skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>because the reason hospitals are able to afford Medicare prices is only because they overcharge the rest

That's simply not true. Medicare prices are explicitly designed to cover costs, based off of collected data and input from the self-interested American Medical Association[1]. They almost carte blanche accept the AMA at their word, and I doubt the doctors at the AMA are shooting themselves in the foot (although they appear to be backstabbing under-represented GPs). What Medicare doesn't do is pay excessively, so poorly ran facilities may go red. One of the motivations behind incentivizing (and soon requiring) electronic health records is the ability it gives Medicare to objectively analyze this information, rather than taking the doctor's subjective assessment.

What does inflate private insurance rates is unnecessary market saturation, where hospitals are expanding to capture patients from competitors and lowering per-hospital utilization in the process. Particularly an issue with non-profits, which have little other recourse to spend their profits on except higher salaries and facility expansion. The other main reason for higher insurance rates is bad debt, which is the percentage of care hospitals write-off because they don't expect to recoup the charges[2]. Since Medicare payments are supposedly break even, this is almost solely absorbed by private insurance. That's one of the reasons hospitals are for Obamacare, because there will be fewer uninsured and hence less write offs; yet, current reimbursement contracts account for that bad debt already, so they're going to get a lovely profit boost until the payors correct the imbalance.

Anecdotely, revenue cycle departments (that collect payments) love Medicare, because it just pays. Private insurers dispute everything and threaten to pass the bill directly to patients, which the hospital knows will never get paid because the member expects their insurance to take care of it.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-a-secreti...

[2] http://www.acainternational.org/products-health-care-collect...
It's not even, "time served," but "a promotion." Perish the thought that a prosecution would even be a possibility.
GIS: More data, less infrastructure
Two observations:

- The worst programmers work for big corporations. Because there the overall level of competence is so low they can scrape by barely doing anything.

- Very true about keeping skills sharp and developing new skills. It's hard to do and hard to keep up but always worth it.
Because it doesn't block the thread. The idea is that this code is executed inside of a thread that, if it blocks, will cause the application to hang. For example, in a GUI or a server. So, if its a thread driving a GUI, and it's blocked on user input, then the entire application interface will be unresponsive until it receives that input.
I'd love to combine this with sentiment processing to play happier sounds, sad sounds, etc. Brilliant world of possibility. Love the product!
"We are captives of our own identities, living in prisons of our own creation" - a quote by T-Bag in Prison Break
128 GB iPhone 5S?
How Twitter Can Ensure Hype Issues Facebook Experienced Do Not Ruin Its IPO
And possibly twice as many advertisers that pay them to keep the toolbar alive.
The difference between China and Japan relative to the US is about 1.2 billion people. It's really unlikely the Chinese won't eclipse the US in raw numbers, though coming out ahead in GDP/person is a much more dicey proposition.
Oh, it's even better than that. If you look at the cloudemailapp source code, the client testimonials list from the mailgun source is there, just commented out:

Line 188:

<!--<h2>
Customers
<a href="customers/index.html" class="btn">case studies</a>
</h2>

<div class="paper customers">
<div class="stage1">
<img src="static/img/logos/yc.png" alt="YC" />
<img src="static/img/logos/uservoice.png" alt="Uservoice" />
<img src="static/img/logos/colourlovers.png" alt="Colorlovers" />
<img src="static/img/logos/ft.png" alt="FT" />
<img src="static/img/logos/everyblock.png" alt="everyblock" />
</div>
</div>-->

They also are using the exact same generated Optimizely JS file on line 9.

What's really shocking is this doesn't seem like just a copy of the site -- it's like a copy of the entire product, which is really amazing. I have to wonder if it even works...
The are talking about taxonomy (order Carnivora in the class Mammalia) not diet. Many tropical carnivores (kinkajous, olingos, tayras, coatimundis, ...) eat large amounts of fruit. They will also eat "crunchies" (invertebrates, small vertebrates) when they come across them.
In all seriousness, one of the few things that makes me hesitant about moving to SF is that it would be the third such city I've lived in (after Darwin and Perth).

