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I believe this is by design.

The underlying philosophy is that health care is such a basic part of human life politicians must be in control of it. So from now on (assuming passage) when you have a health care problem, you'll be going to your Congressman to fix it. Insurance not covering something? Go to your congressman. Public plan not covering something? Go to your Congressman. More people need coverage? Go to your Congressman. Rich folks getting really cool benefits while poor folks don't have them available? Go to your Congressman.

Trying to balance the budget? Thought Social Security was impossible to change? You haven't seen anything yet. Try touching national health care once it's rolled out.

It's not "solving the problem" that sucks. We all know there are problems with the free market when it comes to paying for health care and we all know insurance pooling isn't optimum. The problem is the side-effects a huge national solution is going to have.

And those side effects sure look like they make Congressmen even more powerful than they are now.
Previous HN thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419795

What I said then was that I read a lot of speed-reading books when I was in college. I was working my way through, living in my own rented place, so time was of the essence. But I eventually decided that a lot of speed-reading techniques are less useful than they appear. The most helpful book I discovered during that research phase was Reading for Power and Flexibility

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Power-Flexibility-Sparks-Johns...

which was a refreshing change of emphasis from most other speed-reading books.

Good techniques I learned from various sources were pre-reading (for example, making sure to read the whole table of contents, the whole preface/introduction/foreword, and even the whole index before starting the book proper); focused vocabulary development targeting words with Latin and Greek roots used in the international scientific vocabulary; and daring not to read a whole book if reading one section of it would answer my question.

Good vocabulary development books are English Vocabulary Elements

http://www.amazon.com/English-Vocabulary-Elements-Keith-Denn...

and English Words from Latin and Greek Elements

http://www.amazon.com/English-Words-Latin-Greek-Elements/dp/...

Both of those books will help you to read faster by helping you recognize word meanings from word roots.
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oops... Ubuntu installs catching fire like iPods...

mental note: never, ever engage in witty comments past bedtime.
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It doesn't. Ease of use has absolutely nothing to do with working like Windows. Unfortunately, that has been passed as the standard because so many users moving into other platforms do so from Windows.
In WW2 German fighters were technologically superior. In Korea Russian MiGs were superior (the Sidewinder missile was developed specifically to combat MiGs that could cruise at an altitude American fighters couldn't reach, swoop down to attack, then return to safe altitude). Even in the Cold War, the MiG-25 could out-run any American fighter.

Whether the quality of American pilots was decisive in any of those conflicts is debatable, but the first part is certainly true. Many observers believe the Eurofighter Typhoon to be the most advanced fighter in the world today.
In this case, they are drawing on the fact that emotion is a type of memory. It has it's good points and bad points. Strongly emotional people are more able to make snap judgments. But those snap judgments may be biased by negative experiences. In some cases, those previous negative experiences are a good predictor (ie a good basis for judging X to be a bad thing). In other cases, they are essentially a personal stumbling block.
One of the metro lines in Paris is automated. I looked for a supervisor, but never saw one. Maybe one is watching by camera.
I don't anything that comes out of the American political process could be called "designed". Nor do I think the Congressman have some malicious intent to grab power. Rather their is a selection effect whereby people who are over optimistic about the ability of government to solve problems end up in positions of power.
In the summer I used to procrastinate through a lot of time here, on Hacker News. Now I'm coming back mostly only during my semi-free time (but like everyone I probably have better stuff to do). And the first thing I see here is an article about how you shouldn't just check a couple of websites and do serious stuff instead. Great.
I'm strangely reminded of SQL syntax (emphasis mine):

"The language contained an operator ITEM n OF s, which would return the nth word of the string s. (Yes, that was a basic operator in the expression language; a function call syntax or a separate standard library would certainly have been well beyond the programmer's mental horizon.) But you could also alter the implicit use of whitespace as the ‘word’ separator, by writing ITEM n OF s SEPARATED BY d; this would allow you to, say, fetch the third field of a colon-delimited line. So far, nothing too out of the ordinary – except that one now naturally wonders which way ITEM a OF ITEM b OF c SEPARATED BY d would bracket, since it's exactly isomorphic to the well-known if–else ambiguity."
You might be able to find some matching people in the images from folklore.org (great site for you early Mac fans out there).

http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&...
"Design" -- an underlying formula or pattern.

How could 2000 pages not have some sort of design? Have you seen the diagrams of all the things the bill creates?

I'll grant you that perhaps for many members they are so inept as to have this design be implied instead of explicit, that doesn't make the underlying pattern go away.

This is like the discussions we have with programmers who say they have no time for design. Look - you can't code without designing. The question is whether you're upfront about it, haphazard about it, or whatever.

