skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We also need to increase the pool of doctors.

We probably don't so much need to deal with malpractice insurance, since that fix doesn't (to employ a congenial metaphor) change the exponent in the Big-O cost of health care.

We need to make it simpler to get drugs on the market, but we also need to walk the tightrope of doing that while regulating pharma marketing, particularly to medical practices.

We need to restructure care in the US. We recognize that the E.R. is a terrible provider-of-first-resort and that non-emergency E.R. visits are damaging the system. We need to start realizing that M.D. doctors are also poor providers of first resort, and get a nationwide system of low-cost clinics deployed. That's already starting to happen at places like Walgreens.

We very much need to figure out how to start exploiting the Internet to provide some level of routine care for patients.

These are all things that do need to happen. But they don't have much to do with the problem that insurance problems are randomly bankrupting large numbers of Americans. We need to fix that problem first. Face it: the most expensive cohort of patients in the US, accounting for by far the majority of our exposure to rising medical costs, have had socialized single-payer health care for decades. Access to private insurance and the "cost curve" of health care are simply orthogonal problems.
Ask HN: issuing new shares
I'm a bootstrapped Delaware C-corp, recently approached by non-US investors.

Although i'm aiming for convertible debt, it might backfire because some investors prefer to have shares.

If i am to issue shares, do I have to hire a lawyer to do this? How much would it typically cost, and it is okay to ask the investors to foot the bill?

I currently have 5000 shares, valued at $0.001. I own 100% of the company.
Oh, so you mean, "only if you don't live and work in one of a prohibitively small number of major metro areas in the US".

For all intents and purposes, auto insurance is effectively mandatory for most Americans. It's for a similar reason that many states revoke driving privileges for parents who don't comply with child support.
How is cross-browser support? I hear IE8 and 9 still don't fully support CORS...
Great demos, thanks. Anyone know how the smooth scrolling is achieved? is there an equivalent of a BitBlt in HTML5 Canvas?
It appears to be not so easy: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-design/201108/willp...
If this information can be gathered by researchers who have no special access, just think what law enforcement agencies could be doing. What a scary world we live in.

What hope is there for being able to exchange massive amounts of data in an anonymous fashion?
You are wrong. What Apple does is rare and difficult and it takes courage, skill and taste. What Apple does lift the society and makes the world better, and the intellectual property system should protect this kind of enterprise. The patent system is grossly outdated and sometimes very wrong I'll admit, at the same time a company like Apple has to use something to legally protect themselves from being blatantly imitated, unfortunately now Apple can only go to war wielding patents. But as a Chinese seeing the cesspool that is Chinese tech industry, I strongly oppose letting mafia companies such as Samsung (or a Chinese example, Huawei) reign freely. That would be a lost for us all.
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> We’ve got a strategy for dealing with the COBRA expiration, but it’s complicated and requires a lot of hoop jumping and is more than a little silly.

Whatever the author's strategy is, it sounds like he's quite misinformed. There are no hoops required to get HIPAA guaranteed issue coverage when COBRA runs out. All insurers are required to offer it regardless of preexisting conditions. It will cost more, but coverage is automatic with no medical information required.

The usual procedure is to simultaneously apply for underwritten coverage and guaranteed issue. If the underwritten policy is declined, the guaranteed issue takes effect. If you know you'll be declined, you can skip the medical history on the application and apply for guaranteed issue only. You have 60 days after COBRA runs out to apply.

You are also eligible if your insurance ends because the company goes out of business without making COBRA available.

Any insurance company or agent can give you more information, or search for:

California HIPAA guaranteed issue
From scanning that paper, I'm guessing that talking about willpower as a limited resource causes those in that group to assume that willpower is not only limited but small and about to run out as well.

So for example, if one were to talk about sunlight as being a limited resource (which it is), it carries the implication that that limit is close enough to worry about.

