skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One other aspect I ignored in my earlier post is that the digestive tract actually needs solid mass in order to perform peristalsis. Hospitals have to avoid giving patients a liquid diet for too long, or else the digestive tract basically just stops — and it's a pain in the ass to restart.

Additionally, we have only the faintest idea how this might affect gut bacteria, which is an enormous component of both our digestive system as well as immune system. Without giving them our "table scraps", what happens to them?
If you're looking for a Heroku-like environment with buildpack compatibility, you should check out OpDemand: http://opdemand.com/

The application stacks are basically a collection of open-source Puppet modules that replicate a Heroku-like environment on EC2, compatible with most Cedar buildpacks (Node, Ruby, Python, Java, Clojure). Real-time logging is piped through the web console. Workflow is to push code to your GitHub repo, press deploy and your code is pulled onto the instances, Puppet policies applied, etc. Command line `opdemand deploy` is available too.

It's also more than just app stacks, you can also deploy/integrate your own custom EC2 "addons" alongside your app stacks and manage them all as a unit (Redis, Mongo, PostgreSQL, custom services, whatever). There's also native support for Heroku apps via the web console which makes it easy to migrate to/from Heroku and EC2.
That's the kind of reasonable debate about values and priorities that would exist in a sane system.

But the US has a certifiably insane system. The government spends more on healthcare per capita here than the government does in France. To be clear: that's excluding private spending.

Some of that is certainly driven by a higher GDP per capita, but it's still ridiculous even when accounting for that.
So the price should be lower in the US because supply is greater right?.
Also weirdly enough according to the article's chart MRIs have a relatively reasonable spread.
Yeah, they could.

For one, Reader could be built on a very different set of APIs that makes it inherently difficult to maintain.

That's speculation, but it's certainly the kind of thing that has happened at every large company I've ever worked at.
He's saying that a particular avenue of information gathering shouldn't be used at all. That's doing less!

Elad is saying that all of those things (interviews, hanging out, looking at shared code, etc etc) should be done and ALSO reference checks should be done.

And of course the information from references can sometimes be vague and misleading. All information about candidates can be vague and misleading. It's the job of a good hiring manager to sort through all of this information and do they best that can to form a complete picture. The more information the better!
Getting a monopoly on the 'box'. Actually, I'd say a startup being acquired by a small company like Dropbox is a better outcome than a startup being consumed into the monolithic companies like Apple or Google.
Looks impressive but would I be wrong to assume that disk write performance will go down as GCE adoption spreads?
As far as I know providing virtualized storage is not something that you can consistently limit like RAM for example. Still competition is always a good thing and especially if the giants are fighting it out (Amazon, Google, Microsoft)
The giant "insurance scam" that the US medical industry is... By the way, it costs something around $83 in India. Of course we can't compare directly just by converting the currency, but it's also true that a lot of American insurance companies these days pay patients to go and get themselves treated in the best hospitals of India as that (including the trip costs) would still be cheaper than getting themselves treated here.
If you're busy, you're doing something wrong
Relative to Google+? Yes.
You have reason to believe that Reader's usage went up in two years?

(I personally have no idea…)
I was interested in what the author had to say about the experience of "dying," so I got what I paid for.
Check out the top patent assignees from last year http://ificlaims.com/index.php?page=misc_top_50_2012
Dave Winer: How to reboot RSS (2010)
Agreed. Sparrow's upload via Dropbox instead of attachment feature is also really useful, so it seems like a perfect fit.
2012 Top 50 US Patent Assignees
Looking at the run function, you might benefit to use a switch-case in place of that plethora of if-elif's. It would look a bit neater IMHO.
I was going to argue the point, but I'll just point here: http://phillydan.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/good-emts-dont-run...
The SquareOne approach to having email being presented in a birds-eye dashboard will change the way people approach email reading and management.
With Dropbox acquiring Mailbox it shows that there is an email problem that needs to be solved.
High heat for a few seconds, low for a few minutes.
Japan slightly contradicts your points, having much cheaper MRI scans (~$200), many more MRI machines and scans per capita than the US. But yes, they tend to be less advanced MRI machines (not sure about older/newer). This is all put out in the Planet Money podcast linked just above.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1205455...
You are right, I just went through my Firefox plugins and I see "Google Update" along with a few "Google Talk" plugins. Given that I installed Firefox after Chrome, could those plugins have been installed and updated with Google Talk or does Chrome have an active app monitoring in the background?
Not being in the medical industry, I'm curious what people say about the 4th paragraph here, indicating that many/most physicians would prefer not to have CPR performed on them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-ch...
> watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY?t=1m44s

