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Practically speaking, JavaScript is already a requirement to get Flash embedding to work correctly across all browsers without the headache -- hence tools like SWFObject, flashembed.js, etc.
That was honestly one of the better ads I've ever seen.
I don't know & I don't care. IMHO video is the killer-app that made Flash a must-have everywhere. When it's down to games, Flash is a nice-to-have like Shockwave ended up being.
Assuming that the IQ test that Kim took was the kind that uses 16 points per standard deviation (some, IIRC, use 15), that puts him almost seven standard deviations above the mean. It seems to me that once you get above five standard deviations (i.e., the top 99.9999% of the population), tests of “general intelligence” aren’t really measuring anything more than the ability to max out whatever subtests that particular test author chose to include.
The download/appliance is a VMware image (ergo, a virtual appliance). This means you must have a VMware server somewhere on your LAN.
> For health insurers to be profitable, they need young healthy people to have policies and pilfer elderly sick people.

That's not true. To be profitable, they need the same thing that every biz needs - more revenues than expenses.

You can be profitable insuring any group - you just need to charge members of that group more than it costs to cover them.

If you think that any group is being hosed, set up an insurance company that covers them and no one else. Charge them what you think they cost (plus a bit so you're profitable) and steal customers from companies that charge more. If you're right, both you and your customers will benefit significantly.

Insurance is a way to reduce variance. However, the value of reducing variance has limits. If price charged to a group significantly exceeds their perceived average costs, they won't pay and will go bare.

How much are you willing to subsidize someone else's costs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
"...how can insurers make money without having premiums go through the roof?"

Easy. By getting health insurance "reform" passed in congress that requires by law that all those young people get health insurance as well, without actually substantially changing anything else.
Russ Wilcox steps down as CEO of E Ink
just thinking the same thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Post_War_...
The original purpose of IQ tests was not to predict who would go on to the most brilliant career, but to help teachers recognize who would need special help in classes. In that context I think the distinction between 120, 150, and 180 IQ is meaningful.
This isn't asking if people here have health insurance, but is linking to an opinion piece about the US health insurance industry. (Title has subsequently changed - article is still off topic in that it's essentially about politics. IMO).

Yes, by the way, I have health insurance: I live in Italy and it's provided by the government, and is pretty good, although it has problems of its own. In a way, my favorite aspect of it is that it's one less hassle in my life: I simply don't have to worry about it.
Even highest IQ single man can have is small when compared with capacity of few people combined into a good problem solving process.

Two people with IQ 120 can be smarter than one with 210. Not to mention if they all use computers.
I was going to comment on how clever this is. I thought it was very funny until the end when I had to visit their website for an explanation of the magic trick.
No, I've decided that it doesn't make sense for me right now. When I stopped working at at a law firm, my cobra payments were $600/month. Since the law firm ceased to exist (heller ehrman), even the option to even pay $600/month for that premium care lasted only a few months. Independent of some sort of union, my cost will be around that same $600/month for the lowest level of HMO with large copays, and this is what I did for a few months before deciding it didn't make sense.

I am relatively young (33), relatively healthy (knock on wood), and I have a decent enough network in India such that I can drop in on a moment's notice. In India, healthcare is 10-30% of the cost for similar care (American run hospitals, often by universities like Harvard). There are other concerns, but purely on cost, its actually cheaper to fly from NY to India or another country and have many popular medical operations performed. An MRI costs $1500 here, in India its $100. A broken arm can cost $25,000* here with hospitalization, less than $1000 in India.

This leaves me wide-open for catastrophic events, for which I wish I could buy "urgent-only" insurance to cover this small probability. I'd like to insure my urgent care in the US but for anything else that requires a doctor and is not urgent, I'll take care of it elsewhere, likely planned around vacation.

Some people seem to have decent rates and plans for their small companies, but I'm finding quoted rates much higher for very new companies or individuals than they used to be.

(* edit: I've never broken my arm but I got the 25k # from a reddit conversation about ridiculous emergency room hourly costs for the uninsured. A quick google search for "broken arm cost" reveals that though 25k may be high, ppl have reported 20k and 5 figures seems to be the norm -- looks like it depends on the amount of emergency room time req'd.)
It's a snowquote - the original was Yogi Berra talking about a restaurant: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
"Creating Passionate Users" means "creating addictions," basically. This is partly why I have grown to really hate the word "passion."
Integrate results from places like StackOverflow. FWIW StackOverflow dumps are available in CC license.
Ask America: how much more wildly dysfunctional does your healthcare industry have to get before you finally admit what every other industrialized country on earth already understands: that health care is a public service, not a commodity?
Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book
What £100 item would you buy to make you feel like a kid again?
I'm talking about the feeling as though a new frontier had opened up for you, and you could do amazing things with your new computer, experience new unexplored areas on your bike, play out new scenarios with your latest action figure, or build new spaceships with your latest lego set.

