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I don't think Apple designed iPhone to become the world's most profitable mobile phone maker. Apple just happened to become the one with its "Apple II attitude" to mobile computing.

Compared to how Apple II got obsolete in the personal computer market in 1980s, iPhone/iPad has much brighter future from its solid ecosystem.

It's just the time for Apple to start selling low-priced iPhone models to compete against Google in developing countries.
I'm trying to write a book version of my talk, Crypto 101. The "tour guide versus handbook" problem is one I definitely have a hard time staying on the good side of :)

Like the talk, the book will keep the structure of taking primitive X_i, showing why we don't just use a system based entirely on X_i, and instead also need X_{i+1}, and how eventually \sum X_i (perhaps excluding a couple) leads to complete cryptosystems, for some value of \sum (obviously, you can't just throw stuff together and expect it to work).

This blog post was great motivation for me. I will keep the aforementioned structure, but now I'm extra motivated to also add actual exercises instead of just showing it's broken :)

Thank you.

PS: I understand you're really busy, but there are few people I'd rather have as a reviewer.
I've posted about this a LOT here on HN, because I live in a country (Uruguay) that has a good level of medicine and prices are way cheaper (heart surgery as described would be at least an order of magnitude cheaper than in the U.S.).

One possible explanation I came up with was:

U.S. hospitals have legions of well-paid administrators doing paperwork for insurance companies, which will have legions of people doing paperwork on their side, and government doing its bit, and lawyers doing their thing. All that money is obviously not going directly into healthcare, it's basically monstruous bureaucracy friction. I suspect "real" healthcare costs, even factoring expensive U.S. doctors, would be shockingly cheap.

There are also other "hidden" legal costs, such as the cost of malpractice insurance, and overcosts due to doctors being extremely worried about being sued over malpractice and ordering unnecessary tests.

Is there a "transparent" U.S. medical institution whose expense records could be examined to come up with where all the money is going?

That said, the article compares with Ohio's Cleveland Clinic, which is the most famous heart surgery clinic. Supply and demand alone will make heart surgery there an order of magnitude more expensive, regardless of actual costs. But I've heard most U.S. clinics arent that much cheaper.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6077593

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6019464

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5763001

(I was really surprised by that one, why ARE ambulances so expensive in the U.S.?)
I lived in San Francisco as an illegal immigrant, with a bachelors in psychology and a newly found interest in computer science, not able to enroll to a graduate program—nor undergraduate for that matter, I thought I could volunteer as a research assistant in some lab in the Bay Area.

How wrong was I. In the off chance that some professor was interested (some professors are cool people who don't follow customs for the sake of customs), the schools bureaucratic system rendered it impossible for the professor to accept my free (as in beer) service.

Now that I'm back in my home country, with it's free (also as in beer) education system, I'm unable to tackle the project I'm interested in, for professors tend not to facilitate projects that don't fit in their narrow field of interest (reads, the main topic of their 10 most resent publishes).

The university system truly suppresses spontaneity and unorthodoxy.
Thanks for the feedback, the lack of Bort is due to (for privacy reasons) not having any names in the database for which fewer than 5 children have been given that name in any one year.
regulations forced my doctor of thirty years into selling his business. Talking to him it pushed a lot of single and dual doctor offices into selling. Electronic records keeping was the bogeyman that pushed a few over the edge, between the software costs and the manpower to get all the documents into that now required form they just didn't have the money.

Top it off with his worst payers were not the insurance companies but government based.

Government regulation, from deciding what insurance must cover for all people to not being able to shop across state lines was very much responsible for the rapid increase in healthcare. It didn't help much when we got sold out by Washington under the guise of Affordable Care to the drug, insurance, and hospital, companies. ACA was payoff for campaign contributions, that is why no one read the damn bill.
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It's still ~100 hours a week: 6 days at up to 16 hours = 96 hours/week.
Dagen H - the day Sweden switched to driving on the right.
Ask HN: Why signup rate is so low?
I'm getting 3k+ page views per month for http://railyo.com, a private job board for Ruby on Rails freelancers. The signup rate is extremely low (around ZERO) for client/company, (it is somewhat ok for freelancers) while most of the visitors come from Google Search.

What am I doing wrong ?
Is it a bad idea ? Should I just focus on other projects ?
Any suggestion ?
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A recap seems correct here:

1. I point out that Chomsky's motivation for not engaging in Sudan's problems (no influence) are just not serious; his involvement would have very probably made a big difference and potentially saved many lives.

2. You claim that Chomsky think it is more important to complain about USA. (+)

3. I answer that I don't really care why someone has double standards for different groups/countries/religions/etc.

4. You play linguistic games with half of a term I use ("self-hater").

5. I say bye bye.

(+) Not relevant anyway, except as a form of explanation of why, not an argument Chomsky's position was serious.
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Maybe i missed something, but the options are: Login with facebook or Pay Us.

