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> As I pointed out the US has a tax-payer supported medical system with universal coverage.

Really? From what I know, the US has Medicaid (means-tested), Medicare (>65), and other ones like Veterans, but nothing that covers the bulk of the population. A lot of people are either uninsured, or underinsured, and so unable to get decent healthcare.

I'm not in the US, so I'm not 100% on the various programs, but perhaps you can explain the discrepancy between your comment (US has universal health care) vs. the opening of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_State... and http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-Pr...

Also from that article, the US seems to have one of the least efficient health care systems in the world, yet has poorer health care in real terms than other countries with public health (eg. most of Europe):

"More money per person is spent on health care in the United States than in any other nation in the world,[6][7] and a greater percentage of total income in the nation is spent on health care in the U.S. than in any United Nations member state except for East Timor."
Our original name. God I hated that, glad its gone.
For all the "you may know about Bernstien because... " stuff at the beginning of the article, I can't believe "because he's a pretentious, self-important douche" didn't make the list. And it's not that it's completely and totally undeserved. The dude is sharp. I just prefer it when people let others pile the accolades on. And they would come if he didn't toot his own horn so much. His rants typically leave a bad taste in my mouth. His quotes here are not exceptions to this rule.
It's weird that it didn't catch that it was the same post, like it usually does. I didn't see yours when I looked either. Sorry.
Decentralizing key management is surely one of the key positions of dnscurve. In the vein of Templeton's expository on friction-free crypto & TLS.

http://ideas.4brad.com/overengineering-and-non-deployment-ss...

Thanks for reposting the OpenDNS news. Had missed it.
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Apparently, enough people are interested in this particular bug to vote it up. It was news to me at least. Hopefully next time I'll find my own article in Google and remember, since it wasn't a very Google friendly problem before.
There isn't anything about our market, because we're not specific to any of them. If you are a journalist, write about what you are interested in. So far, we've had interest from people who write about finance, about tech, about gaming, and lots and lots of local journalists.
Use of a device at home does not automatically beget use of that device at the office.

For example, over 50 million Nintendo Wiis are installed in homes around the world, but nobody is clamoring for "Wiimote" apps at work.

The iPad surely has the potential to change the way casual home users interact with their computers... but I believe pg's comparison to microcomputers in the enterprise is a misplaced analogy.

Paul, if you're reading this, I urge you to spend a few days observing the 'knowledge workers' at a bank, claims processor, hospital, or real estate developer. Watch how they have memorized all the shortcuts and quirks of their custom line-of-business apps. You'll discover a class of users who want power and control, not simplicity and ease-of-use.
The article was good, but the personal life stuff was a waste of time.

The message is clear - don't be afraid to see what others are blind to.
Tell HN: I want a managed router for my house
It's rare for anyone to connect a broadband modem directly to a single computer anymore. Almost everyone plugs his modem into a consumer-grade WiFi AP/Router device which costs < $50. The basic stuff works well enough, but it's fundamentally broken for many reasons:

A WiFi router connected to the 'net is both the riskiest and most important piece of my house's network security. Does my firmware have an exploitable bug? Is my firewall properly configured? I'm a developer, and I'm not entirely certain that my own routers are configured properly. What are my parents supposed to do? Router manufacturers rarely update firmware to fix bugs or provide additional functionality, and there have been many cases where even publicly available security issues went un-resolved. Must I buy a new router every few months?

More and more devices are competing for limited bandwidth. I had to do a bunch of Googling to find a script to give a low QOS to backblaze.com traffic. Had I not done this, initial back-up of my desktop computer would have taken WEEKS longer. Grandma doesn't want to understand iptables. When a router was used so two computers could be used to browse the web, little configuration was required. But now...

Here's what I want....A router where maintenance, configuration, and continuous security are not afterthoughts. I'm imagining a WiFi router that looks pretty much like any other consumer-grade router except that, instead of providing a crappy web interface for configuration, it phones "home" to StartupX's router management service. I go to startupx.com and use the nice, helpful configuration utilities to tell my router what services it ought to be providing. And, by service, I don't mean "forward UDP/TCP to port X locally" -- I mean "I use Skype from my desktop computer, so make it fast please." Oh, and I use backblaze, so make it fast as long as it doesn't hinder anything else. And, help me pick the right kinds of wireless security for the devices in my house. Could the router also have a continuously-updated active firewall? Could I teach it which device is my Droid just by pulling up a special web site when commanded by the management site? Oh, and I use BitTorrent.....can you make sure I don't screw that up royally?

