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TLDR: Stop capitalizing on suffering. The reason why people on this thread are complaining is not because they have a natural disposition against doctors: it's because they have been taken advantage of!

Long post:

Good point, except that get to see I see the invoice AFTER a service has been provided to me, sometimes MONTHS after the encounter EVEN AFTER SPECIFICALLY asking for an estimate upfront.

If you know a provider who works otherwise, feel free to answer this question: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-a-general-physician-in-S...

No providers office I know of are willing to provide estimates to patients for procedures the same office requires the patients to be financially responsible for!

The reality is that the provider is like a programmer who builds what I discussed with her to build only that I get a $10k bill AFTER THE FACT without having a say in whether I am OK with it or not and she just went ahead and did the project for me without even asking me if I wanted her to do it.

If I don't pay, my credit will be trashed with a collection entry.

This is unacceptable. I am not sure if you agree.

Case in point: I went to a specialist to figure out the ringing in my ears. I made it clear to both the administrative staff and the doctor that I should be told of any charges outside the office visit fee before such a charge would be incurred.

The specialist looked into my ears and said my ears looked fine and the ringing could be due to stress.

A month later I got a $1500 bill for "in office surgery". Apparently, if a specialist inserts anything into my body, it's a surgery and billed in addition to an office visit fee.

I do NOT believe this is proper. The provider took full advantage of my inconvenience.

I am lucky it was a $1500 bill and not a $15000 bill. It could very well have been and I would have NO recourse.

I am happy to pay your negotiated rate as long as you tell me what that rate is and how many hours you estimate it will cost me.

What I am NOT happy to do is be forced to pay an amount that I had no say in the first place.

Providers ARE exploiting their patients and getting away with it by placing the blame on the faceless insurance companies.

Patients are not walking blank checkbooks. They are suffering and under pain and looking to you for a remedy.

Providers have a right to make money. Providers DO NOT have a right to exploit.
The tracking and data mining is only one problem, another is having my data locked in a silo. What I'd like from a social network is for it to be more like an RSS reader: my posts should be followable via RSS, and my news feed should just be an RSS reader from which I can follow others on the same network and from outside the network. That's a pretty simple way to get me interested.

I also would like if messaging would be handled by something like an email address (like Facebook added and then removed once upon a time), or better yet a derivative of email that's easier to self-host and encrypted by default (maybe something like matrix.org).

To me, working to break down the huge silos is the best thing a non-profit social network could bring. And, to be completely honest, I'm not sure I'd even join it, because in this system I'd be able to participate without joining the network so I could just self-host my website (and RSS feed) and use my own feed reader as I do now.

EDIT to expand on this after thinking about it a bit. Since podcasting has been the most successful use case for RSS so far, perhaps a good way to go forward with the above idea would be to allow attaching arbitrary files to posts, and to embed images/audio/video (as they're be embedded on Facebook). This would make it easy to host a podcast/video feed, or image feed on the network while still being a part of the larger open podcasting/video/visual art communities, and it'd be easy to follow. This could provide a decent avenue for advertising the network to certain segments of potential users. And (as long as you embedded items with simple img/audio/video html tags) communities like the free software community and the open web community would probably be pretty ecstatic about it at the very least.
You're taking a decision which results in the death of those people. The trolley problem is about showing how people's attitudes change when they become responsible, instead of being bystanders.
An interface being equal to nil just because the value it contains is nil would be even more confusing. For example, imagine if you had two interface values, one holding a nil * T and one holding a nil * S. They would both be equal to nil, but not equal to each other, losing transitivity of equality.

Also, sometimes nil is a perfectly valid value of something and can implement interfaces. You can call methods on nil receivers because method calls are just curried function applications over the value. It would be odd if the interface compared equal to nil just because I happened to implement it with a value that's valid with nil.
For the specific case of distributed datastores, by threshold for considering any NoSQL/NewSQL is scaled writes and consistent reads. Designing a system based on consistent reads is much simpler without quirks that need to be explained to end-users.
Yeah, unprovoked? That belies a lack of historical perspective.

Japan killed tens of millions of Chinese and intended to occupy the entire western Pacific, killing or enslaving all the people who lived there. The entire nation, all of its labor and industry, was bent toward this goal. It was a nation of profound evil.
Video games and unemployment
Nil interface/nil pointer in the interface errors also explained in this 'Go landmines' post https://gist.github.com/lavalamp/4bd23295a9f32706a48f
Well, if you try to simply walk out of the place they can and will stop you at gunpoint, and can imprison you without resorting to the civilian justice system - the military can try, convict and punish you on their own according to their own regulations.
Scope over HTML5
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The last bit of information you need to understand that is that unlike some other languages you may be used to, "nil" is a perfectly valid value for a pointer to have. You can write methods like this:

func (o *Object) ReturnSomething() int {
if o == nil {
return 0
}
return o.SomeOtherValue
}

It is also therefore legal to return in an interface value a nil pointer to a struct of a particular kind, and therefore "an interface containing a nil pointer of a particular type" and "an interface containing nothing at all" are fundamentally different things that can not be collapsed together.

