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If you believe the line that this is just to target slower connections/computers, I have a car here to sell you. You may be right (I happen to think differently) that they're not trying to compete with Twitter, but it seems clear to me that they want to be Twitter and be the darling of the web again. I think Twitter has achieved mainstream notoriety that Facebook envies and they're doing whatever they can to try to get themselves into the position Twitter is in. If that means trying to sway heavy Twitter users with a UI more to their liking, then that's what they'll do.
An ebook about how to make a startup that like 18 people use, then write a really popular blog about how to do startups?
SPOT ON. The AMA is an unconstitutional cartel that punishes the poor. All the changes they are talking about are total bullshit until this issue is addressed.

And what about prescriptions? The vast majority of drugs are safer than a bottle of Nyquil, but oh, we have to protect you so you have to make a doctors visit for some freaking allegra. Prescriptions need to come to an end unless it's a highly addictive or dangerous (class II?).

You can't let the "experts" dictate what is best for all those "dumb citizens" when they stand to dramatically benefit from fear-mongering. It's elitist idiocy. It's the same reason why I'm highly skeptical of most global warming policy. Maybe we have global warming, but we have no idea if we can even stop it to begin with-- so hell, let's just let the "experts" make stuff up ("change your light bulbs!")... while we dump tons of money into funding research projects. Dumb.
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I wrote an entry about that. If you can handle it.

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1765
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Gotta love tech company culture. :)

On an unrelated note, why request a comment from a company at all if you're only going to wait 24 minutes for a response?
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Great! Will TechCrunch halt its bid to rename HN "Facebook News" now?
The coining word PuSH of PubSubHubBub is just ... marvelous
Good real life example. Sounds like it really depends on the person, whether they can take the stress of not. Reminds me of http://www.gladwell.com/2000/2000_08_21_a_choking.htm
I hope it fixes whatever it is that's causing the new Opera 10 to be unusably slow for me. Has anyone seen this? I haven't been able to get any usable results of out google yet.
By sided, you mean layered, right? I thought blu-rays could have multiple layers that you could see by doing different things to the laser involved.
Does one really need a mathematical model in order to claim one has a "definition". Isn't a mathematical model's role to "understand" something (and hence predict)?
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Good to know 24 minutes is all you need to verify.
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22,471 channels!! Is this actually correct? How are these channels even accessible?
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But, you could still implement car and cdr in terms on conc, so this is not really an issue.

It might still be an issue. The more distance there is between how code is represented and how data and lower levels of code are represented, the less fluid programming in Lisp becomes. Yes, you can translate one to the other. But the sweet spot of Lisp is the space where no such mapping is needed or it's trivial; the magic drops off pretty sharply as you leave that space. It's not obvious (to me anyway) what the effect of what we're talking about would be. Small changes can have surprisingly big impacts, and one has to include the psychology of this.
That Bub part of PuSH seems as random bits. But I have got it used in:

* PubBub for a publishing client;
* HubBub for a hub; and
* SubBub for a subscribing client.
You could work more hours instead.

Most of the time, when you reduce expenses, if you check how much you are "making" per hour, it's less that what you could get from working.

Obviously you could just not buy stuff, but I'm (and probably him too) talking about things like going to a farther store that has cheaper prices. You need to balance how long it takes you to get there, vs how much you will reduce your expenses.
In my experience, having a regular 40-hour-a-week job really destroys my creativity. There's more to being creative than just having some time to spend on creative projects; after doing lots of monotonous things for someone else I used to find myself completely unmotivated to do anything. I think this relates to the feeling among creative types that some business management types don't understand that creativity isn't measured in hours.

To tie it into YC, think of the manager's schedule vs. the maker's schedule. A few hours a day after working eight hours for someone else isn't really enough time to get into creative mode.
Do technology startup founders get paid too much?

And: if you think doctors do get paid too much? What are you going to do about it? Offer to pay less? That would be reasonable, but do you pay your doctor?
which is much more interesting than this Black Swan pep talk bullshit.

Have you read The Black Swan? It's not a pep talk. It's all about how much of what affects us is out of our control. I suppose one could mope about this, but what Taleb says is to do things that will reward you if the unpredictable happens.

