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That might be the RNC's talking points of how insurance works, but given that I'm in the industry, I can tell you that insurance exists to offset risk by spreading costs over a pool of people.

The concept of "risk" by default means that certain people will never utilize the service. Premium is a factor of the risk analysis, not a transaction fee.

This works very well for concepts like auto or home insurance: most people will - in a given year - never actually crash their cars or destroy their homes. The premium they pay is based on the risk profile of one of these things happening to them, and overall to the pool.

Health insurance is a little different, but the concepts remain the same. The only real difference between a nationally run program and several private programs - assuming a level of administrative competency - is the size of the pool. The larger the pool, the less the risk, the cheaper the average premium.

You can call it dirty words and all, but if you are against the concept of national insurance programs as a principle, you should really evaluate your view of insurance in general, since you're "subsidizing" people who crash their cars, have house fires, pick the wrong banks etc, etc.

As an aside: I'm in Canada. As such you might find it interesting that while I believe the US system isn't using the full potential of the available pool, I believe our system has forgotten a lot of the concepts that sustain the insurance industry by just declaring medical care a "right" despite the costs. Both of our countries would be better served by abandoning ideologies here.
The iPad isn't just a "really big iPhone". Have you spent much time using one? It's familiar because it runs the same OS, but the experience is unique to the iPad. I agree with your statement that the ecosystem has a lot to do with the success of the iPad, however, it's definitely not "a really big iPhone".
A wonderful article, which must awaken some dreamers; majority of mobile app developers just lose time in hope of earning money through mobile app sales, because their revenues dont cover their lost time and development costs.

Mobile app development is fragmented, cumbersome, ugly and I bet in few years most apps will be abandoned. In addition most apps I bothered to try were not even worth the download. People will stop buying apps at some point, and unfortunately a lot of development effort will be lost.
Which of these is not a web browser?
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Hahaha, no.
but ... but it has no comments!!
Why is Hacker News so closed-mindedly pro-psychedelic? Do none of you think there is even a debate to be had here?
Hmmm. You only think they should make a living?

I would hope most of us would want Igor Sysoev to at least put $10-$100m in the bank. He has easily created that much value over the past few years for hundreds if not thousands of companies.

If it turns out that nginx becomes less usable, or the free version becomes too expensive, a competitor will crop up. But we should want people who are gods of open source to figure out business models that enable them to become richly rewarded, and not just make a living. Maybe that's open-core, maybe it's a talent/showcase acquisition by Google or Facebook (as opposed to Oracle), but we should want these guys to become quite wealthy to inspire people.
Why is what he did with his money “interesting?” I’d call that a personal and private matter, very similar to what position he preferred in bed. The word “interesting” to me suggests more than just whether members of the public would like to pry into something. I have no doubt that millions of Justin Bieber's fans are very interested in what he ate for breakfast, but that doesn’t make it interesting.

Likewise if someone digs up dirt that Mr. Jobs parked his car in a handicapped spot, that would again fuel a frenzy of “Oh my, such a terrible thing to do” chin-wagging, but how is this interesting?

You can’t even make an argument that how he spent his money has anything to do with integrity. He never asked me to buy Apple stock so that his personal fortune could be used for Good Works. He never ran for elected office on the basis of giving back to society. What he did with his money is his affair, and a fascination with it says so much more about the human desire to pry than it does about anything of true intellectual interest.
Just 10 minutes ago I put my daughters to bed and I told them about Hubble. I realized myself how incredible it is that we humans have dragged what is basically a huge camera out in space just so we can shoot pictures of the stars without lots of air being in the way. I promised them we would Google for Hubble photos tomorrow.

Sorry for OT, was just happy to see the coincidental link to a Hubble photograph.
Maybe so, but alcohol and tobacco do no land you in jail if caught.
Conferences are a great idea, maybe host a 1 hour blogger happy hour at the hotel bar for conference attendees that are also bloggers. I'd wager that's a better use of $200 than a PR Web press release.
Why not have them email their assignments to you?
There was all sort of innovation in JavaScript going on at the time; still is.

As you note, getting the innovation into a standard is the hard part, when some of the parties to the standards process don't actually want the language to improve...

But Google claiming this is a problem for JavaScript while it is one of those exact parties is just hypocritical.
This sounds like one of those phenomenons that suffers when too many people find out about it.

