skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's about $1800 here in Canada.

I found out the hard way there are many things you still have to pay for yourself. For example, a doctor prescribed me Advair for asthma-like symptoms I was experiencing. It costs $200 per unit, and as someone who recently quit their day job to start my own business, it wasn't in the budget. So I just went without.
0. Are they honest? (See #1).

1. Is the person I'll directly report to a jerk or the like (unfortunate when this person changes soon after you start...).

2. Private office with a door that I can close (if my productivity isn't important to them ... that's a bad sign. If they don't even realize the significance of this, e.g. of flow, even worse).

2. b: The office also has to be warm enough; I've had to quit two jobs because there was very cold air pouring down on me and that triggered an inevitable sinus infection. They didn't listen before the latter happened and didn't care much or at all after. In general, make sure the physical environment is tolerable for you and that they care about this sort of thing.

3. EMACS is non-negotiable, although that's never been a problem.

After that, the usual stuff, much of which is already well covered in other responses.
Why do you doubt that?

I run a small filedump ( http://files.ww.com/ ) as a service for the general public and from what I can see by looking at the filenames alone (and contrary to the German court I do think they say something about the content) I'd say well over 90% is legit.

I do have a search facility on there, that's something rapidshare does not have, I think I only got away with that because it's small enough to be under the radar.

For sure there are copyrighted files in there, and I do not allow the 'rar' format (because it was universally used to upload full length movies) but the majority are small files, single images, word documents or cad files, and most people are nice enough to remove the files when they're done with them.

It was built as a convenience to get around email attachment limitations.

edit: >The greatest part is that the court thinks distributing illegal content isn't the main part of thier operation therefor they are allowed to continue the service in general.

Where did you read that?
Stay in California and get group insurance through the company you're starting up. Here in California, a company of 2-50 employees is guaranteed to be issued a policy for no more than 110% of the premium rate charged to larger companies. There are pre-existing condition limitations for up to the first six months if you have a gap in coverage, but otherwise they can't touch your rates or coverage options.

I applied for and managed a two-employee policy from Blue Cross for our company and it all worked fine, apart from the murderous 30%-a-year increases, of course. You still have to apply with medical history and so on, but it's a formality since you will always be accepted and charged the maximum rate.
If you have a medical emergency, go to the ER. They can't turn you away now and this is not scheduled to change in 2014. You may eventually have to pay for the first few days of treatment out of pocket, but that's just a moderate financial risk which is much smaller than the financial risk of doing a startup.

Continuing care will be paid for by the insurance which you buy after your accident.

Lastly, if you believe going to the doctor will be useful, either enroll in insurance or pay for the doctor out of pocket, whichever is cheaper. Up until you find yourself in that situation, you will be saving $(cost of insurance - cost of penalty).
I've not fully kept up with all the stories recently (been busy, I have a pretty open FB account anyway etc..) but as far as I was aware the only really problematic thing (from a privacy perspective) was the new favourites/likes etc. thing where certain things can appear on the "fan" page without you really realising.

I wasn't aware of anything else specific that was bending the privacy policy to the limit? Anyone care to fill me in on the TL;DR version?

(the social graph, as far as I saw, obeys your privacy settings)
Apollo 11 Launch at 500 Frames per Second
Same here on Firefox 3.6.3+ OSX 10.5.6

Looks like a badly timed choppy slideshow even after 3rd load.
The preloader looked very nice.
Why so much respect for charities? They are often hopelessly inefficient. If somebody wants to work extra for their employer, let them do it.
nice, solves my most annoying problem with kuler, is getting all the way to copying the rgb to chuck into my css
I would have bought it, yet the Amazon checkout refuses to let me pay using my Amazon gift card balance. It seems to want me to buy via credit card. If there is a way to buy it using my gift card balance I don't see it.

Ah well, and I was willing to give the developers $20 or so.
It can help if those arbitrary challenges are in some way helpful to society.

Setting a goal of say genuinely helping X number of people on stackoverflow or http://ask.sqlservercentral.com is more significant than setting a goal of a high record in Asteroids. Helping the poor or setting a goal of making a useful open source project are more significant still.

In short, succeeding in doing something both productive and challenging > succeeding in random challenge that is not productive.
For companies with more than a couple of employees, try a professional employer organization (PEO). Administaff is probably the best known; we used Ambrose at our startup.
I started a new job a couple months ago after having worked double time for months at the last job. I tend to set tough/arbitrary deadlines for myself and then struggle to meet them. I throw myself into every job like its a startup and get very into it. I have a tendency to over-work. My new boss is aware of this. I get yelled at for working until 3AM. I am told to focus on a healthy balance. Everyone is encouraged to hit the office gym. I do so most days at 4PM, and it makes me more productive the rest of the day. Fruit for breakfast and vegetables are available for lunch daily. I work from home when I'm tired of sitting in my office chair. Since starting this job my resting heart rate is down from 95 to 72.

