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Medical prices are so outrageous in the US that, in theory, the medical business is a good field for startup disruption.

Real disruption, not showing prices on a page but having actual good doctors at a good price.

There is a monopoly today controlled by few.
Agreed ! And the best way to earn bitcoins in the future : make your startup successful !
Talking to people is "instant communication" and we've been doing that for a while.

There are things that can get resolved literally 100 times faster by talking than by e-mail or text or whatever. Not everything requires that urgency, but back-and-forth in e-mail can end up being a huge time sink for both parties.
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You pay the same price for coffee but you will certainly pay more for coffee beans, the market will only absorb the difference for a while.

I wasn't drawing an analogy between bitcoins and debit cards. I was taking about how a bank lets me access my money vs me having direct access to it. I cannot get cash in a foreign country without my bank cooperating unless I carry a world recognized currency (USD, Euro) in cash and try to exchange it somewhere.

The problem is that you read a comparison as an analogy. It's a comparison of our current dependency on the banking system vs bitcoins relative independence from the same.
> It does not follow that interactions of subatomic particles are actually feynman diagrams.

Right, there you can say "ceci n'est pas une pipe" and be right. The problem with this is that software is, literally, information. And all types of information are equivalent. It's true that information requires a carrier (language, memory, hardware, whatever), but that doesn't mean it should be conflated with it. With math, numbers are no different than any other form of precise information.

Then, when someone tries to tell us that math isn't just numbers, were going to have to introduce them to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering

But wait, software is just numbers too, right? Right, which is why people can make this: http://us.metamath.org/

P.S. While you're over there, don't miss the 2+2=4 trivia: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmset.html#trivia

"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and.'" — Sir Arthur Eddington
I find it amusing—and just a little ironic—that the only truly "HN-material" Bitcoin article I've seen (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6862727) was posted just today.

Look at the discussion that that article triggered. It's HN at its best, discussing Bitcoin in the same manner we would discuss, say, Nginx. From now on, if anyone needs an article to point to to explain the difference between "discussing a politicized technology" and "discussing the politics of a technology," this one should do.

Now we just have to manage a purely-technical discussion of Tor...
I've not had a chance to look too deep into it but if you find out let me know.
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Flagging them is probably plenty effective.
As a real bitcoin supporter I agree. It's too much for the casual HN reader and the die hard bitcoin users have usually heard the news through other channels.
Suggest HN: make a separate community just for javascript & web crapps.

And for articles about big tech corps (Google, MS, Apple, etc.) doing this and that, repeated in all mainstream tech media.

Same for politics.
It's not about feeling oppressed, it's about being oppressed, and not having any democratic means to change it. Use the soap box and the ballot box first. It's only when they take away your right to vote and your right to express your political ideas, that violence becomes your only option for change.
A shopping trip with iBeacon, Apple's secret weapon for navigating stores
"Larry Page publicly stated at Google’s I/O conference this year that he wants to start his own country."

You know it's serious journalism when they take something that was already overblown by the actual media and rehash it. Also, when he says, "if I can speculate further," and proceeds to talk about "steal[ing] the content that greases their ad machines," as well as "their quasi-religious effort to more quickly bring about technological singularity," ending in an unclever and sarcastic comment.

This is an inflammatory piece of junk with an alarming lack of facts (and abundance of pathos appeals and weasel words) to back up any of the claims. Political criticism is fine, but this is just blasphemy pretending to be news.
Suggest HN: make a separate community just for:

X program in X amount of lines
Why I like this programming language
Patent trolls
The VASIMIR Plasma Bridging The Gap In Space Travel
The plants are not going to make a material difference in the oxygen content of the room. They are not going to make you high during the day and they are not going to make you faint at night.
Math is information, as is software. Naturally, so are numbers--read about Godel numbering for the beautiful equivalence there.

While many physical things can carry information, I have yet to see a good argument that they are information, though a great many things can be made to carry information in one way or another.

Granted, I suppose there are some who think that we might all live inside a computer simulation, but let's not go there.
Any chance you could support LTC?
There's a large community over at http://reddit.com/r/bitcoin. Most of the Bitcoin posts we see here could likely be relegated to a more specific venue like that. I do like seeing interesting Bitcoin posts here from time to time, but it does seem like everyday there's a slew of new Bitcoin posts.
>> The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Shaileshkumar P. Jain.

i find the wording of such reward offerings quite disturbing. it means that the FBI considers these people guilty before there's even been a trial. or is there another way to look at it?
Inflammatory piece of junk is putting it nicely
Btw are u an economist? Nicola Persico's work is really good but those papers are hard to find casually =)
Seems like they integrate a fitting tool:

http://www.porteus.org/component/content/article/8-informati...

