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Ask YC: Saving Health Care.
Healthcare has several problems.

1. costs for the same treatment continue to rise, when technology should be bringing the cost of treatment down for a given health problem.

2. doctors raise rates to cover non payments from either the insurance company and or the patient, this is a clearly systemic payment processing problem.

3. the raw motives of an insurance company cause it to appreciate high medical costs so people attach to their service. they have an interest in making sure the system is broken.

4. some medical solutions are not profitable so many people find profitable ways to solve our health problems. (i have been behind closed doors when this happens)

5. it's nearly impossible to use open source software as part of healthcare, THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE.

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at the risk of our system turning into a clone of sweden's, canada's or japan's health care system i have an alternative.

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1. create a set of payment processing standards and regulate the hell out of them, these should be more regulated than the banking industry. CPC codes describe the treatment or care given, CPC code pairings should be regulated given a health condition, but not the price. the cpc codes should pass through a validation engine like the ones used for HTML and XHTML and the standards should be agreed on by a community of doctors. the codes should be given in a time sequence as the patients condition changes. doctors should ultimately have the option to use un approved treatments in rare cases.

bills that pass the engine, will be required to be payed by the insurance company.

2. get all of the treatments in a real time DB and have video observe patient care, then multiple doctors can confirm on care, and increasing accuracy while not needing to be local. this should also make healthcare law suits cheaper, and hospitals that opt into it would limit their liability as part of the reward for exposing more patient data. it could also be used as a teaching tool if doctors and patient gave permissions.

3. create an insurance company that looks at their data set and invests in treatments that are costing them alot of money, the idea is that if they own the IP that cost reduces healthcare, then they will profit from all of the other hospitals switching to the cheaper solution.

4. use prize economics to award prizes to healthcare needs that everyone can benefit from, and then give that tech away to the world. I would be all for our government putting up a 1-10 billion dollar prize to any group that can solve aids, cancer, diabetes, etc... creating a system where companies do not have to worry about how to profit from an invention is really worth it for all of us. Merc will spend up to $1billion creating a drug that marginally works. I am not for socialized healthcare, but i am for socialized healthcare solutions.

5. currently the cost to validate opensource software and patches is extremely cost prohibitive, there should either be a company that releases validated versions of an OpenSource software package, or we should change the law so that open source software can be used more easily.

What ideas do you have?
And why do you think 10% is impossible but 9.5% is not?
They don't withhold the product from people who want it. They withhold it from people who want it for "free" (ignoring FOX, and NBC's (or whoever's) billion dollar deals to show the NFL on their networks).

They have a myriad of services such as NFL Network, Sunday Ticket, etc. that give people a chance to see any game they want... for money.

Think iTunes. It's not that Apple doesn't want you to have access to any mp3 you want, it's that they want you to get it from them... for money.

The NFL is pretty good at making (a lot of) money for pretty much everyone involved.
The article is actually more than a year old. Traffic seems to be declining at youporn. I wonder if that means dvd sales are up.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/youporn.co...
The net is easy to censor
s/pedantism/pedantry/
Yahoo Layoffs Attract Lurking Recruiters Bearing Tacos
FYI: YouPorn runs on the Perl-based Catalyst framework (supposedly -- not sure how it was verified).
Nah, it means youporn has competitors.
Oh no...I don't even know what Web 2.0 means yet. Though apparently I'm the cofounder of a "Web 2.0 company".
Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant. No sarcasm. I have 50+ PCs with AVG Network Edition. So I was glad to see that AVG had already put this exploit on the block list.
Oh, I thought it was hilarious - and Pek asked me if it was OK to post before he did. I understand that I was a public figure as the host of the event; it would probably be a little less cool if it was just a bunch of friends going to a bar.

Yeah, these pics probably mean I can't be President now. But I still think I've got a shot at Governor of Illinois.
It looks like pornhub and xvideos have been gaining some market share, but most of the decline is probably due to Alexa changing how it gathers data. Check out how correlated the traffic for all these sites is:

http://widgets.alexa.com/traffic/graph/?r=6m&y=r&z=1...
I would make an interesting/funny/insightful comment here if I could leave anonymous comments.
Ruby’s Top 10 of 2008: Thanking Those Who’ve Made Ruby Great This Year
And it's not even magical. It's almost always implied anyway.
Orange is dead, long live apple!
YouPorn follows YouTube in pretty much every way. It became popular because it served copyright infringing content that others charged for, and it makes little money.

