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Ask HN: Feasibility of a Single-Payer-Like Plan Where Hospitals Are the Insurer
LTDR; Is a single payer ran privately possible where private non-profit handles all billing/pharmacy/network management, and hospital that patient 'belongs to' gets bulk of money to divy to primary care physician and others who provide services to the patient. Completely cutting out insurance companies, sales agents, etc from the process?

I read today about Direct primary care - no insurance model, and thought it could be better...source : http://www.businessinsider.com/direct-primary-care-a-no-insurance-healthcare-model-2017-3?r=US&IR=T

I'd like insight on if the community here thinks it's possible, and if anyone wants to help get it started?

Hospitals become the insurance provider and receive bulk of money. 85%.

Patients would pay on a sliding scale based on income something like 4% if < 4k/monthly income, 6% if > to start.

Of that money the hospital gets 85%, the patient can choose ANY doctor in the system. The hospital will pay said Doctor a % monthly, there are no copays, hospital pays other secondary medical like OB/GYN as needed.

Prescriptions would be negotiated at bulk rates and we'd handle the pharmacy/mail order at cost plus s/h fees.

If someone gets sick out of network or traveling - their host hospital pays for it.

To get an idea of the financials on this though...

University of utah for example saw 22k patients in a year. If we took an average of 200/month (meaning they earn about 5k/monthly) that would be 2,860,000 monthly insurance revenue for the hospital. We would handle all billing, so they could downsize all their 'billing' related staff which could save millions. This doesn't include health customers who don't need to visit hospital at all or at most once or twice a year for minor things like vaccines.

https://www.ahd.com/states/hospital_UT.html shows U of U hospital earning 2.9 million which seems low, not sure if that's per month or year as the page is a little vague on what that constitutes.
How good are those cameras, though? I've crossed from Marin at least 8 times now, each time with the "cash taker" lanes having no staff. I assumed it would be like in Houston, where you just get billed via mail, or can call and pay. Nobody I've called is aware of me owing anything on my plate, though, and I've never got anything in the mail.

Maybe I did my plates wrong... I also never received the ticket the angry SFO cop promised I would get for not picking up my friend fast enough.
Does this mean the new React fiber which is written in flowtype could be compiled to OCaml? Could be useful for a native React Reason.
BTW, I tried VisualD, and it seems that its code completion support is rudimentary. I could get it to complete functions sometimes, and I couldn't get it to complete members at all. Obviously, no refactoring either. It's unfortunate, but that would be a blocker for me.
Also works very well as a 3D printer enclosure

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1843235
If you have a free plan at all, then the only reason TLS should not be a paid feature would be if you intentionally want to position the free plan as "don't take this seriously because you can't build anything production-quality on it".
Reddit introduces new Alpha features; profile posts and followers
... then wait until you have more time? Git is confusing and definitely takes longer than 15 minutes to learn to any useful degree.
After writing a lot of long swagger specs I tried RAML which although not that widely supported feels much more pleasant to write. Any toughts?
I really like this tutorial format. Little slow after typing some commands but the layout and instant feedback is really nice. Super easy to understand and follow.
> In the UK, Government Digital Service already has a strict policy that software it writes should be open.

And they pay contractors 1000 a day for that.

Why the hell would anyone want to work for open source projects that can't pay for their housing and food.
Layne Norton is smart and thoughtful. There are others as well. Basically I learned a million time more from these guys than I ever learned in all the yoga classes I ever took.
There are some more gotchas.

The finite state automata can potentially be exponential in the size of the regular expression you feed it. (Its states are set of states in the NFA.) Subexpression matching is more complex to implement and can make that exponential superexponential. (You have to go from sets of states to ordered sets of states.)

And these catastrophic expressions get much easier when you add in lookaheads, look behinds, and so on.
To be fair, they're hit or miss. Due to circumstances I've used three extensively. The asus t100 and chi t300, which were both excellent in their price segment, and the lenovo miix 310, which was terrible (but that mostly seems to be due to w10 which took a vehement dislike to the 32 gb emmc storage).