Though I had preferred if one could just dd the iso onto the usb-stick, like it is possible with Ubuntu's images.
That's not a specialty of German. Lots of native English speakers struggle with English.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/oct/08/england-you...

Literacy for example seems to be quite good in some countries with languages which for me would look difficult. The UK OTOH is not happy with their results.
/r/bitcoinmarkets is better
Don't worry. We don't want you.
Insert NewEgg joke here.
I reject the premise that stability is the opposite of success. For some people, having a stable home life might be a condition of their success.

Again, it rests on a gendered notion of support and a traditional model of marriage/relationships, which a lot more people reject these days. I'm currently single, but let's say I were to get into a fairly serious relationship in the next few weeks such that new partner moved in with me: would that mean that my work life would now change to be less concerned about success? No. They'd presumably have a job too. Difference is when I got home at the end of the day, there'd be a friendly, kind, loving companion to care for me.

Having a dual income supporting the household means that in that particular case, I can be less concerned about stability - because making rent and paying bills and so on is a lot less of a struggle.

In the long-term, it might change if one were to have kids, but having kids and getting married are not the same thing. I certainly wouldn't want to have kids until I reached a certain level of success and financial independence (and, hey, one of the benefits of being gay: no unplanned pregnancies!) but that's separate from the question of having a relationship or not, or even getting married or not.

This is why I'm saying it's outdated advice rather than sexist advice: it presumes a model of marriage and relationships that has changed (incidentally, contrary to the views of anti-gay social conservatives, it was mostly changed by straight people unhappy with the previous arrangements). Most of the people I know - straight or gay - spend a lot longer living together before getting married. And they tend to delay having children or opt-out of childbearing altogether. How are people in long-term childless unmarried relationships "tied down" exactly? How does whether I go home to an empty apartment or an apartment with a boyfriend in it change whether or not I can be successful at work?

Think of it like a partnership in business: a successful partnership means the partners can do more together than they could do apart (provide services to bigger clients, say, or have more capital to invest). But there might be a partnership where one partner works very hard, produces a lot of value and the other mooches off their success without doing much. Saying that a romantic relationship leads to people being tied down and stepping away from risk in business is a bit like saying all business partnerships are of the latter rather than the former kind. Some relationships enable both parties to flourish more than they would separately.
Setting up a mail server is not inherently difficult. But as with anything, you can take a simple problem and overcomplicate it. You can take an old, hard-to-configure daemon and twist every knob of it, then add a bunch of poorly written & hard-to-configure extras for spam filtering, imap, web mail access (at this point you're also configuring a web server and whatever language & frameworks & databases & deps are used by that web mail thing), and so on.

Or you can do a simple setup with fewer than ten lines of configuration for the mail daemon (written in a matter of minutes) with no extra goop, on a system where the tools are integrated so you don't need to figure out how to install anything.
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I haven't been there before. What makes it better? (/r/bitcoin could definitely use a lot of improvement, of course, so an improved sub would be interesting to me.)
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>"Second, even a very intense 12 week course is a good start, but I don't know how many employers are going to hire someone with 3 months training."

I graduated from Hack Reactor this April, the only school I know of a with similar number of instruction hours to those quoted here—about 800. Back then, the school had little brand, but I still got hired by Groupon, and not in a junior role. I was a liberal arts major.

Since that time, I've seen demand for students of later cohorts grow and grow. Some have gotten into white hot start-ups like famo.us, Google and Yahoo! offered interviews to practically the entire current graduating class. One of my friends who started right after me is leading Keychain Logistic's front-end development (YC2012). More interestingly is that while we learn Node, Meteor, Backbone and a lot of other JS-related technologies, a large number of formerly non-technical students have gone on to take roles that have little to do with JavaScript. A couple of examples I can think of off the top of my head are senior Java developer at Pandora and chief data scientist at Node Prime. I really can't emphasize strongly enough what 800 hours in 12 weeks can do in the right program.

My biggest concern with what I can see of the Omaha Code School is actually the low price tag. These schools are not commodities with roughly similar pros and cons. There is a huge variance in outcomes and if you're going to put your life on hold for months while spending all your waking time investing in a new career, it would be madness not to invest in the highest quality program you can.
Wikisource has the full text: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic

It's fully reproduced in several places online under the name "Citizenship in a Republic", occasionally as "that speech he gave in Sorbonne": the first and last bits are very clear that his audience is not American. It is a speech very iconic of Teddy Roosevelt himself, too; one of the anecdotes in there is drawn from his time as a cowboy on the range.
Are you predicting it will bottom at 300 before launching into another growth phase, or that it will remain closer to 300 thereafter?

