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I have not torn an ACL in the US, but when I did in Canada, I found the treatment professional and quite reasonable in timeliness (Vancouver, BC).

I saw 3 different doctors, including seeking multiple opinions from 2 different knee specialists. I decided not to have surgery right away, and got a brace.

A few years later, my preferred leisure activities changed, so I decided to have surgery done. It took 11 weeks to get an appointment (as it was elective surgery at that point). The surgery was done by an experienced surgeon (a few hundred ACLs under his belt), and he met with me 4 times himself during the following year to follow up on my recovery progress.

Total out of pocket cost was ~$300 for a couple optional recovery devices (icing machine, etc.).

Physiotherapy appointments were, however, covered by my employer's extended medical at the time. That was about $1-2k that I would have had to pay had I been completely uninsured. I probably would have elected for less and cheaper physio care in that case though.

Short version: after reading this article/thread, I'd honestly be scared to join YC in SV, especially now that I have a daughter.

(Side note, I tore my ACL in Ontario and had an initial appt there, but ended up getting treatment in BC. It seems a lot of posts here talk about which state you have coverage in? Is the paid-for insurance not country-wide either??)
They can't in their (Disqus) case because they're aggregating all the stats per day into a single value. I guess they could do it 'per account TZ' since the account name is in the key, but that means TZ calc on each write (not that that will make a huge difference in perf).

For a generic solution with easy TZ calc, you need to aggregate your stats into hourly values instead (or half hourly if you care about those wacky non-aligned timezones). The increased fetches don't matter because you can just mget them.
Is the plan to get acquired by Google for integration with Voice?
I guess im a fan of the underdog ....always have been ...rooted for the mets growing up in ny ......love these stories
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Believe it or not, Germany is also a federal republic with distinct regional differences. Germany doesn't even have federal policing.
Not that it accounts for all of the change. Or even a large portion.

Then what is your argument??

Just that the rise isn't entirely due to waste.

No one argued that.

Even the most egregious health insurance policy abuses are generally something more than waste. Often, there's been an effort to enhance "choice" and "responsibility" but generally without understand that the average person simply has limited horizon for navigating such things.

It's not mere waste, it's mere corruption but a combination of multiple "perverse incentives" - effort to fuse government and private industry which aim for the best of all possible worlds but end in the worst.

"It begins with a blessing, it ends with a curse. Making life easy by making it worse 'My mask is my master', the trumpeter weeps But his voice is so weak, as he speaks from his sleep" Soft Machine

We face a challenging world today...
I don't understand the legal ownership fuss of their decision. If they had decided to take 5% instead of 30% there would be no discussion here. The only difference between 5% and 30% appears to be whether or not it's a good business decision. It does alienate a number of applications that have less than 30% margin, but that appears to be Apple's motivation. I would not go so far to say this should be expected, but it's a risk you take when you play with a company that likes to own such a large portion of the experience.
The site looks fantastic, and those are all A+ companies to apply to. I especially like that their roadmap involves developing intelligent ways to search for new jobs (like by languages in use – why has it taken this long for such an obvious filter?).
Few doctors want to live in a rural area for lifestyle reasons more than salary. A GP or surgeon can make more money in a rural area.
Okay, perfect! I look forward to applying :)
37 signal's culture book also mentions this [1]: Outside money is plan B

[1] http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Fund_Yourself.php
I understand the problem. Recruiting engineers is hard, but is engineers recruiting engineers sustainable? Do they hire more engineers to do recruiting?
Mubarak over capacity (A clever play on Twitter's Fail Whale)
Yeah,

In fact, forcing US hospitals and doctors to publish a price of any kind would be a simple improvement.

It is amazing with all the other twiddling that this approach never appears - at least not much.
Something smells fishy. Especially if he has never precipitated a harvest before.
Having been in a high pressure position in which my team and I were writing mission critical code which could "have no bugs whatsoever" first without QA, and then later with QA, I can say confidently the quality of the code and occurrence of bugs dropped dramatically after we introduced our QA engineers.

