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One of the problems when we discuss "healthcare" is the wide variety of price points for healthcare. So at one end of the market you have fully insured people asking for and/or being prescribed an array of drugs. Often quite literally they take a new drug to offset the harsher side effects of another drug so that it builds to the point whereby they'll start their day with 6 - 10 different pills. At this end of the market you could apply market forces and have significant results. If people more fully feel the burden of cost with those drugs they might very well tackle the underlying causes around obesity, diabetes etc. "If you could drop 30 or 40 pounds you'd probably find you're spending $200 less per month on medication" Sign me up!

However, at the middle of the market and the most serious end of the market you're looking at procedures and ailments that can cost $10,000 to $250,000. Here, if you have free market forces at play you're asking people (including many parents) to make horrible decisions between what they can afford and what is best for the quality of life for years or decades. Some will be comfortable with that I know but it appears, given the acceptance and re-election of Obama, that the majority of people in America are more open to the government running healthcare. (I wrote a blog post where I said that the fear of being financially and emotionally destroyed by healthcare was now on par with foreign invasion. As such, just as no one wants free market forces in terms of national defense they now don't want free market forces in healthcare - shameless plug and done! http://jmlite.tumblr.com/post/46257541683/why-healthcare-in-...

I think free market forces can be applied at certain price points but I can't see how it can be the driving principle across the entire spectrum. I think state run pricing and procedures that cover 80% + of the population with a legitimate private option for those with the drive or means to pay is the best possible outcome from a tough position.
The amount of bullshit I've seen in the hospital gives me little faith that any policy change will solve the problem.

The real solution lies in producing safe consumer usable technology that moves all diagnostics out of the hospital. When we can get our comp, CBC, liver enzymes all with a drop of blood on a 1$ chip, when everyone and their neighbors own low cost portable MRI machines, when we can all read our EKG right on our cellphones and have it be interpreted for us 24/7 holter monitor style. Then it would only takes a team of engineers to produce software to quickly crunch all the data to produce a picture of our health... and save everyone from that expensive trip to the hospital.
As an outsider living in a country with socialised healthcare, the US's healthcare system honestly scares me enough to consider not working there.

I understand that insurance is almost always provided by jobs and that it can be comprehensive if the job is decent, but I still fear the risk that some set of circumstances may conspire to leave me uncovered for something, or that the insurance situation might be sticky enough that although I am 'covered', I must wear the out-of-pocket costs whilst fighting to get reimbursed. Yes, I'm paying it every year and may never use it but the nature of insurance is that I'm Doing It Right if I never have to use it.

I also struggle to align myself with the attitude that 1.5-2.5% of my wage is worth more than the safety net that I and my fellow countrymen can rely on to be mostly protected from most life-threatening health issues if and when they need it. To me, the well-being of all of the people in my society (no matter how poor or rich) is worth 1.5-2.5% of my wage.

It's certainly fascinating looking in from the outside as the US wrestles with topics such as universal healthcare, gun laws, etc. It strikes me as stemming from core philosophic viewpoints that seem to be ingrained in the US psyche but absent from many other western nations.

In the end, I'm very grateful that I live somewhere with socialised universal healthcare.
Mostly when you post it ends up being the top comment in a thread. I wouldn't have a problem with this except that all (or maybe 99%) of your comments are about the same thing: people in positions of corporate or financial power abusing that authority. I don't even think it's necessarily a problem to say these kinds of things, but I was just wondering if you could also post some random comments about other stuff.
>> the people with the most power actually tend to be the most morally conscious people I've ever met.

This is also anecdotal too. The people you've met.
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Well, you could go out and protest in a nice ways, but the media will just make jokes and tell people you believe something you don't. "Just getting over it" might be the sane thing to do.
Why is this always used as an excuse why the US is different? The US has ten times more people, hence 10 time more tax payers. If anything I would expect things to be easier for the US because of its scale.
I think we'll start seeing very high mpg gasoline cars soon. Supercar makers are already demoing electronically controlled pneumatic valves and direct injection and doubly clutch gear boxes are now showing up on family sedans. Direct injection + independently variably valve timing + double clutch close ratio gear boxes + regenerative braking and plug-in hybrids should equate to extremely high mpg for gasoline based vehicles.

I agree with the few here that have stated that tesla is in a SV bubble right now. It's the just hip thing to do, similar to the prius situation 8 or so years ago, but with much less volume due to the price point.
You mean the Don Quixotes of modern society?
Why not? Don't get me wrong, there are tons of problems with this, but it is clearly going to need some external power. Why not solar panels?
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Name.com seems to be on the same path Go Daddy was 8 years ago (sans scantily clad women for marketing).