You can't have 2000 pages of law without implementing some kind of design, no matter how you went about getting it.
I second the parent. The typical inventor thinks the description and drawings are important, while they are really secondary to the claims which are what is legally protected. Unfortunately, writing a good set of claims is an art that can only be mastered through a lot of experience and research into what has been effective with the USPTO in addition to what has been upheld in court. While this is not out of reach of the HN audience, your time would be better served by innovating and letting a good IP law firm handle the patent. This will be expensive -- costs are at least $10K, and software patents typically will cost more because prosecution (arguing with the USPTO why your invention is patentable) will be longer. IMHO, the whole process is soul-sucking and why I no longer practice patent law.

However, if you do wish to proceed the best play to start would be with the official Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP):

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep.htm
> Resistance training however typically provides a metabolism boost for the rest of the day (i.e. until you next sleep.) That's why it's helpful to work out in the mornings.

Source please? I've never heard this
Andrew Wiles worked on Fermat's last theorem for six years in complete secrecy while he was at Princeton. Thus it's simply not true that isolated concentration is not possible in the American math world.
What makes it funnier is that they mention 6 and there were actually 8 ads in the screenshot.
One of the reasons you've been downvoted is that Canonical did not "pick a release date to coincide with that of Windows 7." Ubuntu releases on April and October of every year. They've done this since the inception of the distro.
But often, people _do_ want the latest versions of software. Remember when Firefox 3 came out a month or so after Ubuntu did? Everyone was stuck on FX2 for 5 months. Forums were filled with "omg I type apt-get upgrade firefox and I still don't have FX3, wtf???/"
The "web encryption" being discussed are the TLS and SSL protocols.
"This is despite the fact that these drugs do not work "

You go from a report on SSRI anti-depressant medication not working to claiming no anti-depressant medication works?
"Good techniques I learned from various sources were pre-reading..."

Thank you. These are the kind of notes I am looking for.
"It's the same reason why car insurance isn't optional."

You can choose not to drive.
Besides the horrible graphic design/flash and the fact that this is rife with errors... is there any proof that this is anything but a scam?

edit: according to the wikipedia article on this company, they were supposed to have began construction of the station in 2008. Here's another couple of sources instead of the atrocious official site:

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5A151N...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/05/content_1239037...

(according to xinhua, it's "expected to be constructed of connecting pods," which would indicate that it has not yet begun construction. I still think this is a scam- somehow I doubt they'll be able to get a station up there and ready to go in three years)
I don't know that I'd agree. Photoshop.com provides a subset of the features that Photoshop has, and the name's a derivative. It's sufficiently distinct that it shouldn't be confused with Photoshop, but still gets the brand bonus from being associated with it.
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My issue with this is that it presumes "healthcare" and "medical care" are the same thing. Study after study after study indicates that diet and lifestyle are major factors in health outcomes and greatly influence your odds of suffering the deadliest conditions. But getting a prescription for a pill is a lot easier than making dietary and lifestyle changes, so a great many people will go that route and then complain about the high cost of medicine when they wouldn't need medication and frequent doctor's visits if they just took care of themselves. If you really want to bring down medical costs, people will have to start taking better care of themselves. Restructuring how we pay for it won't do a heckuva lot towards lowering costs if people continue to pursue self-destructive lifestyles. To the degree that it adds regulation and bureaucracy, the odds are good it will increase costs.
It's not that hard for even a youth to get a job that gets you past the subsidy provisions... well, at least in a normal economy... but I hear what you're saying. Part of what I'm saying though is it is not just an instantaneous transfer; as "youth" move up into their 30s and 40s, they'll be transferring wealth up the chain, and in their 30s and 40s probably still not needing a lot of medical services on average. It's not just today, it's the next 30 years of your life that you'll be experiencing a high marginal tax rate. Which as we all know, under Democratic theories of economics, nobody ever considers the question of marginal tax rates when making decisions about their jobs, of course.

"Not a really helpful attitude towards engineering a solution, but the GOP hasn't been on top of this issue at all in the last 30 years while every other industrialized country on Earth has at least given it a good go."

Well, I've actually liked the GOP proposals that I've read. Yes, the ones that do in fact exist. (Claims that the GOP have offered no solutions are one of the most blatant lies of the entire process; it's simply objectively false. You may not like them but they exist. Another example of our media being either incredibly biased or totally unwilling to follow up on the statements of politicians.... reader's choice.) It's not particularly relevant because if they had to craft a bill that might actually pass in the real world it would get bogged down in all kinds of crap, but there's so much low hanging fruit in the system that the current bill still manages to fail to address in 2000 pages, such as tort reform.
Is this a joke?
If not, it's simply awesome.
If someone goes into the emergency room and can't pay for their service, the taxpayers pay the bill. So, by the analogy, the requirement should be to cover anything that the doctor must do because the cost could fall to the taxpayer.

