skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like most Americans can't afford to NOT travel out of the country for routine medical care.

If you can pay $1300 for the routine stuff described in the article, it'll probably be cheaper to do it outside. I don't know the prices in North America, but based on EU prices I'd guess it should cost less than $500 to fly across half continent and back, and $150 for the actual operation in any good Mexican hospital; which coincidentally adds up to half the USA price.
An Entrepreneur Conference in an Airplane Hangar? Only in Kansas City.
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I'm sorry if you feel it's unfair, but it's hard not to jump to such conclusions when the Twitter account is dead and nothing (visibly) changes.

It would certainly make people feel better if, with slowly progressing software, it was made easier for these testers to feel like they could properly test such software with the full knowledge that they can get their investment out in the form of a reasonable export function - they are after all providing a service to you by testing the software and providing feedback.
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I'm currently using a mix of Remember the Milk (mostly near-term tasks) and Trello (general notes/planning) to great success. Even if I never look at the board again, it's there and not rattling around in my head.

I've also started using a Chromebook (Samsung's ARM model, 'Daisy') away from my desk. CrOS's limits can actually be a bonus if you just want to get things done (SSH and a browser can be very productive). Kind of wish CrOS had a 'no-tabs, single page per window, all full-screen' mode to cut back the distractions even further.
Same idea as the record player in Kings Speech, right?
Keep in mind that cost of living in London can be higher than even New York City, so that 40K GBP ($60K USD) isn't exactly raking in the dough.

I know one guy who contracts with a US-based company while staying in Asia, exploiting the gap between salary and living cost seems like a pretty smart play.

Question for the Londoners around here: what is the salary range like? I gather that NYC and London living costs are similar (with London supposedly edging out NYC slightly), but around here $120K is common (80K GBP), and in finance frequently runs higher than that. 40K GBP sounds strangely low, but I may lack context.
There's an even more effective version of this story that ends with grandma saying something like "back when I was a girl, we couldn't afford a big enough pot."
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Unfortunately, I don't think "do whatever you want with it" is specific enough for the lawyers of the world ;)

The license doesn't need to be a specially-named file, though most people use something sensible like 'license.txt' or 'LICENSE'. For example, here's one of my in-progress hobby projects:

https://github.com/jack-pappas/fsharp-tools

The Apache 2.0 license is a "do whatever you want with it" license (i.e., a permissive license).
Yeah, I get that. I do. In all of my emails I ask for a rough ballpark quote or an estimate of how many hours. I realize how hard it is to do this sometimes, but you have to start somewhere.
Music always helps. But it has to be music with no words that doesn't make you think about anything. Foreign language music works.
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You're assuming the HN submission isn't the load test.
I think the example about programming languages and speakers can also be extended to gender and race.
shoot me an email anthony@coderindustries.com; we can go over a features list, and I'll be happy to send you a quote, at the least help out determining why you can't get any interest from other freelancers.
I find the point about autism especially rich, given that it must be understood at a spectrum, and in a forum such as this, most of us likely sit waaay closer to the end you deride than the population average.

Self-criticism being a high and praiseworthy art, at least where I come from. The general sentiment that one shouldn't be permitted to study and improve oneself is much more offensive.
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Have you tried to bring up the issue at the beginning of the interview, by saying something up front like: "Hi, great to meet you, just so you know, I do stutter when I talk, but etc. etc. insert self-effacing joke here"?

Off-topic: I couldn't help but remember the This American Life episode where a student with a stuttering problem records himself speaking a monologue and removes the stutters in post-production:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/203/r...
http://steadfast.net offers customizable resources (CPU dedication, CPU cores, Memory, Storage, Network interfaces)
Did it implement RFC 2324?
(author here). The first 18 years of my life, particularly in school, were dreadfully plagued by ADD. I graduated at the bottom of my class in high school, went to summer school year after year, and was generally considered an awful student. I just couldn't concentrate and it was incredibly frustrating. It left me at a point where I really didn't think I had any capacity to do anything, and by 18 I hadn't even bothered to apply for college.

What I came to find out later, after I started a company at 19, was that if I could train my brain to sift out all the incredible noise, there was actually a lot of useful activity going on. 20 years later I finally feel I have a handle on it. I also learned I wasn't the only one. I wish I could sit down with so many more young ADD-laden students, founders and kids and help them along.
Isn't that insurance fraud? At least, wouldn't insurance companies try to call it fraud, even if a later visit had nothing to do with an earlier visit?
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Want happy blog readers? Check you're not hijacking peoples back button first!

(Just kidding, it was a great read apart from that!)
To be honest, I am on the other end of that spectrum where I am looking to build my portfolio and I am finding it extremely hard getting clients.