Hmm, I don't think that feature works like that. Try watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY#t=1m44s
Also see Time's extensively researched "Why Medical Bills are Killing Us" http://healthland.time.com/why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/

the tl;dr of it: hospitals are charging the uninsured exhorbitant markups over Medicaid (which they bitch about, but they actually do well enough that they advertise to Medicaid patients) because they can. Without pricing information (which they hide as much as possible), every emergency is a miniature monopoly. "Non-profit" hospital administrators have every incentive to expand the facilities/prestige of their institution, so they act like the most rapacious "for-profit" corporations imaginable.
Not surprisingly, health insurance isn't that expensive if you only want to cover the 'big' things. It gets worse as you get get older of course.

But if you're healthy, 20 - 30 type, and you're seeing the doctor once or twice a year and maybe using prescription meds occasionally for a bacterial infection, then you get the 'high deductible' plan, you end up paying for that stuff yourself but if you happen to be in a wreck or you get cancer or something the insurance will cover it once you get past your deductible.
The Launch Festival
Jonathan Matas, Facebook's Graffiti Artist in Residence
haha, criley won already
A sense of humour normally gets you downvotes on here :-p
> You are free not to trust a single word of what I say

I didn't believe this could all be true so I asked a friend who is French, and was told it was actually all true. I thought he'd either nuance or refute it, but neither happened...
Food and healthcare are both inelastic demands, yes. But that doesn't mean they are comparable. I have 8 hours between hunger spikes; plenty of time to shop around. I know when I am going to be hungry, and I will be hungry again soon.

The issue as I see it with healthcare is the the nature of the beast itself. When you are bleeding from the femoral artery, you don't have time to shop around, and you don't know when it will happen. Additionally, it is a rare event, unlike your drive for food.
Sure, why not.

Dry cast iron skillet, put in oven, heat to 500*F. Prep steak with olive oil and salt and pepper.

Take skillet out of oven, put on stove at high. Cook 30 seconds on each side. (total cook time on range: 1 minute)

Back in oven, 2 minutes each side. (total cook time in oven : 4 minutes)

Let rest 3 minutes.
AGREED. So much
It's a mail app with todo list/triage features. You can easily reorder items, set reminders for tomorrow/next week, etc.

Intro/promo vid: http://vimeo.com/54553882
It's not a question of guilty/innocent; it's the question of "well she was so drunk she got kicked out of the bar, so how could it have been rape" being _absolute bullshit_.
If you need a 3rd party to give you feedback, analyze the situation and solve your problem I might know someone who can help you although he is rather helping high profile startups.Leave a mail on your profile if you want some help anyway.
I see your point, but I see a lot of non-tech news here.
And this opens our eyes to an industry that might need changing (sort of like when pg mentioned that Hollywood is in need for disruption one year ago)

You have some big companies like General Electric trying to do things like improving hospital visits (http://www.gequest.com/c/hospital)..and a lot of people making fitness apps. But not much else then what from what I can see....
http://www.getabstract.com/en/
These numbers alone don't tell the whole story either. In the US total spending on MRIs is higher than in France because there are more machines (per capita) and those machines are generally newer. And this gives patients in the US greater access to MRIs and increases the likelihood of an MRI scan being diagnostic (due to the machines being newer and more sensitive). But note that the number of scans per machine is actually lower in the US than in France, even though you are 4x more likely to actually receive a scan in the US.
The biggest problem GCE has is not performance or anything technical - it is the terrible, terrible support that Google offers (or fails to offer).

I'm pretty sure that most people who have used any of Google's pay for services knows just how bad that support can be.

What happens if something goes wrong with your billing on EC2? No problem, you call them up and sort it out.

What happens if something goes wrong with your billing on any Google product? You'll be down for days while attempting to get Google to even acknowledge a problem.

Until Google fixes their support issues, anybody using a Google service for anything business critical needs to be very careful in weighing up pros and cons.
Pedant time! ssh is just one of many transports that git can use.
We might not need the government to fully subsidize healthcare to improve things though. Prices are set so high that hospitals - even nonprofit ones - have huge profit margins (this is better stated in the original [now-paywalled] TIME cover story: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2136864,00....). So even without the government paying for everything, there could be regulation to control prices set by healthcare providers.
An MRI doesn't have a cost in America. The cost depends on, obviously, your perspective. Are you a patient? If so, are you insured? Are you a hospital? Medicare? What state are you in?

Are we talking cost or are we talking reimbursement?
> "In other words, the low prices for health care found in other countries is, in part, subsidised by the American consumer."

What you'd expect is that the research takes place in the US due to some level of higher profits, but it's far from clear whether that level ~= our current level.

