skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oddly enough that's the way it used to be, doctors were doctors because they said so. Although, if you had a friend sew up a bad cut and you gave him twenty bucks for his trouble I doubt the police will come knocking on your door. I suppose if your friend decided to do it as a business off his front porch I'm sure somebody's bound to come around at some point.
Agreed!

Generating hypotheses often involves qualitative techniques. Validation must be quantitative.
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What are you emailing them?

I get emailed daily by people telling me about great opportunities and exciting projects. Unless your emails stand out I'm afraid they may get lost in the noise.
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Yay! Another stuttering dev here on HN! I have a stammer too (stutter here in the US); you're not alone!

I'll bet that code tests in interviews really suck. I know that they suck for me.

I think alot of it is going to depend on interviewing with the right person. Keep trying, and eventually you'll find them. Also, if that doesn't work, you can always try to pick up totally remote freelance work, but if you're looking for full-time, you should be able to find it.

One thing that may really help is getting an introduction from a friend (or a recruiter) to any companies you're interviewing for. I got one job with a conversation that went like this:

My friend: "Well, I have someone for you, but he has a pretty bad stutter"

Employer: "As long as he's smart and can get the job done, I don't care if he talks backwards!"

And I got the job.

Real employers (who aren't skeezy and exploitative like your current ones) don't care how you talk, they just want someone who can get the job done. And those are the people you should be working for.

In some ways, you can think of the above as a positive selection filter. Imagine all the non-stuttering schmucks who are out there working for skeezy employers who care more about how people talk than who can get the job done (and imagine how shitty the management must be if their hiring is not based on people's skills).

In closing, I know this turned into kind of a rant without any really good advice, but I just wanted to give a solidarity shout out to another stuttering dev here on HN.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to drive-by down vote all the commenters who are like "herp derp why don't you just stop stammering"
How many quotes have you received? What is your budget?
Health care in the US isn't bad (mostly). It just isn't better than in countries where there's 100% coverage of the population. And it's many times more expensive.

There's unlikely to be any solution though, barring a massive shift in public opinion. True reform would reduce a bunch of insurance companies to smoking craters and would certainly involve some sort of tax increase, both of which would be regarded by most in government as unacceptable outcomes.

As it is, the horrible expenses paid by the sick help to subsidize those who can't pay (who are anyway discouraged from getting regular care as much as possible). Costs are already distributed, just not evenly, because you only pay the horrible prices when you get sick. And most people prefer not to think about it until then.
You are right, I'm almost certainly exhibiting selection bias. As we all know, the best jobs don't even go on the wider market, such as jobs sites, but are filled by word of mouth referrals, or conversations at events.

But if I go and search: http://www.technojobs.co.uk/search.phtml?page=2&row_offs...

You will see most senior dev roles advertised with a range, that seems to average out about £45k. That's for the whole country, and London seems no different.

Personal experience with London based recruiters was that despite jobs advertising £60k, the number that the recruiter had from the client was actually lower. When asked about the requirements for getting the top end of the pay scale, "Well, they really only want to pay low 40's", was something I heard time and time again, and caused me to not apply, time and time again.

Crappy jobs? Maybe.

EDIT: Also, I've seen an expensive corporate salary survey (shh, don't tell HR), and whilst London mid-senior people have seen a good bump to their salary in the last 2-3 years, the averages there were approx: junior ~£28k, mid-level ~£36k, senior ~£47k, architect ~£60k, dev lead ~£72k).
> "and the whole idea of "going to the doctor just because you can" bothers me on ideological levels"

I don't follow, can you elaborate?
And pretty much never interviewed anywhere.
I found that duolingo is actually not that good for advanced students - everything I saw on there seemed to be focused on learning by translating phrases into English. Thats pretty distracting once you get past a certain level.
Very well and succinctly put.

At the top of the list I'd put "the learned ability to do that with buckets of documents, quickly, and then having to draft reasonably straightforward briefs or case notes."

One's goggles in going through the rooms of buckets of documents are tuned to those "fuzzy sets" of legal issues. An ancient lawyer once said that lawyering is the art of finding the relevant.

Or as Edmund Burke put it: "Law sharpens the mind, by narrowing it."
then i still don't get it. When a simple line break would break a horizontal baseline-aligned grid, wouldn't it break a horizontal baseline-plus-some-space-aligned grid?

Although the css prop. "line-heigt" is not implemented in a convenient way, it is still deterministic as I understand from the quoted article:

"This is determ­ined by work­ing out the dif­fer­ence between the line-height and the font-size, divid­ing by 2, and then pla­cing the cal­cu­lated amount of space above and below each line of text."
Is there any reference for designing classified websites? In terms of usability and experience.
Bitcoins were designed to do that. If the price for 1 BTC rises to the level it becomes profitable to offer them computing power for the network people will generate new money. Until then its value gonna rise. This will loop until infinity.

