skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With specific exceptions (medical devices - those Rascal ads are there for a reason) there generally isn't a ton of fraud. What there is is a lot of middlemen each taking their own cut, which cumulatively adds up to a lot of overhead. It's the "efficiency" part that you mention.

Efficiency is a tough nut to crack but there are organizations like Kaiser Permanente that have been very successful with a vertical integration model to cut this overhead. The problem is that it's a political fight every step of the way - doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and drug makers each have their own extremely powerful lobbies who will spend lavishly to keep their cut of the profits flowing.

Which is why we're actually moving in the opposite direction - the ACA moves away from this type of integrated care organization and towards a fee-for-service model. The idea is to have the consumer be the one choosing the cheapest MRI provider or whatever - but in practice the pricing is still entirely opaque and the public are more or less thrown to the wolves. The finest health-care plan the Heritage Foundation could devise...

And of course everyone has their own idea of how to improve efficiency, all of which translates into a lot of paperwork and red tape. That is why your insurance denies claims after all - "efficiency" (airquotes). It creeps into every aspect of medical care, especially anything having to do with Federal dollars (Medicare/Medicaid). And to be fair a lot of it is justified, it is an uphill battle to get providers to adopt even basic best-practices like checklists during surgical procedures ("remove and count all 5 pieces of gauze before you close the patient"...). Another thing that doctors fight tooth and nail is clinical decision-support tools - even though these are a value-add for the physician in many cases (did you want to order that test with contrast or without? A family doctor may not know.)

(disclosure: I worked on such a tool at my current employer)

One little-addressed area of extreme waste is generic drugs. The idea is that once your patent expires (after decades of "patent evergreening" of course) anyone can make your drug - but in practice that's not how it works, one company just dumps product on the market at cost until everyone else leaves the market, at which point they are once again free to charge whatever they want. The overhead costs of starting drug production is quite high, and in practice it's more difficult for new drugs to claim bioequivalence because the drugs involve biological steps in their production. A company is not obligated to share the organisms used in their production process and if a competitor creates their own they must repeat FDA approval processes, which are inordinately expensive.
stuff grows huge in the summer though
Is it any more amazing than doing an orbital rendezvous?
Physical access vs. Internet access - two very different things.
we have, to some degree. see: parse, firebase, etc. but the reality is most people need more fine grained control than is simple to layer over a crud interface. there's a reason parse shut down: as soon as people's apps had an inkling of success - and often times, even before that - people need to do more than just CRUD
What can I do to report and deport said illegal immigrant? Also, which legal authorities can be notified to punish said company?
I agree usage is growing, but that is not the topic. Most coins are moving not because of usage but because of speculation, people are buying largely because of speculation, trading because of speculation, and selling because of speculation; the majority of transaction volume is not coming from using Bitcoin as a currency to buy goods and services, it's from speculators entering the market due to the price rise.
Bare-bones GraphQL client/server playground, for gql n00bs like me. No DB or UI
What's rough about giving a function a name?
Right, I was leveraging the imprecise wording to segue into an explanation that not only is there no law restricting forum operators from regulating content, but actually a fundamental law protecting their right to do so.
Yes it handles redefines and 88s, my emails in my profile, I have a Windows build.
Why no South Africa?! :)
I won the green card diversity lottery and will finalize the process in about a month when I land in the USA. After that I'll be a permanent resident. I'll stay for a few months to set things up, leave for a few more months to sell some property and then move there permanently.

If things don't go very well and I decide to relinquish the green card and return, will I be subject to any kind of exit tax?

Also, I'm having a lot of trouble setting up an address to receive the physical card. A PO Box or mail aggregator is not acceptable and I can only change the address up to the point of entry. This is a major concern for me because I don't have anyone in the USA that could receive it on my behalf.

Is it possible to use "General delivery" near my arrival airport to get the card? I ask because up to 2 weeks ago I didn't even know about that concept so I'm still exploring that possibility.

Thank you for your time.
I see. Thanks for your insight!
Unless you read something in the article that I missed this wasn't the case. The suggested person, Rebecca, appeared in her "people you might know" list and she didn't dig in to figure out who it was until after that happened.

What isn't clear to me is if the investigation into the PYMK suggestions was because of the appearance of Rebecca in Ms. Hill's list, or if she was discovered as a suggestion during the course of an unrelated investigation into how the PYMK suggestions list is generated. Owing to the types of research-driven journalism I've come in across from her in the past, it was probably the latter, but I didn't read anything that directly stated it (or if it was, I missed it).
What should we do? What should I do? When I look through my window, nobody cares. I do waste sorting while none my neightbors care, what should I do? I don't throw waste on the street and nature while most of my compatriot don't care, what should I do? I try to use "clean" and expensive resources like eletric cars while "bad" resources are cheaper because my government keep promising to make taxes on these but don't do anything, what should I do?