It's a hard one for me, even if I increase the budget I struggle to commit to something. The nearest I get is an arcade machine loaded with all my fave games.

It's likelier for me to choose an experience than an item now, i guess, when you're younger a new item is an experience.

Why then is it as you get older you seek experiences that will give you long lived memories over new items that will allow your imagination to flourish? How do we get from imaginers to memory recallers?

Thinking about this in more detail, the kind of thing I would go for would be access to a new frontier, for me I look for the potential to create new things. In recent times I would say the following had that potential -

* Getting a broadband connection for the first time
* Getting hold of an OLPC laptop
* Getting an Android phone & hold of the SDK
* Getting into augmented reality
* Researching in RepRap 3D printers

All these for me were game changing new frontiers, new things i could create. So HN 2 questions now-

* What would be your £100 feel like a kid again item?
* And what would be your personal game changing frontier?
Note: it could be $100 or a 100 of whatever currency you spend.
Here are a couple of recommendations from someone in a similar situation:

a) use a "Roman Chair", but only a particular type of Roman Chair: one that allows the footrest to be at the same level or above the hip/stomach rest. That is this (good)
http://www.sport-n-goods.com/acatalog/92625w.jpg
rather than this (bad)
http://www.donoliver.co.nz/images/CT-2072%2045%20Roman%20Cha...

And don't use it the way they usually illustrate here
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=op...

Your back should never be hyperextended (effectively, leaning backward) as if in orgasmic bliss, as they so often show.

Instead use it like the leftmost 2 photos here
http://www.fitsugar.com/Roman-Chair-Explained-946313

The "bad" Roman Chair, the one that puts you at a 45 degree angle with your head above your hips, will likely injure your back if you have any pre-existing problem.

Instead use a Roman Chair that puts your feet and hips at the same level and allows you to hang with your head down and your torso vertical. Once you're in position (head straight down), lift yourself slowly to 45 degrees from vertical, no more, lower and try to and relax the back spinal muscles. The whole point is to use your upper-body weight to stretch out those tight spinal muscles.

Over time you can add weight. Put the weight on the floor, get in position (head down) and only then pick up the weight. The greater the weight the more your back stretches. Increase weights only slowly over the weeks.Always warm up with no weight first.

b) there are good lower back exercises from the Royal Canadian Airforce 5BX Fitness Plan at
http://www.corvedale.previewurl.com/5bx/

chart 1, exercise 2

chart 2, exercise 2

chart 3, exercise 2

Read about 5BX before starting. The chart 1 exercises are intended to be done for awhile before starting chart 2, etc. That is, don't start at chart 2. Otherwise you may hurt yourself.
That's the question I'm asking myself, too. They added a lot of functionality to VS (unit testing, TFS support etc.), but they never added more refactorings, which I and surely others would appreciate. ReSharper's refactoring functionality is right now the only reason I would consider to install the add-in, but since I didn't need any of the advanced refactorings yet, I'm keeping ReSharper away from my VS installation. I get my work done without it, so I see no need to bloat VS any more :) But, I surely can recommend to install it for various other reasons, e.g. I stumbled upon a few interesting things thanks to its suggestions.
You underestimate the power of groups to convince massive numbers of people to act against their own best interests. Just look at the astroturfing going on in the "Tea Party" movement. There is so much big money and influence going on now that it is basically an official branch of the RNC.
For health insurers to be profitable, they need young healthy people to have policies and pilfer elderly sick people.

Same as any other business. If banks want to make loans, they have to have deposits that people don't want to touch. If you want to make money on the stock market, someone has to make the opposite bet against you. If you want to make money selling airline seats, you have to assume that you'll sell every one.

Assuming other people will do something (or are wrong about something) is the basis of a lot of businesses. Nearly all of them, in fact.
Why the Internet will fail from 1995
Some interesting stuff and stats in there. For example:

Now let’s look at an e-book. Under the agreements with Apple, the publishers will set the consumer price and the retailer will act as an agent, earning a 30 percent commission on each sale. So on a $12.99 e-book, the publisher takes in $9.09. Out of that gross revenue, the publisher pays about 50 cents to convert the text to a digital file, typeset it in digital form and copy-edit it. Marketing is about 78 cents.

The author’s royalty — a subject of fierce debate between literary agents and publishing executives — is calculated among some of the large trade publishers as 25 percent of the gross revenue, while others are calculating it off the consumer price. So on a $12.99 e-book, the royalty could be anywhere from $2.27 to $3.25.

All that leaves the publisher with something ranging from $4.56 to $5.54, before paying overhead costs or writing off unearned advances.