Part of the argument in defense of the bill is that the mandate will save taxpayer money because the uninsured will now be forced to pay their own way. Yet despite this claim, I don't seen any provision for returning this savings to the taxpayer? Where is this supposed savings going? Either it is mythical or it's just going to be eaten up by the bureaucracy.

And also, if the person cannot afford their emergency room bill, they won't be able to afford the insurance either, and thus will get subsidized insurance. So one way or another, the taxpayer pays.
"The public option would effectively be just another insurance plan offered on the open market. It would likely be administered by a private insurance provider, charging premiums and copayments like any other policy. In an early estimate of the House bill, the Congressional Budget Office forecast that fewer than 12 million people would buy insurance through the government plan."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10...
A pretty decent reference. Some of it would be easier to read if it was formatted better. ie. all the flags really don't need two lines to explain them.
Well, read this book if you want more information than a single article can provide: http://www.amazon.com/Mad-America-Medicine-Enduring-Mistreat...
The author seems to be stretching quite far to reach her conclusion, which seems to be to be that intuition is just another aspect of emotional response. The difficulty I have had in trying to explain this intuition is that there is a feeling of confusion attached, which superficially seems like it just goes to prove her point.

I don't think it does, though, and hopefully I can argue my way through this without stepping on any traps.

The argument of the author seems to rest largely upon the function of the amygdala. Because it lights up when exposed to stimuli where the recipient has a memory of that stimuli associated with some undesirable outcome, her assertion seems to be that amygdala must be the basis behind our reaction to all things our memory has build intuitive associations of outcomes around. I think this is a conclusion we can't yet draw. Because these research subjects are able to isolate important photos in a series based upon some intuition of a prior exposure, this doesn't mean I will always build an intuitive order of things based upon my own prior recollections about my emotional state of mind. As Mz points out as well, it makes a tremendous assumption about memory.

This almost reads like she wants this to be true. If this is the case, she is not the only one. I've had a number of discussions about this with other people who seem emotionally reactive toward things, who have expressed a desire for similar findings, because then they can declare that the emotional snap judgments they had which resulted in very bad outcomes were as good as they could've possibly done. Based on anecdotes from people in my life, this seems wrong; hence, my intuitive sense that this author's conclusions are faulty doesn't seem entirely out of line. Both intuition and experience are feeling confused.
Any stories/tips?

I've always read very fast and don't know any convenient way to describe to you how I do it. Sorry about that.

However, I had to be taught to read aloud fast, for competitive speaking purposes. I'm told by other people that did the same exercises that I did that their silent reading speed increased, as we were constantly pushing our speaking rates up and you have to read faster than you talk or bam problems. (Competitors in collegiate forensics often speak more than several hundred words per minute.)

The easiest way to acquire the ability to speak fast is to drill, drill, drill -- pick a newspaper and start talking, then go faster. The thing to keep in mind is that your eyes have to arrive at the word faster than your lips do. As you do that, you'll discover shortcuts which "work for you" (largely subconscious for me -- I know, because I've made mistakes in ambiguous sentences, that I must not actually be reading everything my brain processes as being there).

(Sidenote: if for some reason you need to be able to speak faster or with more confidence, I recommend shadowing a newscaster: just repeat what they say, as they say it. This is an exercise they teach simultaneous interpreters and it is much harder than you think it would be.)
And a FYI - SSH is not vulnerable to it.
The reason wars between countries are so rare is that the U.S. has military bases in 132 countries. Countries with U.S. military bases do not fight each other. If you dream of world peace, you should be supporting the American Defense Department and Pax Americana.
I agree that assert statements are good.

The language should be flexible enough that you can write them in the language, and not have to rely on the language providing them.
"Comprehensive" is a pretty tall claim, this doesn't really seem to stand up to it.
Did you work for ebaumsworld?
Rush Limbaugh has been saying this for years. He doesn't exercise (unless Golfing can be considered exercise), but uses various diets to loose weight with a fair degree of success. An obese person just can't burn enough calories to make a difference. The input has to be reduced.
The article doesn't make any claims to being anything near comprehensive. The author describes it as being his own bash cheat sheet, and posted it just in hopes other people would find helpful what he found helpful.

