skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a past life, I worked in health insurance fraud detection.

Everybody should know, the health insurance system in the US is fundamentally broken and has been almost since its inception in the early 20th century. The lack of adequate consumer protection, transparency, health systems and appropriate government regulation, in addition to organizational oversight, has lead to a situation where we have poor systems that can easily be exploited. And they are exploited.

What the third party care outsourcing/billing company mentioned in the article (Emcare) was doing sounds like upcoding. They bill the highest cost service they legitimately can to maximize profit. In this case, as a third party billing organization, they both want to maximize the profit for their customer (the hospital system), but also for themselves, as they surely take a cut as a middle man.

Likely, they were operating within the gray area where illegal upcoding has to be proven in a court of law. It is an expensive process, that requires review and comparison of huge amounts of medical records with claims to determine whether the more expensive procedure billed was medically necessary/appropriate, or if it was egregious. That legal process does pan out sometimes in the end, but it can take years and just adds even more overhead.

Coding correctly, fairly and getting reimbursed correctly and fairly is incredibly complex. There are an enormous number of combinations of services (usually represented by codes called HCPCs and CPT codes) and diagnoses (ICD-10... which has 100,000s of codes), as well as all different regulations and scenarios for settings of care (inpatient, outpatient, doctor's office, etc.).

Props go to the hospital system for taking back their coding after they realized what the third party was doing, but the reality is, it was probably financially benefiting the hospital system too.

Every technology that I know of has been tried to address these issues, such as data mining, machine learning, rule-based expert systems, etc. and none of them has addressed the root cause, which is the basic system is fundamentally flawed.

All the politics you see about US healthcare in the news are, in a way, representative of the root problem - how big and complex the systems are now, how much money they represent, and how many interests are involved. We have a tangled web.

I don't know the solution (and many have been proposed).
> Anything that is serious enough for an ER visit probably distracts you from making good economic choices, plus it's likely impractical to change ER (plus you'll pay for that ambulance ride!)

there are all sorts of folks using ERs for non-emergency issues, simply because ERs are required to treat everyone.

both of my trips to the ER (subluxed knee; particulate matter lodged in my eye) would've been amenable to at least a few moments of financial consideration, had any information been available to me.
I feel like there must be something I'm missing here. Isn't providing health care the core purpose of a hospital? Why are they outsourcing that? Outsourcing might make sense for ancillary stuff (e.g. running the cafeteria), but I'm confused why they'd look to outsource their core job. And if the outsourcing company can do it so much more efficiently, why don't they just open their own hospitals and take all of the profit?
You wouldn't trust a bank with an SQL-injection vulnerability or a hospital running on an old version of Windows either but that doesn't mean all banks and hospitals are not trustworthy

A new monetary system created 3 years ago and is highly demanded might have some growing pains

You hold $0 of Ether but suggest on how to spend it, you wouldn't send ether to a contract that was coded poorly or vulnerable so the language is not as important as you make it seem.

Ethereum has a great bug bounty program so contracts that are vulnerable get exposed fast. Each new smart contract should learn lessons for previous contracts and the software will improve over time, imagine that...
Exactly. He was using a hyperbolic situation to point it out.
I'd imagine they are all reporting from a common source or they read Vice.
I recently hurt myself and needed an ambulance to take me to an ER. They asked me if the nearest one was ok. Worrying about network was simply not going to be possible, I was in massive pain and wanted it to be helped out asap

Turned out alright, I think. I'm still concerned I'll get an "oh by the way" bill in the mail.
Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in respect
> Because it's not worth the effort to allow VPNs, but only allow content that's available globally since they can't figure out where the traffic really originates?

You don't really need to, you just need to say "VPN IP? Okay, you get our own global content only."