And I'm more productive than I was at 80 hours a week and not taking care of myself. An unhealthy lifestyle is not efficient.
> I am very close to taking the startup plunge but my Type I Diabetes makes it really hard to give up my current (awesome) healthcare.

Call your current provider and ask them what they'd charge you if you quit work and wanted to pay on your own.

Pre-existing conditions are not an obstacle to getting coverage IF you don't have a break in coverage.

Note that you probably want to know how this works even if you don't take the startup plunge - quitting isn't the only way to become unemployed.
I find in a surprising number of instances today's hacker news is tomorrows mainstream news. If the tech blogs are buzzing with this story today you will often find this as a side story on mainstream news sites (the bbc etc) tomorrow.

This will get facebooks attention.
Actually, all modern emissions-compliant cars control lambda closed-loop by automatically adjusting fuel delivery, and will drop power if signals from oxygen sensors are out of the ordinary. That's required by emissions regulations. So, no, it can't. Moreover, due to speed limits, any power increase can only be realized over very short times anyway.

And while in principle you are correct about the suspension, suspension wear is not based on available power but on speed and road conditions. Since my warranty wasn't voided by driving in Boston (which has horrific road conditions compared to the Bay Area) or by speeding, it shouldn't based on increasing power either.
I'm not sure I can justify a 25% (an additional $5/mo on top of the standard $19.99) premium on my linode 360 when I can do manual weekly backups. Granted, this node is all personal projects.. should something detrimental happen to the node, it wouldn't be a problem if my backup was a few days old.

Also, the pricing is here on the right http://www.linode.com/backups/
On the other hand, idleness can be more exacting than labour. The health of unemployed people is worse than that of workers.
Thanks!

I'm very impressed by the technical smarts of the judges in this case, but I do think that a hash on a file (say a 512 bit hash) in combination with the filename would be good enough to warrant automatic removal, I really wonder if this will hold up in the longer term.
I would recommend getting short term health insurance. I had a 1 year policy from Assurant health which cost me about $50 a month.

Alternately, you could get insurance policies against the sort of things you are hugely expensive/unexpected (Cancer insurance, heart attack insurance, accidental injury, etc) and put a reasonable amount of money into a health savings account for typical expenses.
My employer uses Trinet: http://www.trinet.com/. Essentially, we outsource all of our HR functions like payroll and health insurance to them. Though we've grown quite a bit over the last 10 years, we've used Trinet since back when we had as few as two full time employees.

I can't speak to the cost side since that's not my domain, but as an employee I think they've been pretty great. It's also a huge benefit to our company not having to hassle over HR-related management issues.
They were inevitably headed in that direction. There is no other way to justify their sky-high valuation without exploiting private information.
> Is that true, by the way? Is the only way to search Rapidshare to search for published links somewhere on the internet?

I think it is, google lists some 15,000 files in the 'files' subdirectory of rapidshare ( http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Arapidshare.de ), I can't imagine that's all of them.
If you like your current coverage, call the provider and ask.

Example: I like Kaiser. I paid less than $400/month for great coverage when I was over 50 and single. (I could have paid less.)

If you're under 40, you'll pay a lot less.
Ok, I've never read their terms of service, until now. I'm guessing they have provided credit to the actual authors with a link to the original article and included a licensing notice? (not on Facebook)
Short term insurance is a bad idea. If you get an illness that requires ongoing care or treatment then they're going to stop paying when the contract is up and not let you sign up for a new one.
He did do more. He deleted his account, and told everyone on HN he had.
Yes, it does.

I wrote a small HTML5 offline-capable web app, processing a ~100KB JSON file with around 200 items. For ease of development, I initially used a JSON query library, which was perfectly fast on my laptop, a bit pokey on my 3GS, and - as I found out rather late - amazingly slow on an iPhone 3G.

I removed the library in question and rewrote my queries to use JS1.6's filter function; along with some template optimization, I managed to get the delay down to somewhat reasonable... but it's still a touch pokey on original 3G iPhones and older Android phones for my tastes.

There's likely more optimization I could have done, but I tested far too late on slower devices and just didn't have enough time. In the future we're looking at either writing a native app or using HTML5 database storage - but most importantly, testing far more regularly on slower devices. We've also reconsidered writing some truly large applications in HTML5, as we're rather worried devices will just be too slow, and we won't find out until late in development.

