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Again, you have this 180 degrees backwards. There was a huge rush to build out polysilicon module fabs in China that has caused a huge oversupply. Now module manufacturers are going out of business daily, leaving an oversupply of polysilicon capacity.

Here, from a few days ago:

http://www.pv-tech.org/news/polysilicon_headwinds_unchanged_...
> Thanks for your comment.

Perhaps I am having a bad day, but is it really necessary to thank someone for their question? Seriously, this makes me feel like I am dumb for asking a question.

I understand you trying to be extra polite, but I am sure you won't start a conversation with "thank you" every time your wife, son, daughter, lover or employee ask you a question. So while many will appreciate your "politeness throw-up" attitude, personally you just caused my red flag to pop up, because I honestly feel your politeness is fake.

> I respect your point about 5 cents being high. We, of course, will evaluate that as time goes on.

His, and everyone else who ever paid for API and knows what is reasonable price what's not. To me this "We, of course, will evaluate that as time goes on." stripped out of bullshit means this "We will try to make fortune (or something like 100,000% profit margin on those simple text requests to our server) and will benchmark traffic, and if we don't get enough suckers to sign up, then we, of course will lower our price".

I can bet you $50 that after the initial wave of HN interest, your value versus cost ratio will scare 99% of those who need to use service similar to yours. Please don't forget to post a news where you go down to a reasonable rates, like 1,000 hits for 1 cent (Sendgrid, MailChimp, etc, etc).
Eligibility is a different beast from filing insurance claims.

Eligibility checking is performed prior to filing a claim. It tells the provider if the patient's insurance covers the requested procedure at the requested facility.

Filing claims is typically done through an EMR system that submits claims to a clearinghouse.
Each insurance is different. And each companies plans within them are different. Anything is possible if someone is willing to pay.
Dapper looks fantastic. It reminded me somewhat of the ancient ARM (1996) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Response_Measuremen... which I thought had died.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that there's a module for Apache in the works.
Wait a second, this is 2012. Why are we still storing session data in cookies, whether encrypted or not?

Unless the data is really simple and you don't care if it's stolen, session data should always be stored on the server side, and only a meaningless identifier sent to the client.

Managing sessions on the server side used to be a PITA, to be sure, especially if you had multiple servers. But nowadays there are lightening-fast distributed key-value stores that are ideal for storing session data. No need to encrypt, base64-encode, base64-decode, and decrypt multiple kilobytes of data with every request. Think of all the bandwidth and latency you could save by not sending those kilobytes back and forth!
Really? I find this hard to believe the two are at all comparable.

Can you provide a link to a page of a major media outlet in which numerous commenters claim she isn't really American due to her race? Or maybe a few tweets from famous people who have suggested that she step aside and let Americans compete?
So it sounds like this is not just eligibility to purchase insurance, but also (or instead) coverage by current insurance. Is my understanding correct?
Why can't a custom JSON encoder be used with support for serializing/deserializing datetime objects?
This seems pretty harsh. As someone who is running my own API company in an industry filled with red tape and regulations, I can fully understand a high price, especially when getting started.

Often times (at least in my industry--telephony), it is nearly impossible to negotiate low prices yourself without significant volume to afford better contracts.

I'm certain that everyone running an API company wants their prices to be as low as possible for their consumers, and it seems to me that your comment is really just attacking the guy unnecessarily.
I agree that they're dreaming small. This short-sighted outlook along with their (in my opinion) terrible name, will end up hurting them tremendously (assuming they even raise the 500k).
It's one of the cheapest eligibility APIs I've seen. And the clear value add is JSON.

There are some providers that do eligibility checking for free for big payers (I think Availity does) but then you have to process the mess that is X12. Trust me when I say that you want to stay as far as possible from dealing with X12 files.

Other providers charge up to 20 cents per inquiry and still return X12 response. 5 cents and JSON make this highly competitive.
I am rather dismayed by the lack of interaction between people in my country (Greece). We don't talk to strangers at all, not even to say hi or hold a door open or anything. It's a cultural thing, people just don't think to talk to other people.

That's all I wanted to say, have a good day!
It was the first comment so I was happy and thanked him/her. Sorry to fire off your red flag.

We've been killing ourselves over this data format and connections work for the past 9 months, so to us 5 cents per successful call seems like a steal.
Just doing it. I think that's really the key here. Love watching a few courses like this but at the end of the day you just gotta do it. Test some sh*t, realize that you're in a local maxima and that testing more button variations won't do shit, try other stuff. But again always keeping the main idea of Lean alive - identify hypothesis and understand the why not just the what.

