skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the core question of the Information Age. Companies like Google are in position to gather a boat ton of information about you if you're not actively avoiding them. With this information, they can provide "futuristic" services like a global search engine that knows your search preferences and provides contextual advertisements, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine a world where, upon arriving at your travel destination, your Android phone indicates the places near your hotel you'll want to eat or drink at. Or, during a month where you've got a lot of Work meetings scheduled, Google Calendar suggests that you and your friends seem to all be free this Friday evening and you could catch the film you've all been posting about. That sounds pretty cool.

But there's a very thin line between "helpful" and "annoying", especially if there's no easy way to opt-out. And there's no way to know if Google is providing your data to governments or large corporations. Who all knows about me, and how much do they know?

At least the future won't be boring.
"Too bad"? You like thinking about a $5000 bill when you're headed to the OR, perhaps straight from the ER? You think this is feasible for the vast majority of people?
This is standard fare on trade shows. It is probably done, one hopes, not as much to outright mislead as to avoid embarrassing malfunctions on the show floor.
Some of the stuff he was listing also sounds like his clients want a CRM, something like Salesforce, Dynamics or Basecamp.
I love the idea of this site because it is aligned with my experience of learning.

I graduated high school early and worked in the film industry because school was so boring. Over the next year I worked "hands-on-deck" on a schooner, 18 hour days making $250/wk, but loved it. I then spent the next 6 months hitchhiking around NZ and OZ and had the time of my life. This is when I really felt like I was learning about people, how to make friends quickly and read people so I could get safe rides to my daily destinations.

In college I studied and wrote my thesis on offshore wind farms, which was boring, and wanted to get hands on experience to really understand wind energy. Over the next 3 years I traveled the world leading teams using big wall rock climbing techniques to inspect wind turbine blades (aka repelling with ropes). This was an amazing experience because I really learned from many different angles and could tell you more about the realities of wind energy in the real world and energy in general then people who do one specific job.

I now am attacking energy from the consumer side with a company called http://wa.tt, using all of my previous knowledge of the energy industry. I am learning more by doing then I ever did by listening.

I follow the saying, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."

(PS I don't know about the specifics of these videos, but I think the education space is blowing up in a very positive and productive way. I would really love to truly learn how to learn.)
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I sincerely doubt that the bean-counters at hospital are losing a ton of money on medicare but are too confused by the large 'revenue' figure to subtract a larger 'expenses' figure and realize they're making a loss.

As a matter of fact, I can't recall ever reading an op/ed or anything by a hospital administrator complaining that they're being fleeced by medicare and losing a bunch of money on it. But I've seen a billion op/eds in the same template as TFA, bemoaning the byzantine and obfuscatory private insurance regime as something that completely destroys any market forces that should exist in the industry. I mean, one hospital charged one thousand times as much as another for the same treatment.

I have to conclude that bringing up medicare while the private insurance industry system is this flagrantly broken is nothing but a red herring.
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My first inclination is to agree with you. The OP should never have used WordPress as a multi-tenant CMS in the first place. OTOH, he does raise some issues that affect WP use even in its original blogging context. I use WP, I like it, I don't have immediate plans to change, but if I ever personally hit a "this was obviously never tested" case like he did I'd probably change my mind pretty quickly.
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Did they use 30% less surgery too?
For some reason the site is trying to fill my entire monitor even though I have my window using only half the screen (Chrome, OSX). The font size I'm seeing is 25px for the body text...
Then the author should migrate his own blog from WP.
Plone -- http://plone.org/
How does that help anyone in any way?
Yeah, but by adding all of those opinions and averaging them we probably get quite a decent idea of a given food quality.

Plus, since you'd (hopefully) be embarrassed to put a pic of that bag of cheetos to public scrutiny, as long as you keep snapping absolutely everything you eat, it should work great in curbing your tendencies to eat junk food.
Yes or from fewer, if you can find a good niche:

http://blog.lescapadou.com/2011/10/how-ive-made-200000-in-io...
> We had a big shortage of Aderall recently because the FDA has to give permission ahead of time for a given amount of production of the drug for each company.

As I understand it, the DEA, not the FDA, sets the quotas. They're currently arguing publicly over the shortage: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/health/policy/fda-is-findi...

The DEA claims there is no shortage (insert Star Wars hand wave here) while the FDA wants them to raise the quotas. (How Soviet does that sound?)

No disagreement on the rest of your comment.
You may well be right, but I think you should have disclosed your status in the concrete5 community and the fact that you've contributed code to concrete5 and created the blog app.

