skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carrier-locked phones with appstores were the standard long before iPhones came out. See: crappy verizon flip-phones with the BREW store. Fair enough that people might not remember them so well though, because there was literally nothing worth buying on any of them.
Predicates in Ruby case statements
I have not made a claim on this insurance policy. It is Blue Cross, though, and I've made various claims over the years on other B.C. policies without any trouble. I had a trip to the hospital thanks to a careless taxi driver, and I think that was on Blue Cross, as well. Totaled about $10k before insurance just to be poked, x-rayed, and released, which really woke me up to the horror that is our health care system.
Then the question is where can you make more of an impact?

FB has two orders of magnitude more users than us, but also two orders of magnitude more engineers.

I'd rather be engineer number 11 with us, than number 1001 at FB.
AgileZen (http://agilezen.com)
We have a flat fee structure that's less than the 20-30% that regular recruiters take.

We're trying to avoid being corrupted by 1) only working with companies we know, like, and respect (so we're not tempted to encourage people to work at bad ones), and 2) the fact that our advantage over regular recruiters is that we're not like them. Good hackers know one and other. If we started doing the crap many recruiters do, people would (and should) call us out, and good people wouldn't want to work with us.

[EDIT: Fix typos from writing in haste]
All I have to say is, Thank God! I look forward to using this the next time I have to deal with sending a fax. And once you can receive faxes and do everything in one place...For the dedicated fax #, do you have any plans to do this for infrequent users who don't need a regular #?
> It's hard for me to take you seriously

You're an asshole. A dishonest asshole.

He said a 10 person startup. I can assure you that pricing on those policies varies wildly depending on each member of the group.

I know this because, unlike you, I've run a ten person startup.

Apologize to him or fuck off and die, asshole.
If you're like me and looked to cancel your eFax subscription, here is the related URL: https://www.efax.com/cancelLiveChat.html
It's exactly this issue though. Where's the line on what Apple will "let slide"? When is something part of the core service of a product?
I don't accept it. But choosing no insurance leaves me in a worse situation. And to be fair, as another pointed out, they can't really boot me anymore for not listing every single bit of medical care I've ever gotten, which is the best single thing to happen in Obama's presidency, IMO.
Don't argue with him. He's a dishonest piece of dogshit and his mind is already made up.

It's disgusting that this site has people dumb enough to up-vote his flagrantly dishonest bullshit.
Post-It notes and 'drop everything and fix it now.'
If it's not important enough to fix now, then it's alright if we forget it.
The ML and APL families also do function application without excessive parens.

I don't think Lisp's grouping rules are complex. There are a few functions with special grouping, particularly let and cond, but anybody doing real programming in Lisp gets used to them pretty quickly. (Lisp is hardly the only language with special cases in its syntax!) User-added functions seldom have elaborate nesting schemes, or at least have a damned good reason.
I think it's a pretty safe bet he's involved in this decision.
One advantage to a smarter wristwatch would be that it could automatically adjust itself for daylight savings. A watch that always has the right time by constantly setting itself via GPS to the correct time in your location would be a very useful and popular product - I'd certainly buy one.
We use GitHub Issues. It's very barebones but ties in very nicely with our source control site of choice: GitHub, and there is no need to context-switch.
I paid for cancer treatment, end to end, out of pocket because this country is a third world shithole in disguise.

It's broken and the competition on price is non-existent even if dishonest pieces of shit like tptacek claim otherwise.
I work in QA in a high-reliability industry. Correct operation of some our products saves millions and saves lives. We need super high quality. How we do QA is pretty traditional. In particular, we have functional test teams. The perspective we take is that the testers take the specs and develop tests to exercise the functionality, and theoretically, we (QA) cover any spots the developers missed, as well as providing assurance that the developers aren't talking out of the wrong hole when they say they're done. Seems to work most of the time except when mutual brain-farts develop.

I don't know that I would go so far as to recommend firing myself to increase quality. I would have to visit with many teams and really gain experience in the way they work. I do think that we could take a step forward by having a standard across the company to have fully automated test suites running continuous builds and tests. That, however, runs facefirst into the problem of Legacy Stuff and ROI. Automation just plain takes time when you are interfacing against external programs. It's not always worth it in the short/medium term.