How about you? What are you reading/doing?
It's still inline signalling and might conflict with what people have. Keep in mind that sessions are schemaless. It's not a huge problem changing that and I have a somewhat working implementation but it will break stuff, that's just how it works unfortunately.
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Aimed at a commerical market I'm not sure this doesn't make sense, especially if they are open to bulk discount pricing (which I imagine they are).

So I make an app for some kind of medical pro to use, give it away. A not very busy clinic, say at 50 patients per day currently manually checks and is frustrated. I say, hey, for $100 a month you can check all those patients using my fancy app that will make your life easier. $100 a month to a business for something like this is probably a no brainer. And at that price level there is still profit to be made before any bulk discounts :)

Maybe I should do this...
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I had a reply, but I lost it due to session shenanigans, and I don't want to write it all again.

But for RSS applications: considering they already have more than 14000 Twitter recipes, supporting IFTTT seems an excellent reason for implementing RSS. Particularly since it should take a few dozen lines of code, if that, in any decent language.
I've been using Eligible API for just over a week and I must say that I'm loving it so far.

Kate & Patrice have been extremely responsive and improving incredibly fast.
I wish the raw data was available (is it, somewhere?). I'd love to do some statistical analysis on this and get some real insight about how different insurance companies treat claims.
ok then can you give me any reasonable calculation behind why this is 5cents, not 6, or 10, 15 or 1 ?
> Why are we still storing session data in cookies, whether encrypted or not?

First of all they are not encrypted, they have a MAC. Secondly because you can verify the basic information of the request without hitting a database which is very convenient. In fact if it would not be for signed cookies Flask would not have any sessions because it does not dictate a data store. However you can easily change that: http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/75/

> Think of all the bandwidth and latency you could save by not sending those kilobytes back and forth!

You are not saving anything there. A session should really only contain user id.
Is this strictly for content consumption. When I first read the title, I was thinking of phone plans, etc... In which case we're talking about around $130/month for unlimited everything (minus international plans), unlimited internet, hotspot plans, cable tv, etc... those probably would come close to $500 already. If you're talking about just everything packaged as a whole, including the above, $500 is a steal deal.
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did the trick on this one. ;)
Yes it is to check healthcare eligibility for a patient's current insurance plan. If that plan went inactive we will be able to pass you the plan end date as well.
Unfortunately, to do a gravitational slingshot, you need a body other than the one relative to which you want to accelerate. So you can use Mars to accelerate relative to the Sun, but not relative to Mars.

This means if you're already in Mars orbit you need fuel(TM) to escape. One might consider a slingshot around Deimos or Phobos but I don't think that'd be helpful enough to justify its cost (could be wrong, but I've never seen it suggested in any Mars->Earth mission plan).
Microsoft is in a lot of trouble certainly. Reading both sides of the aisle on Microsoft, I think the products Microsoft produces for Businesses (SQl Server, Office Pro, etc.) will keep them from losing a significant chunk of PC sales to Businesses. However, Businesses only account for 40% of Microsoft PC Sales (based on Calculations I did off of Microsoft earnings press releases).

If they can't restructure their company they will have to eventually reduce in size significantly to maintain profitability.
It's a step towards federation and open access to your posts. Why wouldn't you want these protocols? Who wants to be locked down into one system? If that's what you want, use Twitter.
absolutely. I'll send you over as much raw X12, with removed patient info of course, as you want! Please email support@eligibleapi.com
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But nowadays there are lightening-fast distributed key-value stores that are ideal for storing session data.

"Lightning fast" is still a lot slower than no lookup at all.

A few bytes of cookie cost next to nothing in terms of bandwidth nor latency and can save a lot of hardware on the backend for large sites.
Just wanted to point out that this echos very much my experience with Haskell with one very important caveat. You actually need to have done the study to be fluent in Haskell's type system before you get this benefit.

And I'm not sure there is any better method than simply playing "how about now?" with Haskell's type system. While following (http://learnyouahaskell.com/)[Learn You a Haskell For Great Good].
>You are not saving anything there. A session should really only contain user id.

This is all ours do. I'm not totally clear on where the actual security issue is here. Adding a level of indirection to a backend store doesn't seem like it would change much.
So, Unalakleet has had settlements there for (the best guess I could find) 2100-2600 years [1]. It sits at the ocean-side of a natural portage route between the Bering Sea and the Yukon River (Kaltag is at the Yukon river side of the portage).