The major difference however, is that YouPorn followed many pay porn sites and a huge volume of content, as opposed to YouTube which preluded TV really coming onto the web. Often you hear that the TV and movie industries have squandered their opportunity to make money off the web. YouPorn makes a case that no matter what the TV execs or movie execs had done before YouTube, the proliferation of free content would have happened anyway. People like free, even if it is inferior. DVDs have better quality than streaming, even downloading is better than streaming, but free beats 1 cent any day.
your best bet is to get more users, get momentum, and hopefully one of the shipping companies notices you and partners with you.
It works for software because compiling and running unit tests is virtually free. Trying space elevator would cost something like $100bln of dollars assuming we already had all the required tech like superstrong extralong carbon nanotubes.
So instead of just being an industry, porn has firmly entrenched itself as part of our culture -- to the point that everyone is not just a consumer, but also a participant, and it will get harder and harder to make money at it?

Parallels with the music industry as well as movies and video?
oh he's definitely a nerd...look at those ears ;)
why are people "cobbling out applications if it is so hard?" - shame for one.

Oh come on. There are a lot of smart people making Ajax apps. They can't all be doing it for a dumb reason.
"Higher IQ students can often coast though school without developing self-control and healthy coping mechanisms needed in later life."

I second this sentiment, having experienced it myself. I coasted through high school while many of my peers had to work extra hard to get good grades, and it subsequently took me seven years to finish a three year degree (an illustration degree, no less, which requires patience far greater than what I had).

I don't consider it a failure - I consider it a lesson well-learnt, and don't regret the time it took - but if I had developed that discipline earlier, it wouldn't have taken nearly so long nor been so difficult.
Maybe, but I find some of the arguments that the opposite result is true (http://neuroeconomics.typepad.com/neuroeconomics/2007/02/alt...) convincing.
Out of the services I've tried, psdslicing.com was the best and cheapest. They happily made changes if I was not satisfied with something.

I had a bad experience going the rentacoder route (I used elance, actually). For $30/page you get a lot of people who are pretty good but not great, and produce shoddy markup.
I think this guy shows that pursuing what you love is available to everyone, even to poor Chinese peasants. His life might not be profitable one, but it is certainly a life well lived.
The thing about being a contrarian means that you're bound to be declared a prophet at least two or three times in your career. That's probably a nice feeling and great for book sales.

For those of us who spend time building businesses, these sorts of articles don't really mean anything. I'm still not going to crawl into a hole somewhere, so I don't see the point in reading "scary" predictions.
sci⋅en⋅tist (noun) an expert in science, esp. one of the physical or natural sciences.

You don't think there are experts in science?

You're somewhat right about 'dentist' as 'scientist' is more akin to doctor, but that doesn't make your overall argument any less silly.

I'm officially going to give up on you now though, it's clear I won't learn anything from this. You can have the last belligerent word.
Thanks for the replies. Several have pointed out that the unique portions of map1 and map2 are simple functions that operate on scalars and are easily composable. However, this is not true of the actual problem I'm working on. I chose a toy example so I could describe it briefly. Unfortunately, it's misleadingly simple (rather obviously so, in retrospect).

I guess I'll just add that it's essential that all of these be mapping functions (i.e. they take a functional argument that they call back over some range, passing a value computed using that range).
Maybe I misunderstood? I'm not assuming that this question is open ended, but that at the end of this statement is some sort of situation that needs to be resolved.

An example that I've used before, "What would you do if you're convinced a more senior developer is choosing the wrong solution? (usually I'll present something obviously inferior to another choice, point isn't technical but how someone would try to resolve a conflict)"
Thank you. This is interesting and I will have to make time to read Wadler's paper. This part of the program I'm working on is sort of compiler-like, so maybe a technique like that would work. (More likely, though, I'll end up sticking with the less elegant solution I already have, which involves defining two sets of functions rather than just the mapping ones.)
And what do you think of the quality of life his wife and children are experiencing? I think it's too bad that she's probably unable to leave him.
Because of the sense of frugality it would have instilled in you, right? Right?
Ask HN: What email signature you use?
I prefer using "Best!" but it sounds offensive to many.. actually a lot!
Wow, I'm glad it worked out for him...I guess I can now view his obsession as inspiring instead of tragic for his family.
Prevention is the cheapest way to cut costs from the system.

Create incentives for people to increase their fitness levels. Add more physical education to our schools. Add calorie labels on fast food and restaurant menus.
Long but worth skimming.
But enabling anonymous comments would just hurt things in the long run, no matter what kind of additional positive short-term effects it would have. People would feel little need to "join" the community, as they could interact with it as guests, and thus they would always feel out-of-touch with it, and apathetic to it (it would be outside their Monkeysphere.)

