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The costs tell how capitalism ruined the capitalism and twisted it to work solely for the (already) capitalists who are/were on the upper deck of capitalist yacht.

It's not just insurance cost - it's the entire healthcare system it seems that is complicated and made not very easily accessible. There's an answer to a question on Quora, by a guy who stayed in USA.

Question is: What are some things that you can do in India but not in the US?

Answer says: I can go to a doctor with no insurance, no paperwork...[1]

I don't think it's very unsafe to assume that the healthcare is designed in a way to make it extremely costly and make it accessible only to the rich and paying(whatever the huge amount set) customers.

Is it so true that USA doesn't have an dependent clinic or practitioner medical care culture? As in an independent doctor setting up his/her clinic or hospital and not associated with some BIG hospital clinic chain or just one mammoth+costly hospital.

What about the state owned hospital or medical schools? Like those in state owned universities for example. How is the cost of treatment/check-up there?

disclaimer: In no way it's comparison of quality of healthcare in two countries, it just discusses the way it is accessible.

[1]http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-that-you-can-do-in...
> "it just seemed strange that seeing a doctor (not even emergency room) cost roughly half as much as an iPad."

That's the banner headline. What a nightmare.
"... while *mine* is ..."

No one else at BitTorrent was involved in coming up with this solution?
Public companies don't just 'pivot' like your average start-up.
It takes them, what, four iPads to equal the profit from a single iPhone? Or, equivalently, how many iPad Minis?

If iPhone margins ever fell to what they are on the iPad, they'd be smaller than Microsoft, or IBM, or Google. That's the open secret of Apple's financials. It is only their incredible profit on the phone that keeps them on top of the tech world.
I created a Facebook in 06 because a class required it. For the first 6 months or so it pretty much only had my profile picture and one or two status updates (much like my current G+ profile).

I was the only one of my friends who had a FB profile - everyone else was on Myspace. I visited Myspace daily at the time.

I remember when the shift happened. More and more of my friend posted Myspace bulletins with "Deleting my Myspace, add me on FB!" It seemed to happen all at once.

I've seen a few of these 'leaving' declarations on my FB, but there isn't the same rush. FB may be going through a Myspace fate at a much slower rate, or perhaps we are in a new day and age where users will have profiles on many different social networks. I tend to think it's the latter.
I don't have time to leave a long comment right now. If you need someone to talk to, add me on gtalk.
I guess I'm not seeing where the government enters the picture here. Is it just the tax deductibility of group health insurance? If so, can you explain how the market would be structurally different if those premiums were taxed? For perspective, note that premiums have skyrocketed in the last 10 years, yet employers that offered group health insurance tend to still offer it.
I'm all for "crowdfunding" startups, but I don't like the way that WeFunder is going about it in my case.

I went through their questionnaire and found out I'm not allowed to invest - fair enough, the rules will get fixed eventually. Then today, I got an email today to say "We have this great investment opportunity! Oh, by the way, screw you because you're not accredited."

Until the rules change, don't bother emailing me. Until then it's just a tease, and a little insulting at the same time.
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Did you read the caption? The claim is that in other countries the variance is extremely small. You could dispute that claim, perhaps, but that's not what you've done here.

(My objection to the graphs is that the bars are for 25-50-95th percentile, which is difficult to interpret. I'd rather they just gave a four-part 25-50-75-100, or at least a 25-50-75-95 if they can't reliably establish an upper bound, or maybe 5-50-95. Any of those would be easier to intuit.)
It's interesting to see my younger cousins who are around 10-12 not actually showing any interest in Facebook. They're by far the most connected any generation has ever been at that age.

They use a mix of communication applications and media rich social networks such as Instagram.

But I guess you could say Instagram is Facebook in one respect.
I think: By saying "appropriate" he wasn't really asking how to find open source projects in his language of choice, but how to know which ones will eventually get him noticed, or how to pick the open source project that seems to have meaning to other people, etc.

It appears that the op may have had a stroke of good luck by picking the perfect OS projects. It would be a bummer to extend yourself in an area that nobody cares about if the whole purpose were to get noticed.

If using Open Source as a self-promotion tool, it's important to choose wisely.
I am going to give Yahoo the benefit of the doubt. I have a hard time believing that they'd pay $30M to gain five programmers. There's a lot more to this than we are aware of. C'mon folks, if you think the math doesn't add-up (as an acqui-hire) don't you think the folks at Yahoo can do basic arithmetic as well.

I've also read a few posts on this thread saying as much as "there are no smart people at Yahoo" or "everyone at Yahoo is an idiot" (paraphrasing). Coming from folks at HN I think these kinds of statements are really unbecoming. Of course there are a lot of amazing people at Yahoo. Tons of them.