Why should I waste my time trying to change the world, thinking about it when I'm just a randon civilian that have barely enough to donate to an ONG? Why should I waste my life for other people that don't care at all and enjoy theirs?
When will it support Golang?
Process your excel on active admin using active job
Of course US does. We really need to acknowledge that. Don't believe it? Support US withdrawing from mutual defense pacts with South Korea and Japan and NATO.
> The point is that there are no laws in the United States that demand private forums have any semblance of "free speech".

Since when the only requirement from people to behave decently is that they are forced to do it by the threat of violence from the government? Can't we ask people not to be jerks without threatening them with jail?

> It's a legal concept, not a societal one

Nope, it is a societal one. Legal one follows from that. Laws are created by society, they are not some independent reality that exists by itself. Laws about free speech exist because society values free speech, if it didn't, such laws won't exist - and indeed, societies that do not value such concepts don't have such laws.

> Free speech is a legal term.

Nope again. There is a legal term "free speech", but claiming that's all there is is switching the cause and effect. We value free speech not because we are forced by the laws, given us by Gods. We create laws valuing free speech because we think free speech is a good idea, required for well-functioning society.

> But as is, Paypal has nothing to do with free speech

They have tons to do with free speech - they try to use their power as a major payment provider in order to limit it and suppress people that speak in ways they do not approve of. Of course, their power is not absolute and is no match for the vast powers of the government - but that does not make such use of their power, whatever they have, any less despicable. Maybe less dangerous, yes, but there's no rule that we should only address the very largest threat and completely ignore the lesser ones.

> Otherwise it just comes across as if you don't know what free speech is

No, I know what "free speech" is. That's exactly why I am tired of reducing the concept to bare legalese. It never was that, it is not that, and it will never be that.

> just correcting your improper use of the term

By that revealing that they do not understand the term and have faulty understanding of why we have all these laws at all.
That's a really good point. We've had to think long and hard about this one too. There's one interesting stat that is less known. Aboout 80% of India runs on groundwater, and in cities, we have estimated that about 50% of the people have their own private water source. BUT- less than 1% sell that water. Now imagine we've used devices to aggregate all demand (phase I). Phase II would be to introduce new supply into the market. Enabling anyone with a borewell to sell water to anyone else. The biggest cost of private water right now is diesel transportation costs. When we implement Phase II, we want to enable more micro entrepreneurs to sell water hyper locally, driving down water costs. We'll have to do this carefully, but that's the only way we see not becoming the mafia and doing our part to make clean water more and more accessible to people.
Regarding your first question, acceptance into YC definitely carries a lot of weight and can go a long way toward supporting an O-1 petition. Regarding your second question, as long as you are not receiving any value for your work (with value not being limited to cash compensation), then I see no issue with your release of a free app to help others.
The best way to keep a secret is to make sure that everyone is dead.
Come on, default method in interface is a Java 8 feature, what's the coolness of C#is there?
My NVIDIA Shield Android TV box has the App.
I don't know what LeEco even is, I've googled it and it's a chinese brand do they even operate outside of China/India?....
If you don't manage taking metformin with large enough meals etc, you get wonderful "metformin moments" (i.e. uncontrollable diarrhea like you've got food poisoning).

Gotta weigh up those risks. :)
Imagine if they had started taking bitcoin payments in 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012?

They wouldn't have to be worrying about their seed fund or keeping the doors open at this point.
I have trouble thinking that even the most monopolistic of companies today would put in the effort to collect the DNA of literally everybody by finding strands of hair or the like. If you you send it to them, though, that's another story.
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This is a good question that is being actively investigated.

I think the idea is that the C stored in the permafrost has been accumulating for thousands of years, and yet could release in just 10s of years. So even if there is increased vegetation growth (which is predicted), there is unlikely to be enough rapid growth to offset the release of thousands of years of accumulated C.

Full disclosure: I actually work for a modeling group with the University of Alaska Fairbanks/Institute of Arctic Biology that is investigating these sorts of questions.
The article specifically says the tanker is designed to operate independently, without need for an ice breaker:

> But the Christophe de Margerie, named for a former CEO of French oil giant Total, is specially designed to sail independently through ice as thick as 2.1 meters (nearly 7 feet), its owner said.

So, the article is interesting but the stated "first" seems like it would have happened anyway, because the ship was designed specifically for the task.
You realize your promise code is ugly af. All your code is nested within other functions and chained with dots. It's not clear.

For imperative code the goal is to write code that is just as clear as writing a single threaded algorithm: a simple list of steps. Promises and callbacks DO NOT ACHIEVE THIS GOAL.

