skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the clarification. But the concern remains that a single "central authority", namely hypothes.is, gets to maintain a huge database that links online pseudonyms to verified real-world identities. That's going to make hypothes.is one hell of a target, not only for identity thieves but also for government authorities of all stripes. Meanwhile you'll need to convince people that they should trust you with that information.

Sure, any large online identity provider that possesses enough data to link online identities to real-world identities (such as Facebook) will face the same problem. If this takes off, Chinese hackers will be crawling under your mattress and your PO Box will be overflowing with subpoenas and national security letters before you can say eff-bee-eye. But ideally I'd like to see this problem fixed in some creative way, not merely repeated and exacerbated in a centralized form.

Honestly, I have no idea how one might achieve both verification and pseudonymity without cutting corners somewhere else. But I do have some hope for you guys because it seems that EFF is involved. Those people really know how to play with pseudonyms.

/tinfoil hat
Why is there so much skepticism in this. I am also trying to develop something like this by creating a embedded in-process web (resource) server ever where (android/iphone/wp7*/linux/win/osx), then we need to use web technology using jquery mobile with backend rpc to develop the application which should make it cross platform as well native deployed. I am developing this to simplify my clients cross platform headache. Sometimes i wonder why there is no product in the market which can do this, which will make my life easier.

Music had 7 symbols and they have perfect interoperability, Software has 2 symbols and interoperability is a dream.
Next time, read the comment you decide to respond to it. He clearly says that one would shop around only for non-emergency procedures.
Is this because as the price drops more applications become cost-effective?
20-30 headlines on a phone? On my 1400x900 laptop screen, I only see 23.
May I suggest they change the default registrar from GoDaddy to something else?
With all due respect to all other YC companies, I think in the end, none of them will even come close to Stripe.
Check it now. Should be working. :) Thanks for reporting this.
Should be ok now :)
Most medical procedures are not emergent. It's hard to shop around for emergency care, but shopping around for everything else is pretty straightforward.

We have strong experimental evidence that when people are not insulated from price, they shop around and consume less medicine with no measurable effect on their health.

http://www.rand.org/health/projects/hie.html
Authentication doesn't belong in your Rails Engine
Speaking of Lua, it doesn't actually have any language constructs for coroutines - coroutine creation and switching is handled entirely via library functions in the `coroutine` package.

So while adding coroutine support to V8 would probably require some substantial internal rewrites, it wouldn't necessitate changing the language - just add a global Coroutine object with the coroutine-switching functions like create, resume, yield...
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As someone who has worked on all three projects — Forem, Spree, and Refinery — it's a pain in the butt trying to get them to work together. Forem's approach is brilliant, but it's also a user-friendliness issue to require them to provide their own authentication.

I agree with what the author has to say, largely, but I think there needs to be a way to provide a sane default.
Oops, forgot to answer the "what would you do" question.

As with the Computerworld situation, I'd invoice the publisher: Pinterest. They are totally welcome to use my work if they pay for it.
Software has two symbols? I'm not sure what the analogy is, but the best I can think of would be either opcodes or functions, and pretty much everybody has a lot more than two.
from http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsHaskell

List Comprehension Syntax:

Python's list comprehension syntax is taken (with trivial keyword/symbol modifications) directly from Haskell. The idea was just too good to pass up.
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From what I've been told (I used to do research in MRI), it's because MRI's are Japan's preferred method for allowing doctors to show they care.

MRI's are used in Japan the way antibiotics are used in the US. Patients are often unsatisfied if the doctor tell them to go rest and hope things improve on their own (even if that is the best treatment), so doctors perform some harmless token medical procedure to make the patient feel he helped them.
You should pay attention to the website he gave as his source - a website run by the Heritage Foundation known for having a strong conservative bias. I found some criticisms to the study in the comments of a blog:

1. Authors show a graph showing the median income of the family of recruits is $48,616 then proceed to define any family making more than that as "affluent".

2. Authors didn't have income data of the recruits and their families so they based their study on what neighbourhoods the recruits came from using zip codes (!) and whether the neighbourhoods were considered low-income, high-income, etc.

Source: http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2009/04/w...
I'm curious how much DDG's traffic has grown as a direct result of Google's perceived gaffes in the last few months.

It's not Google gaffes, but unavailability that's been driving my DDG use. Whenever google.com fails to resolve in DNS for me, or Google's server fails to respond, I switch to DDG. Unfortunately, events like this have been happening frequently of late.