Mostly because as a first-time poster, no-one knows you here and it would be good to see some impartiality or at least a critical argument about what sets concrete5 apart in respect to addressing the concerns of the article.
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Don't forget the fact that they use Google's closed source software like GMaps, GMail, Market... and strictly they don't allow you to run that on custom firmware.
If X is some value that best describes inherent affinity to learning, relevant to discipline you want to pursue, and Y is already amassed knowledge and skills, also relevant, then:

Your y prior to going to college/university is a derivative of x and any prejudice, your score on the test is a derivative of x and y and prejudice, your future potential is a derivative of x and y.

The interaction between all these is complicated, depends on how exactly we derive knowledge from intelligence and prejudice, scores from all above and future potential from knowledge and intelligence. It is different for different models of education, types of tests and disciplines. But in general it is most unwise to expect that 10% of any ethnic group has the same future potential, if only because tests show they are less or more educated already.

In general you cannot estimate if there should be more or less of a certain group if you do not carefully examine the nature of prior disparity. And this is impossible, and even more so when the problem gets politicized.

A side note - free market gets rid of the problem. We do not need a common stand on all the issues, when everyone only risks their own resources, and those who pick right, flourish.
I see what you mean. But at that time, Google results weren't tied to personal identities, which had no clear definition yet, and that's what this whole Google+ project has been about.
Last I checked Sweden doesn't have a 0% tax rate.
I don't care if it's communist, socialist, fascist, or all three at once. It's awesome. I'd gladly pay more if I had to if only to avoid all the paperwork related to private insurance.
Not to sound like an ass, but their kid choked twice in 2 weeks?? Anyone else see a problem there?
It does, you just have to enable it (private interface). Just tell me what you need that's not working, and I'll enable it.
Not just a 'trade show' - in front of analysts, doesn't this constitute fraud? Particularly if (believed as of this post) Intel has not actually demonstrated the hardware performs as the hoax demonstrated?
This is a big part of what's driving people into poverty in this country.
Time and again, people want to use a hacked up blogging engine as a CMS and lament that it is not working.

Use a CMS that's been around for more than decade which has all the features you want in a proper CMS (single sign on, WYSIWGY, multi-lingual support, a huge community of developers and service providers).

ie., Plone -- http://plone.org
Write spec, hire dev, build your own.
I'm sorry, you've questioned my experience, sworn at me, and used patronising language, but now I'm insulting your intelligence because I didn't assume you had good intentions?

It's great to know you want to treat women as individuals, but it's not actually clear what's stopping you, except for the fact that you have to keep your "hands off" and aren't allowed to act inappropriately.
...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.

It's hardly clear the money is going down the tubes due to administrative inefficiency. It might just be spent on unnecessary medicine, and costs might be higher in the US.

According to one fairly decent source, administrative inefficiency is a pretty minor contributor - the biggest contributor is outpatient care.

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/what-makes-the-u...
Why do you think that Lisp programs can't talk to the environment?

Also, even if you couldn't, flippantly dismissing "elegance and purity" as a "shitty attitude" is not very constructive.
does it just require and adjustment of thinking to a new paradigm or is doing everything harder?

Depends on how restrictive your language is. Scheme makes it a lot of things easy, e.g. a sequence of statements is often easy to express with begin/let/let* , whereas Haskell is pickier about use of side effects. The biggest hurdle I had in learning scheme was getting used to using a recursive function where I would normally use a loop.

(let* [(x (... DB query ...))
(y (... API query based on x ...))]
(begin (... write some state based on x and y ...)
(... wait a bit ...)
(... read the same piece of state ...)
(if (... it is unchanged ...)
(... then ...)
(... else ...))))

The line between imperative and functional starts to look a bit fuzzy, but let* and begin can be constructed from lambda expressions.
Facebook seems to get more slimey every time I read about them. I really hope they clean up their act.
Thoughts on co-working spaces in NYC?
I am looking to find a co-working space in NYC - however completely clueless. Any thoughts/suggestions/experiences on pros and cons of places like SunshineNY, NWC.CO etc...?
I'd like to, but unfortunately I live in the US and my government doesn't allow legislators to propose universal healthcare systems: the rules state that single payer systems may not be discussed, much less voted on.
Color me confused, I love(or hate) X isn't an argument. It is a statement of position. The part after the because is the argument. Hopefully that part isn't interchangeable.
If you just log out of your google account search should be fully 'de-personalized' right?
Clever use of words.

They host my e-mail, I'm opposed to them having my search queries.
Instead of getting bogged down in his specific example (the tree), I think it's more helpful to focus on his larger points in "On Acknowledging Problems" (the forest).
Windows, Windows!? Why? WHY?

