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I've been in your shoes and I empathize. In fact, I was in your shoes just a few days ago when I applied for insurance. The rates here are "representative" and I tried to add disclaimers in the obvious places. The rates are similar to what you see if you check with your state's insurance commissioner. Most states require the health insurance companies to publicly disclose those rates.

Of course, they can still mess with you and they won't hesitate to do so if they think they can't make money at this price. There's no way to find out the final rate without completing the entire application process. In that respect it's similar to auto insurance.

PickHealthInsurance still has a lot of utility compared to existing sites, though.

You can get often get the advertised rates, but not always. In Washington State for example, you can get these rates if you're running out of COBRA and you've been covered continuously. They aren't allowed to ask questions.

I don't think there's a magic bullet, unfortunately. Suggestions welcome.
That really is good. Hipmunk is still better if you know what days you want to fly, but this is great if you haven't yet decided precisely when, or precisely where, you want to go.

A pity it only works within the US so far, but I'm sure they'll add international destinations eventually.

Also a shame that Southwest still won't cooperate with any of these guys. I guess it's a rational decision on their part: be cheapest most of the time and hope that people won't bother to compare your fares to others.
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Sorry, locations outside the U.S. are currently not supported. -- Ugh, lame.
More like kayak? I thought about adding the sliders, but it feels like the filtering is sufficient.
I also don't see any way to search for non-economy-class flights...
Faster than Hipmunk, but can't do international flights yet.
"Knowledge of LISP" is still showing up on job postings:

http://www.google.com/jobs/itasoftware/eng/ita-software-soft...
What about Pilot Inspektor? That poor child is going to have fun getting on G+ when he's old enough.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jason_Lee_%28...
I'm trying not to clutter the UI. Ethan (my co-founder from Urbanspoon) came up with the idea for the "office visit" icon. I used to have that in a column and it was just too much, even on my enormous monitor.
The really bad news for hipmunk will be when google integrates it into their search results.
I'm 34 now, but my last tussle with private insurance happened when I was 28.

Did you fill out complete applications for Blue Cross and United? Were you presented with a sign-on-the-dotted-line contract with a rate on it?

Were you applying solely for yourself?

Again, if you're in your 20s, healthy, male, and alone, you are very easy to insure, because you cost epsilon for Blue Cross to insure.
I was just making a point. The quote sounds like something from Office Space.
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You must have me confused with someone who doesn't know the difference between the Arctic and Antarctic.

The raw data on Arctic ice thickness comes from the Canadian Ice Service, Norwegian Meteorological Service
daily satellite images: Arctic Mosaic of the LANCE-MODIS System, University of Bremen archive of sea ice concentration maps, ECMWF weather forecasts and radar images of Greenland from the Danish Meteorological Institute. So satellite photos basically, and you are right that I don't consider them propaganda.

http://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/

I haven't looked at the data behind the articles you cite since they aren't available as best I can find, and even the summaries merely claim that Antarctica is at best a wash with gains in one metric in one region possibly compensating for significant losses elsewhere. Thanks for playing though.
I agree completely - also, in some jobs (yes, even in software) it's as important that you're well-spoken, out-going and social as you are a passionate developer.

In my hiring I'd have more alarm bells ringing for someone who spends the majority of their awake time coding vs someone who loves it but also loves doing other things.
ITA-Powered Google Travel Launches; Kayak Says Its Flight Search Is ‘Superior’
I don't even know what they're talking about, but I'd wager 95 percent of Microsoft Excel's features are never used by 95 percent of its users.
I wrote an implementation of this using Python's array module, and doing manual index calculations for PyPy: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hh8uj/a_beginne... . We'll soon have NumPy multi-dimensional arrays and thus can just run that code, but for now... we're doing OK I think.
Twitter Bootstrap is completely awesome. I could never make it look this good on my own, especially with full browser testing.
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Ditto. Hats off to Sinofsky for having the balls to push this through. Looks like an amazing release. I think he'll take over from Ballmer if Windows 8 is a success.
This could lead to a complete ban on things like userscripts or custom web browsers. For example, I have a Fluid.app instance configured to access Gmail. It isn't in a traditional browser. Would that too fall under this scenario? How about a scripted version for accessing Netflix?

Hulu already blocked things like boxee based in their custom browser. A better solution for CBC would be I just block to app's access by the user agent.

