skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I love the free market too and I once thought as you did, until I looked at the data.

Back in 2006 I pulled the latest WHO data and looked at % of medical industry privatized vs overall health of the populace (an function of factors such as infant mortality and lives lost to communicable diseases) in OECD countries.

As best I could tell there was a negative correlation between privatization and quality of care. As I recall the USA was the worst (by far), Australia's hybrid system put them near the middle, and Japan was on top.

Sure the sample data is small and the USA is very very far from a pure market at this point, but it was enough of a wake-up call for me that I stopped blindly believing in economic models.

After all it is only a model, not reality.

Health care may in fact be a 'natural monopoly' such as water or power, or it may be better as a government controlled industry such as education or defence. Only a few radicals think the government should not run or regulate any industry.

Some things to consider:

> Is is better that people always visit the doctor when they have a minor concern? (like 'if they sneeze . . .') because if people are paying out of pocket even at $100 many will not go.

> Many rural areas have only one hospital. Their emergency room is a monopoly. In a perfect market they could charge whatever they wanted and people would still go.

> Can the average person 'make sure a doctor is good?' Do they know how to make such a judgement?

> If doctors needed to compete, would it necessary be a sill-based competition? Is there a correlation between customer satisfaction and early detection for things like annual physicals?

> Do we want to have a society where you level of income determines your quality of care (and probably life expectancy)

I agree that the current US system is close to the worst thing possible, virtually no competition due to insurance being tied to employers, and also virtually no safety net.

I was uninsured for two and a half years. When I went to the hospital and asked how much things cost no one knew. Twice I was misinformed by more than a hundred dollars.

So yeah I think the model you propose may well be better than what we currently have, but I sincerely doubt it is the best possible.
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Legal documents should not be protected by copyright. Its such an absurd idea that everyone until recently assumed they were in the public domain.
That could be a better idea for sure.
I'm partial to SQL-mode in emacs which allows you to start psql in a comint style buffer, send queries from an edit buffer and capture them to output buffers; it used to be a pain to set up but these days it mostly just works.

And by accident or design, there is almost no interference between the psql commands and the editor.
His point is that you need to better explain your product BEFORE you ask someone to signup. I want to know that this is something I might actually use before I go handing out my email address.
Show HN: Pentastream - Built on Carnaval's long weekend.
Having built a bunch of real-time infrastructure before, I'm glad that there is now a better option than hundreds of hours of blood, sweat, and tears. (lots and lots of tears)

Firebase is a neat take on what a world of real-time for "free" could be like. If nothing else, I dare you to find a faster experience for prototyping that can subsequently scale into your production app. :) I also know several of the guys there - all of whom I would work with in an instant if I had the chance. The beta is a big step for them, but I can guarantee you even greater things are to come from that team.

Congratulations guys!
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I didn't even know they covered events—I go there simply for quick product reviews
If you want to write code instead of back ends, this is the tool for you. Don't waste a minute dealing with servers and databases and real-time technologies. Just get Firebase and build your product.
Rails/JS Engineers - Join the ZenPayroll family and help build modern payroll
ZenPayroll (YC W12) is looking for Rails/Javascript full-stack engineers to join us on our mission to deliver delightful, modern payroll to businesses everywhere. If you love un-sexy, core, foundational problems, we'd love to speak with you. Current payroll products haven't changed in decades and customers deserve better.

A little about us:

We're building the future of payroll. We launched in 2012 (http://zenpayroll.com/press) and raised $6.1M in our first round of financing so we could focus on building a long term foundation for the company. Our investors include the CEOs of Dropbox, Yelp, Yammer, Box, among others, as well as Google Ventures and Salesforce (full list at http://zenpayroll.com/investors). We currently have a product that our customers love, and we're processing millions of dollars in payroll every month. Our founders are second time entrepreneurs from Stanford who have had two prior exits. We're hungry to build something truly great and we're in this for the long haul.

A little about you:

You’re the type of person who ...

(1) cares about the customer viewpoint and derives joy from knowing what you've built is solving a real problem

(2) enjoys working with technologies like Rails, Backbone.js, jQuery, Coffeescript, MySQL, RSpec, and Mocha

(3) embraces a test-driven development process

(4) thinks like an owner in terms of how they work, the quality of their work, and what they work on

Most importantly, you’re the type of person who’s not just looking for a “job”, but wants to join a tight-knit, hard-working family united by a common mission. You'll be amply rewarded for the work you do.

Some perks include:

- Competitive salary and equity package

- 100% health/vision/dental coverage

- Free breakfast, lunch and dinner – no matter how busy we
are, we make sure to sit around the dinner table as a team and enjoy meals together

- Open vacation policy – we don’t count days

- Beautiful office near South Park in San Francisco

- Monthly housing stipend if you live near the office

- Order your ideal workstation

- Fitness stipend

- Endless snacks and beverages

- Copious espressos, lattes, and beers – we have some serious baristas on our team!

