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> selling raw milk ... can lead to serious harm including deaths.

Please STOP spreading misinformation. The only two deaths from raw milk in the last 20 years were traced back to bad queso fresco. In fact, over the same time period, there were more deaths attributed to pasteurized liquid milk than to raw liquid milk[1].

It's amazing what 30 seconds of Googling can do.

[1] http://www.realrawmilkfacts.com/raw-milk-news/story/outbreak...
I think it's great that people want to solve problems, but this isn't actually solving the problem. It's shifting the problem from rich people to poor people.

In contrast, there are plenty of startups that are actually making the parking problem better. City CarShare and ZipCar are reducing the number of cars in the city by having cars available on demand. GetAround and RelayRides are upping the number of drivers per car. Uber and Lyft (and taxis and transit) let you get somewhere without having to park at all. Parking Panda and Park Circa are turning unused private parking spaces into publicly available inventory. Even Amazon is helping: part of what makes happy to do without a car is the fact that they will make almost anything I want show up in a couple of days.
While I think it should apply to non-US citizens, the fact that it technically doesn't is irrelevant as long as they're still willfully violating the rights of US citizens too.
Just wait someone realizes that it costs less for a driverless, electric car to sit in a traffic jam than a car park.
Right - what I get from the parking stuff is just how undervalued parking actually is, and just how poorly cities deal with it.

The restaurant one is dodgy though. I could approve of a system where they've paid the restaurant in order to sell on a reservation (so the restaurant gets something even if there are no takers) but as it stands it's just a con.
However 10-15 minutes late would also mess up the timing for your next reservation for that table and starts to cause a log jam through the evening from what you expected you would be able to seat?
For that, you'll want the new vImage CV pixel buffer functions in iOS 8 and Yosemite =)
I replied to the parent above but wanted to point you that you, too, are 'udder'ly mistaken.

http://www.realrawmilkfacts.com/raw-milk-news/story/outbreak...
In the case of poor diets, it's often enough a matter of what they can afford. So, yes. Let's impose a financial penalty on people who are eating poorly because they can't afford to eat well. That makes perfect sense.

That said, I'm not opposed to smokers paying higher premiums — but that practice already exists, based on policyholder disclosure, or rescission in the event of fraud. (I say that as a former smoker, who did disclose my habit, and paid a substantially higher premium because of it.) We don't need carriers trolling through peoples' transaction history to dredge up every possible excuse for hiking premiums, because that's exactly what they'll do.
I'm going to disagree some here. When people claim starups aren't creating value, I always push back - just because they aren't creating value to you does not mean that they are't creating value to someone else. In this case, people value reservations; its the same thing with concerts or sporting events with scalpers - the price does not reflect market value - that value is being allocated already to people who may not perceive it as such. Now, artists can choose to counter this in obvious ways (Louis CK had a great approach by requiring ID's to limit scalping potential), but if they choose to ignore it, I think there's a reasonable business opportunity. Now if a restaurant chose to counter this TOS by say , requiring a credit card for each reservation, they are well within their rights.
Ah beaten to it.

I am working on something similar targeted at .NET platform. Definitely hate how bulky CMS's have become. I wouldn't call these CMSes either. I'd rather call them Content Management Platforms.
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Very cool. One idea you might play with is the idea of debt. In other words: allow me to view the content for free a couple times, while racking up an "IOU".

Perhaps after the debt accumulates I'm forced to pay my freeloader's bill to continue seeing content.

Second: Go to where the users are. You should have Coinbase support.

Looking forward to watching where you take this :)
ah, that would explain it. I thought it felt a little too 'well implemented' for it to be malicious.
Fair enough! As long as you keep up the moderation we should be good, hehe.
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In general, sloppy pronunciation is more common in countries where most people have little to no contact with anyone who speaks a different language. In order to learn that your vowels are not the only vowels that exist, you need to encounter people who use different vowels, and this needs to start at a very young age when your brain can still pick up the difference.

I recently talked to an Asian man who couldn't hear any difference between "R" and "L", let alone pronounce them. That's what happens when you only speak and hear a single language for decades. Your brain gets wired to ignore any variation that isn't significant in your own language. My "L" really sounds like "R" to him, and your name really sounds like "Nate" to a lot of Americans.

