skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If that's true, why does any single doctor in the entire country take Medicare patients then?

Well, independent private practices have been dying out for precisely this reason, and outside of Critical Access regions (which have a higher fee structure), many don't anymore. Some view it as an act of charity (the way lawyers might take on pro bono cases), but the laws regarding insurance segregation have gotten stricter and the logistics of it have become so burdensome that many just view Medicare as too much of a liability. It's one of the reasons Medicare patients have such horrific wait times to see doctors, particularly specialists.

Hospitals take Medicare because many of them are legally required to. If they're part of larger hospital systems, they can also play interesting tricks to manage the respective patient populations without explicitly discriminating based on insurance provider, which has been another major force behind the massive consolidation of hospital systems that we've seen over the last decade.

The other major force, incidentally, is that many of them have been going bankrupt, and are being bought out either by other hospital groups or by insurance companies.
Do Danes not create "startups" or not create "small businesses"? I keep on referring to Japan, but there's a deserved reputation of it being impossible to create a tech startup there.

But that doesn't mean there's no entrepreneurs, they're just called small businesses and are running grocery stores, graphic design agencies, anime studios, etc.

What lets you create a "startup" is VC and banks with huge appetites for risk and allowing your business to fail.
I guess we'll agree to disagree then. I would argue paying tens of thousands of dollars for a cure is a pretty good deal considering the alternatives.

And also, the cost of those HCV therapies is actually cheaper in the US than in the EU.[1]

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2015/12/04/for-he...
Submarine power cables use HVDC rather than AC because the capacitance of the water makes the reactive losses of AC transmission a lot higher in that environment. This doesn't affect HVDC.

They're also talking about connecting to multiple separate national grids, which is of course easier to do with HVDC.
Knowing the NSA got to the SIM cards manufacturer master keys, I wouldn't be surprised if they had Intel's key to forge microcode updates...
We don't know what the effect would be since we've never had a single payer system. In addition, Europe has a number of other labor laws that do not exist in the U.S. as well as other corporate regulations so there is no apples-to-apples comparison.

So I agree that adding single payer or changing the healthcare system to have more government involvement probably won't have much effect, but I don't agree that the single-payer + welfare system is the reason why they have different levels of startups in Denmark.
Breaking an ankle is not a "decision". Tuberculosis is not a "decision". Cancer is not a "decision". Alzheimer's is not a "decision". "Getting old" is not a "decision".
Already been done. Along with alum, tons of it used in India for decades to purify water. Various case studies that list benefits of it.
Also independent deployment.
Exactly.

Basic XHR upgrade of forms can give some nice benefits, but basic form operations work very well and are ridiculously easy to support/debug.
Beautiful document. Clearly written and clearly drawn.
> social security has a $2.8 trillion trust fund.

That trust fund is in form of IOUs from the general fund of the Federal government - where do you think the money to pay back those IOUs will come from?
Ditto on not being able to rely on some mechanical turk services - although the quality of answers/labels you get back inevitably depends on how well you have laid out the task at hand, we have additionally witnessed poor quality output that was outright rogue - tasks being completed in sub seconds or same answers given by a user no matter the question - both pointing to tasks being completed by bots not humans.

In fact we had resolved to building a turker bot detector and started rejecting tasks completed in suspicious ways. Only once we have built ourselves a trusted turkers population did we start to get quality data back. I suspect most people don't bother to go back and reject poor quality answers and that is why the bots survive.
I wish comments were scored in a way that was weighted by the degree of bravery it took to write them.

What a shame that most of the top comments here are boring, stand-up-for-the-vulnerable types agreed with by the majority— "women face difficulties in tech, and we should help them whenever we can"—while the downvoted posts are the ones trying (not necessarily successfully) to arrive at politically incorrect truths.
As soon as Google stops providing value to publishers, they lose their power in the industry. For now, we work with what we have.
If you let GOOGLE control the browser, OS, search engine, keyboard, maps, and user created video content, what could possibly go wrong?
Very few of their future flights will be expendable (in fact, the Echostar-23 launch coming up next will likely be one of the last).

The Block 5 upgrade will bring the performance of Falcon 9 (in a recoverable configuration) up to the point where flights like Echostar will be able to make downrange barge landings. Heavier payloads (which are _very_ rare nowadays) will fly on Falcon Heavy.

Polar orbits are almost always low-earth orbits, and therefore are much easier to recover. I would be very surprised if they ever flew an expendable launch out of Vandy in the future.
Once you cutout the obvious high calorie culprits like sugar, 400 calories is a pretty decent sized, healthy meal. Cutting out a meal a day is really hard to do. Hunger sucks, and had a lot of negative impacts on the rest of your day.
Wondering what the WebRTC UDP guts are built on, if it is a new implementation or built on something existing.