People have lived in Unalakleet long before contact with the "big, complicated and wealthy external world" and its subsidized infrastructure like law enforcement. Before whites came with army and police, the eskimos preferred banishment as the way of enforcing societal norms.

[1] http://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDF...
agree. this is a horrible solution. sigh...
Of course, said careful analysis of specific problem domains is then thrown around with wild abandon in an attempt to influence totally unrelated issues, causing confusion and havoc for years to come.
What do they have in common?

They don't write big checks to politicos every two years.
Just one nit: tell us more about who you are.

When dealing with something like health insurance data (or really any service, to be honest) I like to know there's a human or corporation behind it. Your contact page just lists an anonymous email address.

Knowing who the team are that built this thing would give some assurance — particularly because your signup page asks quite a lot of information, way more than you give away about yourselves.
One thing that you could and should add is AES-encryption.

It does nothing for the pickle issue but it's quite a shame to send cookies in plain-text in this day and age.
Design is quite nice. I really do like your stuff, Sam. Colors are very pleasant, but I think the highlight is a little distracting from your content. Goes against your design principles, in my opinion.
That's amazing - I wonder how the work is progressing now? I didn't even know you could breathe any inert gas as long as it has enough oxygen in it until I read this article...
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You don't believe that any of what I said is true because you know for a fact that American universities have no systematic liberal bias? "No way"? No possibility they do?

Okay, then, your credibility can be judged by other readers on that basis: no way there's any systematic liberal bias at a place like Stanford.

I claim that these universities are powerful, overwhelmingly liberal-leaning, highly-politicized internally, highly-influential externally, and that their internal politics heavily impacts the nature of their significant external political influence. The corporate comptroller at Harvard does not have to write a check to an individual politician for Harvard to exert its political influence. Harvard has plenty of ways to influence people that don't require paying for political ads. The politician may even be writing checks to Harvard, hoping to get his son admitted.

And readers can judge the credibility of that claim, too.
I'm thinking of learning Spanish for this reason.
Very hard, apparently, as jontas pointed out: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/nyregion/23tunnel.html?pag...
Software is priced on perceived value, not reasonable calculations.

You seem to imply that setting high prices is a dishonest practice. If you don't find enough value to justify the high cost, just move on, that might not be true for others.
Singapore is basically a police state already.

It may be a better place to live than the US or UK however.
There was a meme at Google with a tombstone and the caption "Cared Too Fucking Much". I won't get into the story behind that meme, other than the observation that caring too much can be very damaging.

I think people develop the blah attitude after exposure to the consequences of caring too much. At some point, they overcompensate by getting the attitude that nothing is worth caring about, as opposed to the more reasonable and strategic decision not to care most of the time.
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For what it's worth, I implemented JSON based sessions for testing purposes: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/commit/4df3bf2058954624f9...

They are currently on a separate branch and they are known to break python-openid (and with that Flask-OpenID). I don't have a solution for that yet. If someone is really concerned regarding security you can copy/paste the code into your own project. The session interface in Flask is pluggable for a while already.
The upcoming Snippets functionality has a great story for this. You can turn it on in devtools experiments, but it's likely gonna get revised a bit before it ships.
Don't you just hate it when you head off obvious counter arguments and someone comes along and makes it anyway!
1. I don't believe they're aiming to be the next major social network. I don't think they're out for 500 million users or a billion users. I believe they want a smaller community with a purpose.

2. Your dislike of the name App and App.net is opinion (as with most things in life). It has no bearing on the success. I also disagree for it to come off as technical. It is what you make of it and not everyone perceives everything the same. At the end of the day, a name (and brand) is what you make of it. There have been wildly ridiculous names and whacky URLs that have succeeded as well as names of all types and ranges. This is a mediocre argument to their success at best.

3. While Facebook is THE social network as in they are the king, the others may not be complete failures either. You don't always need to be #1 to be a success. Niche products have their places too.

Having said all of the above, I'm actually not in support of App.net specifically, saying this just to state that I have no bias opinions to whether they shall succeed or not. If anything, I wish them well for the sake of wishing goodness among others. My only points above are just purely in disagreement to the opinions you have stated for discussion sake.
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Terrible, shortsighted comment. You're really judging the value of an informational API on absolute price per dip??

