skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I picked one (Heart Failure with Shock with MCC) at random

http://www.cms.gov/icd10manual/fullcode_cms/P0136.html

the link shows all the diagnoses that fall in that category of DRGs. (DRGs are the packages of procedures that Medicare pays a fixed price for, simply put. If you get that diagnosis, you submit that DRG. However in this case the map from diagnosis to DRG is one to many. And the reimbursement will vary by DRG.) Some of the average costs are only from 20-30 discharges. Do you think that makes for good math or some sort of price guide?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis-related_group

It may highlight that the DRG is incorrectly applied by some hospitals (maybe?), but it has nothing to do with 'going down the street' for a better 'price'.

nice interface though.
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Yup, just went down $30 in under 3 minutes. It's in free-fall.
Nice start. Another dumb question: how do individual transactions get to the miners for addition to the blockchain? Is there some P2P-type auto discovery going on? A central server shouting out miner IPs?
As long as bitcoin is seeing these huge crashes for no real reason, it's not a mature investment vehicle. There's absolutely no valid reason to sell right now, this crash is just driven by panicking people. I think this is mostly because too much wealth is in the hands of too few people, and people who never really traded before (techies, mainstream people, novice traders, etc.) now invested in bitcoin, and try their hands on trading.

I hope all this panic selling will lead to a better distribution of the bitcoins, so that it may become a more stable investment vehicle. These random huge crashes aren't doing bitcoin much good. People want stability if they are to accept this as a currency.
You have a PPO plan so you pay a copay. Many people have HSA, High Deductible or Catastrophic plans where they pay out of pocket until their hit their deductible. So all of these people have an incentive to shop on price. You're just choosing to pay more in premiums for the benefit of not having to worry about the costs for care.

But this tool only includes Medicare data so it doesn't apply to any of those cases we just mentioned.
Even for those of us just learning, far more "productivity" is required. If I wrote a paper every 4 years, my PhD program would be a 10-14 year program.
It's also worth saying that the IRA deliberately targeted civilians, which as far as I know was not the case with Mandela.
I'm by no means arguing against free speech, and I don't have a problem with people disliking something or even voicing their dislike.

I just get miffed by the condescending tone a lot of folks take.
I think the question was simply, "what was the standard he was measuring himself by, by which he considers himself to be successful?" It doesn't have to be a yardstick applied to anyone else--but presuming that Higgs doesn't believe himself to have wasted his life after the publication of his famous works, I wonder what he thinks makes that true.
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The EFF said that the Federal court had been influenced by possible negative consequences of mass invalidation of patents [1]: Warning of a 'free fall of the patent system,' Judge Moore wrote: 'Let’s be clear: if all of these claims, including the system claims, are not patent-eligible, this case is the death of hundreds of thousands of patents, including all business method, financial system, and software patents as well as many computer implemented and telecommunications patents.'

Clearly they are concerned to reduce the force of this kind of argument on SCOTUS.

[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/whats-stake-cls-bank-s...
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Under $660 now.
Wish I'd read that before accepting my first offer.
"Art hacking?"

No, it's art, full stop. What a sad commentary on the state of things that it's intrinsically interesting to create something "without Photoshop."
So its a really hard way to run an X server on top of an X server?
Yes, I tend to agree here. However if you're building an RPM, and your python packages will be compiled to binary on the way in. It's not unreasonable in some cases to precompile things to avoid repeatedly doing it.
Invite Hackers: Work with a YC startup for a week. Decide on full time later
TL;DR: We are YC company funded by great investors and would like to pay awesome hackers to come work with us for 2-7 days. See whether working with us long term (and getting the #16 Jersey) is for you. Email us at team at instantcab dot com.

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Transportation is just now becoming the sexy thing with millions of dollars in funding. While we've got some of that, we have been making transportation easier for a long time starting as a profitable bootstrapped company.

Our team started by automating transportation for a bunch of University (U.C. Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Duke, Stanford), corporate and public transit fleets - automating over a million rides a year.

We were in YCombinator's W12 batch.

In March 2013 [1], we launched InstantCab (www.instantcab.com) which provides friendly rides from the best drivers in SF. We have fixed fares that never surge, a small motivated team of 13 with a lot of ♥, and a laser focus on serving our customers (riders and drivers) better than anyone else in the world.

How will we win against the behemoths, you ask?

We'd love to tell you. We'd also love to tell you why some of best investors in the world (Khosla Ventures, Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, Harj Taggar and YCombinator, amongst many others) agree with us.

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Come work with us for a few days, or a whole week. We'll work together on a real problem. You'll get to see what works, and what doesn't, and decide if working with us to turbocharge transportation is your thing...and we'll pay you to do it, of course.

We offer near market salary, team mates who are genuinely good people, catered team lunch every day (including home made catered lunch on Friday), and your SF rides will be on us.

