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i haven't had a hangup yet in the south bay and am generally thrilled with the service, esp compared to my droid.
Argumentum ad nauseum is getting too common here.

All that space for a fallacious argument.

1) Do you really think only sick people want health insurance?
2) Not everyone has to buy car insurance. Only people who drive. High rates will force people not to drive. There's nothing people can do against high mandatory health insurance premiums.
3) We've tried incentivizing people to be healthier seven ways from Sunday but somehow they getting sick. So, like Bullwinkle said to Rocky, "this time fur-sure".

-- The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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The more customers you have the more you will be able to sell for. To me it would appear that someone else has sized up the potential of what you have created and wants it early before the valuation goes up.

Might be better to deal only with people who have a verifiable track record in making investments of their own money and engineering profitable exits for all concerned.

I'm with baremetal on this one, smells like a fish market to me.
This is a very crowded and somewhat mature space, which makes for an interesting marketing problem. I'd love to hear about how you guys approach it in some future blog posts!
To answer the question a bit -- I love to cook, and have for awhile, though it isn't always easy finding the time for it.

Watching the common cooking shows are good, but stay away from shows like Top Chef (at least while you're learning) as they are well advanced, and you're not going to learn much.

On the flip side, Jamie Oliver used to have a brilliant show wherein he focused on simple recipes that were easy to put together and tasted amazingly.

One of the shows I've been watching recently is "Worst Cooks in America" which, while the show itself sucks, actually goes through and shows some practical cooking basics.

I loosely copied a pork paillard recipe with a sundried-tomato herb butter, and it was phenomenal. I tend to eat well when I eat out, and have eaten at some very nice establishments, and can honestly say that I've never had a better piece of pork anywhere.

Of course, the real learning is in actually cooking. Watching shows and reading books (I recommend Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking", or Alton Brown's books) might teach you the theory of cooking, but actually DOING is still the best way to learn.

I have a friend of mine who had literally never cooked a meal in his life that didn't come from a box or can, and he was talking about making something nice for his fiancee for Valentine's Day. I gave him a foolproof recipe for filet mignon, honey glazed carrots and asparagus, and now he's begging me for more recipes to wow her with.

Simply put, it's a great hobby and, if you have kids, a great way to get them involved and have some easy family time.
I've read so much writing on meditation from Tibetan monks getting MRI scans to finding peace and becoming ready for love in Bali. This one is by far the most compelling argument I've read. And if it can start having an effect in four short weeks, there's no reason not to give it a try.
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Are you using freeswitch to send & receive faxes? I've been using it for almost 6 months now and it feels much more robust than asterisk's system.
I don't disagree. Its a risk, but keep in mind Rhapsody had this same risk just trying to get their app approved initially. They can work around the TOS to get approved as well, thats part of my point. They are just a screenshot and share service.

In terms of them being small, thats fine too. I'm just stating things as I see it. The company is not stopping production because they can't come up with a solution, its that it likely is not worth their time because they are not all that successful on iOS.

In terms of pressure, this really does nothing to Apple. Rhapsody, Netflix, and Kindle are much bigger deals. It will be the big service providers that push the pressure on Apple.
If you broke into a safe in a factory office and stole 1) 20 dollars of cash and 2) documented trade-secrets which you later made public, I'd say you were guilty of both crimes, both the insignificant one and the catastrophic one (and also the crime of breaking-in/trespassing). This is essentially the same, except the safe was a computer drive and both 1) and 2) revolve around the same object (the source code).
Good luck! You are trying to solve one of the biggest challenges we face right now.

We have a good product, happy users, catchy domain name (har) but are having a hell of a time hiring because nobody knows of us.
I don't see how it's possible to have a cost of less than $50-100/month for healthcare. And all forms of cost have to be accounted for - direct + taxes being by far the easiest to measure, but when people start claiming that it "costs nothing" they're ignoring the bigger picture of the economy as a whole. Especially when $60k/year is your bottom margin - that includes a lot of people => a lot of drain on the rest if it doesn't come from them.

Nice reply, btw :)
The beauty of large groups negotiating!

That said, that's roughly what the ACA ("ObamaCare") will likely end up with, if it doesn't get derailed, except that it'll take a few years to get there because 50 states is more complicated than one.

Actually, it could scale reasonably well, but for political reasons wasn't set up that way. So instead, each state will set up its own exchange; I suspect some will be MA-quality, some will be better, some will be poorer.
Relativity describes the real world.

You seem to want to talk about theoretical ideas that have no evidence.

You quite misunderstood that article, it's not the vacuum that produces the particles, it is the massive energy they are beaming that produces them.