If solving a real pain point for millions of people gets you excited, we'd love to speak with you.

To apply, send a note to jobs [at] zenpayroll [dot] com and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, resume and/or any project pages.

This job is located in San Francisco, CA. You must be local or willing to relocate (we'll cover the cost).
Good for him. I hope for his sake that he can win back some of the trust he squandered, and keep on the straight and narrow.
I love Firebase! http://scratchpad.io wouldn't have been possible without it, and the team is super responsive to support requests.
Since it was Carnaval last weekend, I had a very long time off work.

I built this using Ruby on Rails, Heroku, PostgreSQL and Nokogiri.

Why?

I wanted to learn Nokogiri and watch some streams discretely while at work. The original Twitch website was a bit too noisy and in your face at work, so this layout seems a bit quiter.

Amazing how quickly Rails had me up and running.
The US government would have to pay each independent discoverer of the not-yet-released exploit, no? If they said 'no thanks, we've already got that one,' the second discoverer could just turn around and disclose it, making the original purchase a lot less valuable.

What, besides their own sense of ethics, stops the original exploit discoverer from selling the exploit to someone else, who will then resell it back to the US government? That seems like a lot easier way to get more money from your exploit than, say, developing contacts with a second government.

The only way I can think of for the US government to effectively prevent you from reselling your exploits is to monitor your communications and finances for anything shady - whenever the exploit is independently discovered, they would have to do some research into your behavior to make sure it was actually independently discovered. Hell, why wouldn't they do this monitoring all along to make sure you're not trying to sell it to a foreign government?

I'm probably just paranoid, but being one of the few people who know something the US government would like to keep a secret doesn't sound like a good position to be in. I'd want to be rather well paid.
We've seen a new layout engine written. Gecko. It took about 15-16 years to get to where it is now, with on average probably ~100 developers. Granted, you can argue it wasn't the most efficient path to get there, but I doubt that you could rebuild Gecko (or WebKit) from scratch today in fewer than 5 years with a team that's about that size...

For that matter, it's not like KHTML sprang out of the void fully-formed; I distinctly recall it being written. Again, the "the path wasn't optimal" arguments may apply.
It switches between not pushing the syncing at all (I never managed to get bookmark sync working on iOS) and garbling my bookmarks in all sorts of folder and file tree permutations.

It's entirely possible that I have lost bookmarks to this, but I wouldn't know from the utter clusterfuck of it all.

Speaking of rel="next", it is an incredibly sad state of affairs that sites such as Daring Fireball can't even be bothered to use it, just because other browsers aren't using what is so obviously a treasure to web browsing. Opera even wanted to use this for swipe left-right navigation on touch-based devices as evidenced in a presentation years old now.
"it offers nothing useful in terms of creating progressive and fair tax rates." Neither does accusing people of propagating class warfare.
Yes they do. I'm a scientist; I spend all my time trying to interpret facts.

I agree with the previous poster--the text of the statute or regulation itself should not have copyright protection, regardless of whether more interpretation is needed to understand its implications.
I'm not convinced that a standalone payments system is useful for anyone: the type of person who couldn't get stripe or balanced payments to work most likely will leverage a turnkey storefront solution.

Forge needs to have connectors to storefronts (or build their own system and market the package). A payment system in absentia makes no sense.
Ah! Sorry about that! Let me add an example to the front page!
It's very difficult to find good programmers. I would suggest finding someone on HN that has a very good rep and using him to sort through and find quality ones. One of the biggest challenges is that, even when you find quality programmer(s), most will attempt to outsource to crappy devs. I found out that the sv dev firm I hired, outsourced to $4.50 hour ukraine devs on odesk.
Cool product.

However, I really had no idea what this product did from the landing page. Had to create an account, and wait for a psd to process. Then I had to click around before actually understanding what was going on. Most people aren't going to get that far before they leave and you don't want to lose that audience.

The line "if you're a web developer you no longer need photoshop" was confusing. Because I read this as "another web-based photoshop alternative". And for some reason I couldn't figure out what you meant by Photoshop styles (maybe just me).