Absent any determination of discrepancy between those two levels, while we can still say it's a part of the puzzle, we have no idea how large a part.

And given that a higher GDP country will tend to be the more profitable place to do any front-end research/initial rollout anyway, it wouldn't seem that researchers would need any additional profit premium to prefer the US to, say, France [1].

So while data may show differently, I certainly wouldn't expect that factor to explain any of the discrepancy between what we pay as a percentage of GDP and what France pays.

[1] In general: people in larger economies tend to spend more for things. So net profit tends to be higher there. So things tend to get researched/introduced there first. And no other industry seems to require anything close to the additional profit premium that the healthcare industry sees, to do that research/introduction here first. (auto, energy, tech, etc) In fact, the degree to which industries go elsewhere tends to hinge on massive government subsidies designed explicitly to offset this natural reward structure.
I recently followed this video to cook a steak, which goes against the flip once philosophy. One of the best steaks I've ever had: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW3ay3k0lek
I have another post for reasons why health care is so expensive in the US (a recent infographic time magazine):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5382451
Look at it this way... Right now you have a zero % chance, if I try it you have a 50% chance... You are working against yourself. Unless I have an absolute need for your app, I'll just leave. If I demo the app at least you have a 50% chance I'll like it (or maybe I know someone who will)... Save what I do in a cookie or local storage or in a form field and submit it if/when I signup. - Hope this helps
It is possible that Mr Zunger woke up this morning and thought , "This is a great oppourtunity to get a bunch of vague and unsubstantiated feedback on a product that is being shutdown. I'd like to spend half my day moderating comments".

It could also be that he wanted to redirect some of the passion for google reader in a positive direction. Make Google a bit more empathetic and friendly.

It could be some combination of the two.

I don't see malice here. I think Mr. Zunger made a smart move.

Now if he actually thought he was going to learn something he didn't already know from those comments, that would sadden me.

He is smart enough to realize that comments like those have a huge power-user sample bias and are mostly useless.

My lemmings comment was way out of bounds.
It's hilariously easy to skip the line and gain access to the "velvet room" as it is described in this application's plist file. You can even do this entirely on a non-jailbroken device. Tokenless system based entirely on local authentication.
A doctor I was talking to recently told me that they do way too many scans in America because of liability concerns that don't exist in other countries.

If there is a tiny chance that a condition might actually be something more serious than the obvious diagnosis they will send you in for a scan to be sure even though the doctor "knows" that it's not.
Regardless the reasons they sell themselves. But I still think it's a good idea to join Dropbox since they are really open and they love to create good product instead of trying to get money.

I hope mailbox having the right place to continue growing as a good product.

Furthermore: I love the current startup markets, so many awesome products. But still there are bunch of craps which have new and fancy interfaces but nothing inside. Rather joining the big and create big thing together :)
On isolation of work from leisure:

"The average players, they discovered, spread their work throughout the day. The elite players, by contrast, consolidated their work into two well-defined periods."

"This isolation of work from leisure had pronounced effects in other areas of the players’ lives. Consider, for example, sleep: the elite players slept an hour more per night than the average players."
Does Galaxy S4 have a kitchen sink?
As far as I can tell this does not work cross protocol from http to https. One of the thing I use postMessage for the most is messaging between those two protocols.
Just because you work more hours doesn't mean you are contributing more value to the company.
That said, if you really do contribute 70% of the value into the company in it's early stages I might discuss with the cofounder a 70/30 split in equity.
And to make an equally relevant point: more MRIs doesn't necessarily equate to better health outcomes. It depends on who is getting them, and how likely they are to actually be sick.

Lots of rich people getting marginally useful MRIs in the USA may be an inferior system to everyone having access to MRIs but fewer being done in total.
You don't have to buy cigarettes though. They are a life choice.
On my Android (4.1) the demos loaded and ran slowly on Firefox, but were best by far with Chrome Beta: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.bet...

There were still obvious hiccups attributable to the GC. Most of the time the game was going a full 60hz.
I tracked my time when initially learning chef, and it took me ~100 hours to be comfortable with what I needed (2.5 years ago roughly if I remember well).

The learning curve was fairly steep for me, but then I don't regret it, since I got to use it as a freelancer just right after on multiple gigs, and that I can now extend EngineYard recipes or think about using AWS OpsWork without much sweat.

From a purely single-person building app for yourself kind of perspective though (with one or two servers), it's a deep investment IMO...

People should have a look at http://ansible.cc for an apparently much lightweight alternative.
I don't understand the point of this. I can decrease auto emission 100% by buying from Tesla.
Suspect it was more likely that he thinks the ease of development shouldn't be the sole consideration in the design of an app.