The stuff in the wikipedia article is just ideas that may work mathematically but have little bearing on the real world. At least for now. Maybe someday we'll figure them out, but for now it's just ideas.
Yes, you can send a fax to a US number no matter where you are located.
Funny. I have plenty of family and friends in the medical field (doctors, nurses, and hospital administrators), and I have yet to find one who believes the health care bill is a bad idea. In fact, most of them agree that its long overdue.

You know what they love most about the bill? It would prevent insurers from dropping coverage. Insurer-instigated billing disputes are the biggest obstacles to health service provider getting paid.

Also, allowing insurance companies to sell across state lines without adhering to the laws of the states in which they are selling coverage violates states rights to control insurance coverage within the state. Insurers can already sell across state lines; the only impediment is that they adhere to the laws of each state.
"I guess its just another case of average person vs enthusiast-geek gap rearing its ugly head again."

Agreed.

The only problem I have had with U-Verse was on the first day. I was required to use a Windows computer because the activation page absolutely refused to load in any browser but Internet Explorer. Imagine if I didn't have anything other than my Macbook Pro?!
Yep, totally. And something like this also helps the other side.

Case in point: have a couple friends who quit their high-paying engineering positions, and ended up consulting for companies as the first technical interviewer a candidate meets. Companies will pay a lot just to have that first filter. Interviewing is so time consuming!
I'm incredibly violent to things on my wrist. I whack it on door frames, tables, everything. It probably means I'm getting too close to things when I'm walking around, but I heal - watches don't. (yet?)
Isn't price fixing is done for U.S. Medicare payments to doctors, hence the constant wailing over the "doc fix" issue?

I can imagine a scenario where the age for Medicare was lowered slowly over time to cover more and more people. (Unlikely, but not beyond the realm of possibility).
You have to keep in mind their situation. They wanted to go another route, knew they had good ideas, but also wanted to make sure they took care of their investors who supported them. I think its a very honorable thing.

No one was likely too happy, but things had changed quickly. Google Calendar made that space very difficult.
great job guys! btw.. another typo at the bottom of the learn more page "now do do both".
Yipe! Were you able to negotiate the bill down at all when working out a payment plan, or did the hospital end up charging you the full amount?
have you sold anything on eBay since, or was the rush gone after that :P

Thanks for sharing your story.
Didn't Apple just lose that argument in court trying to claim jailbreaking your own iPhone was illegal?
So much for "Rhapsody won't bow to Apple's subscription policy"
The issue, I think, is that government spending is really in a different boat to private expenditure when it comes to the effect on the economy. Trying to model it as "you spend $X in taxes to pay for that healthcare" is a drastic oversimplification.

If you instead look at all government spending as economic stimulus, and all taxation as a factor in inflation management, you get quite a different picture.
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Been in this situation. Asked myself this question.

You're basically paying for the privilege, in the event of a large medical expense, to say, "Don't blame me, I paid for the insurance."

It will make no practical difference, as some of the follow-up comments have already suggested. You're just spared the indignity of those ignorant of the realities of the American health care market (or, worse, fully conscious of them), asking: "Why didn't you buy insurance? There's this website/company I see advertised on cable news all the time where you could have gotten a really reasonable deal. So you've got no one to blame but yourself."
I'm curious how this works out. My perception is that hiring is intrinsically hard, and whether you have engineers or HR doing the recruiting, it will remain hard. I would absolutely, totally love to be proven wrong on this though.
You are still not understanding what I'm trying to say. We are talking about intentions here. Not actions. I'm not saying he's not guilty of those crimes. I'm just saying he did not exhibit the undesirable character of intentionally hurting others for self gain. When he committed the crimes he might not have thought about how much Valve would suffer as a result. This is a very different mentality than breaking into someone's safe to take away physical objects. The result of you taking away physical objects is immediately clear - the other party will suffer a loss of those objects.
Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?
What tools do fellow hackers use to track their bugs, issues, features and client/user feedback. Do you like it or hate it? If you don't use one, why not?

EDIT: As some of you may know, we're building a bug tracking tool of sorts (actually something a lot different to all the tools listed). The point of this poll is to find out what folks like us are currently using. Your input would be greatly appreciated!
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Thanks!