The misogynistic language wasn't necessary. However, I believe that supply and demand applies roughly to dating markets. When one sex is in short supply, it is "bid up" by members of the other sex.

While my strategy has been to improve my own value, there's only so far that can go. I can also improve my outcomes by avoiding buyer's markets.
Indeed. It never seems to never occur to some people that emergent behavior, arising from the (mis)alignment of incentives in a complex system, can give rise to behavior so bizarre and purpose-directed that it all seems deliberate -- as yet is nonetheless emergent. The whole system is a fractal, all the way to the top -- there are many uber-wealthy folks whose experiences are subjectively as miserable as Bukowski's was.

You just can't believe it because you believe in a magical hierarchy with the free ones on top -- but so do the ones way up there. My god, if you're even able to leave a comment, you're already better off than 99% of people alive today!

The "rat race" is a subjective, elective construct and, by definition you cannot escape it a long as you subscribe to it. The people you think have escaped it, or control it, are also trappe by it, no matter how hard that is for you to believe. The only ones who have truly escaped are the ones who have had a fundamental shift in the way they conceptualize work, career, goals, desires and everything.
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> 4.31% per year is likely what the US government reports. They traditionally under report inflation (although to a greater degree over the past 20 years).

Quite the opposite, in fact.

The US government has traditionally overreported inflation, because the CPI was not hedonically-adjusted until the year 2000.

The Billion Prices Project at MIT provides an independent measure of inflation, and it tracks the CPI quite well. (Note, though that Billion Prices uses a different basket that does not include services. Thus, it will not match exactly.)
I thought uninsured folks were charged the chargemaster price. They may not end up PAYING that price. . .even if they spend their entire lives trying. . .but I thought that's what uninsured folks were CHARGED.
Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app again, for “manufactured” reasons
its the us version of rocket internet/sawmer bros?
It seems you're implying malevolence and unless the other metrics substantially were worse than the other hospitals.
Sure, you can plan long term, assuming you're relatively principled and are looking out for the interests of your country. But that kind of situation is an open invitation for personal enrichment, too. China has had relatively good economic leadership recently, but when that changes the lack of "the next election" can be a serious problem.
That's what I said above.
There's also the "grass is always greener" complex as well. The perception that what someone else has or does is better than what you do because it's different. It may be true or it could all be in one's mind. To want to always improve is a good thing, but in high doses it can be toxic.
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Except that a hospital/provider could still refuse to provide the service at that price, even the low multiple.
You cannot end terrorism at all.

Any plan with that as its stated goal, is a stupid one.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA

Although it's a pretty cool idea, I was under the impression that the entire basis of a crypto currency was to keep anonymity...
Or they could opt for a plane like the Rafale or JAS 39 NG who both have longer ranges than F-35.
Chargemaster is also a brilliant and evil tax deduction[1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/business/bayonne-medical-c...
Angular Example: Sieve of Eratosthenes
I believe there're a lot of people with the "click-to-continue" attitude when installing softwares.

I see a rather big portion of my website traffic (woman visitors mostly) come from some kind of toolbar search.

There's still a market for that.
It's not for me, however:

The biggest hurdle is that I don't think their target demographic for the product is savvy enough to install it without being hand-led.

I also think it's a mistake to not have a news stream button that shows news and content that this demographic would find captivating.

If the person doesn't have a yahoo mail account (or it appears to not be used), clicking the purple envelope should open outlook or whatever the users' default client is. The envelope should also have some kind of "new mail" notification.

Also I want to know what the toolbar does inside of companies that block access to facebook.

And lastly, I think the hardest thing is that google appears to serve this demographic better. If I go to google.com and type in novice queries like "directions to the post office" or "movies playing tonight" or "where can I buy stamps" I get arguably far friendlier results than I do with yahoo.