Just because the SDK makes it easy does not make it the best design solution.
I think I might be a minority here, but I think this is an okay move. I use gchat exclusively with people within my workplace (also on gchat) and friends who also work at places with Google apps.

However, I've been getting a consistent barrage of requests from spam email accounts to chat; accounts with obscene names like 'sweety+69+for+free@freemail.ru' or something to the sort. The names/domains of each are different every time, so I can't simply block a domains.

I ask: if Google does not block outside requests, what could they do to stop this sort of thing?
When you have one of the big ticket items that they make the big money on, such as cancer, you have a lot of time to shop around.
I too like the transparent pricing, CVS Minute Clinics are a great example, if they offer a service it is listed on their price chart.

In FL medical facilities that post prices of their 50 most common treatments are given a discount on their license fee. I think that is great, but you have to laugh at how pro-business states get businesses to do anything pro-consumer.

Separately, under the FL Patient Bill of Rights, even if a medical facility does not post their pricing, if requested by the patient the provider must provide a reasonable estimated charges of such service.
The future of blood donations and how one startup is disrupting the space.
Back when we started the project in June 2011 our idea was just to create a tool that connects blood donors and recipients using Facebook as the underlying medium and nothing more than that.

Slowly but steadily the idea went viral, from my shared office in Bangalore to people in Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand – it became more like a local community project – people requested for blood groups in their countries.

After spending a considerable time on the project and understanding the whole blood donation sector,we realized we are dealing with a humongous problem.

The reality set in gradually, the whole process and experience of donating blood hasn’t changed all that much since the1950’s!

The blood banks across the globe were operating pretty old-school despite the technological leaps all around, and sadly there was little they had done to change the donor experience. In short, the sector was badly in need of innovation.

That turned out to be the Eureka! moment for our team. We envisaged, that when a billion people can log onto Facebook, why can’t some good Samaritans among them donate blood utilizing the same platform while putting an end to the global blood crisis?
Three Optimization Tips for C++
Huh. Maybe the discrepancy came out of going by the hour it takes to walk to somewhere 2 miles away in the city, with the taxicab metric plus occasional stoplights mattering more than I thought.
It allows you to work offline.

Additionally, not everyone uses GitHub.
a mail on your profile would be good if you want some help...
Checkout the preferences plist under the application folder on your local device.
Google rumored to be readying Newsstand competitor
'Sex predator' doctor used watch camera to film examinations
Exactly, it's not like a loop counter variable will show up in a stack trace (even if it is a perl style trace, with values, rather than a Java style, line numbers only, stack dump).

This whole debug dump issue could be avoided by saving a copy of the initial entry frame for debugging and the current frame with elipses shown between them when TCE was in effect.
This is a totally awesome service -- once called an InstantCab in SF and a limo came to pick us up. A goddamn LIMO.
Wow, not a great week for Google here. Their reputation has certainly taken a big "ding" in my eyes, between this, Reader and CalDAV.
From the Chicken documentation [1] it appears that it does not include bignums in the core but as a separate package that requires GMP [2] to be installed. Since GMP is LGPL licensed this might cause an issue if you are sensitive to such things.

Gambit includes bignum support without external dependencies.

[1] http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Deviations%20from%20the%20stan...

[2] http://gmplib.org/

(I use Gambit but not Chicken)
I was getting the same on MSN, and I don't think that was federated.
Great, do you want them to block incoming emails from any domain other than your own, as well?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it sounds like a normal rotary (Wankel) engine you can buy from Mazda right now. They have some benefits, but they're not a magical cure-all - everyone except Mazda dropped development of them. Wikipedia for the lazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
Love it, can't wait for it to make it's way down to SoCal
Higher level languages are easy to debug provided the code base is Application code. The more you move closer to the system, the harder it is going to be to debug higher level languages - even java.

Essentially that mimics the whole software development philosophy too: Higher level languages for higher level programs.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2704614

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2425762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337237
It's also symptomatic of a shortage. Being able to meet everyone's needs every time means keeping certain overcapacity.
Freeze it and then sear it on extreamly hot skillet frozen, then put the skillet in an over on 200F until it is done to your liking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/dining/seared-frozen-rib-s...

They are fairly expensive as far as cookbooks go, but the book collection Modernist Cuisine is the state of the art. The recipe above is an adaptation of their technique. You will be hard pressed to create a better steak without years of practice in various techniques.

There is another technique where you Sous vide the steak to temperature and hold it there for some time, and then put a sear on it, but it takes Sous vide equipment. Though it produces an amazing steak.