skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting bits from one of the linked articles

>In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked the French health system as the best over all in the world. Do you agree?

>I question the W.H.O. methodology, which has serious problems with data reliability and the standards of comparison. A study I would take more seriously is one published last year by Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee in the journal Health Affairs. They examined avoidable mortality — that is, deaths whose risk of occurrence would be far lower if the population had access to appropriate health care interventions. In that study, based on data for the year 2000, France was also ranked No. 1, with the lowest rate of avoidable deaths. The United States was last, in 19th place, with the highest rate of avoidable deaths. That’s a severe indictment of our health care system in my judgment and calls attention, quite justifiably, to the high performance of the French health care system.

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/health-car...
Yes, it really is. I can tell where it came from based upon the interface I received it on. Google "BCP38".
As others have said; this is normal in the EU (I'm not aware of exceptions in the EU). And I have never had to talk about finance at all in relation to healthcare; I think it's insult to injury to have to navigate insurance policies, bills etc while you or someone you love is ill, dying or died. Especially when you have insurance companies wiggling out of their responsibilities by not paying is a side of this much loved capitalism which I would not like to see appear here.
UX is one major problem with Persona. I built a small site that used Persona a while back (without offering any other login choices) and most user can't figure out how to sign up.

Facebook login as a separate brand works because user already knows and uses Facebook. This is completely opposite in Persona case. User don't already have Persona "account" and they don't understands why should they sign up for it.

IMO, Persona should aim to replace classic login instead of social login, e.g. by making Persona nearly invisible to the user.
Did they notice it because it was good or did they notice it because it wasn't GPL?
The first many years after WW2 Europe spent rebuilding itself. America came out of the war with barely a scratch on its home territory. Although many American soldiers had died overseas no cities or industries were destroyed and almost no civilians died. In Europe, two generations had been decimated by the two consecutive wars, hundreds of major cities were destroyed, infrastructure was destroyed, businesses - well, entire industries, were destroyed. The iron curtain meant that trading partners in Eastern Europe were no longer accessible.

For America WW2 meant opening up it's trade with the war.
Let's not forget that Europe's welfare states were born in hardship.
Ah, you want Populous: The Beginning, not the original Populous.

The original Populous is a simulation. Populous: The Beginning is a fully 3D real-time strategy game, where you control individual units.
"NSA Surveillance and What to Do About It" – Bruce Schneier's talk at MIT
Make it open source, maybe someone can bring it back to life.
As stated in nearby comments, it's an in-joke. There's no "goal".
Even in native code, having the shadow DOM may slow down code. A web page is a tree of nodes. With shadow DOM, you replace 'native button here' nodes by trees of nodes ('rounded rect with text inside it') that can be individually styled.

If you store those shadow DOM trees in the full page hierarchy, any JavaScript that walks the tree must inspect every node for its 'part of shadow DOM' bit (code that asks for all div's shouldn't see any div's in the shadow DOM) That slows down those walks. If you store them outside of the full hierarchy, your rendering code (which must walk the shadow DOM nodes) must know to inspect each node to see whether it has a shadow DOM tree. That slows down rendering.

On top of that, more code = more cache misses, more code = less room for user data, and your nodes likely will grow a bit in size (at least on average) if you add that 'part of shadow DOM' bit.

I don't have the faintest idea how large the effect of all this is, but there will be an effect.
The US healthcare industry runs at a profit, so your point is moot.
It's very different from food: While the majority is not emergency, the majority IS chronic conditions, which are not comparable to food:

If McDonald is too expensive for you, you can switch to Ramen.

If Insulin is too expensive for you, what do you switch to?

If Radiation therapy is too expensive, what 7do you switch to?

If Dialysis is too expensive for you, what do you switch to?

If psychiatric drugs (for bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia) are too expensive for you, you lose the ability to be part of society.

Totally unlike food, despite being non-emergency.

The moment you have patents on drugs (which you do), and a $400M cost-of-bringing-to-market independent of the resarch (which you do), it's not a free market. Totally unlike food.
This is getting a bit off-topic, but go back in time 50 or 60 years: Ask the citizens of West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, (neutral) Austria, etc., whether Force de Frappe kept them from Soviet domination.

(Also ask whether the French would actually have used nuclear weapons to stop a Soviet non-nuclear attack on France. That's relevant because in a conventional war without U.S. forces, the Warsaw Pact forces could have rolled to the Channel in weeks if not days.)

No, it was NATO that served as the real deterrent to the Soviets. NATO was largely (and expensively) underwritten by the U.S. Le Grand Charles [de Gaulle] withdrew France from the NATO military alliance in the early 1960s. That freed up who knows how much in the way of French resources, with France still effectively still living under the protection provided by NATO.