The more it's written about, tested, and the more people in the disgruntled minority (or majority) with what appears to be the statistics on a given Monday --- the less accurate this'll likely be on Tuesday... rest of the time.
Generally you can replace "Aussie" with "Non-US based".
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Yes, how?
iphone lost against android in every conceivable category, and you suggest one more and you will see ios or iwhatever will lose again.
Can you provide a pointer to the process you're talking about? Google turns up several candidates, none of which are stand-out obviously the process you mean.
VCs look at people not ideas for a reason. I think joining a startup as an employee should be the same exact process. Do you believe in the executive team to put your needs at the same level as theirs? If not, then you may want to reconsider. At the end of the day it's an question of ethics.
Those google numbers are 30-day averages, so it's possible to get plenty more than 100%. Looks like coincidence.

In the US now we have:

michele bachmann 14
herman cain 36
mitt romney 11
ron paul 34
rick perry 33

All that said, I will be watching Insights and Trends now to see how it pans out. It might be coincidence, but it's potentially very interesting coincidence.
> On the subjects of cable specials, I REALLY hope TNT will make a sequel to "Pirates of Silicon Valley" soon

It's not a sequel or a cable special, but I believe you're looking for a film called the "Social Network"
That's exactly the purpose for which I bought the Nexus S, the Nexus One, and the HTC G1.

They are the Google Reference devices. Admittedly, it's perhaps not as lean as what you're referring to, but as a testing sandbox, I've tried a lot of different phones, but nothing has worked as well, in a general sense, as the reference models.
Ask HN: Is there a premium for jobs requiring travel?
How much more of a salary should be expected in a position that requires some travel (breakdown of say: 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%) versus those that do not (in general) require travel?

Should there be an expectation of more? If so how much more?
Sorry guys, due to a stupid bug some of you might have faced really long wait times while trying to explore a diagram. I apologize for that. The issue has been resolved and exploration should work much better now.
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Doesn't recognize firefox nightly (10) on arch - so it gives me Xs for everything. Excellently done.
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I know, I was referring to people who might question it (such as the posters below you), hence the "anyway".
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Your comment is in a sense its own refutation, because the ultimate test of user experience is whether users continue to use the software.

Getting user experience right depends on the users. I wouldn't use this technique in an online store. Random online shoppers would be confused by expired links, and you'd lose sales. But HN users aren't confused by them. What HN users care about is the quality of the stuff on the site.

Since I can't work full time on HN, I focus on the things that matter most. What I spend my time thinking about is e.g. detecting voting rings. Those affect what you see on the frontpage, which is what users of this site care most about.
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Does the browser benefit from Windows Operating System features that protect against arbitrary data execution?
Does the browser benefit from Windows Operating System features that randomize the memory layout to make it harder for attackers to find their target?

If you're on OS X, then yes, both features are available to you. They're called non-executable stack and ASLR. MS did the correct thing by giving you credit for those features.
Very spot-on description of the mania-to-blah mindset that does in 95% of blogs. I'd also add to the mix:

1) Unrealistic Expectations. Most people have no idea what "success" really looks like for a blog. They assume that, if six months have gone by and they're not getting 100,000+ followers, they've failed. Another unrealistic expectation is what I'd call an overly generous self-assessment: the blogger in question overestimates how much gas he has in the tank on a particular topic. He may get a few great ideas in his head one day, then build a blog around them, then find himself struggling for material on the third day.

2) Lack of Patience. Building a successful following is rarely an overnight journey. Some blogs take years to find their footing, and years more to find their audiences.

3) Insufficient or Non-Strategic Marketing. As folks in the startup world are well aware, you really need to think outside the box -- and occasionally go totally wild -- to get attention in today's crowded marketplace of ideas. You've also got to be clever about building credibility, connections to the right influencers, and paths outward from those influencers to broader audiences. By contrast, most hobby-bloggers take a "write it and they will come" approach -- hoping naively that people will flock to their blogs as if called to them by magic. Or they'll blast notices out to all their friends and family, rather than taking a careful inventory of who might actually be interested, who might be very interested, and who might be so interested that she'll tell her friends (or, conversely, who might not give a flying you-know-what). It's counterintuitive to think that starting out by telling fewer people is preferable to shotgunning everyone you know. But the shotgun approach seldom works. Start surgically.

As it turns out, probably 90% of the work of building a successful blog takes place outside of the blog. Writing great content is the easy part (and it's not easy!); getting folks to notice is the hard part.
"Do you know of any studies which identify an objectively measurable positive benefit to the subjets?"

