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>> Disclaimer: I work in the health insurance industry...

Recommendation: Get your employer to build this and not the stuff that's on most health insurance sites. Note especially that you don't have to enter your name or email to get a rate and plan information. Kudos to you if your company has already done this!
The Mac is different due to:

1) Legacy

2) Professional requirements: huge apps with massive libraries etc

However, the Mac App Store does have similar rules and if you stick to only installing software through the App Store you will have a much safer computing environment.

Once the next round of sandboxing is added to the Mac it will be very similar to iOS.
Why it's very useful for developers to learn assembler, know computer at hardware level, know how instal Linux From Scratch, compile their own webserver/db/etc, sysadmin stuff.

Know that first. Then, if you choose, go use turn key systems/hosting environments.
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This is a spreadsheet of contractors on Hacker News that was going around a few months ago. You could probably get a good idea of rates for various technologies here.
Looks nice, I like the clean presentation, much easier to use than eHealthInsurance, or going to the individual carrier's websites (if you even know who they all are).

My startup, Bloom Health (http://gobloomhealth.com) is in a similar space, but where you're going directly to consumer's who are shopping for their own health insurance (B2C), we're a B2B2C model, we work with employers and provide health insurance choices to their employees.

We work within the employer system by changing from the existing defined benefit health insurance model (where employees get health insurance as a benefit for working for their employer) to a defined contribution model (where employees get a set amount of pre-tax money from their employer to spend however they want, including health/dental/HSA/etc.
Are there alternative means of protecting your content?
Its also lower than a similar demographic from the US.
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IANAL, but (2) seems pretty standard in terms of DMCA compliance. As a service provider hoping to remain in the "safe harbor", you generally fulfill all takedown requests and you leave contesting the takedowns on the grounds of error or fair use or whatever to the guy whose video got taken down. Applying editorial discretion or undue delay to takedown requests involves taking on some level of legal risk. So the smart thing to do is automate them. It screws over your legit uploaders if they get DMCA'd, but most companies find that better than picking expensive legal fights.
I think HipChat is hard to beat in this area. We've been testing it at work, and early thoughts are very positive. They have native (Adobe Air, but much better than what I'm used to), mobile and web clients covered, some IRC-like commands and a cool @mention notification system.
There's some nice synergy between this idea and the now-famous xkcd about passwords from a few weeks ago:

http://www.xkcd.com/936/

The information-theoretic idea of encoding bits as words leverages the things that humans are just cognitively better at. When a transmission medium is likely to involve a human brain at some point in the trip, it behooves us to remember that brains are not always good at the same things computers are....
It was made in 24 hours! I'm working on improving the results and making it endless.
Have you at all checked if graphic designers need this sort of functionality? I tinker with pixel perfect designs quite extensively and zooming in is the way to get more precision out of mouse. Few designers on Dribbble posted videos showing how they work and this use pattern - zoom-in, tweak, zoom-out - is so engraved into their work style that I am having hard time imagining why they would switch. Also, consider the fact that even if the mouse is moving slower, the pixels are not getting bigger. In other words, increasing mouse precision does not remove the need for zooming in. Especially on larger screens.

So there you have it :) Great app, very well done website, but I think ultimately the niche is not just small, it is also very oddly shaped.

(edit) Perhaps repackaging the app and re-aiming it at gamers (as others suggested) would be a thing to try. Though on the other hand many gaming mice come with a hardware button toggling the deceleration.
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Nice work and very useful! It's great to see the Twitter Bootstrap CSS being used as well. I've been using it as a starting point for my projects now.

Maybe a next step would be for users to be able to save their plan name/type and then they can come back for comparisons. If you do that they maybe allow people to opt in for emails if a similar plan comes up as their saved plan but has a lower cost. Keep up the good work.
I think that's the eventual plan, but Phones will still have their separate OS for now, right? Unless they announced something differently today...
"Obviously it would have to come with some lower level semantics, like memory management."

Why? Garbage collection is nowhere near the top reason high level languages are slow, and there are GC languages that are fast.

"By high level, I meant higher level than c++. it will always be lower level than a language like python"

So, Java or C#, then? JIT languages that can be as fast as C/C++ in some circumstances, and faster in others (and slower in still others). And you don't even have to manage your own memory, so it's seemingly higher level than you're asking for.

