skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the precise opposite of how it works for a lot of people in the US. I've been on both sides of this, with two incidents a few days apart on either side of student insurance expiring.

Hospitals charge uninsured people a ridiculous amount, then mark it down anywhere from 50-98% (Yes, I had a bill that was adjusted 98%) based on negotiations with insurance companies.

Uninsured people get hit with the full, absurd inflated costs as bills. They then have the privilege of begging the hospital for a markdown or a payment plan (turned down completely in my case as an unemployed graduate student because I couldn't afford my own place and lived with parents).

The bills don't show up for anywhere from three weeks to three months, and there is no indication of what is owed until they end; Nobody's able to tell you on command what things cost before 'coding' things at their leisure. One hospital visit that does any nontrivial diagnostic work may incur dozens of separately billed "services" running through different providers and individual doctors. That begging the hospital for a markdown only applies to them, three-quarters of the others won't accept anything short of the full amount.

I thought this system was a bad compromise, but then I got sick. The system is absolutely ridiculous, the victim is given an open-ended debt("If we think of anything else you owe us we'll call you", & "No, we can't give you an itemized bill for 'services'") in dozens of segments with little room for argument or inspection, and threatened monthly with destruction of his financial livelihood.

Don't support single payer healthcare? Try a major acute illness on for size and see if your opinions change. This system of "insurance", whatever it was supposed to solve, is utterly broken unless you happen to be healthy.

PS: My state is apparently recognized as one of the best in the nation on this topic, I can only imagine what it's like in North Dakota. A lot of people's lives have been ruined by a medical system that makes it downright impossible for the average person to tolerate getting sick.

PPS: I think of hospitals as somewhat predatorial now because this will fall worst on an honest, ignorant, unemployed person who attempts to pay his debts - the way one is advised by financial experts to deal with it is to either declare bankruptcy, or make small monthly payments, an option which appears nowhere on your bills (which demand payment immediately), and which the hospital will not either volunteer or agree to when requested. Token payments above some undefined percentage of the debt will prevent them from sending the bill to the collections agency. So if you know this, a major illness might be roughly equivalent to an unexpected student loan, but with the stress of destroying one's health and future health insurance. If you don't, or if you acquire a chronic illness which requires extended care, you acquire a permanent black cloud raining down acid on your financial future.
This is very nice. Thanks for making this.
That's because there is no value in gathering and publishing data for its own sake. Conclusive results are valuable because you can act on them to achieve something. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Ignoring inconclusive/negative data is only problematic if it contradicts the data you choose to act on.
For those unfamiliar with pointer arithmetic I wrote a python port here. https://gist.github.com/siddharthsarda/5538928
Yes indeed, but the point is that according to current theories Kepler should already be finding more Earth-sized planets than it has and few inner gas giants. The observable evidence does not match the predicted model.
I liked Endless Space. Also Sins of a Solar Empire.
No captive market can ever be a free market. And everything health-related is a captive market, because you can't afford not to pay for the service.
Hey guys.

Thanks for the feedback. It's very much a work-in-progress and I was surprised to find it here.

It's certainly 'Chrome-centric' at the moment -- but I don't think there's any reason it shouldn't eventually work in most modern browsers.

Taking the bat off the cursor when it's outside the court area is probably a smart move. Will do.
In stressful situations I've know people to give names other than their own (Maiden name when married for 30ish years), forget their birthdate and a host of other missteps. War is (I imagine), stressful. I wouldn't be setting up systems that that required a lot of thought if I was off to some sort of high stress environment.
Very, very cool. We'll be able to use some of these concepts in the real world in about 8 or so years, but someone needs to be sitting on the bleeding edge and abusing CSS like this.
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Excellent article.

I remember writing down a set of goals on my computer when I was a sophomore in high school.

A couple of years later, when I had returned back on a break from college, I opened the document, and found that I had achieved every single goal.

There is something about putting something down in writing that makes it that much more real and makes you that much more determined to accomplish it.
Thank you for mentioning this; I just bought it, it seems to work wonderfully, and I like that they save the data in standard formats.
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Wow, unexpected ending. Kudos to the person that returned it. I'd be curious to see some follow-up on this. If the buyer could describe the seller to the TSA, maybe they could identify him; after all there are only so many people working at one airport. This is, of course, assuming that the seller was the thief and not an accomplice.
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Mainly because I'm trying to fake 'collision detection' by using CSS hover. You could almost describe it as more of a 'controlled animation' than a game.