Until Yahoo addresses this, it's not going to work.
Here you can find the classified slides in full : http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/nsa-report-on...
Here's my answer: predictive Bayesian algorithms, run across the data-set of all human behavior, and algorithmically generated dossiers and smear campaigns for every human on the planet. All available for sale, for favors and influence if not for money.

...that is, assuming these aren't being done already.
Pathetic... on the plus side, I'd be surprised if they can rip off all the cool stuff Mailgun does on the backend to improve deliverability.
I agree with this comment on the Ars thread[1]. I know this was discussed extensively here[2]. But, the comments on the thread seemed a bit biased towards one side.

[1] - http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/google-blocks-windows...
[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6220233
We have military bases in Japan because the Japanese people want US military bases in Japan. It allows them to focus on their economy without worrying about their strategic situation. If they change their minds and ask us to leave, we'll leave. SO the idea Japan is doing reasonable okay "because we let it" is a bit silly. US and Japanese interests coincide, for the moment.

And yes, Japan has the most powerful navy in the Far East (aside from the US navy, of course) regardless of what they call it. But that's temporary - they'll be eclipsed by China over the next decade.
Makes sense, but I also feel that thinking about the regret-at-death moment is not quite an appropriate motivator - it will anyway be so shortlived.
Most definitely. I wish people actually read http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_T... to understand why Dijkstra's argument doesn't apply to the cases you describe.
I might be the only one but... I can't bring myself to use Yahoo! products because of the ugly purple.

I'm not even joking. Some of their apps are great. But the purple is just so ugly, and in most cases you can't even change it. Purple on white is just not an attractive color theme for apps.
According to the Microsoft doc[1] it is convention for async to return a Task but not a requirement. Since the return type of Task tells you a method is expected to be used asynchronously, also encoding that in the name seems somewhat redundant. I guess you have to use a different name because of static typing so Async is as good a suffix as any.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh156528.asp...
My armchair assessment was that its long, finger-like paws were for digging those "crunchies" out of trees, etc. but was disappointed when the article didn't mention anything about it.

I never knew until now that there is no taxonomical classification for Omnivores.
If you have python, then these are really useful, just serves up the current directory.

Python 2.x:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Python 3.x:
python -m http.server 8000
That appears to measure G+ for the purpose of logging in to third-party sites; and I'd guess that to most users doing so, they think primarily in terms of their Google account, or their Gmail account. I've heard of very little traction with "regular people" for Google+ itself; Facebook still reigns king there.
they're even loading mailgun's javascript from CDN:

mailgun:

<head>
<script src="https://cdn.optimizely.com/js/32694127.js"></script>
<title>Mailgun: No contracts, cancel anytime</title>

cloudemailapp:

<head>
<script src="https://cdn.optimizely.com/js/32694127.js"></script>
<title>CloudEmailApp: No contracts, cancel anytime</title>
No one knows about his motives except that person himself, but it is indisputable that a public figure such as he has responsibilities to society, and he does not fulfill them.
The chief judge of the FISA Court says "ability of the FISA Courts to police spying is limited".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/court-ability-to-poli...

PHOTOS of the 12 FISA Court judges.
11 of the 12 were appointed to bench by Bush or Reagan.

Only one man appoints judges to the FISA Court - Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/meet-the-foreign-inte...
> What do they do it for? Sex? TV? An automobile on monthly payments? Or children? Children who are just going to do the same things that they did?

Hm... abject terror of homelessness.
The NG will have longer range than the F-35 so I think Gripen would be an excellent choice for Canada.
Looks like a cut and dry copyright violation.
Please tell me this is Swiftian irony and you are playing Devil's Advocate for the sake of conversation.
My favorite part is the link to Twitter in their footer that just takes you to Twitter's homepage.
I was just thinking about this today. How it would be nice to be able to listen to the pulse of our analytics.