People's attention is drawn to the idea that they will run out of willpower. The first time they start to experience depletion, they give up, because they assume they've run out.

It would be interesting to repeat the experiment, but tell the participants that in addition to the normal amount of willpower, they also have a secondary reserve which, with a little more effort, they can tap into to double or triple their performance.
Yes, but, europeans generally see a healthcare provider more often and are more often diagnosed before they reach an acute stage. If you look at the graphs [1][2][3] that compare per capita expenditures per country with life expectancy per country. You'll see that they are generally getting equivalent or better outcomes at less than half the cost.

And I can tell you that for my own part, even with health insurance, the deductible is so high that it might as well not exist as far as basic checkups and doctor visits go.

1 http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php

2. http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2009/12/the-cost-of-care.h...

3. http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2011/03/health_cos...
That's Japanese Culture for you. Many see their job as their highest life goal and they seek its perfection in order to honour their family/team mates/company/fellow Japanese or whatever their group association is at the moment. This idea then trickles down to even low wage jobs, where you still get an above par work quality. Trying Starbucks (cleanliness) and McDonalds (look and taste) in Japan is an interesting experience.
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Anesthesiologists are the worst offenders. My experience is that none of them are in network. You think you have everything covered and along comes this bill that is as big as everything else.

Woe to you if you are uninsured. I had minor heart surgery nearly two decades ago. The bill was something over $80K. The insurance company disallowed most of it, bringing it down to $20K of which I had to pay $2K. Except for the Anesthesiologist.
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A 13-year-old's slavery analogy raises some uncomfortable truths in school
No I don't see this happening. Why would someone contribute to a closed garden when they have their own blog instead where they have more control?
I have definitely noticed this effect after prolonged bouts of intense coding. There comes a point when the tank is just empty, and I might as well stop because I'll mostly just sit there and stare at the screen. I'm definitely more likely to succumb to easy but bad choices such as fast food at those times too.

A 10 minute nap seems to reset me though, which is cool. I try to take one after completing a good sized chunk of work so I'll be capable of completing another one or two in the same day.
That book and The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle[1] have both left a tremendous impact on me. I think partly because both eschew the mumbo-jumbo, hand wavy, pseudo-science approach, they're both easy to read for the layman and most importantly include lots of high-level summary and explanation about the research that supports the books.

[1] http://thetalentcode.com/
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Why is it hard to use random open wifis? Walking around my neighborhood there are at least 5 open wifis in my block. With google fiber, high speed, open public wifi will only get more common.
I hope a lot more research is put into this subject to find out. It's something that can greatly improve people's lives.

More effort thus far has been put into figuring out how to overcome people's willpower and induce them to make poor decisions not in their own interests.

On the bright side, most of the strategies to improve willpower will be effective regardless of which model is actually true.
Money can be pretty handy.
The people who think the US health care world is A-OK are the people who have never been uninsured nor been uninsurable. As much as I want to build my own company, my life and job revolve around my ability to get insurance because I had the gaul to have surgery once upon a time.

People should not expect something for nothing, but there has to be a better place than we are at now. Because this place sucks!
Is Python unsuitable? No, it can probably be made to work. It is just a question of performance, and effort needed to integrate it.

Will a Python implementation run slower and use more memory than a Lua one? Probably.

what other requirements were you thinking of that would be helped with a Python implementation?

You don't need to be afraid of Lua. It is a nice little language, kind of like a Scheme wrapped in a Python syntax.
I think we have to start with the American Medical Association. It is in their interests to keep prices high and keep doctors in their McMansions. First follow the money, who benefits from high prices? Insurance companies, medical suppliers, and the American Medical Association gets to enforce the medical monopoly.
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Why is it hard to use random open wifis?

Because of the "walking around" part.
Love the idea of the post!

But there some issues:

Sum and product should use range(n+1). Math notation includes both endpoints; Python excludes the right endpoint.

The sum code could be written closer to the mathematical "idiom" as sum(a(i) for i in range(n)).

