skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW the patient can still submit the bill to insurance and request to be reimbursed.

It might be an interesting model to push all insurance work from the doctors to the patients. I think it may even have some benefits: people will actually know what they are paying for.
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Your whole comment is lacking but this part is plainly false: "every time those customers buy a deal, groupon goes farther in the hole". Groupon's share of the every coupon purchase, which is around 40%, drops right to the bottom line.
This will result in a lot of broken apps in the app store.
As you stated elsewhere, the explanation for this was that it insulated them from the pressure of takeover offers. Getting offered 6 billion for a company you started 2 years ago must be an incredibly difficult thing to turn down, so taking some equity out allows you to make decisions that you think are best for the business without worrying so much about your personal risk profile and so on.
Listening to the podcast now, It's pretty good.
If you have a suite of apps (free/paid) or that work together in a meaningful way, you can use a unique pasteboard to persist shared information.

If you did that for advertising reasons, I'm sure Apple would reject/revoke the apps once they found out about it.
I think you meant conscientious. Contentious means confrontational.
I think that this is mostly to force people toward AppleID/iCloud as a universal method of authentication, as well as a reaction to the Germany and South Korea lawsuits over location data.

It makes sense that Apple wants iCloud to be the defacto method of cross-device and application authentication.

In my time doing iPhone apps in the music business, I had many ideas of how to use the UDID for aggregated statistics and data, none of them entirely holy from a "own your data" perspective.

So mixed: as a product developer, the UDID was handy to have. As a consumer, I would rather my AppleID (something I can change/cancel) be tied to it.
I can understand the desire to discourage people from tracking the device itself, but this really has to be used unless Apple decides to provide a way of identifying the user of the device.
Remember this is deprecated, and not yet removed. TestFlight and UDID Sender etc all still work fine on the current betas of iOS5
Two hours.
I guess this will be a great new feature for Parse to offer iOS devs.
I am the director & on hence on the board of a UK Limited company setup & successfully take on contracts from the UK's govt organisations & multinational business customers to supply various IT software consultancy services (known as IT Contracting in the UK & fairly common here & in Europe) I am paid a minimal UK wage supplemented by dividends taken regularly from my corporate profits. I only employ myself & have another family member on the board (not my spouse). Am I now eligible to apply for a H1B & hence bid for contract work in the USA too with the view that I provide a competitively valued service which is essential in enabling majot IT projects for US Corps? - I already do this in the UK & all over Europe & Switzerland which is outside the EU & frequently on typical 3-9 month contract periods. My company has been going 3yrs or so now & is fuuly UK & European tax compliant/registered. Alternatievly, if it would be best to extend my own UK company to have a USA branch too I can also do this too.

Ideas/comments anyone?

The only thing I cant do from the UK is find a USA employer to sponsor me at the outset - I am frequently asked if I have a H1B to which I have to respond no.
You tell your drinking pals that someone on the Internet told you that there is no shame in drinking Smirnoff Ice.

Anyway, now it seems like I'm putting peer-pressure on you to start drinking again. That's even less cool than someone who laughs at a person's taste in drinks. I'll try to keep that in check.
17-20 years or so in the USA.
The business model of Groupon is eerily similar to that of the US. Use current cash/bonds to fund payables and hope that it doesn't get out of control. For the US it already has but at least the US can raise the debt ceiling and print more money... something that Groupon can not do.
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It's a shame, because UDID-based user blocking has been quite effective for a lot of apps and communities. I suppose users could authenticate via iCloud, and Apple has an interest in users doing this, but it's a bummer for UX.
If just now learned how to play chess and only played it for an hour every week you'll likely find that people that play it every day (and have been playing it for years) have an advantage over you.

This isn't the fault of the game, it's a problem with not matching you with players near your skill level.
The consonant changes while non-obvious to native english speakers at least are somewhat consistent. Using a different latin character for a sound isn't that big of a deal when learning a language. Once you get to Japanese/Chinese/Korean its normally the least of your concerns. :)

Compare and contrast to English pronunciation of things like:
moose
goose
lose
loose
hose
etc/usw... Quite a disparity between the lot of words despite their similarity.

Sorry for the thread derailment, i'll go sit in the corner and think about my life.
To me, this is just yet another argument to add to the gigantic stack of arguments against the current way of doing things in medicine.

Lately, I've been doing a side job in which I transcribe focus groups for various businesses, including several large health insurance firms. I am consistently stunned at the money they spend on this, and the cynical nature of the questions they ask, and how completely unrelated they are to anything even resembling patient care. They just aren't concerned with patient care. They are concerned with developing "innovative insurance products" to compete with the supposedly "innovative" offerings from other health care conglomerates.