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About you:

You have at least 1 year of experience writing great code. You have code samples you can share with us - preferably real projects hosted on github or something similar. We use Python+Django and have apps on iOS and Android. We'd love for you to have experience with one or more these, but it's not necessary.

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Next step: Email team at instantcab.com your resume and preferably a link to your github profile or some code samples!
Aren't those all arguments in favor of liquidating any position in BTC?
There isn't a crash in bitcoin price, there is a market sale going on just in time for the holiday. Entry points in down markets is smarter than entry points at the peak of they hype. This happens on the stock market everyday. When buying, red is green.

In the end, crashes filter out the most speculative and eventually the shorts (in other markets -- the only way to short bitcoin is selling so it will be more volatile during these machinations, it will need shorting soon as it does help keep a solid bottom), there is apparently lots of speculation padded in the recent bitcoin price.
How long before Snapchat becomes the tool of choice for insider traders?
Interesting angle, who would have thought.
It's not pseudoscience for that reason alone. You're using the definition incorrectly, even if yours is the definition commonly improperly used. For example Einstein's Relativity of Simultaneity thought experiment is targeted at laypeople and is both scientific and a logical proof. Had he put the idea into a blog and nothing more it still would've been an advance of physics, regardless whether anyone else paid it mind.

(I probably won't say anything more because I get tired of this type of discussion.)
It's not about solitude so much as the ability to control the contents and direction of our thoughts. Being responsive on email often requires giving up that control, fragmenting our attention and preventing the formation of larger thoughts. It provides short term gains, but we don't see what we're losing.
This would be more credible if I didn't find qualified candidates who are 20 years old with skills + knowledge many in their 30s lack. I have nothing against a liberal arts degree, but not teaching yourself / taking computer science, mathematics, statistics during college automatically disqualifies you from many white collar jobs requiring strong quantitative reasoning skills. This is not about on-the-job experience, it's about basic skills.
"There's absolutely no valid reason to sell right now"

China. Bitcoin will have slower growth than expected. Very good reason for a pullback after a massive spike up.
A couple months ago I got into Project Euler and decided to tackle all of the problems with Elixir. It was a great way to learn syntax and performance nuances. Definitely a tool that I enjoy using and will be keeping up with.
Go ask someone on related irc channels, that's what people playing 3301 used to communicate.
> he's forgetting (or possibly doesn’t know) that the easy_install.pth file messes

The .pth files don't do anything until their own paths are added to sys.path. It's safe to consider directories with .pth files as if they contain python modules.
Brain is remarkably adaptable. I would not go as far as labeling new type of academia as deficient. Sure it is different, does it make it better or worse? Toss a coin.

Somewhat related story: I work with someone who recently got a PHD. That person can concentrate and work on a hard problem even when there is conversation going on. Only when name of the person is called do they interrupt their work and start paying attention.
It's kinda cool that i can download a customized iso, but why exactly would I need this?
I'm sorry either I'm misunderstanding it or tinycore (http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/) [Full disclosure: no affiliation whatsoever] already solved the usecases i see for this. And in my opinion way better just without a fancy online form.
I can stick in their packages in an image way more granular than your form.

Edit: I opened porteus.org now and have found a description on what porteus linux is.

Porteus is a complete linux operating system that is optimized to run from CD, USB flash drive, hard drive, or other bootable storage media. It's small (under 300Mb) and insanely fast which allows you to start up and get online while most other operating systems are left spitting dust. Porteus comes in both 32 & 64 bit and aims to keep on the bleeding edge. It also supports several different languages and the user forum has language sections.

Would have liked to read that pitch on the build page too so I knew what I was looking at :)
I do see some usecases now.
It's great! I would love to see more complex version of it :)
This is when you are thankful for slower transaction times than the stock market.
I admit I'm stirring things up a bit here. You're quite right that I'm venting.
oh god! finally!
Instead of blaming parents for 'no one told us', a second option would be look around and ask: How does philosophy, history, sociology, english help me do something in a company, besides HR, Sales, Marketing, and with luck, Management? What exactly did your friends think they'd do with their degrees, vis-a-vis getting a job?
That's exactly his point.

Besides, once upon a time, you could get a PhD for a single paper. It's just that they are a dime a dozen these days.
The Meaning of China's Crackdown on the Foreign Press.
As the author of the license:

- Yes, it's satire

- No, I'm not going to amend it

Reactions are mixed, from "this is hilarious" to "this is awful and childish." Which is pretty much what I intended. More people seem to find it funny than not.

I'm happy with dissent.
Haha. Win-what? In my domain I am happily able to ignore almost all attributes of the Windows operating system. Well, except for IE <shakes fist of to the air>
Scaling? Can I get images in it? Can I reslice my data? Is it all in memory?
Here's a challenge. Find an obviously bad password, 6 characters, that gets 6 checks.