I wouldn't appreciate the "humor" (Twitter) around this event if I were a customer. My only hope is that if anything like this happens to Gandi that they handle it with, true to style, no-bullshit transparency - spare the crap.
The copyright reads 2001-2013, so I assume the code has evolved over time in design, but kept the old-school table layouts. If you look at the (admirably short) CSS file, most of it has to do with fonts and colors (and one block for drop shadows). All of the positioning is being handled by the table layout.

It's "bad" code by today's web standards, but was once considered normal so I'm going to have to side with the developer here since the site functions well and displays beautifully.
Just thinking out loud, not making a judgement: I wonder if the overhead from lawyer's fees would turn out to be any less than the overhead from government regulations.
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What, so OnionMan77 not so good then?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/onion-twitter-password-chan...
It's really bizarre, I have skills I've been endorsed for for jobs where I didn't use those skills around the endorsers!
Funny how this didn't make as much waves back then when they announced it. I honestly think it went over everyone's head.
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Kim Dotcom's Mega working on encrypted email
The point of non-mandatory tipping though is that it feels good for both the sender and the receiver. It gives the sender the warm fuzzies for giving even a trivial amount, and the receiver gets a concrete demonstration that their efforts are appreciated. Hiring someone to do a job certainly pays better, but its transactional nature negates the mutual emotional benefit of a token of appreciation freely given.
Because LinkedIn is a social network just as much as a professional.
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Don't forget fixing its wireless issues... I had to setup a second wireless router to support the nook in the house.
I'm not sure what most people know, but I think calling the group of people who 'run the world' scumbags is extreme
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I think your language indicates some bias here. To play Devil's advocate for a moment, the bankers that manipulated LIBOR did so for quite some time without being caught. Those whom submitted the rates they thought their bank could borrow from other banks at wielded incredible power, magnitudes more than any VC, i.e. contracts worth $300 TRILLION were influenced by LIBOR. It was shown that these bankers acted, most would agree completely immorally, without conscience, artificially influencing the rates to suit their own trader's positions.
That link doesn't work, but these instructions do:[1]

Xcode > Open Developer Tool > More Developer Tools...

and get "Hardware IO Tools for Xcode".

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9659382/installing-apples...
I read "support reasons" as needing to send the customers their passwords in case they forget it. Resets are better, sure, so it's not a good reason, but at least it's an actual reason.
now make it for android
To the kind of people that think encrypted email is important, being "compelled by a warrant" to break the encryption is exactly what they wanted to protect against in the first place.
What financial risk, exactly? There's no upside to this transaction . It's almost a straight donation save for the perks.
That's very cute and all, but do you care to skim TechCrunch or something and say, with a straight face, that primarily worthwhile endeavors are getting funded?

Tell me about social, mobile, or the like.
HNKit isn't in ARC, and does a myriad of things that I think are unnecessary and can be maintained cleaner (there's absolutely no documentation!!!). Those methods are actually very quick (imperceptibly fast) right now - but I'm not a computer scientist by any means, so I believe they can be made even faster by someone that knows a better data structure to use. Each comment comes back out of order with a parent ID and a comment ID. A comment that is a reply to Comment 1 will have the parent ID matching Comment 1's comment ID (hence my linked list structure right now). There's got to be a better way, and that's also why I open sourced the whole thing.

HNKit is also doing XML parsing over everything, and string comparisons can be fairly slow as well. That, in conjunction with not being ARC ready and a total lack of documentation made me choose something else entirely.
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I love how easy everyone always makes this sound. Yeah, just setup a hospital near the other hospital and make your prices lower. I'm sure they wouldn't respond by lowering costs until I'm driven out of the market and then immediately raise them again.
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Yeah, you're wrong. You'd be right if password cracking was limited to checking 'a' through 'z', then 'aa' through 'zz', then 'aaa' through 'zzz', but that's not how it usually works in practice.

In practice, a cracking program is generally going to have a dictionary and an algorithm for generating passwords based on modifying and/or combining the words in that dictionary according to certain rules. The dictionary isn't just English words, but also common non-English words, words formed by keys that are close on the keyboard, etc.

If that dictionary contains "asd" and "1234" (which is a pretty safe bet), it will probably end up trying "asdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdasd1234" much sooner than you would predict based on an exhaustive search. I can't say for sure that 13 seconds is the right answer, but I think it's the right order of magnitude. We're talking seconds/minutes, not years.