I'm on Comcast in Houston. Anyone else experiencing this?
JavaScript for Node? Isn't that a bit like saying "Java for Minecraft"? I can think of at least one popular use of JavaScrip that predates Node.
i whole heartedly agree, participate in one or more OSS projects. then, as your hiring manager, i can see your code, your interactions with people (bugfixes, code reviews, etc), and your interests. plus you'll learn a whole lot, meet people, contribute to the world, and find out about good opportunities.
if you'd like a good company

What I'm looking for is a good company

I think you mean "good company", not "a good company". Just in case anyone was confused.
You make a good point, in that the end users in the US just care about the deductible.

Part of this is that its hard (if not impossible) to find out what something will cost. The doctors don't (or rarely) know the cost, and it just isn't in the standard vocabulary of patients to inquire the cost and/or shop around.
Ask HN: How Apps Get Localized for the Chinese Market?
I think I've read plenty of posts on TechCrunch by all those guest contributors from China boasting "The Chinese mobile market is exploding! You really need to make your apps ready for them! We're here to help!". Like this one. http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/03/china-next-mobile-boom/

But still, I'm confused and I have a few thoughts and questions.

(Background: I'm a native Chinese)

1. I noticed that big name apps usually have done the localization pretty well. Such as Angry Birds, Flipboard, Infinity Blade, Instagram. Besides, what they have done is pretty thorough. Not only have they changed the texts into Chinese, they also have replaced all those social sharing options with their Chinese counterparts. Such as Twitter replaced by Sina Weibo. Facebook by Renren. I guess they must have thrown some big money and have built their own Chinese marketing department for such and such. Or, they must have outsourced the localization tasks to some US or China based firms.

2. But they do have mistakes now and then. And since they're rooted in the foreign language level. Those mistakes are usually persistent, and by saying persistent I mean If I saw them in v1.1. Chances are that I will find them again in v2.0.

3. An example: Instagram has introduced the Chinese language localization months ago. But even in their v2.2.0 update you'll find this funny translation mistake. Description: when you navigate to a stranger's profile page, there would be some texts saying, "You are not following this user". This saying is totally correct in English. But in the Chinese localized version, what Chinese users actually see is "您已取消关注该用户", which actually means, "You have un-followed this user", which is weird and is obviously a mistake. But as I mentioned just now, this mistake is persistent and is not noticed by the developer even after months.

My questions:

4. When you guys (be it big names or small indie developers) considering localize your apps for the Chinese markets, what would you actually do? Hire someone who speaks Chinese in your town? Look for some Chinese users to volunteer? Outsource the translation to a Chinese firm?

5. Since it's a foreign language, developers in the western world would typically have problems noticing those minor defects in the localization. What's worse, the Chinese users will complain about and low-star your apps and will do them only in Chinese. You won't have a clue if you don't understand them in the first place. What would you guys gonna do about this?

Discuss. :D
in the US, many MRI places are 9-6

A nit, but is this actually true? I've had 7 MRI's (5 health-related, 2 research-related) and only one of them was during business hours. I've had MRIs done at 9pm, 11pm, 1am, 4:30am, 6am etc.
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This article suggests that shopping around for, say, knee replacement surgery, is not so simple:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/how-much...
You haven't really given me much to dispute, but I digress. Neither Office or Windows 7 is geared toward mobile computing, which for all intensive purposes is the future of computing and which Microsoft is at an enormous disadvantage. Microsoft is currently dominant in every area of computing that is declining in every metric worth measuring. Nearly every way Microsoft makes money has become stagnant largely due to the dominance of Microsoft in these areas and the lack of innovation required to continue making money. Microsoft is in much graver danger than they let on. The entire MS stack has been abandoned by the next generation of innovators. Find me an 18 year old MS Visual Basic programmer and I'll show you a minimum wage earner for the rest of his career.

Microsoft is a dying company, and the sooner young people abandon this company and all its technologies the better off they are.
> "Last month, we were feeling like a little validation for our efforts. But mostly we wanted to replace the fake testimonial on our About Us page with a real one (which we haven’t done yet). So, we asked our users to write our editorial team a love letter"

Wait, what? In what world is fabricating testimonials okay?
I know someone who always changes the subject line to reflect the content. He even changes the subject line when responding to other people's e-mails, which is quite annoying because it often breaks Gmail conversations.

So you'll have to take some measure to tell people not to delete that passphrase from the subject line. For example, "Don't change or delete this or it will go into my spam box." But that's verbose.
What annoys me as an American about our health care is not that some other countries achieve better outcomes at much lower cost--it is that they do so in so many different ways.

For instance, if they all did it by having the government completely run the health care system, with all doctors working for government hospitals and clinics, and being trained in government medical schools, with all costs set by the government, then I could understand the US rejecting that as being too much government intrusion. (Note I didn't say I'd necessarily agree with such rejection--good health care arguably is more important than limited government power--I'm just saying I could understand such rejection).