I think GC is fine for high performance computing. Might not be fine for real time systems or games, but that's not what this article is about. It's about high performance scientific computing in Python. Having a GC sweep every now and then, even at unpredictable times, isn't going to cause things to come to a crashing halt or ruin the performance of a batch run.

PyPy might be something you'd enjoy reading about. It is an alternative implementation of Python (mostly written in Python, and using a JIT), with the goal of being fast like C. This may be the closest thing to a CoffeeScript like tool where the goal is to make a very high level language faster through translation or "compilation" or whatever.
I have the same phone and I do not experience anywhere close to that amount of lag.
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HHS operates a really good site to find public and private insurance options:

http://finder.healthcare.gov/
Could you have the insurance companies' names in plain text? I could not locate "Aetna" using my browser's Find… function, but instead had to scan the "Company" column. I appreciate that it's sortable, but I might want to sort by price, then jump to each row using "Find Again" to see the variety offered by a particular company.
I'm curious what "visual work" you feel is necessary? I quite like the simple and clear visual design and wish more web sites would do the same.
I'm not misunderstanding the argument at all. I work with a bunch of good and great programmers and we don't touch pointers - at all. I would bet that without heading to the internet and re-learning pointers they wouldn't be able to do even a simple linked list with them.

I would think that unless you work in hardware, it might be quite hard to find low-level coding jobs these days. That's because it's unnecessary in most situations. We don't need to push bits around anymore and managing memory by yourself is like starting a fire with flint and tinder. Yes, it can be fun, useful, and interesting, but it is rarely necessary anymore.
Looks like your price sorting is by string and not integer so $1,491 (most expensive) then $199 (least expensive) were the top two results after sorting.
Looking at things that way is half the problem though. What about vacation days, healthcare provision etc.? They all have a big impact on quality of life.
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>> rather than applicable to your particular field.

No, I'm saying Hefferon is not applicable to any field. He eschews application in favor of formal theorem proving in vector spaces, in isolation of any real-life examples. That is great, but that is not the typical use case of anybody out there who actually uses linear algebra in industry, whether in computer graphics or portfolio theory or multivariate statistics or what have you.
really gonna enjoy this on my google tv.
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Looking good! And it was made in 24h? Excellent work guys! On a similar note, check out http://www.tubufy.com. Basically a Spotify/Last.FM/MOG playlist -> video channel tool that I released into the wild this summer.
Speaking as someone who has worked in and outside of an agency, they are great places for some very specific things.

Yes, generally you can command a higher "agency" rate than with most other clients. They have deeper pockets generally, but raising your rates just because you can is a little unethical. The reality is that the agency is at the mercy of the client and both parties are fighting hundreds of constantly changing (usually unseen) variables, and so they are willing to pay a premium in the interest of getting things done on time and done well. So yes, you will have to unexpectedly work on weekends, or work on requirements that sound backwards or are overly complex, but you will be compensated for that extra effort.

Also, unlike some of your non-agency clients, you may often be exposed to projects that are "award-winning", or will have an enormous audience, or take advantage of some new, hot technology. If you have the luxury to pick and choose these projects, then absolutely work with agencies. Otherwise, be very cautious about getting your schedule overrun with bizarre requests and drawn-out initiatives, and not being able to focus on your consulting practice or product development.
I'm not going to read the article so I can continue to believe this is little Bobby Tables: http://xkcd.com/327/
I don't know which is more surprising: that they can calculate inflation since 1968 with such astonishing precision (median income was $32,844) or that buying a car from a defunct automaker (Pontiac) is an act of patriotism.
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I'm a student and only do 20 hours/week, but I'm kept pretty busy from one long term contract I've got.
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I'm probably older than most of the people here, but the slide-rules that I used for 10th grade chemistry were essentially nomographs (fortunately I had a calculator by the time I took physics in 12th grade). I have a couple that I keep around for sentimental reasons but haven't used them in years.
"If really only 5% of your users are using some obscure feature and it's getting in the way of other improvements, then you should probably deprecate it unless those few customers are disproportionately more valuable to the business."

I disagree, in the general case at least. For one thing, you need to decide the granularity of "feature". It can be anywhere from the entire project to a single line of code. It can actually get even more specific when you start talking about combinations of things as a "feature".