I do have one possible solution, though: for every 50 karma points you earn, say, you get a "free gift" of some sort within the system (because otherwise it would encourage gaming of the system to earn such points). One gift could be a one-use "post this comment anonymously" checkbox that would then disappear. Another would be, to use a fun example, the sort of "mega-upvote" everyone wishes they had around for when something truly deserves it.
Social Net Spending To Be Even Lower Than Thought Next Year
Not really bringing anything to the conversation but 7 page article, really? Way to try to milk those ads...
http://catalystsites.org/sites/view_details/55
A New Declarative Caching Library for Rails
There's a link to "View All On One Page"
The new UI looks really slick.
Yes, I'm beginning to think the simple solution to this boils down to some flavor of coroutines/continuations/laziness - basically, the stuff that Scheme has that CL does not.

The reason I find this interesting is that it's the first real problem I've run into where CL didn't have an easy way to do what I want. There are workarounds, of course. But it's interesting to run into a production (as opposed to academic) problem where the elegant solution isn't simply available.
Trevor Blackwell should reach out. He would be a great asset to Anybots and to the US.
How to set and reach goals
I like how the article descends into a rant about how it would all be a lot better if we all just got drunk, a typically British answer to just about anything.
On top of that, it's cheaper to fight it in court than to settle! :)
Judging from the one instance of this type I've observed up close, it doesn't much matter if your startup is failing badly. You simply switch to "teaching" other people how to do startups.

One thing that characters like this have in common with upper managers in large corporations is a remarkable ability to frame failures as successes, at least in terms of promoting themselves personally... which is what they really care about.
Is your subway system a platform?
Not necessarily. Smart people don't comprehend the big picture in its entirety: they just grasp more, on average, than less intelligent people.

There are plenty of smart people who don't abuse substances. Plenty of those people are actively pushing to move the world ahead, and they're succeeding. Things are better now than ever. The people who see the bad in the world are going to be brighter and less oblivious, but that doesn't preclude the possibility of good and better things happening.
It was a good article. I clicked my way through. I'm happy to generate ad revenue while consuming an article I liked.

Make something people want.
The real title of this should be "The traditional employment model sucks", and I agree with that statement.

I spend 60+ hours a week on the clock as a Japanese salaryman. It kills me. It kills everyone else even more than me because a) I'm the slacker American who actually leaves after a mere 60 hours and b) I don't have a wife and kids.

And looking at my paystub, oh boy, the incentives at the margin make me weep. Monetarily and otherwise. A starting Japanese engineer makes $2,200 a month plus biannual bonuses of something like $4,000 plus benefits. I've got 4 years professional experience so I'm above that but not grossly above it and, anyhow, treble it and it wouldn't make a difference.

The incentive at the margin, on a professional level, is to spend one hour slowly working through the 473rd unit test case on a feature that will be used once a year that isn't crucial to any client anywhere. The feature exists largely to keep up the appearance that the company is working hard for their money. I love programming but I don't love this programming.

The incentive at the monetary level is, well, "less than motivational".

Now I also own a small business selling software. Its no great shakes, but I get to pick the features I implement and the marketing/etc direction I choose. And when I do stuff right, its not the 473rd bullet point on a spec that may never see the light of day, its fifteen paying customers sending me Christmas cards with pictures of their kids. Or if I kick butt and take names for two weeks, rather than getting a pat on the head from the boss, a new stack of busywork, and $60 added to my Christmas bonus (yaaaaay), my sales increase by $400 a month FOR FOREVER.

Is it easy? I don't think anything worthwhile is easy: I've been part-timing this for 2.5 years now and am just creeping into the $20k a year sales range. But someday, in the not so distant future (certainly not 5 years from now like the slideshare presentation suggests), it will be enough. (It actually would cover my burn rate at the moment but I'm a bit of a cautious type.)

And then I will calligraphy-up my resignation letter, make my bows, and walk out of the office while the sun is still shining for a change.

And, as God is my witness, that will be the last time I ever deal with a company as an employee. If they want to be business partners, we can be business partners. If they want me to live my life for them out of a sense of obligation, ho ho ho, I will be happy to introduce them to service providers who are more appropriate to their needs.

(This isn't really a Japan-only thing, incidentally. There are any number of American companies which could be my company, easily. And there are Japanese companies which are better but, really, none is ever going to be as good to me as I would be.)
Ask YC: Best music/online radio to listen to when coding at 2 AM?
Thanks.
how the hell did you notice that, pure madness!

ok if you look at the window to the left of the top right most window, its the silhouette of batman !!!!!!!
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He collects Spider-Man comics.
Youtube videos are pulling in serious money
Compete disagrees:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/youporn.com/?metric=uv

The question is: which is crappier - alexis or compete?
http://freepressblog.org/blog/2008/09/24/identica-leonard-ni...
And now you will only notice it every time you see it. At least, that's what happened to me.
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Screw The Downturn. Accel Raises A Cool Billion In New Funds
It looks like the title says being smart causes people to become drunks. To see this, reverse the title:

"Drunks are smart people"

The reversal should be meaningless if the title only implies correlation, since correlation is bidirectional. However, since the reversal is not meaningless, then the title must imply causation.
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Stephen Fry on the iPhone, Bold, Storm, and G1
I think it'd be interesting if people could use their own karma for the "mega-upvote."