There's no silver bullet to the software quality problem. But me, I think that continuous integration provides a copper bullet.
I use GitHub's issue tracker
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Will they? Many App Store absurdities have been resolved through the squeaky wheels getting the grease.
I've got some stats on my site wappalyzer.com, I'll look into adding the ones you mentioned and aren't listed:

http://wappalyzer.com/stats/cat/Issue%20trackers
I think Apple shareholders are pretty happy to have 50% profits share with 5% market share.
Something that has the ability to change the World/Country/State....
What Your 16-Hour Workday Says About You
Wage parity is a pipe dream. Each country has different social, political and educational systems that lead to uneven economic progress. You will wait a long time to get back to improving humanity.
I agree with all the points except for the one that believes it's within Apple right to do whatever they want because it's their hardware and platform. Let's forget that the hardware really belongs to the iPhone/iPad owners for a moment, but if it's defensible because it's their platform then it's more reasonable for Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast to take a cut from all sales and profits happened via their network. It's their platforms, which took them decades to build. And surely there's value added when they offer preferentially faster speed and more secured transaction to whichever companies agree to pay them. It would be hilarious if an ISP starts demanding 30% cut from every sale Apple makes that originates from their network.
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Will you guys have an API? Also I guess the problem for the infrequent user who wants to receive a fax is the id problem...Say for example that I want state farm to fax me a document. If you go with a pool approach and match by phone # expected, then there could be interceptions. The safest way seems to be to have a dedicated # (if it were always from a savvy source, you could have them post a unique code that you could ocr to identify, but you can't rely on that for the general case)....How much does it cost for that? The other difficulty is what happens if I use the service, get my state farm fax and stop using the service. If the number is then recycled, then if state farm decides to fax me something else without notifying me, it then goes to someone else (and may have data in it)...A difficult problem. Good luck!
This is the very frightening thing. You fill out your forms, you pay your premiums and you still get screwed.

I know that in Canada, if I am sick, I will be looked after. I won't go bankrupt trying to pay for my treatment or trying to pay for the legal bills in a court battle, trying to get my insurance company to pay out.

The American system is so truly and completely fucked, I can't understand why anyone would defend it. Better hope you've got good genetics, good luck and a good lawyer. If any of those things isn't in your favor, one quick illness and your financial life is over.
One of the creeping features in most ovens/stoves is a "finish dinner by {time} feature".

The idea is that you put an uncooked meal into the oven in the morning, go to work, and it's ready when you get home.

I've never used that feature because the idea of raw food sitting in an off oven would puts me off.
When I am back in the USA next month, I am planning on cancelling my virtually worthless health insurance ($90/month) and signing up for cryonics ($30/month).
The torrenting is QoSed as well, and while it's going on several devices are able to use the internet without any problems.
another case of average person vs enthusiast-geek gap rearing its ugly head again.

That's certainly a valid perspective if the reason that it works for the average person is the reason that it breaks for the enthusiast. e.g. one button mice, no user accounts on an iOS device, and so on.

However, if it appears to work for an average user but irritates the enthusiast for no reason other than apathy on the part of the vendor, this is not the same calibre of trade-off.
I honestly don't know how restrictive this would be in practice, but I have heard of plenty of situations with a 50% discount so I don't think its absurd.
"Stop doing everything and fix it" along with basecamp to-do lists for the other, non critical bugs.
Remember that a big chunk of the cost in canada (or the UK) is for geriatric care, mental illness, addicts etc - people who need long term 24x7 care. Things which are really social services.

The cost of actual medical care for a 20-50 something is a fraction of that if you were buying insurance purely for your likely illnesses. If you are comparing what a critical illness cost/month would be for a healthy young adult you could half this figure
IPad 2 release is imminent
I've been underwhelmed with most of Alton Brown's books, though his book on equipment (_Gear for your Kitchen_) is pretty good.

Maybe I'm an overly intuitive cook, but I feel recipes are just snapshots* , and once you have a feel for the rough proportions + know how your ingredients behave, largely unnecessary. A good recipe won't always work (maybe it's really humid, the eggs are unusually small, etc.), and IMHO cooking is about sensing and adjusting.

* Outside of baking or a few other niches, which depend on carefully executed chemical reactions etc.
Is the 'ugly American' label fading?
And nowhere on this is "You like what you do." Is that really so hard to imagine?
Revisiting the Value of Elite Colleges
Since we in the United States end up expending at least double per capita what Japan does then we should be in the clear then, right?
Just so I've got this clear..

If I develop an enterprise ipad application and track down the customers myself, it is possible to sell to them and take 100% of the revenue still?

I can do this by offering the app for free on the app store and requiring activation through my own external signup system. However, I must also offer the option to sign up using Apple's API and Apple taking 30%?

I just need to be on the phone to the customer when they download the app and ask them politely to not use the Apple method?
TrackJumper - simplest tracker I've found http://trackjumper.com/
Great tool for posting HTML/CSS/JS examples online
I dont' want to come off as a naysayer - I can see this taking off - but I do have some real questions. Maybe someone can enlighten me.

Don't you keep hard copies of these documents? Just wondering. For us, if it requires a signature, we usually need a hard copy (original) for our records.