In terms of your question, it could be a couple of reasons:
1) Either the price you are quoting is too high
2) You are asking for a long term commitment with little financial returns
3) You are asking for development, using technologies that are either a) outdated, b) The developer is unfamiliar with.

Any ways, if you are still looking for some one, you can find my email and github account in my profile. Shoot me a message if you are interested.
Noticed, deploying a fix.

Thanks!
this is not unlike mindful meditation
>Some friends followed my example onto other social media sites. Not many. Perhaps they weren't really friends.

Wow, OP really feels his friends chose Google over the friendship?
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Sounds more like you screwed up at least 8 businesses....
Nothing, obviously, but most people who are rich in the U.S. did not inherit their wealth.
It has been my experience that nutrition plays a big role in controlling ADD. Especially eating a good breakfast.

Eating two eggs, fresh fruit and whole wheat toast provides lots of energy.
Doing some simple math, if a doctor is making $200,000 a year or $250,000 a year working 40 hr weeks with 2 weeks of vacation, their hrly rate would be $100 or $125 per hour respectively.

5 minutes of just their time would be between either $8.33 or $10.41. Fine, throw in a couple bucks for the rubber gloves and scalpel. And something for electricity, paper, etc. Still should NOT me more than 40-50 dollars in my opinion. But I don't know much about this industry...
I look forward to hearing more about this.
Thats THE problem with healthcare in the US, there are 4 market prices:

- Actual Price

- Cash Price (after you bitch about how absurd the actual price is)

- Insurance Company price

- Medicaid price

I wonder if the US can ever get as low as $20/mo for cadillac coverage. Is the free-market model even applicable to health care?
Just shot you an email. Happy to share/help.
A more direct link to the page to get the kit

https://swish.com/swish-frontend/views/buy-devkit.html?p=dev...
seriously, I was introduced to socat about 5 months ago... blew my mind. netcat is good and I still use it to quickly send custom GET requests, but socat is like a swiss-army knife containing many swiss-army knives. It even forwards unix-domain sockets and doesn't necessarily need root permissions like iptables.
You can bounce it off me as well - barry.melton@gmail.com.

I'll mail you back my take on the offer -- if it's turning someone off to responding to you, I'll respond as to why. If it looks perfectly reasonable, I'll let you know that as well.

I will also respond with a quote as to what I think it should cost, in terms of hours and dollars.
But Steve Jobs' salary was $1, the lowest at Apple.
If the doctor is "in network" shouldn't the patient responsibility be the lower, negotiated rate? I thought was part of most insurance contracts, and one of the reasons insurance is helpful even if someone is healthy and has a high deductible.

What you've described I think is largely responsible for a lot of the rising medical costs.
Cage the beast with our JS testing framework.
The first one does $2 billion and has 13,000 employees now, so it worked out OK. Blue Diesel which became Ventiv - public, now private.
Even the domain has been booked recently.
DOMAIN: JELLYHQ.COM
created-date: 2013-03-22 00:38:18
updated-date: 2013-03-22 00:38:21

Apparently, an "idea stage" venture. The only point of attraction is Mr. Stone!
The barrier to entry is in gaining the adoption.
Great job. Love the idea.
Can you tell us which technologies you used ?
It's funny - I was absolutely hopeless at school. I don't want to use ADD as a crutch, but honestly it really got in my way.

When I went to technical college, I started getting interested in my own things more and more. Normally that's probably not a good thing for someone with ADD - but in my case it turns out that I was interested in anything related to programming and Unix. This required extraordinary amounts of reading. Ridiculous amounts of reading of quite technical material meant that I had to develop concentration, and now I ironically don't have a deficit of attention, I have hyper-focus on the task at hand and get irritated if someone tries to distract me.

Funny how life happens sometimes.
A better metric would be "earnings per unit of market share".

RedHat's market share is much smaller, so it's hardly surprising their earnings are lower.
Using AWS or similar, you can upgrade to a huge server for just a few hours, then downgrade it once the traffic tapers.
I'd be fine conceptually with a model where catastrophic care is insured and smaller expenses are paid for out of pocket. But then I'd like: 1) the catastrophic care to actually, 100%, guaranteed be covered, without loopholes, lifetime maxima, excluded conditions, etc.; and 2) the smaller expenses to be priced transparently up front.

No, for the sake of Return on Public Investment, I'd say we should not only cover catastrophic care but give full public support to preventative care as well.
Your code should always win the battles.