I've also used ipads extensively and can say that windows devices are not ipad replacements or vice versa. An ipad can't do what a windows tablet can, but the reverse is equally true. Windows doesn't have the rich touch-friendly app ecosystem of iOS. I use both types of devices for the things they're good at, but neither can replace the other.
The disturbing secret history of the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner
Nice to see FB investing so much in OCaml, hope it is not just a phase like how they did with D

And I sure hope Parallel OCaml gets done

I believe I saw a video for Yaron Minsky (jane street, real world ocaml), where he said that two areas where ocaml can improve is parallelism and having a nice GUI Library
Quick Thoughts on Today's New Apple Stuff
2030: Government breaks up Amazon into smaller companies.
Eh, I want my friends to be there. The damn network effect.

I would soften the radical emphasis on the camera. In the times of MSN Messenger and while Gmail chat was an actual thing, we used to really use status lines to communicate mood and such. What sucks about Facebook and Twitter is that you can't use it for that kind of throwaway social-being-together-online. Instead, it's always about engineering an identity.

I'd love to have something like a 12 hours-lived feed where I didn't have to worry that me-in-the-very-near-future doesn't feel well represented by that.
Sounds like it would depend heavily on what exactly the "some" and "most" are and how extreme the disempowerment is, and on how many people do things for reasons other than profit.

So no, not all that simple.
Travels with Alexa
I totally agree. Git is definitely a visual activity (as admitted by the existence of git tree). Kind of like how most sane people don't use text-based file browsers.

Actually I don't think SourceTree goes far enough. For example why can't I drag and drop branch labels onto commits to move them?
"Now that you mention it, I'm not sure I want to employ someone who uses their creative energy for anything except the company's business."

Wow. That statement alone tells you everything you need to know about that person and what kind of manager they are. The fact that it was the founder is just...wow. Since it was the founder, if I was in your shoes I would have asked this fool if they took that same approach when they ever worked for someone else - that they never did a single thing that was creative outside of work. Yeah, we know the answer.

Also - "We'd never exercise that right. But we reserve the right." Don't believe that for a minute. My father once worked for a fortune 500 financial company (but he was an IT person) and his hobby was music. He self-produced an album. A little while later they let a bunch of people go who were all 40+. He declined their package so that he could sue them for what was clearly age discrimination. That company then tried to claim that everything he did in his free time was owned by the company and they counter-sued him for royalties related to album sales and public performances. Keep in mind his contract did not include any of the draconian language like what you turned down. The only thing it said was that he was an "on-call" employee who needed to make sure he was available on short notice for systems-related emergencies. So they used that to say that because he was "on-call" they therefore owned every single second of his existence.

You can't make this shit up.
What's the advantage of OpenAPI over json hyperschema?
> Seriously, can we stop fetishising old approaches and papers?

The entire existence of Go is predicated on fetishizing old approaches, unfortunately.
>Not the UK: In which probably 50% of the population feel the government doesn't represent them.

When you have a situation like that, it seems like it's time to break up the country into smaller units so that you don't have a half-and-half divide, because then you'll never get to a stable state where a large enough majority of the population accepts the government (because they're constantly fighting the other half in a tug-of-war and the majority keeps flipping back and forth).

According to the Brexit results, Scotland strongly favored "remain", and so did Northern Ireland. London did too. So obviously, Scotland should simply secede from the UK, and it can rejoin the EU as a separate nation. It's certainly large enough to be an independent nation on its own. Northern Ireland can too, or better yet it can rejoin regular Ireland which is already an EU member.