Its hard to compare against dollar. As bitcoin is newborn with freedom written all over it. If it gets adapted more chances are its gonna be rising in value and will become first a currency for savings later on a day to day activity currency.
Latex for briefs? Ah, the idealism of youth. (I was going to revolutionize legal research through artificial intelligence) Most lawyers don't have the time, and almost every court I practiced in had rules specifying a utilitarian uniformity that made fancy formatting superfluous.
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I once had a scan done and the office offered a cash price that was lower than the deductible, but if I went through insurance they would have billed higher so that most likely I would have had to pay the entire deductible.

I paid cash.
This sounds simple, but the key is to avoid phone interviews. I'm terrible on the phone as well, and when I was looking for my last job I thought about this a lot. Looking back, I had received a job offer about 90% of the time when I had a face to face interview, but for phone interviews it was more like 10%. With that in mind, I focused on getting in person interviews the last time and found that even if someone asks for a phone interview, often you can ask/convince them to do a in-person. This might mean you have to travel on your own (or maybe they'll pay for it), but by knowing your previous rate of success you can focus on getting the job you want.
True but from the video it's obvious they took the great circle route that I posted and not the route over the plains. Not just the lights either, the landscapes at the beginning.
This is surprisingly entertaining.
I quit teaching very recently (I have a Masters in English) to pursue programming as well. In all careers you make a lot of mistakes, but with teaching, you only get another crack at the problem once a year. If you create a terrible lesson, you agonize about it, and you might not get it right the second time either.

Add to that the fact that schools are always really slow to change, requiring you to fight for anything remotely progressive (the school I was teaching in graded multiple choice entrance exams by hand); it's really easy to get sucked into the traditional educational model even if you don't believe in it; and teaching doesn't allow for the creativity I want in my life.

I suddenly realized that I wanted to be creating not evaluating — to be always learning and building on what I know. Programming does seem to offer that.
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I wonder how long this is gonna keep going until someone gets pissed off, and creates a website to take care of the transparency issue by themselves- "upload your hospital bill here. We'll mine your bill for pricing data, anonymize you, and make the bill publicly available so people can shop for better prices".
- License the complete .NET stack under an Apache license.

- Disclose the patents they allege Linux infringes.

- Apologize for what they did to ISO.

- Make the ability to add personal keys to secure boot a requirement for having a Windows logo.
Doing what you've described would probably be insurance fraud, or at least a contract violation.

To expand on your example, the insurance company contract with the mechanic says that the insurance company will be billed the lowest advertised price. Of course, that contract also says that they will only pay $3k for the services required. The cash customer still hands to be billed the full $7k, however, or risk getting in trouble with the insurance company. That's why it's always a cash discount, and the bill will be for $7k even if they will take less (if you know to ask).

These numbers seem extreme, but they're not that far off - take a detailed look at an EOB sometime.

I'm convinced this is at least partly responsible for the rapidly increasing health care costs in the US.
Also, here is a great blog on stuttering:

http://thestutteringbrain.blogspot.com/
> so if I had to pay it could add up to $80-$100 a month

What the heck? Those are like $10~15 around here.
I had a Doctors visit at the beginning of the year. Since I am on a HSA plan I have no deductible but rates are still negotiated. I have yet to receive a bill. This is for service rendered the first week of this year. I have received a NON BILL which denotes the costs of service and the negotiated rate having saved me money.

I am still trying to find someone to pay. Now having talked to my Doctor before I have asked the questions about rates and such. The only points that stuck with me are, negotiated rates with government providers are too low for him cover his costs, insurance companies have rates which are more favorable because they need the business, and his higher base rates are because collections is rotten to deal with.

One day I hope to pay my bill, I would have to have a collector show up but my Doctor cannot accept the payment as of yet and I legally cannot use my HSA funds for something I do not have a bill for.
How did you do bulk VIN explosion? Pay for it (rates are high in my research) or scrape one of the free sites?
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Great deal. For $25 + shipping you get a Windows 8 Professional license, Parallels 8, and a USB stick. Just change the "disabled" attribute on the order button, and you're all set.
Just as a balance for this argument:

I was dubious about switching back to DigitalOcean as I was worried about how cheap they were offering packages. I bought a DigitalOcean VPS that had slightly better specs than my Linode and ran some tests. Just a few like response time on the site they were both holding, I/O and a Redis stress test and Linode seemed to come out marginally on top.
Very true, why indeed. A misunderstanding of how spam crawlers work? Btw, how do spam crawlers work?