I had the pleasure of meeting the Mailbox app crew at Dropbox's offices a few months ago. They had a really cool light show on what looked like a table tennis net strung up with networked LEDs and pasted to the wall. When a user signed up, it would create a blue pattern across the net. When a message was sent, the screen flashed red. You can imagine the screen was a dancing symphony of visually encoded events -- it was and really remarkable and quite beautiful to watch. Chaotic at first, but once you memorized the patterns you could glance at the screen and immediately feel the pulse of the application. After a few hours I think you'd almost be in touch with the application where you could recognize errors without even having to check your logs / analytics / etc...

So @cortesi, definitely build in a hook for the Mixpanel API. It'd be great to get a sound everytime a user signs up, signs in, or triggers certain events.

I can imagine all the SF startup folks walking around the mission with boomboxes on their shoulders networked to pick up their audio feed from Choir.io, broadcasting their own encoded analytics melody to the world. Or PMs with headphones on at their spin class, keeping up with their engineers' progress on the new sprint. Ok yes, I'm mocking the movement now, but it's still pretty cool, congrats =)
Building protected bike lanes is probably a smart thing to do.

However, it doesn't solve the problem of arrogant bike riders who believe that the rules of the road don't apply to them. There's an idiot in my neighborhood who insists on blowing thru the local stop sign at about 20 MPH. Much worse, he's taught his young daughter to blow thru the stop sign right behind him.

So what's the percentage of bike riders who get into accidents mainly because of their own stupidity? Is it 1%, is it 10%, is it 90%? I think it's a fairly big number, at least 20%.

I'm not trying to troll here. I'm trying to make the point that quite a few bike riders are dangerous. How do we protect bike riders but also protect the rest of us against that stupid minority?
I don't think you understand basic economics.

> For quite a long time now, the technical means have existed to provide the basics of life to every human being on the planet at a modest cost.

Are you sure we have all the fuel and land to feed, house and clothe everyone? And if so, who's going to work for that? If everyone gets food and shelter for free, I'm not working to provide that.

The reality is, food needs to be grown, clothes made and houses built. Some people need to work for that. In exchange for that work, they ask some sort of compensation from others, in the form of other services or goods. This has nothing to do with the "global elite", this is just the nature of trade. I think giving someone stuff for free without getting anything in return is a greater injustice than this "instutionalized theft" you speak of.
Until this fight was resolved, The Beatles were not on iTunes. Steve Jobs was a huge fan of The Beatles.
If you are really existing at that level you'll qualify for medicaid and you don't have to worry about health care. Just go to the ER.
With that logic, Google could block any other phone like the Ubuntu Edge for "business reasons", Google deserves to be sued for this anti-competitive behavior.
> The CPI is dastardly manipulated figures. (hedonic adjustments, substitutions)

That's not manipulation. That's just trying to calculate an accurate number.

If you do no substitutions, then you will end up being a Collectible Goods Index, rather than a Consumer Goods Index. It makes no sense to calculate inflation in 2013 based on a basket of goods from 1919.

But that creates another problem. If you do no hedonic adjustments, then you will overstate inflation if consumers move upmarket. It's not the prices that went up -- it's consumer purchasing habits.
Hospitals stay in the Medicare system for a variety of reasons, even though the reimbursements are small. It provides a large volume of predictable revenue to pay for fixed costs, it is necessary for some residency/specialties and medical schools, etc. As long as Medicare and the cash-medicare-1.5 were an all or nothing bundle, it would probably work.

I have noticed a lot of doctors refusing to take medi-cal (Medicaid) and some other doctors who won't take any Medicare and some who won't take insurance at all, but these tend to be specialists and not hospitals.
Karma is a bitch, isn't it Microsoft? Remember when you were the dominant player back in the mid 90s? Does the term 'Halloween Documents' ring a bell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents

> ... Document I suggests that one reason that open source projects have been

> able to enter the market for servers is the use of standardized protocols.