Personal note: When I was a kid, my dad, a U.S. Air Force officer, was stationed in France; we lived "on the economy" in a little farm village, where my sisters and I went to the local schools and as a result were bilingual. We were upset when we thought we were going to have to move back to the U.S., and leave our friends, sooner than scheduled because of de Gaulle's announced intention to kick out U.S. forces. (As it turned out, that didn't happen until after our scheduled move back to the U.S.)
Perhaps they were thinking of http://www.polymer-project.org/?
I'm bothered by the overuse of the word "beautiful". Please reconsider using that to describe your product. It's 2013's "epic".

Also, you need much better keyboard support. Jumping between sections shouldn't require using the mouse.
Heh, thinks I'm in Romford (east London), even though I'm in west London!
I don't know if I got it wrong, but for me, as soon as I read it, it was an obvious joke reference to Google's BS excuses for removing Adobe's CSS layout code from Blink.

They used the same speed, mobile and "too many lines of code" comment, IIRC.

Also, knowing that Google really pushes and wants the Shadow DOM (see recent hoopla with W3C about them shipping their own version ahead of standard), WebKit removing it could also be seen as a FU to Google.
I would more talk about plan Marshall. Because France and UK had to build war jets, nuclear weapons, and air carriers on their own (and caravelle, and space rockets and Concord together).

The whole premise of social security in France after the war is that people with their basic needs unfulfilled voted for the nazis. So they decided that the State should provide some minimum services for everybody.
Did you miss the part where health care spending in the US is twice as much as anywhere else? Europe is spending less on "these things" than the US.
Great experiment! As have been stated time and time again the stack* sites have a set of rules.

This post touches into why the rules are enforced in what I think is a less than stellar way.

Now if I could get myself to use quora again after them burning all goodwill and trust a while ago.
Adding another datapoint, as a non-native speaker myself, I believe I've rarely (if ever) mixed them up.

As the parent commenter said, I've also noticed in the past that this mix up occurs usually among native English speakers.
I've noticed it with other languages too, that native speakers often mix up homophones, probably because as a native speaker you write as you would speak and either you don't care or don't even think about it.
Of course, but then you're right back at where you started: Taxation.

Charities are much more common in the US than in Europe, because they cover services and treatments which are provided by the public sector in European countries. In the US, many of these services are based on voluntary donations and volunteering.

Of course, if the state is as corrupt as it is in the US, I understand the reluctance to pay more taxes. But in effect, charities do the same thing, except veiled by the fact that contributions are voluntary.
Sure. I want a git server with push notifications. Two lines with the pushover module in node.

I would be pleasantly surprised if this existed at all in the Haskell community. Even more so with two lines of my own code.
Of Types and Men
Wikipedia user subject to defamation lawsuit in Greece
Aryan superiority was very much non-scientific and is a long way from any sort of fact. Either way, it's completely tangential. If certain nationalities are more prone to some diseases than others, then it's important to recognize this as it can be used for developing drugs that can help those nationalities directly. Sticking your head in the sand and chanting "race means nothing" doesn't help anybody dieing from a disease. As soon as someone starts actively persecuting people because of the research, then it does become racist however. That doesn't mean that the research is not important and shouldn't be done. It means education needs to improved (still).
Deploying Node.js the modern way, everywhere (with systemd)
Trello, that tool my company has been successfully using for software development for years, which already supports vimish (forgive me!) movement and edit keybindings?

I'm not seeing the point here, Trello is excellent, and already great for software teams.
>So nowadays to Apple innovation means to increase fps from 59 to 60?

No, and count the ways you got it wrong:

1) This is not Apple in general, it's a specific team at Apple.

2) The never said this is "innovation" to them. Just a goal they have.

3) Who said it's from 59 to 60? Might be from 30 to 60fps.

4) Smooth animation/scrolling experience matters and IS innovation.

Even worse, the whole line is a joke -- at a similar Google line.
Except that it's not only functional in Firefox. It works in any browser.
Well, it isn't even a standard yet. Google wants to push it just to have it for Angular.
I'm interesting in teaming up as well. I'm a coder myself, but happy to work with designers and other coders. I'll email you three.

I'm not glued to any particular idea, but was thinking a fun, one click trading app might be fun. E.g. some default settings like sell/buy in one minute or at a set price and then you just click if you think it will go up or down every once in a while. Like how binary options made trading stocks so simple and fun. ZoomTrader is a good example of a successful company doing that.
French living in the US here(California). I had to go to the general practitioner and I still don't understand how they can come up with prices as high as $400 when it cost me 22 euros back home for the exact same service.

Also my insurance company in France would rather pay for my flight ticket to go back home instead of going to the hospital in the US.