So as Vendan says, it is just part of the language. All languages have this sort of wart in them, where two or more perfectly sensible decisions interact to create something that isn't sensible at first glance.

(I'm still in favor of going back in time and changing Go to have non-nillable values, but that ship has certainly sailed.)
Oh my god talk about nitpicking. Yes I realize it's allowed, it's still sloppy and gross.

Technically I could put all my HTML into base64 encoded strings in javascript and then write them to the document, that doesn't mean that I should.
That's not a civil way to address another commenter, even if that commenter is completely wrong. If you see an error, it would be better to explain what it is, not call names. Interjections like "Sigh..." are an internet-forum form of rolling one's eyes, which isn't nice.

We all know from experience how much harder and more time-consuming it is to correct errors than make them in the first place—that's a big problem with internet discourse in general—but posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive replies isn't a solution.

Edit: unfortunately looks like you've been doing this repeatedly. This one is worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12519373. Please stop posting like that.
1. You can't sell homemade food in a restaurant with the exception of a few items like bread that don't require refrigerators or a grease trap or a ventilation system (stove hood). There are slight variations on this theme per locality

2. Compliance, permitting, inspections and so on make your idea of a restaurant MVP literally impossible in Manhattan and the state of New York.
ok, so now part of the "data" is another "template" that must further process "data" based on "whatever the code is that the client needs to receive".

oh, your templates and build tools don't work that way, and you're not willing to work to support them? let the indian devs try a full system rewrite in java. That's what they're for.
>They vary in intensity from having to put ingredients on the bottle to outright banning incandescent lightbulbs, from corn subsidies to fixed rates in medicare, and from getting a drivers license to getting an MD.

>But if you have a strong enough safety net to keep people out of the desperation trap of needing money or resources to sustain their livelihood you can also eliminate swathes of the regulation that restricts markets without negatively harming those at most risk for being taken advantage of, because the state institution provides a floor on what the worst possible outcomes can be.

I can't really reconcile these. Worst case scenario for not putting ingredients on a bottle? Death. Worst case scenario for being treated by an unlicensed MD? Death. Not requiring a drivers license? Death. Even the lightbulb one - death, in a few decades, from flooding.

Specifically what kinds of regulation can you get rid of?
>designs that reduces availability.

It's a slimy abuse of language to call a service "available" when it's giving incorrect output and corrupting its persistent state.

I can write a program with lots of nines that is blazingly faster than its competitors if its behavior is allowed to be incorrect.
Court halts construction of another section of pipeline
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12511353

Edit: Also has a link to a site that hasn't been hugged to death.
Dead on. For someone who doesn't know this business you are a quick study
It's not like China didn't do that in its past either, probably as recently as qianlong. But they don't go around calling China a nation of profound evil at the time.
ACPU VNC-like VR experiments:

JS coding using browser editor: http://acpul.tumblr.com/image/116464611050

iSimulator on iPad: http://acpul.tumblr.com/image/116464559770

Video Apple WWDC picture in picture in VR (realtime performance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNfWarTawI
Sounds like a plan
You shouldn't have to remember it, but you editor could and should.
What are you talking about? I'm asking specifically about Barney Frank to the author of the comment above.
Calling names and personal attacks aren't allowed in HN comments and will get your account banned eventually. Please don't do those things. Instead, please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
It's not two types of nil.

When a nil value is converted to an interface, it carries type information. When an interface carries type information, it isn't nil.
Pretty interesting. Rationality is only weakly correlated with intelligence. And rational thinking can be taught.
What a hideous post. Lord of the Flies was also a cautionary tale.

Because, despite your "I'm alright Jack" attitude, it generally turns out that society is a better place for everybody when inequality is at its lowest and when you try to ameliorate the worst effects of survival of the fittest.

Nothing about mandating extra help to those who need it restricts the abilities of those who don't. You can still take the stairs, it'll be OK.
I've never actually seen anyone validate their HTML.
If you suggested this in most companies, they would look at you like you had two heads.
Canada: https://i.imgur.com/YcceUqa.jpg
not sure what is the monthly pricing of this developer sim card. Here in Germany, i use fonic/congstar prepaid sim cards from the super market for 10euro's which comes with 10euro balance. These prepaid sim card's have a data plan of 100MB/30days for just 2Euros. In my xmpp based raspi-IoT solution 100MB per month is sufficient - hence my running cost of this IoT setup is around 2Euros/month.
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What about unique dishes ? According to the article , they have a lot of value, together with a chef's brand.

