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Kostenloser Vergleich zu privaten Krankenversicherungen
Selbstständige konnten schon immer wählen, ob sie sich freiwillig in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung versichern lassen möchten oder ob sie eine private Krankenversicherung bevorzugen. Aber auch für Arbeitnehmer ist die private Krankenversicherung eine Alternative. Nämlich dann, wenn sie regelmäßig über der Beitragsbemessungsgrenze verdienen. Bis zu dieser Grenze werden Beiträge zur gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung einbehalten und je zur Hälfte von Arbeitnehmer und Arbeitgeber getragen. Wer darüber hinaus verdient, zahlt seinen Beitrag höchstens von der Beitragsbemessungsgrenze. Die Versicherungspflichtgrenze lag im Jahr 2011 bei 49.500 €. Wer als Arbeitnehmer also monatlich regelmäßig über 4125,00 € verdient, kann sich freiwillig in einer privaten Krankenversicherung versichern.
Come to Kathmandu, Nepal.

Your laptop will run smooth here. Internet connection varies from Kbps to Mbps - depends on how much you would spend. Delicious Nepali food (Daal, Bhat), guest loving culture and friendly people. What else would you look for ?
A Helping Hand for Startups
Not all that ground-breaking, but an interesting article nonetheless.

What do you all think is the most important thing that needs to be changed in America to revive our startup scene? I am of the opinion that foreigners should be able to get visas easier if they are part of a startup.
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Bollywood is one of the largest film industries in the world. Hindi movie release all the world and there are 70 to 80% people are likes bollyoowd film worldwide. It has a huge fan base around the world. Indian actresses are widely recognized, not only in India but also in other countries in South Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Less IS more. It's true. While users can be quite good at multi-tasking, when it comes to reading, concentration is key to retention. And even if the eye can "see it all" it really pays to edit what is seen, so that the user can quickly discern what to read (scanning) and what to pass on, so that they may quickly get through all the content they want. It's no wonder that in web design, there is a beauty in simplicity; the challenge is to make it simple enough to be efficient and user friendly, but not so simplistic it comes off as mediocre or boring.
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"For what purpose? To sell more iPhones? I think that is naive"

A bit paranoid but it is food for thought.

Personally I am more on the side of: Apple is simply putting something innovative and useful for people out there.

Apple might be a walled garden, but so far they have been extremely well with privacy and personal data management and not being evil in that context.
That looked like an interesting article but I can't read it very easily due to the gray text on white background.
Have a look at suggestions here:

http://scipy-lectures.github.com/advanced/optimizing/index.h...

By far the most important first-order optimizization is to vectorize your computations.
And why wasn't the hardware "good enough"? Could it have been too much apathy and lack of innovation on behalf of the I.T. industry? And who actually made one where the hardware was good enough to sell millions of devices? Why didn't someone with the expertise come along and beat Apple to the punch?
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The founders should not have to worry about making a living day to day when VCs are pouring tens of millions in their business. Nuf said.

And it's not like VCs are unsophisticated retail investors
> If 1 download is equivalent to 200 streams then ask yourself how many times on average does someone listen to a purchased song?

For most downloaded songs, a couple of times.

Most people just amass mp3 collections they rarely listen to in their entirety.
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IPod nano and Nike+Active make a great gamification experience
Up here (Portugal). Possibly a DNS problem?
Tabinet: a tab saver for Safari
Nice to see classical thought and theory still resonates in the ecosystem of today's startups.
This is a great comment. I worried that my example was too simplistic, it's difficult to bring up design decisions (as opposed to coding style decisions) without context. For many of my questions, you'll write them down, understand them and move on to deeper questions. However, they weren't all about consistency. I think naming is particularly important, drives design, and is often overlooked.

But the exercise shouldn't stop there, as your program develops questions like yours should be asked and understood and defined. The more questions you can ask yourself, the better you'll understand your thought process.

New developers might not get far past my list. Most devs might ask some but not all of your questions. The best developers will realize more fundamental questions to ask about their decisions. Hopefully everyone can learn something new by asking those questions.
Blackout in Italy: "First time Wikipedia worldwide has done something like this"
Founders cashing out isn't the problem. It's common--even encouraged--for late stage founders to partially cash out so as to align their interests with the startup, particularly if they're not otherwise sufficiently wealthy to aim for the fences.

Not all deals seek to diversify the founders and there are a number of warning signs:

1. The cash out is too soon. The company is still growing rapidly and in need of capital;

2. Too much of the funding round goes to the founders when the capital requirements of the company are still high. If the company is already profitable then a paying out the founders makes sense;

3. Such offers are only available to the founders rather than all employees.

Two recent deals fall into the highly suspect category: Groupon and Airbnb.

