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I'm from Germany and you do realize that over here (don't know about the exact differences) privately-insured patients (who opted out off the 'mandatory' insurance scheme) basically pay a LOT more for any given medical service just so that patients covered under the mandatory insurance can get treated at all? It's like a giant (inefficient) money redistribution scheme, in all the worst ways imaginable.

Regulation does actually cause bills like that. It's just that in Europe, you don't ever see them.
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The American health-care system thrives in the uncanny valley between the government and the free market. There are all sorts of laws and regulations that prevent normal market procedures from working (for example, emergency rooms can’t turn someone away because they can’t pay), but at the same time, American anxiety over “socialism” has prevented Congress from letting the government take a more active role in actually managing the system. Instead you have this weird patchwork of nonprofit institutions, private companies, and public agencies.

If I recall correctly, the United Kingdom, with its much-maligned National Health Service, spends about 40% of what the US spends per capita on health care, and yet when you measure things like life expectancy, Britons are as healthy as Americans. That gives you an idea of how much money is going down the tubes due to administrative inefficiency.
I agree, this is further shrinking the 'bubble.'
It won't take SOPA to kill this. The existing laws are enough.
How do the doctors get paid if the patient is only paying $17 per visit?
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The article's intention was to promote the idea that plain-old functions should have their place as an equal contemporary to classes. I'm mostly a fan of PHP's object model, it's more complex than it needs to be in some ways, but it works. I could write a similar article on JavaScript talking about how it needs to indoctrinate a class hierarchy paradigm. My understanding is there are talks of this happening in ECMA.next. But CoffeeScript's model is currently good enough for me.
Hang on, so medicare told the hospitals and insurance companies to run their businesses that way? The transaction described in the article was entirely between private business entities.

I get that they set their prices in a way that distorts the market to some extent but it seems that that distortion is far less than what the really-smart-guys-in-suits have been able to manage all by themselves.

I understand the impulse that markets make things better. I really do. Look at computer parts for example, there's a robust market that keeps driving down prices and really delivers. But what about the healthcare industry resembles a sane market at all? There's effectively no market forces at work, due to the way that private sector businesses have structured it.
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Good post. Curious, though, about what alternatives they're testing. Wish this would have read less like a eulogy and more like suggestions for potential fixes.
The in-depth reporting I've come to expect from TWP... Do you really think that making fun of Sen. Graham will hurt him with his constituency? Is Paul Ryan that much the decision-maker on SOPA?
I don't want to be snarky, but can you please not insult our intelligence?

Of course we want to behave towards individuals based solely on their individual merits. We cannot, for various reasons, some of which are alluded to in the previous posts.
It's fairly common for font delivery services like TypeKit to use JavaScript in order to prevent display of text until the webfont has been downloaded.
No, even if he was completely wrong (which he probably isn't), deleting the post would not be appropriate. If they needed more information, they could ask. If he was wrong, they could correct him. What kind of asshole does it take to think just ignoring and deleting legitimate requests is appropriate?
NC IDEA awards $192k in grants to North Carolina startups
Wait so he's complaining that a free piece of software that is designed to "create a beautiful website or blog" (from Wordpress.org) doesn't cut it as a high powered CMS?

I think if we're honest, wordpress is a blogging platform and if you try to deform it into your own little niche needs, you need to accept the inherent risks.
The RAND experiment disagrees with you. It shows that cost sharing induces people to use 30% less medicine with no significant effects on health.

http://www.rand.org/health/projects/hie.html

Unfortunately, we never repeated the rand experiment, so it's a bit dated. For some reason we never tried repeating it before pushing massive changes in the law.
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How can you get 28 Mbit/s over DSL? I'm only 2 miles from my DSLAM and I can't get more than 1.5 Mbit/s.
But here's the thing: this actually lifts the lid on the echo chamber to be more open than it was yesterday. Google recognizes that global search is a necessary option. Before this update, it looked like G+ was just going to be rammed down every Google user's throat. Now we can opt out without having to log out!
Same in Canada, but substitute $50 for $80 (and our dollars are at parity with yours), and subatitute 2 years for 3 years.
I'd also like them, and everyone (especially seniors), to see how much of those costs the government bears.

At the risk of being pedantic, this is one case where one needs to remember that the government never bears any costs of anything. To the point:

I'd also like them, and everyone (especially seniors), to see how much of those costs their fellow taxpayers bear.
Don't bother with this book, at all. I'm just skimming through it and the author encourages the use of the font element, styling properties of elements like bgcolor. In other examples, he inlines CSS styles onto the elements — if that wasn't bad enough he's doing so in the `class` attribute, not the `style` attribute...