Since we are printing it out (or receiving via fax in the first place), it seems just as easy to walk over to our $40 fax machine and send it (via our $9/mo Vonage fax line).

I am sure I am missing something here.
The comment of the economics professor who conducted the new study:

"My advice to elite colleges: Recognize that the most disadvantaged students benefit most from your instruction. Set financial aid and admission policies accordingly."
Thus allowing you to maximize your income, skill utilization and benefit to society - hence a commie plot (apparently)
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Having more functionality isn't necessarily better. Laser-sharp focus on doing one thing better than the alternatives just shows that you really understand what your users want and can sometimes make you stand out more in a competitive environment than having more features.

Guy Kawasaki always brings up the story of Tam's Art Gallery in Hong Kong. In one of the markets there, there are dozens upon dozens of shops selling all kinds of souvenirs from shirts to toys to electronics. But the store that gets the most business is Tam's Art Gallery, which is well-known and stands out because it only sells stone stamps.
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I'm no expert in this area, but the conventional wisdom is that China is saturated with group buy sites that pre-date Groupon launch stateside.
I work for Atlassian so I'm biased ;)

Good to see another Australian company taking on the software development market. Especially good to see that the company is partially funded by the Atlassian founders!
While there's an implied question here, the link has plenty of adequate responses.

If you want to learn Lisp, I recommend Common Lisp, or else a Scheme implementation with lots of practical extensions (e.g. Chicken or PLT). _Land of Lisp_ is a good intro. _SICP_ is also excellent, but hell-bent on teaching you long-term deep theoretical wisdom rather than useful-today tricks. But either way: Do the exercises. Try writing your daily experimental code in it. Think in it. Make it work. Live in it.
Yes--plus, you don't pay an extra 20-30 for checked bags.
signatures are discouraged here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I understand that you say that they're not additive, but I have a feeling you aren't really understanding what the actual math behind it is. Two objects traveling at 51% the speed of light relative to a third object placed between them (or anywhere else) would STILL travel at 81% the speed of light relative to each other.

Please take a look at a very simple relativity homework solution to see if you misunderstand the math or the concepts of relativity (that happens to be the top result for "two spaceships approach each-other" on google)http://www.phy.duke.edu/courses/143/homework/hmwk3_solutions... [It's problem #2]
what is it? like 20/20 or something? haha
I also looked at insurance intended for non-Australians living in Australia (not covered at all by national insurance) and found prices to be pretty much the same
Here's why it's broken. It's a long read, but worth it. The reasons are not what you'd expect, and not what you usually hear.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-amer...
Mantis. Once I minimised most of the fields it looks fine. The easy of deployment is a point in its favour as well.

What I really want is a cut down JIRA written in PHP (for ease of deployment). If might just write it one day.
What's going to be interesting to me, now, is whether or not this will cause developers (more specifically, service and not game developers) to start to look more seriously at web-only apps, as opposed to native.

You're thinking, "the performance of web apps doesn't at all compare to native apps," and you're (mostly) right. Web apps tend to feel a bit slower and less responsive. But if we can get one "hero" (i.e., popular web-only app) then people will learn to accept/ignore that the performance isn't quite the same as what they get when they download an app — and that would be good for the whole mobile web ecosystem.

And, of course, as mobile browsers (fairly quickly) advance, the performance will increase significantly and the difference will be less noticeable.
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Gmail. Better than any bug tracker I've used aside from Pivotal.
Docking karma from everybody who upvoted a flagged->killed submission is harsh, but brilliant. I really wonder how that would play out!
A great feature in a wristwatch is only having to change the battery once every 5 years.
I've never played any Zelda but saw this image on Reddit and thought it was pretty awesome:

http://steam-punk.net/zelda_25th_anniversary.jpg
+1 on that. I also got into Taskforce recently and am really liking it.
Neither did I send any faxes in the last few years nor did I use any other online fax services, so I refrain from commenting about your site but please do change the favicon to your site logo. :)
For musicbrainz.org we're using jira. I'm not particularly happy about that, mostly because jira is not open source/free software (and musicbrainz is). Otherwise no complaints, jira does everything we need it to do, and apart from some interaction design issues does it quite well.
How? Posting a link is not enough from tech reviews point of view.
You'd have to be fascist about everyone using the same pretty-printer settings, or every commit will appear to be a rewrite and features like "blame" will be useless. Better to only reformat lines you're changing anyway, if the whitespace is messy enough to bother (e.g., alternating tabs and spaces).
I can't give much away but I'm working on an Atlassian team making some big changes to our hosted products:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/hosted/

If everything goes to plan, there'll be an announcement at Atlassian Summit (in June) that you might be interested in:

http://summit.atlassian.com/
I definitely understand that. :)

The focus of my project is "laser-sharp" and streamlining things like faxes are just background processes that don't get in the way of the actual user functionality at all. Users take less than 30 seconds to set that part up and never have to think about it again. So if anything, in my particular case, it actually only makes me stand out more in the competitive environment as you say.