In Groupon's case, the early investors are paid out. Eric Lefkofsky has cashed out to the tune of almost $400 million [1], Groupon has has dubious accounting practices, it is only cash flow positive by screwing merchants and it basically looks like a giant scam.

In Airbnb's case the founders are using a large chunk of the funding round to pay themselves a dividend [2]. Dividends are normally a way to distribute profits to shareholders. Imagine if you take a $1 million loan from the bank, paid yourself a $500,000 dividend and then declared bankruptcy.

What's worse, most employees will see none of this because most of them have options not shares.

So this deal fails the smell test too.

Twitter is a more borderline case. $400 million seems reserved for cashing out employees [3]. If that's open to all employees I'm generally OK with it. If not, it's a problem. That being said, I believe Twitter's future is far from assured. It's unclear how many "real" users they have and what those users do. The large majority seems to just follow celebrities. I'm not convinced it can really go mainstream.

[1]: http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/10/the-questions-about-groupo...

[2]: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-01/tech/30232499...

[3]: http://mashable.com/2011/07/20/twitter-8-billion/
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the text of the article doesn't seem to explain how the assertion is made.

It's techcrunch so of course the number was pulled out of the author's backside.
I've heard stories about small US divisions backed by large, less talented divisions overseas to carry out the rote work. Maybe that's the case here?
Musically educated in what? Music. Not genre-based electronic music, but music in it's broadest sense - from bebop to Bulgarian folk music, from Stravinsky to Stockhausen, from Abba to Zappa.

I write music for sync. I need things like timecode support, which is a weird niche thing, but also things like tempo and time signature maps, which aren't.

In a proper sequencer, I can play in a phrase, then instantly quantise it to any time signature and any tuplet I want. Septuplets in 9/8 are no more difficult than straight eights in 4/4. The grid in my piano roll display will conform to my chosen timing, as will the output of my score editor. I can draw in a series of gradual tempo changes to an automation channel, or extract tempo and groove from an audio or MIDI track to use as a tempo map. If that sounds like an exotic requirement, try arranging a piece in a tracker based around drums recorded without a click, or using a tracker to arrange a version of, say, "Anyone Who Had A Heart" by Burt Bacharach.

Trackers represent music in a way that is alien to people who can read classical notation and who have studied composition. Someone with a modicum of training can follow an orchestral score with dozens of parts, scanning the score in real time and picking out the harmonic progression and main melodic theme. That's simply not possible with a tracker, either using numerical or piano roll display. Not an issue if you make primitive electronic music, a cataclysmic failure if you deal with big, complicated arrangements.

Trackers are a toy. They're intolerably crude if you're a professional user who has deadlines to meet, but also intolerably crude if you're merely an amateur with musical training. Tracker users don't know what they're missing, overwhelmingly because they can't read or write music, have little understanding of musical theory and no experience of playing in ensemble with trained musicians.
Digging down to the source material, the Strong Towns group does address Government Transfer Payments, explaining that all suburbs are subsidized. But they avoid offending anyone by pointing out that the suburbs were financed by the urban areas.

In my experience, suburban dwellers don't like learning that they're parasites.
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A photography enthusiast or an acrobat?
Sumblime Text 2 has exactly this, very neat.
Ask HN: What to do when you discover a YC-backed competitor?
Hi there, I've been working on a startup for quite some time, mainly at the validation state. Have recently decided to pivot (eeks, cliche term) after gathering feedback.

was really excited about the new direction, until I just learnt of a YC-backed competitor doing almost the asme thing. The only thing that's different is the branding and why we are doing it.

Was even hoping to apply to YC in a year's time after gaining traction. Has anyone faced such a problem before? Ignore and to carry on as planned?
I have.

http://www.slideshare.net/olegp/ringo-js-talk

https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/commits/master?author=olegp
there's also the Intrinsity acquisition in austin, but I doubt it's a super huge team. I pass by their building every day, it isn't big or anything.
Will There Ever Be Another Steve Jobs?
> Whenever someone criticizes “Wall Street,” someone else tries to defend Wall Street by saying that without it we wouldn’t have Silicon Valley and all of its wonders.

Criticizing Wall Street is a very broad term and its defense is equally general. No person who knows anything about markets will say corporations, stock exchanges, or liquidity shouldn't exist. The author is replying to someone who is broadly defending Wall Street's role in VC, private equity, IPOs, and debt. This is a diversion from what the problem with Wall Street really is. I have no problems or complaints about the actual functions and goals of markets. My problems with Wall Street are things that nobody tries to defend but nobody seems to stop:

1) Revolving-Door: Between the top banks, Federal Reserve, and US Treasury. Ex-CEO of GS should not be allowed to dictate or enforce monetary policy. Similarly ex-management of big pharma should not be allowed to run FDA. I saw an OccupyWallStreet sign that expressed this beautifully: Separation of Corporation and State.