Persistence and effort, on the other hand, scales linearly - if you can iterate over 10 ideas instead of 1, you're 10 times as likely to succeed, no matter what your intelligence.

Incorrect. If you can generate one more idea than anyone else, you may be worth many times what they're worth--because to someone who desperately needs an idea, they're going to pay a huge premium to get the best person for the job. If you're buying market data in order to make high-frequency trades, the company that gets you information 1% faster isn't worth 1% more. It's worth almost infinitely more, since being the second person in the trade doesn't get you any profit.
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Oracle makes up a magic number called a 'core factor' that determines license costs for a given platform. By manipulating that number, Oracle gets to favor one platform over another by making it cheap or expensive to license Oracle products on a particular platform.

Right now my IBM reps are trying to convince me that I can replace a 88 SPARC CPUs on couple E25k's with POWER on IBM hardware. They argue that with POWER, I'd have less than half as many CPU's to license, and the reduction in per-CPU Oracle license and maintenance costs will pay for the IBM servers.

To counter that, all Oracle has to do is change the core factor for licensing SPARC processors, making Oracle licensing costs on SPARC hardware less expensive than POWER or Itanic hardware. That would drive enterprise customers away from HP & IBM and toward SPARC, as the Oracle license cost for a given performance level could be manipulated such that the TCO on Sun is less than competitors.
Doctors haven't always held priestlike status. They used to be normal everyday people a couple hundred years ago.
It's the exact opposite of a free market. The supply of doctors is limited. The ability for people to care for their own health is limited by the FDA and prescriptions. Lots of very good candidates for medical school are eliminated from the physician pool by the AMA every year due to the availability of med school seats, which currently is around 11,000 per year.

Doctors limit the supply of doctors. When DeBeers does this in the diamond industry it's considered illegal.
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Those interested in playing chess (or in the eventual domination of our kind by machines) may be interested in this page, where you can play the Shredder chess program hosted on the makers servers.
Well, if a company with as much personal information as Facebook is going to pay people to
1) Delve into specific individuals' profiles,
2) Read enough information to make sure it's the right person, and then
3) Mess about with their settings,
at least they did it with a sense of humour.

Not so funny sequel - seeing "Zuckerberg told everyone in PR that you were easy" appearing on each of his ex-girlfriends' profile pages.
Economist Martin Feldstein found out a long time ago that increasing the supply of doctors just increases the share of national income that all doctors enjoy, and still results in high incomes for each doctor, because doctors refer to other doctors.

The United States has a higher supply of medical doctors per capita than most countries, and those doctors make a good living.

After edit: Here's a link to a follow-up paper by that economist on the issue of physician income:

http://lingli.ccer.edu.cn/he2007/ref/1014/reply.pdf
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This McKinsey report shows the best breakdown of costs that I have seen:

http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/rp/healthcare/accounting_cost_he...
See my other reply.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=816755
What the hell are you talking about? Unconstitutional? The AMA is a professional association. A private professional association. The Constitution enumerates the powers of the federal and state governments and certainly doesn't have anything to say about the AMA...

You can't let the "experts" dictate what is best for all those "dumb citizens" when they stand to dramatically benefit from fear-mongering. It's elitist idiocy. It's the same reason why I'm highly skeptical of most global warming policy. Maybe we have global warming, but we have no idea if we can even stop it to begin with-- so hell, let's just let the "experts" make stuff up ("change your light bulbs!")... while we dump tons of money into funding research projects. Dumb.

Ahh... Ok... Global warming skeptic: this makes so much more sense. It's clear you have no idea what you're talking about and, more to the point, are certainly not qualified to make any kind of judgment on "the vast majority of drugs." Please come back with some actual data next time.
Amazing. Also note how the shockwave has blown a circle of cloud away.
It's a tree in the sense that a list is a tree.
You probably should add some more vegetables by the sounds of it.
Dont forget about medical malpractice. This insurance has gone through the roof in the last 10-15 years, many times dramatically eating into doctors salaries.