Using 'l' (lowercase L) as a variable is bad because it looks like '1' (literal one) in many fonts. Call your list 'u' or something, not 'l'.

The binary search code ends abruptly. Maybe it was eaten by the CMS?

And general suggestions:

Split big-O notation into different article, since it's a large topic.

The circle operator is often used for function composition; Python's Pythonicness makes it easy to say something like circ = lambda f, g : lambda a, k : f(g(a, k))

You should also mention that sometimes symbols depend on context. Operators in Python can have different semantics if they're overloaded; identical names can have different meaning due to scope effects, or if different libraries are imported. Likewise, notations in math can have different meanings; you have to be aware of both commonly accepted "default" meanings (just like '+' has built-in meanings for ints, floats, lists and strings) and any less-standard meaning that may have been defined in previous "code" (mathematical text).
I really cannot understand why this is not more prevalent. The cost savings of not having air conditioning for a datacenter should be well worth any mess of oil.
The funny thing is that many sites does password reset via email anyway.
The trickiest part of making the next generation of education is not the actual educating part. It's going to be accreditation and/or making the degree mean something. Anyone can read all the books and do all the exercises to have the equivalent education to a degree, but that is not the same as having the "piece of paper" so to speak.

Building and maintaining a reputation of an outstanding education program takes a long time potentially. However, some lessons could probably be learned from building something like YCombinator, where it went from basically nothing, to the "it" startup incubator, to being copied 100 times by every angel investment/incubator group under the sun. Going from zero credibility to industry wide credibility likely takes a lot of factors such as luck, timing, etc.

The next generation of education will need to create some "hits" or "rockstars" or whatever the right term might be as far as having some incredibly smart, talented people go through whatever the program is and go on to achieve some outstanding things.

If the next generation of education startups is going to be just teaching average skills to average people to fill average jobs, it won't work.

Like, teaching everybody Javascript is a good idea, but if that's the next generation, it's not going to make a dent in traditional education as an industry.
Awesome tips. Congratulations for the awesome and informative article. :)
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I donot think that this application is illegal as long as the author did not use any original art work and trademark (if it still applys, trademark needs to pay to extend it, right?).
1. Any patents related to pacman expired already.
2. Copyright law does not forbid recreation of original games. The JS author just need to make sure all the code/art was created by himself.
Please point out what is wrong about my understanding of the law system if there is any.
Thank you. I didn't know Apple introduced its 30-pin connector even before the PDMI standard. But still my argument stands. Both Samsung and Asus are using 30-pin PDMI-based connectors for their 10 inch tablets. I find it pointless to do a side-by-side comparison of two 30-pin connectors.
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Life expectancy is a poor proxy for health care effectiveness. By some methodologies, once you take out things like auto accidents, the United States snaps right back into first place in those rankings. Meanwhile, in disease-by-disease rankings, the US routinely leads.

We do spend a lot for health care in the US, and we probably aren't realizing comparable value, but it is also probably not true that the actual quality of care in the US lags that of Europe.
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I too am going to recommend Lenovo. my x201t has everything working out of the box. Very good quality in general too.

only problem is that laptop has some issues ever since the roof leaked on it.
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...and yet, somewhere inside Apple, there's a prototype of the next iPad. And it looks different. Maybe completely different.

Lightbulbs look different than when I was a kid. Oxo re-invented the look and feel of measuring spoons. Objects as mundane as doorknobs have so changed their design over the years that vintage models can be sold for a premium.

It's practically a truism that after the next device comes out -- no matter how simple the device -- there will be people claiming that it's design is "obviously" the only way to do it. I've stopped listening to those people, because they're almost never correct.
You have to own a car, though. The state makes you buy car insurance because you can do a lot of damage to other people and their property with a car. They own the roads, so they're responsible for making sure you can pay for that damage.

Texas, for instance, doesn't actually make you buy insurance. You only have to prove that you can be financially responsible for the damage you could cause [1].