(I'm not saying you are wrong - just taking it to the extreme)
Yeah, I find that invaluable. My common case is that I am travelling one or two full weeks, but am flexible about whether I leave/return on Sat/Sun. Often staying one additional day is $200 more per person, above the price I value a day of vacation at.
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How is the daily rate defined. My definition of a day is 8 hours. So $1500/day = 187.5$/h. So if you work 12 hours a day, do you charge $1500, $2250 or simply refuse to work more than 8h?
Fixed, thanks! jQuery Tablesort has a bug with currencies and commas...
I have never even heard of a flight search not supporting international flights.
I assume that Jobs' biography is out… in the USA?

Over here in Europe, I get (paraphrasing) "your request could not be completed. The article you requested is, at the moment not available in this store."
Once you've done your search, click on the little calendar icon, and it gives you a lot of information about prices on other days.
Are you talking about watching a movie from a file sharing sites or watching a movie on blueray?

It seems a little unclear from the post.
Internally, this has been around for a little while (disclaimer: I work for Google but not on anything related to this).

What continues to impress me about Google is:

1. Just how quickly this was built (really, it was quick); and

2. Google wants you to use our services because they're compelling not because we don't give you any other choice (ie "Don't be evil").

Sure there are limits to what it currently does but I think you'll see it rapidly iterate.
Not a bug, sadly. That's just the way it is in some spots. We're lucky up here in Seattle.
I think you need to be sued for anti-family discrimination.

If you have young children, your chance of being able to do this sort of after hours programming can be near zero if you're doing all the parenting you should if you and your spouse both work.

Especially if you get in trouble for it at work (I know I've been places where you had to do 4-10 hours of paperwork to do it even).
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This rant makes me wonder if this is the author's first dance at the IP party. If so it could be instructional for them.

The bottom line is that CBC sees you selling an application the sole purpose of which is to play their content and it competes with their application which does the same thing. Further they have stated in clear and bold language that such exploitation is not a right they are willing to share.

That's a pretty straight forward case.

Some folks here are posting 'but doesn't the radio infringe?' and the answer is no, since they have an agreement with the radio and radio manufacturers. But if the radio manufacturer created a radio (for example) that let you listen to CBC broadcasts, and when it detected a commercial it 'blanked out' that signal and filled in its own commercial. Well that would be pretty exploitive would it not? If your a content provider you prevent that from happening by aggressively shutting down anyone who doesn't go through an approved path. (like a web browser)

The OP isn't doing any of that, he just wants a decent way to listen to these guys, but from a legal perspective his 'repackaging' is no different than if it had been for more nefarious reasons, and if they don't shut this guy down then some bad guy will build their own custom player with some more obviously exploitive use and point to this guy and say "Unfair, you didn't shut him down, are you being unreasonable here?"

The correct 'answer' here is that you meet with the business development folks at CBC and you explain to them your 'problem' (crappy flash player yadda yadda) and your 'solution' (custom widget) and say to them "What would it take to have you on board with this?" You could offer them pre-release review rights for your app, a cut of any revenue from sales, etc etc. Its a twisted world though, be prepared for people who believe contradictory things at the same time.
In true Google style, they are focusing on speed, with a minimal UI.
Apple also locks down the iPad to allow me to only do with it what they bless as appropriate.

The Apple model is just different. It's not "the right way" it's just "the apple way." High emphasis on developing in secret and only showing a locked-down finished product.

The fact they are releasing an OS a year before it hits shelves allows millions of developers to get a crack at building new apps.
Well, now you have! It's a much simpler problem to solve first.
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It's only going to take a few instances of the algorithm guessing wrong or users not paying attention and having something bad happen IRL before this bites them. At least with Plus it's still a manual association into Circles, which puts the full onus on the user to do it carefully.
I also highly value having a reliable car. If my car breaks once a month and makes me late to a meeting, it's more expensive than leasing a new S4. A 2-7y old Honda Civic, well maintained, is probably the sweet spot for price/reliability for basic transportation.
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Hate that I have to save it to my iphone desktop in order to use this ; not being able to try it out on my desktop was annoying as well, but I think enough people already expressed that sentiment. Other than that the app is ok, just not sure I'd necessarily want to spend much time learning from this source since it esssentially skips over what makes HTML5 cool in the first place.
Are you sure Washington State is that simple? I don't live there and only spent a few moments researching, but I don't see that WA has guaranteed issue with continuous coverage. It does seem to have guaranteed renewal, but that locks you into one insurer, doesn't it?
They support that really well. Click on the calendar icon to the right of the 'Return' field.
I agree with your recipe in general, but the main point is that your counterexamples are selected to strengthen your main point, not to point out its flaws.
General question here. Almost all flight search sites default the search dates to about 3 weeks out. Now, I find this annoying but I'm wondering if its done because there is statistical evidence that most customers search in that range of time, or rather if it's just what someone thought would be a good idea by "following their intuition".
Some folks here are posting 'but doesn't the radio infringe?' and the answer is no, since they have an agreement with the radio and radio manufacturers.

