skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an ecosystem. Doctors and hospitals are the pharma industrie customers for many many things such as medical equipment. Doctors in france fees have their fees regulated by the state. They can't charge what they want. If the fee in the OP story was 18€ it's not because the doctor think it's fair to be paid just like a maid, but because the state fixed the price.

And fixed prices is a big reason why our social security has been working in the last decades in France, and why medicaid may not work in the US.

It is an ecosystem, where everyone has to aggree on keeping the prices down.
What did it get right? It can be useful and it's backed by a solid brand.

Why did Persona fail to gain wide adoption? For the most obvious reason: because nobody cares. People don't want to use something new unless there's a pressing reason. Trivial conveniences don't cut it.
Needed for a document-based web? maybe not.

Needed to turn the web into a solid application platform with good support for composition and code reuse? I'm going to say yes (or if not Web Components then something that facilitates better scoping of code and CSS).

Of course, not everyone wants to see the web-application model become too powerful...
Regarding points 2 and 3, check out Artists&Clients [1] – it's exactly what you're suggesting, and I (founder/dev) commission greeting cards on it myself :)

[1]: https://artistsnclients.com
The audio just kicks in without warning, as soon as the page loads. The year isn't 1997.
Git 1.9.0
curl $(</dev/urandom tr -dc a-z|head -c32).mydns.re
I would replace "fun" with "rewarding" in your comment.
And then there is speciesism: http://i.word.com/idictionary/speciesism
Isn't it a much simpler explanation that healthcare should never be a free market as one of it's participants, the "patient" is not participating voluntarily?

(This is not a direct response to your post, but I place it here as you put a market argument upfront)
You can do that too, although I have had an ... interesting experience jumping around desktop environments on Ubuntu. I'm not sure what exactly is happening, but some kind of config information is steadily bleeding between them every time I do a system update.

Sometimes if I pull up KDE (which I don't usually, since I found xfce), the panel will have as many as three different sound menus, only one of which is actually functional.
Yeah, please put it on GitHub or something - I'd love to see it come back to life :)
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I changed the photo to prevent this misconception. I fear that I may have received more sympathy and readership because of the false notion that I'm the attractive female in the photo. You can see me in the photo where I'm being loaded into the van. I'm a Soviet born Jew who immigrated to the US in the late 80s. At the time, I also had a beard. Here is a more flattering photo of me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgoralnick/6128547691/in/photos...
Spot on.

Developers/tech savvy people have hundreds of passwords for all their services. The serious ones use Keepass or similar to store the passwords, and don't have a problem.

The "normal" computer user does not have hundreds of passwords. They have a few. And they give them all the same password, or similar enough. They don't have a problem remembering them, because they're simple, easy-to-remember passwords (e.g. that can be cracked).

Is this a good situation? No. But people don't know it. And implementing a whole new system to solve a problem that most people don't know about is simply not going to help.
"...spreading the belief that races exist and are different in terms of biology, behaviour and culture,..."

Wait, is this not generally accepted? (As in, not generally accepted that they are different).
I find `command-not-found``a lot more useful than `sl` (sl is some ascii animation that'll be shown for a short/long while if you write it).

Usually when I get to `command-not-found` it's something I haven't installed on a new system somewhere and I've found it helpful at times. It rarely annoys me.
Mozilla (along with most everyone else) took issue with Google's intent to ship Shadow DOM. See e.g. this exchange:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0152.h...
Care to list the reasons why you believe HM just isn't a good choice for a programming language?
Translation: everyone who wasn't an auto worker would be slightly poorer.

American auto unions fundamentally undermined any incentive auto manufacturers had to innovate. If a man with dynamite digs more holes than one with a shovel, is that man's increased productivity the result of his own effort? No. Auto unions claim pay raises proportional to increases in output per worker (productivity), regardless of the sources of these increases. This means manufacturers have no incentive to invest in better facilities or to innovate, as any profit from this innovation would be eaten up as wages.
Love to see this open source! Do not kill
Pretty much every source I can find shows Ubuntu with a clear lead, if not an actual majority in marketshare on EC2 instances.
Specifically, the references to 60fps, mobile, and 8.8 million lines are all jokes. I hate to explain jokes. But I see a lot of people in the comments trying to read serious deep meaning into these that is just not there.
How Good Names Can Help Products Succeed
Strictness annotations are idiomatic in Haskell.
Wow these comments are completely missing the point. Any mention of feminism or claims that women are oppressed are met with "but guys have it worse!!!!". Check out everydaysexism.com if you want an idea of what women ACTUALLY go through. It's very easy to think you know what everyone experiences, but if you're male you _cannot_ know what it is like to be female, simply because people will treat you differently based on your sex... as illustrated by this film.
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This is true but its worth noting that the Australian system has been moving towards the US version consistently for the past couple of decades. Private healthcare is common and seen in some circles as something not to be done without. Public services have been sold off and new infrastructure is privatised (telecommunications particularly). etc.
I'm not judging the systems. I, personaly, much rather live under the french nhs than the US one.