2) Capital Gains tax: Income tax is progressive. Why not Capital Gains tax above 15%? I understand the whole I'm taking a "risk" factor. But will pg really shutdown YC if long-term CG is higher? Short-term CG is already same as Income Tax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_United... - but long-term is just 1 year. This means, instead of giving a CEO a salary of $10m (taxable at 35%), you just give him $10m in stock that he can collect after 12 months. After the first year has rolled by, it is no different from a regular paycheck. I'd say 99.9% of people cannot afford $0 income for a year but those who can, pay significantly lower taxes. And there are other ways to treat short-term gains as long-term. So why not make long-term to actually be long-term, like 5 years?

3) Funny Quant business: My friends and professors in college suggested that I switch my major from CompSci/Econ to Operations Research/Math because banks on Wall Street were looking for kids like me who loved numbers. The more I looked into it, the more disgusted I felt. Yes, I can comprehend why improving a linear optimization algo. by 0.01% can result in $5m in profits so as a business, it makes perfect sense to hire the smartest people you can find to work on these problems. The issue I have with this is that these operations serve no capital market purpose. I know they're not illegal and I know they're not directly harmful. But they are also not necessary and they indirectly harm everyone because the banks find them as bigger sources of profit than their investment operations. It's like an MD selling power bracelets - not illegal, not directly harmful but you know that if they keep this up and make a lot more money this way, they have less incentive to dispense regular medical advice which is harmful.
"The ability to create an organization that reflected this approach was perhaps Jobs real gift." Couldn't agree more.

Being a leader is like being a head without a body; you need legs, arms, a torso, and a heart to carry out all those ideas. Without every single person involved in all of Apples products (not to mention the consumers who buy them) all of Steve's ideas would be moot. The world is putting all the attention on the head - deservedly so - but even Steve would be the first to admit nothing would have happened without Team Apple.
Is the subtext of the article wearable computers?
Fluff piece.
did we read completely different articles?
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Same, but knowtheory's point rings true now that I've stopped to think about it. (That is, the "witty" pop-culture tie-in being the more likely reason as to why two libraries that do similar things to one named after an unrelated artist got named after the same sculptor.)
http://formalize.me/ ?
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I have a copy of Code Complete on my desk, it is 915 pages long. The techniques in there have been gathered from years of experience and research. There's no way I'll ever absorb all of the knowledge in there, but some of it may stick. When I write code I might unconsciously pick out a technique from the book, yet later on I'll miss the opportunity to apply the same technique again. If I better understood what I was doing the first time, I'd be more aware of it later.

Now, you're right, the easiest questions (as in the article) to answer can and should be encoded in standards document. But there are many many questions to ask and some are highly dependent on context and don't belong in standards documents. Maybe some of the existing standards that you thought you understood are really just there by convention and could be improved.
So it did not bother you that I claimed that Emacs is just as concurrent as any of the Unix shells are and that you can do most of those things (I do not know enough to say whether you can do nonblocking saves on network drives) in any Unix shell :) :)

Look, concurrency is complicated, and here is not the place for a long exposition about it, but the Emacs of 1995 (and again almost any Unix shell) can do most of what you listed. Often, it forks a program written in C and listens for a signal informing it of the result. M-x man is probably the best example: it forks a program written in C (or a bunch of them connected with Unix pipes) and waits for the C program to fill a buffer with the rendered man page. On modern hardware, the rendering is snappy, but M-x man was written in the early 1990s, when it took many seconds to render some man pages, so it is written such that the user can continue editing (can switch buffers, etc) and when the man page is ready, emacs switches to the buffer containing the new man page.
The source is some dude the reporter talked to who says Steve Jobs said it. This is journalism?
Nice job. Well written. To the point. For us busy managers.
Nope, not even. SML apparently did so, and probably others.
How about a Java IDE that parses or compiles in the background? I'm sure we could image a lot of other cool things.

8-core CPUs will become commodity technology in the next 6 months. Emacs Lisp really does need multi-threading support.
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Yeah, it seems like you might have more of a desire for live performance tools. Maybe even something simple like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miMM8R1CSM8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25VGdNU3nrU

which can produce really great results.

And once you're happy with the results, "record" the individual parts with a midi tool so you have the notes down someplace for recall later.
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The Death of Steve Jobs
Again, you are confusing "right tool for the job" with your silly prejudices.

Take me for example, I know Stockhausen because I studied him in my fine arts undergraduate degree in Electroacoustic studies at university.