Awareness is a big part of the problem. Most every engineer knows about Google and Facebook, but many don't know about all the smaller companies that are wonderful places to work but don't (yet) have the mindshare of the big cos. We hope to provide an enjoyable and efficient way to correct that.
that looks exactly like a match evaluator, so it looks like ruby does have that ability. Awesome.
Thanks for catching that! Clearly we need to be checking our copy more carefully.
Oh yeah -- the fear-mongering against "Obamacare" has definitely pulled heavily from imagery surrounding breadlines and gulags. But I imagine vivtek's comment was a sarcastic jab at the acceptance of pouring money into the health care industry w/o getting a commensurate benefit out of it. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
For starters, their marketing strategy included:

- not requiring a 37 step signup process

- not requiring a user to choose between a dozen different monthly plans before being able to sign-up

- not requiring a monthly subscription just to test and send the odd fax

It's been a while since I looked at the available options, but the few I previously evaluated required far too much overhead to make them effective.
2/15: Rhapsody won't bow to Apple's subscription policy http://engt.co/gY3gHO
2/21: Rhapsody posts Craigslist ad for iPhone developer http://j.mp/dVv4vQ
Screenshot in case ad is removed: http://twitpic.com/42fl5d
Moral hazard is a concept entirely based on rational economic actors.

If the potential future cost of dying of lung cancer doesn't deter people from smoking, then the potential future cost of bankruptcy from paying for lung cancer treatment isn't going to, either.

It's about the mispricing of future risk rather than moral hazard. If you brought the cost up-front, by giving them health insurance but charging additional risk premiums to smokers, then you would likely find more rational decision-making around smoking.
It's the UI, not features. I made this the other day: http://imgur.com/63zCP

You can add and remove things on the ribbon if the defaults don't fit your usage.
Presently, no American hospital publishes its price list.

Almost every American hospital publishes its price list to its primary customers: the insurance companies. The problem as I see it is that the insurance companies are the only entities that can get fair prices for health care, and they want to keep it that way. A potential solution would be to ban insurance discounts; a health-care provider could charge any price it wants, but it would be required to charge all customers the same price. Insurance companies would still negotiate for lower prices, so it would benefit all of us.
We fully acknowledge it's an open question. Hiring is intrinsically hard, but think of it this way: What are the odds that the status quo is the best we can do? That seems highly unlikely to us.
I will try to speak for the parent. I think that he meant that everything being equal most people would rather save that dollar.
Apple is the company that has their police raid journalist's homes and confiscate all his computers because their dumbass engineer left his special phone in a bar.

Say what you want about Microsoft, they never stooped to the level of _actual_ fascist Nazi crap like that.
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Awesome. We're in similar shoes. We should connect.
or perhaps better yet: "stabda"
Also not always true. Think Twitter.

Taken out of context. Twitter wasn't a result of good or bad QA. In fact, it's got nothing to do with that.
From what I can tell, even the "DMZ" box has state table tracking; if you torrent from it (I will admit to torrenting TV shows that I pay for, even though this is an ethical gray-area), it still murders the Internet connection for everyone else.
I use eFax today, and it's a terrible service IMO. Very sloppy interface. IAAL, and I'm constantly presented with the problem that hellofax solves. I'm current using RightSignature as a way around it, but it's not an ideal solution since I have to upload and template every incoming document that needs my signature. Otherwise, I have to deal with paper, which cramps my style,
Glass dashboards? I don't think so.
Bugzilla. I wouldn't say I love or hate it, but it works and it's what I know. The biggest downside is that I'm not a Perl hacker, so if I wanted to hack on BZ, I'd have to take the time to learn Perl. Luckily I've never felt much of a need to modify Bugzilla. It just works.
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Perhaps it really does reflect Jobs' weakness, or maybe he's behind it all too.

Man if it were my business I sure wouldn't want to risk pissing off developers or the consumers right now:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/how-will-smartphone-market-sha...
Believe it or not, my cousin's newborn baby was born some sort of small issue (maybe like not breathing properly) which was fixed quickly and routinely, when he was very first born, and now her and her husband's insurance will not cover him because of a pre-existing condition. It's that ridiculous.
Here's one I took for another purpose, a couple days ago: http://i.imgur.com/I3478.jpg
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Marco really nailed it. He was also exceptionally level-headed considering that his application, Instapaper, is likely to find itself in exactly the situation he outlines. Marco's plans for Instapaper are based around paid accounts for API access, which would enable third-party apps for paid users. It would be an absolute shame if Marco's app weren't allowed on iOS. Quite honestly, if Instapaper, Dropbox, and Evernote are under threat to be removed from the App Store, I won't even consider a new iPhone until Apple revises its policy.
Your competition isn't really other recruiters, it's personal referrals from inside the company. Everybody knows that recruiters suck; that's why whenever possible, people try to find friends or former coworkers of their existing employees and bring them on-board.

Now, if you could devise a system that's as effective as having worked with a person for years and being able to convince them to join you, yet didn't require a personal connection that takes years to build up, that would be golden.
The argument isn't so different from saying that we don't want to distinguish "front-end" and "back-end" programmers.