Also remember doctors have peoples lives in their hands. I dont understand how people could think they are overpaid.
Some notable counterexamples - Wallace Stevens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens) and Albert Einstein's time in the swiss patent office. Creativity is often defined by constraints, like lack of time.

Though my experience tends to agree with yours.
Well, I imagine that if you are a tech news site that wants to be known for breaking stories first, you can't wait very long.
It sounds like they did it by IP (or 'Facebook Network' membership), not account.

But everyone in the TechCrunch network saw it

I'm not sure if that means TechCrunch's offices' subnet, or the Facebook network. But either way, no big invasion of privacy.
First thought I had was that it might be a 99designs sort of site.
Shouldn't it rather be wallflower@ ?
I've heard of companies doing this to their competitors. It's a great trick... Announce new lower prices that only your competitors can see, and then laugh when they send out an email to all their customers informing them of the new pricing structure. Or else announce a stupid new feature, and watch them waste time trying to implement it on their site too.
Probably easier just to do it for everyone in the Facebook TechCrunch network, though it's possible that they used IPs.
In one sense, this is why old print media is far superior to the mainstream online media today. You had to wait at least until the press started rolling the next morning before finalizing anything. A turn around time of days instead of minutes results in higher quality and accuracy in my opinion.
This is a poor headline. I'd say a better one would be. "Majority of US Healthcare Costs are Cause by Not Exercising enough to burn calories from Bad Eating Habits"
Let me just clarify one point here: are you calling for the loosening of the requirements to become a physician or are you asking for the creation of a perhaps less accredited, more specialized practicing subfield? I can see the reason why that would be useful, however I can also see how that would be dangerous. Consider this example: someone has just gotten into a car accident. They come into the hospital after the EMT has checked them out with only a broken arm. However, what the EMT missed is that they have actually suffered appendiceal rupture (ruptured appendix) as well and will die of septicemia very soon if not operated on ASAP. I'm worried that a less qualified physician may miss such a diagnosis, whereas the general training should cover this case.

In that case we could make a specific rule: people who get in car accidents need to see an MD physician. However, I think there are a number of cases where a full physician may catch something that someone with less training missed. Therefore, is it really cost effective to have someone less trained on the staff if they're only utilized in very specific situations?

I'm not claiming that your idea is wrong, only that it may be a little more complex than it first appears.

Edit: Peritonitis, I should say. If they've already developed septicemia, not only will it be pretty obvious (for the most part, so will appendiceal rupture), but there's a decent chance they'll die even with the best treatment.
I know this sounds ridiculous, but waiting 24 minutes is a pretty long time in the blogging world for something like this. Had it been something controversial or potentially damaging I would have waited longer and tried calling more people.

But this was just a basic feature that was apparently live for everyone (at least, everyone in the TC office). I was really only contacting them to see if they had an explanation as to why they'd want to implement this.
Most health care spending in the US is caused by aging. Most heath care spending is paid for by the state, local, or federal government (50%+). Most heath care spending is caused by people living longer. Most heath care spending is caused by better and more expensive treatments that we did not have 100 years ago. Smokers have shorter lives and spend less on heath care over their lifetime. Smokers cause a huge short term spike in heath care costs.

PS: There are plenty of ways of slicing it, but excluding sudden death we are all going to spend a lot of money on heath care and we are all going to die.
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Doesn't work in India. Why? Weren't we the target audience?
I read the whole thing. It didn't redeem itself.
Perhaps you should start making appointments with nurse practitioners and physician assistants instead of full blown MDs for your routine health care needs.
Amazing.

This is officially my favorite TechCrunch post.

The best part is that the feature actually worked. If a prank is worth doing... it's worth doing well :)
I recall a more interesting article on commonly misused words..

Eg. Bemused means confused only. Not "confusingly amused" as it typically is used.

Peruse means to examine in great detail, despite the fact that perusal time in college usually means skimming over the paper quickly.