Hopefully, the increasing influx of Spanish and Chinese speakers into the U.S. will force Americans to hear other languages more often in their daily lives.
We don't really have Health Insurance companies. Insurance is about risk management, and we have mandated health coverage. But, to your point, this is why real insurance companies manage their portfolios, aggregate. If they're losing money, it's not the responsibility of society to save them.
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> I have Kaiser. It's vastly simplified because the people paying for my care are the same people who are providing my care. They also seem to have a real "get you up and running so you can get back to work" kind of attitude, which meshes well with my own values.

I'm glad that was your experience with Kaiser, because it certainly wasn't mine.

I had herniated disc that ultimately required surgery. It was bad enough that I couldn't sit at all & couldn't stand for more than a few a few minutes.

Laying flat would take away some pain but not all. It would roughly 8 weeks before I would know again what it was like to be pain-free.

During that time obviously I couldn't go into work. Even the basics -- showering & going to the bathroom -- were a challenge. I quickly found vicodin didn't do anything for my pain, but I continued to take it simply because it kept me constipated. (One bad bathroom trip was better than several.)

I saw 4 different doctors in my first weeks. Initially I was giving a variety of pain killers & muscle relaxers. We asked about an MRI each time & was told it was unnecessary.

Eventually we worked our way through the Kaiser system & started to get to specialists who knew more about what they were talking about. Each one regarded my situation as one of the most severe they'd seen & refer to the specialist that was the next level up.

We finally got one to request an MRI. That request was "lost." We called several times, each time being told they'll take care of it & to call back in 24 hours. Finally the next doctor sent in another request, and told us to personally contact her in 24 hours (giving us her cell!) if it wasn't scheduled.

One of the biggest challenges was that each specialist was in a different department. Meaning it would be 1-2 weeks of waiting for the next appointment in that department. Absolutely no consideration is given to the length to how long I'd had my current condition.

Eventually we did to a surgeon -- a really good one. He took pity on both the severity of my situation & the length to move things around & fit me in earlier. The crazy thing being, it could have been even longer if he hadn't.

Without question, the worst 8 weeks of my life.

When an entity like Kaiser can't control costs by deciding what claims they'll approve, it seems they'll instead control costs by deciding what access to care you'll receive.

Honestly, I'm not sure that's much better.
They're doing some of that. But there's a problem with that: plenty of people who live here can't afford a sudden major bump in living expenses. In the long term, correct pricing is part of the solution. But in the short term, it'd be unfortunate to solve the problem by screwing poorer people.

And anyway, this could be a temporary spike in demand. Once places like ZipCar and Uber get ahold of self-driving cars, I expect there will be a big decrease in car ownership.
Not just "a different language" but "the relevant language (or something close enough to have the same phonemes)".
Same here, couldn't read a word.
Not really - the tragedy of the commons is the examples of oceans fisheries or trash on the street, where any one person doesn't have enough ownership to care enough to ensure continual sustainability. Ironically, this is if anything, a counter to the tragedy of the commons (albeit an awkward fit) - they're trying to price something that has an assumed value people took for granted. Again, I'm not saying its something great, but its not this concept.
Again, we don't have health "insurance". Actual insurance, as the term is used everywhere but in the American health care system wouldn't cover routine care like visits to your kid's pediatrician, but would cover major care such as surgeries — just like your car insurance doesn't cover oil changes, but does cover fender benders.
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I like to think that this kind of lost income will be the boot that kicks restaurants out of being so tech-fearing.
Honestly, this is a great example of why some places don't accept reservations at all, and make you stand for an hour on the street waiting to get in.
This is just scalping for restaurant tables. Worse, reservations are free whereas tickets to events are not.
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Scalpers do not create value. At a concert the value is being created by the performers, and it's not like scalpers create seats or make the show longer. They just shift value around to people with more money.
They would lose, assuming that they were not popular enough to fill seats with walk ins, which wouldn't be a restaurant that necessitates purchasing a reservation for anyway.
Making reservations under assumed names (i.e., lying) is also unethical.

"So in the interest of ethics and fairness, I want to talk to restaurants about working with them directly on a better reservation system."

It's not likely that a restaurant (or anyone else) would want to go into a business partnership with someone who has clearly demonstrated that they're willing to lie to make a buck.

Also, as a commenter in the Valleywag article[1] pointed out, it's easy for restaurants to defeat this: just require diners to show an ID to claim their reservations.