>>To download this document you must become a Premium Reader<<

EDIT:

http://www.romhacking.net/documents/544/

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=GameBoy+Progr...
What have you tried in order to investigate this yourself? I ask because I just tried the first thing that came to mind and got an immediate answer. As a result I'm wondering what you've already tried.

Or have you just asked on a whim, and not actually tried anything?
Err, so buy land in Greenland and expect frontier towns to spring up?

Climate change is de facto happening. We need to mitigate not hope we can stop the ball rolling.
cool ... kinda sucks if the person next to you wants to sit though eh?
do you get the hdmi cable for that 35$ price ? i see that thing almost like an advanced wireless port. i don't understand what's the big deal ( especially since apple tv does that for some time now). anyone could enlighten me ?
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Google's ‘Gopher Team’
Amazing tech, but the "lighter than a feather" bit dropping the circuit and a feather to show how light it is in comparison fails so hard. Oh dear.
On the technical side you need two things for disruption:

1. A sane test design. Before trying to pull an MVP here, please take some psychology classes on that topic since there's already a huge body of work on how to design a test in a way that lets you infer reliable data, even if participants think the test is nuts (and try to sabotage it), or if they try to second-guess "desired" answers ("Of course I'm not racist").

2. Comparable data sets over time/regions. People are interested in how things change. That's the incumbent advantage in this market, they have all that stuff.

#2 also helps to get _some_ useful information out of insane questions (since they're consistently insane over the years).
Are you related to the original Awesome Foundation, or have you just taken the same name?
There are 2 words.
I think it's probably just racism. I bet you'd see similar outcomes if you let people choose between white doctors and Indian-American doctors, even if the white doctor was the foreign one.
Love the idea. A big market for this would be cans as well.

Did you think of partnering with quirky?

P.s. I would love to try printing this on my replicator2
It will be interesting to see if google open up the chromecast protocol to third parties.

My guess is that they won't --- I expect the margins on this are low or non-existent, and it anyway would be very unlike google to attempt to make money out of this as a hardware product.

It's clearly a strategy to sneak the web onto the TV. There seems to be little incentive for google to extend it to mobile apps, where they make substantially less from advertising.

Also, I have no idea why Apple haven't released a similar dongle purely for airplay streaming. Seems like a no-brainer for them.
One interesting implication is that Chromecast will probably affect Smart TV sales -- because justifying the extra few hundred bucks to get a smart TV vs. just a dumb 1080p TV just got a lot more difficult. I was planning on buying a Smart TV (~46") for 800 bucks, now I think I'll just get one for around 400 or less and use Chromecast for Netflix, Pandora, etc.
Might I suggest a different name? UIKit is the name of the framework used for developing user interfaces on iOS, and using the same name may lead to confusion.
Yes it does, by design: I want to be able to check the integrity and diff easily on a delivered version, with or without the tool.
Another way to say this: Decouple catastrophic health insurance, what we use to cover actual medical emergencies, and routine health care costs. This is roughly the model in use in Singapore and similar to what people in the US with high deductible plans live with.

I work in the medical products field and it's amazing how much distortion is introduced into the system when "insurance" is used to pay for everyday consumables. Products that go from RX to OTC drop 80-90% overnight.
I'm not trying to use it as a deployment tool, I'm building a lightweight deployment tool over it and SSH.
I couldn't download it from Scribd either without paying. A 9 dollar one-day pass... don't think so.

The first link you posted allows you to download the file. Thanks so much for posting it!
It's a systemic problem. Individual universities don't get harmed by producing too many Phds. If the top 20 schools produce double the scholars needed to fill all the open tenure track spots in the US, they're not harmed. If anything, they can get away with paying new professors less. As taxpayers, we (in theory!) have the benefit of cheaper schools. The real issue is too many people enter the Phd world with blinders on, thinking it's some kind of guaranteed success. There isn't any.
Autographer wearable camera launches tomorrow priced at £400, we go hands-off
It plugs directly into an HDMI port. No cable included, no cable needed.

It is, in fact, a moderately smart wireless port: whatever you send to it that it recognizes, it plays. That's it. If you want a pause function, you need to tell the source, not ChromeCast. If you want a rewind, a fast forward, a seek... ditto.

It's a big deal because it's $35 in a usable form. Nearest competitor is Roku, who has a slightly better box -- one with an interface for selecting sources, pause and fast forward and rewind -- for about twice the price, and a nicer one for three times the price.
This is particularly telling...