Big HN discussion on the rough edges of this tech last week: A solution for enabling UDP in the web https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741155
You don't have to work as hard to break it down?
Wouldn't that be nice. But Google don't control how relevant or fast something is, they can only decide how to rank them.
The CIA's legitimacy was undermined decades ago. Just look at their history of overthrowing democracies, or what happened in, say, Iran.

They do have a category on Russia, though:
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Russia

IIRC, they don't have any staff fluent in Russian, though, and they pointed to other whistle-blowing operations as more able to operate there.

Russia doesn't need to collude with them, nor does any other party. They just need to leak to them. If you read what Assange wrote about how wikileaks works to raise the cost of conspiracies, you'll see that it actually doesn't matter who is using them, only whether or not the material is true.
Ditto, are there any providers you are allowed to mention that you have had good experience with?
You'll find most mouse users have off center keyboards. Also, the keyboard can be center, you need only look slightly right.
Invoking Mr Burns isn't necessary; the people screaming "bird murderers!" are often members of the NIMBY set.
> Their values are in the right place

I don't believe so. Their values are "Hey, let's promote a system of motivations that we think is objectively better rather than the reality we are currently in, that hasn't changed much in the past 2000 years."

Sure, if you can change human nature or the prisoner's dilemna, have at. Otherwise, writing articles like this might as well just end with "and they lived happily ever after".
I don't see anything in the article mentioning a huge factor in Puerto Rico's poverty, the Jones Act.

It requires all goods that Puerto Rico buys be transported on an American made ship(as in built in an American shipyard), staffed with an American crew, jacking up prices.

It causes a crazy situtation where Puerto Rican company will ship their goods to the mainland, and THEN ship them back to the island, so that Puerto Ricans can buy them.

Puerto Ricans don't have decent representation in the national government, so they have no hope of getting it repealed.

Shipping companies LOVE the Jones act, Puerto Ricans hate it
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-shippers-push-back-in-ba...
"The report found that the price of imports from U.S. states was at least double that in neighboring islands like the U.S. Virgin Island, which is not covered by the act."

http://www.fundacionlibertadpr.org/single-post/2016/09/14/Th...

Richard Wolff interviews Professor Ian Seda of John Jay College on the legacy of colonialism and the Jones Act in Puerto Rico:
http://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_puerto_rico_s_crisis_is_s...
The same people who call attention to gender diversity also speak out for racial diversity. This particular piece focuses on gender because of today's being International Women's Day.

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-cant-silicon-...

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/20/9179853/tech-diversity-sco...

https://medium.com/tech-diversity-files/thought-on-diversity...
Is qualia meaningless to you because you are a stubborn follower of Daniel Dennett, or are you open to being convinced that the word refers to something?
They're a ways from being Delta. One of the things that came out recently regarding crewed launches is Merlin turbines have been developing cracks under test. They're probably only good for a handful of flights.

Musk claims that's all going to be fixed in the next version. We'll see.
I don't think this list comes anywhere close to having a baby. None of the items have a 100% probability of causing irreversible life choices. For example, the choice of performing a crime may not end up in conviction, the choice of drunk driving may not end up in a crash, one may not get HIV even after having unprotected sex, one may be able to repay the student loan even after choosing an unoptimal field, etc.

But having a baby has a 100% probability of altering one's schedule for the rest of the life!
Yes, average life expectancy was dramatically lower than now but that's because of childhood diseases. Generally, if you made it to your 20s you'd make it to your 60's. But boy did all those children dying wreck the average life expectancy calculation!
> But the worst is that it applies to commercial property as well.

ding. Got it in one.

Normal residential properties transact roughly every 10-15 years with 40-50 years being on the way outside. So, most residential properties aren't too far behind their real value in taxes.

Commercial properties never transact; they just add more subleases. We had one property we rented which had 23 layers of sublease to avoid Prop 13.
It's not really an opposing thesis.

The moral of the story is that his opponent became married to the use of the abacus and convinced of its superiority and that led to an overreliance on it and inflexible thinking.

The thesis of the TFA is that the abacus can be a great tool for teaching arithmetic and number sense. It doesn't argue that it's the only thing you'll ever need and you should use other tools.
I imagine one of the biggest challenges is removal of perchlorate salts from the regolith.
Papers that will actually make you a better programmer
Exactly. I'm sure there are professionals who buy Razr products for the performance and form factor but the target audience is going to view this as a 17 inch laptop with a 1080 that's way thinner and lighter than the competition. That said an equivalent MSI laptop is $1500 so they're certainly aiming upmarket.
Right. As I mentioned in my post, there is a concern that allowing otherwise would erode the public system. Perhaps it's justified; I don't know. Also, those who can afford it can travel to the US or elsewhere if they want to pay for services, which reduces the motivation to create a private alternative here, although it turns out in practice that happens rarely. This is a good overview, also covering the differences in wait times between the systems: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/fact-checking-tru...
apparently, the first leak represents less then one percent of what they have... so they probably didn't leak the most damaging stuff in the first leak.
He's an amazing writer. Here's one of his short stories: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/15/the-semplica-gi...
> 95% or whatever the claimed pay gap is