Our prior condition was very similar to telling a newspaper writer "DONT WRITE TYPOS". You can scan a page you've written several times carefully and still miss your mistakes, even if you are a conscientious writer. And the newspaper industry isn't the only industry that prevents mistakes through multi-party review processes, either.
Why I care about tablets: iPad offers huge opportunities for competition
Health insurance is broken because the people who pay the bills (the insurance companies) are not the people receiving the services (patients).

If patients were actually paying the bills, they would be much more price-conscious and you would see price competition on that stupid-expensive MRI (for evidence, look at how much cheaper LASIK surgery has become and how much better it has become, yet insurance does not cover it).

Doctors, on the other hand, are far more concerned about making sure the people paying the bills are taken care of. The proof that you aren't the customer is the 90 minute wait that is expected when you see a doctor. What other industry would force their customer to wait that long after making an appointment? But, since you are not the customer, that's OK, isn't it.

Having had a gastric bypass, I will never be able to get insurance outside of a group plan. My wife can't get coverage for other reasons. One of my four kids can't get coverage, either. I'm 9 months into my COBRA for the start-up I'm working on. If we don't have a group plan in the next 6 months, I will have to bail on the company.

And our government can't even bother to have a real dialog on the subject. Pisses me off.
By the time anything gets to the QA person at my dayjob, the devs have usually tried every damn thing that they could think of to break their own code.

The usual reaction to the bugs she finds is "what made you think of trying that?"
I don't use U-verse, but everybody I know that has it swears by it, which is why I was surprised at the sentiment of this article.

Looking at all the technical gripes the user raises, I guess its just another case of average person vs enthusiast-geek gap rearing its ugly head again.
I disagree with you if you are saying that he had planned for months with the intention of taking away Valve's secrecy and confidentiality so he can hurt them and as a result gain something from it. There is no question that a crime has been committed. What we are debating about is whether he exhibited the same immoral character that Roosevelt condemned. I believe that no he did not exhibit the condemned character of intentionally hurting others for self gain - at least not through his actions of making a copy of Valve's source code.

One of the reasons I believe that is because the ramifications of making copies of someone else's information is not very obvious compared to taking away a physical object from them. When you take something tangible from someone it is immediately clear that the other person will be suffering a loss. However the act of looking at files stored in a remote server (and as a result creating copies) is much less obvious. I think it is very plausible that the kid was just trying to see the state/progress of the game that he has been anticipating so long for (4 years) and simply did not think about the ramification of his actions. This is totally different than the pre-meditation of a crime with the intention to put another party at harm. He has zero motivations to harm Valve. He sees them as his heroes and still is a big fan.
That's an open question. Right now, our time doing the legwork with this isn't our bottleneck. We're focused on being 10x better than the status quo.

Once we hit our capacity, we'll scale with some linear combination of software and people.
Or get acquired by Twilio?
Even healthy people are made out of meat, which is the ultimate pre-existing condition. Are there really a significant number of people who think it's rational not to seek insurance, as opposed to not having enough income to meet the market price?
I use iPod with iTunes. Music comes from amazon.

Of course, next mp3 player will be some no-name brand, I expect. :-)
500Friends (w2010) is hiring Ruby on Rails Hackers
Here's something I could think of:

Engineers might one day have agents to haggle with businesses. Those agents need to know a lot about engineering in the same way that many sports agents are former players.

Is there reason to believe that such a time is coming?
Watches are now one of the few socially-acceptable pieces of jewelery for men. They are not about functionality.
Calories in-calories out is a pretty bad proxy for weight gain and health in general. Google Gary Taubes; he's done a great job of digging up and deconstructing a century's worth of research on the matter.
I'm 18, and have worn a wristwatch since I proved to my parents that I could tell time with an analog clock at the age of 4. I will admit that about 2% of my school wears one though.
Amazing. I just looked over MA's health care info, and it's much more affordable (and covers much more) than the average insurance plan in other states. Congress, THIS is what we need for all of America (or something that's at least that level of coverage for that price...)
I would say it really depends on the deal size. You want to reward them for their efforts but not overly reward them.