"In relation to games, for example, the committee has not received any evidence which explains why it is almost invariably cheaper for Australian gamers to purchase and ship physical media from the United Kingdom to Australia than it is to purchase a digital copy of the same game."
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There's a short HDMI extender included in the box. This is for when the HDMI port is inaccessible for the Chromecast itself, or if you need to move it get slightly better Wi-Fi.
Smart TV is a gimmick. Buy a PS3 and enable streaming from your computer. Boom, all the movies you want. YouTube. YouTube from your mobile phone just like chromecast. An Internet browser. Netflix. Blu-ray. As a bonus you also get to play games.

Just buy the biggest TV you can afford that doesn't have 3D nor Smart TV or other features. You'll get your money's worth.

Don't want to buy a ps3? Just connect it to your laptop or computer. Or buy a raspberry pi and run Linux. Or chromecast of course.
But these are solutions for some Array of unknown size or some abstract collection - why to call it a List? For a List the notion of the-empty-list is essential.
And would the market police the private police?
Finally! There is widespread anger amongst Australians about geo blocking and market segmentation practices. It's also why content and software is widely pirated.
I have, but most karma trackers don't seem to have stats for people with zero karma? I'm wondering how you managed to find anything

(or am I having a brain fart and the search terms that I'm using aren't common parlance for this sort of thing?
What about taking on RBS's debts? Are they OK with that? And presumably without a currency they'll join the Euro?
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Surely low margins are a reason for Google to licence this out?

It seems to be using the DIAL protocol anyway, which is intended for smart TV and plug in devices. And if you hit the "cast" button you'll also see listed any Mira-cast devices. So this mostly seems to be about making Android, and Chrome more desirable targets for video content, not an attempt to monopolise the video sending dongle market.
a) Australians have very high incomes and "CUBs" continue to happily pay for their over priced gizmos. For all his whining about unfair competition Gery Hervey isn't exactly suffering.

b) ALP and Liberal govs have happily voted for measures that entrenched regional distribution monopolies (FTA, draconian copyright regimes, criminalisation of DRM circumvention)

note: in the early days of the Howard government parallel importing of media was legalised, this had a dramatically positive impact on pricing for consumers.
> That's not at all how the prior art base of the USPTO, nor any other patent office, is defined.

Prior art isn't the issue.

To be patentable, an invention has to be: 1) non-obvious (to someone skilled in the art); 2) novel; 3) (other things).

Prior art addresses the novelty side of things. Not the non-obviousness side.

The requirement of non-obviousness sounds great in theory, but is in reality a joke, since the only test used is that of prior art.

It is possible for an invention to be obvious and yet for no prior art to exist. In technology one (non-obvious, novel, patentable) invention often enables a big pile of (novel but now obvious, and therefore not patentable) inventions. Using prior art as the only test for obviousness ignores this case entirely.
This of course leads to the question "What counts as a political post?".

The reality is: Everything is connected and interacts and we usually prefer to ignore this fact, because it "makes things easier" (only on the surface).

There is a huge link between technology and politics.

Personally, I believe it is in our future's interest that we learn to think more complexly.

EDIT: Can you answer the question "What counts as a political post?", so we're on the same page?
Some times, things really are that way. It does help to know the supplier, of course.

But back to the article, there are some U.S. healthcare costs that don't make any sense, I've seen procedures with firsthand accounts of an equivalent service here in Uruguay vs the cost in the U.S., and the cost in the U.S. is an order of magnitude more (and service sometimes much worse, this is the hospital I go to, try to argue it's worse than an average U.S. hospital ! http://www.hospitalbritanico.org.uy/ ).

Similarly, the company I work for regularly gets better software for one-tenth the price of U.S. bidders, we've bought local (Uruguayan), Colombian, Ecuadorean... it does help a lot that we know the language and how to do business there. It's not a hundred-to-one comparison as you mention, but there are huge market inefficiencies (in this case, they should be arbitraged away by someone selling services in the U.S., with a focus on quality and not devolving into Infosys or something).
You mean this? https://developers.google.com/cast/

Where it allows Android/iOS/ChromeOS/MacOS/Windows developers to integrate a little code into their apps to make it very easy to send stuff to a TV w/Chromecast?
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Hi patio11,

Thanks to femto, we have some data. It seems that the 30 day mortality rate is lower than that in the US. Care to answer this other than with thinly veiled casual racism?

Dr Shetty's success rates appear to be as good as those of many hospitals abroad. Narayana Hrudayalaya reports a 1.4 per cent mortality rate within 30 days of coronary artery bypass graft surgery, one of the most common procedures, compared with an average of 1.9 per cent in the US in 2008, according to data gathered by the Chicago-based Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Dr Lewin believes Dr Shetty's success rates would look even better if he adjusted for risk, because his patients often lack access to even basic health care and suffer from more advanced cardiac disease when they finally come in for surgery.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/business-old/the-hen...
A few things that jump out;

1. There's no obvious call to action. What should I do next on that screen is a text link. That's not clear enough. There needs to be two clear, bold buttons - one for developers and one for jobs.

