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Also note the downvoted and marked not helpful answer by bit.ly's founder as well.

Apparently the domains will cease to function anywhere between 0 and 28 days after if the Libyan registry is cut offline

excerpt from the top voted answer now:

_"John Borthwick in his original answer stated that because the authoritative servers (they are not root servers) for .LY are located outside the country it is safe, but the authoritative servers outside the country are reliant on being capable of obtaining updates from the .LY registry inside the country. If they are unable to succeed in getting updates, at some point they will consider the data they have stale and stop providing information on the .LY domain.

In the case of .LY, the absolute maximum for that is configured for 28 days (SOA expiry TTL is 2419200 seconds). Without external intervention, the availability of .LY domains would be compromised somewhere between 0 and 28 days if the Libyan registry is cut off the Internet."_
> FYI, there are more private hospitals in Japan than the US

Incidentally, as near as I can tell, a hospital in Japan is equivalent to a clinic or doctor's office in the US. They also seem to be open weird hours. (example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi31MJrRjhE)
What is the metric for quality? Is the article saying that having fewer people looking for bugs resulted in more bugs being found? Or fewer bugs? Or just fewer bugs found?
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Measurably worse than the rest of the G8, according to your source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada) at least on life expectancy, infant mortality, per capita expenditure, costs as % of GDP, and % of government revenue spent on health.
"the demand is also permanently growing" I'd argue that nothing is 'permanently growing' but I get your point. That increase in demand, however, is not pulled out of thin air, it is deeply tied to a limited phenomena -- it is far more inelastic.

"R&D however always follows manufacturing, it's just the nature of their relationship" This is true but R&D leads to whole new markets with explosive growth as opposed to commodity plateaus and slower incremental growth based on population or other rate limited market phenomena.
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> How do I know what keys were just "stolen"? Do I have my new-node code hash every possible key (all stats for all forums for all hours for all time) to see which might go to that node? And then it reverses that key to know what it "means" to backfill it?

Right, you'd have to iterate through all zset elements on the existing node, applying the consistent hash function to decide whether or not the element will be stolen by the new node.

If the element itself doesn't contain user id (or whatever you shard on) all bets are off.
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Well, once her current software company (Numenta) deploys AI maybe she won't need coverage. /joking
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Excellent point. Most certs are indeed bullshit, but since most certification-creators have a financial interest in more certified people, that's not surprising. It happened in the Agile world with Scrum.

Some certs, though, are actually worthwhile. The Cisco CCIE is very well regarded. CS degrees from certain schools also have value. And a lot of other fields do well. E.g., there's a clear division between real doctors and fake doctors, one that goes well beyond the legal enforcement.

So I don't think it's hopeless, even if most of the examples are bunk.
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It depends. If MS is offering a complete SDK, then it's a whole nother ball of wax... unless you're on a Mac or linux distro. IANAL, but I also assume there will be legal issues with distributing a commercial kinect app without the express approval of Redmond.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
Lots of the same tricks repeated, but very cool. It's all about the software!
In my opinion, the old AppStore 30% cut for apps and in-app purchase was fair, but the new subscription cut is unfair.

Here's my reasoning: AppStore provides distribution and one-click payment processing. Selling access to a web app is painful because you have to ask people to enter credit card details, or sign in to a third party payment processor, lots of hassle. With the AppStore, it is just as easy to take people's money as it is to give away your app for free. So, Apple is providing a service, and it seems fair that Apple would get paid for that service.

The main issue with the AppStore cut is that Apple doesn't allow direct competition to the AppStore on iDevices (I think that 30% would be smaller if users were not locked in to the AppStore) however the value added is real.

With the new subscription rules, the value added by Apple is much less clear, since Readability was already taking in money without Apple's help. So, the assumption is that Apple's subscription tools won't provide a boost to sales large enough to cover Apple's cut, hence unfair. With Readability's 70%-goes-to-authors business model, they will never be able to make up the loss by selling more content.

I've not tried out Readability, but the argument is probably that they fall into the first category along with the AppStore, since they make it easier to give money to creators without having to look at ads. So, they are providing value, and a 30% cut is "fair".
>As a boss, you need to tell the employee what you need, and if he or she can't provide that, you need to let them go.