I think I'd personally describe your product as 1. Upload a PSD, 2. Download the CSS, thats it. Maybe a landing page more like: http://jade-lang.com/

Hope that helps.
REMOTE: Office Not Required. The new book by 37signals. Coming fall 2013.
Agreed. If they develop something that needs that much bandwidth they can dogfood it from their couch!
Obvious: he'll start gt and sell it to AOL.
Here's another interesting way to think about it: look at the mobile web on iOS. Does it matter that WebKit is open source and forkable? No, since Apple actively prevents "alternative" visions of what the web should be since they just don't allow custom builds of WebKit/JS on there. Any browser you make can only add superficial features, forcing you to use the built in WebKit. You may have a great idea that would instantly make everyone want to use web apps on iOS instead of native apps, but since you 1) can't ship that browser on iOS, and 2) can't convince Apple to commit that change to WebKit proper, you are effectively locked out.

Compare this to a plugin-driven environment vs a standards-driven environment. Say what you like about Flash, but it was able to guerrilla video onto the web without anyone's permission.
Got to admit, I am disappointed that

> parseInt("08", 8);

returns 0 instead of NaN
If you're interested in this, you should also know about Showdown.js, a library that converts markdown into HTML client-side: https://github.com/coreyti/showdown

For an example use, view the source of http://dergachev.github.com/pin-screenshot-bookmarklet
The article has a link to a list of all bugs found by Google engineers in non Google software:

http://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/research/
Absolutely - the whole project depends on GitHub's language detection, which is sometimes a little odd.
That's not how civil lawsuits works...

Also, you're suggesting that if two criminal activities were well conducted, the inventor will lose a civil case? If this criminal activity is revealed, it invalidates the patent and subjects the executives and lawyers responsible to criminal sanctions and massive civil liabilities, including forfeiting all profits derived from the fraudulent patent and treble damages (i.e., 3x the actual damages the true inventor suffered). It's simply not ever worth the business risk to pursue this path.
Congrats on launching! Really like the design and prominent example. One question: what's the advantage of this over Gumroad/Ribbon.co? Lower fees?

Also, you mentioned that this is targeted at a non-technical market. I'd definitely think about revisiting the homepage copy/selling points. To me it still feels targeted toward a developer audience. Perhaps a couple of use cases would be helpful to show off the types of businesses that would find Forge useful? (http://goodsie.com and http://shopify.com come to mind as decent examples of this).

Good luck!
Checkout enom and tucows for selling domains. It's fairly straightforward to get setup as a reseller and start using their API's to sell domains white label on your site.

My email is in my profile if you have any questions. I'm an enom reseller and have no complaints.
That is why it is dangerous to draw conclusions from small sample sizes, and why useful samples need to be random. Your website does not attract random people, so it is not an accurate sample. Opera usage varies massively by country for example, is your website available in Czech? If not, your sample will self select to have fewer opera users.
I would totally sell to AOL if they offered a price I would sell at, but I wouldn't be able to avoid the nagging feeling that AOL don't exactly have a successful history when it comes to purchasing smaller companies.
Nice job. The zooming functionality on the map is great. Really cool seeing all the occupied regions.
API vs DSL
Just found TeamPostgreSQL (http://www.teampostgresql.com/) earlier today, by far the best I've ever worked with.

Not that the other tools have set a very high bar. pgAdmin crashes constantly, and you can't sort columns by clicking on them. Navicat doesn't run properly on Linux, you have to mess around with wine. phpPgAdmin has a single DB host is hard coded into a config file and just feels antiquated.

One major drawback of TeamPostgreSQL so far: it doesn't support SSL connections.
Last time I checked, it didn't work in linux iff there were other sublime windows open.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14598261/making-sublime-t...
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Hello this is a test
It's always good to have choices, however I still cannot understand the advantages of Opera over it's open source siblings...
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Nicely done sir. Pull request ahoy!
I agree. It would be better if we had storefronts for these people, and product pages they can link to.

That's on our todo list.
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A Case for the Public Domain
Is that available as a bookmarklet, where you can select content on an existing page and extract markdown to the clipboard?
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On the one hand, I think it's insane that you hit 100TB/mo of usage on a "free" service and expected it to keep going. Maybe you figured you wouldn't rock the boat as long as it was free - I guess I can relate. But still, really???

On the other hand: CloudFlare comes off as terrifyingly incompetent here - which more or less matches with my experiences trying them out on a site serving maybe 100GB worth of traffic at most in a month. They seem to have missed dozens of great opportunities to upsell you on their paid service, and when someone finally noticed how much bandwidth you were using, they completely lost the plot.

What should have happened, IMO, is something like this: A panicked CloudFlare admin realizes your site is using 100TB/mo. Their first step is to send you a sternly worded email, explaining that for this usage level you need plan X, and if you don't upgrade within... let's say 5, maybe 7 days? They'll be throttling or limiting your service. Then you don't feel pressured to solve the problem right away, and they are trying to retain a customer that (presumably) they value.

Instead, they haphazardly change your settings behind your back (???) and then later take various steps to reduce your bandwidth usage before finally deciding that you need to pay them, without even figuring out how much money they want. Ridiculous.