They're already doing the VPN IP test.
The contract coders I work with try as much as possible to avoid loops altogether, because even if they're correct, they'll still have a linear cost, and that's usually not what you want. Almost all contract operations should be O(1). Sometimes we've made fairly large system design changes to avoid a loop in a function.
They say it might be "removed in future releases." But isn't Windows 10 supposed to be the "last" version of Windows, just perpetually updated? It would be really strange if a system update removed Paint.
Meaningless comparisons lead to false optimism in medical machine learning
Sounds like a disgruntled sys admin.
Just Scrape Snopes and open up a new site.
Simple Server Side Rendering, Routing, and Page Transitions with Nuxt.js
Yeah, that sounds good to me. Being a bootstrapped startup, "pricing" is the first page I go to.
Anyone wondering as to why Paint.NET transitioned to closed source may find this insightful:

https://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware...
I believe this applies to all the cluster A personality disorders. Traditional and widely taught forms of therapy can be harmful to them.
To save you time: No, he can't
What you're saying you use mspaint for i use greenshot and it is much better, while still being tiny and lightweight.
It is exactly as crazy as it sounds, unfortunately. But due to many years (decades!) of pre-meditated political maneuvering, one of our political parties has managed to inextricably relate any kind of desire for "single-payer" or "socialized" medical system with effectively being a communist USSR apologist. No exaggeration.
Bureaucratic state-socialists used to brag that the growth of large trusts and joint-stock corporations was capitalism building the infrastructure for socialism.

I agree with them in the respect they meant it, but nowadays we know that's kind of a bad thing: building up a massive bureaucratic apparatus is a bad thing.
Indeed, some of the points which I loved the most when I started using it was how it allows to avoid writing any serialization method, how it helps centralize permissions, and, as said in the article, the simplicity it adds if you want to add fields in your queries.
7 Best Practices for JSON Web Tokens
Any particular numbers on that page you think are wrong or biased? All of the examples I've looked at so far are fair.
Also experiencing something similar right now - pathology for a day procedure ended up being out of network and I have a $3500 bill. This is insane.
Yes, effectively a VPN but I would just call it a tunnel, I don't think it fits the definition of a VPN.

I'm not sure if this traffic is encrypted (I assume it is), but I know GFW filtering happens at egress points so mobile traffic would already be tunneled by then. They could add dedicated hardware at mobile towers to GFW this traffic but I don't think the govt sees a need to. The primary target of the GFW is to stop Chinese citizens from accessing foreign services. Foreigners on foreign roaming data plans are not the intent of the GFW.

My bet is that they could filter this, but it's not worth the infrastructure investment.
Snopes is being sued by the "vendor" (shareholders of which own 50% of Snopes). Its more complicated than OPs blog post.

https://www.courthousenews.com/fact-checker-snopes-owners-ac...
Paint is the one program I miss the most from Windows other than the Windows file explorer and window management. Paint clones don't seem to cut it. Preview doesn't cut it for me either. Everything else seems to offer a subset of Paint in a more complicated manner. I don't quite know how to explain it.

Is it possible to DL an executable of Paint and run it in Wine?
Funnily enough, a bunch of the stations I saw in Korea and Japan had 'public market' areas, where they rent out stalls to local/smaller merchants.
As someone who who does a fair amount of scraping for my job, it's always vastly preferred to simply pay for the data. It's generally more efficient and cost effective then scraping. Scraping is always the last resort: we need the data, it's not available for sale, and it's publicly accessible.
I could be wrong, but my feeling at the time was there was a lack of experience of a strong low-level hardware designer. I remember bug #1024... all I really wanted to use my freerunner daily was making/receiving calls (you know basic phone stuff), something flip phones at the time were absolutely rock-solid at.
That's why they should be commuting to from a more reasonably-priced area of CA instead of living in the hideously expensive place they chose to live. This is colossally stupid on their part.
Most of the discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839427

At this moment there are also two comments here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817322

And there's another comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14818725

There are also other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14833208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840123
> I would have been inclined to donate, but there's obviously something more going on that indicates problematic life or business choices by multiple parties, which makes me feel less sympathetic.

I don't think sympathy needs to be a reason to donate to Snopes. It provides a valuable service - if you want it to stick around, you might consider donating.

To he honest, compared to an organisation like Wikipedia, which seems to spend a crazy amount of money constantly, this situation makes me more sympathetic to Snopes the organisation, even if not to the individuals involved.
I'm pretty disappointed by this title.

I know that it might be said in fun - and is an easy way to get clicks, but it feeds into the narrative of new, shiny tech. As the article points out at the end, there are very real engineering tradeoffs with GraphQL - and the answer isn't as easy as REST is dead, anachronistic technology that no engineer should consider (the XML analogy felt particularly inflammatory).