If you try to apply a "only 5% of users will use this" rule to any significant project, I think it will quickly start to feel incomplete. Users can tell. They develop expectations about the features that should be present in a certain class of application. When they come across a need for the feature, even if very minor, they will be very frustrated if it's not present. That frustration will destroy the user community.

Another thing is that often software is bought in bulk for an organization. The accountants will demand support for X in the standard software package, and IT will demand Y, and pretty soon you need a full-featured product. If you say "only 4% use X and only 3% use Y", and eliminate both, then you've just lost an entire organization worth of users.

If you're a startup or have a new product, then I'm not saying you need to reach that level of maturity before 1.0 release. But when your product gets big, you will need to invest in this kind of completeness.
The asx file is a xml file. Pick out the URL from it, and use mplayer with it.

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Don't mean to nitpick, but you mean "keeping customer acquisition COSTS low" right?

A low customer acquisition rate might be a bad thing. ;)
Thanks RandomPerson, we'll fix that.
I was referring to the mobile version, which as I understand it is based on IE8, which is archaic compared to every other mobile browser on the market.
"And there is your lesson in inflation 101 " What does this have to do with inflation?

Also, that site looks suspiciously auto-generated; there is nothing to explain who is behind it nor what its theme and purpose are.
Or that Beau is a chatbot? I would not be surprised if the first few stages in the recruiter/recruitee process could be automated by some email scripts!
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My guess is because you offer less product than GitHub, and charge more for it. Unless you make your value proposition clear, I don't see any reason for anybody to use your service.
Nit: the sort by premium should be a numeric sort so that 1,000 is greater than 999.
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Very sad - it's a common expectation now that for the first time in American history, the next generation will be worse off than their parents'.
Thanks for looking this up, I'll let the hosting provider know.
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The (free, open) stanford class ee263: Linear Dynamical Systems is really good. It concentrated on how to take real problems and fit them into a form where a computer can solve them in what appears to be complete magic. Plus Stephen Boyd is a very entertaining lecturer. This article reminds me a lot of his asides.

Link to lectures and materials:
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=17005383-19...
This seems like a false dichotomy.

We all just want to make things work. Oftentimes with programming, having a better understanding of your tools helps you become better at "making it work."
What is this "globe" you speak of?

- American media
I see that Gruber's already piling on the snark about it having a fan etc. What he misses is that there's choice, if you want a fanless ARM tablet, Windows 8 will run on it, there were a lot of demos of it doing so. But if you want a more powerful tablet with a Core i5 processor and don't mind the heat and noise that much, then there that option too. Whereas if you want a more powerful iPad, you're SOL.
This makes me really excited about the future of the 'desktop' ( => tablet). Microsoft has really nailed it in terms of user experience and performance. This is a good example of out innovating the competition and no other company is better suited to execute on this than Microsoft.
That paper has done a lot of damage.

I also think that if you write a paper like that, that it should include a lot of qualifiers as to what you think you've discovered and what research might be done in order to validate/disprove your findings.

Broadly binning a large part of the population as far as a fairly basic ability is concerned (the ability to instruct another entity, which is the essence of programming) based on some extremely flawed tests is not the way science should be done.

Try the 'test' they give to people on a population and then try this test on another population of similar size and observe the difference:

move 10 to a
move 20 to b
move contents of b to a

The fact that programmers use '=' in a way that non-programmers would never use it should not be part of any 'aptitude' test. That's just syntax and it would give anybody with even a cursory knowledge of programming a huge advantage. Even just the assumption that statements are to be executed in a particular sequence greatly affects the outcome of tests like this and you may have to specify such a thing up-front if you expect people to be on a level playing field.

Note that I'm not saying that the conclusion of the paper is wrong, I simply object to the hidden assumptions behind the design of the test. Removing those assumptions would be pretty tricky thing to do with 100% accuracy, and in the end the conclusions reached in the paper might still stand (but I doubt that they would be the same in magnitude).
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The inflation rate has huge error bars, at least in terms of how official inflation compares to "real" inflation. So comparing one "inflation adjusted" number to another from 43 years ago and getting concerned over a difference of a mere couple of hundred bucks (about three percent) is pretty meaningless.