But i just wanted to provide some perspective to that generaly over optimistic OP post. The fact that cancer drugs are created in the US is not a coincidence. It's an ecosystem where there is a lot of money to be made, and as we know it in IT, money drives innovation.
This is really cool and I'm really a big supporter for this type of editors!

Some suggestions:

* There should be an option “demo page“,

* Paragraphs should be drag-n-droppable,

* Arrow keys should take me to the previous/next paragraph,

* There should be “a plus icon“ above and below each paragraph,

* Inline editor should contain buttons for “bold“, “italic“ etc..,

* Pressing “the bold button“ when there's a highlighted word should wrap it in two stars etc.;

Is the thing open-sourced? I would like to help improve it and use it in my blog for writing things.
> an ISP can easily block packets that originate in its network but have a source address that's not part of its own IP range.

Is it really so easy? How does the ISP know that the package came from within its network?
I'm no expert, but I believe it's an advantage of Haskell because of the generality and level of abstraction you are capable of while maintaining type safety. I also think I just described Haskell.
Some pythonistas get very annoyed when I do the same.
... the comment went so far as to ask why it was open source at all if there was such concern of a freeloading. The fact that it could remain open source and still avoid freeloading just strengthens that argument and undermines your attempt to defend Google's response to the freeloaders. You also brought up the GPL as the open source way to avoid freeloaders, so your new goal of pretending I'm the one claiming GPL would be "open" (especially when I directly compared it to "closed", not "open") seems to be nothing more than trying to hope I'm too stupid to notice.

Again: this is a very simple argument: you seem really angry about freeloaders, and yet you chose the license that allows them to exist: as the person you are responding to said, if you care this much, why did you make everything this open? You could have just made it closed source, or you could have used a more closed (yet user-benefiting!) license such as GPL. To be clear: I empathize with your pain (I made similar licensing mistakes a while ago, and ended up with tons of freeloaders), but I can't empathize with your continued complaints and name-calling as if this is something other people did to you :(.

As it stands, you have now built a scenario where the people who play along with you (comply with the CTS, get the Google apps, etc.) are handcuffed (making it not exactly "open" anymore for them anyway) and the people who don't (Amazon) are on your "shit list" (leading to any of new SDK-related terms, new closed critical components, temporary closures that aren't "owned up to" as "closed", and when all else fails: bitter tongue lashings on online forums with negative terms like "freeloader" bandied about)... you are trying to have your cake and eat it too, and that's really disingenuous and entirely low of Google.
I think you hit the nail on the head in 2 ways. First, s completely free market might work in healthcare, but what we have in America is so far from that, that most people don't even know what they are fighting for. Second, you do have much more freedom to move for tax purposes. The US demands its citizens everywhere to pay income tax, globally, even for 2 years after renouncing citizenship.

A potential downside to the world (maybe good for Americans) would be if changes in American healthcare reduces funding overall for drug research and development. I've always heard we fund most of R&D.
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Another point. Not everything is web-based (I know it might be hard to believe at Mozilla), and the fact that you have to use javascript to access the API is also a limiting factor.
GraphHost – Hosted graph database (neo4j) in the cloud.
> Q. Why is Apple doing this? A. They're moving this stuff to native code in an effort to speed up rendering on mobile.

This doesn't really make sense, so I assume you're extrapolating from the commit comment. There is no "this" to move, first of all, and the shadow DOM was already "native code" for whatever that means, anyway. See om2's comment for what the whole "60fps on mobile" comment meant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243328
I think there's probably multiple reasons.

Coal mines and steel mills and oil rigs are expensive to set up because they're so capital intensive. If a coal mine worker decides he'd like to start his own coal mine probably he won't have the capital or the connections to get the capital. There's no path between company-worker and company-owner or vice-versa so the two groups seem like distinct classes.

On the other hand, in programming all you need to start a company is a computer and an internet connection - and we all have those at home already. Probably you've got a few friends from university who have their own startups now. There's a clear path from being an employee to being a founder/owner, so employees and owners don't seem like distinct classes.
So nowadays to Apple innovation means to increase fps from 59 to 60?