I've been in the US for almost 2 years now and it still puzzle me that I had to pay for STD test(!) and I still don't understand the US healthcare system.
Why did you choose ImpactJS?
Science is science, and findings in science, can be refuted in a science impartial way. But no new discoveries will ever justify the holocaust, slavery or segregation. Because one thing is the difference in race, another thing is plain murder and racism. But we can blame this, on the inability of humans, to discern things, and make extremes of trivial stuff. I know in a way this new findings will bring new (neo) forms of racism, because that's the way we operate. We tend to elevate our self's, that some how we are better then everyone else, and that in a group, that group has to be better then everyone else.
The silver bullets are still being promoted...
How people is paid also reflects the cost of education - in Europe higher education is vastly cheaper than in the US (in many cases free). If American researchers end up with $200,000 in college debt and a European has $10,000, they'll be requiring different salaries.
>Of course, not everyone wants to see the web-application model become too powerful...

Is that directed at Apple? Because they have had the most powerful mobile web engine for years -- and they continue evolve their desktop one. Heck, the gave us stuff like Canvas and CSS animations.
The session management Persona does is a pain. It's great for single-page apps and awful for traditional web apps.
Eight essential steps to prepare yourself for investors
> paywall

Google search for the title along with with 'filetype:pdf' is what is needed here...

http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/trol...

Enjoy!
The sites were hacked by other hackers, and uploaded as a dump to the public. Krebs just has copies of them, that's all.
You also need to understand something about French healthcare : money is where the risk is. Our Intensive care services are amazing, however basic depts are not that great.
Widget based responsive architecture – multi screen web
"spreading the belief that races exist and are different in terms of biology, behaviour and culture" - D'oh!
I upvoted him/her. Because parent posted bullshit.
Clickbait headline. He said:

'Ultimately, the biggest issue Perkins claimed to have with the treatment of the 1% is taxes. "I wouldn't say taxation is a form of persecution," he said. "But the extreme progressivism of the tax system is."'
I think this is a cool idea! And I'll be returning!

Often times I'll end up starting a Youtube video just to have background noise, but then end up getting too sucked up into it.

That said - I'll agree that you should have a big "Play" button on your page instead of immediately diving into the sound -- unless the page remembers your default settings. Thanks for the service!
Yes! I'd be super keen to use it, and hack on the source. It looks great :)
too slow to be great (btw what do you mean about the disclosure thing?)
>If it's a fact, it's not racism. It's not personal. The fact that races diverged thousands of years ago suggest that they are genetically different through evolution.

The simple fact diverged doesn't tell us in what ways were they diverged. Bigotry can easily fill the remaining wholes in our knowledge (which are vast) and assume eg. that blacks are more prone to die young etc. Who cares if it needs tons of research into social conditions to exclude it as a factor, when you can just take some biological differences and ascribe stuff to them.

>The contents and tone of the article are awful and an affront to science and assume everything will result in Nazi eugenics programmes

Well, "objective science" is mostly a BS notion in an era of government and corporate grants, paid research, and tons of huge interests and prejudices. Lab results, for any stuff that's not totally trivial, don't speak themselves, they require an interpretative context. That can be either provided by relentlessly searching for the truth by the scientist or by quick copout and career/economic/governmental/social pressure.
Weird. As far as I'm concerned, the smallest classical inheritance pattern in javascript is

Subclass.prototype = Object.create(Superclass.prototype);

And combined with calling your superclasses constructor in your own constructor, that's it. Two lines at most.

You can get a little more complex if you want. In topiarist, I also copy all the 'static' properties from the superconstructor onto the child constructor, check that the prototype hasn't already been modified before replacing it so as to fail fast, and set up the constructor field. But all this stuff is just icing. The smallest classical inheritance pattern is just what I wrote above, and I tend to think that all these articles that make it sound like some deep magic is going on are doing more of a disservice to javascript developers than a service.
To be fair, the Swiss pay only second to Americans in health care costs (~10%) and have the private but mandatory insurance thing also.
Is the glass half empty or half full? :) It's a work in progress with easily extensible rules http://proofreadbot.com/rules
Will put something up for wont. :)
If it does anything at all, it certainly shouldn't generate NaN
Easier said than done. I had dismissed cshrem as a playboy half a year ago when he completely failed at getting Bitcoin Wireless off the ground and let BitInstant just die, but I had absolutely no idea he was doing anything illegal.
Formic acid, whose name comes from the Latin word for ant, formica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formic_acid

So yeah, Formic acid means "Ant acid" really, and that's what hurts.
There's a lot to learn from genetic diversity

Good comment. Hopefully this leads to some thought-provoking material...

rather than applying the racism badge to it every fucking time and ignoring it to pacify some over-sensitive idiots.

... Oh. Nevermind.