That stackoverflow post showed a python solution that's infinitely cleaner than js. Python skipped callbacks and promise chains and jumped directly to the best way to do async operations... async/await.

You want to shove a parallel set in an async chain of operations? Here's the way to do serial and parallel async operations in Python:

async def main():
# run them sequentially (but the loop can do other stuff in the meanwhile)
body1 = await get_body('http://httpbin.org/ip')
print body1
body2 = await get_body('http://httpbin.org/user-agent')
print body2

# run them in parallel
task1 = get_body('http://httpbin.org/ip')
task2 = get_body('http://httpbin.org/user-agent')

for body in await asyncio.gather(task1, task2):
print(body)

You see that code? Way more clearer way more understandable than your promise chain. Python has it's problems but your promise code is not powerful at all, it leads to over complicated code and just slightly better than callbacks.
Occasionally using it on a Mac. Most of the time I force quit it, though, because it loads fonts forever. It's not a "quickly open and edit a file" tool for me.
The folks who do round the world solo races might beg to differ
You have to cast it from Chrome or Android (screencasting).
Any android TV/TVbox has built in Chromecast.
> probable cause that each account has evidence of the conspiracy.

That's all a warrant under RICO would require.

Again, they haven't touched it, so they cannot consider that a large number of accounts have partaken of any conspiracy.

RICO is the first stop on dealing with conspiracies.

PATRIOT is the first stop on dealing with terrorists.

The fact they have gone another route, which is legally more difficult to accomplish, suggests they consider the majority of accounts to be innocent, of both terrorism and conspiracy.

The fact the judge has ordered any accounts viewed, and found to have no evidence, to be sealed, suggests the judge views the majority of accounts as innocent as well.

Its a broad-reaching warrant, searching for a needle in a haystack.

> ...that each account has evidence...

Nobody on either legal teams is suggesting that everyone might have information in this case. But, the prosecution is suggesting that anyone might.

There's a distinction there.

I'm not suggesting its right, but I am suggesting that nobody in the courtroom would suggest all/majority these people, knowingly or unknowingly, are terrorists or conspirators. They're looking for the few among the many, so then they can investigate if those few are indeed criminals.
Being able to take an instance Person and make it be an Employee without changes to the Person class definitely sounds like ad hoc polymorphism. In Scala the equivalent of Haskells type classes is implicits though. Not traits.
I do wonder if this 'extension interface implementation' feature would support the same inferencing that type classes in Haskell and implicits in Scala do. So that might be a difference.
I've been using Gimp for ages (15 to 20 years) and it was always solid for me. Maybe I was just using the more stable features? But I've mostly used it on Linux. My major gripe was the Save / Export fiasco [0] but even that is OK now thanks to Saver plugin [1].

[0] http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp-user/14339-hate-the-new...

[1] http://shallowsky.com/blog/gimp/saver.html
Pixelmator is great, but it misses extremely useful feature: move canvas view ouside the border.

Feature request filled back in 2012 and still not implemented: http://support.pixelmator.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8336

Without it working in areas near the edges is very stressful and painful.
I would find use for products like this but I'm emphatically not enabling a chrome extension unless I've built up significant trust with the company providing it.
Regarding your first question, you should consult a tax accountant but the short answer is that the penalty provision doesn't apply unless and until you have been a permanent resident for at least 8 years. Regarding your second question, this can be a real issue and one option is to hire an attorney for the sole purpose of having your green card delivered to him or her. Whoever this is should charge you next to nothing so this might make sense.
With your skills can you get an H1B ? or is it luck ? Say you are an exceptional skilled worker. Do you have any priority for getting a greencard ? If you are EB1 I agree you are exceptional. But with EB2, can you with your skills get a greencard or do you have to be under the mercy of your employer & wait 10 years ? Hence the indentured servitude.
The government can also intervene by actually paying the price. Like food stamps for water.
I've become convinced that decisive action will never be taken as long as it requires a decrease in the standard of living (that is, less energy use).

I am out of ideas for how to convince the world to drastically draw down our fossil fuel use. Everything has been tried.

It has become a cliche that our problems cannot be solved by technology alone, but this one really may be up to technology alone. Human nature is not going to change.
Except, this was a specially designed ship that likely would have made the journey alone anyway.

When a non-specialised ship goes through without an ice breaker will be another first.
How does one start this process? I work at a YC company fwiw on a TN visa.
Not yet, but the trends are not good. Closing borders will cut off the influx and increased regulations are going to increase the exodus.

Biotech or anything related to "Stem cells" or "Cloning" are the past ones, future ones may be AI.