I do wonder, however, what would happen if they did another Brexit vote just to see if many people have changed their minds.
>why? how is someone who has been vetted by the IC as a trustworthy keeper of their secrets become less trustworthy?

once any single person enters the IC, they have lost trust of anyone outside of the IC... simple - and answers your other question as well...
Yeah, the added gray area here is a little uncomfortable. I have never seen a startup actually define what business hours are. What if you work late 2 nights a week, and then the third night on a side project. Could that be interpreted as business hours? Do business hours vary by individual?
>As the other reply said...non-working shortcuts and also no mouse cursor. You have to continually lift your hand to the screen to swipe or press, or click/double click the home button (hopefully you have the iPad positioned securely or you'll have another frustration on your hands).

Well, I don't normally use the mouse when I'm writing a document. I even prefer full screen, full focus mode in writing apps like iA Writer and Ulysses (also on the Mac).

That said, most shortcuts one would use for writing work just fine (select all, copy, paste, etc). And more from what I see here: http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/every-ipad-keyboard-shortc...
im glad you failed.
This is really cool. How does the mapping work?
Reddit's new post-to-profile experience
Both absolutely would be copyright violations ("pirating the book"), but what Google is doing (until it recieves a proper takedown notice, and even after that assuming it properly complies) is within the DMCA safe harbor. Amazon's action has no comparable safe harbor, because digital hosting of user-submitted content is protected, but hardcopy printing and distribution is not.
I don't think they're advertising complete mastery, here – just showing how the barrier to entry isn't high for basic use.

There's "tutorial" in the title tag and "try" in the URL; cut them some slack.
>why? how is someone who has been vetted by the IC as a trustworthy keeper of their secrets become less trustworthy?

Because their loyalties may lie with their former employer. National security matters tend to take priority over private sector loyalty for many people, and I'd imagine especially so for former IC types since they tend to be extremely patriotic. I mean that as a compliment, not an insult.

>what kind of "relationships" are you talking about here?

Personal relationships. Say Joe retires for private sector work. He's good friends with Bill, who's a case officer. Later when some national security matter comes down the pipe requiring access at Company Y, Bill knows Joe who works there. Seeing that Bill and Joe have been through some shit together, that relationship is probably going to supersede loyalty to any private sector employer when there are underlying national security motivations involved.

It's not tinfoil hat conspiracy allegations, just basic human dynamics.
It's the go to of the (small-business) entrepreneurs all over the web (TheFastlane, /r/entrepreneur, etc.).

I'm fairly certain it started around 4 years ago with Matt Clark's "Amazon Selling Machine." A friend who paid the $1000 let me watch the course and it was a pretty simple (and old) tactic.

Buy wholesale and sell at markup. Except this time you would have it under your own "private label" (i.e a Chinese factory would slap your logo on a generic and sell it to you).

Apparently he made a killing doing the same thing with silicone spatulas.
they photoscan your license plate regardless.

i have one fastrak box and 4 vehicles. just registered all of them online, now i no longer need the box. this way they're also catching toll offenders.

golden gate bridge is fully automated now, scans every vehicle, no opt out lane.
This comment nails the economic part of it. Surprising, for HN.
Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)
It's not possible to work ANYWHERE without using proprietary software, running on patended hardware, coming partially from China.
Accusations of Research Fraud Roil a Tight-Knit Community of Ecologists
Dutch national flag problem – Sort an array containing 0’s, 1’s and 2’s
To be fair, there are definitely occasional bugs that require OS patches.
These tables are editorialized by the Particle Data Group, they summarize and distill the empirical evidence of thousands of high-energy physics experiments. Not every experiment is replicated, but some are, hence the different ratings of how sure the editors are the particles exist.

From their website:

"In the 2014 Review, the listings include 3,283 new measurements from 899 papers, in addition to 32,000 measurements from 9,000 papers that appeared in earlier editions. Evaluations of these properties are abstracted in summary tables."

http://pdg.lbl.gov/2016/html/what_is_pdg.html
So, since you care, doing research to get the right one doesn't seem unreasonable at all to me.