This is one I found: fvckup.
Just gained 100 dollars in a minute.
Yes, I understand what the popular definition of MMO is.
Maybe a better example would be an IRC trivia bot in a channel with 1000 players, since that meets your rigid definition of massive. My entire point is that the genres aren't so rigid and that an uninformed reader could reasonably interpret any game where you can play with players all around world as "massively online multiplayer". In the annals of gaming history, MMOs are a very specific thing, but as far as the English language goes, massive doesn't necessary imply "X number of players on the server".

Personally, I think like anything over 64 players and up counts as pretty massive but that's my totally arbitrary opinion.
It's all genuine, just one guy who doesn't like virtualenv much. I started the blog just to have somewhere to post that. The person who mentioned names probably worked with me.
Things to take advantage of at CSUF
It's just a linkbait title...no more no less
So apparently there was no fine. Amazing.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/06/ftc-flashlight...
I love hearing the real stories of struggle and then success. Often the long road to success is rewritten as overnight success. Even in PathJoy's case. Founded in 2012 while technically correct, really masks the true story. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/homejoy
Pretty wild. I opened your first link maybe 20 minutes ago and the price was $650. And now it's $750.

The volatility is just crazy.
The "person" who sang that song was doing so in a huge group of people, and I seriously doubt most of them were prosecuted.

BEE, like any other race-based affirmative action program, is obtuse and unjust. The much more just (and effective) tool for achieving the outcome desired by race-based affirmative action is income-based affirmative action, where income is derived from the person's familial income while growing up. This would effectively cover every person of color in SA anyway, but wouldn't persist for those raised without disadvantages in the new post-apartheid gov't. (in other words its a sliding scale)

Here in the US, race-based affirmative action punishes Asians more than any others. Studies show that they effectively have 50 points plus removed from their SAT scores for college admissions. (There is no allowance made for the fact that they may speak English as a second language and have grown up a laborer's child in a poor urban neighborhood)

On the other hand, a black American whose parents are professionals making 6 figures will be treated as if he has the disadvantages of an inner city child or a boy raised by sharecroppers. The net effect is 200 + points added to SAT score (for a male, the effect is dampened for a female). Make it based on income, and the inner-city child gets the advantage he/she needs, and doesn't have his/her spot taken by the child of professionals who went to private schools.

FYI: I witnessed this scenario first hand in high school. A classmate whose father forced him to work on their fishing boat (his family was dirt poor, and his illiterate father cared nothing for education) had higher SAT scores and grades than our mutual friend (mother a lawyer, father an accountant). Fisherman's son was refused admission to the same schools that professional's son was accepted into. Fisherman came from a poor white family AND he suffered from bouts of severe rheumatoid arthritis. The son of professionals from a privileged background got a welcome mat rolled out for him. If this was an income based system it wouldn't have happened that way.
I consider that nonsense. If there was truth in this, other platforms besides python would need something similar.
LISPers know the syntax is clunky but they are OK with it because it makes it super easy to create macros.
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How the Innovation Economy is Turning Makers Into Manufacturers
someone just spent close to half a million buying 724 coins on bitstamp. that was the reason for going back to $700
They aren't portable at all :)
What about a law that requires companies to train employees with a usable skill for X months before they can be replaced with a robot?

Hopefully all of these innovations will not only replace humans with robots but will also create new industries and new jobs.

Something that's more Utopian would be if there was no meaning of currency. I think it happened in Star Trek (never seen it but someone told me about the concept). If you have re-arrange the molecules of any object to create any other object, then why would everyone need to work? If you wanted MORE things then you could work, but to live day to day, would you have to pay for small items and food in the future or could you just "print" or create them from re-atomizing anything you already own?
It's sad that many who claim to support 'welfare' don't like this idea because it reduces their ability to manipulate people.
Dude, I have long-running deep technological disputes that are older than you are.
This is crazy fun to watch. I just bought 4 bitcoins at $685 from Coinbase and it's already up to $777 just 10 minutes later. I think I hit the right time to buy, now I wait for it to go to $2000.
But we were talking about a post that originally wrote: "but in the worst case with the convertible note, the investor gets their money back", i.e. that this would be their 'worst-case scenario'.

But far from it. It is extremely rare for debt to be repaid instead of converting, and even if it did, that would be a terrible outcome (and not in the way the OP meant.) Nobody wants their convertible debt to be repaid! (As debt).