From a touchy-feely standpoint, I want to be confident that I'm not exposing myself to security risks I'm unaware of. And, I just want this problem to go away. I'm willing to pay not only for the device, but I'll pay per month for management, updates, and support.

I did some brief Googling and couldn't find anything like this for consumers. Various ISPs are selling managed routers for businesses, but nobody is in the consumer space. Am I off my rocker? After spending a few hours over the holidays updating the routers in my house, I started thinking about alternatives. I'm posting this here because this is something I want to buy, but it's not a business that I think I'm well-suited to start.

Edited shortly after initial posting.
"I am curious as to why you think you can't ask for a reference simply because the company is small?"

Because he's in stealth search mode?
> I am curious as to why you think you can't ask for a reference simply because the company is small?

Maybe I will, but there's only one other person there who would be credible as a reference of my work, and it's a flip of a coin. Best case, I get a great reference, worst case, a cold shoulder and sacrifice a good bit of credibility for the remainder of my tenure. So I'm wary of breaching that barrier.

And as nfnaaron said, I'd really prefer that nobody at my workplace be aware of my job hunt.
How is this any different from the iphone app store? Seems like he took advantage of opportunities (entering and placing 3rd in the developer challenge). I'm not a mobile developer but I think its safe to say these are "wild west" times, all he's saying is it's worth looking into ...
The YC motto: make something people want. Journalists do not want to be exploited for pennies, so that is not a product we would be involved in.

I would not be happy getting rich by exploiting others, and newslabs won't be involved in anything like that.
Part two is here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/10-rules-for-wri...
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I feel that the contrast between the previous version of this app and the one I've put together is that sort of thing. With 95% of the committed code to my name, I really wish I could just walk into an interview and pop open gitk, along with a demo of each version. I transformed a hacked-together pseudo-RIA with significant usability flaws and the same code in four different places, into what I think is a really lovely single-page app with granular browser history (the type you see in Gmail), preferences, the whole nine yards...But I don't think any employers interview that way (if any do, I'd like to meet you!).
I have something in mind along those lines, and I'm going to provide at least two or three ways to create custom datasets from my 'snapshot of the Web.' I thought about your suggestion of allowing customers to execute their own scripts over the snapshot but the security issues involved are my big concern. I would need a way to sandbox it. My plan right now is to offer the ability to run simple data tasks on the snapshot. For example, regex (filtered for things like SSN matchers, and so on), a language with a limited vocabulary for grabbing features with certain textual of visual characteristics, or even something as simple as xpath. I would run these tasks on the cluster and the result would be returned to the customer.
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Apparently. I've been talking to Dorian about this stuff for the last year or so, and I think he's got some real insight in places. Especially around figuring out what to build and how long that might take.
"Odd person to imagine as an advocate of health."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
I think the key would be whether Apple engineers would prefer to develop on iPad. That, or a shift in the way iPad/iPhone apps are developed.
so young...Keep up the great work!
It was a single tweet (http://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/3875573878). A more direct translation is "book I want".

I'm glad the site links to the source, though. I like easy to verify testimonials.
Understand and you always have to be cautious about this. You can still use the reference and get around this though by letting the company you are interviewing with know ahead of time that your current employer is not aware you are looking and you would like to proceed cautiously. Most employers understand this.
jQuery and PNGs are actually not HTML5. I'd recommend checking out the CSS animation / transitions modules at the W3C to get familiarized. Safari's implementation is actually hardware accelerated. Also, check out the SVG animation module. See the ADC for a pretty nice selection of examples which do actually rival Flash websites, often without even using JavaScript.
Hard to say, sales are sales, people paid real cash for his product. The promotional boost is nice, but if the product was no good, no one would buy it either way.
Totally agree that being featured is not something you can count on. I was shocked myself to find it on the featured list one morning. I just wanted to share some of my figures, and point out that there is potential out there. We hear a lot of iphone success stories, but not a lot of Android ones.
I don't know if I quite agree with that.

If you look at a lot of value investors / contrarians, you will see that a good number of them were exposed early on to the kinds of irrational thinking that can occur with crowds. I think these experiences make it much easier to take the approach where you go buy something that everyone else hates.

Buffett grew up when the Great Depression was still fresh in people's minds. Carl Icahn experienced prejudice for being jewish. George Soros had to hide from Nazis as a child.
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From what I'm getting, it seems the current and future generations of young people are adapting to computers, not shying away. Sure people who grew up before PCs may love this type of stuff (because it's more intuitive to them), but they'll eventually all pass away. Intuition is based on what we know and are used to, and the current generation is growing up on PCs. That's why I'm wary that dumbing down computer for "normal folks" is the future.

