skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no reason at all - no one is "requiring" doctors to do anything at all. However, the invisible hand of the market do provides incentives for doctors willing to do that job!

The reason is the difference in financial gain if for some reason (domain knowledge) a doctor can perform the same job more efficiently - which is usually the case in medical coding, where a doctor usually know better which complications are linked with which diseases, and which procedures must have been performed and thus, if they don't appear, have usually been done but for some reason the coding didn't happen.

That's just 2 quick examples - a physician can "dig" in the file for supporting evidence to back the claim. Some are quite good at it, and with the numbers at hand, tiny differences in productivity make huge financial gains.

Say that worker 1, anyone with good training, can make 2x returns, while worker 2, a doctor, can make 2.2x returns.

Depending on the volume, you hire both and give the common files to worker 1, and big profile cases to worker 2.

Each worker is usually paid at the marginal value of labor.

When the marginal value of billing improvements become greater than the marginal value of clinical care, labor do arbitrage and moves to the higher paying sector - in this case, doctors are going for clinical practice to billing.

Someone with basic training - or even algorithm - can be efficient, and provide a first line of coding. But domain knowledge still rules and brings in big bucks.

Trust me - my job is to bill patients/insurance as much as we are legally allowed to, using any mean necessary, in a way that will stand in court if challenged.

We're long past data-mining for potential missing codes - we now run simulations to isolate which coding is the most probable and the most lucrative, and divert the file to the right person according to the potential financial gains. Any loophole in the coding rules is exploited big time !

A quick example - several years ago there was no consequence if you "forgot" codes, however simulations figured out in 10% of the case this resulted in greater gains.

Consequently, after a matching legal advice, codes were forgotten 10% of the time - of course, the right times, until forgetting code was disincentivized thought legal changes.
How  Bloggers Can Use Smartphones
The heck?! 4000pixels, and the game itself isn't even visible!
thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Do you have the reference?
Brave New World: learn a foreign language while you sleep, as well as subliminal indoctrination.
> "People are leveraging themselves to extreme (and unwise) levels just to afford the same house their parents comfortably bought with a single middle-class income."

The "same" house? Hardly. People are leveraging themselves to afford bigger houses than their parents had. According to the National Association of Home Builders [0], average new house size was 1400 sq ft in 1970 and 2700 sq ft in 2009. You can find similar data from the census bureau's American Housing Survey [1]. For example, only 16% of total residences in 1970 had 2 or more bathrooms; in 2011 about 50% of residences had 2+ bathrooms.

I actually bought the same house as my parents [2]. Adjusting for inflation, it was essentially the same price in 2012 as it was in 1975 (within 2%, both as compared with CPI and comparing my dad's programmer salary at BigCo1 in 1975 to my wife's programmer salary at BigCo2 in 2009.)

[0] http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/us-home-size.html

[1] http://www.census.gov/housing/ahs/

[2] We recently found a fully wheelchair-accessible condo for my parents. We bought their house for market value; they used the proceeds to buy the condo. While the house has aged 4 decades since they bought it, it's got a brand new kitchen and a bunch of other recent upgrades, so on the whole it's pretty comparable.
> This is an assumption.

This is a fact seen in practice. You can check it if you want. Just create Google Apps account and configure mail without setting any MX records in your DNS. You will be able to send and receive emails to and from that account and regular Gmail account.
Yeah, fair enough, it's a moving target. Two years ago when people said HTML5 wasn't ready for prime time they were talking about audio and video tags, canvas, SVG, CSS media queries, and websockets (which, by the way, are pretty usable with a shim like socket.io or sockJS). Now those things are all more or less feasible across browsers with some (or a lot) of JS (localStorage and the app cache can also be used as long as they're not relied on, which is a reasonable long term strategy for most web apps anyway) but web workers and webgl have picked up steam since then. If we keep moving the HTML5 goalpost (I've given up on paying attention to the spec), it will never be ready for production use.