Other things that irk me is he keeps using the term "tags" instead of elements and "arguments" instead of properties.
It’s possible that in the second case, your insurance company was paying the hospital according to the diagnosis, rather than covering each procedure as a separate line item, and therefore no itemized bill was necessary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis-related_group
It's 2012. There is an alternative to Java. It's called C#
I can imagine that Lisp without the shitty attitude would be great. The shitty attitude that elegance and purity is so much more important than actually being able to talk to the environment a program runs in.
>Apple has done the industry a fantastic favor by fueling the tipping point of the intellectual property patent war that's been oh so rightly just for the good of all humans.

And, also, made it seem normal to have to get a hardware vendor's permission - and pay them $99/year - to applications you've personally developed on it. Bleh.
You most certainly can buy a pay-as-you-go SIM in the US. See http://amzn.to/wKySJq for example. The issue is complicated here however by the CDMA/GSM split, incompatible signal bands used by different carriers and not-truly-unlocked unlocked phones. Something like a million people in the US bought full-priced, unlocked iPhones to use on the lower cost T-Mobile netowkr but they don't get 3G bands. See http://blog.t-mobile.com/2011/09/26/about-the-iphone-a-lette...
I can't help solve the world's hunger problems when I'm dead, so in my opinion humanity's greatest problem is death.

Related: in this TED talk[1] Aubrey de Grey makes the assertion that extending life by another 20 years or so is an incredible feat because in that added 20 years science will figure out how to add 20 more, etc.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...
That's what I'm hoping to find when it's available for my phone, honestly unlike the other response suggests (and two unwarranted fan boy downvotes) I can safely say unfamiliarity has nothing to do with it. 2.x is terrible when pitted against even the 4.x iOS.
Maybe he hadn't been programming for ten years yet at that time.
The following are taken from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803351

----norvig 449 days ago------

Peter Norvig here.
[....]
In terms of programming-in-the-large, at Google and elsewhere, I think that language choice is not as important as all the other choices: if you have the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement, then many languages will work for you; if you don't have those things you're in trouble regardless of your language choice.

----edw519 448 days ago----

[....]
Someone should write a program that automatically posts this paragraph [Norvig's] at the top of every language war thread. I think they should write that program in php :-)

----poet 449 days ago-----

An approximation of some of Norvig's recent thoughts (Feb 2010):
"(1) It just turned out that when Google was started, the core programmers were C++ programmers and they were very effective. Part of it is a little bit of culture. (2) Early Lisp programmers (Erann Gat) at Google actually noticed that other programmers were equally or more productive. It has more to do with the programmer; we're getting to the point where language choice is less important (as opposed to 20 years ago). (3) Lisp is optimized for a single programmer or a small group of programmers doing exploratory work... If I want to make a change in a weekend I'd rather do it in Lisp than anything else, but by the time you get up to hundreds of programers making changes are not a language problem but a social one. (4) Libraries."
Paraphrased from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE7k0_9k0VA#t=03m20s.
Of course they start the article with a picture of "Hackers".
Funny that Seigler neglects to mention what Apple did in the great net neutrality fight: nothing.
That's the sad part of the story.
I'll be honest. I don't get why hospitals continue to play the game. If I were running the place, I'd just pull out of Medicare.

It seems that they're afraid of the millions of dollars of lost revenue, without considering the greater sum of expenses that they'd free up.
The long lack of namespacing probably hurt the adopting of package management in PHP but also it seems like overkill. I use an occasional PEAR package, but I always just download the source and integrate it into the project that way. It seems like more work to go through a package manager especially since I work on multiple different operating systems. It might also help that PHP packages tend to have very few dependencies.
This guy seems to be arguing that Wordpress should turn into a Drupal-like app, which it was never designed to do. Although I am also guilty of using WP for CMS on some simple sites, this is mostly due to convenience of installation and (mostly) ease of use for clients. I don't think most developers who use WordPress seriously consider it a "professional" CMS solution.

On the other hand, the alternatives kind of suck. This author doesn't even recommend one, which is odd considering he purports to have recommended WP to everyone for the last 4 years. Most other CMS solutions I've used over the last years have either been vastly overkill and overly cumbersome, or still severely lacking the features he describes as lacking in WP. It usually turned out almost as easy to develop your own skeleton CMS depending on the site's needs.

