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>>>that it's acceptable to let poor people die of treatable diseases

This already happens if you have poor dental health.

For Want of a Dentist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02...

Man Dies From Toothache, Couldn't Afford Meds
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/insurance-24-year-dies-toothach...

Obamacare, AFAIK, excludes dental care. Dental care is somehow considered "vanity" medicine, even if prosthodontics are medically valid.
The sidebar on the right mentions that a Satoshi is actually 0.00000001 BTC
We provide storage which is included in the free/Pro accounts.

I don't use Dropbox for the same reason as you. Instead I use my own S3 bucket.

Dropbox is the only storage option that will sync the files back to your computer (though I believe you can choose not to have our folder "synced" using selective sync).

We don't have an iPhoto plugin yet but if you add tags to your photo then they should be preserved when you upload (we extract EXIF).
I signed up for a free account to play around and am quite impressed. Hosted options are nice, even though I have a Linode account for self-hosted apps.

1) How different is the OpenPhoto webapp from the Trovebox app? Does they support all the same features?

2) How does the Dropbox integration work? Can I move photos into the Apps/Trovebox folder and have them be automatically synced with the web site? I'm using the Dropbox Photo Sync feature, so it would be super handy to not have to re-upload them to Trovebox.

3) After signing up and uploading photos, I clicked on a link someone posted below to associate my dropbox account with the trovebox account. My photo upload was still going at the same time, and I started to get dropbox notifications about new files being added so I stopped the uploading. However, I can't see anything in the settings that tells me what storage back my account is using. How can I see/change it?

This is a very exciting app & service, which might be The Solution to sharing photos within my extended family!
In actuality, it would be: "Each blood test paid by insurance company $A costs $X, Each blood test paid by insurance company $B costs $Y." Etc.

I really think a big part of the problem in healthcare pricing is insurance company policies regarding networks and guaranteed volume. Your auto insurance doesn't demand you use a certain body shop, why should your health insurance?

Here's a practical example that recently came up for me. My wife is a nurse at a few clinics. At one clinic, she's got health insurance and that clinic provides IUDs via their hospital, which she wanted to get. At this clinic, the price billed to her insurance would be $4700.

At another clinic she works at, she could get the same IUD brand and procedure for $600.

When she asked her insurance about it, they said they would pay 100% of $4700 in-network but 60% of $600 out-of-network. Obviously, being selfish, she decided to let the company eat the $4100 they would otherwise save so that she would pay $0 instead of $240.
I suspect that even applies to foreign hard currency that you're not familiar with.
I won't give Zach Braff one dime on Kickstarter
The title should read, service via Facebook not ruled defective in this case.

Generally, court rules have preferred methods of service. In unusual cases where the usual means fail, like this one, courts sometimes make exceptions to allow actual service via a particular method to count as formal service.
Aside from uhh.. DOWNLOADING the app. from. the. server. Unless you are imagining those files magic themselves onto your local machine somehow?
Of course they are not unavoidable, they are just a lot likely to happen when you go skiing than when you don't.

The problem with socializing risk is that you get the tragedy of the commons when some people choose to take high risks (skiing is definitely in the moderate end of "extreme sports") and pass off the risk to the "commons".

In Denmark, where health care is socialized, the argument that "society is justified in regulating activity X because we will pay for your hospital stay if/when it goes wrong" is absolutely a part of political discourse. Unhealthy foods, not exercising enough, smoking, mandatory bicycle helmets etc., it's pretty universal.
The customer generally cannot even know the cost of care after purchasing it. Not only is the issue muddled by insurance companies' negotiated rates, but the line item prices on doctors and insurance statements are almost complete nonsense. Really they just say what broad category the care fell under for record and insurance purposes, and there is no way to tell if you have, for instance, been double billed for a procedure. The only times I've been able to clearly tell what I paid for was when going to a specialist for a very specific procedure.
Well if this article is talking about what I think it's talking about, we deal with something in radiation detection called "gas amplification" which occurs in the presence of a large electric potential.

If they're saying that an incoming cosmic ray causes a ionization effect in what's literally a "cloud chamber", which gas amplifies into what we see as lightning it would actually make perfect sense to me.

Given that the Catatumbo effects occur more than 5km in the air (where cosmic ray flux would be higher) the only other thing you'd need would be to ensure that the electric potential is continually re-established as the lightning dissipates it. Maybe that can be explained by the weather and geography in the area?
Nice project. Editing OSM has been on my list. I literally created an account and easily made some additions in less than 5 minutes.
This is one of the most informative posts in this thread. Thank you for sharing both the screen shot as well as your analysis, which I agree with.