According to wikipedia, "the average female's unadjusted annual salary has been cited as being 78% of the average male salary", so you can save a lot.
Did you pay those 2x to 5x coders 2-5x more than the regular coder?
Yep, in an ideal world there would be two lines of products - the "wait for the bus" jacket and the actual tough jacket. In the real world, this sometimes happens but after a while it's seen as a cost center and killed, like you say.

One example of this (that hasn't been killed yet) is LL Bean's Katahdin Iron Works stuff. It's excellent quality for the money and has held up unlike any other clothing I've bought recently. That's not to say their regular stuff is lower quality, however.

Western Mountaineering has pretty good quality stuff from what I've heard. Personally, my favorite piece of outerwear is a vest I got in Ukraine - handmade, for a couple bucks. Extremely warm, and no fancy micromaterials but it works and it works well. I'm wondering what other little gems of high-quality clothing at a low cost are out there - I imagine sherpas would know.
This is a duplicate of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13717250
800 Petabyte Hard Disks for sale?
Ah darn, for some reason I thought there was a practical preimage attack on MD5. I must have been thinking of CRC32 (which is just useless for this sort of thing.) My mistake.
This is a side point, but the "knee damage" myth needs to be dispelled. The evidence does not support it and may even point the other way.
You can fix that, you know.
>The same people who call attention to gender diversity also speak out for racial diversity

Why don't I ever see it being discussed on HN?
I'm not sure I get the imagery here, the article makes it sound like she's supposed to represent women in leadership roles in Wall Street, so shouldn't she alongside the bull not blocking it's path? That seems to convey a counter productive image of women standing in the way (and... pouting?).

Am I missing something here?
Thanks, very helpful to know. Most of my family is in Ohio, and I'm a recent transplant to California.

This appears to be the updated version of AB 1672, which itself ended in 2013:

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...

I'm not remotely capable of parsing all the stuff in there, but it does make me wonder what happens when a State passes a bill to bring itself into compliance with a Federal law and then the Federal law is repealed. I assume it's not automatic that the State bill ceases to function.

Is this even more of an uncertainty-laden mess than I thought? Will dozens of states find that changes to the ACA is interacting in crazy ways with state laws? Somehow I am guessing that we won't find out until it happens.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/08/519273713/...
That's my bet also.
How Much Do Refugees Cost America
I have always wanted to understand the result in this paper, since it is one of the first major publications of the first Indian to win a Nobel prize in science. Can you point out to some more basic acoustics?

I've wondered about what similar results hold for Idakka [1], a drum played in Kerala, and the talking drums of Western Africa [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaozNblda54

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4oQJZ2TEVI
As someone who has developed for mobile web, it can be surprisingly hard to push back on bloat from marketing / seo / analytics teams. I hope this becomes a W3C standard so us developers can show them the finger the next time they want to bring mobile web to a crawl.
You might appreciate some Greek classics. I had the same epiphany while reading Aristophanes for the first time.
Cross-referencing a pair of HN discussions about writing:

How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743908 (Last week -- more about the tooling but some discussion of the writing process.)

How to Write a Novel https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12208269 (~8 months ago)
They did more than plan, I have a rack full of older Dell servers with AMD CPUs.
Interesting Theoretical CS videos
> However, this is rare, and it's likely that this will only happen a few more times at most

Especially once Falcon Heavy comes online.
If this is true, how would we incorporate this into eating habits for children from birth to death? How much of a public health campaign would be required?

I'm only skeptical because we just barely changed the "11 servings of bread" pyramid...so, who knows.
After 10 years, I'm stopping my work on sabre/dav
Precisely the question. Why indeed?

Would you be more likely to hire a man than a women for an engineering role? Take the harvard implicit gender bias test for one answer:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html
Why go through the complexity and expense of setting up a toll system when LA could simply raise gas taxes?
You're literally guessing the quantities of the ingredients of the sandwich. (and mixing measurements... grams AND ounces?)

How is that counting? That's my point.

You're getting a vague idea of what you're eating but it is in no way calorie counting.
Eddie Bauer used to make expedition clothing.