Also if these parties are that interested and your product is that good or has that much potential they will find about you quickly with or without the introduction / broker.
Designer at 500Friends
True, but the point was that Microsoft has previously realized that it can be a good idea to open their HW platforms to developers and researchers.
At least in my wife's case, she generally does pre-release QA, and doesn't necessarily do continuous QA. Still though, even if you need support for continuous deployment, you probably want a QA person to set up your automated test cases to test the output of a site in a way that, in my opinion, unit tests don't seem to catch.
Readability scrapes content and removes ads. Publishers lose revenue when Readability processes their content in that manner and presents it to the Readability subscriber.

Readability then tells the publisher "we're charging our subscribers in order to remove the ads from your site, if you want 70% of that revenue, sign up here, the alternative is, you get 0% and you also lose the revenue from your ads because we're going to scrape your content anyway".

Publishers can now either agree to Readability's redefining the publisher's business model, or they can fight back by using resources to subvert Readability from scraping the content.

Readability's business model is very similar to such P2P companies as Limewire: charging people for an easy method of accessing content that belongs to others. The only difference is, Readability has offered, apparently out of the kindness of their hearts, to pay a portion of their revenue to the publishers they steal content from. The publisher has no choice to be uninvolved in Readability's business model, they either accept it and get a percentage of it in lieu of their existing revenue, or Readability justs cuts the publishers existing revenue.

That's nearly the textbook definition of extortion.

Regarding Apple, you're absolutely wrong. No one is forced to develop an iOS app, so automatically, extortion is off the table. Further, the 30% does only apply to in-app subscribers, and though you want to claim that means everyone has therefore had their choice removed and must subscribe in-app, that's simply false. In addition, if most of your subscribers come from in-app purchases, you can thank Apple for setting up and maintaining an eco-system that is in turn your largest market.
Or to maybe, y'know, just be an awesome business on its own and not feel pressured to sell out?

Oh wait, this is the Valley we're talking about, my bad. Carry on please.
It's also helpful to have someone that can run through endless permutations, paying careful attention to each, finding small issues that popup with countless applied revisions. It is not an easy job.
OK, so maybe we need an Agile 'Score'. From 10 as "I eat requirements and shit index cards", to 1 being "We got a guy in with a whiteboard once".

The core team who define a concept get to vet the initial applications of the concept and give it a score. They also indicate who they think "Gets" the concept, and when those people are approved, they're publicly listed as "Getting it".

Similar to the PGP system... A Trustee of yours is trusted by me. Except competance in lieu of identity.

Basically, anyone can say "I give you a 10 out of 10 for hiring me as a coach I MEAN BEING AGILE", but only people elected by the community as a whole's opinions are likely to be respected.

If Paul Graham said you were likely to succeed with a stup, that doesn't mean you WILL succeed, nor does it mean that everyone will agree with him, or even then those he doesn't believe in will fail. But if you trust his judgment given a set of parameters, you should be able to trust his recommendation.

Maybe a simple rule: What does the certifier gain or lose from incorrectly certifying this entity? If the answer is gains money AND/OR loses credibility, don't trust the cert. This conflicts with the idea of a certification as a business, which kinda sucks because no-one wants to spend their time for free certifying people and businesses.