CSS isn't designed for this kind of thing, so we have to work with what we have.
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Not always true, e.g. brute force searching can often look more beautiful than more sophisticated techniques. The article mentions how performance could be improved by separating compilation and execution of the regular expression (as most "real" regex libraries do) - but this would almost certainly make it less beautiful.
It is largely used in black market transactions, it exists without any regulations at all, and there are almost no mainstream businesses that actually deal in it

As we used to say back in the day, “don’t believe the hype.”

As for business using Bitcoin, more “real” businesses are doing so all the time, including Foodler, OKCupid and WordPress to name a few: http://www.coindesk.com/10-businesses-that-use-bitcoins/.

On a recent podcast of Lets Talk Bitcoin (http://letstalkbitcoin.com), it was mentioned that donations to projects, websites, etc. were the majority of Bitcoin transactions, not black market ones.

It’s not a coincidence that Bitcoin first appeared in 2009, after the world economy was nearly destroyed by regulated financial institutions and government-controlled central banks.

There’s certainly nothing shady about wanting a way of exchanging and storing value (i.e. money) that’s unencumbered with the legacy of how we’ve handled transactions in the past.

One of the innovations of Bitcoin is that it decentralizes trust, which is just what we need these days--Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy's Last Safe Haven: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-28/bitcoin-may-...
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This is an amazing story which just shows no body child should be labeled.
8000, 38000, both insanely expensive. I haven't seen a single sane price in the whole article.
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No problem here, so probably limited downtime again.
It's not. Poor communication is.
There is a lovely description of the classic Thompson algorithm of building an NFA from a regular expression and then simulating the NFA with a DFA using two stacks :) in the "Compilers" book by Aho et al. There is also a great article from Russ Cox on it:
http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

I recommend implementing this as an exercise, rarely do you see that much classic CS theory put to a practical use in one place.
Finally. I've been saying this should be done for ages[1]

[1] Here's a 2010 blog post I made saying "do matlab in JS, make money". http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/10/ten-ideas/
> The sensible answer to this is "just learn CoffeeScript, then".

No, the sensible answer to this is "just read the compiled JavaScript". CoffeeScript compiles down to very nice, readable JS. I would even go so far as to say that compiled CoffeeScript is easier to read than 90% of the JavaScript you'd typically find in a open-source project.
I think it's fair to say that the hope is to combine the state of the art technology to discover more scientifically than has been before known.

Additionally, this pushes technology. The hope is to push the technology far enough a system such that not only do the components work, but you can build actual useful engineering systems with them.
I had a similar experience with some cologne. The TSA agent read the label and claimed the amount was 0.5 oz over the allowed limit (despite me having used it several times and it almost certainly being within legal bounds) and said I would have to get my bag checked in. She made a remark about how expensive it probably was, zipped up my bag, and even escorted me to the bag check-in area. When I was passing through the scanners this time, that same women was nowhere to be seen.

I thought nothing of it at the time, but when I arrived at my destination, my cologne was gone. The agent had never returned it to the bag. What frustrated me the most was my inability to do anything about it.
Are you positive that this is a internet issue? I think it is a user problem.
People would exchange from USD to GBP or EUR an dthen to BTC. U see no problem there.
Not most of those things, but Bush never went so far as to claiming the power to kill US citizens without a trial. Or establishing something like the "disposition matrix" to decide which citizens should be a candidate for this special treatment.
I wonder if this would be a good test to give a software developer candidate. Develop a regex matcher that matches a subset of the regex rules in your language of choice (without using regex abilities, of course).
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When first reading, I didn't see it as sarcasm, just as an unsubstantiated claim. Rereading it, I'm still not so sure...
I can't believe this is even an issue. CoffeeScript and JS are basically the same language; CS just has a nicer syntax.

If these guys were going to be valuable contributors, they'd take the 20 minutes it takes to learn CoffeeScript and then actually try and contribute. You'll suffer no loss "excluding" them from your project.
I do not consider pre-emptive interception capabilities to be a public or government responsibility.

Warranted interception can be helpful, but at this moment, I am concerned more by the cyber war/terrorism rhetoric and its effect on my democracy (Canada, in my case) than I am by any threat of violence (we just passed a bill called S-7 that allows for 3-day holding without charge, and 12 month conditional probation without charge, RE: "terrorism"). We usually follow the US example, so I watch these subjects with interest, and have been amazed at the choice to walk people out of their own homes in Boston, at gunpoint, "for their own protection." I'd rather take my chances and protect myself against terrorism. (A person's home used to be his "castle.")