Kelly and I were chatting about GraphQL, and his post might be a more thoughtful engineering post: http://kellysutton.com/2017/01/02/do-we-need-graphql.html (the title - Do we need GraphQL? - is at least the way I'd expect engineers to approach the problem, where he discusses the tradeoffs)

In my MongoDB series, I point out a past case where Free Code Camp fed the hype, by telling engineers that the reason everyone had to learn the MEAN stack was due to employability in the software industry: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-real-reason-to-learn-the...

(you had to dig into the article to realize that their argument was more nuanced, and that they taught SQL first before MongoDB)

A number of "engineering" posts are not written as a thoughtful engineer might, and are in many ways marketing for the products sold (like a training program or code camp).
Project: http://prettydiff.com/guide/unrelated_diff.xhtml

Show HN Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13983085

Summary: A new diff algorithm

Result: About 50,000 visits to the web site, which then averaged about 1000 visits a day. Not much repeat traffic from those visits, but the daily traffic is now about 1200 visits a day.
There are two distinct features: immutability and single-assignment. Erlang is famous for single-assignment, and also happens to have largely immutable values, but they are not the same thing.

Immutability prevents things like in-place appending to an array, or in-place modification of a string.

Single-assigment means that the value bound to "someVariable" cannot be changed. E.g. `someVariable = new String("hello"); someVariable = new String("goodbye");` is illegal. But it still may be possible to mutate the value `someVariable.substitute("hello", "goodbye")` if the language allows mutation.
> then why deviate from something like Steam?

Maybe, portability (don't have to build three binaries) and security (VM sandboxing)?

However, the performance hit (I'm using emscripten/asmjs) isn't negligible (and the browser introduces some lag), which means there's no way I'm dropping native build support for my games.

It could be a new business model: play the web version immediately for free, buy the native version if you want speed/smoothness.
Most of the discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839427

At this moment there are also two comments here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817322

And there's another comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14818725

There are also other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817206

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840123
IMHO Its most likely a variant of the AMD GPU or APU, because it would take some major differentiation before nVidia would do a largely custom core processor, even for Microsoft.

nVidia's Tegra Xavier SoC is under development, with the Volta GPU architecture that would include the Tensor core which is specifically intended for deep learning and AI applications.
This is exactly right.
Facebook wants to secretly watch you through your smartphone camera
Most of the discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839427

At this moment there are also two comments here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817322

And there's another comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14818725

There are also other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817206

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14833208
Wow, this is very interesting. Are spouses in the US entitled to shares in your company after a divorce?
By using mutations.
Most of the discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839427

At this moment there are also two comments here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817322

There are also other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817206

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14833208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840123
Start with the fact that even the hospitals themselves do not even know the cost/price of their procedures and goods.

Notice here, in 2013, an article about how "For the very first time, the federal government is publicly releasing the "rate card" (the full charge before insurance company discounts) prices hospitals throughout the nation charge for the one hundred most common procedures and services."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/05/08/the-great-...

Yet two years later, a CEO of a hospital cannot even get the costs at the hospital of which she is CEO:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/health/what-are-a-hospita...

Price discovery, the most basic element of a free market, is literally impossible, even for expert executives within their own organizations. Vast price discrepancies exist for procedures just a few towns apart. Discovery for consumers in advance is impossible, and of course absurd in the situation where you are being rushed to the nearest hospital in an emergency.

Do not let anyone get away with claiming that this is somehow a "Free Market" until reliable prices, and outcome rates (with case difficulty information) are as easily available as prices and reviews on Amazon.
I use Paint as my scanner connection. So simple, it just works.
Most of the discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839427

And there's another comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14818725

There are also other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817206

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14833208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840123
"People streaming HD video from cell towers is simply crazy."

Why?
Because, literally, one side of the street would be the Republicans and the other side of the street would be the Democrats. Nothing would get done as neither side feels the need to concede anything.
Sadly this is how hospital stays are conventionally billed. The cost of being admitted covers only the bed and routine nursing, literally everything else is billed separately. As unfair as it is, the best patients can do is vehemently question the necessity of any interaction with a physician, or else get billed for it. And good luck with that if your case is complicated and you're getting referrals to a wide range of specialists.
It's doubtful we would be in a different situation without Obamacare. Health care costs have been rising faster than inflation for literally decades. There are too many bad actors at every level trying to grab whatever they can, while they can.
It's hard for me to get a bead on how skilled any prior patterns of work were, though. It seems like there is an increasing skills gap, and that the gig economy just caters to less skilled work. And the prior examples mentioned in the article all struck me as unskilled.

So, was there any prior pattern of using highly skilled labor in any kind of flexible "gig" system?
Most of the discussion is here in this submission, but there are also two comments here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817322

And there's another comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14818725

There are also other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817206

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14833208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840123
How Is Cloud Foundry Transitioning from Consul.io?
Hi there! At Snipcart we are currently doing exactly that. We are progressively migrating our Saas from Backbone to Vue.js, and just wrote a blog post that can answer all of your questions: https://snipcart.com/blog/progressive-migration-backbone-vue...

For us, it has been a really positive experience so far and we LOVE working with Vue.js. The transition between the two frameworks has been really smooth so far, and I'm sure it can benefit your project too ;)
Looks plausible to me, but I don't speak C++.

You're sorting file names, right? Is this guaranteed to DTRT when packages are updated? (i.e., a version number changing can't result in two packages switching order?)
Yeah, there's no journalistic standards over there (and granted I don't think they ever claimed otherwise). Snopes tries to be a debunker, but for political matters, it'll just be debunking in favor of whoever wrote the particular article.

Great for chain letters and virus alerts, but there are probably better places to find out the truth behind the latest political outrage circulating among your friends.
I actually write quite a lot more than what I self submit. If you think I am self submitting every one of my blog entries to HN, you have absolutely no clue how very much I write across multiple blogs, some of which never get posted here, not even in comments, because of the subject matter.
Google has most certainly paid for bandwidth/traffic from their end. Whether that's to a CDN or some other arrangement, and there's likely already peering agreements in place. In these cases what Verizon is doing is asking for money above and beyond what it actually costs to handle the interconnection. They use declining service to their own customers as leverage. Its ridiculous, and even more worrying when you see ISPs and content providers merging as is the case with VZ buying Yahoo and AOL, Comcast and NBC merger, etc.
The people at the top competing companies seem to end up conspiring to suppress wages even when it is illegal and their companies ROI and profits are the highest of any other companies on earth.[1] Adobe, Intel, Google, and Apple were convicted (edit:actually, just paid money to prevent a trial) mainly on the fact that Jobs, Schmidt, and Otellini actually sent emails to each other discussing it that were revealed in discovery. I can imagine wink-wink agreements that would be far harder to successfully prosecute and thus never (edit: threatened to be) brought to trial.

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/13/7542371/apple-google-inte...
Max contribution to an HSA is about $6,800/year. I have been putting $600/month into it for three years and have never been able to get more than $6k saved; family of 4 and no dental insurance (employer dropped it).

This is the equivalent of a car payment for the rest of my working life.
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Yeah, it seems like mobile oses are about as common as Linux distros in 1995. Sailfish, Maru, lineage, among the two you mention. If you have a nexus 5 or one plus one, you're in luck.

I recently tried lineage, ubports and plasma, and though I liked ubports, lineage was a breath of fresh air. Selinux, opengapps, regular privacy notifications, twrp, and privacy and security seem to have not taken a back seat in general. Sign me up.

If there hadn't been contracts 10yrs ago, I probably would have gotten an openmoko. Wanted one badly. If lineage, ubports, and plasma among others can keep developing alternatives to stock android, no reason to see why at least some or all hardware doesn't follow. It's taken AMD the better part of 10 years to have open source drivers that are as good as their closed source drivers on almost all of their GPUs if I'm not mistaken.
In a sense Germany works very similar to Obamacare. Private doctors, health insurances, mandatory insurance for everyone. The difference is that it's much more regulated and the insurances are non-profit as far I know.
Apple has never pulled a "You write a program for OS X and we'll take 30% of your revenue or block your sales" either.

However, the last I knew, indie XBox game developers paid the same 30% cut to Microsoft to be allowed to sell their product on the XBox.

Has that changed since then?
> I'm never one to call for legislation and price controls, but in the face of such adversity, I think it may be our last hope.

I'm always one to call for legislation and price controls, because time and time again, without the legislation in place, situations like this arise. It's the sad reality. Regulating companies is apparently our only hope to keep people from constantly being stepped on.
Canadaland is a podcast/somewhat media website specifically covers Canadian News Media and Politics, and before I stopped subscribing (a few weeks ago) they were making over 10k per month.