They want the company to grow big, or die trying. Really.
2. Unspent transaction output (UTXO) bloat exists but today it doesn't really cause any problems. Maybe once ultimate blockchain compression is implemented there will be an incentive for people to merge their UTXOs.
This must be a joke, a cruel, cruel attempt to troll poor data programmers who have waited forever for something like this to be made.
No, it wouldn't exist, actually. Do you really think the government spent $100s of billions so you could navigate in your car?
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Maybe before it was aquihired.
Yes, unless you're in for a long term hedge. It's reasonable to hold a small amount long term, in case over the years it proves successful. It's not reasonable to put half your savings in because 'omg it's gonna double over next month!'
In regards to the first point, I'm not sure what kind of crazy implementation they had in mind with their discussion panel. Pretty much everyone who makes money is paying some kind of taxes, and there's usually some baseline deduction built in there. That's what you convert into UBI for the taxpayer.

It's like the flat tax in that the net result shouldn't necessarily be more or less expensive than the current system, just a heck of a lot simpler.
Weird title. Let's just use the word "hacker" until its completely meaningless.

Anyway, these are beautiful, well done!
You make it sound of easy. How hard is it to go from a GC language to a non-GC language? What methods do you use to fill in GC?
One way of addressing the latter three points (reciprocity, politics, work) in part is to only give a guaranteed income to people who are actually working, regardless of how much they're earning. People would still have to work and contribute to society, but they would receive an income greater than the fair market value for that work. In the U.S., this would basically take the form of boosting the existing Earned Income Tax Credit.
A couple of points: There are far fewer procedures / pathologies here than are out there. At least sort the procedures / pathologies lexicographically. It would be even better if I could NLS search by the procedure.
The same way the BIOS makes keypresses come up on the screen with no OS. You don't need an OS to do things in a computer.
Does stock market favour the rich?
Here is an interesting plot of S&P 500 historical price ( adjusted by inflation rate ) against US top 1% people's wealth share in the economy. Despite the ongoing criticism that the 2009 recovery are favouring the rich to be richer, wealth doesn't always favour the top 1% due to more frequent stock market crisis in recent decades.
India's cities are better -- but not that much better. In January 2013, Beijing made headlines for a record-high PM2.5 of 755 mg/m^3. Nobody paid any attention to New Delhi, whose PM2.5 topped out at 565 mg/m^3 the next day.

India's GDP is currently 1/4 that of China. Imagine how bad things will get in another 10 years, when India's GDP reaches China's current GDP.

Source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-15/pollu...
It is not an OS, and telling things that are not true is not educational is delusional.
If you people want to remain ignorant and believe things that are not true, be my guest.
Be careful comparing costs alone. Like everything else, sometimes more expensive things are better in quality. This might manifest in a different diagnosis, a longer recovery time, complications, or no difference at all. Kind of like a bandit problem because you only get one opportunity to choose.
Excellent problem choice and great work with the solution. http://pricemaps.betterdoctor.com/, too, have done a wonderful job with their version.

May be this will also make a great phone app. If users can pre-configure a couple of medical procedures (faced in their medical history), the app can show price comparisons on the map by default at every launch. This might help addressing the concern https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6864945.
Okay, that's the one thing all you old people[1] jumped on as the Offense Token of the post.

But, really, it's old guys in suits in the government/military who are obsessed with labeling things "Cyber."

I was thinking of this guy specifically since we have video evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MX488s19yE (He clearly doesn't know exactly what he's talking about, so he uses "Cyber" every chance he can.)

[1]: The scale of ages are:

0-16: Youth
17-24: Middle Age
25-89: Old
90+: Good for you, hope you're not in too much pain.

If you haven't made your millions in Middle Age, there's no hope and you should be subservient to the closest 22 year old who has cashed out $10 million in his last equity round. [yes, I'm aware of who I'm replying to. I'm entitled to ramble.]
U+202E, the right-to-left override, is endless fun on web forums. Use it once and all the rest of the page will be flipped.
William Gibson -- Agrippa (a book of the dead)
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I found this mentioned in a comment buried in HN, and found it a fascinating concept!
It's like walking up and saying "Could you send me an electronic mail message to my apple internet phone?" It labels them as "outsider" with poser knowledge, except they wield power and define internal politics (and, as we've seen leaked this year, make endless powerpoint presentations to other departments).
"Cutting everyone a check for $1,000 a month, which most people in that room would consider too little to live on, would cost almost $3 trillion."

...What? I work a low skill service sector job and I only make $850 per month after all the taxes and deductions are taken out and I do fine as far as shelter and food are concerned. $1000 a month is plenty if it's after taxes and deductions.
> I also think I read that more than 50% of the nuclear plants currently being built are in China. That is a big way that they will eventually combat this problem.

Yes, China has 40 GWe of nuclear power coming on-line in the next 5 years. The United States currently has 97 GWe of nuclear capacity, and China currently has 13 GWe.

But China is also building 40 GWe of coal plants each year.

This is what happens when you take 500 million peasants and turn them into urban factory workers within a period of 30 years. Demand grows so quickly that even the world's largest nuclear plant construction program will only account for a fraction of demand growth.