In all sincerity, I did not even see the link text the first time I looked at the screen shot (and I was consciously aware it should be there). I'm not in the least bit surprised others "missed" it.
Why I'm Furious with Silicon Valley (2011)
I just want to clarify a few things, as it would be charitable to say that there are a few misunderstandings in this thread. I am working on a company that is trying to solve some of these issues; this is a complicated industry that I am still learning much about: hopefully some of what I have learned will be of interest to some of you.

The PPACA (Obamacare) is seeking to address this very issue by changing medical reimbursement form a fee-for-service model (e.g. $40,000 to remove a splinter and $10,000 for blood tests and $5,000 for aspirin) to a capitated payment model with additional incentives for providing good outcomes (providing good service). This means that a caregiving organization would get $N a year to care for you, as a male patient with a heart disease in your mid fifties, with N varying as demographics and conditions change.

This change will necessitate a sea-change in the way doctors and other caregiving organizations will treat their patients. In fact, it will result in the creation of a new type of healthcare organization (accountable care organizations, or ACOs) with the primary purpose of bringing down the costs of healthcare (and improving health outcomes).

This is a paradigm shift in medical practice.

CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) is spearheading this change; something which would be virtually impossible to do without such a large (read: government) player taking the first move. There are a million problems with CMS and the government in healthcare, but this is one of the greatest things they have ever done.
What makes FounderDating spammy is that the messages are opt-out, not opt-in.
sadly iphoto doesn't touch the exif data. It's stored in a seperate (undocumented) sqlite database.
0.01 BTC is in fact a bitcent, and a Satoshi is much smaller (0.00000001 BTC)

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#What_do_I_call_the_various_de...
Screenshot & description :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5677462
1) 99% the same. We've streamlined a few functions on the hosted version (Trovebox). Things like migrating between storage services, importing from 3rd party sites, etc. The core and API are 100% identical. In fact our mobile apps for iOS/Android work for Trovebox & OpenPhoto instances.

2) The Dropbox integration is one way. Trovebox -> Dropbox. On Trovebox we have a beta feature that lets you upload via Dropbox by dragging photos to a specified folder.

3) So that notification is simply us putting the photo in your Dropbox. That's how the Dropbox support works :). Can you let me know what you were expecting?

You can always drop us an email at support@trovebox.com with questions.
I believe LinkedIn automatically define these skills by crawling for keywords in your profile. I've never added a skills section yet every now and then I get emails stating I've been endorsed for a specific skill.
I would not say that a Bitcoin Check is the best way to facilitate immediate private party sales, but business to consumer sales/importation may be possible with a Bitcoin Check, as the supplier can clear the check before sending goods.

Additionally there could be satellite hotspots that could act as exchanges when landline or wireless networks are down. Bitcoin is probably not perfect, but could be useful for money transfer even in areas where the net isn't robust.
Would you mind sharing your experience a bit more. What was the format of the meeting? what did you aim to get out it? How did you advertise the venue? Was it formal teaching or was everyone expected to read on their own and only discuss interesting points, solve exercises etc? Anything else you might want to mention.

Basically, I'm interested in organizing something similar in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and I'm interested in other organizer's experience with this.
I'm a huge Apple fan, but you are definitely in an echo chamber out in SV. Apple has huge tech/geek appeal. I know plenty of non-tech rich people from other places who would still much rather have Windows and Blackberries.
Strong corroboration from the source for your first point: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=60
I don't think many of the kids that are ADD/ADHD/ODD are old enough to be aware enough of what's going on. The system is in no way tailored to them. Instead of those running the system reflecting on it's shortcomings and trying to remedy them, they instead suppose that it's the children who are the problem, not them.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.
Designers apparently have a lot more power inside Google today. E.g., contrast this blog post with:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-ho...
There seems to be elements, but hardly the important ones (making insurance and provisioning consumer facing).
Do you get back to them with the decision well before the end of the period, though, or do you just leave them without an income at the end of it if you decide you don't want to hire them?
Only healthcare expenses over 7.5% of adjusted gross income are tax deductible. Plus, the poor and lower-middle class don't tend to much in income taxes (if any), so they wouldn't qualify for the discount.

In contrast, corporations always write off employee healthcare premiums on their taxes. The issue isn't just the fairness of who pay taxes when, it's also about the distortions in healthcare markets caused by these policies.
>That way patients can ask the doctors if the tests are actually needed.

How does this work? If a doctor prescribes a blood test, he's already said it's needed. Put yourself in a doctor's shoes for a minute. You told the patient he needs a blood test. Then he asks you whether it's actually needed.

How can you possibly say "Nah, just kidding. We don't need that one"?
If ACOs are similar in spirit to corporate wellness programs, I think they are going to take paternalism and nagging to a level we can not even yet imagine. It wasn't long ago that we were talking about the patient who was educated about their condition, but now it seems we're to form major financial engagements with organizations whose central premise is that they care more about our health than we do -- scary!!
How much would I have to pay you for a day of teaching kids how to program?
I'm thinking about launching a business around this idea, so I wanted to get some good opinions.