Why is this relevant? You made the claim that "The sole purpose of the mandate is to make free-riding on the insurance market unlawful"

The medically uninsured only pose a financial threat to themselves. It's only through laws that make taxpayers responsible for the medical costs of the uninsured that they pose a threat to the rest of us. This mandate won't change anything in that respect. It will just make the line from taxpayer money to person who can't pay for his medical bills harder to follow.

[1] http://www.dmv.org/tx-texas/car-insurance.php

edited for clarity
The method that works for me:

1. Give the book a quick read. Essentially just to know what it covered and how the book approaches/covers the topics you are interested in.

2. Now that you know what the book covers and have a fuzzy idea about it, go straight to the section that concerns you most as the need arrises.
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Sigh, why must we go in circles on this? Yes, they're on that list too. There's plenty of bad faith to go around. But yet I still see X-Boxes in the stores. Again, that's parasitism -- Motorola/Google want a cut of the revenue, they aren't trying to kill the product. Parasites have no interest in killing their hosts. Apple wants Samsung (and Android) dead. That is worse.
Sorry for the late reply, but my point was that this money wasn't put back into the U.S. economy in any form, including loans to other companies. They simply moved this money to their U.S. bank acounts, where it remains to this day.
That's exactly the kind of snarky douche bag comment that keeps me away from HN these days. Still, I'll assume you're trying hard to be funny.

I was asking whether there's something already built. Google searches invariably bring up big-enterprise solutions.
Please leave that sort of ridiculousness on Reddit where it belongs. HN aspires (at least it used to) to a higher level of discourse.
Amazing work!

Minor pet peeve, my favorites are missing;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It-f6CCVtx8 (the low youtube framerate sadly doesn't do it justice)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5BDh4z5gis (tune...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG84cj4rago (NSFW)
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The articles around this are interesting and consider how it could become prevalent and they rightfully point to high performance computing. I think another obvious area is countries like India which have very high costs for power and do not have much in the way of existing datacenters.
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Ask HN: what are the best and worst knowledge/coding tests?
Many if not most employers these days give either a written test on the job seekers development knowledge, and/or a coding test. I'm looking for specific examples of coding and knowledge tests that employers give, trying to find the best and the worst. I'm interested specifically in cases where there is a publicly accessible URL that points to the coding test. What are the best and worst you have seen?
I agree. I had sort of a brain fart when I was coming up with a title, and couldn't think of anything that hit the mark short of "BranchOut puts quote from Wall Street Journal that Never Was."
Too late to change the URL now, but the title itself is changed.
Sorry about that. I will be sure to remember this.
Yes, in this case the equation refers to the average force over an interval of time: if at time instant A we had a speed v1 and at a later instant B we have some speed v2 then a force with a magnitude of at least m * (v2 - v1) / (tB - tA) must have acted, therefore the analysis should hold.

As you point out the area is very important in the analysis, since Pressure = F / A. For large areas the force "spreads out" and the damage is less.

The fatality of the accident can vary due to many circumstances however I think we can safely assume that for the purposes of our initial analysis, 5 lbs traveling at 30mph and crashing into my head is not something I am looking forward to ;)
Do you really believe that the professor said they are not allowed to consult each other in person but may consult each other online?
Hmm... I've never run into this trouble before, but then again I've never really generated traffic, either.
I switched WordPress over to a more lightweight theme for the time being, but is there anything else I might do on the non-server-side of things to make this work?
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I cannot possibly imagine what anyone would ever have to learn from such a fantastically incompetent failure. There's a reason it says (Coding Horror) up there. He's a horrible programmer, and a horrible if mysteriously successful blogger.
i've seen people get tickets in time square. that's about it though
Here's a chart of the browsers that support CORS:

http://caniuse.com/cors

Definitely a bit spotty. It's good for my use-case, which is Firefox, and Chrome, extension development.