But looking around, what stands out is how diverse the approaches of other countries are. There are some that do have the government finance and provide health care, much the way the police or military are provided by the government.

There are some that use private insurers paying, with care provided by private hospitals and doctors, but the insurance companies are non-profit and regulated.

There are some that provide care via private hospitals and doctors, but have a government run insurance program to pay for it.

There was a good look at how it is done in 5 capitalist democracies here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/c...

See also the link on that page to the explanation of the four basic models used around the world. That page includes a striking way to explain the other systems to Americans:

These four models should be fairly easy for Americans to
understand because we have elements of all of them in our
fragmented national health care apparatus. When it comes
to treating veterans, we're Britain or Cuba. For Americans
over the age of 65 on Medicare, we're Canada. For working
Americans who get insurance on the job, we're Germany.

For the 15 percent of the population who have no health
insurance, the United States is Cambodia or Burkina Faso
or rural India, with access to a doctor available if you
can pay the bill out-of-pocket at the time of treatment
or if you're sick enough to be admitted to the emergency
ward at the public hospital.
I'm in Argentina. Some months ago a Microsoft guy told the me Beta thing is because Bing has not yet been localized to Spanish. I don't know if this is currently the case, but I definitely still see "Beta" in the logo in all my searches.
> I think Stripe will be the next big YC company, on the list with Heroku, Dropbox, and Airbnb.

I think so, too, and that makes rejection burn all the more.
Thanks for the link. Knew it had to be something like that.
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What i meant was software is based on binary
Google is getting better for "general searches", but I have gotten consistently worse results over time for obscure things, like searching for code or searches for things where the results would overlap with something popular but unrelated.
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Anyone know of something that will block all ip's except Comcast.net for example?
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Un/fortunately Bing won't have access to this data to make their search engine better. Duckduck is good for hiding porn, not for finding hard to find stuff.
I'll take your word for it, you've had more MRI's than me. But I've always had to take half a day off from work to get an MRI done.

I imagine it would also be different for a hospital MRI (which needs to be available for emergencies) and outpatient MRI centers (which is where I've always gone).
Piwik offers as much as GA IMO and its your data.
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I couldn't agree more with Marco. The App Store rating system is confusing and down right ineffective. It consistently hurts developers and does little to help consumers. Apple really needs to bring some clarity and common sense into the rating system.
I left because I felt readability has a lot more features I like. The ability to hit ` on any webpage is awesome. I am also a click away from saving the article.

The latest iteration of Instapaper looks nicer in some ways, (looks like Reeder was an inspiration), but is painfully annoying in others. i.e I now have to touch twice to delete an article. Instapaper needs a stripped down Lite version that all it does is show articles and then let you delete them.

My 2c.
security != piracy prevention...

It could mean a wide array of things ranging from integrity checks, write prevention, DRM, etc. This article (and these comments) only seemed to focus on the former.
Sorry for copy-pastaing my reddit comment on this same article, but I think it's relevant to your point.

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I feel very strongly about this, and I agree entirely. I think projects should go one step further. For something like forem, I think it makes sense to have a gem called forem_auth, and for the installer to give you an option to install the engine as a standalone app. If you choose to, it would include the forem_auth gem in the Gemfile, and you'd get auth built in. Otherwise, you configure it for your own auth.

I think refinery and spree should adopt identical stances to forem in this regard. I also plan to take this a bit further in all of my engines going forward, and defer the persistence decision entirely, making it trivial to switch out ActiveRecord or mongoid or csv files or whatever. Experimenting with this on internal apps presently, and it shows comically awesome amounts of promise.

I think it's a relatively normal thing for lispers to defer decisions like that until they no longer have to decide - that's what we've been doing.
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I've been thinking about rails engine interoperability for quite a while, as have the spree/refinery/other forem guys, and I've got a very solid mental model of what it needs to be to make plug-and-play a possibility with these style components. It is definitely within reach, and we need some other people to get on board with these ideas to make it the obvious choice for future engine makers.
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

That's not cleverness gone bad. You've never been able to search with a colon on regular google. I miss code search too.
That's awesome! BSD/MIT is always my default recommendation. Those licenses will enable almost everyone in the world to make use of your code.
The US has inexpensive MRIs as well.

This nationwide chain provides MRIs as low as $335 depending on the state.

http://a2zimaging.com/

No insurance accepted, no payment plans. Those cost money. Just charges the cost.
To be even more clear, its' not about the CEO in the story its about Mark not betraying his friend (e.g. going home with the girl who brought him to the dance) and instead going with another new VC.