And cryptocurrencies and that entire area of research is quickly becoming untenable in the USA.
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Next Dogecoin?
As an MD, I find those "take this miraculous drug we've known for years and live long" fads pretty ridiculous.
People are far too confident in medical "research". If you know some statistics, read medical papers before bed and have a good laugh!
Also because the ship was specially designed to break ice like an ice breaking ship does.
Second paragraph:

“The ship, the Christophe de Margerie, traveled from Norway to South Korea in 19 days, about 30% quicker than the regular route through the Suez Canal, its Russian owner, Sovcomflot, said this week.”
The cost of goods on a cup of Starbucks coffee is substantial (servers, beans, equipment, rent, utilities, cup, creamer)

The cost of goods on your $1 app is close to, and perceived to be, zero.
I bought a game a few years ago (Batman or Spiderman or something) for an $8 or $10 one time purchase. Then the developer (who I think I remember, but won't mention because I'm not positive) decided it would be a good idea to move to an IAP model. Well, after updating the game one day, I realized that I no longer had the full game that I paid for, and that I would have to pay more via IAP if I wanted to continue playing. That was the day that soured me on IAP forever, and I'm another one that will go very far out of my way to avoid them (even inconveniencing myself solely out of spite).
>It proably works 99% of the time but that 1% will be right before an important deadline or something.

Are you a terrorist

i loved to make this joke and it hurts me that you're downvoting me friends
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That's true. The uptick in Canadian academic hiring is about something other than money, I'm guessing.
So, if you expect your users to use your product for multiple years, charge appropriately. There's a difference between an update and an upgrade. A further difference still from a subscription. I think most people are happy paying a single price for a single thing and expecting to not pay for it again - but happy to pay for the next version, that offers something more than their version.
Congratulations on the launch!
A lot of households also use water cans, and very often you cannot control the quality, are you planning to address this as well ?
Our nature can change at evolutionary time scales.

Our ability to 'do things' used to be so limited, but is now growing quickly.

The gap between our nature and our ability to change the environment around us is, I think, the root of many of our problems.
You collectively organize to make changes at a government level rather than a local one? That's why governments exist - You can't do anything mate. You must organize.

> Why should I waste my life for other people that don't care at all and enjoy theirs?

You are legit asking the question every single public servant has ever asked ever. How much do you actually care? If it's enough, then do something about it and get in government. If it's not, then so be it: you'll have to deal or try and elect politicians who show they actually recognize that our current methods are atrocious.

> my government keep promising to make taxes on these but don't do anything, what should I do?

Elect different politicians. If they can't get enough votes, try and convince people around you. If that doesn't work, run yourself.

I know this may sound condescending - not my intention at all. I've just had the same thought process and my only real conclusion was:

1.) I could be apathetic and not care. This is what most people do. This works fine - I can be happy.
2.) I can work my self to death to try and improve things. If it doesn't work, at least I know I tried. If it does work, then I have succeeded.

Just depends where your priorities are mate. Some people don't have option (2) at all. It's your call now.

Personally I think that governments have been irresponsible and shifted these policies onto the people because they're unpopular. No one wants to be the guy instituting a carbon tax because there's plenty of anti-carbon tax rhetoric out there ready to annihilate you. Something you can do right now is start getting rid of that rhetoric. Informing yourself so you can take on those arguments with people might be another option
Superb idea. India needs this!
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I don't know what they're using, but Wappalizer uses regular expressions over the HTML. You can intentionally mislead the scanner without much effort.
(Not a lawyer, but US immigrant pretty familiar with E/F/H/J/L/O visas and Green card)

There are some exceptions but the procedure is usually : get a job offer from an employer that is willing to sponsor you, then talk to a lawyer... But a lawyer might be able to help you find ways to immigrate without a job offer, but that seems pretty unlikely to me.

The H-1B visa would normally be one of the 'classic' ways to be authorized to work in the US in your situation, the problem being that in recent years demand has far exceeded the available number (annual cap). For example this year 199,000 petitions were received during the first week, for only 85,000 H-1B available (including 20k for holders of advanced US degree).
Therefore the USCIS now holds a lottery to determine which petitions will be reviewed first, and once 85k petitions are approved, you have to wait another year to apply...

The cost for an H-1B is nil for an H-1B as the employer has to pay for it and cannot ask you to reimburse those fees. You might have to pay in order to have dependants (wife, kids) added to your petition though.

The problem used to be to find an employer willing to sponsor you for the visa (the difficulty varies greatly depending on your industry), now the H-1B visa cap makes it more of a time issue unfortunately.

Other options you might look into depending on your how long you would like to work in the US: J-1 for an internship, E-2 for a company whose 'nationality' is the same as yours, L visas for a transfer to the same company in the US, F-1 visa for studies, and the O-1 visa which I will let you research by yourself and/or discuss with an attorney (the qualifications aren't as difficult at they may seem, trust me)
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