Maybe a group of peers review, freely given and freely used. Everyone wanting a cert throws in a small amount of cash for pizza, you walk through your operations, the community takes note of who's there, then votes.
There may well be similar apps but, we didn't find anything in the amount of time it took to bootstrap a new rails app. Something we have discussed is to do just what you say and provide a lens for whatever hashtags others want to keep an eye on for themselves.
would've liked more details about phone calls, as that is the beef that most people have with the at&t iphone. They give it some text, but no data
There's a follow-up already posted: http://dlo.me/flying-on-the-cheap/

That said, I'm not quite sure what he's trying to show. Is it what days are cheapest to travel on, or what days are cheapest to purchase the tickets?

And as has been noted, this approach is going to ignore Southwest and other airlines that don't show up on the aggregators, as the people doing this aren't going to go to every website.
Why legal issues? If MS was thinking ahead, they'd freely let people sell apps using the sensor. It sells more Kinects. You could pretty much bootstrap a whole app ecosystem based just on the Kinect (on Windows only thankyouverymuch)
Fox Interactive killed it and it was for Myspace.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2244475
"many sports agents are former players"???

In some sports I can see this...
But the guy who will offer you a cure for "everything you have minus one dollar" is going to get your business.

Not necessarily. Suppose you have a deadly condition. Your information is extremely limited as non-professional. Would ... you can pay all your money now for the cure your doctor offers or you can wander over to an unknown provider for the best price? The quality of unknown providers is ... unknown and your doctor is known. And he knows he's got by the genitalia and will charge accordingly since with even a thousand unknown providers, your real choices are very limited.

Just as much. Presently, no American hospital publishes its price list. I believe there's no regulation about this. Why hasn't "the market" impelled these providers to publish their prices.
"Recap of my wish list: mandatory guaranteed-issue private high-deductable health insurance"

Guaranteed-issue meaning "you have to get it, but we [the insurer] can charge whatever the hell we want. So, you, small biz of 10 employees with one person who had cancer, you premium is now more money than the GDP of Haiti, per month. Thanks and come again!"

That kind of practice can be fixed by either 1) price-fixing or 2) subsidies forever, the latter of which is really, REALLY expensive.

"an exchange-type system that fosters 5+ insurers in every major market (up from the 2 we have today)"

The one that the Obama administration just gave $240 million to 7 states (Kansas $31.5 million, Maryland $6.2 million, Massachusetts $35.6 million, New York $27.4 million, Oklahoma $54.6 million, Oregon $48.1 million and Wisconsin $37.8 million) to implement as part of the healthcare overhaul passed last year? I think it'll work, too. Funny how that needs federal dollars, though. Shouldn't the free market sort this stuff out without the magic hand of socialism?

"Broad adoption of cost-cutting services like telemedicine-issued scripts and nurse-practitioner clinics."

That I'll agree with, big time along with EMR mandates. That with HIPAA are a big step toward alleviating alot of the administrative burdens in healthcare management, especially tracking and billing.
Will it send faxes internationally, i.e. outside the states?

As a specific example, if I'm in Australia, and I want to send a fax locally, can I use HelloFax?
Interesting, as I've been doing Vipassana meditation off and on for the past ten years and only really started feeling that I was getting somewhere in the last year. One thing that helped a lot is that I read the book "The Power of Now."
> Dillon is pissed because the U-V router/firewall, which you can't really replace, is so bad that it breaks power user configurations. He's right, it does.

I don't know which router you and he have, but the one I have (a 2wire, don't know the model details) is configured to DMZ a pfSense box. I can torrent, use Vonage (QoSed in pfSense), etc.

I agree that they have atrocious customer service (still having connectivity issues after numerous technician visits due to old/crappy last mile cabling), but what large ISP's don't?
Vzn's fiber service is money. The router isn't particularly amazing (though competent) -- but the speed of the service is insanely fast and good all around.
That's an interesting thought. It's certainly possible. We see ourselves as a market correction -- engineers are in tremendous demand, but the market hasn't fully adjusted yet. Salaries haven't shifted dramatically and it's still a pain to find a new job, even for great engineers.