The CEOs weren't brought to the dance, they could pick whichever VC they wanted to. It's just that he would have left the deal if they hadn't picked his VC.

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He also throws in a story at the end about another company who signed a term sheet, then reneged on it and considers that as a black mark on their reputation. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't but its a separate story.
Thanks! Wherever possible I'd like to ditch the personal information after signup and just keep a hash or something that we can use to prevent multiple accounts using the same Twitter, OpenID, etc, linking only these opaque tokens to user IDs in our database. I'm trying to put together our user tables and login system in the next day or so and welcome any comments or concerns you have with the implementation. Feel free to jump into our dev list or #hypothes.is on Freenode.
Wouldn't be the first time: http://www.austinlinks.com/Crypto/non-tech.html
Here is Taiwan's:
PET(full body): 1500 USD,
CT(head/partial): 200 USD,
MRI(head/partial): 670 USD
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Can't believe they didn't even mention the Monopoly Protection Certificate racket run by the government in many states:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

And never mind the huge monopoly granted to AMA certified physicians, in terms of providing medical care. Of course those guys have a huge incentive to keep as many people out of the physician pool as possible. We certainly couldn't allow competition, which might drive down costs. :~(
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Yeah, it's essentially meaningless to give content ratings for apps that can access the entire web. If you're a parent, you either do or do not think your kid can cope with all user-generated content from outside the walled garden. Which suggests a business opportunity for whitelisting sufficiently heavily moderated services for fundie parents.
Its so common that people think it is okay.
Not exactly. Iframes aren't involved (yuck how ugly!). Javascript is used to catch the form's submit, all the data on the form (credit card info) is sent straight to Stripe's server over https (via AJAX) and then their server sends back a response.

Their implementation is both elegant and smart. Even easier than Braintree.
That’s not even it. Natural gas is boring. Those cars are everywhere, they are nothing new or special.
Of course you do. The point of the blog post was to tell all his readers how wonderful they are.
I wasn't sure if that was DNS resolution or simply Google "forwarding" that was slow. Either way it has been fairly annoying -- almost to the point that I'm loading cached pages and looking on that page for a direct link.

I don't think ISP is playing a role as I experience similar results at $HOME and $WORK which are on 2 completely different networks/backbones.
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My Mom (no insurance) shops around as follows: "Hi, I'm told I need X done, but I need to know the price. I don't have insurance, and I want to make sure I have enough money to pay for it."

She tends to get accurate estimates, probably because hospitals don't like to hear "I thought it only cost $X, I don't have $X + $Y, so, umm..."

Granted, what she gets isn't likely to be a "a complete cost estimate [...], [...] reflective of any negotiated discounts, [...] inclusive of all associated costs, and did not identify consumers’ out-of-pocket costs", which is what the GAO wanted. But it's certainly good enough for shopping around.
How does this come as a suprise? We're paying to support the margins of for-profit industries, including multiple tiers of middle-men.
Disable instant search.
Note also that only one side of the vehicle has the cloaking. The other side is just ugly cameras and we can see that at the very end of the video (1:15).

It's not quite the invisibility cloak yet.
http://www.google.com/search?q=that+movie+where+the+guy+miss...

http://www.google.com/search?q=that+movie+where+the+guy+gets...
Is Readability's model really ethically superior to its competitors?
"douchegrammer" made my day. :)
It's Google privacy, or lack of, that drove me to DDG. I clicked on a Youtube video link on Reddit the other day and it asked me to verify my age. I didn't have a Youtube account! Then I remember it's after March 1 and Google is using my GMail account for Youtube. I didn't create a Youbute account because I don't want to. No thanks. I don't want my video watching or search being tracked.

No thanks.
Why isn't the product of human labor also humanity heritage?
Coursera, not Stanford. We don't say Google is the Stanford search engine.
I am not sure that everything is fair in love and war. The ideas of "cheating on someone", and "banning clorine gas" might be taken as the counterexample.

Certainly I would avoid a known backstabber in business to the point of not doing business with them, even if they had the better financial terms.
http://www.google.com/search?q=that+movie+where+the+guy+solv...

http://www.google.com/search?q=the+movie+where+that+guy+solv...
PayPal is a lot better than the older solutions (think Authorize.net). However, Stripe makes PayPal look just as bad and complicated as Authorize.net. With Stripe, you can seriously setup a site to start taking subscriptions under an hour. It's ridiculous just how easy it is. Their documentation is great too.

The first time I used Stripe, my jaw dropped when I figured out their implementation. It's just so obvious and makes so much sense (Javascript FTW).