Shadow DOM might be really, really useful for millions of developers building ordinary business web apps. It is 2014 and would be good to add new things like Shadow DOM, new layout models so in _2020_ there will be standard and a sane way to center a ... div.
not only that, it is useless background noise. Please turn that off.

On second thought, now that I've read the page, I see why they have that awful noise. But I'm far from sold.
Data is always a good start, and I think most of the debate is centered more on presumptive undestanding or framing of the data themselves. Land surface temps, Sea Surface temps, are different pieces of data. So are actual <ocean temps> in the absolute scale. To the extent the ocean is a heat-sink (for example), the latter may be quite relevant.#

[#] In general, a useful thought experiment is consider the same way that the fin's on an air-cooled ICE are relevant to the thermal dynamics of the cylinder of a 4s motor. In other words, an air-cooled ICE and a water-cooled ICE with a busted radiator are going to do different things going forward from the same datapoint. That forward looking understanding presumes the mechanic has a handle on what type of engine his thermostat is hooked up to. None of this is intended to belittle the value of the data. But to emphasise the meaning of context and actual expertise in how it is used.

We all know politicians and scientific data tend not to mix objectively.
Quora and Stack Overflow: two very different experiences
Nice one. Not sure if trolling, but for the record:

- BrowserID has been renamed to Persona

- Personas have been renamed to Firefox themes

Yup.
I've first heard about these apps from Hacker News. Both Docker and Hemingway App became front page news here. They are definitely great products but also they both have great names which tell stories.
Looks like it is a reference to this event: http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/16/google-blink-team-pulls-8...
"the belief that people inherently have different abilities based on skin colour or ethnic background.". It certainly appears at present that this is largely true.

It's odd that on the one hand some people proclaim they are from a certain 'race'. On the other hand they don't want any characteristics of this 'race' to be drawn to anyone's attention because that's 'racism'. Meanwhile we get on with our lives and treat folk as we find them.
Yes. I really don't know how to do NPV calculations on any event that involves the extinction of humanity, but with any NPV calculation where the cost is more than three orders of magnitude greater than benefit it doesn't really matter how much greater the cost is.
Google's Settlement with the European Commission [pdf]
EBook with Agile Retrospective Exercises
A few years ago, Reznor tried a kind of shareware-style "first episode is free, buy the full version" model with the Ghosts 4-disc set: Ghosts I was free, but you had to pay if you wanted Ghosts I-IV. You could buy either physical version of various levels of fanciness, or DRM-free downloads (MP3 or FLAC).
Tom Perkins: Taxes will lead to 'economic extinction' of the 1%
That is what I thought, so dead the tech is dead in the water.
ICI discovered tamoxifen before AstraZeneca bought them. They're British. Femara (letrozole) and Afinitor (everolimus) are Novartis (Switzerland). Campostar was discovered by Pharmacia, a Swedish company that's now part of Pfizer.

The U.S. by no means has a monopoly on "cancer drugs".
It's also confusing branding because Mozilla used to refer to browser branding as "personas".
Likewise. Bet you didn't have to bribe the Russian secret police in kaz, though! Much tougher crowd. Surprised you got pulled up over an expired visa - have seen people get in and out with no visa, just a wad of cash.
Are we supposed to disagree with this?
I sure don't. I want to use the products I work on. In a market like Silicon Valley, I'm sure there are a ton of places that would pick up the people that aren't keen to be at PayPal. Is it just laziness that they don't go find jobs elsewhere?

Doesn't matter if you're in sales, engineering, merketing, whatever. If you refuse to use what your working on, why are you working on it?
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Quote from the article:

there are plenty of reasons to believe that we may be at the beginnings of a post scarcity economy. We have a surplus, no doubt. Of course, we still have legions of people in the world that are starving, and even people still here at home. But we actually have the capacity to feed them, to feed everyone, even now, even if we don’t have the will. It’s not a matter of scarcity; it’s a matter of the organization of labor and capital.

The problem here is that there is no "we" that can implement this unrealistic plan of arranging for an easy living for everyone. We're all just individuals and pursuing our personal gain, as I mentioned. That much is constant, because it's how we're biologically wired to operate. So, there is no "collective we" that could decide how to run a society, but that's exactly what he's suggesting.