Here's mine: I'm a senior-level Rails/JS dev, and I'm not really into the whole "do good things for free" thing. I think for 8 hours on a Saturday I would do it for $200, or $25 an hour.

Let me know your honest opinion. I would appreciate it a lot, for real for real.
Or we could open more medical schools? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_schools_in_the...
I gather the NHS (UK) is similar to Medicare, in Australia, where I live.

Under Medicare, highest priority is given to life threatening conditions. For example, if you have a heart attack, you will be treated without delay and to the highest standard. Non-critical cases, such as a knee reconstruction go on a waiting list and it is relatively common for such operations to be postponed multiple times, as higher precedence emergencies arrive at short notice.

Basically, a person who might die will receive care over an uncomfortable person. It can suck if you have a painful, but not life threatening condition, but it is an attempt to give the best overall service within available resources. The public system will treat you if you're not going to die and normally do so well, but in the worst case (that typically makes the news) it can take a long time.

There is always the option of having an operation done privately, and either paying for it yourself, or having insurance to pay for it. Medicare has broad support within Australia.
Life expectancy correlates nicely with wellness.

Adopt the phrase "patient oriented system" and I'm totally on board.
See my reply to greedo above.
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What does the future hold for E-Ink readers? They are far superior for reading but useless in general. I could see myself getting a Kindle in a few months (I have a first-gen Nook) but after that I don't think they will be relevant as tablets continue to advance.
5 comment styles should be avoided
I don't understand, they compete like any other business? The same for less money or a better product for the same (or more) money (a poor product for even less money, of course, is not an option).
I don't know the details here but this missive reads like that of someone who failed and turned to the litigation system for revenge.
>A hosted IRC service seems like a bad idea overall

I understand, but it's a lot more convenient for my less tech-savvy friends than a bouncer, I would think.
Because that $4700 isn't the cost the insurance company is paying. The real reason you can't go without insurance in the US is they're negotiating steep discounts - where I live it's supposed to average 80%.

It may well be they paid less than $600 for a procedure that lists at $4100.

And of course the government numbers don't take this into account, so what they've published is pretty much worthless.
CSV isn't standardized. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#Lack_of_... There are a lot of questions regarding use of quotation, new lines etc.

JSON's standard is that it should be able to be eval'd by javascript interpreter. Even then, date handling is less than ideal.
...and the one before that, and the one before that, and so on back to Marbury vs. Madison.
<cough> Delicious <cough> <cough>
Brand new perhaps it's difficult. But it was easy five years ago and a high end computer from then stands up well. Anyway why restrict yourself to internal?
He asked the court to waive that requirement ...
A North American friend of mine went to Cuba a few years ago. He had a piece of glass in his elbow that had been there for a few years. He knew it would cost at least $700 to have it removed in the US, so he never did it. When he was in Cuba, he went to the hospital to have it removed. They did it, straightforward, normal hospital. The final bill? $7. That's SEVEN dollars (although he paid Cuban currency, of course).

This same friend was in Papua New Guinea a few years before that (he lived there). Similar story - he was cutting wood and hit his toe with an axe. It wouldn't stop bleeding after a long time, so he went in to a local hospital and got stitches. I forgot what the exact bill was, but it was on the order of $5 (five US dollars). Again, it was a normal hospital, not some grass hut or something.

I'm not sure what this all means, except that if I need some expensive medical care that I am able to plan ahead for, I plan to look at places like Thailand for reasonable health care costs. Emergencies, of course, are different, so I may have to go to an American emergency room in that case. And I suck it up for my yearly physical (around $150).
Ask HN: Being a password Nazi
My pet Django project is coming along and I am at the stage of implementing User CRUD. I have already prevented the user from making their password the same as their username but I wanted to ask "what lengths do you suggest I goto to prevent users from creating stupid passwords?".
Oh sorry, the homepage on http://theopenphotoproject.org says, " Stay tuned! Our Android app is coming soon." under mobile apps.

Great work by the way :-)
Faces in the Crowd, Printed in 3-D
What you're reading above my comment is the response to that request. He has until the 22nd to retain a qualified attorney or the case will be dismissed.
Ask HN: how do you tell the difference between tiredness and burnout?
I can't tell the difference between feeling physically tired, i.e. too much exercise and thinking and not enough sleep over the past few days, vs. burnout. I don't think I'm burned out (super motivated these days), but I am getting tired more often from doing more, and I don't want to over-push it accidentally.