People don't want "innovative insurance products". They want affordable health care, provided by physicians who are not driven to distraction by the bureaucratic requirements of dealing with ten different insurers who are all trying to pay out as little as possible.
This is a great idea, but it would be nice to have a page on the website with a clear license of the snippets.
We preferred Less over Sass because of it's ability to compile via JS, Mac app, or node. At the time, I believe Sass was not able to via JS.

Other than that, personal preference.
Why?

edit: Seriously, Why? And why the down votes?

The API is deprecated, but so far not removed, there's a lot of lead-time, and iCloud is going to exist for user identification.

Are there truly that many apps whose assumptions are so brittle and developers so absent that this change will break them?

(Unless OP meant business models assumed in apps that need to identify everyone, even if they don't want to. That's valid, if less interesting.)
We will definitely be looking into the IE support ASAP. More to follow on that.
They have – it's called iCloud.

http://www.apple.com/icloud/
$11 years?
> Other people who don't have your particular software requirements (probably 90% of people in the web-centric era) aren't going to weigh those downsides so highly

If you think 90% of people really weight pros and cons of a mostly technical decision, you are an optimist. I am not sure most people who buy iPads know every other tablet available (and that includes things like the Nook) can browse the web, use e-mail, watch videos, run Flash thingies and play Angry Birds. Apple enjoys a powerful reputation and it's often a good enough decision to go with an iPad when you are confused by a lot of slightly different offerings.

The Touchpad appears to have been rushed out before it was ready and its software has a great deal of problems, but I am quite sure those problems would have been fixed relatively soon. It's been on the market for only 45 days, after all.
That's such a good article!

It puts "get-rich quick" hot heads under cold shower.

It shows why startup must be something to enjoy even if there is no money there.

It shows that quick growth is highly unlikely.

It shows that ~5-10 years of consistent effort is the must for success.
Would that persist across resets?
Say what you want, but he's making more than Groupon.
They sell a lot of software to those unhappy clients, very similar to other hated companies like Oracle.
Hopefully they disappear. But, probably not.
IntelliJ already has shared template libraries, along with in-place choice / definition of the variables. What it doesnt have is the search. I'm betting that gets added shortly.
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Mmm... sort of. But you're really stretching it there. I get your point and yeah of course that's totally stupid, but it's also somewhat irrelevant. They both have to do with enormous fines for small infractions and they both have to do with the Web. I said in another comment that it doesn't matter who is doing something stupid -- it's still stupid. But this article wasn't about copyright law in the United States. I make the same comments in those threads as well. Only since this one is about Germany being retarded, they get the special treatment.
But then it would no longer be a golden rectangle :)
Sounds good. Show me how to use iCould/AppleID as authentication in my app.

Oh, wait... you can't?

Mostly kidding. Deprecating the UDID seems like a good thing, as the #1 use was advertising. It'll be annoying for developers, but not that bad... you just assign a UUID on first run. No big deal.
Shouldn't make much of a difference. It's more useful for services tracking users across several apps and building profiles without their knowledge (eg. most ad networks).
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It did make me wonder if the author really wants to be an entrepreneur

It's a question I've asked myself and one of the reasons I wrote it was to try and figure out the answer to that question. I think the answer is that I'm not a natural born entrepreneur, who couldn't have it any other way. I see it as a strategy for achieving a goal and as long as it fits with my life, I'm game. Most of my conclusions were about how to approach it to fit within my personal limitations. But my job right now is too great to leave regardless of how my side projects go.
I wonder if google will feel any pressure from this decision to at least separate out the "phone state" and "phone identity" permissions. Given their advertising focus it seems unlikely that they'd remove it entirely, but at least make app developers be up front about what they're requesting. It's too easy to blame that permission on needing to pause/mute etc. during a phone call currently.
Yeah, I agree with these for the most part.

But I'm wondering if we're just doing this all wrong. If this kinda of mental technique shouldn't be taught very early in many disciplines...maybe even as early as elementary school.

It's not to say we should abandon the bottom up approach in use today, it's very useful for understanding many subjects. But there's very little done from a top-down style approach I'm thinking of...and it gives us a deficit in people who are unprepared for learning programming or similar disciplines later on.
I'd find this laudable if the AppleId was something that was programmatically accessible. It doesn't appear to be.
Several questions immediately pop up from the article:

* "He watched doctors treat up to 40 patients a day". Is the article implying that is somehow bad in and of itself? If the doctor has staff to handle paper work, and doesn't travel to each patient, this seems to be more efficient. In economic terms, the doctor is maximizing his comparative advantage (treating patients)

* "It wasn't like this decades ago. ... there was so little overhead." What is the cause of this recent overhead? Certainly doctors had offices and staff decades ago, as they do now. Is it just the insurance part? If that's the case, then just simply perform fee-for-service; doctors are free to do that.
I am willing to wager the suggested "combined" design would produce a very similar results anyway. The tree design is likely not necessary if the panels are moving.
Sure, the example in the video isn't perfect. If you think you have a better way of doing things, you can always submit it as another snippet, and that's the whole point. The video isn't trying to promote the specific code snippets - it's trying to promote one way to find and integrate them.
The innovation is the method of delivery of that $100k medical education. The article actually sold me.
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This post was good, but I actually think the responses here and in the comments on the site are way more fascinating!

I read the post as a genuine description of a normal day for Drew. Not as a bitter or sarcastic post making fun of hipsters, just a description of events in a normal day for Drew. Judging by the rest of the blog I'd call Drew a genuine hipster (unless the whole blog is satire) and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. I simply don't understand what people have against them.

This post, accidentially, made my think about the pointlessness of living, but not in a negative way at all.
We are born, live our lives and then we die. After we die, nothing, except for some memories in the brains of people you knew, is left. After the people who have the memories die, nothing is left of you and your life except from history.

Granted, a few people change the world in a measurable way, but they're the 0.00001% group of people who do. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being in the group of the 99.99999%.

Life is pointless except from the meaning we get from it. Since the meaning of life is to enjoy it, who's to say that this guy isn't living life correctly?
I want that, too. Let me know when you've forked it:

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap
Chipping away from the bottom takes time. But it will happen. Do you see the big enterprise software companies doing serious innovation in their products? The stuff that they built was often fairly cutting edge when they built it, but that was years ago, and those companies are sales driven not innovation driven, like Oracle. Of course they buy in newer more innovative technology, but then try to merge it with the legacy.
Avoiding a product just because it is popular is another kind of sheep behavior.

People are free to buy whatever they want without being judged for it. Please stop being a troll.
Why is Schleswig-Holstein always causing Europe problems? Shouldn't they have learned their lesson? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein_Question
What is the cause of this recent overhead?

Salaries for administrators and managers. Like universities, health care organizations have dramatically expanded the number of administrative staff.
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The shade issue implied by the parent post is that the tree configuration was mounted in a generally less shady position, as the Fibonacci-configured panels were located significantly further from the ground than the classic configuration. It is possible that the test was set up in a manner that puts the classic configuration at a disadvantage.

To control for that effect, the two panel configurations should be mounted at an equal average distance from the ground, and their positions swapped in different test runs.
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I think the most interesting and least talked about thing is b) "$10b to jump into a new market via acquisition which we just proved we're not good at."

HP has never been good at software. Hands up, who fondly remembers a nice HP software experience? Who remembers a hair-pulling awful one?

(And before you say webOS; please, webOS is nicely designed, but engineering wise it's bug ridden and terrible.)
Because developers have used it ID to store user information on servers, etc.

This allowed a simple way to keep user data without worrying about additional setup, username, login, etc.

If it is gone (and not merely deprecated) then developers need to get an update out now that can read the ID and cross reference it to other code.

Otherwise, all settings that might be stored by a user on a server will be lost if the developer relied solely on using this ID.
I suppose many incompatibilities could be fixed simply with CSS3 PIE [1]. I've been using in a few projects now, and the results are very positive. It rarely happened that the end results was bad.

[1]http://css3pie.com/
Good stuff. Let me as the user dictate the terms for how I am identified.
The article was fantastic, but I couldn't disagree more on your conclusions.

> It puts "get-rich quick" hot heads under cold shower.

Everyone I've known to become a millionaire in a short time (a year or less) did it by shipping blazingly fast and getting lucky. You can't get lucky if you never ship.

> It shows why startup must be something to enjoy even if there is no money there.

I agree here.

> It shows that quick growth is highly unlikely.

This article doesn't even tackle growth. You can't grow if you never ship.

> It shows that ~5-10 years of consistent effort is the must for success.

The article shows that you can't have success if you never ship.

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Overall, I think the article is fantastic. It really hits home for me, and matches my experience attempting a side-project-into-business. But the biggest takeaway isn't "it takes hard work.". This guy obviously worked hard for a long time.