A change of submission title might be in order here.
And would it make sense for our bodies to do this? I can see expending energy on repair and muscle growth, but why would our bodies maintain a higher metabolic rate if there were no reason to given that the tendency seems to be to conserve energy as much as possible?
Well, he's an American, but there is a 2-part blog post here that details some of the reasons American pilots were better: http://pajamasmedia.com/ejectejecteject/2008/01/01/forty-sec...

If nothing else you'll learn about John Boyd, one hell of a model American.
"One interesting scenario I saw pointed out that the entire idea of forcing purchase of coverage like this is very Constitutionally dubious."

There is no direct way for it to be lawful. It has to be done indirectly using an actual authority of Congress. For instance, they could say "A person shall not engage in interstate commerce unless they buy a policy or pay the fine." I predict this is what they will do; those Congressmen really love that Commerce Clause.

But note that the nondiscrimination amendment requires them to treat all persons equally, regardless of place of residence or incorporation. This means foreigners! If a guy in Cincinnati can't call California without buying insurance, then neither can a Chinaman.

If enforced, this will instantly detonate the entire global economy.

If not enforced, then foreigners will be explicitly elevated over citizens. This is not a recipe for political tranquillity, to put it mildly.
Does zdnet understand what zero-day really means?
Actually, most of us have not memorized the solution to every problem. We are simply more able and willing to apply logic to situations involving computer problems.
$(>/path/to/a/file)

This isn’t exactly a variable, more a method of reading
files

Do not use this for reading files. This will overwrite the file in question. The correct syntax is:

$(</path/to/a/file)
Gimp isn't a nightmare for Photoshop users just because of usability. It's a nightmare for Photoshop users because most of the features we rely on (say, layer grouping and layer blending effects) are flat out missing.
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Great app but personally I don't find it that useful.
I'd rather learn in an environemt which is actually representative for real life.
For instance download the sample code and actually experiment in my own environment with preferred IDE and all.

I think that partly has to do with my reluctance of constantly switching environments.
(That's why I for instance use Eclipse for ... well.. yeah pretty much everything programming related)
Anyone know of a good book where I can wager against this?
There are some truths in there, but he's committing the exact same sin he's criticising the manager for: He couldn't care less what they do, except to conclude that it's worthless.

He doesn't want to be called the IT-guy, but managers are invariably fools for asking for help that falls slightly out of the job description.

He is justifying reading blogs about cats because he was up until 1 am, but the managers secret about spending half the day watching ESPN "is safe with him". Seriously? Like a manager never had to work late?
Before the film Office Space, there was no red version of the swingline stapler. After the film, they were inundated with requests for a red version of their stapler.

So they manufactured it.
When I've been slacking, then I start running again, I get hungry.
I'm curious how they prevented people from eating more than normal after exercise. As they pointed out, a sports drink will more than cover the calories lost. On workout days, I would bet, people were taking in an extra 1k or more calories.
In this community downvoting someone into oblivion for getting a detail wrong in a non-trollish comment is out of place.
So many south asia related articles lately.
I think it's time for an Indian HN :)
a culture that thrived on rhetoric and fear

Not any less than the Cold War culture did here. From my experience, citizens of the Soviet Union were a lot more cynical and jaded regarding their governments' fear mongering than their American counterparts.

...all this made mathematicians suspect

Math, suspect? Because it challenged Stalinism? This is nonsense.
Tell HN: Couldn't Sleep Last Night, Wrote a (No-Flash) HTML5 Viewer for YouTube
Another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
This is a great article from the Atlantic profiling air force pilots and the F-22: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/air-force.
yeah, too bad he wants to tear it down and build a new one in its place. I love old 1920s style Stucco homes. They have a hell of a lot more character and style than anything new. It's sad to see the house lived in in those photos and now its derelict and empty and rotting away.
I was bored last night and browsing YouTube in bed on my MacBook, and as usual, when I reached an HD video the fans kicked in and the laptop got hot. Since YouTube now stores the .mp4 version of (most) videos on their servers, I figured it was inevitable that someone had coded something or the other to take advantage of it and view them in streaming format via HTML5 video containers.

When I didn't find one I wrote this instead. It's really basic, but it gets the job done. Give it a YouTube link and it'll display the HTML5 video. The userscript adds a link to the HTML5 viewer for all video pages on YouTube.
"If the court sides with these patent applicants it would open the door for all sorts of “processes.”"

Patents are already granted for software and if software is not the description of processes, I don't know what it is. So why say it "would open the door"?...
Moral of the Story: Don't rely on Skype for major presentations.
The Serbian downing of the F-117 almost certainly had more to do with a spy in NATO relaying flight path info on a moonlit night, making visual contact possible. But as is the case of all black bag operations, the real story will likely stay hidden.
Actually, this is spam.