Also, why is the font on the site so large?
It's an important topic and I read your post with interest.

Perhaps as I spend longer here it will become noticeable & patterns will emerge.

I certainly think HN as an environment is conducive to level-headed responses & is a welcoming community.where my views are taken seriously.

Thanks!
My argument is that we have a surplus of humanities majors and the funding for them is disproportional to our basic need to advance scientific knowledge. Additionally, we must remain competitive with other countries that realize that STEM is the way to economic dominance.

The humanities are subjects that can be explored at home by anyone who has the luxury of free time. While I admit that a hand-holding professor can help you traverse the field quicker and lead you to insight that would be difficult to divine on your own, there are books and audio lectures that can do the same job. And what's stopping anyone from joining a mailing list on the topic of interest?

Even "big" art projects pale in comparison to the funding requirements of basic science research. We need to make sure every lab is fully-stocked with not only minds, but the latest equipment necessary to keep pace with the advancements being made at the top institutions.
Speaking as someone who doesn't know much about this stuff, your analogy reads more like, "the canal diverted the waterway, so tigers devoured the Pope". It may well be true, but you need to flesh it out more: explain how the new course flooded the tigers' habitat, forcing them to migrate to Rome.
I don't say LOL very often, but when I do, it's when I see articles like this.
concrete5 cms is pretty decent.
I'm guessing what he means is that, because Clojure can work so well with Java, he doesn't have to find people with Clojure experience to help on a Clojure project, he can just get Java people (of which there is an abundance).
Chris Stevens on Alice for the iPad, Book Apps, and Toronto: a Q & A
Google has become a bureaucracy worse than the government
And Hiroshima bloody well deserved it too, as everyone knows.
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hospital owned by insurance company, so it is very wrong

Wait what?

How on earth is that allowed to happen!
Until now I haven't really been able to encapsulate my feelings towards Wordpress, but this hits most of the big points. One can really only do so much with custom post types and custom fields before the question has to be asked if it would better to build a new CMS.

Rolling a custom CMS every time a client needs something isn't really a good, flexible solution. There are other options out there, like CMSes built on top of existing frameworks (e.g. Diem or Sympal, which are built on Symfony), but I'm not really sure how viable those are. I am curious if anyone else has other ideas...
Imagine this on Amazon: when considering buying a book, would you want to see the reviews of "your friends", of which maybe one or two have read the book you're looking at and taken the time to comment on it, or would you rather have access to the collective knowledge of millions of Amazon customers...?

Ideally you would have both. There is no reason to choose only one.

In the Amazon case, it might make sense to put your friends reviews atop all the others, so that you can see them in a sea of hundreds of reviews.

But with search engine results, I'm not so sure if personal should automatically mean placement at the top - since so often we've conditioned ourselves to never need to look a few places beyond the top link.
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Stop Marketing. Start Engaging. Lessons Learned from Marketing with Social Media
The post mentions that the issues extend into WordPress' regular redesigns of the admin interface, and their consistent lack of solid testing:

"This would actually be a much smaller issue if it wasn’t for the WordPress’ update schedule. I am 100% for constant updating of software, but the current desire to redesign the AdminUI 2-3 times a year creates a huge amount of friction from both clients and developers."

"Kev, they released a BETA version that they didn’t even load on Windows. The MENU didn’t work. Not some advanced feature throwing a bug, the fucking MENU didn’t work. I can’t test our themes and software against that. Lets be honest mate, how did it get past their tester and release procedure? Oh, thats right, they dont have a Tester. They just load it on their MacBooks and presume it works for the other 95% of the world. It’s a fucking shambles, and clearly they’ve learnt nothing since the 3.0 fuck-up."

I work with WordPress a lot, and have regularly had similar issues. Even as a blogging platform, WordPress is increasingly difficult to manage.
According to this tweet (https://twitter.com/#!/earlyad/status/156713473559113728), Mr. Niel said "When reaching 3 million subscribers, we'll either keep the offer or improve it. No price increase."
The font size seems fine to me (Windows Vista, Firefox). The lack of an apostrophe in the last word, however, is killing me.
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its not an either/or situation. when I'm looking for reviews of a book, or travel recommendation, I'd like to see my friends reviews as well as the top rated public reviews. content from people I know gives me a reference point on how to judge their opinions.
If anybody is looking for an ML/NLP internship in Santiago chile, I've been trying to find somebody down here, but no luck so far.
Wow. So many things incorrect..let's just look at one.
"The set operating systems used in the enterprise is fairly small: RHEL5, RHEL6, Debian 6, Ubuntu LTS."