I put in a solid hour of research at least before buying a new pair of boots. It took me many hours over many days to choose a camera. Took me weeks to build my PC. Each of those products I put in an amount of research that's at least somehow correlated with the price I paid for them (boots -> 100$ -> camera 600$ -> PC $1300)
A girl who codes: Why that matters
they have 100% success rate with my vehicles, one of them a motorcycle with very dirty plates.
>> "Why would the ex-CIA guy hurt his current employer to help his former?"

Once you're a made man in an intelligence service, you're in for life, regardless of whether or not your name appears on the official payroll.
Mortgage is Debt
When I buy phone chargers from Amazon I intentionally avoid the manufacturer branded ones because I know it's going to be fake. I usually choose a well known 3rd party brand with good reviews.
The "digital version", provided takedown provisions are observed, is protected by the DMCA safe harbor.
There's nothing wrong with just "tunneling" SOAP or anything else over HTTP POST. Tons of APIs do this and work just fine.

Now maybe it's easier on clients when you can just curl -XDELETE something but I'm not sure it's that big of a difference in the end. Especially if you have auto-gen'd client code.
I'd like to know what a malformed command is. If the program accepts it, it accepts it. This sounds like more explicit disclosure of a designed feature (admin via telnet).
Yes, its those Americans ripping off books and printing them for near free, ruining English artists and writers. Remember the HMS Pinafore- what a royalty massacre, by those lawless Bösentals!

There is only one way, to bring those evil-doers back to the light of justice. Tax them for whatever they stole! Oh, sorry, wrong century, wrong villain!
What a great comment. There aren't many people with your history posting on forums (before Windows...WOW!). Thank you for sharing your history and wisdom.
How does the legal side of this work? Do these houses meet the requirements of major construction codes, or are they somehow exempt? Also, aren't there typically restrictions on where units like this can be deployed? There have been all sorts of fights about granny-flats over the years.
Well, at least NT has no problem with 2038 ;-)
Sweet Compounding
>I don't think anyone's saying that the solution to poverty is for landlords et al to start losing money.

And I'm not claiming anyone is saying that or pushing it as a realistic policy. Instead, I'm asking readers to think about it as a thought experiment to test the economic validity of what the journalist is saying.

>It doesn't posit a specific solution

Can you explain from a logical standpoint why taking the opposite of what the journalist said is not an _implied_ solution that's worth testing?
First of all, it's a ".org" domain. And second, how are random domains from Libya any more dangerous than random domains from everywhere else?
Oh neat, true. I still wish I could find a source on it :/
>But, of course, I must be a racist for preferring European culture over throwing gays off buildings, women being unable to drive or show their faces, etc. etc.

Racist is exactly what that is. That's not who Syrian refugees are, or who muslims are. This is who they are: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/female-soldier-dubbe...

Muslims are people, not culture-destroying machines. Bowing to them and throwing away a much larger group of people is wrong WHOEVER they are. It's wrong to destroy tradition, its wrong to allow vigilantes, and its wrong to turn away refugees. You're defining a huge group of people by the worst of them. If you're calling for a halt or reduction to immigration, you're denying the rest of them even a chance. That is certainly racist.

But... shops carrying halal/kosher food? Living with different cultures and religions? There's nothing wrong with that. The author is unconvincing.

>Another example is how migrants from Islamic countries can carry out terrorist attacks and completely change European and American culture for the worse. The loss of American travel culture post 9/11 is tragic, and I can't think of a better word to describe it than "erasure".

That is an alarming distortion of facts. Instability in the middle east is not the same as muslim immigration into the US. The attacks were carried out by men on visas, not immigrants. Immigration is never easier than getting a visa, and halting immigration doesn't make it harder to attack a country.

>Cultural erasure doesn't take a huge influx of people; it just takes a small population with aggressively viral cultural memes and a host culture with insufficient memetic defenses.

Tripe. The existence of other cultures does not destroy culture. This assertion is insane. When a store chooses to carry kosher meat, they make that choice. When a mexican store opens, they buy the land and their customers choose to shop there.