Really? I'm pretty sure "taking care of your people" is a huge part of a boss's job. I certainly take it as part of my job as a boss. Would you fire someone with a broken leg who refused to go to the doctor? What about a torn ACL? You can walk without an ACL, your abilities are just degraded.

> /almost always/ leads to an even more negative reaction than just firing them outright

From a young, single man's perspective, maybe. But in the end you're just helping this person kick the can down the road.

> Hey you, you need to go get some medication

That is definitely not what I'm advocating. But a boss should definitely have the gumption to assess the situation coldly, understand all the options, and expect the employee to make a decision before firing them outright.

>I'm just saying ... I'm just saying

You need to talk less and think more.
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I live in Australia. I broke my calcaneus into 12 pieces 3 years ago. I stayed in hospital for 3 weeks whilst the swelling went down and then had my heel operated on for 9 hours.

I've been self-employed since 2003 and I've never paid a cent in health insurance, I just pay the Medicare levy like everyone else. I didn't pay any money at all for this stay or surgery, and also received free pain medication (endone, oxycontin etc.) upon release.

The surgery was successful and although I still have some pain sometimes, I can walk, run, play sport and do anything else I like.

If only the U.S healthcare system were my broken calcaneus :)
I don't know specifically, but it is a radiation device for the treatment of cancer. So my word is hearsay in this case - I'll have to get some better information for you. However, if you ran such a machine 30 times a day every day all year, $10k a pop, you'd hit $100m in a year. $10k for a treatment isn't unheard of for cancer treatment.
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This is important! It highlights the difference between dejure protection of freedoms, and defacto protection.

As a relatively well-paid (when I wasn't working for myself) Canadian, it just never occurred to me that I might need to stick with a job just for the benefits. I had the freedom to move.
Of course it's legal. It's greedy, petty, consumer and developer hostile, and generally sucks.

But they're allowed to set the rules for playing in their app store, just like schools are allowed to set rules about wearing your uniform correctly all the way home, parents can ground their children for complaining about their shitty parenting at another person's home, a company can make a contract which allows them to fire you if you get drunk and disorderly in public, and any other situation where an arrogant entity assumes it's own interests are
FAR in advance of yours AND has the ability to take rights from you.

EDIT 201102221305 GMT+10 I should learn never to comment when anyone is discussing Apple. It's too tempting for people to downvote when their pet company is criticized, even if you're answering a question at the same time.
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I was just wondering about that.

Company X comes out with a subscription service and provides an API.

Company Y develops an iPhone app using said API.
Company Y doesn't charge anything after the price of the app.

Sounds like it's strictly following the rules, though if that app were to be accepted in the appstore, then companies could just publish an API and pay some developer to develop and release the app on their own. Looks like a loop hole doesn't it?
Expressing approval for the legislation that enabled this situation clearly adds something to the conversation.
The US pays more money because it has more health care being provided, in many cases.

It just so happens that more health care doesn't necessarily translate to measurably better outcomes (e.g. cancer screening helps reduce mortality for some cancers but not others).

It also just so happens that it's very rare to study whether a particular care regimen actually improves overall outcomes as opposed to just the thing it's ostensibly aimed at treating. Continuing our cancer example, cancer screening helps reduce mortality from _cancer_ for almost all if not all cancers, but for some the increased mortality from operations and other cancer therapies cancels out the improvement.

That's not to mention the fact that people in the US prefer to get care even if they know it'll likely make them worse than not getting care. I'll dig up the reference for this; I don't have it offhand.
> 10-15 years ago, you couldn't swipe your ATM/credit card at the grocery store.

I clearly remember doing so 15 years ago.
You're not considering the value of the "float" that insurance companies get. I.e. they get your money up front, but only have to pay out later. This is a huge advantage.
> Apple collects nothing

How about they sell the phone?
Can you give an example of what you think needs to be added/removed?
> "If members of Congress feel so strongly about undoing this important legislation, perhaps we should stop providing them with health insurance. Let’s credit their pay for the amount that has been paid by the taxpayers, and let them try to buy health insurance in the individual market...Health insurance reform might suddenly not seem to them like such a bad idea."

Hell yes. While we're at it, lawmakers should be required to do their own taxes at least once every few years as well.