In germany and portions of europe, add SUSE.

In korea, add HPUX.

If you're in pharma or health insurance, add AIX.

Dealing with enterprises in the US? You also need to deal with Windows environments.

While the problem seems simple, it's extraordinarily complex due to everyone's environment / way of doing things / "special snowflake syndrome".

Sorry if this seems kurt, but i've had to write commercial software in this space. You don't want to know how many times I've gotten in arguments with various enterprises about how stupid is it to do X, Y, or Z. Doesn't matter...your software needs to support it.
Exactly. I don't keep up with Wordpress too much, but my perception is that you should go with something like Drupal (or other proprietary options) if you want a platform fully capable of being a CMS.

That said, any CMS will struggle with the challenges that he lists. It's not some sort of magical entity where you turn it on and it's perfect.

I feel bad for his clients...
A long, long time ago, Compaq was demoing some gigantic new server which had redundant, hot swappable everything. As the presenter mentioned that you could simply pull out a DIMM on the fly, my friend reached in and did so, which powered off the machine completely.

Probably the most stressful job in the world is giving high-profile tech demo's...
Yeah, a political "elite" that is constantly facing disastrous legislation. Real political elites aren't constantly on the defensive.
> Test cases were not that fashionable back in the day. Surprisingly, people still got work done.

Reinforced concrete did not exist back in the day. Surprisingly, some people still got work done.

It's tempting to be dismissive of modern development practices (TDD, for example) using the argument that a lot of great software was written before it existed. If the icons of the past could write Unix without TDD, why do we need it to build a CRUD app? This is an extremely poor argument against improving development practices.

People were getting building done before reinforced concrete, doing particle physics before synchrotrons, and designing mechanical devices before CAD. Since we have had these things, however, each of these fields has advanced significantly due to their use. It would certainly be possible to design the complex solid forms of something like an iPad without CAD, but it would be much more difficult and expensive. It's the same way with development practices. Modern development approaches, in many cases, significantly reduce the cost and risk of software development.
Windows to Mac to Windows to Mac to... Linux? It doesn't matter.
I think that is what they want.
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Due to my own stupidity I fell off my bike on the weekend. A few minutes later I realised my little finger was swelling up and hurting a whole lot.

Universal healthcare let me go to a hospital get 3 x-rays and a doctor to tell me nothing was broken. Took 3 hours, but multiple people apologised for it taking so long while I was there (to be honest, I thought it was quick. A sore finger must just about be last on the list of emergency room priorities.)

Total out-of-pocket to me: $0.

I expect if I was in the US i'd currently be sitting here awaiting a bill for several thousand dollars.
This is so ironic I don't even...
Anybody know when Firefox will use this license?
I have to agree with that statement. Moreover this increasing please-dont-confront-me-with-views-outside-of-my-peer-group is problematic. While we embrace tolerance and open-mindedness in society, services like Facebook and now Google Search are increasingly reducing the open character and often randomness of the web by creating separated friend-islands.
The contenteditable attribute in HTML5
Just last week, I wrote that Google+ was going to mess up the Internet by turning Web search into a popularity contest.

Didn't google revolutionize search over a decade ago by doing exactly that?
The main point of the article is true. All configuration management software is lacking in some regard. However, the article ignores the fact that configuration management systems are focused on a much wider swath of OS support than RHEL and Debian based distributions. Most enterprises (and especially large enterprises) have Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Windows that they need to manage. Managing more than one solution for configuration management solution is antithetical to a well run infrastructure. The real problem with configuration management solutions is managing the solutions themselves. Most of the widely deployed solutions are based on DSLs making the learning curve steep and the chance for error high. The commercial options (CFengine NOVA, chef and puppet) all offer GUI based management consoles but the solutions are expensive for all and often prohibitively so for smaller shops. It's a crowded space but there is still room for a well designed, easy to deploy, easy to manage commercial solution that solves these problems.
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Most of the apps I write use transient data loaded from a server, so I download and cache the JSON from my server locally and build the tables, etc. that way.

I haven't delved into CoreData just yet. It looks daunting, and I've only been doing this for a year, but it's next on my list to learn.

Check out my github account for some of my iOS stuff. (my username on hn = my username on github)