EDIT

Part of what's neat about this idea is that support now can cost people something, so they have to really be behind what they support. On the other hand, it would probably establish a oligarchy.
Shear forming
Just curious, given the long hours and low wages, why do you choose to work in Japan as a "slacker American"?
My professor tells me of a fellow PhD student that fits the study well. He was absolutely brilliant, way above any of the other students, but he would spend all his time in the bar and ended up dying from drinking too much. I think he didn't even get the degree.
It's interesting that automotive related industries actually appear to be up by 2-3%.
Been using it for the past week for a client's site. All of the themes and plugins I've thrown at it have worked perfectly. Nice job!
I'm guessing you don't have the fondest recollections of the Digg team? (Not trying to be snarky: I just don't recall ever reading you talk directly about Digg before.)
Another problem is that our society attaches romance to being depressed and smart, such that people can sometimes go out of their way to be depressed just so they seem smart. Additionally, smart people who lack EQ will find their self esteem in being perceived as smart, both by themselves and others, and thus have incentive to be depressed, especially if they are already depressed from being lonely. So, we've just got a nasty vicious cycle going on with smartness and depression.

Just examine your first impression of a happy person and an unhappy person. The former will probably seem more vapid to you. Or, look at how depression themed submissions are highly modded on this site (check my submission history for an example).
Be wary of the Indian companies that will do it for pennies per hour. Sure it's cheap but the code is crap, or even worse than crap: they will just slice your PSDs and use Adobe's built in web page creator which will mean your site will consist entirely of images, no text at all.

Also, concurred on the envy I have for those who are good at design. I suck at designing but I love developing. I wish I could do both and I've been getting better (using Kuler and just keeping everything within a color pallete works wonders).
A bit self-contradictory and misleading.

1) It's more about "being an employee sucks" than "employees suck"

2) It gives the very dangerous advice that "you don't need more PR/marketing" and the follows that up with the saner "you need to get people blogging about you". Oh, so now, getting people blogging about you isn't a marketing exercise? Really? What is it then?
Hugh's take:
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004739.html
And this is exactly what the FHS is for. Documentation for "blah" lives in /usr/share/doc/blah/. Simple and easy.

As mentioned, Debian extends this by recommending a README.Debian to explain what differences from upstream documentation or defaults exist, and the rationale.

For example, enjoy the simplicity of /usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin/README.Debian. It answers all your questions, and also makes mention of security concerns you may not have realised exist had you, for example, just extracted a copy of phpmyadmin into your web site.

And now you have enough information to know what to do next with anything that you install using apt-get, Or yum, or rpm, or portage, or (I'm speculating here) autopackage for that matter.
The $2MM liquidated damages clause may indeed be a penalty, but clause would then just disappear. Either way it wouldn't affect the validity of the rest of the contract.
I think there's also a difference in the type of content. TV shows offer the possibility of mental stimulation. People will pay for quality. If I was able to, I'd get HBO for the level of programming. There's money to be made from quality.

Porn? Sure, it's wonderful when it's well-produced, but people don't care first and foremost about production value. They watch porn to masturbate in nearly all cases. That means that porn films benefit from shorter, more manageable scenes, and that quality doesn't matter whatsoever. The film industry has a subsection that operates based on quality. Porn profits almost exclusively from access: the easier access is, the more attention.

So TV still has some fight in it. So does the music industry, though I think in both cases there will be changes. Porn? I think that the professional industry is going to be gutted through-and-through. The porn industry can't compete with amateurs.
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NYT headline in five years (or WSJ headline in one year): "When Intelligence Fails"
You sound rather non-enthusiastic about their work. Could you give a bit more detail about what you mean? I am considering them as one option as well.
Microsoft Hiring From the Open Web: Assimilation or a Changing Redmond?
Have you tried (semi-standard) SERIES?

http://series.sourceforge.net

"A series is a data structure much like a sequence, with similar kinds of operations. The difference is that in many situations, operations on series may be composed functionally and yet execute iteratively, without the need to construct intermediate series values explicitly. In this manner, series provide both the clarity of a functional programming style and the efficiency of an iterative programming style."
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Go to shoutcast.com. I like the Alternative genre with 181.fm (the buzz) being my usual choice.
Interesting video:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIeFJCqsPs&NR=1