Oh, I didn't know you needed a license to manufacture radio receivers, care to provide some sources to back this claim up?
Hey patrickyeon, its Zak one of the Upverter founders. Thanks for the comment.

We just pushed a major update publicly yesterday that had some incredible performance gains (50 - 100x faster). We have also done a bunch of selective rendering updates which make it feel a ton faster to use.

You should give it a try again and let me know what you think! Hopefully we are a lot closer!
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I don't see BCBS in my results, and I have a BCBS plan.
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Is it me, or that app is super fast?
To me the big difference they bring to the table is that it is web based, instead of downloadable software.

There is a lot more to your average EE CAD package than just wiring up some parts. That's the easy bit. Rules checks, physics, placement, packages, PCB design, (auto)routing, Gerber files and all the other 'goodies' are required before you can take on the big guys.

Schematics is an important element in the whole chain of developing hardware, but it really needs a lot more than that.

That's a large number of man-years, and by going the software-as-a-service route they gain some advantages but are also stuck with a number of disadvantages, the largest of which is that they won't be seeing the benefits of user contributions at a level where it will move the needle. Of course there will be contributions to the parts library that can be shared, which is a step.

The 'perfect tool for open-source hardware' would benefit from being open-source itself.
I've toyed with adding some elaborate calculators. Last time I went through this exercise I built a rube-goldberg spreadsheet that let me plug in doctor's visits, major illness, deductible, premium, etc. and spat out a yearly number.

It was just too complicated, though. Most people don't even understand what "coinsurance" is. I might add some pretty calculators later if the site gets some traffic.
The touch-enabled part of this preview and the fact that Microsoft stays close to their excellent Metro UI looks very promising. I also see the point of keeping the traditional windows elements like the desktop or explorer. However I really don't get why the explorer has to stay that traditional. I'm sure there would have been a way to make it usable with mouse AND touch input - maybe by replacing all those ribbon elements by only the most commonly used actions as icon only, preferably in Metro style.

Right now this feels like an unnecessary break from the promising and fresh approach that is Metro on a desktop (or tablet).
Twitter Bootstrap - highly recommended!
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Jesus, this amazing.
The whole thing started with him labeling the app as if it is from CBC, brand name, logo and all. I think that's a pretty serious case of infringement, and CBC's attitude most likely stems from that.
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I actually reject people without pet projects for an entirely different reason. I can find out much more about how you behave as a developer and whether or not you'd fit in with our company by reading your code than I can from any kind of interview or whiteboard challenge. Ideally you'd actually hire the prospective developer for a short contract project before hiring, but that has significant challenges and costs as well.

Think of a carpenter that claimed to be amazing at producing furniture, but had none to show you. Would you trust them on how well he could BS you in an interview? It's not about passion or dedication. If you, producer of code, can show me code you've produce, I'm taking a much lower risk on hiring you. And fortunately, there are enough people around with code to show that rejecting others is a pretty easy filtering decision to make.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting. Are there really contracts that say that any code you write, even if it is unrelated to your work and off-hours is the property of the company you work for? If so, that sounds like a horrible arrangement. That would be like a chef making a sandwich for himself at lunch and having to give it to the restaurant where he works instead.
It says "Ads" on the booking options. What's the business model?
I love the scatter plot graph (with duration/price), it is so geeky :)
This should be compared with median home price delta over the years and median cost of food. I bet the median home price has gone up drastically making the overall cost of living much higher now than then. Median cost of food and other necessities have probably gone down but that savings is probably wiped out by the home price.

People will talk about the benefit of technology (the flatscreen TV argument) and how that builds quality of life but I think disposable income is the biggest factor in high quality of life.
What do you mean by "integrates it into their search results"?

Hipmunk's killer feature is the ability to easily visualize the flight in terms of the time you leave, the time you arrive and the time spent at various intermediate locations. It becomes more useful when there are no nonstop flights. Google is taking a different approach with their UI, which is fine.

In terms of whether I'd use google or hipmunk to search for flights in the future, I'd say that it depends on what my priorities are for that particular flight.
Let's be honest. Google wants us to use their services because the better they understand us, the better they can advertise to us. That's the profit model at Google. I don't begrudge them for it either. You've got to turn a profit if you want to keep the lights on.