If the iPad replaces traditional computers, it will only be because using a touchscreen and virtual keyboard is more practical than a mouse and a physical keyboard.

Also as a tradeoff to simplifying the experience, the experience is also weakened. And as users become more savvy, they'll want to try out new stuff. These things may not be compatible with the iPad platform because of its closed nature. There are eventually going to be some scenarios where some cool new thing only works on open platforms like OS X or Windows (or linux).

Also I'd like to add that one of most popular reasons I hear from friends who don't like mac is that it dumbs down the experience. That it's for people who don't know how to use computers (like their parents). I actually had this same faulty preconceived notion until I found out programmers usually preferred os x (and switched).
Would have been nice to briefly describe the App and what did he did to make it successful. The latter one in more detail.
Jason, I trust your judgement. If you want me to interview Zee, email me and I'll invite him to an interview.
In these situations: Getting published or landing a talk at a well-known conference helps. So do certifications and degrees, as much as I hate to say it.

A lot of the questions asked of your references are less about what you know and how good you are at a given technical skill, and more about work ethic, how you think, disposition, and how well you work on a team, under pressure, and what you do during downtime at work. These are the kinds of thing that any previous supervisors, mentors or co-workers could answer.
Not being snarky here but how can anyone seriously consider Scalaris for any data that's even remotely important?

http://code.google.com/p/scalaris/wiki/FAQ#Is_the_store_pers...?
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If there is an axis of "commonness" upon which things can be measured, with "never happens" on the left side, and "always happens" on the right side, then "uncommon" would be a small section on the left, and "common" would be a small section on the right; everything between these sections could be "not uncommon."
Video sounds really cool, but our niche doesn't seem to care for it much. It's mostly the high end dealers that like them. Maybe one day when we target them.
Ahh yea! That's what I was looking for the whole time on your site. Good article ...
I keep hearing that the iPad isn't for coders, but I'm designing a development tool for it anyhow.
Fair enough, I was just curious exactly how you saw the issue.

My concern on security is how do you transmit the PIN used to view the password? Unless I'm misunderstanding, and it's something more akin to pushing a password to another user's account.

I think your product does a good job, I'm just not sure if the pain is sufficient to overcome the additional complexity of requiring yet another transaction to a third party. What advantage does this offer over a tokenized link that allows you to set your password? It could also expire on opening/set time, which would address the email/security issues above.
I don't have a problem with paying a business partner 30% if it makes sense. In the past, I built a business where I only had one client, IBM...they sold my app frameworks into their clients...big honkin' enterprise deals. They dictated the terms at all times. Life was good for a few years, but the party did end. My issue with Apple isn't how much they want for their cut, its that there is no choice...only one market, they control all the terms.
I am a complete sucker for all things Life. Awesome!
PfSense or m0n0wall for something basic, you supply the hardware.

There is untangle.com also, they may have something closer to what you are looking for.
I think this article misses the point a bit.

Well, if having to use 6 nestled divs, large-number positive and negative margins and all kinds of bullshit like that isn’t an ugly hack, then I don’t know what is.

Point 1: If your css contains large number positive and negative margins, you are probably doing something wrong in the first instance.

Point 2: Whilst tables may be an easier/less hacky/whatever solution the fact is, is that they are terrible for accessibility. At least with your nested divs a screen reader can still (hopefully) make sense of your document and make the web a little bit nicer for someone who requires assistive technology.

Disclaimer: I'm a front-end developer so this kind of thing is my bread and butter.
I think Malbiniak has a good point. I do a fair amount of interviews (all technical) and what's most important is your ability to think well and know your stuff. If you do well in the interview I'll give a 'hire' recommendation, at which point your references may or may not be checked by the hiring manager. Not having a reference for your most recent employer would be okay.

I think Google would also be a fine place to submit your resume - in my experience they're focused more on your ability.
I use the authorize CIM for this purpose. It works well. It's just an additional monthly fee on top of the other stuff you pay, so it's not any more expensive to charge cards you have stored.
He has two previous blog posts which describes that in more detail:

http://eddiekim.posterous.com/my-android-app-sales-figures

http://eddiekim.posterous.com/android-sales-figures-after-wi...
The feature has actually been live for a month (or two?). We just haven't had much UI pointing to it, so it's very likely you have seen it before.

The fork queue doesn't show diffs or commit comments, or differences between branches on the same repo (for instance: reviewing a topic branch). Similarly, the compare view does not allow comparing across forks (yet).
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Or just put your resume out there to jobs that seem like good fits. I recently had a very odd interview experience where despite offering multiple times to provide references (and code samples) I was never asked for either.