Of course, the only entity that makes collective decisions is the government. But the government only has one way to affect an economy: coercion. In essence, this guy is suggesting that governments should force some people to provide for other people. It's just another version of "welfare", but any kind of welfare system is about using force and coercion to re-allocate resources, because otherwise resources would just get "allocated" through voluntary exchanges. In reality, it makes no sense to talk about some specific "allocation" of resources, because the only way you can even try to achieve that is through coercion again. Coercion is immoral and forbidden though, so you have no business trying to effect any specific allocation of resources.

In addition, there's a gross mistake at the root of all this: the idea that you know how resources should be allocated. We're already covered that without coercion, resources will just end up where ever they may, and that's just the end result of countless people pursuing their personal gain, making the exchanges they want to, and so on. You are only your own personal self, and you don't know what kind of exchanges other people should go through - it's all subjective.

In summary, people talking about "post-scarcity" or a "resource-based economy" (Zeitgeist) and how those should be arranged, are basically engaging in central planning, and they either realize it would require massive amounts of coercion or they do not. In the first case, they're just plain evil, and in the second, they're clueless. Either way, what they want is impossible.
The right way to solve problem of disposable logins on your site is to support anonymous access for everything that registered users can do.
Actually this is taught in anthropology ( at university ) in romania as scientific fact.
Maybe if they do what's in their best interest, the best things happens for the Linux/nix ecosystem. I'm not exactly sure what your arguing about; All corporate entities seem to (perhaps quite reasonable considering they're corporations) cater to their* own interests first.

From what I've gathered, we have, as a community gained a lot from that by looking at Red Hat Inc, Canonical Ltd, SuSE GmbH/Novell/Attachmate Group and others contributions.
US hospitals created entities to negotiate with the suppliers to get better deals for them. At some point they stupidly decided that these entities can finance themselves by taking percentage on transactions (as opposed to being financed by the hospitals according to entities needs as it was till then). Then the thing went downhill from there. Entities got free, became for profit, concentrated, and now they stand in the middle between hospitals and suppliers taxing the trade between them and punishing everyone that wants to get free by making deal with other business partners of that hospital/supplier more expensive.
The majority of health care costs are non emergency, at that point it's no different than needing food.
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I would never ever complain about the Polish healthcare. The oncology clinic in Warsaw was the one of the pioneers in treating GIST(rare type of stomach cancer) with then-new Glivec - Initially, my father has been given less than a year after being diagnosed with GIST. He has been alive and very well for over 8 years now after the diagnosis, having had two operations and taking a box of Glivec(~$3000 USD box) every month. The hospital even pays for his train tickets to Warsaw so he can get his medicine every month. He has never paid anything for his treatment, that's all national healthcare system. And yes, the waiting rooms get a bit crowded - who cares, he still gets the best cancer treatment in the country,for free.

As a kid, I always dreamed of living in America - now I wouldn't want to do it even if someone paid me to. Nope.
But she warned that science could be "misused" to propagate the belief that people inherently have different abilities

...

based on skin colour or ethnic background

Is the issue the variability or the link to causality? Because surely there is variability. The other issues get into statistical considerations relating to interpreting the genome itself. The argument that there is no genetic basis of {race} seems highly flawed at face value. So the question still remains about the co-variance matrices between the two sets of variations. This is where there seems to be a fine line with respect to identifying the data; understandin the data; and drawing conclusions (right or wrong) from the data. But without doing any of that work, it seems highly presumptive to argue there is no information {in that data} per-se, and/or to completely disregard it (out of hand). None of this has anything to do as of yet with granting political or social priveledge to certain people or others.
The point of Markdown is to abstract away the common HTML use cases in a markup format. There's plenty of HTML semantics where mapping them into Markdown would be both painful and unhelpful. Like, I'm probably one of a small number of weirdos who uses code, samp, kbd and var. Good luck turning those into blobs of memorable punctuation.

Sometimes I want to put custom attributes on links: rel and class, but also RDFa attributes like property and classof. Without the ability to make a link the old-fashioned way, you can't do that.

Markdown gives shortcuts for the common stuff and allows authors to use HTML tags for the fiddly bits that it doesn't optimise. Markdown without HTML fallback for the use cases Markdown doesn't optimize for would make Markdown fairly useless.

If you went the other route and tried to turn all of HTML into Markdown syntax, you'd have an unusable language. Including HTML is the least bad of the options, IMHO.
The issue at hand is that you've pulled a ludicrous flat overhead fee for the low-end numbers, leading to a 33% charge... even normal un-negotiated merchant accounts are usually not that expensive (the percentage gets higher, but the fixed fees are normally lower). PayPal (which as far as I know anyone could get) is 5%+$0.05, which works out to 10% on the $1 charge.
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