I don't mean any offense, but the "Don't be evil" mantra is growing a bit tired. Evil is a strong word, and "not being evil" is a pretty low bar, IMO.
Exactly, except this time, it'll be on the devices that have 85% market share.
Tell me two characteristics or features of node.js that cannot be built (in an old-fashioned circa 2001 way) with either ASP/JScript, Perl/mod_perl or PHP 4?

I'm not interested in "scalability" as that's moot - hardware is cheap.
My family rates assume one 10 year old child and spouses that are the same age. Could that be the problem? I tried to add disclaimers to that effect. Maybe I need to make them more prominent. Certainly the rates match up quite well during my testing.
the maps on the site are designed in [tilemill](http://tilemill.com/pages/index.html), and served by [tilestream](http://mapbox.com/#/tilestream), btw.
It's only a problem for hipmunk as long as google doesn't 'retire' the project.

Give it 6 months or so.
For that you'd have to have a standard API with indicators of content importance. Even then it would be akin to keyword meta tags which are bad representations of site content in general.
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I'm not seeing much of a problem being solved here, but the implementation seems pretty nice.
Under "Plan Types" you've used a checkbox when the actual behavior is a radio button.

Plan Types
HMO (15)
PPO (79)

What was the reasoning behind that? Are there other options that aren't mutually exclusive that sometimes show up dynamically? Was it a visual choice?

The checkboxes underneath act like checkboxes.

If it's a visual choice, why not use some actual style?
http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ (see "buttons")
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Oh that's really cool! It should be more-prominent.
For the numerical stuff, it's hard to beat Golub and Van Loan.

Texts that emphasize coordinate-free approaches, like Linear Algebra Done Right, don't really get at the numeric computations issue.
Direct link to the proverbial horses mouth: https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-twitter-web-analyti...
Yes there are. Big companies mainly, eg the News Corp contracts say that.
Actually no, I was just reading an article about this. The cost of healthcare and education have increased drastically. The cost of housing and food and gas have remained more or less the same, the cost of everything else has decreased.
I like what you've done with it so far!! I love your launch page UI, it's very clear and obvious what I am supposed to do. Good luck!
It's an obvious next step then. Their hotel search tool is US only as well: http://www.google.com/hotelfinder

I guess when they are combined into /travel they will be internationalized.
Well, Adam has said in the past that only a small amount of Hipmunk's traffic comes from Google search results, so they don't really have that far to fall there.

On the other hand, users are fickle and traffic can be a bit butterfly-effecty, so it's hard to predict the impact of something like this. That said, I don't expect Hipmunk to panic or take this lying down.
I think it is more than iCloud. it is making your profile, your personalization and your content roaming. In case of iCloud, it is only the content if i am not wrong.
There are people actually starving around the world http://www.worldbank.org/foodcrisis/
Here we have something called the Standard Health Questionnaire (SHQ), which they make you fill out when applying for insurance. But there are a bunch of exceptions at the top which make it possible to avoid submitting the SHQ. Running out of COBRA is one of those exceptions.
I absolutely can not stand running into that message. By the time I'm finished browsing the posts and comments on the first page and click the next page link, I run into that error.

Then I click the back button, thinking that will do the trick, and click the next page link. Same error, because I never actually got a refreshed page when I went back.

So then I have to click back again, click refresh, then click the next page, all to go to the next page.

I understand that it may have been intentional, but it really hurts usability.

I sort of find it contradictory that hacker news itself feels a bit clunky, but maybe that's the point. Launch when you have something and eventually you'll know what is needed and what is just an annoyance.
This seems very similar to tubalr.com, which was on Hacker News 2-3 months ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428774

I like them both.
The assumption that pet projects cannot be related to our work is weird to me. My full-time job title right now is "Newspaper Editor" — so you know the programming I do is not "work assignments" — but I have a whole host of tools I've written to automate the less-interesting parts of the job (from simple things like "calculate how many inches this will take" to more complicated things like "generate the files needed for this week's paper with these parameters and the ads placed in a configuration that will be both cost-effective and pleasing to our advertisers"). These are unquestionably work-related, but they're also unquestionably things I wrote just because I had an itch to scratch. I wanted them, so I made them. Why would my pet projects not be related to what I do?
I'd argue that's "presentation" failure. This is something that can be practiced so as to keep the focus on the product and not on the sloppiness due to lack of preparedness.
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Can you show the numbers because from what I've seen, housing has gone through the roof?
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Globally, the median human being had a greater increase in income in the last decade than in any other decade in human history.