I don't want to distinguish front-end and back-end programmers. I would like to distinguish front and back-end development.

I do everything currently but I still need put on a conceptual "testing hat", "GUI hat" and "back-end hat". That requires mental effort and costs time. A real Q&A would save that even if I was exactly as skilled as the Q&A person.
A few tea partiers turned down the insurance this year on principle. One was interviewed on NPR, where he acknowledged that the insurance rates he found on the open marker were a bit of a shock:

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/09/133629806/16-Freshmen-GOP-Decl...

Still, he rationalizes away the benefits of the new Health Care law:

"But I think that if we had true health care reform that I wouldn't be paying $1,300 a month for this health care. If we had true tort reform, if we had true health care reform where physicians weren't ordering unnecessary, you know, procedures just to protect their backside, I'd think that a lot of us would see a reduction in what we pay in any health care, whether it's, you know, employee - helped, subsidized, or, you know, employer-subsidized."

In case you miss his weasel words: tort reform makes virtually no difference and hasn't had a noticeable impact in states where it has passed. Otherwise, the new law is about the most realistic first step you're going to get passed in this country toward controlling costs. Meanwhile, the one area where the law is halfway decent is in extending more affordable health insurance coverage to more people.
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faxing? talk about early adopter!
When one person in a typical mid-large group insurance plan (of the sort available to contractor "guilds" today) gets cancer, premiums for the group do not shoot up. It's hard for me to take you seriously. You sound like a DailyKos diarist.

I disagreed with you that what we need is the Department of Health and Human Services to set prices for health care by fiat. So, first, you attempt to paint me as against all reform and in favor of people dying instead of companies going into debt. Now, you've tried to reframe the discussion so that you're either in favor of market-based approaches or a "socialist".

And, after you've done your level best to suck all the oxygen out of the conversation, it turns out... you agree with me.

Please stop writing like this on HN.
"What would happen to the food market were it not for the generally high supply of food? It wouldn't be pretty."

You turned cause and effect upside down. You think the free market for food "works" because food supply is "abundant"? Think again. The supply is high because it's market is "free" (not really but fairly) globally and (sorta) works.
I wonder if you'll see under the table deals where 3rd parties write apps for these services FOR the company to bypass the restriction, assuming 3rd party apps are still allowed by Apple's new policy.
Now that we all know about the farce of "Intellectual Ventures", can we dispense with Myhrvold entirely?
How about "Goodbye Fax Machine, HelloFax!"

I know... way too corny and confusing :)
Mine isn't f-a-s-t. It's just average. How much do you pay each month (just for internet)?
Even more level-headed when you consider that the Readability app that was rejected today was written by him along with the fact that he's an advisor for the company.
I think it's a cultural issue from what I understand in Japan there is a saying that goes something along the lines of "The nail that sticks up must be hammered down". Geohotz is definitely a nail that sticks up.
ha me too. I couldn't believe it as well. A trendy technology company requiring an outdated technology!
This is a really good read. It is fascinating to see how cleverly designed and engineered Rubinius is. I've been following it from early on, and they have made tremendous strides. The new 1.2.1 is a fun to use, solid Ruby implementation.
Plus, Chicago AT&T customers have seemed more satisfied than those in NY/SF.
But by the "whole system" argument you're making, health care could easily have a negative cost.

Let's hypothesize that all the engineers working in SV get an AIDS-like illness caused by spending too much time on news.yc.

If there was a health care solution that would make sure that all the employees of Google, Intel, HP, etc. continued to function as usual by caring for those engineers, then even an extremely high up-front cost for that care would result in a net-win for the budget/economy/country.

Of course, that's silly as it won't happen to that extreme. But, I don't think the downward-spiral of more-cuts-here-and-there that you describe is the only possible outcome. A positive virtuous-cycle of increased wealth production is also possible.
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Very happy about this. Was thinking of picking up a Kinect when the original hackers made a USB driver and started an SDK. Decided to wait and I'm so glad Microsoft is actually pushing it like this. Would love to see it all tied in to Visual Studio and/or XNA.
I think one very interesting case is services like directv, dish networks, comcast, tivo etc. They all offer services but their apps are ancillary to the subscription service that they provide. Does Apple want Directv to offer subscriptions within the app?
Is it really likely that he is underwater on a loan that he's been repaying for seven years? Have valuations dropped that far?
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I think the parent meant "pundits would say 'that would be socialism'".

I think most here know nationalize health isn't socialism.
I don't remember; presumably second-from-the-top rate.
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