To me this just says that CloudFlare is running on what may be a fundamentally unsound business model, and that by claiming their free tier doesn't charge by bandwidth (and not listing any limits) they're dramatically increasing the odds that customers will suddenly discover there are limits after all, and leave. If they were more up front about what the actual pricing structure is, it'd probably be more likely that people would start paying for the value that CloudFlare gives them.
GroupTalent Grabs $1M From Founders Co-Op, Menlo and Others
I'd also like to get some feedback on the short description on the front page. Is it clear enough?
Everything the US Federal government publishes is public domain. People erroneously believe that also applies to state and municipal governments, too. I know I did until recently.
Dump the result set as a table into a file and refresh "the file" in a browser?

Having 2 windows open is about the same as having 2 panels in one of the DB "Monties". http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/monty.html
Counterintuitive Lessons in Trust (courtesy of Airbnb, Lyft and Postmates)
It also isn't technically Open Source. I didn't see anywhere in the REPO that stated it was Open Source. At best, it's Freeware/Shareware, at worst, you're stealing the author's work by downloading.

Minor nit, but I think it adds to your comment.
It's a shame that the term consultant carries that connotation these days.
California law and regulation incorporate by reference[1] standards and regulations devised and drafted by groups outside of government like the International Code Council[2] and National Fire Protection Association[3]. This isn't bad per se since these groups know better than most legislators about the specific domain being treated (experts on structural fires writing fire codes, e.g.)

These referenced regulations are protected by Copyrights owned not by the legislator or government, but by the original private authors. As a consequence, having access to these Copyrighted, commercialized, non-free documents becomes a requirement for anyone wishing to know what the law is.

[1]: http://tr.ansfer.me/1cim

[2]: http://www.iccsafe.org/

[3]: http://www.nfpa.org/
The first phase involved a literal reconstruction of my mistakes. I wanted to have an accounting, in my head, of how I fabricated those Dylan quotes. I wanted to understand the mechanics of every lapse, to relive all those errors that led to my disgrace. I wanted to understand so that I could explain it to people, so that I could explain it in a talk like this.

This is basically doing a post-mortem. When I think about things I've done wrong, I go through this process. Then when I try to explain to people, I go through this process. However, when I do this, I fear that other people think I'm just trying to justify my mistakes.

As such, I don't often try to explain myself to others. I apologize, but I don't go into detail; and usually, people are willing to accept simply the apology and the high-level explanation. When I say go into detail, I mean a truly blow by blow account of every premise, piece of context, and minor decision that led to the big one. I think part of it is that a lot of people simply don't have the patience for such details.

To clarify what I'm talking about in terms of level of detail, I give the example of a time a girl asked me, "So do you prefer Vancouver food or Hong Kong food?". And I responded with a 5 minute dissection of the question to better understand what the question was asking, because the answer could vary depending on the question's true meaning and intent. Then she got exasperated and said, "Wow, I just asked you whether you prefer this food or that food!!! What's the big deal???")

So maybe I have two fears when I want to give the blow by blow account. The stupid fear is that people will think I'm crazy for going into such detail. The more scary fear is that people will think I'm trying to justify myself when I'm in fact not trying to do that at all. And this fear keeps me from sharing my thoughts with others.

I have no idea whether this guy is sincere or not, and so it's funny that the fear I have regarding other people being suspicious of my sincerity, I am casting similar suspicions (though not aggressively, as it's not a significant event to me whether or not this guy is sincere).
What about security? How do you address it?
Nice. Didn't know pandoc can directly read from an URL, even easier.
It's her chosen name. When you can choose a name, you do so based upon a tradeoff between comfort and identity. Women on the internet can't always afford both, and so choosing such a name seems powerful. It certainly is never hypocritical.
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Ask HN: Does having a hobby make you more efficient at work?
Hey guys, I'm a college student and I had a little argument with a fellow student about the reason for procrastination. Procrastination, as in not doing your work during the day, but prolonging in till late nights and the weekend.

My theory is that the reason is, that we don't have a hobby, something that we want to do in our spare time and cause all our friends are stuck with coursework, we don't have motivation to finish our work when we are supposed to.

What do you think? Does your hobby help you get things done during the day?
The cicada simulation on that page is very misleading. You're only seeing prime numbers because you arbitrarily synchronized the cycles of the cicada and the predators at t=0. If you had chosen another starting point at t=0 then you would see that years with many prime factors do better because then the predators consistently miss the cicada cycle. From somebody who criticizes psychology for wrong methodology I'd not have expected a simulation that's nothing more than confirmation bias ;-)
Slate's take on this article is particularly interesting and has one strong perspective about Lehrer - http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

(not a positive viewpoint)