[1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/restaurant-reservation-scalping-...
Then they can have a fleet of them which go into traffic at peak hours & allow people to bid to have them removed from traffic. ;)
Keep going. Don't make it language dependent, keep it simple and lean with the ability to integrate with a static HTML site via JS or a Ruby site with a Gem or whatever else people want.
I tried to activate a hook for slack (after a test goal showed up in our chatroom correctly) only to be told that that integration could not be found.

http://replaylastgoal.com/hooks/activate?service=slack&id=2a...
Love the content! It's lame to say, but the first sentence under the Web Framework section has a subject-verb agreement issue. Believe it should be "makes," not "make."
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The response isn't to make it "difficult to pull off", the response is to do it themselves. Require a credit card on file for a reservation and a 24 hour cancellation period.

The harm to the restaurants right now is potential lost income and lost tables. Keeping a card on file would negate the lost tables and keep players like this app from skimming value off the top, unless they were willing to wager their own money on the resale value.
Hold on there friend. I was not suggesting we replace the judicial system with a filter. Rather arrests.

I.e., make the arrest based on the filter, then run the trial in the same old jury-of-your-peers.

Convictions should be false-positive-free. But our system would not work if arrests also needed to be 100% false-positive-free.

I'm also not advocating punishment for crimes that have not yet been committed. Rather, think of it as looking for flags for crimes that have already been committed or are in progress. For example, there are all sorts of small flags thrown by embezzlement or salami-slicing that, put together, identify the operation.
I disagree with the dominant sentiment about this being an example of JerkTech.

If RestaurantHop can prove through the resale of reservations, that there is value in these reservations, value that the restaurants, with a better pricing system, could capture, then I think this is great proof of concept for a new marketplace.

If restaurants have underestimated the value that reservations can capture, they might have just turned RestaurantHop away without a glance, if he had approached them with the idea of ticketing reservations, but now that he has bypassed the restaurants (by calling under a fake name), he proves that the reservations have value.

Now that it's clear that reservations have value, RestaurantHop can be the exclusive destination to purchase reservations for a night at a premium restaurant. Once you make that connection, then pricing strategies can go wild.

Some examples of that -

1. Cheap reservations made in advance.
2. Cheap last minute reservations when the nights are slow.
3. Expensive last minute reservations when the nights are busy.
4. Expensive reservations that require extra care - large groups, special dates, etc.

Here's the thing. I don't go to a place that has a long reservation wait time. Place where they say you need to book months in advance. I simply don't patronize those places. If there was a marketplace for me to evaluate (from Free to Expensive) the cost of making such a reservation for me, I would gladly do that.

I already do that with GoldStar, the ticketing service. Adding premium restaurant reservations to the mix would be great.

So I say, great start. Hustling to cover the reservation marketplace is going to be brutal, and if this takes off, competition is going to be fierce, with essentially no barriers to entry, but if there's an inefficient marketplace out there, that lacks transparency, and favors the connected, then I say -- go for it. Let's see how much money is being left on the table.

(That being said, I think Parking Monkey, or Monkey Park, or Park Monkey, or whatever their name is ... is a true example of JerkTech - stealing from the commons, and extorting value by behaving badly - I didn't like it when guys on the street did it, and I don't like it when an app does it.)

(( you can almost imagine BirthdayinthePark Monkey, or Place ontheBeach Monkey, or SeatontheBart Monkey. All terrible terrible ideas.))
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There are two cases you see at high end restaurants, either that they have no reservation system at all, or that they keep a card on file and charge you a preset cancellation price if you don't cancel more than 24/48/72 hours ahead of time.

Taking no reservations maximizes value for the restaurants, assuming it is hot enough to never have an empty table. It doesn't help consumers though.

Taking insured reservations causes more work for the restaurant, and generally the cancellation fee is less than the price of a 2 top with food/alcohol, so they are potentially missing out on money, but not much. It helps customers plan in advance though.
This is sleazy. I've worked in restaurants for a long time (mostly fine dining), and this upsets me.

What he's doing is basically artificially reducing supply, making it harder to get a 'free' reservation, and then charging for it. Meanwhile, the restaurants may increase their supply of food based on the increased 'reservations', only to have them pulled out at the last second, because I highly doubt he's selling all his reservations.

In the end, everyone will suffer, because once restaurants catch on, they're either going to eliminate reservations altogether, or start charging for reservations themselves. Margins are so thin in restaurants, especially in the high end market, that they'll do anything to stamp out this type of profiteering.
Here is one of the runs they did last year:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA747/history/20130717/...