People must prove they are people. And spam crawlers don't need to prove anything. Turing wouldn't have liked his name associated with a test that humans fail often (needing to refresh the captcha), and a test that machines must fail in order to be effective.
I think this is partly because dental insurance bears little resemblance to comprehensive medical insurance. In fact, for most people with a generally healthy dental history, it's often not worth paying for dental insurance, since it ends up simply being a pre-payment for services. Expensive procedures & oral surgery are often covered for only 50% of the final cost.

In the US at least, I think dental "insurance" is really just a simplified way for employers to offer an appealing benefit to employees.
Numbers I see for "generic PHP" rarely go above 40...

http://www.technojobs.co.uk/search.phtml/php/searchfield/loc...

There are a few above 40, but they don't sound mid-level/generic.
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Just how profitable do you think health insurers are, relative to, say, McDonald's?
People come here for news about unexpected change. Maturity is great but predictable, and will be reported in other channels.
This really resonates with me. I am currently working on a physical product of my own. In a world where digital goods are the norm, I'm thinking of publishing a bi-weekly magazine.

I'm still really in the planning stages, as I haven't got any experience on this front at all. But I do have some of the digital backbone in place already. And I have my ideas stirring in a pot now. All that's needed is for me to start cooking.

Anyway, I would just like to say that I am inspired by what I'm seeing here. I'll work as hard as I possibly can. Wish me luck!
wow! I find this so interesting. What a great opportunity to get into game programming. Now I just need some time to check this out.
It uses the built in Python interpreter, so can actually do quite a bit, although not as much as I intend to extend it by soon.

Couple of fun things:

- You can evaluate multiple selections.

- Evaluates equations, 2+2 or complex like 2+2/(4*142)+(2/4)

- print statements will appear in the console

- I've just added "pi" evaluation as an example of being able to add expressions which should evaluate as part of the environment. This could be extended to add custom evaluation lookups.
Tools! They are cheap and insanely powerful. The possibilities are wide open. Seems like that is what the OP is hoping people realize.
Every industry has a financial fingerprint, if you will. If you are the manufacturer of a consumer product you look at your supply chain for your cost structure and your channels of distribution for your profit structure. Both affect your business dynamically and managing them is one of the toughest things an entrepreneur has to do.

In consumer goods it is not too uncommon to have multiple layers in the distribution channel between you and the ultimate consumer of your product? This is part of the "fingerprint" I spoke about. For example, you might have a representative take 7%, distributor take 35% and retailer 25% off list. So, yes, the manufacturer never sees list price pouring into its bank account.

Financial folks outhouse with lots of business experience are familiar with the supply chain and distribution channel fingerprints across a number of business types. Armed with this data you can certainly do some quick back-of-the-napkin calculations to understand the basics of a proposed venture.
Considering the web of contacts and interrelationships between CEOs of companies and board members responsible for hiring and determining the pay of those CEOs, I highly, highly doubt that the market for CEO labor is anything approaching a free, efficient market that would arrive at an ideal price.
Mapalong is still in private beta, but it's otherwise alive and well. It's a huge bummer that you think otherwise. I'm sure you're not alone.

We have had to pause development, but not only is your data still there, you can still use it. New users can't join, but that's about it.

As soon as we're able, we want to finish it and launch it. As part of this, we'll make sure people can get their data out in useful formats. (Perhaps a GeoRSS feed per URL? A KML file per user?)

I genuinely respect you for holding us to a high standard, but I think it's a little unfair to criticize us for an unfinished app.
They have been. All servers are now 8 core and they cranked the bandwidth allowance up by about 10x if I remember. Apparently they are meant to be increasing RAM soon but I'm not sure how reliable that information is. However, as they've done everything else it does make sense.

RAM is the only thing that I feel Linode is lacking as of late.
Hello,

1) Get great at what you do. Nothing helps to open doors like a great portfolio and great track record of success.

2) Maximize the things you can do non-verbally. You are lucky that you are in the Web Dev industry and are not something like a car salesman which would require a lot more verbal communication. For example:
* Write articles for websites such as Smashing Magazine.
* Contribute to open source projects on Github.
* Start a mailing list offering great web development knowledge and tips.
* Start a web development blog.

3) Get really good at writing. If you don't speak well, make sure you write well. Your emails should always be professional and well written.

4) Freelance remotely. Through Email/GTalk/Skype Chat/Asana/Basecamphq you can communicate with clients non-verbally. Client will always want to touch base by phone at some point, but these great tools will greatly help reduce the amount of time you need to speak on the phone.

5) Work on improving your stammer. Invest in a Speech Therapist. This could be a life-long process but if your stammer is getting in the way of your career it is worth practicing on improving it every day. Don't ignore it, work at it like you are training for the Olympics. If your job can't give you a raise, perhaps they can pay for a Speech Therapist.