Here's a bit of news for detractors: Business is hard. No, it is fucking hard. And, at their size and scale it is even harder. And, at the break-neck competitive speed of the internet, even harder still.

Mere humans make mistakes. We can read the tea-leaves wrong and take the wrong road --or one that is less than ideal. In business this can cost you years before you regain your prior position. What matters is that you do not give up.

I like Yahoo very much. They've been around for a long time and hopefully they'll be around a lot longer. They might eventually find a groove to fall into and light-up the afterburners. Stupid they are not. What they are doing is hard. What all of us are doing is hard, at any scale.
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Because there simply isn't that much variation in prices elsewhere. In fact, in many countries there will be exactly one price for any given treatment.

For example, in Switzerland, each treatment etc. is assigned a specific number of fee points (Taxpunkte). This is multiplied by a conversion factor to arrive at the cost of the treatment that a doctor can bill your insurance. And that's that. Unless the treatment allows for variations, it will always cost the same.

This should not really be surprising: There is no reason for a single payer system (or a system that's equivalent to single payer) to have multiple prices for one and the same thing. The whole point of single payer systems is that the single payer has the bargaining power to negotiate the most efficient price up front. Paying more than that without need would be a waste of money.
On the other hand, paraphrasing what you've said to make a counter-argument: an HN where a peaceful, respectful atmosphere is sustained by thoughtfully worded comments is a much much worse place than an HN where dry, hastily worded comments take some heat.
It took me a few moments to realize the reason this service wasn't working at all was because you use port 3000 to load the domain registration information. Many firewalls, both in a corporate environment and at home, tend to block things like this.

Perhaps you could reconsider this decision and use port 80.
Ask HN: How do you make a good screencast?
I've been trying to make a good screencast, but since I'm a bit of a perfectionist I'm running into some difficulties. So far I've approached it in two ways:

1) Record the screencast and audio at the same time. This leads to me using a lot of "um"s and "uh"s and seeing lots of little mistakes. It's not the worst thing in the world, but I'd like it to look and sound more polished.

2) Record the screencast first, then go back and script the audio portion. This works a bit better, but I have problems getting everything synced properly.

What are your tips and tricks to making a killer professional screencast?
Another thing that I found extremely strange while living in the States.

Seeing Walgreen's advertisements for flu shots (I think it was $19.99).
The relationship between macro-economics on the startup funding/acquisition market.

Most of that data should publicly be available for you to consume and play with.
Curious what companies these were? Haven't heard of any of this.
Common way to detect memory errors in practice (i.e. how it can easily beat you) is by compiling stuff, the bigger the better. When you see the famous

Internal compiler error

it may be caused by some memory problem.

A few years ago I was doing lot of Linux kernel builds. My desktop computer, which is Athlon 64 X2 4600+ and 2x GeIL PC2-6400 DDR2-800 C4 ULTRA DUAL CHANNEL (2x1GB each; 4GB total), was doing make -j6 (or -j8, don't remember now) of kernel one after another. After many many hours some builds started to failing with mentioned error. Let's say 1 of 4. I had to do it, so I was repeating make (automatically) till it succeeded, but later I fiddled with memtest86+. It was running day and night on all 10 tests (I believe that was test count back then) and something popped up finally (I wasn't checking it constantly) [1]. But you know what? When I switched to showing badram patterns later and the problem reappeared, it was red line without any pattern! I used to see some addresses and such whenever error was detected by memtest (or experience computer halt, etc.), but that time I had seen nothing - it was quite enigmatic. I've checked memtest sources and test 5 was filtered out from showing badram patterns as apparently not being reliable. I changed it (I've just found the changed sources on the disk and diffed it to the original release [2]), recompiled the memtest and run it again. I got badram patterns this time [3].

I needed BadRAM patterns to secure myself from being constantly hit by this memory problem, but I don't remember whether I used them in the end.

I still use this computer. No big compiles, no big problems, but sometimes I get the iffy feeling. :) I had a few BSODs since then and I believe they were caused by this memory problem. Haven't seen its manifestation for a long long time. Maybe my computer was simply overheated back then? Since then I'm much more into checksums than I used to be...

[1] http://i.imgur.com/RMhCOLM.jpg
[2] https://gist.github.com/przemoc/5250861
[3] http://i.imgur.com/jFHZkVA.jpg
If I have cancer in the US, my average survival rate is 65-70%. In the UK NHS, to use that as an example, it is 45%

Do you have any links to studies that show this? The 20% gap seems extreme.

better diagnostics, treatments, and options in the US

It's really hard for me to believe that the US has better treatments than other 1st world countries which would result in 20%-30% decrease in mortality across the board. Once again I'd like to see some evidence.