The arches are when they are doing their observations.

Edit: For some reason the map is centering over the Atlantic when I open the link, the flight path is actually from New Zealand if you can't see it to start with.
Are you kidding? Of course it's useful to the customer! Do you know how annoying it is to get a reservation at some of these restaurants?

For example - ReservationHop has a 7:45pm reservation next Friday night to Zero Zero for 4 people. If I try to book the same date/time/party through Open Table, I only have 6pm and 8:15pm available. If I wanted to book that time I would have had to call weeks in advance.

I am getting convenience for money. That's a fair trade. And let's not act like this market didn't exist before. People have been doing this on craigslist and other sites for years.
Nice idea but "why"? Nobody is really complaining about Wordpress or Medium
"I simply don't patronize those places."

They quite simply don't need or want you to.
Yeah. The real solution to parking in SF is to have fewer people driving, which would involve improving the public transit options.
We just tried to, but couldn't b/c of the karma requirement :(
That in and of itself is a good reason for great public goods. They are, or should be, by definition 'unexploitable'.
Can we put these (or a shortened form) on every Show HN post automatically before the comment box?

Something like:

> Is your comment respectful & helpful?
> Is it positive criticism?

Please?
This is fantastic. So much fun and well executed. The hold and zoom feature for smaller erasers is perfect.
You are missing quite a few local startups such as Qumulo. How are you collecting your list of startups? You may want to consider extracting startups from Greekwire and FormD to build your list.
Actually there's a deep equivalence theorem between mathematical statements and programs. Here are people doing ZFC as a program - http://en.metamath.org/
Couldn't restaurants ask for some form of id for bookings that match the ones available on RestaurantHop?
I used emacs for years and I spent far too much time fiddling with it to get it to the place of something like atom.
And also how people on HN sometimes have trouble putting themselves in the shoes of others. The 2nd top comment is a perfect example:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
If they're accurate enough, can they be legally forced to inform the patient when there's a high probability that the patient will get sick in the future? You know, "prevention is better than cure"

How long before someone sues a hospital for 'negligence' for knowing the future and not letting the patient know?
Among my friends, Spotify completely ended music piracy. Spotify is way more handy than finding torrents, downloading them, copying the MP3s to your phone, etc. I'm from Scandinavia though where Spotify started. TV and Movie piracy however is still widespread since there's no good way to watch that stuff easily and cheaply (Netflix has recently started in Sweden but the catalog is still very weak).
Right, I had not meant to imply otherwise. It was an example where there is nothing forcing you to separate style from document. At least, not to my knowledge.

Except, of course, for any paper you want to offer to get published somewhere that has a style file for you to use. Then, yes, you have to support that. :)
I went to the website hoping to see the app in action... but it just links back to the appstore. Would you please post a video demo? I think it would increase downloads.
"no possible health benefit with smoking"...as usual, it's more complicated.

See, for example,
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/155/8/732.full

for the negative correlation between smoking and Parkinson's disease, and

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/4/801.full

for some insights into the negative correlation between smoking and obesity.

Not to say that smoking is a good idea, it's not (actuarial data are clear on that), but your view of its consequences is inaccurate.
What a fascinating idea. I hope this (or something like it) becomes bigger than Facebook.

Social networking sites are all predicated on the assumption that people want to be social. And yet, we hear how people are actually becoming more solitary, more lonely. I look at this and think "there's a disconnect here, and it's getting worse over time."

We need anti-social networks: networks that get the lonely and solitary people. Once those networks become established, then we might have a chance to help people become less lonely (I'm taking it as given that we only care about people who want to become less lonely). I don't know what that would look like, and maybe wtsui isn't even thinking about all this, but I'm convinced that Solo, or something like it, is the right place to start.
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Yes, it is just probability and not truth. But an arrest is often a "guess" with some degree of confidence, not absolute certainty. Thus is a "weight" or "probability" not perfectly applicable?

Trials & convictions is a different matter, more suited to truth-seeking.
Hence why they go after the "racketeers" - the one facilitating it in an organized way.
Maybe the engine could answer something like this:

"If There's a God, God invented reality, therefore God is not real, because He transcends reality"

It would not answer what you expect, cause theres no objective answer to that, but the engine could play a game with the words you used showing some "sense of humor"
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