care my children receive.

> When some asshole sucker punches you and breaks your jaw, I'd rather be in Canada where getting it fixed is affordable.

Within the context of my comment, the US provided $0 and -2 week while Canada offered $30k+. and a 1.5 year wait.
Or learn about better wheels designed by smart people back in the 60s and 70s, when no one had the capability to just keep sticking wheels onto cars to see what works - so they had to rely on thinking and solid engineering practices instead.
Why it was flagged?
Some people have connections with download limits. I.e. You can only download 4 gigabytes of data before having your connection throttled or being charged. Some people also tether to mobile internet, which very definitely has download limits. Case in point, I was working on the road a lot this Summer and was using my 4G hotspot. Automatic downloads can very rapidly eat your download limit up whereas browsing and email is unlikely to do so.
> Is the OP correct or are they not?

No.

1) Their left leaning narrative can't take facts at this point.

What facts can't they take? What's the narrative that NPR is trying to weave? As others have already mentioned, their coverage is often not favorable to the left. NPR syndicates content from hundreds of independent public radio stations, including other public and for-profit sources such as American Public Media, AP, Reuters, ITN, etc. Are they all conspirators in this narrative?

2) The sheer amount of lean really comes out of their choice of what to cover.

Is OP suggesting that NPR and the hundreds of other public radio stations suppress topics so as not to appear "left"? Also, see #1.

3) They know it's easy to just offload comments onto another service.

They are already offloading comments to Disqus. The problem is not technical but managing and moderating the vast deluge of spam, trolls and other bad actors.

4) Any news source w/o comments is basically propaganda at this point.

This is just hyperbole.
I believe your examples of public services being worse than their private counterparts is a specious argument. Most private schools are paid for by rich people. The cost to attend is higher than public school so it would reason that the quality is better. Same for USPS vs FedEx. The shipping rates for USPS are much cheaper.

Some people are price sensitive. Cheaper is all they can manage to afford and are willing to accept less quality in return. As a healthy person I'd rather take a two percent annual increase in insurance premiums for lower quality of care since I do not have much need for services.
I will say this about my kid, she's usually pretty good about sleeping at night at six months old. I only typically feel like I need a nap on the weekend.

(Naturally she'll be a nightmare tonight, now that I've praised her ability to sleep.)
Imagine a scenario where your child is surrounded by sick people in a subway during winter and all of them are coughing and sneezing. Heard of crazies pushing onto the subway lane? Or the extreme humidity these days that make the subway atmosphere like a baking oven where your child is constantly crying in agony and discomfort. Yes that would make NYC subway dangerous and disease prone for the safety of the child.
1. Try getting an MRI in Canada. Canada rations care via wait lists.

2. Your argument implies that there wouldn't be low cost schools in the absence of public schools. The evidence is overwhelming that the opposite is true.

3. I live in Panama. When I need something mailed here I use FedEx or DHL. The USPS is unreliable and takes far too long. If there weren't laws against private first class mail in the US they'd be undercut in that market as well.
Back when I was a kid, on some mornings, I did try sitting down to urinate a few times (basically whenever I was feeling too tired to stand), but I stopped doing that after a while since it would usually hurt (I’m guessing due to the force of all the urine coming out (quite a bit does accumulate after sleeping for 8 – 10 hours) combined with my sitting posture). Since it never hurt while I was standing, I ended up just sticking to that after a while.
Are ADHD medications really that effective for those without ADHD? They can boost your mood, for sure. And, they can keep you awake. But, for me, the dosage needs to be precisely adjusted just to be effective, and I have to take them just to be functional.

I've seen a lot of people in the workplace taking them lately. But, the result isn't pretty. Overly focused but on all the wrong things. Less creative. In a tweaked out state where they just keep switching tasks. Or, sending rambling emails or going on long tangents about nothing. To me, it seems like they were much more effective before the medications.

I remember watching a show years ago where the hosts had drugged people doing different types of tasks. One of them was amphetamine, and they were trying to put an ikea desk together. But, they took a really long time because of all of the reasons above.

Interestingly, ADHD has strong genetic correlation and has comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders. And, ADHD was certainly under diagnosed for a long time, as were many mental diseases. In the US there is strong social pressure to not reveal mental diseases, and it's awkward to discuss them with others because many people don't even believe they are real. It's sad really, because many smart people could have succeeded in life if only they had been diagosed and treated.