I could maybe understand if the US had much higher rates of testing which in turn resulted in higher rates of survivability.

Many of these claims seem grossly over inflated. I'd be interested to see where you got the figures from.
I think you took his comment a bit too far: the point is that the government is an institution that is meant to mitigate risks that cannot efficiently be dealt with otherwise.

The risk of going to the moon before anyone else is such a risk (political motivations aside).

Stating that the government can be an effective tool for mitigating risks associated with research is not an endorsement of everything the government does. This is not an endorsement of everything governments have done in the past. This isn't even an endorsement of government at all in its current form.

It is a statement of what our government ought to be doing more of. It is a statement that our current system has disproportionately distributed rewards -- aren't we supposed to reward those who create the most value?
Careful. Hospitals and doctors often report the amounts that insurance companies report based on a master price list that bears no relation to what the insurers actually pay. Insurers are presumably fine with misleading reports that puff up their value.
I didn't know marco.org had anything to do with programming. I added it to Feedly when someone linked a good article on it. I don't care for programming, so I wouldn't have /r/programming/ in my subscriptions.

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What's important is getting noticed by whoever you collaborate with. That helps you form a network. It doesn't have to be a high profile project it just has to help you form a network of friends who know you and can vouch for your work.
New Zealand offers a similar Visa, but you'll be better off in Australia if you want to make money.
>monopolistic practices

That's what a patent is.
Ask HN: Do you participate in MOOCs?
Hi everyone. Have you participated in a Massively Open Online Corse. If so, what was your experience?
This wasn't an instance, as the word "top" should tell you. They merely meant that they're going after that subset of online retailers, not the small ones.
Added to my list, with attribution. If you're not cool with that I'll remove it. Thanks!
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I emailed you some thoughts! (coming from brianfarr@gmail.com )
"MongoDB is how we store things"

Is mongodb really a good solution for storing things? IIRC one concern about coinbase (YC) is that they used mongodb for storing financial information.
Yahoo! paid $30 mil and, in exchange, got 3 people working for them. Not all the money made its way into those people's hands, but from Y!'s perspective I think the summary is fair.
> I guess I'm not seeing where the government enters the picture here.

Government half-assed it. How? By providing neither complete liberalization and deregulation (a libertarian dream I hear often -- why can't my health insurance be like my car insurance...etc..etc), nor fixing prices (a la Japan) or providing free a healthcare alternative.

It is the worse of both worlds it seems. All of the recent health care reforms are pretty much bullshit from what I can see if they dropped the single payer option. Without controlling the costs. Yeah I can insure my 26 year old children but my premiums have gone up 30%+ in last 2 years. It is like they are trying to plug holes in a hunk of Swiss cheese. "But we'll mandate them to give free preventive care checkups, we got them now! Everyone cheers. HMOs turns around, laugh and raise premiums by 30%.
This is not "bailout" it's a "set up". :)
Not really. The founders are the domain experts. If they're competent and not afraid of some area, we trust their judgment.
I like the Australia idea, but I'd save up $10k before departing. Relocating to another country is expensive.

I suggest to find some freelance programming jobs online. He could make some money writing articles about the stock market for SeekingAlpha.com.

In terms of education, I think he should do some courses with Coursera or one of the other free online institutions.
For more on this topic, see DRAM errors in the wild: A Large-Scale Field Study http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf and Cosmic rays don't strike twice: Understanding the characteristics of DRAM errors and the implications for system design http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/ASPLOS2012.pdf

I think there's another one from MS based on Windows error reporting, but I can't find it.
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MongoDB is web-scale

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
They're not trying to fix poverty itself. They're trying to fix the medical problems of people who are poor.
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You're cherry picking here by focusing on the UK in your first example. There are plenty of nationalized healthcare nations that have 5 year survival rates that rival (and in some cases surpass) the United States.

As for the second point, I'm not ok with subsidizing the rest of the western world. Set reasonable limits here and let them pick up the slack.
All e-filing services (include free file fillable forms) result in a third party seeing your data on the way to the IRS. This is true for both online and offline tax preparation software (e.g. TurboTax).
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What is the best language to learn at this moment?
I used to write html and was in a magazine way back in 1995. After joining the service and doing other things for the last several years, I have forgotten most of what I learned during that time period. However, I have constantly kept up to date with the user-facing side of technology. I would like to learn a programming language. What is the best language to learn, and in what way can I help and contribute in that language in 2013 and beyond? I used to spend hours coding html back in the day when I was a kid, and those were the best times of my life...I seem to have lost it, but the fire still burns.
Are you including 10" tablets in your comments about on screen keyboards being unusable, or just 4" phones?