In terms of systemic change, I think requiring our legislators to eat their own dogfood would do much more for our country than all of our disjointed attempts at campaign finance reform and the like.
I 100% agree with this article. Quality is everyone's job, not just the QA teams' and I believe that, in most cases, developers can and should be responsible for developing, testing, and releasing their code. When developers can't "throw code over the wall to QA" because there is no QA, they will do a better job testing it themselves.

I don't buy the popular opinion that developers can't test their own code like there is some sort of magic that goes on in the mind of QA engineers that causes them to be able to find bugs that developers couldn't find themselves. In fact, I think the opposite is true - developers are better suited to test the features they are writing because they know the code and know the risk areas, where things need to be regression tested, where more attention should be placed, etc.

I do think that it can be helpful for another set of eyes to look at a developed feature and this is where pair programming can be useful. It does not need to be QA doing this.

One caveat is that this approach does not work for all teams. This works for small, agile teams where roles and responsibilities are less defined. If you fire your QA team but your developers can't test their own code because they are set in their ways of writing crap because they expect QA to find the bugs, you may end up firing your dev team too....
Don't be so quick to brush this off. The argument isn't so different from saying that we don't want to distinguish "front-end" and "back-end" programmers. It's probably a special circumstance that you need a team that is entirely dedicated to verification.

Feynman talks about this arrangement in his essay on the shuttle program (http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/challenger-appendix.html). In a nutshell, the core software team is responsible for checking the code. Then there is a totally removed group that is adversarial, i.e., it is measured on its ability to trip up the software team. This is the same a "setting consequences" as this author describes.

Now, the shuttle program is truly life critical. I think a good software team can produce quality results internally.
It's interesting opening two tabs and only drawing on one, and using the second tab to see what other people are probably seeing.

Some strokes have huge lag during spikes, others that I made on my screen are never displayed on the other tab.
You could tax calories instead. Calories in - calories out seems to be a pretty good proxy for weight gain. And I bet I wouldn't drink quite so much soda if it couldn't be had for 75c per 2-liter bottle.
ANYWHERE you get people whose jobs are power-over-others based, you'll get fuckwads taking those jobs to feel powerful. Then abusing those jobs for the same reason. It has nothing to do with the nation and everything to do with the nature of people and policework.
I thought part of the globalist/"free trade" snake oil was supposedly that we ship the dumb jobs to the third world, and all of us here in the US become programmers and scientists though some magic process.
Two points - one, is that odds are he's not paying $807/mo out of his taxes due to a progressive income tax. He's probably paying a good portion out of his taxes, but not $807/mo.

Point two - and this isn't a rebuttal of any kind against your claims, just an observation - that same graph shows that Canada spends a lower portion of government revenue on health care than we do. And we don't even have universal coverage!
That is sad, given our current prosperity it would be great if we could leverage it to bring super talented entrepreneurs here to start more great businesses.
Considering that only 16% of software projects are completed on time and under budget [1], I'd say we kill more people than we cure, too, metaphorically speaking.

[1]: http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
Sure. Until you have to use Cydia to keep Pandora, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and half a dozen others. Then you have a $600 brick that refuses to do half the things you bought it for.

This actually sounds very likely if Apple kicks those four companies out of the app store, as it seems likely they will.
if you want to trade proverbs i'm give this one: "a lot of talk and no action makes homer simpson a dull boy."
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Someone needed to say it!

And the funny thing is, Singapore and Japan both are rather well-off nations, not much different wage and price wise than the US. Biggest difference is medical cost...
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> "($324.58 per month). Far in excess of $50-$100."

Invisible cost: Medicare/medicaid. You pay into it regardless of whether or not you use it - how much medicare/medicaid withholdings are in your paycheck?

Add that onto your actual private monthly premiums to get the real cost of health care.

I don't know about you, but mine works out to be considerably more expensive than $325 a month. And in the Canadian case I can be a bit happier knowing that everyone is covered.
Are you saying there is a chance that if somebody like Amazon pulls the kindle app from the store, Apple will remote delete already installed versions?
What can I say- if you are hearing the echo, it's their phone or the network. Maybe they're using speakerphone more? Maybe the network changed somehow?
Did you RTFA? The author talks about SPOT for a quarter of the article.
Well neither is sustainable, so neither is a solution.