Edit: changed "sequential search" to "exhaustive search" to reflect the fact that it doesn't have to be strictly ordered.
I don't even know what the state of the game is for HN Readers on Android right now. What are the best ones people are using?
> Maybe if it's a rare occurrence, but I think it would get irritating before long if a lot of people took the advice of asking out random strangers.

When you pick an obscure tactic, the whole point is to trade on the fact that others aren't doing so. If by chance that particular tactic does get popular, you simply pivot and pick another obscure tactic, or move to a field where there are fewer players.
My factual posting of a "real" survey conducted by Indians in India about low quality of 90% of Indian developers was deleted from Hacker News You call this a free society ? Shame on you.
Think Computer Corporation has documented their dispute with the State of California in great detail, including scans of all the physical correspondence.

https://www.facecash.com/legal/brown.html

If you read through the history, it's pretty clear that Think Computer Corporation got screwed by California. California classified him as a money transmitter, but refused to clearly define the bar needed for him to become one. It's obviously a case of favoring the big guy for now reason. Facebook and BoA can be money transmitters, because they're big. You're not big, you're a scrub, now go to get job at Facebook like the other scrubs.
Obviously, this latest lawsuit makes him look like an obnoxious dickhead. I can nevertheless sympathize with his action here, which is to lash out at an obviously unfair system.
It's based on the Z3 solver, here's Z3Py: http://rise4fun.com/z3py
> Such people are immensely beneficial to society, but it's not fun to be one.

It is when you win.
It's interesting that you have the top comment, MC, and call him a hero, because I was just thinking how much his writing style reminds me of yours.
I've been using Stripe and they've been excellent, even when encountering issues.

Stay away from paypal.
"If your password is hashed, which it usually should be, then the service would not be able to give it to you."

Good!
I think you've confused Kickstarter for Twitter.
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> 3) So that notification is simply us putting the photo in your Dropbox. That's how the Dropbox support works :). Can you let me know what you were expecting?

I expected the Dropbox notification. :)
What I would like is a way to see where my photos are currently being stored, and a way to switch storage back from Dropbox to Trovebox (I only have 8GB of storage in DB).
If you turn off trajectory, you will discover amazing similar patterns with this factorization animation:

http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization...
> I'm curious, what the answers to the comparisons you mentioned would make you conclude positively in WordPress's favor?

My goal in disqualifying myself at the beginning of my post was to make it clear that, although I find the article to be unconvincing (the reasons for which I tried to explain), I'm not the one (at least, not given how little I've thought about it) to come up with a good way to decide what it should mean to say "X is secure." Unfortunately this means that answering my questions isn't probably a good use of your time, because to me they were off-the-cuff. (Oddly, I had answered one of the questions that you responded to.)

The list is not exhaustive. It was a mix of real questions (code metrics) and anti-questions (# of users) that was unfortunately not very logically laid out. They were just what came to mind while waiting for a 5x5' storage unit rental to get cleaned out.

To be moved, I think people want to see relevant data. Unfortunately I don't have more to offer about what that looks like than Potter Stewart did.
Those of us now shackled to a different team of lawyers will have to make due with tokens of our appreciation. :)
eBay pissed off their customers by prioritizing large ecommerce operations over independent sellers.
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I'm looking for a bit of guidance with frontend development.

I started out knowing very little... just a passion to learn and build my startup. I have been able to work through the frontend (I'm a competent designer) while my co-founder handled the backend.

I now consider myself comfortable with HTML, CSS and jQuery. However, while a mock frontend is getting there, it's obviously not enough. I started using jQuery to handle AJAX calls to load in JSON data. I quickly recognized it could get overwhelming, so I have decided to jump into Javascript MVC frameworks (specifically AngularJS). However, I feel like there are just a lot of basic fundamentals I'm missing.

After reading this http://blog.artlogic.com/2013/05/02/ive-been-doing-it-wrong-part-1-of-3/ and being directed to the ngBoilerplate build system (http://joshdmiller.github.io/ng-boilerplate/#/home) I realized that there were some things I'd never dealt with:

1. Testing. My "testing" consists of just reloading a browser page and reworking code until it works as intended. I know there are far more efficient methods. And I know that testing is essential (my co-founder writes tests in Rails before writing up functionality sometimes), but for frontend development when and where is it applicable? What framework (i.e. Jasmine?) to use? And I'm sure there questions I don't even know to ask.