(I've spent very little time actually using 10" touchscreens, but got something like 90% accuracy on the first sentence I ever typed on one, with it having the same size keys as a normal qwerty keyboard.)
From what I understand, the idea is that you sign in with any Persona provider. For example, let's say gmail, hotmail, yahoo, ycombinator, microsoft, all have user e-mail addresses and they set themselves up as a provider (anyone can do this). This means, I go and create ABCforum.com and it has a login with Persona button. My users can now login using their gmail, hotmail, yahoo, ycombinator, microsoft, etc e-mail addresses.

So the difference.

1 (Without Persona). You create an account on ABCforum.com with my-name@gmail.com as your username, and make up a random password. This is another account you always have to remember, and the password can be viewed by the developer behind ABCforum.com since it's stored in their database (which could also be hacked in the future). You get a verification e-mail sent to you, so ABCforum.com can confirm you own that e-mail.

2 (With Persona). You click login with Persona, and enter your gmail e-mail and password, which Google verifies belongs to you. There's no creating an account.

The provider (in this case Google Gmail) is confirming your e-mail and password, and not the site you're signing into (ABCforum.com).
If T-Mobile is successful, this will have far-reaching effects on the industry.

Given the choice between a $20 price drop and a new phone, how many people will insist on that new phone?

Given a $40 gap between T-Mobile and ($20 price differential + $20 subsidy differential), what will happen to T-Mobile's churn rates vis-a-vis the subsidized-plan carriers?

If they can force the other carriers to respond, then this will have benefits for everyone in the US who has a cellphone.
How is your girlfriend paying $7,000 per year for insurance as a university student? My wife and I each paid $2,300/year while we were in school, and like your plan ours covered 80% of the cost of pregnancy and birth (capped at $2,000).
It feels like, at least until guaranteed issue kicks in, the government has no-assed this problem, except for Medicare, which is by many accounts tremendously efficient and effective.
Hmm, Wevorce raises some questions. I don't know if their disclaimer about how they are not really a law firm would pass muster. If they are providing legal services, they can't raise funds from non-lawyers.
$7000 for normal-deductible family coverage does not sound out-of-whack.
The sub 65 population is not really that high a percentage of overall healthcare costs in the US. And the US government actually covers over 50% of all healthcare costs in the country, it's just that young people end up subsidizing elderly care in a vast number of direct and indirect ways.

Medicare and Heath insurance are obvious, but also many end of life bills are simply unpaid which causes hospitals to increase there billed costs etc.
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You don't need RSS for monitoring sites for infrequent updates. http://www.changedetection.com/ Free and well working solution. I use that to monitor all low traffic sites, which do not provide RSS.
I'd be interested to know what specific things YC helped Watsi with.
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It helps to have specific goals. "To just be ok for once" sounds nice, but what exactly does that mean to you? It's much easier to make a plan for yourself when you have specific goals.

You might try thinking out -- and writing down -- specifically what sort of circumstances you think would help you to feel "ok." An apartment? A steady, stable job? A car? A group of reliable friends? You don't need a perfect answer, just try to flesh out some basic details.

Once you know where you want to be in life, you can start taking determined action to change your current circumstances. Where do you want to be ten years from today? Five years? Try to answer those questions, then work back to today, determining the requirements at each step.

So, if you have as your goal getting a job at $50k per year working as a web developer at a small to medium sized company, starting x years from today, then your requirements might be:

Living in a city with sufficient job opportunities in the IT industry; specific programming skills; interpersonal skills for working in an office environment; personal and professional references; a resume; some relevant work experience; basic interviewing skills; a permanent address; reliable transportation; food in your stomach; some reasonable clothes; and a few friends and a healthy way to relax during your downtime.

Take each of those criteria, compare to where you are now, figure out specifically what you can do to improve your circumstances, and take action!

Having it all written out can work wonders for your motivation and ability to stay on track. You can also include some goalposts in your plan with specific timeframes so that you can periodically remind yourself that you're making progress -- that can really help you make it through when things get difficult, which they sometimes will.

It sounds like right now you need to get traction and put some money in your pocket, and some more in the bank. That means you'll want to get your expenses down as low as possible and save as much of your income as you can. You may have to work some unpleasant jobs to get yourself started, but remember that they're not permanent, and stay focused on your goals.

I hope this was of some use for you. Good luck!
There's no reason you couldn't do "Watsi for local entrepreneurship" or something. Essentially Kiva-like.
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