(The app in question is http://pax.expojunkie.com/, if anyone wants to take a look.)

tl;dr: Yes, JavaScript performance can be a problem. If you're writing a JavaScript-heavy site, get the slowest device you expect your users to have and test it regularly.
I also log my productive time and find this to be the case as well. Actually, I find 4.5 hours (6 x 45 minute blocks) a day to be the sweet spot but when you factor in breaks, it adds up to 6.
Real geeks die early
Tell HN: Something I made to see where something was posted first.
I've heard that it's pointless and the name is horrible. Although I don't want to give up quite yet. Ideas for a better name / to make it more worthwhile would be great. Thanks.

http://dexjra.com/where_first
It's true it's possible. But damage is far more likely, IMO, in other ways. The point is that a blanket ban is not justifiable. If they want to deny warranty, they have to show it was at least reasonably caused by the modification.
> And how does the address the points raised in this post -- that people will avoid going to the doctor and allow a slow problem to become a big one?

Most people don't have that problem. When/if someone thinks that they do, they can enroll at that point.
Uhh MA is going bankrupt and hemorrhaging money on its healthcare system. Who knows how long it will last.
I know we have several HN users who work at facebook. Do they:

1. Not care?

2. Not see this happening?

3. Not see anything wrong?

4. Can't do anything?

5. Know the "truth," which is substantially different than that being reported?

It seems like one of these ought to be true, and at least in the case of (1-3) should be able to report as much to us.
Isn't price gouging just one of the (albeit extreme) consequences of the market? Supply plummets, demand skyrockets.
Does Gmail's ToS forbid them from doing this? It would have to in order for it to be hypocritical. (it seems an important part of their argument.)

Their argument is B.S., of course, but I'm peevish about throwing that word around carelessly.
Every vote counts. What the masses lack in influence, they make up with in numbers... unless you discourage them with comments like yours.
But is SunSpider multi-threaded?
Clickable: http://dexjra.com/where_first

Honestly, I'm not sure what the point is either, but it sure is interesting. Definitely something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I agree with you. Of course it's not about Apple giving you a new phone if you fuck it up. It's about if something entirely unrelated to what you did fails and warranty is still denied based on the modification (ie headphone jack stops working on your jailbroken iphone).
Creating a simple estimate form in Flex
When a user clicks on a .rss URL in FF the page is rendered in a human-readable format. This aids the user in determining whether or not the feed is worth subscribing to.

Chrome displays it in plaintext. Now you've gotta import it into your reader before you decide if you really even want to subscribe.
What a nonsense.

Facebook is acting, people are re-acting. It's only natural that facebook should come under some scrutiny, for one they're huge, secondly they behave like a bull in a china shop with respect to other peoples privacy.

You've been a HN member for all of three months and 10 days, I think it is a little early to start accusing people here of being in some kind of conspiracy against facebook.

There also is no conspiracy against apple, google, microsoft or any other big name company or website.
This is quite interesting. Google said they are developing a tablet and then now, they will sell digital books.

Google I/O conference is about 2 weeks away so maybe they'll announce something there.
How about upstreamist?
I have 5.0.342.9 beta (Mac) and full page zoom is default.
And it always seems odd to me when people berate these "insignificant" actions even though they are a step in the direction many would like to go. Change doesn't happen over night.
Of course it exists. If it didn't, I wouldn't have a job.

It's just a hell of a lot cheaper a problem to deal with up here.
Sure, but what I think the article is trying to say is that programming is one of these careers that encourages people to spend _way_ too much time doing it, to the detriment of the rest of their lives; and, furthermore, that we do ourselves and our colleagues no favor by engaging in hero worship towards the most egregious examples of this.

Simply because we can't change other professions, doesn't mean we can't improve our own. And just because there are some obsessive individuals who "work themselves to death" doesn't mean the rest of us need to try to match them (or encourage them).
Whoah, that is a LOT of code for a simple embed.
Why was this getting downvoted?
I think most of the "trying Twilio out" apps published barely scratch the surface of the potential, even though many are cool. (I did one, too: time-aware phone secretary, which has totally resolved my "My family does not understand that 3:30 AM Japan time is a bad time to call for a chat" problem.)

Because everything is on your web server, you can seamlessly move data between the phone and an arbitrarily complex web interface. I think that basic pattern allows multiple disruptive applications for any industry you care to name.
Have you thought about moving to Britain? The National Health Service may cover you.
Hmmm, so anything goes as long as people still have to go to Facebook.com to get their updates.
I doubt they will do it full justice - there is over a years legal dispute in the background of this.

What the EFF are worried about (I've read their submission but the original FB brief is downloading reaaaaly slowly) is that where Facebook are claiming Power have committed a criminal offence in ignoring a cease and desist and accessing peoples accounts (apparently contrary to the ToS) the extension that could come from a favourable ruling is that individuals may be breaking criminal laws too (Cal sec 502(c) in particular).

Clearly that is silly and the EFF are asking the courts to see that.
It's the opportunity cost. When you provide an employer with unpaid labor they profit at the expense of your family/hobby/startup/charity/mental health.