I forget them all, but I think pristine and ironic were on the list.
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It isn't 1% of my total bill, but I did pay out of pocket for an outpatient surgery several years ago. The doctor charged me $500, including all follow-up office visits, whereas the hospital charged me close to $5000. Doctors are not the ones to blame about high medical costs.
Also, ActiveRecord? No thanks.
Perhaps they thought it might take off that way but weren't sure and the cost of the 3D horsepower compared to lesser capabilities was low enough that it made sense to include it for the added flexibility in being able to position the device whereever the market told them it should go?
Thank you very much. Too long for me to read it now but I've read the first chapter and it is quite a find.
Exactly. The whole first half was sand-poundingly stupid. Finally I got to a heading I agreed with, though: Stop fussing over expenses and taxes. I think many smart people don't value their time enough. My personal experience has been that I'm better off being creative and productive rather than defensive.
Yes, even facebook (along with most of the rest of the tech industry) thinks techcrunch is such a joke that they don't mind pulling pranks on them.

Notice that there are bigger/better tech blogs/publications out there but facebook choose only to prank them - that's how low they think of techcrunch. And they should.
To provide a single anecdote, I am able to get full on two dollar menu items. You don't have to stick to what they define as a "meal" (i.e. burger, fries, soda). If I'm short on time or cash, I can get two double cheeseburgers, or a chicken sandwich plus a salad, for less than $3, drink a glass and a half of water with it, and be full until the next meal. Whether just anyone can do that is another question.
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The part I love is that they made the feature work and actually faxed the photo over. Lots of effort for a prank. Thats what makes the best pranks stand out :)
I would think colonization of other planets (or in the article's own terms, "invasion of outer space") would be a more likely and more comparable next step.
Yeah, I can understand that. I wasn't trying to challenge your journalist integrity. As you noted, it wasn't a controversial piece. I was simply saying that trying for a comment in such a small time frame by email is pointless since a response in that time is very unlikely. I was thinking either a phone call or publishing right away as alternatives.
Here's the video of his speech there at google video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8832143373632003914
Facebook doesn't want to be the darling. They want to polish their services up, which is why they took Twitter's idea of life updates and removed their selective feed. But they don't need media attention. They're perhaps the most important site on the planet. Ask somebody between 14-22 which they'd rather life without, Google or Facebook, and they'll go Facebook.

Yesterday I met, for the first time, a girl that thinks Facebook is the whole Internet. She uses it for searching and mailing... everything. Apparently there are a lot of people who do that. Facebook is enormous, and it gets missed by a lot of people like us in the tech scene, because we don't think about just how tech-illiterate most people are.
Actually Facebook tends to be quite responsive. They have a general press Email address that goes to something like ten PR people, so it isn't unusual to get a response within ten minutes (or at least a note saying that someone is looking into the issue).
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I was curious, so I asked my dad what it was on average. He said that it was about $30,000-$40,000 per year per doctor, but that is highly dependent on the specialty. For surgeons, probably close to $100,000 a year, while probably close to nothing for psychiatrists.
Ah, then I understand where you were coming from. Definitely did not know that when I made my original comment. :)
awesome. i've wanted search for a while. glad it's been added.
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Because, as others have pointed out, those events may not be things they wished to share.

Let's pretend you like activity X, and you'd like to keep that private. It could do with your sexual tastes. You may be a member of the Jarjar Binks fan-club. It doesn't matter, as long as it's something you'd prefer not everyone to know.

Let's say you also have a trusted friend who also likes X, and they invite you to an event. Except that event is marked as a public event (as determined by the event creator, not by you). You may decline the event, or not even respond to the invitation, and this may have even been years ago. However you're still in the event_member table, and that can still be retrieved by applications.

The end result is it's possible for friends to reveal your personal and private interests by inviting you to public events. Unless you take care to weed these out, those interests can then be found and inferred in the future.

The good news is that if you remove the event from your calendar entirely, then you're also removed from the event_member table, but I still have to test that fully.

As a general rule, sharing events information with your friends' applications is probably a bad idea, but luckily this can be turned off. I don't believe there's a way to prevent them being shared with applications you've voluntarily installed.
If you ask me, #3 should be "aerobic metabolisms". It seems like a pretty significant development.
i would think it's exactly the opposite -- being individually signaled out and pranked by facebook is more a sign of TechCrunch's importance...
Without major changes to optical media (like the holographic stuff we've been hearing about for decades), I'm sure the lowering price of flash media will slowly kill optical.
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