At a glance, it appears the e-book is more profitable.
Sorry I haven't read that book. Perhaps you can tell me what you have genuinely learned from that book.
Sure. Healthcare is quite affordable for healthy 24-year-olds with no dependents.
to help teachers recognize who would need special help in classes

As opposed to SATs, which were designed to determine who was most likely to succeed in post-secondary education (which again has relatively modest correlation with career success).
I'm curious: what do you mean by "casual research"? Do you see Duck Duck Go as the free alternative for individuals who don't have a spare $10k lying around for a subscription to LexisNexis, ProQuest, etc.?
Usability Testing
I would have no problem with letting you list the feed.
Pick one and own it
I agree with you on the spotter/partner. I started lifting about six months ago, and specifically built a program that didn't require a spotter, ramping up as I get stronger. Lifting is my time to zone out and relax, and I'm not dependent on other people's scheduling problems or requirements. I also find that at a certain time of day, I just grab my bag and go to the gym. Fortunate to have one on the campus where I work, which helps.
> but that's still good for a couple thousand page views.

Reddit has become that big? No wonder nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Does anyone at the olympic lifting school know a really good, olympic lifting oriented physio? Failing that, you could perhaps contact people at olympic training centers and see if they can recommend someone.

If you can find a good one they might be able to work through some of the issues with you.
http://www.freeciv.net/
It's more about life and recovery.
The problem is that it is no longer an "insurance" system. Insurance should be for an out-of-band emergency illness/treatment, which cannot be handled via out of pocket expenses. In the US, insurance companies have become payment gateways since people tend to use it for every silly thing like minor illnesses.

The only way in which ANY insurance business can be profitable is if the circumstance that is insurance is random and un-predictable (think auto-accidents, earthquake, flood, fire). If there is any way to predict the incident, the insurance company will do everything to game the system and optimize their profits, as will the patients.
heavy weight lifting is beneficial to your ligaments tendons and joints. it's doing dozens or hundreds of reaps that are bad for them. periodization is crap. you let your muscles recover and then you workout again.

diet is outside the purview of this discussion for now. of course diet has a massive impact. that's not what we're talking about.

I am well aware of various bodyweight routines. complicated programs are not needed. I'll admit I forgot a core routine, but between that and jogging on hills you're working every major muscle group.
Blue Green Deployment
I meant either a) you quickly want to know what something is; or b) you want to sort of a explore a topic and its related topics. Zero-click info solves a and that + related topics/category pages helps greatly with b. A large % of queries fall into these two buckets.
The distinction between 150 and 180 IQ is meaningful? Really? If such a difference is reliably measured, and not easily trained by either person (e.g. by devouring a few books on vocabulary and brain puzzlers in the week before the test), then what is the meaningful difference? Both people are going to be bored out of their mind at school and are going to have to be basically self-reliant for their actual learning process for much of their lives. Feynman supposed had an IQ in the low end of that range, and a given person at the higher end probably isn't as smart in any real sense as Feynman was. Whatever the difference is there, it isn't IQ.
I think it's mostly a gimmick to make this article popular on sites like HN.

In a similar vein, stay tuned for my next two articles "Making a sandwich for Hackers" and "Cleaning your bathroom for Hackers".
Naps can refresh brain power
Google Challenges Bing's Photosynth; Adds User Photos to Street View
If cutting a cable is a huge problem for their datacenter, they aren't going anywhere near my datacenter.
Careful with conclusions. These graphs have been carefully prepared.

Notice how:

1. Paid apps and free apps are lumped together, you can't really see the difference in paid apps clearly. This is important from a developer standpoint — only paid apps will pay your salary.

2. iPhone OS is split into two platforms, while all Android devices are lumped together. Huh?

3. Everything is on a per-user basis. This is fine, but those are not the numbers you should be looking at if you are a developer (as most of us on Hacker News are). You want the aggregate market size. You want to plan your revenues. You don't want per-user statistics.
Clifford Stoll so cool he caught the first hacker
> Microsoft is really trying to follow Apple's playbook here

I see Microsoft as following Microsoft's playbook for devices. On the desktop their mantra was backwards compatibility, backwards compatibility, backwards compatibility and that worked for them. But on devices, they are far more liberal. PlaysForSure is a good example, they threw their users and partners overboard when they released Zune.
FDR's Income Tax Return from 1913
If you want to make yourself feel better go and pass Mensa entry test. As a programmer you are already highly advantaged by knowing such concepts as xor an other bitwise operations and knowing how to animate a moving point (erase it and draw it again some distance away in each frame). There are puzzles based on these concepts.

I took that test once and had all answers correct, which means I have IQ at least 156 (Binet scale) but might be much higher since I still had almost 30 minutes left.
I'm not really sure what you're asking. It would be cool though to see a timeline of accidents (or near-misses) for this merge lane. You could let current viewers add and tag them (and them verify them maybe once a day with the footage if you're recording it at all).