"In 1960, Eddie Bauer and William Niemi took on their sons, Eddie C. Bauer and William Niemi Jr. as partners in the company. Eddie Bauer went on to supply his equipment for the American K2 Himalayan Expedition and several journeys through Antarctica. In 1963, James W. Whittaker, the first American to climb Mount Everest, was wearing an Eddie Bauer parka. He wore Bauer's products during his whole expedition.[8]"

Wikipedia
thanks a lots. With the keyword HVDC I could find some interesting wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

(I always sought that the entire European grid was synchronous it looks like it's not the case.)
Practically speaking, honest question, how do we simulate lower gravity for extended periods other than orbit? Seems hard.
Honestly, a big reason for separate services is cultural. It tends to be easier to assign accountability and ownership when you are operating a service (monitoring, independent deployment, KPIs fall out more naturally). With a monolith you have to work really hard to prevent a diffusion of responsibility.

Yes, to some extent this means you are "shipping your org chart", but that's mostly inevitable at scale anyway.
Isn't the genre science fiction?
I don't think the title's quite accurate. It sounds like they had no trouble building a connectome for the chip, they just couldn't then reverse engineer the chip's functionality by applying standard neuroscience techniques to said connectome while it ran in a simulator.

It's basically saying that even IF we had a full connectome of the brain that we could run in a simulator (and presumably produce a simulated personality) that we'd be no closer to actually understanding how the damn thing works.
Are 14 and 21 the only “interesting” numbers?
OK, let's look at different sets of people.

My argument is that you cannot expect uniform distribution of career choices either by race or gender.

You can't expect exactly 13% of cops to be african american or exactly 50% of physicists to be female.

Let's look at hispanics and asians.

Asians outnumber hispanics in STEM 9:1

Hispanics outnumber asians in History 3:1

Don't have links to hard sources at hand since I'm on mobile, but even anecdotally I think almost anyone would agree that hispanics are outnumbered by asians in STEM.

Ethnic chinese are strong in STEM not just in US, but almost anywhere. You can take any country with a significant chinese diaspora and you'll see the results are about the same.

Can you make a compelling counterargument that hispanics are brought up in a way that specifically encourages them to learn History?
Uh, does it not seem logical that if there are fewer black/Hispanic minorities in tech, that there will be fewer blog posts from that perspective?

But just because you don't ever see it discussed on HN doesn't mean that it isn't. Try out the HN search engine:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=racism&sort=byPopularity&prefi...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=african%20american&sort=byPopu...

Here's a discussion last year on the YC blog post that was titled, "YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10228326
All of the choices you mention are considered as harmful by society; in contrast to having children which is considered good.
Mossberg: Tech’s ruling class casts a big shadow
And as a user: IDGAF what publishers want. Sorry, they had their chance and blew it. And this is the problem: Publishers increasingly are ignoring what their users want. Instead of providing quality products, they keep circling the drain to get the lowest-quality content. GLWT
Check your junk mail folder, that's where my confirmation email ended up.
New Book, Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists
I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA worked with Intel to design their microcode update mechanism (selecting algorithms with advisements against classified breaches; generating key material and sharing between themselves; etc.) That would serve the NSA's interests in both their SIGINT and COMSEC roles at once.
Yet, can't handle figure out a way to support remote employees.
shrug I wouldn't know, but as I understand it, people will sometimes spend a lot of money on hobbies. Also, I'd hope that most software developers don't need the best-of-the-best laptops to do their jobs -- perhaps this is targeted at video editors, or pro gamers?
Agencies reporting 911 outage for AT&T customers across US (AP)
Do the men employed as nurses make less money on average than their women colleagues?

No. Male nurses make way more than female nurses, on average. A big contributor to this is that male nurses are far more likely to be CRNAs than female nurses and CRNAs are the highest-paid nurse specialty (and requires a graduate degree).
Because the highly-entrenched members of this site have access to the downvote button.
Only six more months! As it has been for the last four years....
Identifying those points of stress is the first step to building a better launch system.
... thats my point.

This is a problem that Google created. If they would prioritize small, simple, fast sites, and rank them higher, people would make more sites like that. Google is the one pushing slow, bloated sites to the top of the list. Now they are coming in to "fix" the problem that they made.
This is why the estimates of total US government debt are in the ballpark of 50 trillion USD, instead of the official almost 20 trillion.

They're on the hook for all the unfunded liabilities like federal pensions, and are expected to take on bad state and municipality debt, much of which is also pensions.

Puerto Rico is the most recent example of this, and it is why - funny as it may be for other reasons - California will not secede.
I'm pretty sure you can't work from home at IBM anymore, which is a bummer in today's world.
Consider that nurses (both RNs and LPNs) have to have a certain number of Continuing Education credits[0] (which means not just learning something, but passing a test) every year in order to renew their license, without which they can't work as a nurse.

And yes, they are expected to pay for these courses out of their own pocket, as well as do this studying and test-taking on their own time, even if they have a full-time job as a nurse.

[0] eg. http://www.westernschools.com/