>Swedish officials removed traditional Christmas displays from Muslim areas, and then blamed the structural integrity of lamp posts (yes, really) when asked why.

Do you not see how the middle ground is disireable...? Muslims should not force Swedes to wear hijabs, but muslims in sweden should at least be free enough to choose to wear one. Likewise they cannot force the government to act secularly, but maybe muslim-majority areas also shouldn't be forcibly decorated for christmas. It's a small kindness, and not an extreme one. Do you get mad if your jewish neighbors don't put up stockings?

>Heavily Muslim neighborhoods in the U.K. have volunteer "sharia police" that harass women for dressing "immodestly".

Had. From 2013-2014. Those men were arrested and imprisoned. The Muslim community condemned them as "utterly unacceptable". "Christian patrol"s sprang up in response and are just as morally disgusting. You're taking an incident that everybody hated and blaming it on some mysterious them. This is the exact propaganda technique used by the KKK and pretty much every racist hate group. In short- you're being racist as fuck.
Thanks! In the configuration of a new PostgresAdapter, you can define the Realm schema, which can be a subset of the tables/columns in Postgres. For example the demo app we built works with a Postgres database with 15 tables, but the adapter only syncs the 2 tables needed by the app into Realm Schemas. See more here: https://github.com/realm-demos/realm-dvdrental
i'm exactly the same way. i can do the command line but i feel that in this case the gui provides way more information than a command line could.

i wanted to like GitHub for Windows but the "sync" button is too abstracted to be useful for anything but personal "dropbox" style repo use
I see "wireless", but not "WiFi" or "802.11*" in the PDF.

For what it's worth, devices I work on have a few wireless interfaces while guaranteeing 20-year life time: one interface is long-range (on the order of 10km), two are short range (on the order of a few mm). There is no way we can get to 20-year life time with doing WiFi (maintaining current battery size/capacity) for long'ish range and maybe not even BT for shorter range.
yes, those are possible outcomes and the cost benefit from every single one of my side projects is so much greater

and I do factor in the jurisdiction in my own personal assessments and everyone else should too

there are many circumstances where the consequences are completely opposite of what the contract says (or how their employer's actually operate, care about, or will ever find out about) and people's behavior will conform to those consequences
Imgur is another example that gives users a lot of content without a login. I've been turned off by Pinterest because when I hit it through a Google search, it wants me to login. Instant back button.

This is probably too generic a question. Depends on domain and competitors. If you could create a LinkedIn competitor that did not force you to create and account, I would use that. But if you can get that much content, it probably doesn't matter whether you force people to login or not.
So I've started using this, and it's really nice for getting into a flow of knocking out tasks. It's kinda like NADD candy or something.
So, my problem with this: I can't usually get things delivered in the same day I want them, and sometimes even the next day. There's no slot available and so on.

I don't really think out what I need days in advance. I'm like, "oh, I'm out of... whatever, I'll go to ShopRite today."
With the advent of machines beating poker players, do you see pro poker players rethinking their careers?
I don't think about "less code" when I'm writing code. You write something (ideally) once, and you read it many times. It's very inefficient to optimize for code-writing when the most expensive activities are learning, re-learning, and maintaining code. If your code is twice as long but easier to understand, you should just make it twice as long.

As far as more code reuse, the tools I mentioned don't affect that. A good rule of thumb is not to write the same code twice. If you write it a third time, move it into a reusable function. I actually rarely write the same code even twice.

So yes, most of the savings come from 1) not having to debug and 2) not doing maintenance until I want the code's behavior to change. With great static analysis and a type system, you might spend 5x more time writing before you run your code the first time, but it always just works when you do run it the first time. It's amazing.

This is a famous talk by Rich Hickey that will discuss some of these issues much better than I can:

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

(Video on the left)
And the smell. I can identify my No Starch books by scent.
Can we please stop making the fifth element into a reality?

Humans need space.