I think the latter is naive. I think bitcoin is the first currency whose perpetual deflation is ensured by the contract that defines it.
This is exactly why I get so pissed about the Affordable Care Act! We are not solving the problem of why medical care in USA is so outrageously expensive, we instead are solving the problem of how to pay for it. The problem is, once most people have insurance, there will be no political will to solve the much more complex and important problem of reducing the healthcare costs for everyone.

Incidentally, totally agree. In any hospital, all you have to do is dispute the charges and demand documentation, and all of the sudden the bill is slashed tenfold! So, basically, the system is setup to screw the uninsured americans who may not know their rights or have the ability to challenge the hospital.
> it would be nice if us developers put energy into making complex setups feel less complex. It might even benefit security and less malconfigured services.

Sounds like you're describing OpenBSD. With the slight catch that they're usually not making complex setups just feel less complex, but actually be less complex.

It's the OS where you're expected not to twist any knobs unnecessarily (and they're actively looking for ways to eliminate knobs that don't help); the defaults are meant to be safe and sane, so that you don't need to become a master sysadmin overnight.

Of course it's not for everyone, when so many people seem to want complex setups and loads of features. They also want to twist all the knobs.
Yeah that's on my list of planned features
I'm finding the fact that almost every page in the CIA site's 6-12 section has the same "classroom" stock photo to be inexplicably unnerving.
Google becoming political is indeed a concerning thing, but this article is absurdly biased.
I don't speak for Sumeet but I've met him several times (I live in Omaha) and he's definitely a person who loves this town. Glad to see he's starting such a cool thing here!

I'm also pretty sure this is the first semester so there wouldn't be any former students.
Simple algorithm: Put them all in a list, shuffle list, assign each person to the next in list and the last to the first, in a circle.
Actually setting up a e-mail server is pretty easy. Its the requirements of you or your project that makes it difficult.

There are hundreds of thousands specific needs for a company, a small group or even a single person.

As soon as you know what you need, you will soon find a setup advice.

Also, if you don't know what is possible via email protocols (smtp, pop, imap etc.) you are thinking about solutions that has been thought about several times and mostly you start to "hack" something (via Perl, Python, Milter etc.) to fit your visionary idea, just to realize that it is a common problem that you can switch on and off via config.
Hey. The technology i used focused on speed of deployment. My DB and "backend" is all parse (I don't have a traditional backend). My hosting service is site44, which is simple dropbox hosting so i don't have to setup a server. The rest of it is just js/html/less files. I used bootstrap for the styling and jquery/google maps API for everything else.

I did do some pre-processing on the data in python to geocode the locations (ie: change the street addresses to long/lat coordinates). I used geopy to do that, and pandas to manage the data.

The total product took me three days to build and design
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Nothing really new here. 42%+ of Google's PAC donations in the last 5 years have been to Republican organizations.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64005_Page2.html

Tea Party groups are definitely on the far right of some of those PACs, but as long as any of those groups' interests align with Google, of course they'd donate.
> MtGox _is_ the market

They are _a_ market. While they may historically be the leader, many bitcoin trades and negotiations never touch them any longer.

This no longer belongs to a single site. It's too big now.
We just released a cool iPhone app for organising your Secret Santa
Most Powerful Bitcoin Miner KnC Jupiter
Cool idea (I was almost going to make something similar myself!) but there's a couple of catches for me:

* Your tracked prices are only in USD, whereas I buy/sell in AUD via CoinJar.com.

* Apparently you're only supporting SMS within US/Canada as well? Might be good to make that clear before the signup.

* You have a competitor called BitcoinReminder.com who track several different currencies, a few more exchanges, and even offer alerts via Jabber / IM (as well as Email & SMS). Their site isn't as cleanly designed as yours though, and it's a paid service (whereas it seems yours is free for the moment). They've just signed up their 2000th user after 2.5 years, which might give an idea of market size.

But it's a neat idea & a good name for it too!
Sadly, both title and headline seem to be fitting here:

> "The law will punish journalists and whistleblowers who divulge government secrets with up to ten years in prison, and up to five years for those who “instigate leaks” (ask questions about state secrets)."

That's as bad as it gets..
"Brian Greene has remarked that today’s grant-driven academia would not have allowed Einstein the luxury of a decade in which to develop his General Theory of Relativity."

Academia has been a force for stagnation well before the 1900s. e.g. Einstein wasn't working in Academia when he released his 1905 General Theory of Relativity paper. He spent 1901-1908 working in the patent office while releasing papers outside of Academia. Only in 1908 he was appointed lecturer in acknowledgment of his existing works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Patent_office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_Papers#Special...