I guess I'm only saying this because the HTML5 brand has created enormous confusion in the marketplace. That's largely because it was touted as "the replacement for Flash" and my point is that it is already quite capable of doing that in most cases.
Looks like YouTube.
>I don't have a TV, I don't get flyers, don't eat cereal, and use adblock in my browser. //

Don't visit shops?

We don't watch broadcast TV and having used adblock for many years I find the messiness of un-filtered internet almost unbearable. However we get flyers posted through our door and I still occasionally buy things online (which come with flyers and adverts either at checkout or in the box) and I go shopping where advertising and marketing interfere at every shelf with the buying process. Then there's vehicle wraps, hoardings, posters and billboards, clothing based advertising, and all the usual paraphernalia of the street. Letters home from school, the inside cover at the back of the book you finished, the start of a DVD with its no-skip "feature". The rich host of a BBC program plugging their book (they're supposed not to allow advertising¹) ...

Where do you live, not in "The West" surely?

- - -

¹ But they let very rich people advertised on there anyway whilst being fastidious about removing any semblance of a logo for small companies or when the advert would be entirely incidental.
Ask HN: Linux Adminstration Course for non-sysadmins?
Is there a site where you can learn or polish your skills in sys admin?
I'm a dev mainly but when I run into admin problems (ex. adding ssl, ip etc..) searching Google is not efficient. These documents are scattered all over the web.

Also, I'm not trying to get a certificate, I just need to know enough.
This is weird. Or not. I have hard time even making a difference between weird and not weird these days. Either way, carry on.
Pocket is now survival mode and even has crafting. It does have a limited and rather small world map.
Really cool!

Is reverse engineering the wireless protocol easy? I imagine hacking hardware involves a lot more work than software.

I also love how she 3d printed out some plastic cases for her toy. I see cheap 3d printers eventually being so ubiquitous that a quick prototype may be just as easy to hack up as a working software program.
Noted, should have started the reply with 'Shameless Plug', will be sure to do that next time ;)
Fun article and an excellent hack!

Any takers to found a startup in order to dive in and disrupt the sex toy industry with some cutting edge innovation? Imagine the millions you'd rake in if you re-invent sex.

I'm looking forward to at least one ero-toy applicant in the next round of YC apps.
Zoho actually has quite a nice offering of web based applications. They have mail, calendar, contacts, documents and various additional tools. I used it for some time, but switched back due to a lack of sync of contacts with my phone. But for a business, it looks promising, though not as flashy as what Google offers.
Ln-lin is the same as log-lin, since the only difference is a scaling constant, which is fixed by adjusting the position of the lines by the same scaling factor.
Here is my advice, and take this however you please. 4.5 years ago I built a similar service for small businesses/brands to monitor their twitter, blog, etc. mentions and manage the conversation around them and reply to them. It was called StartPR. We thought incorrectly that small businesses and startups would pay for this service. We had maybe 50 people pay us $15/month, no one would pay for the higher plans, because they were buying radian6 or sproutsocial. Small companies don't have the volume of conversation to "see" value in something like this.
Larger companies understand the value. But larger companies expect to pay MORE, and get MORE features. Distribution and sales to people in this price range are tough.

Most of the people we interviewed were using some sort of dashboard (netvibes at the time) paired with RSS feeds of the search terms they were using.
I couldn't find the close button either. The first thing i did? Right-click the black background, choose Inspect element, untick "display:block".

If the web developer isn't going to respect the user, then i refuse to respect their layout (and event handlers, and plugins, and...)
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> If you're not really that curious, suffice it to say that the people who design the protocols and systems understand the attraction but have excellent reasons not to do it.

For those who are that curious, what are the reasons?
I wonder if an article called "Hacking my Penis" would ever last long the HN front page.
Ephedrine is not meth. Ephedrine is ephedrine, meth is methamphetamine.

Pseudoephedrine is a cold medicine (decongestant) that is used as a feedstock chemical in the production of meth. It is a relatively harmless medicine in prescribed doses. A complete ban of this medicine would greatly inconvenience tens of millions of hay-fever and allergy sufferers, including me.