2. Calling the site a "private job board" is very closed language to anyone wanting to post jobs. Saying it's "kind of a private network" makes it sound like a clique or a club that I'm not a member of.

3. It's not obvious why a Rails dev vetted by Railyo is better than any other. Why would I trust Railyo? Who are you? You're telling me why you're not eLance etc, but not telling me who you actually are.

4. People who commission projects are generally visually-driven, market-minded people. Your site is, frankly, not very pretty. Your market probably doesn't like it.

5. Paying $100 up front is a very different business model to the freelancing sites you're competing with. Those sites are almost always catering for the lowest-possible-price crowd rather than people wanting quality (which is who you're marketing to). Are you simply charging too much? That'd be trivial to split-test.
Is it only for UPENN students?
Down With Lifehacking It doesn’t make life better—it just makes us work more.
It is not about praise. Society abuses both men and women for its own ends.

Please read: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
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What is wrong about market segmentation? Every product finds it price at the crossing of supply and demand. With incremental costs of delivering digital content approaching zero, supply is almost out of the equation. So naturally on a market with higher purchasing power and higher overall price level (and Australia is a costly place to be), prices will be higher, what's wrong about it?
Same reason why many people in the Netherlands got their eyes lasered in Turkey. Both cheaper (including the flight) and better qualifications (if anything by experience).

This was a few years ago though, from what I've seen the costs for eye lasering here seem to be catching up a little.

Frankly I'm a bit surprised by all the people in this thread saying "well that's a huge price difference, but how do you know Indian doctors are as good as US doctors"--as good? On what basis is the default assumption that US doctors would be better and the Indian ones need to prove themselves? All I know of the US healthcare system is that it's ridiculously overpriced, but just like that $8 bowl of ramen (wat) someone mentioned upthread, doesn't mean it's better, it might even be worse.
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Atomic science began many centuries ago with experimenting and probing into the nature and structure of matter. This began with ancient philosophers and alchemists. Science began emerging with Thales of Miletus (634-546 BC), the Ionian Greek, who described the power of attraction in electricity long before electricity was known.
Thanks a lot, I'd try to fix those issues.
This will never happen. Nothing outside of purely symbolic rhetoric can posit China as an actual adversary of the United States. A war between the US and China would destroy the world; not with weapons and violence, but with the catastrophic collapse of global trade and finance that would immediately accompany it.

The economic viability of the United States and the economic viability of China are so closely intertwined today that any idea of open hostility between the two is quite absurd.

Regardless of rhetoric, the US will only continue harassing sclerotic third-world countries with negligible relevance to the American economy.
Mind you, most of the muslim clothing reflect a culture that already existed before and had its reasons.

For example middle east people believe that women should not display themselves in public, on the other hand they DO should display themselves at home for their husbands, this led to some curious architecture, where homes have one "public" area, where visitors are welcome, and women show up covered, and a "private" area, that depending on the home not even male adult sons of the family is allowed, where women can stroll naked or almost naked. (this when dialed up to eleven that results into the "Harem" that for necessity reasons need male people working on it, thus the eunuchs)

In Egypt the reason for why a women should cover herself still apply: people (specially desert semi-nomads) still kidnap beautiful women. Since covered women you do not know if they are beautiful or not, they don't kidnap them.

Arabs are specially wary of Tuaregs, Arabs perceive them as women kidnappers, and I think that perception is not all illusion.
"It seems hard to prove anything interesting in a system that precludes self-reference."

Indeed, isn't that one of the important features of Goedel's proof: that any system that can express basic arithmetic is capable of self-reference.
Cool. Looks like I guessed wrong...
Similarly Walmart also offers delivery : http://delivery.walmart.com/
That website is sure ugly as hell.
>Reusable components from Arshu will be used to develop the Mvp
No, thank you, sir.
Well, now I don't know what you've tried at all.

So I just pulled up the top 100 people from the leaders list and looked at submissions from 5 chosen at random. In each case there were submissions with over 100 karma points, but the majority had just one or two. So these are people who post regularly/frequently, and have very high, and very low karma points on those submissions.

If this isn't what you want to know, perhaps you could be clearer. In particular, since karma on comments isn't shown, I'm assuming you meant submissions. If you meant something else, then this is a chance for me to learn how to see the karma on comments.
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Are you sure you're looking at the whole picture? I imagine liability, lawyers, and a much greater interaction with customers will be driving up costs very substantially when selling widgets as medical devices.
Right, good point. Licensing to third-party manufacturers makes sense for them. I was thinking about third-party applications (which it seems they've already opened the protocol up to. never mind...)
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Back in the day I used to buy games imported from australia to the UK (n64, gameboy) because they had PAL tvs yet were on the japanese release schedule. Me and my brother had completed pokemon several times over before any of our friends in school had even heard of it. Obviously this all changed at some point...