Yes, privacy (and encryption, for example) empowers bad people - but it empowers the good ones too. Two wrongs don't make a right; I prefer to keep my freedom and strength than live in frightened "safety." So: encryption it is, even though it costs.

I wish governments and concerned citizens could see how they are creating the very walls that alienate and anger.

(FWIW, Canada had a bill called C-30 on the table last year with similar interception obligations and fines, and even though the government could have just passed it, because Canada is currently a political dictatorship, a huge number of Canadian's stood up and figuratively shouted in unison: NO. All it takes is saying I'm not afraid: I'm not afraid of terrorism, I'm not afraid of guns, I'm not afraid of other people's freedoms; no, I won't give away any more of my dignity. In fact, I want it back.)
Both the cross of the Knights Templar, and the similar Maltese cross used by the Knights Hospitalier are quite distinct from the straight cross the Red Cross uses. I very much doubt anyone anywhere where variations like that are likely to be seen would confuse them.
I hope his gifted talent is properly nurtured.
Its important that he's not always reminded that he is special and not always be in limelight.
"Currently these google products are down in India" - for some. Works fine for me :-)
You don't even have to make it illegal for your employer to pay your insurance premium, just take away the tax deduction and watch how fast your employer stops paying.
Working fine for me in India
Referring to total rewrites in different languages as "ports" has a history in the game development world going back to the beginning, when those doing "ports" often did not even get access to original source or assets, and the games would be written in asm for the target platform anyway.
For those who don't know, this is Rob Pike's chapter of Beautiful Code, a thoroughly enjoyable book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-P... . Every now and then I read a different chapter, and it's always interesting. I particularly liked Rob Pike's one, and the one about Python's dictionary implementation.
> (if you can't think of why anyone would care about separating content and design, think of a site that needs to work in both mobile and desktop browsers. How can you achieve that without separating design?)

Well, you could serve the normal page (with the normal stylesheets) to mobile browsers and not disable zoom. This would make your web site one of the better mobile web sites.
8000 USD for a hospital treatment does not seem insanely expensive for me. Hospitals are by definition expensive - 24/7 on-site staff, highly trained experts (doctors), lots of expensive machines. A simple bed in a hospital is far more complicated and expensive than your standard home mattress. Hospitals need to overprovision on a constant basis since the can't just return a "503 Retry Later" in case of emergencies.

There's certainly ways to save money on the lowest price, but the spread is far more interesting - given that you should get a solid treatment in each of the hospitals, why does one manage to offer you a fifth of the highest price?
If I make a contract with someone that says I get exclusivity to publish and sell their works, and in return I give them some money, in what way do we need to do copyright assignments?

You don't, and in Germany, there's no such thing as copyright assignment - Urheberrecht is part of the author's moral rights and inalienable[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Germany#Transf...
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They are pushing costs down. That's why when you get a bill from your insurance and it says "Procedure X - $5000" followed by "Negotiated rate - $1000 accepted".

Insurance companies figure out what stuff should actually cost, then enter into contracts with providers that says "Hey I know you're still making a decent profit if I only pay you $100 instead of $150, so take $100 and you'll make it up on volume when you become one of my preferred providers."
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If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to have the fields on the form depend on the contents of what was entered on the previous form e.g. if user selects name, ask for name, otherwise ask for address.

In that case, I tend to use class-based views and set different forms, templates etc. depending on those values. If the form is different enough, it's easier just to send them to a completely different URL.
I like this speech and just recently discovered it. I intend to read some of David Foster Wallace's writing in the near future too. Sad story about the guy though.
David's start is at 14 and not post 20 as most grad students. At minimum, he will end up making something like Mathematica like Wolfram and at max, he will change the world.

The Big and Little Oh of this story are both extreme events.
If you were to hack into someones account and take it, I would think that is illegal.

Obviously if you were to steal it ingame that would not be illegal.

It's almost certainly illegal to steal bitcoins.

I guess I'm referring to US law here, but I would expect it to be illegal in any country that has computer crime laws.

And sure it is in the currency issuer's interest to do do that, if think in strict terms of maximising the value of the issued currency. But that doesn't mean the currency issuer will take every action available to do so. The bigger picture is much more complicated than that.
Off topic, perhaps, but to add something other than "me too" to the discussion, can we talk about this: http://imgur.com/KfBxO9U.png ?

Can we all just agree this is a bad idea and stop doing it?
If you're going to use taxi service to judge how good public transit in, your methodology is probably flawed.
Looks useful! What does the name BORIS stand for? I see the creator is called Chris...
Yeah, but the point is that the resulting product (like the movie, code, whatever) is a tradeable product. The act of creation itself is not something we can sensibly trade. People are trying with stuff like Kickstarter, but the core problem is still there: how much should you pay to maybe get something later that might match the description you thought you liked?

Market economics doesn't work without excludability.
Here are a few previous submissions - most have a few comments ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2369094

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373586

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2378099

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2379419 <- More comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2382850 <- More comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2594284

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523702

You can find more about him here:
http://news.google.com/news/search?q=Jacob+Barnett
Please explain, because I find that difficult to appropriate to projects worked on by a single person.
I don't think there's anything I can do about that -- short of using JavaScript, which kinda defeats the purpose.

Basically, every time you move the cursor, the browser checks to see if you triggered a new hover state. If you keep still it assumes nothing has changed.

In this demo it's the thing being 'hovered over' that's doing a lot of the moving -- but the browser doesn't ever check for that.

Maybe there's a better alternative to :hover? CSS is obviously a limited toolset when it comes to this kind of thing.

The challenge is there for anyone who wants to fork it ;)
Why? He just stated his opinion that JavaScript drivers should be written in JavaScript which is an opinion many of us share. He's quite well known for speaking his mind and he was even fairly polite about it in the GitHub discussion.

It's stuff like this: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/issues/1613 that makes me lose respect for people.
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Why is "-11%" rendered as "Moderate"? Everything <0 should be "Easiest", shouldn't it? Or maybe even add another category, "Downhill"?

Also, any idea why this doesn't work for Berlin, Germany?
You could at least show the ZERO_RESULTS status somehow.
"Augmented memory is going to be very important." I don't work for them or even use the product anymore, but CloudMagic (https://cloudmagic.com) came to mind when I red this.

It goes some way to augment memory and is fast & easy to use.
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I don't know, regexes have a lot of rules so you need to supply a reference, requiring them to remember it is overkill, not to mention some of those rules are pretty arcane.
40 minutes after, working fine for me (Europe West).
I like to describe my techniques as "not novel, just new." I'm absolutely building on the work of many others in academia. I've spent time with Engert at Harvard, Rex Kerr at Janelia, and some of Deisseroth's students, among others (including Boyden, Ramanathan, Manuel Zimmer in Vienna, Aravi Samuel, George Church, and more). I've only briefly met Bargmann and I loved the advice she gave me: "Hmm. That's probably not going to work, but...it's really worth trying."

Unfortunately, most academic scientists are not in a position to risk their careers on such a bold and encompassing proposal. However, I benefit from this in some ways, because academics who are interested in this problem often work on a small piece of it instead of going for the whole thing, and are then incentivized to share that piece with me to integrate with all the other pieces, so they can see their contribution realize its full potential.

I wouldn't underestimate the technical demands of the project - it certainly would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. Sydney Brenner once famously wrote: "Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries, and new ideas, probably in that order." However, you're right to point out that it's really the abstract methodology of delegating experimentation to a machine which truly distinguishes my technical proposal from related work. I have to admit that I haven't worked out in detail what the math will look like, though <http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5708>; is a pretty good start. The tricky bit is defining the probability space (that is, the family of models under consideration). As a probability space, it must have a measurable structure. But for efficient and effective inference, it should also have additional structure, like a vector space. Yet any particular choice of vector space representation will trade off dimensionality against non-convexity, so it's desirable to have multiple representations of the same space. I've been taking a "cross that bridge when I come to it" approach, as I'm occasionally reminded by academics that if all I manage to do is collect a bunch of time series data about hundreds of neurons simultaneously, that would still probably be scientifically interesting and novel, even with ordinary, human-driven analyses.
Nice post thanks - I'm about to tackle a fairly large Django project so it's always nice to see some best practice guidelines
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Agree... but still for many people out-of-pocket money is harder to spend than time
But then what happens when they need care when they're not near the company hospital? You'd need to set up company run hospitals all around the state and the country to manage the costs. And suddenly, you've reinvented Kaiser.