Currently in the USA, due to the meth industry, individuals 18 years of age and older are limited to purchasing 2.4g per day of pseudoephedrine, and need to provide a government issued ID to make the purchase.
Web development is pretty much code once, fix everywhere.

I'm tweeting this. Brilliant.
This is just neat. Now, "Hacking my Fleshlight" would be weird.
The title is misleading. But the idea of haptic sex toys, and the approach of the hack - especially identifying that the remote was the problem- is great.

We will see if haptic sex toys become mainstream. I didn't even know they existed in the first place!

It seems like a real innovation!
On the front page of Reddit I see....
It may just be that I don't have McAfee's cajones, but much of his advice herein seems like a surefire way to, at best, end up locked up in some South or Central American prison for the rest of your life; at worst, end up face down in some ditch someplace.
Right, only one egg mattered. It doesn't matter what happened to the rest of the eggs. If Google only had the email egg, it would have been just as bad. It was not a problem of centralizing the eggs. Google had to take just one hostage to cause major problems.

Unless you have a suggestion of how to split the email egg into multiple baskets?
This is a sexist remark. It all depend on the content of the article.

Did you take time to read the article? It's just great - full of technical details, including the reasoning behind the creation of the hack.

Many times I've seen dumb things in the front page - complex pointless hacks (I remember one about locales and printf which advocated a libc recompile while I suggested a perl oneliner).

This is a genuinely interesting and creative hack.

EDIT: as I mentionned below, "The title is misleading" - it is linkbait. But the content is there.
Probably not. Then again the majority of HN's visitors are developers or designers, right? If so, they're job is to be as open-minded as possible, in which case it should last quite long. But probably not.
>Speaking of ads, here's a panorama of the entire app: http://encosia.com/i/minesweeper-wide/ . //

I don't get it, which app. It says minesweeper, where are the mines? Is this like the minesweeper starter app, did they feel interstitials were so loved on the web that they wanted to give people more of them?

Also, don't they have any designers at MS or is mis-alignment the new grid? Or perhaps there's some cunning reason [other than making it stand out more in the most annoying fashion] that the advert should not adhere to the grid of the rest of the content.
How can you claim an effect is present when it is not statistically significant? The paper seems to undermine its own "findings." I'm not sure anyone expects torrentfreak to be concerned with accuracy, but it's pretty blatant to have a misleading article title while still quoting the paper as finding the negative effects "insignificant."
Although containers can be bought for as little as $2,500, they shouldn't be seen as a low-cost housing solution.

"Ninety-five percent of the cost still remains..."

-- The Catch.
Great Google Voice apps for Android and freedom from cell phone plan tyranny
Encosia's link shows [what appears to be] an interstitial with an ad, can you bypass that and go straight to the game?
I love the breadth of skill that went into this project. It shows good knowledge of software, hardware, reverse engineering, and its even tied together in a really neat package.
She is inventing an industry for something every human on the planet does pretty much every day. Big market, disruptive technology. Yet somehow I don't see it on techcrunch.

I am reminded of pg's discussion on finding the taboo's in society.

We still have plenty.
Apparently that word is automatically deleted from titles. Coincidentally, I had just tried submitting an unrelated article about Miiverse drawing detection and had to replace it with "P*nis".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826621

[edit] I ended up deleting the submission because it turned out to be an Onion-like site.
Bootstrap Hero also looks promising. It is a webapp that lets you customise bootstrap and see the results in realtime.

http://www.bootstraphero.com/
Isn't an app store literally just a wrapper around advertising though. Yes the ads there seem particularly low on instructive content but the rest of Android OS doesn't have advertising like that does it.
At this years Google IO they hinted that GWT is going to be ported to Dart.

How that will change GWT's future is anyone's guess.
That's not sexist.
It is asiatic+uninhibited+spontaneous and in a very non-American way too.

-- Techno. Detroit. Via London, Berlin, etc. Its just pop.
Good article, link baity title.
The desktop happened.
Have you tried using the Dojo/Dijit Framework at all? I have been using it for medium to large sized web applications recently. I break pages and components into dijit widgets and everything becomes separated very nicely. It has a similar declarative markup to the link you posted.
My better half is a BA but was certified as a PM by PMI. Try to highight whatever whatever business analysis experience you have versus certification. http://businessanalystmastery.com/im-sorry-about-your-worthl... It did help that she took some extension courses/readings to get the general framework of things
Uhm, to be frank, there are prostate "hacks". Explore at your own volition. http://wiki.malegspot.com/index.php?title=Main_Page (Not associated with them, and note that the wiki is run by a company selling the tools mentioned in the wiki)

Though it's admittedly lower tech. I would welcome technological advances for men as well. Why not? It interests both the human and hacker in me.
ITorChat for iPhone
Nice! Useless but fun example: ln 125 is approximately lg 125 - log 125 ~= lg 128 - log 100 = 7 - 2 = 5. Exact answer is close to 4.83, less than 5% error without ever thinking about a fractional value root or log.
Also: the recent olympics opening ceremonies are good candidates.
I won't downvote him because he made a reasonable point and I can't see what level of score he has. In the past with scores visible one could (if desired) vote towards a goal, so keep his comment positive because he added to the conversation but not too high because of the mode of speech.

Arguably downvoting based on a particular manner of conveying his dislike of overt money grabbing like this would be as juvenile, if not more so, than expressing oneself in the manner of the GP.
I run an S-corp (one man) and wish there was a simple answer to this. There are way too many factors to consider before getting to any conclusion. The biggest advantage of an S-corp is the ability to save on the payroll taxes that the employer has to pay. But that really depends on how much you make, how much you take in salary/W-2 etc. But again, there are other costs of running an S-corp that add up really fast. For example, the accounting and taxes are much more complicated for S-corps and you certainly need a good CPA for it.

I suggest you talk to at least 2-3 CPAs and get an idea. Even the CPAs differ in their understanding and preferences. My CPA insists that S-corp is good for me while another one I spoke to kept telling me to switch to LLC.

In general, you need to consider the following factors:

1. Social security tax portion of employer. This has a cap at about 110K i think in 2012. So any income over that, does not matter anyway. FOr 2012, the rate was 6.2%. lets say you earned 100K but only paid yourself 75K with S-corp. At a high level, you will save almost 2K in ss taxes portion of the employer.

2. Medicare tax portion of the employer. This one is huge since there is no cap. So the less you pay in salary, more you save in tax.
/me open-mindedly wonders what's going to happen to HN and everyone else who links to the article in the age of "SafeSearch" filters, search engines sinking pages using sexually explicit content etc. ... We may still be open-minded, but we are surrounded by software that isn't.
"Ingenious remote control vibrator, We-Vibe 3, boosts sexual intimacy and bettersex. Definitely among top couples gifts ideas and romantic gifts." This is what I get when I search remote vibrator. She isn't inventing an industry. She's just bored and wanted to customize the vibrator.
I just bought and downloaded this. It seems like it was put together rather well. I think it still needs a nice intro of how it works when you first start it for those who aren't familiar with tor. Other than that, it's very easy to use.

Note: I'm not affiliated with the author.
I think there might be a misunderstanding here, just want to make sure you guys are on the same page (as I am perceiving it).

I don't think he is saying it shouldn't make it on HN, if anything he's speculating as to whether or not it would be on the #1 spot if it were a male sex hack instead..
I didn't have this problem in Chrome, perhaps s/he has fixed it?
I find that very disheartening. Would HN be over-run with penis talk if it weren't for this blockade?
Why does any article focusing on women's experience have to have someone come along and say 'it's hard for us men'?
There's no sense in making a backup of a lossy format to a different lossy format. The decoders aren't going to go anywhere; just keep the original file.
>Now, "Hacking my Fleshlight" would be weird.

Why?
The worst part about the self-inflicted "stupid hour" is that your decision-making faculties are already working poorly by the time you decide whether to keep going or not.

It reminds me of the tragic comedy of trying to overcome a bad habit. The stress from abstaining from the vice causes a strong impulse to seek solace in the very vice you're trying to quit.

Plan ahead for moments of weakness. I actually have a "stop-hacking" alarm on my computer... gives me a brief warning to finish what I'm doing then it locks the screen 60 seconds later.
"Power Exchange" section title. Must be a resident of SF.
How does measuring attendance by badging in to a classroom at the beginning of the class period constitute surveillance while taking roll does not?
Thanks for your response. I'm not in a position right now to start a startup however. My career in finance has not allowed me to build up a substantial nest egg (curse those student loans). A VC firm also sounds impossible to get into. I'm pretty low on the totem pole at work - not exactly gordon gekko here. I do think about those two questions quite a bit actually (nothing concrete yet).

My question was a bit broader than that. There's the possibility I could sharpen back up my development skills and go the route of trying to be a software engineer. My friends in development tell me I would be good at it. If that is indeed true, what are some good ways to show the world that?

Also, what other routes are there? Coder and VC - are those it? Or are there lesser known paths?
There was a comment about java on browser. I think history tells us how people hate java on browser.
This is unbelievably not true. Installing dovecot or similar is super easy. There are many options.

Unfortunately, setting things up to the point where your email isn't instantly tagged as SPAM by Google's, Yahoo's, and Microsoft's servers which handle the bulk of the email you want delivered ... is a monumental feat of engineering.

Frequently, they just mark it as SPAM when it doesn't come from one of the big boy's servers. What's the point of sending an email if the recipient will never have a chance to read it?
C.S. Lewis? "Any fool can write learned language: the vernacular is the real test. If you can't turn your faith into it, then either you don't understand it or you don't believe it."
A wonderful example of confirmation bias. "Oh, look, box office revenues are down... except for the blockbusters where the big studios earn their money, those got a shot in the arm. But we'll still go with 'hurts revenue'.
My credit union does this in the other direction (I have a pre-established secret word that they ask for in order to prove I'm myself; I think there's even another one I'm supposed to use if I'm under duress, but I can't recall).
Kubica's accident at Montreal was very scary. I saw it unfold befor emy eyes and managed to snap a bunch of photos. Your post reminded me of this and inspired me to write a Thanksgiving/Racing Safety blog post:
http://blog.octanenation.com/news/an-automotive-thanksgiving...

Exciting stuff!
Have you ever used an RFID badge? You have to practically press them against the reader to get the damn thing to work. If you think the school is somehow hacking them to do any more than that, you need to provide evidence.
Formulating a Diet Strategy
Lets explore the reason people take supplements. There is the need for appetite suppression, the need to prevent ailments such as bloating and fatigue during exercise and in general to achieve weight loss goals. We all know what caffeine is.
Is there anyone who has lived in one of these South American areas like Belize for a long time able to confirm any of this system of paying bribes to police officers at traffic stops?

Also, is his statement about police 'planting drugs' just so much self serving nonsense, or has anyone ever had a police officer actually do that?

The entire essay sounds somewhat specious to me...
Of course you could do that, I also do that sometimes, but after being welcomed in such an unrespectful way I just didn't want to bother, since I assumed the quality of the article is the same as "welcome" message.
Yes, he moved it to the right side of the blog. Glad that the complaint worked ;)
Cinnamon and/or MATE are the real future for GNOME users. GNOME's mainline developers have their heads in the clouds, thinking if they make it shiny enough they'll be the next Steve Jobs, and that's not anything like reality.

Of course, it's fine to conduct experiments like gnome-shell. It's just too bad that they feel like they need to torpedo the whole platform and sink it all together, removing features others depend on (most recently: fallback mode goes away in next major release, 3.8) simply because they're irritated that someone is messing with their precious, beautiful design.

I almost think everyone is just going to switch to KDE and I think we might be better for it; Qt is definitely superior to GTK.
Why Facebook's Mobile Features Rests on Today's Phone Features?