To make it popular, you could start talking it up and make it popular in your area with people who also care. Try putting a sign up near the merge lane saying "You're on camera. Check out this horrible merge lane live online." Or "Check out this merge lane with tagged accidents online. Don't get tagged." Or something like that, but probably shorter and sweeter. And of course don't put it too close to the actual merge lane, these people don't need any extra distractions from the look of it.

Then maybe with enough local buzz, you could actually get someone to listen and get them to do something about that intersection. It's specificly scoped, unglamorous causes like this that people rarely champion. However, those are often the causes that you can do something about if you just take the time. For instance, this guy took it upon himself to make a freeway sign more useful, and after several years, the city adopted it officially http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1047054.
no, health insurance is of negative expected utility. if it was of positive expected utility insurance would have to run at a loss.

on top of being young and healthy with a fantastic family history of health and longevity, I am highly risk averse. If anything happens to me it will much more likely be due to someone else's negligence, not mine. in addition I am poor and the state of CA allows you to retroactively sign up for medicare if you were qualified at the time the injury occurred. my cost benefit analysis will change I'm sure when I start making more money.
He didn't catch the first hacker by a long shot. He caught a hacker (and did it with a great deal of resourcefulness). Hackers had been around for quite a while when this went down.
Please define "wildly dysfunctional".
I live in Canada, and I still have health insurance. For a couple reasons; I play rugby and hockey, thus I like the little extra assurance that if something catastrophic were to happen, I am protected (or should an even worse situation happen my family is protected).

Secondly, Canadian Medicare does not cover eyes and mouth, and I love to see my computer screen and eat big juicy steaks so I want to keep maintenance costs associated with those two functions as cheap as possible. I pay about $30-40/month for that plan which if you add up is only $360-480, and otherwise if I did not have insurance I would spend more money than that at the dentist/optometrist so to me, its a good deal.

However, I am moving to the US within the next couple of months. I won't be THAT from from the Canadian border that if something small happens and I don't need immediate care, I could easily hop the border for some cheap health care but I will definitely be looking into Health plans as soon as I arrive (if not before hand).
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LoseThos 64-Bit Operating System V6.03 Released
Why Blackberry Needs Real Innovation
> head over to the smaller communities to find all the old users

can suggest a few?
Sorry but I doubt that, given that I'd much rather have a 2.1x programmer than 2 1.2x programmers.

But of course that's not necessarily correlated with IQ.
NOTE: installing custom ROMs can ban your Google account from accessing paid apps on the Android Market (but may not necessarily do so). Google 'Forward Locking' for info.
Predicting the Trajectory of Very Early Stage Companies
Principles behind a Freemium Pricing Model
Yeah we pretty much just put that up there last minute because we couldn't use the term "Lean Startup" (which is a Registered Trademark of Eric Ries). We're talking to Eric about fixing that.
Example Business Plan I've Used To Raise Angel Investment (Doc Included)
First time ever I'm relieved to have been a loser in childhood.

Incidentally, I'm starting to kick some serious butt. Get ready, World, here I come!
Is H.264 a legal minefield for video pros?
http://searchyc.com/submissions/nap+?sort=by_date

Nice to see the LA Times is bang up-to-date.
Obama's Nuclear Power Breakthrough
I recently had a physical therapist look at my 6 month old daughter at G'town hospital in DC for a routine checkup. Before I could see the therapist for a half-hour session I had to interact with 4 different people and sign so much paperwork that I felt like I was buying a house.

The system is broken.
We completely agree, and will probably change that in the future. We force signup now for 2 reasons: 1) Right now the most important thing for us is to establish product market fit. And the way we do that is by sending a survey after you take a course, and by seeing where you drop off - both require signup. 2) It lets us keep track of your state (so you can stop, start, come back), and allows you to participate in the exercise / notes, both key pieces of functionality in taking the course.
History of Journalism in America
AlphaLab starts their own Office Hours
You need the apostrophe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)

Personally, I found it much more cool when he measured the speed of sound using two mikes, a signal generator and an oscilloscope in his TED talk:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=161072

There's more:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/stoll
The problem is a very vocal minority of people that seem to think the healthcare system will fix itself or works great as it is.
Except that this one links to the actual article whereas the other one appears to have some kind of article-in-preparation link (with "not-quite-ready" in its URL) -- although it now redirects to the same place as this one.
AlphaLab is the incubation program my startup went through here in Pittsburgh, in the interest of full disclosure.

Does any other incubator program do something like this? The only thing like this I'd heard of before is Jason Fried doing it for 37signals.
The way we use health insurance nowadays is akin to using your car insurance for oil changes and checkups.
I think a good argument can be made that the US health system deters entrepreneurship because many people don't branch off and do their own thing because they are worried about finding affordable health insurance as a sole proprietor.