I've had a stammer all my life, it's one the most frustrating things ever. Here's a few things I'd do/did;

- Make a portfolio of the dev work you've done.
- When you start speaking with an employer, mention your stammer before the interview so they know what to expect. I think this will also help you mentally prepare as well, there will be 'no' surprises.
- Stay calm & good luck!
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Seeking freelance work (Full Stack Dev / DevOps). Remote Based in Europe

Fully designed http://jib.li from backend to frontend and managed a team of developers

Prefered stack: Python/Django/Flask Frontend: ngularJS/Ember - HTML5 - Coffeescript

DevOps: EC2 deployment,uWSGI, git, fabric, 10 years linux experience

contact: http://sp4ke.com/#/contact

blog: http://sp4ke.com/blog

github: http://github.com/sp4ke

devops: http://www.slideshare.net/spykspyel/python-dev-ops
You are not required to provide insurance information if you would rather pay the cash price.
Perhaps he meant sploosh: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lls5fsESx61qi7deco1_250.gi...

Edit: Lol.. not sure why I was downvoted. It is obvious the previous poster meant that bitcoin is over-the-heads of employees of Western Union... this was a play on that.

HN is a hideous bitch goddess.
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Montréal, Quebec - AdGear looking to fill the following position: http://adgear.com/jobs/#linux-system-administrator

We're looking for a system administrator with thorough linux knowledge who is excited to work in the internet advertising + big data ecosystems.

If interested (even just to chat, lunch) ping me - mina at-sign adgear.com
You say to do the cost benefit analysis like its easy - but in reality its not. Nothing is so clear cut and dry.

How do you count "unfair competition"? how do you define "special products"? How do you even count the revenue of a hypothetical work before its even made?
> 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).

The expenses are covered not just (or mainly) by the sick but by the insured. There's a reason my insurance is nearly $500 a month, though I"ve never been sick or injured and rarely visit a doctor (I've thus contributed probably $50,000 to healthcare without consuming any). Given my general health, young age, and low chance of catastrophic injury, the only explanation is that i'm subsidizing other people's care.
I hope Google gets (even more) serious with Dart. Web App Development with JavaScript is a joke. Just remember the recent callbacks vs promise debate. It's like JS devs know nothing about software engineering.
This mentality more than anything else helped me get through consulting projects with nebulous priorities. Tackling the "Am I wearing trousers?" (read: boring) pieces meant freeing up dendrites for the rest.
> DO NOT make first contact with me two months later asking me if I'm interested in the job. I'm not. I was interested two months ago.

I get that you're talking about an internship here, so response time can be hugely relevant (although you were looking in advance), but you don't have any idea what is going on with this company. If they had chosen a candidate and that candidate was unable to fulfill the role at the last minute or they were really unable to get to the internship emails until then, they're doing you a favor reaching back out to you. When you're looking for work, it's a blessing to hear back from someone other than an automated response, no matter how late it is.
Just to compare apples to insurance here, the largest pure auto insurer (progressive) maintains ~5-6% profit margins according to filings, whereas Wellpoint one of the largest insurers in healthcare maintains a 7% margin.
A wheel is a far better method for controlling a car than a joystick. Rotating a wheel offers far more precision than pushing a stick.

Fighter jets need to make rapid, abrupt moves, but their movements are nowhere near as precise or well timed as a Formula 1 driver where turning tens of milliseconds too late or a few degrees too tightly can completely ruin your lap if it's in a critical section. Precision flying, while requiring a very high level of coordination, is not nearly as demanding as trying to drive Monaco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_de_Monaco) at race speeds in traffic.

Windows 8 is a joystick for what should be a wheel.
To be honest, the FUD over Secure Boot is really reaching a fever pitch, and for no reason, as well.

Just turn it off in the UEFI settings and install as much Linux, BSD, or GNU that you want. It really is not a big deal.
Hopefully hackers can bring us sound money again. Sound money as in money not debt money created out of thin air.

The FED is privately owned by the big banks, see "The creature from Jekyll Island". The senator Aldrichs daughter who was on the island was married to one of the bankers. The by bank created new debt money out of thin air blows up assets bubbles that the central bankers later ride in and try and save, by saving the debt bubbles losses are socialized ie its burden is put to the people through inflation instead of the bank owners/bond holders taking the losses. Central banks centrally plan the price of new money by controlling the interest rate.

It would be good if more viewed the documentary film "The four horsemen".
Yes, you're grossly underpaid. You're doing 100% the right thing by building up a portfolio.

That said, it would be a mistake to think that you can fix this problem with code alone. While a portfolio can "do the talking" to get you in the door, you still have to communicate with your coworkers once you're there. I'd second others opinions to talk to your GP, tell him/her that your speech impediment is affecting your career. Put just as much effort into working with a medical professional as you did/are with your portfolio, and over time you'll have no trouble earning what you're obviously worth.

[EDIT: Also, let your employer know that you're doing these things. Chances are you're more vital to them than you realize, and all of this will help you get that raise. But if you do get it, don't let that placate you. Keep improving yourself.]