And does IP protection happens in that business ? How ?
This seems wrong to me. This seems to go against the promotion of diversity, for the species and in thought.

If society is moving toward the idea that children aren't a 'benefit,' then having people who are 'willing' to have children have more just postpones the issue, instead of fixing the root cause.
Where do I sign up?
Aw, come on. We're all 'talking heads' here; Patrick's just a better writer.
No, quite different. There are strong rules about what constitutes a valid patch. Probably stronger than in most projects.
A community created for developers by developers to save, manage, and explore code snippets for their projects, as well as exchanging knowledge with other developers on a wide range of programming languages.
They have Whatsapp, Instagram and they're Facebook.

I don't know what you mean with "what they actually do". Most people on earth spend most of their internet time inside their business already. I bet they're doing a good work.
Are we supposed to think this is too much HTML for one ad? Because I don't think it is.

A lot of it is URLs, and of course you have to have full URLs on an ad, you can't use relative.

As for the number of elements, there's quite a few divs but there's also more elements to an ad than people realize due to the built in reporting interface.

Sure a simple banner ad might be able to get away with only two HTML elements (an anchor tag and an image tag), but that image will end up being a lot more data than a text ad with as many elements as this one.
I'm aware of the (many) standards. UPC codes are not unique and that is more what I was getting at.. it's all basically just made up with seemingly no governing body.
Whether Bill Gates is a good or bad person is only a relevant question to himself and maybe some close acquaintances.

For the rest of us, the relevant point is predicting their behavior, and in that context, the phrase certainly applies. As long as he's CEO and the largest shareholder, Facebook's actions are Zuckerberg's decision and responsibility.
Please don't call names or be rude. If you know more than others, a good way to comment here is to teach some of what you know. If you don't want to do that, posting nothing is also an option.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12517875 and marked it off-topic.
strange, I'm watching from Germany and it's streaming just fine
Oddly the author leaves out any mention of possibilities along these lines.
Why IoT to Build Next Generation of Real Estate?
The real estate industry has traditionally being driven by location but the next era of real estate will be driven by information. Gartner, Inc. has projected
Right, the historical anomaly of Japan and Nazi Germany was they tried to kill everybody and take all of their land well after that kind of thing had passed out of style.
Redis
Postgres
Nginx
Llvm+clang

They are a joy to read
A shortcut to dial a number from within an org mode phonebook would be perfect :)
Both Assembler and Haskell target native code - what you can do with one you can achieve, perhaps more clumsily, in the other. The difference between the two ultimately comes down to syntax.
Understand your frustration, it's cutting in and out here in Michigan. Hope they investigate another vendor for next year.
> If they viewed people as just interchangeable culturally, why even care about their falling demographics? Other Asian and Africans countries make up for them.

Because they need young, employed people locally to provide services to all the retirees.
The first example is fine, if you're only setting one property then doing it in a single line isn't a big deal.

Your second CSS example is no bueno. Don't put multiple properties on a single line. It might make sense to you to put display and margin and padding on a single line but it might not make sense to me. These should all be on separate lines, it's not worth "saving lines" to make your CSS harder to parse for someone who doesn't already know that you like to group X, Y and Z properties.
I'm not sure exactly where this subthread went off the rails, but the petty flamewar you two turned it into is definitely below the level of discourse we want here.

Political, ideological, and/or national arguments are problematic on HN to begin with, but turning them into angry battles or personal spats is right out.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12515517 and marked it off-topic.
You do not need to flash anything. It's already available on Android phones even without root. I use it on unrooted Nexus 6p.

Google "Termux emacs".
The problem with completely anonymous encrypted "speech"(assuming speech enables transactions) is it comes with some nasty side effects. Murder for hire, child porn, terrorism recruitment among others. Does any government have it right absolutely not.

But, to me those are the types of battles you would need to be willing to die for as well as your sons and daughters because your enemies are.
Standalone browsers make a lot of special efforts to isolate pages from one another. Does embedding have the same guarantees?
It's streamed through CloudFront, which has servers in Australia so I hoped it would work well. Could you traceroute to cdn.startupschool.org and email me the results at tlb@ycombinator.com?
I'm pretty skeptical of the notion that iOS could replace macOS any time soon. Here's an experiment if you don't believe me: grab a mac, run the iOS emulator on it full-screen and try to do all your normal tasks in the emulator, without jumping out to the desktop. Let me know how that feels after a few hours.