To recap, the question was somewhere along the lines of "how do you prototype music, I have a casio?" not "how do you write a serialist score for a chamber ensemble?"

Even then, The Linux Laptop Orchestra based in the music department at Virgina Tech uses trackers. Of course this isn't the score to Star Wars and a house in Malibu; it is very left field stuff, but it can't be denied that this is serious contemporary practice for anyone in the know.

Regards,
There aren't many, we just have to email our merchants and say they'll have to wait a few until paypal has released the revenue.
Advertising companies know everything you do online. They have "behavioral profiles" far more detailed than anything the Stasi had. We are in fact under much more surveillance, but the problem is not the government.
Related thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3088687
Our modern institutions, the banks and the corporation, arose in a period when business was very capital intensive, you had to build big factories to compete. But recently, large areas of business have been changed by technology to require far less capital. Not all of them, building chip factories has not, but look at say the media business, it used to cost a huge amount to build printing plants for newspapers, but this is all starting to go away, taking with it the rationale for the large corporation which used to have to be that big to finance the capital.

Silicon Valley is funding the smaller scale firms of the new economy, but that does not require huge amounts of money; meanwhile Wall Street is mostly large amounts of leveraged capital that does not have productive use in the real economy any more, so it tends to feed into asset price bubbles.

Its a big long term shift in the balance.
It would be ad hominem if I were trying to prove the claims of this article incorrect by critiquing him personally, but I clearly wasn't trying to disprove the claims of the article.

Citing wikipedia: "Gratuitous verbal abuse or "name-calling" itself is not an ad hominem or a logical fallacy.[8][13][14][15][16]
In order to become a fallacy, the insult would need to be given as a reason for believing some conclusion. An example would be, "X is idiotically ignorant [of politics], so why should we listen to him now?""

Also, "Is he wrong or uninteresting in this case?" is a false dilemma.
You're looking for the "A Complete Guide To The Ponzi Scheme That Is Suburban America" submission. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3090385
Neil Capel, hacker/entrepreneur on building Sailthru
1,000 is probably wrong, counting every possible person who is vaguely related to hardware.

But the PA Semi team is way larger than 20 engineers, that's for sure. Even before the acquisition by Apple, they had way more engineers than 20. I'm the guy who filmed their product launch at the Power Conference.
Thanks for the feedback, just fixed it. Not it should be readable.
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Hi hollerith,

I don't use my shell as an editor, so I don't really understand the comparison.

If my list is inaccurate, please correct me. Prove me wrong about three items above and I'll buy you a paypal beer for improving my workflow.
That's a pretty good point but are there no situations where drones are used instead of "boots on the ground"? For instance, would the US use "precision air power" instead of drones against targets in Pakistan, if we didn't have drones?

I really have no idea though, I can't even pretend to be informed on this.
Just a nitpick: JSON doesn't have functions and implies serialization. I'd just call it a javascript object.
the traditional starter kit configuration files

Traditional in what sense? Is emacs-starter-kit considered a must-have?
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Posting to a blog about a first round of interviews while you are still going through them can easily be viewed as premature, immature, and potentially dangerous for the company (but moreso for the reputation of the poster).

Now, if he had been hired, worked hard for a couple of years and was promoted from within the interview story could be considered relevant advice. However it is too early for anyone including himself to glene any pro/cons out of it, and instead the blog post looks like a kamikaze mission to the top of the hill to let his buddies know where the enemies are hiding.
With steve gone, I wonder if there's a future of Apple selling any excess chips for lower quality market competitors.
Oh please, the advertising profiles I've seen are only a half-notch above pure entropy. They're about as accurate as the kind of rubbish you see from sentiment analysis on tweets.
Ha, and I thought I might have to time get ahead in my studying this week. This boom in programming contests for students is wonderful, but it's turning me into a huge nerd who does nothing on weekends but code and shout about algorithms.
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Additionally, with regards to the quant business, that they compete for engineering and software development talent probably diverts good people away from the product, research, and service side of the economy.
I think there's a large difference between political and business surveillance. The Stasi were used to monitor and control political thought, whereas Facebook just wants to make money off of me. What scares me is that a malevolent government could use their privately collected information in service of political suppression; they already do it for law enforcement and military purposes.
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Well, this is not surprising. If you put less content directly on the first page, users have to click on links in order to view the content that is directly accessible in the desktop version, which generates more page views.
"the post PC era" is what the rest of us mortals have been calling "mobile" for about 10 years. but more power to ya, guys!
Holding down option while booting does not work for USB media on MacBook Pro. (But sure, this will work for optical media.)

You've just managed to give the wrong information to someone, and call them stupid at the same time.
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Do or die.
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