Your extra time could be devoted to the benefit of people, projects, or causes dearer than your employer's pockets.
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When I read the title I thought you made something that found the original source of a syndicated/re-posted article.

Anyway, since you have a database of submissions to HN, Reddit and Digg, there's alot of interesting things to do.

Off the top of my head, how about a side-by-side view of parallel discussions?

EDIT, some more suggestions:

Make a downloadable dump of your data at the end of each day. Would be useful for all the people scraping HN for their own purposes/websites.

Twitter would be more useful than Digg, although all the short-urls do pose a problem.

Your top15 page (http://dexjra.com/row_view) is strange. Why isn't HN there except the "First at Hacker News view" part?
It's too bad you didn't give him or another broker a chance, because you spent a lot of money you didn't need to spend. He could have told you how COBRA works, saving you at least 2 months of premium (you have 60 days to sign up for COBRA, you can sign up at any time during this period and make payments retroactively - payment is due 45 days after you elect to use it).

While I'm sure you spent the time to really research the plan you selected in depth, not everyone may be able to do this. Plans that look the same can sometimes have subtle but important differences, especially with regards to coverage caps and qualified coverages.
I think that's weird! :)

The scope of medical care is really pretty insane, though. I don't really understand why I have a plan that covers both seasonal allergies and life ending testicular cancer. Those seem like services you'd "shop" for separately if they were, say, care related (oil change vs wreck), I don't really understand why people would do it differently.

That said, there's no reason you couldn't have what you wanted and me still get what I want, other than the fact that the market's so perverse no one's offering it. If you could use those HSA funds to buy into a "health maintenance plan", would you opt to do that instead? I'd rather have them be discretionary so I can pay for things like laser eye surgery or pec implants.
That's a good point, but most people on HN are well aware of the arguments for deleting one's Facebook profile. Persuasion also didn't seem to be the intent of his comment, but I could be wrong.
1) they probably do

2) they probably do

3) they probably do

4) that's probably it

5) or even worse!

Likely their influence is limited and if they don't toe the company line they'll be 'between jobs' next week or so.

Speaking out in public against company policy can get your ass canned in some companies pretty quickly.

And some do speak up:

http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/164539,facebook-emplo...
I don't know if it's oEmbed (though it might be) but yes tumblr does this with images and video.
Yeah, the yearly plan changes are true enough. I bet your overall "strategy" doesn't change that often, though, unless that sort of plan gets expensive enough to be untenable. It's still a pain in the ass, though.
No way to run an external GraphViz process in an AppEngine hosted app. Right?

GraphViz does rock, however. And, you are right: it is very handy for visualizing RDF data (self plug: I had examples for this in my last Ruby book)
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I respect Schneier but he kinda repeats the same stuff over and over.
That's my point. There are no masses. You have to create masses if you want things to change.
I can totally justify it. I run a bunch of side projects on a $20 Linode server and have always felt bad for not having any backups at all, but not bad enough to spend any of my incredibly limited free time doing something about it. Now I get to just throw $5/month at the problem.
Yes, they do link the the Wikipedia article, authors page and the Wikipedia front page.
What's the point of having a 1 GHz processor if you never run it at that speed?
According to the corollary of Metcalfe's law it is actually very effective.

I think it would read something like "The value of a communications network decreases with the square of the amount of people that have left it".
This article explains a lot about a problematic programmer I've had the misfortune of working with. Although he presents the air of a "great programmer", it's actually because his architectural abilities are absent. Given a small project, he'll do a good job of it-- and very fast, since he doesn't care about things like unit testing. Given a large one, he'll make a mess that even he can barely sort out. I can see how, in some environments, he'd look like a hero for being able to tackle supposedly complex problems (although it's his terrible coding habits that make such problems seem so complicated).

I hate hate hate "rockstar" programmers (and, yes, the Kefka-style "hate hate hate" is appropriate).

I also think there's an inherent mismatch between management and technical people regarding how to present the difficulty of one's work. Managers want to present their jobs as easier than they are, because it makes them seem smooth and astute. At least some technology people have a habit of overstating the difficulty of their work, in order to make their efforts seem heroic.
If you read around the personal attacks, ESR has an interesting point: The rules of open source allow anyone to fork Google's work, which allows people trust the platform more, which spreads the platform in ways that would otherwise be impossible. And he relates this back to game theory:

The bottom line is that these selfish agents can form a stable cooperative equilibrium that wouldn’t be stable without the open-source commitment.
I don't understand how they are missing the Pagespeed plugin...Available for firefox, but not Chrome, their own browser.
As much as I hate the idea of defending FB, the article clearly mentions California computer crime law, which is legislated, as part of FB's argument.

The EFF lawyer knows this, and that's why your inequality wasn't mentioned.