Though the super smushy JPEGified Cerebus is amusing.
It creates a downward pressure on health care costs.
Because the subject of the sentence is "a startup founder", not "Jason Cohen".
That's heavily subsidized, of course, but part of it is also that doctors are only paid about half as much in Europe, on average, as in the US.
Well, been living in 4 European countries and never paid anything but in mine (Italy). I am also pretty sure unemployed are covered too. Don't know in Germany, where I still can't get how insurance works, but I would guess there is a way to get cover there too.
Only slightly on topic, but the choice of shell discussion always interests me.

Within the open source world, I hear about sh, bash, zsh, fish, and occasionally scsh.

It is _only_ in the academic world that I ever hear discussion about things like csh or tcsh.

Anyone know why?
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Hmm, that's an interesting take on it. Thank you.

That's not my impression of what happened, but it could fit what I observed, and the concept of diagnosis-related groups seems useful.

"diagnosis-related groups" reminds me of how car repair is sometimes done. A made-up example: a tune-up on your model of car at the local mechanics is $350, regardless of how much time it takes or parts required.

Still, at the end of the day, they give me an itemized bill detailing everything they did, and put in, including waste fees they might be paying.

While some of that may be useful for marketing/upsell reasons, much of that keeps me better informed as to the state of my car.

In my 00s experience in the hospital, there was literally none of that, except for one thing: they gave me a manufacturer's warranty card, which was weird beyond belief, but I guess nice to have. Other than that, no detailed list of what had just happened.

If DRGs are the future for billing, I'm not sure they are the best future for doctor/patient/hospital communications.
I have used solely mac's in the last 4 years. At my new work they use windows I didn't like the idea at all. But actually I don't really care anymore vim, eclipse, chrome, spotify etc it all works. I need to buy a new laptop and it is not going to be a macbook pro 15" since I think its to expansive especially since I had this epiphany :)
Usually, you should always get an insurance deductible as high as you can afford to pay out of pocket. If you can't afford to pay the deductible out of pocket, you should look for a lower one. So a $5000 deductible isn't for everyone, but it would be good if the people who could afford it would start to use it and bring some price-sensitivity into the system.
The more I see this prices, the more I think that: 1) we have too less doctors due to stupid closed numbers policies in schools; 2) we have a patent system that allows companies to legally rip us of for medicines and machinery. With an aging population, this is just not sustainable.
And I'm telling you that my wife is that bean counter. Her job is (a) budgeting, and (b) getting reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid. As well as anyone in the organization (which is to say, not too well, because of the deficiencies with cost accounting that I mentioned), she knows those numbers.

I don't think a month goes by when I don't ask her this question. Something always comes up, where she's saying "Medicare just denied another $500K payment" or somesuch. And I'll say to her "you live by the sword, you die by the sword".

She admits that the net profit via Medicare is negative. But the decisions makers don't want to consider it. In this case, it's possible that they consider it their mission because they are a Catholic hospital. I can't see any answer in the general case.
Disclaimer: I am CS engineer and have been working in China for the past 7 years (always in tech).

I am not sure that representing China/Asia as the next Eldorado for Westerners is that smart; yes it can be a land of opportunities, but I fail to see the real future you would have in "teaching English" in Beijing, Shanghai or anywhere else down here. It is a precarious position (schools are notorious for screwing around with visa, salary and basically anything you should be entitled to), competition is fierce (many disillusioned foreigners who could not find a job and settle for it), with a steady input of fresh candidates.

Now, if you are indeed an English teacher and are trying to build a career abroad, why not? If you are a history graduate settling for an easy to land position, well... One of the commenters (stupandaus) mentioned that Chinese locals usually refer to them as "Losers Back Home"; foreigners do too.

I think however that the excitement of the poster is genuine; China does indeed exhale that energy that you may find hard to find in Western countries (especially Europe). It is a very challenging environment, one that does not necessarily care much if you fail or succeed, but it can be very rewarding if you are up to the task; you can be put very quickly in front of responsibilities and opportunities that would demand a fair amount of experience, connection and luck in the Western world. However, you are still expected to work your ass off if you want to build a serious/successful career, maybe even more fiercely in some aspects than in Northern America or Europe.
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"No significant effects on health" isn't entirely accurate; the "average" participant had no negative effects on health, but several of the subgroups did, mainly poor people with chronic conditions who had better compliance with treatment regimens, and better outcomes, in the free-care case. Here's the abstract: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198312083092305
I keep a savings account around with a minimum balance of $5000. The only reason I have that money sitting there and I am not using it as a down payment for a car I so desperately need is because I need it for my high deductible plan. I also have an HSA (health savings account) that I am slowly adding money to every month, which at the moment is mainly used to pay for prescriptions and the like.