Deciding whether something is objectively measurable or not has thousands of years worth of philosophical baggage, so I can't really say whether any of these will meet your definition, but for what it's worth:

- Using LSD to treat alcoholism

- Using ibogaine to treat opiate addiction: http://vimeo.com/20118700

- Using psilocybin to treat smoking: http://vimeo.com/15913255

- Self-evaluated life quality in psychedelic drug users vs. non-users: http://www.maps.org/videos/source4/video12.html

- Using MDMA for PTSD: http://www.oprah.com/health/PTSD-and-MDMA-Therapy-Medical-Us...

- Using LSD / Psilocybin for cluster headaches: http://vimeo.com/10918637

- Using LSD for solving long-standing problems. (James Fadiman discusses this in his book that I linked to, and I think also here: http://www.maps.org/videos/source4/video5.html.)
At a technical level, virtual machines are not the panacea many folks seem to think.

Certainly, VM byte code languages are often simpler than silicon processors' machine languages; perhaps they offer safety guarantees; and perhaps they provide garbage collection. These are all big wins for language implementers targeting such VMs.

But what no virtual machine will ever do is make modules written in different source languages work together transparently. Any time one module calls another module written in a different language, at least one side of that boundary needs to be written with a detailed understanding of both languages' semantics.

Tiny details of the semantics influence the idioms people settle on in that language --- and interfaces are designed around those idioms. For example, JavaScript conditionals treat the empty array and the empty object as true, while Python conditionals treat them as false. Each of these facts shapes what people expect of a "natural" API in that language --- and that ensures that modules written in other languages will always "speak with an accent", or seem unnatural, at best.

You can define a common data world, as the .NET CLR does, and extend each source language to cover that world, but the effect is to change each participant language into a gloss on the common data world. This is why CoffeeScript fits seamlessly into the JavaScript world: JavaScript's and CoffeeScript's data worlds are exactly the same. CoffeeScript cannot deviate from JavaScript's types and objects.

Each programming language is like a city occupying an island: commerce within the city is much less expensive than commerce between islands. Although it's sometimes worth it, dealing with "foreigners" is confusing and risky. No VM will change that.
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Another reason to use xor: in the old days, ALU reg-reg commands were generally faster than reg-mem moves.

The 8086 assembly tutorial book I used then recommended to use "sub ax, ax" instead because it was less surprising.
I can't judge if you broke the rules or not but not showing up on Google's SERPs is terrifying and a stark reminder on how dependent we've become on Google traffic.
I tried it for the GOP presidential primary.

mitt romney	11
rick perry	33
herman cain	36
michele bachmann 14
ron paul	34

So I guess it's Cain or Perry with Romney not standing a chance?

Also:

perry	73
obama	67

romney 9
obama	72

In MA:

scott brown 0
elizabeth warren 31
A better name might be technical debt. It is a flaw from the perspective of someone seeing the error message. But for the developer it is a way of saving development time, which can be paid off later to fix it.
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Found myself thoroughly annoyed by the style of the girl answers too.

Making the reader feel dumb makes for a terrible presentation choice.
> how much state is in those closures [...] to encode it (b64) in the url

I would be interested to know if this is even possible to determine from a macro which variables are bound in the closure.
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That's kind of the last resort. I would prefer something a bit, uhm, integrated. I am not really talking about 1 class, I am talking about all classes. I just want to get something that is simpler than e-mail.
The reason why Apple and their ilk use an old version of GCC, is that newer versions are licensed under GPLv3 which does not work for them.

For the same reason they are switching to LLVM. So if Clang supports C++11 well enough, Apple switches to that, and others who wont use newer GCC versions do the same, many companies may be back on track regarding compiler compatibility.
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Hmm interesting idea. If anyone is interested in guest blogging on a blog with such "high traffic" shoot me an email. Or I could spin up an ideaplanet (like http://planetqt.org/) to aggregate blogs of such caliber.
"We do not have any data for your browser, so we can’t give your browser a score."

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To quote from that article:

"this rule is applicable for any presentation to reach agreement"

And that's exactly it. This seemed like a talk people attended because it sounded interesting or insightful (and I found very interesting indeed) and not a pitch.