There is of course no way you would have known that, so excellent post otherwise. Everyone here should know that too many features can definitely break an application (coders' brains too lol)... the only time tons of features are beneficial is when they don't get in the way.
rbtrace is built on ruby's event hook api, which provides events when ruby and C extension methods are called, and when they return.

python offers a very similar event hook api: http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/sys/tracing.html
For your last question, it depends. Some plans are country-wide. Some are specific to a state except for emergency services.

There's the separate concept of in-network and out-of-network doctors, of course....
Poll: Python web frameworks
Hi everyone,

I was wondering, which python framework do you use, if any, and why.
Web2py
Pylons
Turbogears
Zope
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You are utterly missing my point.

I'm trying to show why relativity is necessary, I'm not trying to explain relativity.

I'm giving an alternate universe where relativity does not exist and showing why that universe could not work. And because it does not work, relativity is necessary.

Please go back to the original question I am answering: Someone wanted to know why the world is Einsteinian not Newtonian.
Email -> stop development and fix -> reply to email archive and hope you don't hear about this issue again. But looking into implementing FogBugz (or whatever recommendations come up)
Other: Re-open the pages that were open last.
I work for a PEO -- Professional Employer Organization -- and that's essentially what we do. Clients that come onboard with a co-employment contract for their employees. We pay their employees, our clients pay us and we become the employer (in most states though laws are always changing). This means we have 90k employees that help us negotiate some pretty good rates for Benefit plans. It's actually a pretty decent way for a smaller company to offer benefits to their employees that are competitive to larger companies.

We do try to take on companies of a minimum size (10+ employees) but sometimes end up taking on companies with 2 or 3 employees because the owner forecasts explosive growth -- which never happens. All that said, it's a freaking battle with the carriers every year to try to keep the increases at a lower rate. Also, we have "rate buckets" where we place clients according to risk and past medical history of its employees. It still tends to work out better than if they would attempt to get insurance on their own.
"For fun, let’s imagine confiscating all the profits of all the famously greedy health-insurance companies. That would pay for four days of health care for all Americans."

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-amer...

Insurance company profits are not the problem.
How does reassuring hardcore gamers that the game is actually being made help Valve? Do you think they would have boycotted the biggest game of the decade simply because it was released late? Seriously... how did this help Valve? I know everything worked out well in the end, but the leak did somewhat spoil the game for a lot of people. I certainly didn't appreciate it at the time.
I voted lighthouse because that's what we use at Nowmov but for personal projects I use [Bugs Everywhere](http://bugseverywhere.org) It's a simple command line tool that syncs to a file in your software's repo. Simple + Portable = LOVE.
Per capita spending on health care in more sane developed countries in the world is about $4000/yr. To get your so-so full service health care, the sane market price is about $333/month, and in most of those systems, medication isn't covered fully if you have an income. $50-$100 month just doesn't work other than emergency health care. Emergency plans at that price also have clauses like the first $2500 of an accident is deductible free.
We primarily use the GreenHopper plugin to interact with JIRA. This allows us to both track new development and defects in an agile friendly way, without the need to maintain all the index cards.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with Google Docs API
CIEL Project: Distributed computation with Javascript-like script syntax
Firefly fans: 'Help Nathan Fillion Buy Firefly'
I like the Post-It note strategy.

Especially when all the notes are on a public window/wall. This way everyone can see the 'queue' of stuff and is a good reminder to re-prioritize constantly.
Understanding the validation process for RapidSSL Certificates
RapidSSL Certificates allows businesses to obtain low value, one year full operational single-root trusted SSL. They are nonpareil for web sites conducting low levels of e-commerce.
You know what - I concede. I had a 2nd look, and I don't think I fax more than 20 pages per year, and with your editor, there is zero reason not to use you over faxzero.

I'll have to test out the validation process, but on 2nd glance, it looks good.
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The validation process for RapidSSL Certificate
RapidSSL Certificates are the first choices for industries who want to show a secured website to their users. The validation process for a RapidSSL Certificate is very simple.
Grooveshark uses Bugzilla. There are things about it we all absolutely hate, but it does the job, which is more than I can say for anything else we've tried.
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Google Code -- I'm surprised it's not listed. I recently had to decide between GitHub's issue tracker (I'm already using GitHub for source code hosting) and Google Code, and almost everyone I could find that had an opinion said Google Code was much better.
Have you figured out your pricing yet? It bothered me that I couldn't find any pricing info before signing up for the service....
Please stop signing your posts.