skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to understand how medical billing works and why these ridiculously high bills get created, there's a lot of important context that this article unfortunately leaves out.

Large hospital systems accept patients who have a range of payers (Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage, various Medicaid plans, private insurance, and uninsured patients). On the aggregate, they want to make sure that their entire system is cashflow-positive - however, they do that in a rather roundabout way, because they only have the ability to negotiate with some of their payers, whereas the others are able to set their rates at whatever price they want.

Medicare and Medicaid set their reimbursement rates by fiat, and providers have essentially no ability to negotiate those. Except in critical access areas, Medicare actually reimburses much less than the marginal costs of care for its patients (7% in the aggregate)[0]. These rates are so low that Medicare actually has a separate program to pay extra money to hospitals that treat a lot of Medicare patients - otherwise, they would literally go under. The reason they provide this money as a separate program and don't count it in claims is entirely political.

As a result, providers present very large bills to everyone else (privately insured and uninsured patients) to make up for this loss - you can't stay in business if you're literally making a loss on every patient! Uninsured patients see the large bill and assume they have to pay the entire amount (they don't!), and private insurers end up negotiating that down to some multiple of what Medicare pays.

A typical insurer will negotiate an agreement like, "we'll pay 350% of what Medicare pays for this category of services".

[0] This is not looking at any markup that the hospital provides - we're talking about how much the hospital has to pay its suppliers. So, for a hypothetical vaccine that costs $100 wholesale, Medicare might reimburse $93, which doesn't even cover the cost of the equipment, let alone the entire hospital infrastructure (wages, etc.).
Yep. I do the same :)
As an experienced user on both Windows (at work) and Mac (at home), this article really nails the pain points of using Windows. Same can be said of Mac, as there are features I wish Mac had, such as windows snaps (via Windows key + arrow key), and built-in paint/drawing app.

One thing I really wished I had on WIndows is better Alt-Tab (as well as Alt-backtick). Third party app such as VistaSwitcher is not satisfactory for this, and doesn't quite work right. Another is that I really love using command key for copy,paste,cut, etc. I have remapped all of my Windows 10 machine with Autohotkey to mimic some of the Mac keyboard shortcuts.
Applied Invention. https://www.appliedinvention.com/#about

Applied Minds is hiring. http://appliedminds.com/
> Everyone would benefit if service providers rolled out provisioning that incentivized application programmers to truthfully mark traffic using QoS / ToS ... unlimited bandwidth at lowest priority, limited bandwidth if low latency is required.

So what you're saying is, I can run a few iptables rules on my phone and prioritize all my traffic ahead of everyone else's? Sweet.

QoS in a LAN is fine, QoS using untrusted devices just plain doesn't work.
Germany is two-tier. Public health for the masses, private for those making over 80k or so and healthy.

The public system premiums are a % of income. The private is a flat cost, so as you make more become much more attractive (even costing less in many cases).

Doctors are sometimes private only or have separate private insurance waiting rooms. Hospitals have separate public and private rooms/beds, etc.

It's a two-tier system that works pretty well, at least in comparison to the US system.

My info is a few years dated, but is based on having been a patient in both US and German hospitals. From friends, I've heard the English system is similar in some respects to the German.

Amazingly to me, the German system was instituted under Otto von Bismark in the 1800s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_healthcare_in_Germ...
All bosons (e.g. photons) are their own antiparticle [...]

Are you sure? That doesn't sound right for charged bosons like the W bosons.
A whole butt ton of GPU-style FMA and low precision float multiply ALUs would be my guess
So to be clear, the one objection you can articulate after your earlier blanket statement is that they've stopped updating a list of crank conspiracy deaths after every one they investigated turned out to be false?

Face it, you want this absurd Clinton conspiracy theory to be true, and you dislike Snopes because they consistently debunk it. That's not bias, that's presenting truth.
You own a VHS copy of Loose Change, don't you?
“Should You Offer a Free Call?” – [Episode #81] Make Money Online
This is very true. My scraping efforts have become vastly more sophisticated after running into explicit attempts to block me. Now I've got all kinds of bells and whistles, and validate the data returned.
It depends on how you write your joins, PostgreSQL does a great job as long as you have the right indexes in place, certainly much faster than doing sequential queries.

My take on it https://subzero.cloud (GraphQL and REST api for your database), built on top of https://postgrest.com
Trust Issues: Exploiting TrustZone TEEs
If said shares were acquired after the start of the marriage.
or you can pass the fields you want in your request, and then realizing it would be simplier to fetch all your data in only one endpoint to avoid multiple roundtrips, create a giant request-parsing-data-fetching logic to respond with some kind of nested data, yeah GraphQL is useless because we can build a new one from scratch for each of our projects ;)
If you colo, a nefarious colo owner could hold your gear hostage. Even running your own datacenter, you probably have a landlord.