Now, one could suggest that I change my plan to a non-high deductible one so that I don't have to keep that money sitting around in savings, but then my costs per month would go up $300, whereas my high deductible plan is entirely paid for by the company I work for. I don't go to the doctors nearly enough to that the extra money I spend per month would counter-act the amount I am paying out of pocket now because I never reach my deductible.
Actually I think you'll find that billing like the kind you see in the US doesn't happen in Germany. The US spends nearly twice as much per capita than Germany for a comparable level of service[1]; this is hard to judge but life expectancy is a reasonable proxy, people in Germany on average live about the same.

The UK with near mandatory, see below, universal healthcare the cost of per capita is lower still [1 ibid]. In the UK if you opt out of public healthcare you can't mix and match services beyond the GP level, this may change in the future.

Obviously with a mandatory universal care the overall cost to the public at large stands a high chance of being lower; efficiencies of scale. The downside is that at the individual level you may be subject to "postcode lottery" healthcare. In many countries this leads to individualism raising the costs of healthcare for everyone.

Everyone wants to be treated the best; the problem is that regardless of the system you chose this is impossible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal...
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Did you finish reading the article? The kid choked twice in two weeks because he had an inflammation or infection of the esophagus, which the second hospital diagnosed and treated.
> I'd just pull out of Medicare.

Many hospitals do; many don't because they feel it's a moral obligation to provide care to Medicare patients. Here's an example of that attitude: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/12/dropping-medicare-break-...

In order to stay in Medicare/Medicaid (which, as I said, many see as a moral requirement), hospitals are often required to lay off staff. Here's an example of 100 layoffs at Dartmouth Hitchcock hospital: http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111109/NEWS02/711099983
That would be up to Google. They still know your IP address, general location, browser, OS, etc. and can use that to "personalize" your search results.
You misunderstood my quote marks. I don't care if you account for hours worked, the net pay in the end doesn't seem to attract the quality you need in teachers, nor give them the respect they deserve. Also, your numbers seem suspect. The median pay for teachers is around $40,000 in the US. Median, not starting.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary
DocumentCloud is pretty cool. It won a major Knight Foundation grant and a bunch of newspapers are using it now.
The fixed cost per visit is not a payment for treatment, but a tax; it's notionally there to stop people using the system excessively.

(See also the prescription tax in England, although there the average cost of a prescribed medicine <= the prescription tax. Here in Scotland we abolished the NHS prescription tax a year ago; the system didn't subsequently collapse under the weight of freeloaders asking for prescriptions for stuff they could buy over the counter. Draw your own conclusions as to whether such taxes make sense ...)
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I think NPM is at the opposite end of the spectrum to PEAR. Just try figuring out what the standard Mongo or MySQL library is with NPM. I think there needs to be some level of curation and/or tiering of packages.
A couple things, first off, if costs are higher in the US, they shouldn't be, we're not living in a radically different reality in the UK. Market forces should be lowering those costs, but they're not, because the actual cost centers are completely insulated from any market whatsoever by the insurance system.

RE: administrative inefficiency, from my limited experience (laying off teachers in local gov't back in 2004 because healthcare premiums were going up by 15-18% a year), the administrative overhead in actually managing the insurance is pretty small as a % of the costs paid to hospitals.

But then you step back and think, well what the hell, why are the costs paid to the hospitals so high? Because the whole system's broken. So if you try to measure administrative overhead, it looks small, but the general administrative system is creating this environment where the costs themselves are through the roof. Some is unnecessary medicine, a lot seems to be the completely arbitrary price structure. In the linked article, one hospital charged 6 bucks for a treatment, another charged several thousand. That's not a market.
Honestly, no. Not here in Italy, at least. "once you’re 10 years into your startup career, as he is, you have access to all the same incredible resources" - what is going to give you those "incredible resources" you're talking about? Time?

I've seen too much to believe that you can be a successful startupper without some kind of external help. And that external help, at least here, it's not something you can gain - it's something you're born with. It's your family, it's the friends of your family, it's the connections your family has, it's the connection you were able to build because you went to an expensive school, paid by your rich family.

Again, I'm not saying that in the US things work the same way. In Italy they certainly do - Startup Chile is/was kind of a failure for the same exact reasons. The commenter has its rights to complain about those guys who had a huge headstart if they act like they didn't.
I'm also certain that much of the unnecessary medicine is provided because of the legal climate in the US; doctors practice under the assumption that they will be sued if they don't provide unnecessary medicine.