> It then suggests that this can be stopped by "extending these protocols and

> developing new protocols" and "de-commoditize protocols & applications."

> This policy has been nicknamed "embrace, extend, extinguish".

Now all of a sudden Microsoft is the underdog, and you're whinging in public when the dominant player locks you out?

Cry me a river.

(Not that this is a defense of Google, mind you: I think MS is right on the money w.r.t. to their behaviour. Just saying that Google's tactics couldn't be employed against a more deserving target).
I'm guessing this is an exact copy because they are trying to trick mailgun customers into trying to login with their actual credentials.

I tried "signing up" and got:

"Thank You
We will contact you shortly"

I then tried signing up with the exact same information and again got the same response. I don't think anything on this site actually works. It just seems like a method of collecting information.
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> As root you can run:

Unless the specified 'index.html' is only readable by root, you don't have to be root to run that.

Only the low ports are restricted from regular users.
There is even identical copy on the FAQ:
http://documentation.mailgun.com/faqs.html#why-not-just-use-...
http://documentation.cloudemailapp.com/faqs.html#why-not-jus...
> The only reason the vast majority of us have to work to eat is because the vast majority of the proceeds from our labor go to benefit a tiny global elite.

Explain how this works logically. Do you honestly believe that if you simply took most of the money from rich people, that you would be able to sustainably feed everyone else? Have you considered all, if any, of the potential consequences of this action?

> For quite a long time now, the technical means have existed to provide the basics of life to every human being on the planet at a modest cost.

Again, explain how this works. A major issue with food, for example, is not one of production but instead transportation and distribution. How would making the rich poorer solve this problem?

> Institutionalized theft? How about economic and social justice?

Define justice.

And who on Earth do you trust to take and do well with all of the money taken from rich people?
I apologize for the confusion. I created this UI kit to build awareness about my new blog. You can see a better preview on my Behance. http://www.behance.net/gallery/Flatter-A-Free-UI-Kit/1033195...

Hope you enjoy it.
if i was mailgun, i'd be updating that script file to detect the domain and forward visitors to mailgun.net
iPod (2001) came out before iTunes.
The original Macintosh (1984) had very powerful sound hardware for the time.
I don't believe that antitrust law applies here. There's no collusion, there's not cartels, the monopolization aspects don't really come into play.

Yes, they can't literally do whatever they want, but in this instance, it's their code, their servers, their data (in a sense), they're permitted to define how others may use it, and use it in a separate way themselves.
The chrome "toolbars" are a joke. Especially this one.
It makes all pages have a margin on the top (that flickers in)
and then the toolbar appears several seconds later (after the webpage loads)
Geekbench 3 is OUT
We were not paranoid enough. I was not paranoid enough. You were not paranoid enough. Reality outstripped our imaginations.

Unfortunately now twisted, this lesson from 9/11 stares back at us in the mirror like a nightmare. Social engineering and conditioning were manipulated by the terrorists, too. The lesson is don't be naive. People can do some ugly things. Especially when they abuse positions of trust and basic norms of civility.
http://register.ly/
It's a great idea, and Maran Nelson's explanation of the business model was clear and concise. This should be very successful.
No!

To allow these abrogations of our civil rights to go unpunished equates to tacit approval, and I, for one, absolutely refuse to let this matter rest until the violations cease and those responsible are duly punished to the full extent of the law.

Secret courts handing down secret rulings regarding secret police is not something one would expect of a nation which claims "moral high ground" when justifying their breach of the public trust on multiple fronts.

Some of us swore an Oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, and we take our vows with deadly seriousness.

I'll see myself rot in some prison before I allow this situation to be shuffled off the collective radar.
How would the unprotected human body react to the vacuum of outer space?
I kind of liked the "pay with a tweet" in return for getting the resources for free. Then again, with that website I have no idea how they look, if I want them and especially not if I want to redistribute them (via the tweet).

Id prefer to "pay" after I know exactly what I am getting.