My bet is that the scale will continue to shift in engineers' favor until we hit an equilibrium.
How to Update Directory Listed Sites' Google PageRank?
There are an assortment of technical barriers that limit my ability to convert my toaster into an ice-making toaster. Starting with those annoying screws which were clearly put there to prevent me from easily accessing the inside of my toaster!

That's not the manufacturers problem.

The govt has already declared that jail breaking your phone is legal.
The competition closed today :-(
The hints on the bottom bar are a nice touch. I kept refreshing the page to see them all. Also found out about the keyboard shortcuts that way! (Hint: Press ?)
I remember Ilan Spillinger (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Press/Corporate/ilan-spillinger) saying something like that at a talk he gave recently- Microsoft Research played a huge role in the development, iirc.

/edit: This talk has some info about it http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=139295 (MSR guy starts around 1h00m)
Unfortunately, not yet. But we do have an eye on the international market and would love to support faxing internationally.
The author plays to the stereotype of developers who recklessly "commit and forget it". In a properly run organization, QA takes note of developers who consistently commit show-stopper bugs. If the QA team is positioned as a clean up crew for shabby code, this is a failing of the organization rather than the developers.

In an organization in which tests are developed for any code committed, and developers are careful not to break a build, soft issues are still caught by the QA team. Things that work but not as expected, minor cross-platform glitches, and permutations you'd never think to check, are all commonplace catches for a professional QA tech working with a well functioning development team.

The author of the article really doesn't sound like he's worked with a decent dev or QA team.
I love to cook, and I love cheese, but I just assume that I would need real milk (e.g., not 4% jug milk) to make a good cheese.

I'm working my way through Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking", but I keep getting drawn back to the very early chapters on cheese and dairy, even though it isn't particularly specific.

Any tips?
The great benefit of a watch is that you can check the time quickly without being obvious about it. This is important when you are meeting with clients or involved in any other kind of important or potentially sensitive transaction: pulling out your phone to check the time is rude and disruptive, but you often need to know how much time has elapsed so you can bring the meeting to a close if you need to.

I'm often on a tight schedule and being able to check the time once or twice during a meeting without the client noticing is valuable.

Also, they look nice. And if they make me look older, and therefore more experienced, so much the better!
> $227 per month, per person, comes from the government, which means it comes from taxes. And an additional $100 per person is spent per month on average ($324.58 per month). Far in excess of $50-$100.

Still, $324 is a pretty nice average, when you weigh in the mix of young and elderly, and of course if it comes out of taxes, presumably someone who is only able to afford $100 a month is going to have a lower tax burden as well.
Not a whole lot of an argument, admittedly. A bit of a jump to a conclusion based on your 5% starting point, which was in a very different world than today. Since the rest of the G8 seems to be around 10-ish%, start comparing there; I'm not sure why America is so much higher than that, but higher than 5% is pretty easy to account for.

Not that 10% is the best it can be, but I find it unlikely to go significantly lower as long as people refuse to do what's best for themselves, health-wise. ie, ever. (maybe Americans are worse at preventing health problems? no idea, just musing)
Hey what a great compliment jarin!
I am so happy you like my videos and comparing my spanglish accento to Mr Earl Jones and his unforgettable Darth Vader voice is too much!
Thanks man!
It will work to send a fax to a US number from another country, right? I only need to send 2-3 faxes a year, and currently do it from a dial-up modem on an ancient computer over my US VoIP line that I have overseas. I very rarely need to receive faxes, so sending is all I'd need. This would really take the pain out of those occasional faxes!
"Credit went to Reagan of course. Better hair."

Credit went to Reagan for selecting Volker and letting him do his job.
Ever thought of writing a book? You could call it "Stop it!" Stressing? Stop it! Eating too much? Stop it! Procrastinating? Stop it!

It's 2011, your brain should do everything you command!
Subscriptions and the new In-App Purchase requirement
Just out of curiosity, does your NHS insurance cover you while you're in the US?