Thoughts?
NSA reveals its Internet search tricks
Pex is based on the Daikon dynamic invariant. This document explains some results and examples in certain languages.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/pag/daikon/download/doc/daikon.p...
I have repeatedly authorized LinkedIn to look at my contacts and this has NEVER happened. I would bet money that you clicked through a series of screens too fast and didn't realize you were inviting everyone, even though it was clearly stated. That said, it still sucks, and I sympathize. The UX should ideally make it near impossible for anyone to ever accidentally spam every person they ever e-mailed.

On the flip side though, their "people you may know" feature is the best I have ever seen. Once you hook up Gmail once, it repeatedly checks it for new contacts, and thus always presents very relevant recommendations for who you might want to connect with whenever you are on the site. It's extremely frictionless.
There was a case where material news was released on Twitter. It lead to SEC adjusting their regulation to allow for social media to be an official news outlet for material information so long as the company discloses that it is a source of information ahead of time.

Edit: here's an article referring to the change http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f8c96f0e-832c-...
I know some restaurants will offer birthday coupons for joining their mailing list, which might attribute to the large amount of customers on one.
"They could have paid and gone privvate at any time."

Once you have government health care in place, private care costs get so high, only the rich can afford them.
Fantastic openness. Thanks.
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I'll say they're spammy. This is the same form letter that gets posted to many tech-leaning meetups. It's started some pretty long, snarky threads on the mailing lists to the point where I had to unsub from one.

Oh, if you're worried that you missed the April 8th deadline, don't worry: the last email I got from them was on the 11th.

This ought to be a case study on how to make a not-terrible concept into a really unsavory mess.
Bokeh, and it was a complete vertical slice through the stocks "dataframe"... so one point for how every many tickers there are... probably around 3300?

It's a lot of points, but I was just pointing out that it wasn't slow, it failed.
I personally feel that "Cogito ergo sum" means that taking assertions on faith is simply foolhardy, because the only opinion that one can truly trust is your own. Not that you should take my word for it.
why is this not all over HN?
I wouldn't bank on free markets fixing emergency room problems. While anecdotally some parents may choose to take their children to one hospital or another, I doubt this is a statistical norm. I imagine most people choose the nearest emergency room for most emergencies, and hold off for an appointment with a doctor otherwise. Sometimes, it's just a baby with colic. But sometimes (increasingly in a country with a serious obesity problem) it's a heart attack, and no one is going to drive their dad 45 minutes to the cheap hospital when the one that will save his life is 10 minutes away. Because of this I don't think hospitals have any incentive to drive down ER costs.

But maybe I'm projecting, since my experience with ERs tends to be "Oh shit... get me to a hospital now Google Maps" rather than "I should Yelp some reviews of hospitals, because I have time."
Note date of 2011.
I don't know about his past with Zuckerberg, but this guy's basically a hero for calling VC-istan out for what it is: a rigged, corrupt mess where one's personal level of power determines which laws one must actually follow and which ones can be ignored.

Consider all the co-funding and note-sharing that goes on among supposedly competing investors. That's clearly anti-competitive activity, but it's never enforced because of the power of the people who do it.

It sounds like his particular lawsuit is without legal ground and will fail, but he deserves major props for bringing public attention to VC-istan's collusion problem.

As I wrote, he's already morally entitled to an EIR position (at the very least, if not a real VC job) from VC-istan for his courage, intellect, and ethical above-board-ness, which are well into the top 5% by VC-istan standards (although that's not saying much).
I understand how the UK works as I lived there - I was just simplifying it. However I don't believe it's a big issue that you pay twice. People in the USA still pay school taxes when they send their kids to private schools and nobody seems to be complaining. If it's a big deal then you could refund the school/health portion that people pay in taxes.

Straw man.
I doubt it. That $4700 is what was listed in the insurance packet, then again in the bill along with a few other minor expenses incurred during the procedure, and finally paid for by insurance in a later notice to us. The 100% is because of ACA requirements.

I don't disagree with you that insurance companies negotiate different discounts, though, which is what I was trying to get at in my post regarding pricing.
> In our world we might have 10,000 people sitting in a room pulling our mobile app over a crappy wifi connection.

Just to reinforce this point to folks who are skeptical, there's this great writeup called "Page Weight Matters" by Chris Zacharias where he talks about how smaller page size for a YouTube video literally lit up African, South American, and Southeast Asian smartphone traffic.

By minimizing page size through switching to html5, the page load times dropped to a sufficient level where people who previously did not have access to youtube could finally get access.

Key quotes:

> Further investigation revealed that, in these places, the average page load time under Feather was over TWO MINUTES! This meant that a regular video page, at over a megabyte, was taking more than TWENTY MINUTES to load!

> This was the penalty incurred before the video stream even had a chance to show the first frame. Correspondingly, entire populations of people simply could not use YouTube because it took too long to see anything.

Link: http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters