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This is great! How come I have not heard of this before? I have so many awesome side projects that would need a bit of help in order to pay for servers/continue development.

But seriously, I applied to the Knowledge chapter with http://sciencegist.com. Fingers crossed :)

It's also quite inspiring to see the different kinds of projects being funded by this foundation. It helps with the feeling of being alone in the world of projects which "will help people, but can't make money".
A massive subset of everything is still very large.
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Another not quite obvious thing about emacs is the result of

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-prefix=t \
--without-all --with-x-toolkit=no && make -s bootstrap

Which will give you, say, your beloved Clojure's Nrepl on a remote machine over ssh. Yes, it works perfectly fine in a terminal.
This woman has balls, totally awesome, luv her idea to embetter ones surrounding just by empowering people to DO it. There's a lot Mill-/Billionaires can learn from her.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the concept of self-organization! Writing a thesis+project on it :)
Thanks for that link! Although the supply of photos is largely unusable for my purposes, I really enjoyed looking at them anyways!
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In general you'd be right, but in this specific case there's a fair bit of ambiguity as to what "transaction" is taken to mean. A definition or two wouldn't have gone amiss here.
If OBSERVING that men and women are built and operate differently on a mass and indefinite number of levels (mentally, physically and emotionally) - I guess that I too hold these "sexist views". Then again, maybe I am just honest and choose not to buy into lies and false propaganda.

How can there be the kind of equality that you are referring to when there is no equivalence?

There are always going to be some women who could have done better than the man that got the job that they both interviewed for. Same for men who were beat out by a women, but the idea that some preconceived notion that a man is going to be a better fighter pilot than a women is going to go away is pure fantasy. When something is true 99+% of the time, people are going to lean toward probability. It is human nature.

I guarantee that if anyone in this topic (man or women) was playing a game of deadly roulette and had to choose odds with who was more qualified and would do a better job in a field of men and women with certain careers, everyone here would be a "sexist".

So don't call out someone with There's your problem. If you consider it a problem then it is YOUR problem too. Maybe not on the same level, but you yourself are affected by it on some level (like it or not). You are a human - therefore have human nature.
>>You don't see this kind of innovation in the American health system because it has been engineered with greed in mind right from the start.

As an Indian, I can tell you people here think the same about our health care system. The Doctor in discussion here, Dr Devi Shetty is a sort of a local hero here in Bangalore. And who knows in some years he might as well be a national hero. Its basically because he seems to bring in advantages of doing things in volume + some health insurance based innovations into the whole equation. And I do agree that he is pragmatically altruistic. But such people are exceedingly rare. We are simply fortunate to have him.

I've never been to US, but I can tell you the Indian health care system is if not less is equally greedy compared to their US counterparts. Its just the same.

These days if you don't have health insurance you are more or less screwed. Its just like the US. I mean from whatever I've read about US so far its the very same. Nothing changes. You just feel its cheaper as $1 = 60 rupees. There you get a straight 60x value of your money. That is what it is at the end of the day.

Coming to our system. Forget greed, fraud in the system is so massively high nothing that I write here will explain it. It is extremely common for doctors to order lab tests wholesale even if they are dead sure the patient has no problems at all. Doctors get commissions from testing labs/pharmacies etc for ordering lab tests, medicines. Treatment is purposefully prolonged, patients made to eat all kinds of antibiotics, undergo all sorts of non sense tests because doctors get commissions for it.

The fees for completing your medical course is astronomically high. Capitation fee often runs in crores, the net fee by the time you finish your MD is so high no doubt most doctors have to practically turn into crooks to get something out of it. Add to this nearly more than a decade of studies sets a perfect stage for these sort of activities to happen.

Its just the same old game, as you see in US. Just served differently.
This is an interesting film to learn more about the healthcare industry in the US. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386032/
The thing is, everyone playing those games knows that they're being ranked on how much time they (can) spend on the game. It's part of the social contract of the game. This is why I would dispute saying it's "uneven." Every game ranks people somehow; some people prefer to be ranked given different criteria than others.

- A skill-based game shakes out as a ranking based on skill, so players with high technical aptitude for these sorts of games enjoy participating in skill-based game communities.

- A grind-fest game shakes out as a ranking based on "temporal capital", so people who have a lot of time (and perhaps not a high capacity for skill) enjoy participating in the grind.

- A pay-to-win game, finally, shakes out as a ranking based on, well, money. People who have a lot of money (and perhaps not a high capacity for skill, or time to invest) enjoy paying to win. (I met a "whale" for one of these games, an oil tycoon from a middle-eastern country; he was very happy to be able to basically play a game of fiscal chicken against his tycoon friends/rivals, using the game to prove who was willing to waste more money to get what they want.)

These three game "classes" are each totally sensible on their own, for the players who want to play them. The danger comes almost entirely in trying to sell one class of game as if it were another class, or trying to mix classes of players within a single game.
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_23751590/apples-bob-m...

He's moving into "special projects", reporting to Cook.
I apologize, I'm new to HN, and not familiar with customs, good practice, and such. Perhaps I should have included ´[dev-doc]´ or ´[alpha]´ in the title.
But its not just greed. Greed is also whats driving the Indian entrepreneurs to try to offer the surgeries cheaply and en-mass. Its more than that. Its unfair exploitation, regulatory capture, raw corruption and senseless parasitism. Its greed mutated and run amok. Its what happens when you get greed wet and then feed it after midnight.
If their doctors are trained like the bulk of their it professionals -- those hired by the body shops, no thanks. At least from what I've seen, countries that make a business iut of pudging grad numbers hoping for expat acceptance, quality is inversely proportional to quantity.

Within the US, the cost of heart surgery is highly variable, but if I were to go international, i would go south/central America over India any dry.
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I am from India. I think one major cost factor is price of medicine. In India, you can get medicine at very low cost compared to the west. Salary and dollar conversion/PPP are also major cost factors.
For instance, a urine test costs $1-$1.5 in India, urine culture is about $6, a USG scan is about $14. In USA, urine routine is $30, culture is $70 and USG is $750
There is a reply from someone called @Kaithar (https://twitter.com/Kaithar/status/361765029848170496) which says "actually, DPA does mean they need to be able to read your account password, the one setup for over-the-phone auth"

Surely that can't be true? DPA shouldn't give them the ability to read our passwords, only the ability to save DOB, payment type (direct-debit etc) so you can validate that. But not passwords.
Good thing there's no real free market in US, then.
So now they can add your "physical consumption" behavior to your online behavior profile.

(Obviously that information will not be withheld from the NSA.)
Sitting straight 'bad for backs' (2006)
Well, rent doesn't necessarily move in lockstep with housing prices. So housing prices could go up significantly without any movement in rental rates (or vice versa). Plus, you have significant flexibility in choosing how much housing you want to consume.
Looks like I'm changing provider... If I could.
no true scotsman...
you can try this out, I thought it was cute http://learnyouahaskell.com/

also this http://lisperati.com/haskell/
Largely, on the lower end of the spectrum. Doc in the boxes for routine acute care, nurse practitioners substituting for doctors, pediatric medicine (+), etc.

+ One business model is "Pay a flat fee of $50, cash on the barrel. Your kid gets to see a doctor in under 15 minutes. You know and we know that 98% of the time it's just your child being sick with a routine illness. We'll write the prescription if required and rule out anything more serious. If it is anything more serious, we'll explain your escalation options."
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Interesting... It appears that a few of these were fixed in LO!
This is just an abstract. I think the novelty he perceives is combining all this into a proof of consistency of mathematics. Page 6 of his paper mentions everything you have just written about:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B79uetkQ_hCKbkFpbFJQVFhvdU0/...

This guy spent a few decades working in mathematical logic. He might overestimate the importance of some things, but I would be careful assuming he suddenly stopped understanding simple technical arguments.
The article is from 2010. Is there any sort of follow up?
This may be an example of the "no true scotsman" fallacy. You're saying no true game developer would use social exploitation in this way. Implying that any game developer who does, isn't in fact a game developer.

The problem with this approach is that it absolves any such person who considers themselves a true game developer of the responsibility. I think it's more valuable to view social engineering as the dark side of game development, and look for ways to minimise it.

It's similar to the way software developers often come up with (or are asked to come up with) "dark patterns" to manipulate users into signing up for stuff or buying stuff without realising it. It's our responsibility as developers to recognise when this is happening and actively work to stop it.
+1 that's so true. Lived through that several times and as a rebel I didn't adapt to the "form", but added much more time into the project to somehow allow my submission by using a loophole, when possible. I also had submissions that failed altough perfectly ok, but it wasn't conforming to what they knew that was conforming. Once I got a D because the teacher didn't believe me that I wrote it, but I did. He just refused to accept it, because it was too good to believe in his opinion (that was a longish rhyme we had to do about homeless people).

Sometimes I believe it was wasted time, but then I think that I was glad to learn something new on my own.

A friend of mine got accepted at a top university for his Masters degree in Computer Science, but he will drop out to complete his master using a MOOC (Massively Open Online Courses).
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Were not the Celts very equal, and it was the Romans who put an end to that?
As a sibling comment mentioned, it's possible there was a diode somewhere in the system.

Another possibility is that the motors in the slot cars had electromagnets for the stationary field instead of permanent magnets. That's what an ordinary power drill, especially one without electronic speed control, has. Such a motor will run pretty much the same on AC or DC. When running on AC, the rotor and stator both change their magnetic fields in perfect sync so the net effect is substantially the same as running to same motor on DC.

Wikipedia has an article on "Brushed DC electric motor" with a section on "wound stator". It doesn't specifically mention running the motor on AC, but there's enough there to show you what's going on.
I think they need to store your "memorable name" in plain-text for DPA purposes (so they can confirm they're talking to the account holder) but passwords for e-mail/billing etc. online have no need to be plain-text
Given one or more node-style CommonJS files, it resolves the files that are actually being used before including them. I'm looking to add a few other metrics, but I've updated the title to something more appropriate :)
I look at those answers and find a deep amount of shame for my country, the UK. Especially on the role of the state and the fact that many people feel their life is outside of their control. It's no wonder that the U.S. is a more successful country.
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Know one of his students and was wondering where he gets his excitement for research from.
Start with Learn you a Haskell [1]followed by Real World Haskell[2]

[1]http://learnyouahaskell.com/

[2]http://book.realworldhaskell.org/
"There is also less fear of upsetting the original creator [...]" <-- this part sounds childish on the side of the "alpha engineer".

Also, part of the team building process is done as a contingency plan on the part of the company. If "the plan" is in the head of just one person, then the rest of the company becomes that person's bitch and when that one leaves...
Thanks! Fairly feasible - the harder part would be resolving the correct files, with a small tweak to the API it'd be possible to pass that list to the tool directly.
You'd rather be an appendage of the EU, than the UK? And don't forget you'd need to re-apply for membership.
Isn't this similar to why Windows XP came in 2 versions, "Home" and "Professional"?
Are there too many managers?
Thanks, but no thanks. Have you seen the roads around here? They've been repaving / widening / narrowing / re-routing the main drag near my apartment for something like a year now and it still isn't done, and the design makes traffic far worse than it was before. No way do I want the same people who run the local highway department having anything (more than already) to do with my broadband access.

It's not a perfect analogy, but as the old saying goes... "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara desert, in 5 years there would be a shortage of sand".
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AFAIK, it's the community aspect of religion women are often attracted to.
I am not stating, that it might drive prices down. As I would not be stating, that it might drive prices up.

I wouldn't do this, because I do not have the necessary facts to make such a claim.

If a health-insurance system would work right, the health insurance agency might have a lot of more leverage in this highly regulated market, then any individual paying for its own. But that is just an assumption.

Well your next statement regarding my ironic "poor middle class" is just that: a statement, without any facts to support it.

I was asking for facts to support your statements. I even did some preliminary research into the costs of comparable healthcare in Germany (where I am from).

I just wanted to learn, if a "no health care" system might work better and be cheaper, but I will not just believe your statements, as that would just go against everything, I value.

So I really beg you, to show me verifiable facts substantiating your statements. Please?
Somewhere there is a forum of doctors saying "Pfft, the US firm wants $100k for the patient records system and the Indian firm wants $1,000. Those greedy bastards! They live in a toxic industry which acts as parasites on us noble public servants saving lives every day. It serves them right to deal with international competition finally.

Let's go with the Indian bidder. What could possibly go wrong."
I'm not convinced that people will be more productive like this, but it will certainly make sure they keep moving their mouse cursor.
One of the concepts:

"Digital Chocolatier Prototype

The Digital Chocolatier is a prototype for a machine that allows users to quickly design, assemble and taste different chocolate candies. This machine is composed of three primary elements: a carousel of ingredients, a thermoelectric deposition cup and a user interface. Through a graphical user interface, users can select and combine the ingredients housed in the different carousel containers to create customized candies. The carousel rotates to extrude these ingredients into the thermoelectric cup that rapidly cools and hardens the chocolate, making it ready for consumption. The interface also makes it possible to save and rate favorite recipes for later use."
-- http://www.cmarcelo.com/cornucopia

I can actually see how that could work.
I'd rather be in the EU in Scotland than out of it in the UK - and there are other reasons for my interest in Scottish Independence, getting rid of Trident being an important one.

[The "re-apply to the EU" thing is a bit of a red herring - membership is usually held up by legal compliance and Scotland's laws obviously already comply with EU legislation.]
Well, when I signed up online to their service I created a password. A few months later I went to login to figure out why our bill was so much but apparently the account wasn't working. I rang them, didn't remember setting a "phone password" so reset it then they said "Oh your password has been blahblahblah and blahblooblah before". But I'd only have used them online. And since I didn't remember setting it because they didn't offer me a "memorable question" reset. They just read my online passwords out to me.
Yes, these videos by Eric Meijer are very good:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Func...
Yeah.. My experiences with Virgin Media tech (both business and residential arms) are that all job titles appear to be encapsulated by inverted commas.
Because there's more money to be made in a delivery service
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We also use it several times a week. It's easier now with no delivery fee (will eventually be $5), but you order a case of root beer online and it's on your doorstep the next day. Simple.

I'm not sure how the economics will work out or how prices may change once it will reach scale.
Show HN: My weekend project - a baby naming app
We were finding it hard to come up with a name for our soon to be born daughter so I decided to make an app to help us find one. Let me know what you think!

www.namemeababy.com
Lots of stuff. But the question isn't about which of those two systems will be better in the end. The question is what to do when you've only got $75k.
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> Just to be clear: northwest is for the repeal of the 1st amendment.

I am certainly not against any part of the constitution!

> OK, so candidates can only use one site. Then "Friends of Candidate" will set up a site, or some random blogger with a million followers will set up a website.

Of course that is and should be possible, because it is free speech!

The thing is: it should be made illegal to advertise such a blog with money. Of course there will still the possibility of abuse, but that is the case with any other law.

Doing what I propose would make a huge difference in the money-based corruption of the entire system.
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Here was my crowd-funding campaign: http://www.pozible.com/project/11432

And here's a blog post I wrote about why I think it didn't work: http://www.pigsdontfly.com/2013/05/7-things-i-learned-from-u...
I am referring to specificity of the design. The women I knew in particular liked Saudi clothing, but pink, and was unhappy that the women there bothered her.
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I've actively started to work on a blog series called The Dark Side of Game Design, while at the same time working on a game "from the dark side" for which I've gotten funded for.

Should be interesting exploration of morality and ethics in it. Only real shame is that current game design of the game I'm working on doesn't include parody of it all. I'm just not that good a game designer yet. :)
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Best business model ever.
Do you ever think that Elon has no plan, but he's just put this idea of a plan out there and let us crowd source a solution. That would be neat way to solve an 'impossible' problem.
I believe jumping right into Haskell, unless you're already fond of recursion, is a bit too stiff. Maybe try to read SICP, it will expose you to the functional programming principles that lead to Haskell (strict vs lazy evaluation) which he mostly makes more concise and expressive.

Here's a playlist of a lecture session for HP employees by the authors of the book : http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB63C06FAF154F047

Here's the book http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ ( alternate formatting texinfo http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ , pdf http://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ )
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Such a crass generalization. If you think the bulk of India's IT professionals are bad - then you should at least consider if such poor skills are "good enough" for a vast majority of IT work.
Another interesting method for crowd funding. While cool, I'm still hopeful that we'll soon have the crowd funding/crowd sourcing sites that tackle bigger problems.

A site that funds the next Mars Lunar Rover in an X-Prize manner, for instance. Another site that provides crowd-funded medical grants like the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Perhaps another to help fund some of Bill Gates' ambitious projects. He's got big ideas and even he's gonna need a little more cash. :-)
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I know that you are all about equality but I think you missed the idea. All people are treated differently because drum roll... They are different. Men, women, musicians, mathematicians, authors, doctors.

Humans are not evil because when people are different, they tend to group them all together. This is human nature. This affects everyone's decision making (including yours). If you were in a game of deadly roulette where you had to pick the outcome of certain peoples lives, how certain people would react to certain challenges or situations, how well certain people would do in certain jobs - you would go with the numbers too. You would not treat these people equally. Therefore you yourself are sexist, bigoted, and stereotype people just as those you criticize.

Just knowing this this fact means that these probabilities do have an affect on you.

I am not condoning the mistreatment of anyone - I am merely saying that blindly ignoring peoples strengths and weaknesses is foolishness. Also, giving resources or opportunity which was not earned or deserved to someone will not usually result in a better outcome. Negative side effects create more problems to this scenario than the original solution was meant to solve (and it too fails).
No I don't think you are, at least for open source production grade. Intending to do some work on this when I get a chance. There is a talk at Eurobsdcon this year on using the FreeBSD network stack in userspace and Netbsd also an option, fixing locking and interrupts are issues with using these stacks out of kernel to get good performance as the environment is rather different.