My only point is that all businesses require trusting some other business to not be nefarious.
"Statistical computing" is kinda outdated and stems from misunderstanding what ML is and the past reliance on some well-known statistical methods. Look at it as a parallelizable non-linear optimization able to reduce dimensionality by employing cool tricks and surprisingly efficient in some real-world tasks. If you just take a general, fully-connected DNN, it wouldn't work at all; those tricks like CNN/RNN/LSTM/GAN make it all work within a narrow setup of hyperparameters.
Inject some nox then perhaps?
Depends on the state, among other things.

In community property states (eg California), value gained during the marriage is typically treated as shared unless there's another contract.

A recent famous case, involving the US oil tycoon Harold Hamm, in which the circumstances occurred in Oklahoma (not a community property state), ended with his wife getting a billion dollar settlement. He was already rich before marrying her and already owned his position in the company in question, however he didn't get a prenuptial agreement. She argued successfully that her role in the marriage was a critical assist to his ability to focus on building up the oil company.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/business/harold-hamm-okla...
GraphQL supports both queries to access data and _mutations_ to change data:

mutation {
createUser(u: "user", p: "pass") {
u,
p
}
}
Funny, i only recall the N900 being a compatibility break.

The 770 to N810 issue was hardware performance, not platform breakage. The 770 was simply too damn hardware constrained compared to the N800/810 (basically a N800 with a keyboard, and just a single SD slot).

The N900 on the other hand introduced a whole new UI, QT as the primary UI framework, and beefed up the hardware on top.

Yes you could still attempt to run N900 programs on the N800, but they would rarely fit the screen etc.
You can easily add tens of thousands of out of network costs with some medical issues.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14838658
Continuous improvement is more like the kind of maintenance you do to software than the one you do to infrastructure.

I don't think the name would matter in any way. It's more a problem of what voters value, or what politicians think that voters value.
You're right that all those things are needed, and it did take me a while to get them all working. But now I know about tools like mail-tester [1] that analyze your emails and tell you exactly how to fix them. Once you know what to do, it's really not that much actual work to set them up.

[1] https://www.mail-tester.com/
Edit: Filecoin does mention smart contracts in its white paper.
We marked this flamewar subthread off topic.
Install MalwareBytes — https://www.malwarebytes.com/
Yeah, that's messed up. Not only that sounds like a capacitor's description ("negatively and positively charged pools") rather than battery's, but also "liquid electrolyte" is a patent tautology.
I had to stop using Hurricane Electric for IPv6 tunneling because Netflix was blocking them.
There is no Photo OP for Mark if he is working within his own company walls to genuinely try to help his 'own'. T'sall 'bout managin' perception.
So by daring to say that this behavior might be caused by someone who is characterized by the worst kind of lack of ethics, I'm in the wrong?

This is a phenomenon that studies show occurs at something like 2-3% in the population at large... but more common among CEO's. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/15/silicon-v... Interesting how you ban my argument because I don't have a credential (do you even know which logical fallacy that is?) but when an article in which experts take the same opinion, HN bans it with a different excuse.

Do you think that, just perhaps, this could have an effect on the amount of abuse of people by some companies, that we see day-to-day? Especially when it seems to go to an absurd point, as in this case?

It doesn't require a degree to detect people who are willing to treat those around without scruple, as long as they're not exposed. It's a fairly simple definition and these people disproportionately cause abuse... so censoring mention of this, or suggesting that a degree is needed to even contemplate recognizing this sort of bad actor, means you are acting to ensure people are ignorant about it, to their potential harm. I hope you never encounter one of these people close up, dang.

I'm not all that surprised that HN's despicable form of soft-censorship was used here... as I realize the statement I made was sort of controversial. But I'm looking forward to more people realizing how rotten you guys have become at censorship, at which point the interesting conversation will finally move elsewhere. Unfortunately, you can't keep doing it with such a heavy hand and have people not catch on, over the long term.

In fact, the level of censorship has gotten so high here (or I have finally noticed how bad it is) that I don't want to participate anymore. Maybe this is a marginal case, but I've realized you guys are just rotten overall. I don't really think it's ethical to participate in a form that's so dramatically manipulated, especially so often in the direction of SV companies. I'm going to kill my account, if that's possible.

Or, since it looks like HN is too arrogant implement this feature https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7841742 I'll just, you know, stop using it and monitor the potential security hole for the rest of my life.
Except for Medicare.
I believe so. When I was in China, my mainland SIM didn't work at all in HK. I assume many people get prepaid SIMs when traveling out of China so they wouldn't be subject to filtering anyway.
> 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

I would and do, because that's the reality of things. You're discounting the fact that if my bank has a SQL-injection exploit used against it and my account is drained, the federal government will reimburse me up to $250,000.

That type of peace of mind does not come with Ethereum; in fact it's billed as a feature.
No, that wasn't it. I had the 2nd-gen openmoko phone. It just didn't work. You won't get users until you have something that /does something/. I never even got a phone call made with it. The system didn't have enough of a working spine to make it worth investing time or energy into to get it further.

If you want an open source project to work, it has to already work and then have easy places where people can start making changes. Otherwise, they don't know how much work is needed to get anything done, and don't want to risk weeks of work for minimal, if any, results.
1. Fact-Checking Snopes: Website’s Political ‘Fact-Checker’ Is Just A Failed Liberal Blogger: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websi...

2. Snopes, Which Will Be Fact-Checking For Facebook, Employs Leftists Almost Exclusively: http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/16/snopes-facebooks-new-fact-...

3. The Daily Mail Snopes Story And Fact Checking The Fact Checkers: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai...

4. Who’s Checking the Fact Checkers?: https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2013/05/28/s...

Oh HN, downvoting what was asked for. This is why nobody likes talking to you about politics and you think your minority opinions are the majority.

>One person in Silicon Valley even asked me to sign a confidentiality agreement before she would talk to me, as she worried she’d lose her job if people at her company knew she was a strong Trump supporter. - What I Heard From Trump Supporters, sama.

> The fact that, as the Lichter study shows, "A majority of Democratic statements (54 percent) were rated as mostly or entirely true, compared to only 18 percent of Republican statements," probably has more to do with how the statements were picked and the subjective bias of the fact checker involved than anything remotely empirical. Likewise, the fact that "a majority of Republican statements (52 percent) were rated as mostly or entirely false, compared to only 24 percent of Democratic statements" probably has more to do with spinning stories than it does with evaluating statements.
let's do a little math..

the router ports on both sides, let's say you are using 4 ports across 4 fully loaded nexus 9508 (let's call those $500k per incl. optics, so $2M / 384 x 4 ports / 36 months = $600/port/month x 4 = $2400/4-ports/month)

Depending on how the connection between the two worked or was paid for, it could be $1000-$20000 for 2 pairs of fiber per month depending on distance. Let's take a middle of the road $10k average cost.

So for 10Gbps peak redundant capacity, you are at $12,400 per month. Netflix 4k stream is about 16 megabits, so you can fit 625 4k streams in $12,400 of cross-connect capacity. If you don't share costs, that's about $20 per user to support Netflix's business model that people seem to think it's Comcast's responsibility to pay. That's not even considering Comcast's last mile distribution cost or paying any salaries.

Streaming video services soak up a lot of network resources and putting all of the cost on ISPs is going to increase your ISP's cost and price. How many low-income families do you think would lose broadband if it went from $50/mo to $100/mo?
The details for the infection can be found at Malwarebytes, the discoverer of this issue:

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/01/new-ma...

This article has the signature of the infection as well as listing the servers with which it communicates.
Time to go find the executable and save it somewhere.

I use mspaint for one thing, but it does that one thing beautifully. When I'm designing large complicated structures to eventually build in Minecraft, there's nothing quite like zooming all the way in to a blank canvas, turning on the grid, and drawing the floorplan pixel by pixel.

mspaint does this so well because of its simplicity. 20 basic colors, single-pixel drawing (with the ability to do lines and boxes if necessary), and not much else. It's fast, it's simple, and since it's just an image file, it's no problem to transfer the design to another computer (where you can open it right up again in mspaint and have all the same tools).

I've played around with the "new" paint, Paint 3D, and as far as I've seen, there isn't even the ability to put down a 1x1 grid. Basically, they removed a bunch of the "paint" features in order to add the "3D" features.
+ they can help you implement caching strategies / offline modes
Maybe, but that's irrelevant because they founded the company together.
You may have some recourse with the insurance company because for emergency care that leads to an admission, the hospital being in-network is supposed to be what counts. Individual doctors being out-of-network should only come into play if you have a procedure done at their practice's office. I sincerely hope it works out for you. It might not hurt to get a 1-hr consult with a lawyer and send the insurance company a nasty letter?
Probably because this person like many has multiple headphones. I have nicer "cans" I use at work. I have the crappy included ones that I use in the gym or when commuting. Noise cancelling buds for travel. And that's not even counting the times I might want to use the aux cord in my car. Having to carry around an adapter is dumb. I have a 6s and will not be upgrading to any phone without a headphone jack
> When it comes to versioning, GraphQL has an interesting take on that. Versioning can be avoided all together. Basically, we can just add new fields without removing the old ones, because we have a graph and we can flexibly grow the graph by adding more nodes.

In my experience, versioning a RESTful API is not hard (much has been written about the various approaches). The cases when versioning does get hard usually correspond to major system architecture changes (e.g., restructuring fundamental relationships between data models), and in those cases, I suspect GraphQL wouldn't help a whole lot. You may still need to build some kind of compatibility layer to support older versions.

Other than that, adding new fields (which account for 90%+ of the changes to APIs I work on) are just as easy to add to RESTful endpoints. If payload size really does become an issue (it's usually negligible), it's easy enough to add a parameter or two to control the extent of the response data.

As for reducing round trips, I do see the advantage of using GraphQL, though to be fair, well-designed RESTful APIs can avoid excessive round trips as well - they just require a bit more coordination between client and server development (which is a good thing!). RESTful APIs also have the advantage of mutation payloads that look like their corresponding response representations.

To address some of the potential concerns with GraphQL (such as resource exhaustion), I believe it would require more development time/resources for most of the projects I've worked on - even after factoring in any technical debt brought on by RESTful API limitations.
Inheritance is also usually exempted in most states from being shared. Unless it becomes too intertwined in the couple's holdings overall.
>>I doubt many cafeteria workers make 75K/year

Isn't that 75k the gross from both adults in the family? And the worker even mentions facebook is their second gig so that's at least three jobs to hit 75,000.

I don't think people working that hard should be living hand-to-mouth.
You started this flamewar and then went around the other side and started another. That sort of thing will get you banned here. So will generic ideological trolling, which you bring in here completely extraneously.

Please don't do any of these things on HN again. Instead, if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't comment until you do.
Great idea. I'll keep this in my back pocket for future use.

The wiley and expensive way is to alter your page
Look at the interior of the Model 3. It's just as much a joke for that price point.
We had a similar experience about 8 months ago, but only one night in the hospital. Raise hell with everyone.

The out of network doctors were resolved the fastest for us, and the longest was the hospital stay itself, which our insurance didn't agree to pay until 8 months after the stay. It was a seriously draining experience, and luckily my wife doesn't work so I didn't have to take time off for all the phone calls and following up that was required.

I don't fault our insurer. The hospital charged more for our one night stay than another slightly further hospital recently charged us for three nights stay. It was completely ridiculous. But completely out of our hands.

I've had to deal with that and more in the last couple years. In my experience there are no "good" or "bad" guys in this fight. It's a bunch of individually rational entities that when taken as a whole are completely fucking over the rest of us.
Additionally, the U.S. working class (who are most affected) is disorganized and politically weak. Other democracies often have "labor" parties; that doesn't exist in the U.S. Labor unions have been under attack for decades. There is a saying that the U.S. has one political party, the Business Party, with two factions. Elements of the working class are so desperate and underserved by establishment Democrats that some are turning to Trump-ian false promises and easy answers. Remember Trump (falsely) promised to fix their health care and offer cheap, quality plans.
That's a hilarious read. Every site that strives to be neutral should keep a list like that.
Because Verizon's users are already footing the whole bill. If anything, the bill should be split between the end user and Google.
But still, 95% of CA is undeveloped. Even in the bay area, you can see vast amounts of land that are undeveloped or underdeveloped.

I see prime real-estate near bart being squandered with these tiny little 2-4 story buildings - it's pathetic. From 580 you can see nothing but land in every direction - none of it being developed on at all.

Meanwhile, people are driving farther and farther to work to find cheaper housing, x10 the amount of traffic.

All due to politics - zoning and NIMBY.
> - Microsoft didn't care about mobile, thinking Windows CE was fine (they had ~42% marketshare in 2007)

This was perhaps the big one. The CE/PocketPC lineage had been going since the 90s, but Phone 7 was a sharp break with that.

Thus existing users knew they were hosed, and so no longer had a reason to be loyal to MS.

It is weird seeing MS forgo their biggest trump card in this way. Their continued grip on a market has been thanks to backwards compatibility. Yet they squandered that on mobile, and seems poised to squander it on desktop as well.
One way to minimize the cost of living impact is to set up satellite offices. Set up a campus in Texas or Oklahoma. It's not like people would not take jobs there. I'm sure some globe trotters would not, but most jobs don't need the globe trotter kind of mentality.
Google's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret
Baikal was going to be my second choice but I never got there because Radicale went pretty well.
This is very evil...
Almost 80k/year in salary leaves a family stuck in a garage over there? That's absurd
>the widespread belief that they are virus-free, Macs aren't immune from invasive and dangerous malware.

This is an area where it's really hard to extrapolate from my personal experience to the entire population, but is this really an accurate statement of many people's beliefs?

I think what people actually think is that the chances are much lower of encountering malware in the wild on a Mac. In support of that, having an article this long on a single piece of malware that isn't particularly damaging, would indicate that it's not the normal state of affairs in Mac land.

I would similarly expect that the chances of drive-by malware on Linux are tiny, perhaps even less common than on a Mac, and thus it would be newsworthy if there were some widespread (in relative terms) Gnome malware, or similar.

It's one thing to think that it's uncommon, and another to think that it's impossible.