[Second edit; I confused this with a Show HN post I was reading at the same time, sorry. Sentiment is the same, however.]
I'd be happy to give feedback on your email and provide a quote - twanlass @ gmail.com.
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Mmm... maybe bragging about it will not be the center of the idea. Let's see what Stone & team come up with. If that's the main thing... I don't think people will use it.
Ask HN: After Google Reader (etc.), do you still choose to rely on Analytics?
After Google cancelled Reader - while Alerts is becoming less and less useful - I wondered whether it still made sense to use Google Analytics as the primary analytics tool.

Are we better off using a - paid - alternative, or do you still think it's a good idea to keep using Analytics?
Except it is not Linux specific, rather a UNIX born utility.
What if you're not entrepreneur material? Not everyone has the spark or drive on that level.

I am ferociously dedicated - to an almost quixotic level - to programming, but in general I find that I literally have no compulsion to do any coding for myself outside of work hours.

I'm almost in my mid-thirties and I took worry about the future where the need for codehorses like myself is thoroughly outweighed by the need for "Rock Star Ninjas".
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Take a look at apache benchmark ( http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html ) which can help get a general idea of what your server can take.

Generally speaking, for blog-type content that's typically served to HN, it's best to ensure that each visit doesn't equate to a db query (either via a caching mechanism, or by using a blogging platform that's not db based)..
This doesn't bode well. If you get involved in the spoken language learning community (and hey, who doesn't?), you quickly find out that serious enthusiasts hate Rosetta Stone. It's known for its marketing prowess and not its pedagogy. Here's a lovely little blog entry which uses the hilarity of Michael Phelps and his attempts to learn Chinese with RS as an example:

http://www.streetsmartlanguagelearning.com/2010/02/rosetta-s...

On the other hand, there are tools like Assimil which absolutely rock, but no one seems to have heard of them. The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) courses are decent and free (by law because they're in the public domain) but the main site hosting them seems down (http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php). Someone's tried to create "pretty" versions of the FSI courses at http://www.ielanguages.com/fsi/fsiproject.html, but they never got very far.

Update: some of the FSI courses are still available at the Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20130113232657/http://fsi-languag...), but the MP3s can't be downloaded.
Just dropping in to give you an Internet high five!
Ask HN: Mobile app with 2+ million downloads, what next?
I developed a throwaway iOS app in my spare time that has accumulated over 2 million free downloads.

At the moment user engagement is low as it is a basic app that uses the built-in iOS SMS component, but I'd now like to take it to the next level.

I'm based in the UK, what are the next steps?
Yes. I have seen nothing cause more wasted time than failing to carefully determine what the question (i.e. problem) is. It takes discussion and thought and creativity and getting it right is more important than any other aspect of a software project.
debate?
One thing that's a bit confusing: In both the UK[1] and the US[2] medication non-compliance is very high. Many people don't take their prescription meds properly. Many people are so bad at taking meds that the meds are ineffective - they may as well not take the meds at all. Rates are similar in the US and UK.

About half of the UK £9billion budget for prescribed meds is sub-optimal spending because of medication non-compliance.

And severity of illness doesn't seem to be a factor. People who've had an organ transplant often die after rejection when they stop taking the meds, even though they know that they must keep taking the meds.

There's probably money somewhere if you can improve medication compliance.

[1] Prescriptions usually cover 28 day supply of medication. Each line item on a prescription costs £7.40; but most people don't pay because there are many exemptions and if you need long term meds you can pre-pay.

[2] I dunno how it works in the US.
We @sc5io decided to release our own research regarding this very same issue.

I love the Rendr approach, yet we feel that our backbone-serverside framework provides an even more flexible way to tackle the same issue.

Read more at SC5 blog (http://blog.sc5.fi/2013/04/serving-backbone-for-robots-legac...) or at the Mozilla Hacks article: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/04/serving-backbone-for-robot...
I was the same way. I could not concentrate on anything until I started programming. I was told I had ADD before but I did not believe it.

There might be scientific research proving the existence of ADD, but in diagnosing ADD the same rigor is not applied to each individual's situation. It's just a statistical test.

There are two possibilities I think for us:

1. Is that ADD might be primarily a childhood to adolesence problem, and that our brains just grew out of it.

2. The explanation I prefer for myself: that I really did not care about learning anything until I started coding. I don't think it was a disorder. I think I truly didn't care. I guess apathy could be considered a disorder in some ways, like if you didn't care that your home was on fire. But frankly saying it's a disorder that kids don't want to be force fed information on a daily basis with no choice as to what they're learning? I'd say it's a natural reaction of anyone who truly enjoys their freedom.
Like so many things, I probably could get my answer if I was prepared to fight for it. But since I have insurance, and I'll eventually pay out my deductible and out of pocket maximum, it's just not worth the fight, no matter how wrong this is.

In a way it's a very small version of someone suing me, and I settle even though I know I could win. Cost/benefit, and the game is rigged against me.

Insurance is the root of all health care evil.