And got a pretty big offer anyway. The whole deal was atypical in my experience and I'm not sure I'd recommend taking a job where the reference question isn't even asked.

Also, go ahead and use your old references. Interviewers should be able to ferret out your tech skills and the references just prove you weren't an ax murderer at your old jobs.
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Amazon pioneered Dynamo, a NoSQL-style scalable distributed key-value store, for building many of their site's internal services upon. It's backed by BDB and can be tuned to guarantee disk writes across multiple nodes if needed. See the paper below.

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.h...
Startup Battlefield? This sounds like a bad reality TV show. Albeit one that I would still be unable to stop watching.
I can imagine how it would work tying her philosophy to one's entire life. My current interest however is just building something that helps some target audience kick ass.

The recent Mixergy interview with Simon Sinek actually ties into it well, at least it did to me: http://mixergy.com/start-with-why-simon-sinek/
You're right that it's an oversimplification (and frequently an inaccurate and harmful one) to lump people into two groups. You're wrong about the rest though.

Pretty much everyone uses a computer at some point nowadays, and most people are not intelligent educated professionals, ergo most computer users are not intelligent educated professionals. I would suspect fewer than 1% of Facebook users even know about that incident.

Also many people specialize in certain softwares, Excel being a great case in point. I know some accountants who can do things in Excel that baffle me, but still have to call me to set up their Wi-Fi network password for them. They are educated professionals who spend most of their working hours in front of a PC, yet are still not at all sophisticated computer users.
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I'd like to see hardware for it. A docking port that made it accept a real keyboard might make me want to buy one. A virtual keyboard's fine for browsing Facebook, but I couldn't do any real work on one without wanting to kill myself. The ability to type while looking at the screen with nearly flawless precision is just too good to give up.
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BigSheets lets users analyze unstructured data from the Web using tools similar to those found in desktop spreadsheet software.
Looks like yours didn't have a trailing slash.
I know I'm probably one of like 5 HNers who gives a shit about OpenSolaris, but it looked pretty dicey there for a bit, and I'm glad Peter Tribble posted this and that there seems to be some movement and support from Oracle.
Apple sells a keyboard dock: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
http://images.apple.com/ipad/specs/images/keyboard_dock_1_20...
I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air
Reading this gives me hope, but leaves me dumbfounded.

I've seen about $30 in two weeks from a simple game I have in the Android market. It's not a terrible game, but it's not great either. The free-version reviews are not very good (technical reasons), but some people who bought the paid version left raving reviews.

Like everything else, it's about quality and marketing. Once you leave the "just in" page in the Android market, you vanish. If you want to make this kind of money, I "guess" you better be good enough to be featured, have a 4-5 star rating, and find ways to get noticed (blogging, etc). That being said, I haven't done any of these - so it's all assumption.

As for price, I can attest that for my second game I put out, lowering my price killed sales. The numbers weren't high enough to say what price works or not, but statistically, lowering didn't work. The price was raised from $0.99 to $1.99 again today and I'm waiting for new results.
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What do your users hope are your plans for the iPad?
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It certainly limits it from being useful if you don't have dollars to throw at high-end infrastructure, but it's not quite as terrible as it sounds. Effectively all it means is that you can't cold start it. How big a problem this is depends like anything else on the application in question.
I have to say, he handled it very well considering the circumstances. I don't think Divvyshot was at fault here either, his responses to Daniel were perfectly understandable.
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Me too, and undoubtedly dozens of others.
Were you also the first to do a car locator app on android? It seems there are quite a few on iPhone already and I'm just wondering how much of a "first mover" advantage you may have had, if any?
There are two kinds of people. Those who like to fiddle around with technology per se, and those who use it as a means to an end. Just because most of your friends are in the former category doesn't mean most young people are.

Also as a tradeoff to simplifying the experience, the experience is also weakened.

This is a classic geek fallacy. This is the reason smart phones were so godawfully unusable before the iPhone came out. Ask any designer—removing things can dramatically improve a user experience because it decreases the cognitive load.

There are eventually going to be some scenarios where some cool new thing only works on open platforms like OS X or Windows (or linux).

Definitely. I'm not quite ready to jump on the iPad world-domination bandwagon just yet. But keep in mind that many cool new things will only work on the iPad as well, and it remains to be seen how locked down the iPad will remain, so this isn't a definitive argument by a long shot.
Do you really think there is good reason to develop on handhelds or do you just think that solving this problem might be a good way of unexpectedly solving other problems?