6) Finally, remember you are not alone. Everyone has disabilities and your situation is not unlike people who are very shy or who have social anxiety and who try and avoid face to face conversations. Find similar people to yourself and share tips and advise and help each other.

Good luck my friend!
I'm starting to finally make use of Things in a more constructive fashion (after buying it a year and a half ago and having it waste away on my mac/phone etc.) It helps prioritize these kinds of things, although a lot of my notes still find their way into a "bottomless pit" scenario where they don't get looked at again for days, weeks, months etc.

On a related note, there should be an "ADDers Anonymous" for startup founders, bootstrappers etc (if there isn't already) for those with executive function type issues.
Just do us a favor and don't paste this on any deal sites, or Microsoft will make us turn this off. Only for developers!
This may explain why many of the raisins sold in Sweden are grown in California. I was wondering why, when there are plenty of grape farms in Europe. It's unlikely that growing in California + shipping + import tariffs is cheaper than growing in Spain. Turns of the export price of American raisins is artificially depressed.
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Because most good programmers regularly hear from people who want them to work for free on an idea someone has...with the chance that they will get paid well once the idea succeeds. Ideas are easy and we all have them; executing them well is very hard.
FYI there's a Firefox extension called "Google/Yandex search link fix" that degoogs search results.
> Everything about this rubs me the wrong way: ... to there even _being_ a market for Aereo (it shouldn't be necessary, given modern technology).

Sadly, though, there is a _huge_ hole in the market for cheap, easy-to-setup DVR boxes for over-the-air broadcasts. Mythtv is too tedious for the average consumer to bother with, and items like HD Homerun still require some sort of backend server (of sorts) running to schedule record times. Tivo is perhaps the cheapest option, but its monthly service costs are still higher than this option (and still requires separate purchase of a box).

For $8 a month for a 40 hour DVR box, this sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me.
The Space Rocket Kola Experiment :)
I love this. Definitely would love to hear more about how you manage your ADD and keep focused moving forward -- its something I struggle with at times still, although I've found daily meditation to be extremely crucial.

Shoot me an email if you get the chance: gailees@umich.edu
This is what is so hard for many FOSS fans to understand.

The ecosystem has only expanded to the extent big corporations are willing to invest money on it.

If IBM, Google and others had not invested into FOSS as a means to help them sell services, most likely the situation would be quite similar to the mid 80's, in what concerns software development tools.

In the markets where you cannot sell services, it is very hard to make a living from FOSS.
It is unclear if this is an April's Fools joke. It's not far-fetched enough to be funny.
> Sed Itious • 8 hours ago −
> Let's remember that what Graham preaches as Axioms are his > political and social truths, as much as he'd love to claim > them as Truths.

> For example, (38) is a point based on an assumption that History is the history of the 20th century. There were extremely powerful and long lived countries with despicable civil rights. Currently China's getting more and more powerful and is hardly a beacon of civil rights.

> (31) is a point most used to excuse the abuse of minorities, for example through racism. It's inconvenient to not have the usual privilege to mistreat those with less power and money than you, truly an unacceptable burden created to limit those free, rich, privileged spirits like Graham. How dare society, the government (fill in the anti-genius malevolent force of your choice).

> As for Graham's idol Jefferson, and quoting that slave holder regarding rights and limited government, can we remember that Jefferson's ideological followers fought a abattoir of a civil war to uphold their concept of civil rights as property rights above the rights of others (that is slavery). The libertarianism Graham finds so attractive will sell the civil rights of a poorer person at the alter of the property rights of those with more economic power.

> What I'd like to understand is why tedious ex-nerds like Graham feel an irresistible urge to proselytize Ayn Randian blather. If he's at peace with his success, what is up with the insufferable sanctimoniousness? Feels like a giant dose of bubbling narcissism.

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So, do good... and brag about it?
Nice post.

Whenever I run into a fresh technical problem, I often think of this:

"Why does Grandma remove the chicken's legs when she makes soup?"

Aunt Dorothy: "It's easier to cut the chicken when it's cold that when it's hot."

Uncle Bob: "Greater surface area better infuses the broth with fat."

Aunt Sue: "To allow the dark meat and white meat develop flavor on their own."

Aunt Jean: "Smaller pieces allow the chicken to cook faster and more thorougly."

Grandma: "So that it fits in the pot."
It's not. I emailed the author and she confirmed it's real.
We have examples of private-paid costs by the same education-level doctors in first world countries that have higher cost-of-living than USA - say, Switzerland. Everywhere the full cost of the same procedure is at least twice less than USA.

And before you say it, no, legal/malpractice expenses aren't the cause, because in USA that adds up to <5% of total medical budgets and can't explain the other 45% "bonus price".
I wonder if there are a combination of factors at work here. Elderly target market + (mostly) elective procedure + low Medicare payments perhaps?