I know of a guy who has a database for which he charges $5000 per lookup. Is that not a "reasonable price?" Well, turns out it contains contract details, including expiration and re-bidding dates, for multi $-MM corporate contracts. If you're a sales team angling for a $500k commission, paying $5k to look up a single record suddenly makes sense.

(I agree that ideally the info that Eligible is selling should be available for free, in real-time, from insurance companies. Guess what; it's not. But redirect your anger, buddy: Eligible is part of the solution, not part of the problem.)
I should add that this will not be at all the final implementation for Flask 0.10 in case I want to change that. If the change of the implementation will happen I will make itsdangerous (separate Python module) have a way to serialize the custom objects properly and then add this as a dependency.
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Thank you for the new implementation and your fast reaction!
I wonder though if part of their algorithm will be percentage based, re: based on the amount of overall content. That would likely allow YouTube to stay near the top in results, even if it has the most takedown requests. I imagine they tested this for too before they decided to go ahead with it...
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Er, if someone has gotten access to your secret key, aren't they already into your server? Or is this just CYA for developer incompetence?
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Serious question here, not even joking: do you care about the mobile visitors to your site? Do you care that there is an obnoxious floating "contact" widget popping out from the side covering the text I want to read? This sort of thing happens on so many other websites too that I think it ironically fits right into the topic. I think a lot of people need to visit their own websites on a smartphone.
That was my thinking so far in regards to this issue. I do however understand the concerns so I am probably going to evaluate a few alternatives.
What are your thoughts on provisional patents?

Also I'm most confused what to do after getting a patent. How do you interest companies in licensing it?
Local file inclusions are quite often very hard or impossible to exploit. Also, as linked in the blogpost, some may just pushed them online by accident, someone may lost a notebook or whatever.
So no, filesystem access is only one way.
It's pretty obvious what it means: + means call the + function. Well what does that mean? Probably something additive. Just like if it were called "add". You don't really know in either case unless you read the function.

The risk is that programmers might start using symbols in a way that is not obvious, but what is obvious is highly contextual. I'd prefer it not be the language designer who decides which operators are obvious enough to be allowed in my context.
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The key element is this. Do you view customer support as a cost center or a sales channel? If a cost center, then you as a company are not going to care. If as a sales channel, then you as a company are going to care, and are likely to going to need premium pricing somewhere to pay for that.

Note, one of the offered examples is MediaTemple. I know the people at MediaTemple pretty well, and when I made that comment to them they all agreed with me that MediaTemple views customer support as a sales channel. It also has premium pricing compared to the rest of the web hosting industry. So while I cannot vouch from first hand experience that my comment fits all companies that care, I know it does fit that one.
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No, I don't think "you have a huge problem anyways" is true, as there are a lot of other scenarios.
no, I am implying that there must be a reason behind setting the price of your product X and not Y. Even greed is a reason, but that's why I asked that question to Kate without making any assumptions.
Cool concept. A couple static numbers would put these times into more perspective:

- Length of a Mars day: 24h 37m 22.663s [1]
- Sunrise/sunset at the Curiosity location (?)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars
I have an B.A. in Theater. I've been a software developer for a decade, no problem. My theater degree taught me context-dependent textual analysis (i.e. requirements gathering), social observation (i.e. UX testing) and modeling. It has done far more for my career than a CS degree would have.

The problem is that people have started seeing college as vocational training, because that is how it is portrayed. "If you spend this money, you will get a job." That shouldn't be why you go to college: you should go to college to learn how to think and learn. A career is what you do afterwards.

However, both employers and graduates need to believe that for it to work. If no one is willing to hire people without prior experience eventually employers can't hire anyone unless there is a vocational education program in place. And then we get to where we are today, where people rush to whatever vocational program is at hand until the field is flooded with applicants, just because it seems like almost-maybe-a-sure-thing.
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The link you kindly shared is a lousy analysis of the overall issue,

http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/255997/are-tino-sananda...

as several commenters here on HN have mentioned to other persons who have shared the link, and anyway doesn't address the nub of my statement, which is that the United States, by OBSERVATION OF ACTUAL PRACTICE, is underperforming in providing lessons to young people in school,

http://www.ams.org/notices/199908/rev-howe.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/The-Teaching-Gap-Improving-Education/d...

http://educationnext.org/teaching-math-to-the-talented/

especially from the point of view of how much the United States spends on schools.

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/49685503.pdf