I generally trust a self-correcting free market over a government bureaucracy to solve such problems, but in this case it seems the fundamental problem is that there just isn't enough margin for for-profit insurance companies to prosper without turning the screws on either doctors & staff, patients, and/or taxpayers.
Good point, Boston is very high on my list of places to move for the startup scene (I currently live in eastern CT, previously worked in NYC, so I'm closer to Boston than SF.)
I'm re-reading it. It is still as insightful as I read it several years ago. I just wonder if PG is willing to add/remove/change it, considering his rich experience through YCombinator.
Isn't this also the operating principle behind social security?

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought that the reason his age was brought up was to justify giving him a lower premium. The principle behind social security (or at least the variation where I live) is that everyone pays, and everyone gets healthcare. His age and his health don't come into it.
As someone who has gone through offshore outsourcing and offshoring, I can offer a couple of thoughts.

1. Just like in the US, quality is dependent on the people you hire (duh).

2. In India, unlike the US, it seems the more oversight you offer (while observing #1), the better the results. In the US, you generally hire smart people and get out of the way. In India, I found it was necessary to do high touch dev....I don't think this is a result of developer quality, but rather shared understanding and culture. In the US you can say "we are doing X b/c of Y sorta like Z" and usually you can get to the point without being too explicit. That is lacking, making MORE effort needed to communicate. Again, not a bad thing, just a point.

3. I never, ever understood thinking offshoring to a place that doesn't speak your native language (well) AND has a huge timezone offset was a good idea.

The absolute best experience I had and will constantly advocate for US companies is to use New Zealand. Native English speakers, 4 hour (and 1 day) offset from SF... a place your developers would LOVE to visit to train people. About a 1/4 - 1/2 the cost situation as well, so bang for the buck is usually much, much higher than China, India and Vietnam where timezone and language is usually a problem.
Procurement is definitely an area that should be looked at. Open data too, since it creates opportunities - it's a disgrace that we give Google transit data but locals can't compete.

Cheap, fast internet connections: the city could engage with Ile Sans Fil. Municipal fiber too.

The biggest challenges are not technological. On the political front, I think we're falling far short of what we'd need to compete.
So, people in the U.S. are billed an astronomical sum for a MRI, even with insurance?

The most expensive MRI bill for someone in the "mutualism" system here in Uruguay is U$ 100.

I tried to explain the Uruguayan "mutualist" socialist health system here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627862

"Mutual organisations do not have external shareholders - they are controlled by their members. Members may be users of the mutual, employees, other stakeholders or a combination of these Mutual organisations are either owned by and run in the interests of existing members, as is the case in building societies, cooperatives and friendly societies, or, as in many public services, owned on behalf of the wider community and run in the interests of the wider community"

A HN member compared them to credit unions, I think it's a valid analogy.

The mutualist system is always near bankruptcy and is perfectible (and the government is always meddling), but it doesn't bankrupt it's users and it kind of works (life expectancy here in Uruguay is the same as in the U.S.).

Edit - funnily, it seems it's very similar to the Japanese case (and MRI's cost U$ 98 there too):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2247969
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It depends.

Apple is attempting to leverage its position in one market (hardware) to coerce another market (mobile applications). Under the historical antitrust analysis, this would have been a per se antitrust violation to even attempt this.

Now, however, antitrust laws are no longer enforce. During the Bush administration,the DOJ's antitrust department was effectively gutted, and antitrust was moved close to the bottom of the DOJ's list of priorities.

Obama hasn't changed the DOJ's antitrust priorities since he took office, so any enforcement of antitrust laws will have to come from the states. Basically, that means New York's Attorney General, since California's not going to kill one of its tax cash cows.
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Have you actually tried getting a big claim paid by them. My GF is currently embroiled in a dispute with United Healthcare over a temporary insurance plan she bought to cover the gap between graduating college and when her full time position started covering her (wouldn't it have been great if the new healthcare law was in effect at the time and she could have stayed on her parents insurance). Anyway, she had a hospital visit for $3k and United Healthcare is denying her simply because she didn't stay overnight. We thought we had insurance, but as soon as push came to shove it really doesn't mean anything if you are an individual buyer because they will just screw you over and theres no reason not to.