You could argue that with some engineering time they can add some affordances to the iOS interface to make it more pleasant on desktop. Sure. But every app is also going to need to adapt for this -- they need to drag along the entire ecosystem. Honestly it would be way easier to make macOS run on ARM than it would be to make iOS run on desktop. They already did this whole processor shift thing once and it worked out just fine. Just package things in universal binaries and emulate the old CPU for legacy software. Not to mention with something like LLVM it's not crazy to imagine distributing applications in a near-native bytecode that gets JIT'd to the target machine.

I know microsoft has gotten pretty close to accomplishing the entire one-os-for-everything model, but look how much time and money it's taken them, and the amount of good will they burned through getting there.
You can signal "I don't care" by pressing the Next Question button without selecting an answer. Not obvious though.
Here's an article by David Silver on the subject:

https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/how-to-land-an-autonomo...

The author is also involved in Udacity's new self-driving car nano degree:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12521832
New regulation could affect Bitcoin companies in New York
Startup School notes on GitHub
I do okay. What helps most is I live in an area with a low cost of living, and my house is paid off.
You Write Your Own Bio
I have always wondered why more people in NYC dont start with food trucks. That would be the most "antifragile" approach to starting a restaurant --

if the food isnt working, change it, if the location isnt working, drive somewhere else

you could approach the restaurant game like you are a/b testing a sign up page until you got it right, then nail down a location etc.

disclaimer: I have never worked in the food industry
Me too! I read the title, and thought something like "rich people food with lots of salt/sodium is vanishing from the IR". Made no sense. Understood only in the second paragraph :)
As long as I am sure that I am not the product and the non-profit manages to overcome the network effect.

Bonus points for using or interfacing to standards like e-mail, RSS, IRC and the like. Additionally if most of the infrastructure is peer-to-peer. For example a social network based on WebRTC. This way a lot of centralized infrastructure goes away.
I'm pretty sure a lot of people feel they way you do.
Hey guys, I'm here and taking notes -- I've put some from the morning talks onto GitHub; please PR if you have any improvements or more details! Let's make the best notes ever :)

https://github.com/charlesfeng/startup-school-notes/tree/mas...
Making a diy router is a fun project if you're interested in the nitty gritty details of things like firewall rulesets and dns resolving. And in the end you're left with a powerful and flexible router.
Francesc Campoy covers nil across all language types in Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynoY2xz-F8s
In the end, you are programming a computer.
Is it? Please explain.

And while you're at it, could you also explain why a lawyer, who rose to prominence as Bill Clinton's defense attorney, was the one choosing networking experts for a nuclear proliferation committee?
Using the right tool for the job
Hello everyone! Former YC founder here (S11) who now works at Udacity on this team. I'd love to answer any questions on this project or our autonomous vehicles curriculum, and welcome you to our enthusiasts Slack team (http://nd013.udacity.com).
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7.4% of the worldwide computer market is hardly rounding error. Lenovo/HP/Dell put together account for a hair over 50% of the market, although it wouldn't surprise me if the total profits from Apple's 7.4% were greater than the total profits from the top three's 50% due to significantly higher margins.

By comparison, that's roughly equivalent to Honda's market share in the automotive industry, and I don't think anyone would dismiss Honda's sales as being a rounding error.

Other than that, I agree, they are clearly not the sort of company that would be interested in selling chips to other vendors, at least based on their history up to this point. If there were to start selling CPUs to others, it would not be playing to their strengths and would be a huge departure for them as a company.
Responding to your side note: while home kitchen prep is illegal, there are plenty of options for commercial kitchen prep off-premises. A successful cafe in my city started by baking in a church's commercial kitchen, for example. Another is a food truck that also gets some time in another restaurant's kitchen.
As opposed to Europe's solution, where they allow unrestricted immigration from volatile areas?
What are some good resources to understand costs of setting up a restaurant in bay area? I know the general concepts involved, but its hard to get specific info like labour rates, rents etc
"In fact, the only machine learning program in the world, according to Thrun, is at Carnegie Mellon, which still isn’t churning out talent fast enough to meet the industry’s demand"

While there is a separate department for ML at CMU, many schools have machine learning and/or robotics departments. Suggesting it's the only place to become educated in this stuff is simply false.
I bit odd not to ask for WHAT I care a lot. E.g. security, updates, age of packages, support, etc.
Hey guys, I'm here and taking notes -- I've put some from the morning talks onto GitHub; please PR if you have any improvements or more details! Let's make the best notes ever :)
They don't. They get paid to push a policy, the speech is just a legal way to compensate them.
It directed me to the distro I switched to two days ago. Good job.

Well, I switched the desktop environment from Unity to Mate, because my laptop can now be considered old.
Have you seen the programming challenge that comma has on its homepage?