The biggest flaw in the article seems to be the assumption that the inflation-adjusted income of the median worker should be increasing. Wages will basically track inflation, since the main thing we buy from one another is each others' labour. Meanwhile land gets more expensive but technology gets cheaper. It's pretty much a wash.
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http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tutorials

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Category:Tutorials

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Learning_Haskell

Also, Simon Thompson's book should be updated in October, and should be good

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A country's GDP includes its spending on health care, but of course does account for vacation days (or for how efficiently it spend on health care).
Nope, didn't auto start over here. Windows XP, Chrome 13.
Better link (and actual source...): http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/09/07/court-lets...
Ok, Metro looks nice.
I just hope they do similar to Apple and provide something between "mouse" and "touch"... like all the trackpad gestures Apple uses to make their desktop OS more touch-oriented while avoiding the dreaded gorilla arm https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Touchscreen#G...
Yes, I was referring to the version that is out in the market, not the upcoming version which I haven't tried. The IE8 version doesn't even support @media queries which makes it unusable in my book; you cannot see mobile optimized sites unless the dev uses a user-agent hack (which is bad practice).

It has by far the worst html5 compatibility of any mobile browser: http://mobilehtml5.org/

I think WP7 is pretty slick, but the browser is the most important app on a phone and IE is a deal-breaker to me.
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"Module's are where it's at"?

Grammar much?

And don't get me started on "login with X, Y, Z". As a verb, it's "log in". YC has it wrong also.
At last, the court has discovered the deadly weakness of hackers to being forced to use their legal names!

Wait, what?

The decision makes a very, very sad statement about the court's understanding of the issues at hand.
Great work, this is a great piece of tech that does some real good. Keep up the work!
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I also thought you were considering Akka as a language. The sentence where you mention "leaving 3 languages in the mix" gave me this impression.
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Just my two cents... a great idea, and if it was pulled together in 24 hours then bravo!

The site needs to be tightened up though, I got no results for my favorite artist and for another artist the first two "videos" weren't videos.
(1) seems nearly universal, either via full automation or automation plus a cursory manual check that amounts to a rubber stamp. Either way, it seems contrary to the "on penalty of perjury" language in the DMCA and the notices, and I'd love to see someone enforce that.
This rant would make sense to me if the app was free, but if you're making profit just by repackaging CBC's content they have every right to ask you to stop.
What I always found a bit annoying about jekyll (at least without plugin or forks) is that something like http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/ or http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/09/ doesn't work, i.e. the set of archive pages is pretty limited. You get one big one, and then a simple numeric pagination. I used some perl script ages ago (blosxom?), and it did just that.

Still, I guess I can hack that into the code somehow…

One "prepackaged" jekyll configuration that looks quite interesting is Octopress: http://octopress.org/
I'm aware of the "different 20% for everyone" problem, but I thought I qualified my statement enough to make that obvious.
I can understand why hotfile wouldn't be able to double-check. But you'd think they could at least put a CAPTCHA on the takedown request, so that an RIAA bot can't rip off a million complaints.
Right or wrong, this has to be due to the repackaging of content and charging for it. Perhaps the response would be different if the app was free?

Excluding radios (which don't repackage in the same way, but I understand the authors point) are there any precedents supporting the repackaging of public content?
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"The stream URLs can be accessed with any web browser, the streams can be played by any media player. If my app is infringing, so are iTunes, Windows Media Player, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox. So is your car radio, for that matter."

None of those are charging for the access. And I think that is the only reason for CBC's aggressive approach.
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Real wages should have increased considering the huge increase in productivity that has occurred.
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Since news entries are constantly being juggled/reordered, I think it was a choice that they made. Whenever I get that error I just start on page 1 again.
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Whether you want an "I'm feeling lucky" button is completely independent of whether you can have a browser feature that does a similar thing (though I just checked and it looks like the default for chrome is to direct you to a full search)
I don't use a desktop on any OS for anything other than temp storage for files. I use Chrome/Geany/terminal 90% of the time and I have quick launch shortcuts for those in both Windows and Linux.

On my Android phone, however, I use the "desktop" exclusively to find what I need. Maybe transitioning desktop UI's to something similar is a great move.
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