Especially technical talks (and let's be generous and file it as technical under entrepreneurship, but much more so about programming/etc topics) aren't bad just because of an abundance of slides. To the contrary, I very much appreciate elaborate slides on slideshare/etc so I can get something out of the talk without having attended.
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Now very OT, but:

_I have compared Swedish media with BBC and NY Times since 7-8 years_

Neither of which is, in my experience, particularly reliable (although there's less of the blatant bias/censorship that you described). Comparing them against AJE (which has had it's own issues of late, in the /same/ direction) reveals that their reporting is severely biased toward sensational stories - every article needs a good guy, and bad guy, a winner, and a looser. And the good guy is then implied to be aligned with American interests, even if they're Al Qaeda-backed "islamists"[1] (not to say that said folk aren't aligned with American interests at times).

[1] Which can be interpreted anywhere from "Muslim" to "what Glenn Beck said".
Just read the comments on Slashdot, insightful and gives a broader view on how people think about the subject. The story does include the link as well, so original article will get slashdotted...

Thanks for sharing these additional links!
Well done. I'm not a programmer, but some time ago, I simply stopped sending routine 'status' information until someone complained. Then I sent it. This simple step has saved me a couple of hours a week.
They've also got some snazzy henges on the east coast of the US (New Hampshire or thereabouts) if you're interested.
Here's a comment response (http://pastebin.com/rb8jVP5y) to my original post (http://pastebin.com/kkAyryLT)

postery should integrate pastebin as a backend! And then usenet. Or email.
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Seems like selection bias to me. Voters who search for candidates are a subset of all voters. Plenty of voters (probably a shocking majority) watch the commercials and that's the extent of their research.
I wouldn't bother posting hook.io or Nodejitsu related projects on Hacker News.

They have been black listed from the site and all of their links are moderated down / auto-banned ( for being competitors of Dotcloud and Heroku )
NumPy! Woo! This is a big deal for writing data-intensive backends. There was a great outcry of happiness on the ticket system when this got announced.

Now all we need is SciPy and matplotlib and we'll be in business...
I do wonder how many Moleskines are sold today that have more than a few pages used, if that?

Blogs and diaries are a great example of what may be a bigger trend: people often begin projects with high hopes, but due to a lack of a clear vision and/or an overestimation of their long-term motivation, it fizzles.
Google is getting thought samples from the brains of a billion people. Whether this particular method is valid or not, I expect they can make such predictions, and more. Flu trends, elections, real estate by region, box-office openings, popular conflict ("why are Tutsis so..."), traffic, stock prices in some cases ("xbox red light", "how to buy krispy kreme stock")...
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Reminiscent of 'Blindsight', an SF novel by Peter Watts. Humans have resurrected the genes of vampires (don't stop reading! it's hard SF) who are psychopaths and humans' predators, with concomitant higher intelligence. For this intelligence and dispassion they're the perfect choice to command in life and death missions. It's a good book, and it contains a lot of the feel of this guy.
Show HN: Weekend project - 'Follow my money' budget tool
I've been going through Steven Gary Blanks book "Four Steps to the Epiphany", and wanted to try out his method for customer development with a simple iPhone App. After talking with some people about how they keep track of their money, this was what I thought would be a good MVP to test the waters.

Any feedback is much appreciated.

Link to the app store:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/follow-my-money/id471808412?ls=1&mt=8

Demo video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF1KcbNjZ7Y
I included an image of my adwords account. The ad had been running for years(albeit infrequently due to very low budget), and I had not touched it since creating it.

I checked after this all happened, and there were several warnings from adwords, but nothing from webmaster tools. I simply ignored the adwords warnings as I was not actively using the account and figured they were just disabling ads. If I had know these were the consequences, I would have just deleted my adwords account.
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"Why is this a list of questions without any further explanation?" - because that's all I said it was. I didn't promise anything beyond a list of questions that I ask when I review a design.

I may expand on a few of these in future posts.
I'm curious where the wealth that is nearly equivalent to the combined average salary of a quarter million people will be going. I guess that means I'm a bad person.
The real lesson here is that if your service relies on "Big Data" processing it pays off to build your own storage.

If you were to buy 135Tb on Amazon EC2/EBS the same capacity would cost you ~$19,000 per month, not counting charges for I/O and bandwidth.
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It sounds to me like they moved the airing up as a result of recent events, not that they just threw it together in the last week.
Android has been ported to the BeagleBoard, so half of that is already available. However, I don't know whether Android's GUI can run over X11/VNC or similar.
Cognitive dissonance :P
Disagree. It'll be an outsourced bookkeeping service on the web.

That fact alone lets you offer heaps of goodies and efficiencies that your bookkeeper around the corner can't.