2. Task Runner (ngBoilerplate uses Grunt) - a bunch of automation that I'm sure I'll want to use, but would love to know more about when and why.

3. Directory Structure - by file type or feature (ngBoilerplate suggests this)? Pros/cons? Best practice?

Obviously these are just the things included in ngBoilerplate I wasn't sure about. But I know there might be even more.

So, any help is greatly appreciated. It's a bit overwhelming as diving into the Javascript MVC stuff, but I want to make sure I have all the bases covered first. I think getting a stronger foundation will go a long way.
You cannot pay insurance premiums from an HSA. HSAs have annual caps. Small business owners still have to pay some taxes on HSA contributions. The poor have no use for tax deductions because they don't pay income taxes. HSAs are a partial answer at best.

All that being said, I think my original point about employer-provided insurance incentives distorting the healthcare market stands empirically. It just costs more if you buy your own health insurance. If taxes aren't the reason, what is? And what should be done about that, if anything?
I wonder what kind of metrics could be achieved simply by measuring how many mAhs it takes from google translate to translate from one language to another?

EDIT: Put simply, converting understandable sentences from one language to another is a lot more than just counting word frequences. Sorry having been mentioned an actual company name there!

I just wrote a lenghty text in Finnish and had it translated by an on-line service to English. Suprisingly, it wasn't the vocabulary but is was the structure that mattered. The machince got 99% of the words right, but it lost the meaning in 1/10 of the cases.

EDIT2: Not really sure who I am arguing here, on a stale thread, but I just have to finish the thought.

So it takes a measureable amount of work to analyze a sentence in a language into an abstract syntax tree.

An another amount of work to synthetize that back into an understandable sentence in another language.

The average sum of that work for all given sentences is the lingual distance of the two languages. No?

Of course all language analyzers and synthetizers are not equally good. What caught my eye, however, was how poor English a network translator was able to produce out of my Finnish. I'm pretty sure (althought the jury is still out on that) that the Russian it produced out of the same origin was remarkably more understandable. The main reason being the liberal word order.

I somehow assumed the english synthetizer would have been the top of the line. Turned out if wasn't. Or else the language model was not deep enough, which actually is a more plausible explanation.

Ok, thanks!
Craig Foss?
You have a floppy drive? Hello 1995!
"They approach everything as a software problem. For many (most?) other companies the network is just something that has to work and not a core part of their business. You need to be able to hire a network engineer that can come in cold, with a bunch of vendor certifications on their CV, and understand your network. Most places don't want to hire a programmer to sit around and code up new spanning tree algorithms for their network. They just want to plug servers in and have it work"

Do you not need network engineers to implement Cisco products?
Tons of useful password validation rules here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_policy

I'd start with minimum length.
during the fund raising process it's discovered the name of the company may be a copyright/trademark infringement on another company also represented by the law firm.

Just to play devil's advocate a little bit... shouldn't the founders of this startup have known about a possible name conflict earlier? It's not that hard to use Google and/or the USPTO database to do a basic search that will turn up potential name collisions.

That said, the law firm should certainly have disclosed any possible conflict of interest immediately and probably should have sent you to a different firm.

And the moral of this story, as far as I can tell, is "If you're working with any law firm or VC and even a hint of conflict of interest shows up, run, do not walk, away as fast as you can".
"Commerce Minister Craig Foss said today that following industry consultation he had decided to remove the patentability of software from the Patents Bill, which is currently before Parliament."

If anyone is going to support Free and Open Source Software, it's going to be a guy named Foss.

The government asked its citizens their thoughts "a recent poll of more than 1000 Kiwi IT professionals found 94 per cent wanted to see software patents gone." -- As overwhelming as 94% is, I wonder the motivations of the last 6%.

The U.S. is in software patents so deep, the only way I can see it changing is watching other countries move faster without the drain on innovation and the need to pay lawyers when you code.
It appears this is the page in question: http://imgur.com/KSsinEq
PlanGrid did as well! Highly recommended.
This whole entitled "why should I have to pay for you?" attitude is the exact reason why universal health care won't happen in the US, and it needs to stop.

Universal health care, along with fixed prices, will cause everyone's rates to decrease, and will also lower the anxiety level of the general population. No more "oh shit, something's wrong with me, but I can't go to the doctor because it'll cost X" or "I need this medicine, but it's expensive". I've experienced first hand how great universal health care is in Canada. I don't worry that I need to pay a thousand dollar bill for visiting the doctor, and the waits have never been horrible.

Being forced to choose between getting the treatment that you need or eating is the worst decision, and nobody should have to take it.