If you want to figure out what's wrong with Academia I suggest asking economists who deal with incentives and market forces as a subject of research as opposed to the anecdotes of a few well-meaning physicists. Yes, the physicists are clearly smarter. But with few exceptions they're just not trained or equipped to asses these problems.
I found the $18k I spent at Hack Reactor to be the best investment I've ever made. I graduated in April, have already paid off my loans and am hooked into an absolutely incredible network that's rapidly coming to dominate parts of the SF tech scene.

In contrast, the average 4-year college student has $27k in debt, has about a 60% chance of full-time employment and an average salary of $45k if they do manage that.
Being a Japanese citizen myself, I agree to your sentiments to some extent. Yes, he is very keen to satisfy media outlets and spread support for Abenomics. He has been jingoistic, using patriotic rhetoric to amass votes from nationalistic and conservative people alike.

Yet, when it comes to leadership in Japan's political arena, there are hardly any viable candidates. I had high hopes for the former-ruling DPJ, which ended up as three years of abrupt administrations. Voters once believed that DPJ, with its emphasis on national welfare, can improve Japan, but switched back to LDP not because the former party appeared attractive, but merely because it is the least appalling party among the many.

What Japanese voters appear to want is a stable regime while turning a blind eye to their increasing draconian policy that exploits the diplomatic fear against our East Asian neighbors. LDP is currently taking advantage of their most favorable term by passing many legislation to promote their conservative agenda.

It would be overly simplified to remark that Abe is the worst politician. Stock market average soared since he returned as prime minister. Despite the heinous copyright agreements, the TPP ostensibly promotes free trade in other sectors such as agriculture. And we’re approaching the first anniversary of Abe’s leadership - and his regime still looks stable unlike the last months of Fukuda, Aso, Hatoyama, Kan, or Noda. (It would be fair to note that DPJ’s credibility crumbled partly due to the naturally-occured 3.11 earthquake.)

To improve Japanese politics, as a nation we have to invest in the younger generation. Hone better leadership skills so that eventually when they too enter politics, they can influence their colleagues effectively. Make the youth more interested in politics so that whenever a horrible legislation like this act on secrecy appears, a massive portion of voters protest, not unlike when the US Congress tried to pass SOPA/PIPA. Clearly, Japanese politics doesn’t appear have a bright future as of now.
Borrow money for more leverage. Or buy derivatives.
I am disappointed that no one answered my question. With the number of comments i read expressing very strong opinions, i had hoped someone would have investigated that point.
Why is it possible for the camera/mic to turn on at all without the light turning on? Shouldn't that be built into the hardware?
The U.S. doesn't even have an official language, at the federal level, nor do some of the states. Hawaii has two official languages (English & Hawaiian). Some states have given Spanish and French special status, while others are de facto bilingual.
This has nothing to do with UTF-8. Most of his examples use Punycode, the filename one is UTF-16.

Don't confuse Unicode with how to represent code points in bytes, please.
On the competetive coexistance of Hanukkah and Christmas
How to Fall In (and Out) of Love
What the patient has to pay is close to zero, even with anesthesia (which is more or less compulsory -- you would have to make a big scene to avoid it) and complications.

If you want a doctor to attend (instead of simply a midwife) you have to pay him out of pocket (but if you have private insurance it might cover that too).

What it costs to the French medical system is anyone's guess. The French medical system is financed by the taxpayer. In theory, it's financed by a tax on salaries, but since it's in perpetual deficit and the deficit is covered by the state, it's in fact paid for by the taxpayer -- which is just as well, since everyone is covered.

It's a system of fully socialized medecine; there are pros and cons to such a system; it's not all good, but it's certainly not as bad as the American system (before or after Obamacare).
personally, i was quite offended by the campaign for
the new d.v.d. coming out for "the fast and furious",
which promises to donate "a portion of the proceeds",
_if_ you buy it, to the charity founded by paul walker.

that seemed really sleazy to me.

i mean, they could have just went and made a donation,
instead of pimping out the just-inflamed memory of fans,
and -- considering the money that franchise has made --
it would've been no sweat off their coke-filled noses.

and the fans _still_ would've went out and bought it...

or they could've said "we're gonna lower the price of
this d.v.d. by 10 bucks, so you can give 10 dollars to
his charity, under your name, so you get the feel-good."

but no, they had to tie their donation to your purchase.

offensive, big-time.

and, compared to _that_ recent example, the act of
apple in putting up a simple photograph, in tribute,
seems quite innocent, and maybe even downright honest.

-bowerbird
Yes, if I had to pay 20k to just have a baby and could fly somewhere else where it's free, I'd chance it.

There might be a problem that many airlines won't let pregnant women fly past a certain number of months, for fear they will deliver the baby in the air; so maybe you have to move to the target country months in advance, significantly adding to the total cost...?