EDIT: I see that you're new to HN. Please don't write in such an inflammatory style. In addition to being against the rules, it's also ineffective.
nice and impressive work, however I'm a bit old school, still prefer to do it in a few lines of python code.
Because the UK had Thatcher? /s

Seriously I think there are reasons on all sides:

The German government started early with the social welfare system in 1883, which set the tone. (even if it was only designed to keep the commies at bay, it still has a stabilizing effect on Germany today)

This made the employers not go as bat shit crazy as they did in the UK and the US - overworking people straight into hospital means that you're paying their wage for not working. The UK built its industrialization on a constant stream of new workers.

Which again let the unions run cooler compared to their UK/US counterparts since the situation wasn't _all_ that bad.

The second and third step then formed a feedback loop (with some effects on Government, too), which was cooperative in Germany, and adversarial for the Anglo-Saxons.

It looks to me as if at some point, both unions and employers in the US and the UK could claim with good reason that they're only defending themselves against the other party.
>Translation: everyone who wasn't an auto worker would be slightly poorer.

I think the theory is that if all workers were unionized, they would be able to negotiate for a larger share of the profits that are currently taken by the owners of capital.

>Auto unions claim pay raises proportional to increases in output per worker (productivity), regardless of the sources of these increases.

You are assuming a world where the union has absolute power; The role of a union in a market system is to negotiate with the owners of capitol.

Agree or not, (and my personal beliefs are closer to yours than to the comment you are responding to.) it's important to at least understand what your opponent is trying to say.
This stuff really makes my head spin. I consider myself a rationalist, a Bayesian even. If something is true, I'd like to believe it; if something is false, I'd like to believe it is false.

Whatever is true of race, I would like to believe. Even if it's politically incorrect, or even if it's not, I would like to believe whatever is true.

But I don't know what to believe. There doesn't even seem to be a noticeable leaning in the evidence for one side or the other. Experts in the appropriate fields say 'There is no scientific basis for the concept of race.' Experts in the appropriate fields also say 'Clearly there are racial differences.'

Is it a semantic issue mostly? Are some people just afraid of the inconvenient truth? Or is the other side peddling an 'inconvenient truth' for racists-motivated reasons? I am not coming close to having a grasp on this issue.

I only want to believe that which is true.
>If it's a fact, it's not racism.

So many apologists here seem to think that you can just list facts, context-free, in some sort of objective manner. The way facts are presented are almost invariably enabling some sort of value judgement.

For example, if you were to do a study on prison population in the US, you could end up presenting two facts :

> blacks are dis-proportionally present in the prison population

> poor people are dis-proportionally present in the prison population

These are both facts, but the one you choose to present gives a soundbite to somebody. Just because you are so magnificent as to not fall into the correlation=causality trap doesn't mean that you're not enabling racism.

By even presenting the first fact, you are implying that it is a fact worth mentioning to begin with. If you also found out that people who wear hats on Sunday are disproportionately present, would you mention it? presenting the fact shows that you believe the link between the two needs to be investigated in the first place.

We could also go into the whole "black/white is not a race" debate too, but the notion of race (as it is defined in common culture) has no place in many studies. Shared ancestry can be relevant in other studies too, but one of the defining characteristics of racist attitudes is how genetics/ancestry define you so much that it is OK to discriminate based on those factors alone. Enabling that sort of thinking (for very little scientific gain) is rarely worth it.
"If it's a fact it's not racism" is a common misconception of someone who understands neither science nor racism.

The problem isn't the result of some study. In a small part it is the interpretation. The much bigger part is the value judgement.

There can't ever be a value judgement in science. If there is, it's not science.

Now, people do pass judgement across ethnical lines. It's natural because these boundaries are very visible. But it's not scientific ever.

The problem the author wants to address but doesn't understand is that people are finding new underpinnings for racist beliefs, and nobody calls them on their fallacy!
Try Reactjs. Does all that at 60 fps without the Shadow DOM on all modern browsers.
> The first many years after WW2 Europe spent rebuilding itself.

The U.S chipped in quite a bit too. $15 billion, or $148 billion in today's dollars, which was almost 6% (!) of the U.S. GDP at the time. This was in addition to a previous $15 billion in aid before the Marshall Plan was enacted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
Mozilla is a place I would love to work at, beyond any other tech company. A shame I live in Australia :(
> but they can't say as much because being seen as anti-union would hurt their image back in Germany.

That's not about their image. The German steelworkers union, IG Metal, has several seats on the Volkswagen board and they made sure that Volkswagen wouldn't oppose the unionization. Actually, between the Union and the Workers Councils, they hold half of the board.
Racism is not about having a belief about a property. That "Bayesianism".

Racism is defined as making a judgement of value across ethnical boundaries.

"Blacks in the US get sick more often" is not racism, it's a scientific belief with evidence. "Africans are genetically more prone to have bad health" is a belief without enough evidence, which might be fueled by a subconscious judgement.

"We don't need to put an effort into improving African-American Health, because they are disease-riddled anyway" clearly is a value judgement and devoiding a part of the human species of rights the other part enjoys.