The moral of the story is:

* work hard -on the right things-

* use milestones that give you -visible progress-

* get product validation -early and often-

* actually ship

I've learned the same lessons from my past mistakes and I'm actively using these lessons in my current startup.
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Don't forget police forces. $4k is not out of reach for a medium sized metropolitan police force...and there are many many many of those.
Most are private businesses-- they should be run efficiently.
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That's AWESOME. Thanks
The purpose of the Like button is to enable you to share stuff back to Facebook when you click on it. We anonymize all logging data collected as a byproduct of serving the Like button and other social plugins within 90 days of their collection. See https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=186325668085084.

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As another commenter said, this is a pretty poor story to post here... most people here have a $/time utility that strongly favors time. But for people that invest the time in couponing (friending companies on facebook and getting high value coupons, finding grocery store member weekly discounts, tracking super-double/triple sales, getting multiple newspaper subscriptions, etc) they routinely save 75-90% off their orders. The problem is that this takes some degree of thinking, so the 'low-information' shoppers in Dollar General, Dollar Tree, etc end up paying more than they would otherwise.

My wife coupons, and I don't remember the last time we paid over $.25 for a gallon of bleach, either...
I don't think one or two hundred a visit is very much higher than in any other context.
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If someone holds a knife to your throat, you would pay much for it - but this is not the value of the knife.
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We are using the UDID as an extra precaution in an app currently. The user logs in with username, password and UDID. If the device is stolen the UDID for that user's device can be easily removed. We are dealing with sensitive data that needs a killswitch when things do go wrong. Guess we will have to come up with a new approach.
I don't want to sound like a live-free-or-die-hard FOSS fanboy (even though I am), but, you could always use an open toolkit like Qt or GTK. They're ubiquitous, and especially in Qt's case, totally customisable in terms of look & feel. Microsoft can't perform any cathedral-style deprecation (cannibalization) to these toolkits.
As far as I can tell, the threshold for joining sales engineering there is surprisingly low.

BUT... keep in mind, they intentionally don't educate their pre- and post-sales folks about the actual capabilities and flaws in their approach. The training I got was basically useless---a week of having someone read the getting started guide to us.

Apparently, one of the earlier sales engineers had written a "real guide to IDOL" or some such, intended to help new sales engineers actually know what to do. Autonomy's CTO had all copies of it deleted, because it referred to bugs and shortcomings that they'd signed contracts claiming didn't exist.
i'd rarely say this, yet this is the case where i see the genius of Jobs (rumored to be himself choosing/approving designs) - this proposed alternative, 4-grid one http://aentan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/alternateUI.png just looks completely "lifeless", boring. Slight asymmetry, non-proportionality, oddity, etc... are the attributes of life.
Yes, but, paraphrasing you, major Windows versions "don't show up for free in Windows Update".
It's not that hard. There are lots of objective criteria you can apply to show that one piece of code is better than an alternative: it's more efficient, it's more extensible, it's more reusable, it's less lines of code, it's less prone to error X when programmer Y tries to use it.

The hard part is actually convincing a human that something they did is sub-standard based on a set of objective criteria.
The margins on the servers Amazon buys are not that high. They are buying commodity servers, not the highly redundant high end ones. With just a couple of SATA drives. No redundant power supplies, raid controllers, hotplug ram and cpu and all the other high margin stuff that makes the server business really profitable.

Apple is probably more profitable for them. There was an old story that Apple designed their computers using a Cray supercomputer, while Seymour Cray designed his supercomputers on a Mac.
How much of that stock bounce was due simply to Hurd isn't Carly?
Ask HN: cofounding and code reuse?
Surprisingly, a friend of mine said "OK, let's do it" to one of my ideas, so we might start in September.

One problem: since I am a coder and have kicked around lots of ideas over the years, how do I prevent burning several ideas at the same time in case the startup/project fails? Many of my ideas have synergies and possible overlapping code bits.

I guess we could agree that I keep the rights to my code, but I also want to avoid a situation where anybody could walk away with the code base and just clone the whole thing.

What do typical cofounder agreements look like in that respect?
The two main designers that started the grid-craze were Mark Boulton and Khoi Vinh. Some resources from them:

http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-st...

http://www.subtraction.com/2004/12/31/grid-computi

How to use grids? It is usually as simple as adding some css, divs and classes. At its most basic, you can use a gridpaper background or this javascript gridder: http://gridder.andreehansson.se/ that works well with the http://960.gs grid framework.

Why I use grids?

- maintainability and cooperation

- visual consistency across browsers

- less development time spent with display bugs

Why I don't use grids?

- Can become a bit boring/holding you back

- Not all designs work with even columns (for example those based on the golden ratio)

- Code bloat (you are using divs like columns and rows, in almost the same way one would layout a page with tables, also devs sometimes forget to remove the unused classes from the production CSS)
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