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Disclaimer: I work in the health insurance industry in Canada, for a Third Party Provider.

Canada and Australia are basically the same, but in Canada there is a default understanding that most employers will help to sponsor an extended health/insurance plan.

I see no real issue with this, as it certainly does NOT mean they in any way control your options. As healthcare becomes increasingly expensive, the ability for employers to offer this benefit is degraded. None of that prevents you from doing what you want in terms of extra coverage though.

Most full time jobs that are also considered "careers" will offer some form of insurance benefits, and that usually includes health care. Aside from cost, the benefits of Group Insurance is that there are no pre-existing condition exceptions. You have guaranteed acceptance as a nature of your employment. This is a huge upside for people that aren't prefect medical specimens, and as a result employer offered extended coverage is significantly cheaper for the individual.

As I said you are starting to see changes mainly due to demographics and cost increases. The switch to Flex benefits, health spending accounts and such will see more "individualization" of health care costs in the future. Personally, I think HSA's are the best possible way to offer extended health benefits to employees, and I expect they will grow in popularity; analogous to what RRSP's have done to pension plans.

I find giving my employer power over my healthcare

You simply don't do this in Canada, although many people do have that impression. Example: Me. I have my government health care, my employer health care that I pay a portion of, and some extra private care that I elect to pay for.
...and a DIV with a wrapper class. So really not "just" words.
You don't think their stabilization technology is imaginative?
I think it's some kind of give and take. More hits for Forbes and you can piggyback off their name. I'm kinda vexed by the entire thing. I hear people say they've been mentioned "by Forbes" or that "they're in Forbes", but really they're on this blog site. It seems dishonest somehow, but I'm not sure how or if that's the right label. I think Forbes is really risking their online brand with this stuff. It's not always super clear what's a blog and what's a Forbes writer.
Absolutely agreed. And since the public can't follow up, it no longer can limit the federal government.
I fully understand they aren't talking about colloidal silver. It was more poking fun at the article talking about the amazing medicinal effects to be achieved by simply adding silver to stuff.

Legitimate or not, it /sounds/ just like the same bullshit from the 90s.
Schools - public schools anyway - seem to stumble the most with accommodating children with disability. No one wants to deal with it. Sometimes budgets and staffing get blamed, but most often it seems to just boil down to people being forced out of their comfort zone and not wanting to deal with the "tards". Happily the societal trend seems to be toward inclusion. Progress is just very slow, with parents (and students) fighting for it every day.
Companies should sponser open source efforts similar to some pro athletes. Pro skateboarders make a living off sponsorships. They get free gear and travel expenses from their sponsors and in turn get their sponsors name out. More Organizations should do this for key open source projects. I guess you kind of see this with Joynet and Node.js
> Or rather, only use it if you intend to go the whole hog and comply with all the pedantic, pseudo-latinate prescriptions of traditional formal English grammar.

The who/whom I/me distinction isn't a pseudo-Latinate grammatical prescription - it's the last vestages of overt case marking in English. An + words starting with "h" is a phonological side-effect of h-dropping in some dialects.

The preposition stranding thing, though, is pseudo-Latinate prescriptivism. That and the supposed wrongness of split infinitives are my two biggest annoyances with "proper" grammar.
I'm an engineer at Google. Not only does this not happen, but it would probably be illegal for any employer to do this for a variety of reasons -- medical information in searches, evidence of gender, race, disabilities, etc. which could (rightfully) lead to all kinds of discrimination lawsuits. Rest assured that this is not happening.
Costs of war: Death.

Costs of spin-off technology: Cash and the Cult of the Founder
> Nothing says 'alien' like blue grey skin right?
The ultimate Avatar cosplay.
I actually think this is a much longer term thing, and Wall Street is to blame. Back in what most would consider the heyday of American innovation (Say, roughly 19th century thru the late 1950s), most large corporations were private. Leaders with vision could undertake long term plans and actually pull them off, without the obsession over quarterly earnings.

Would we ever have a company like Boeing or Douglas Aircraft or Bell Telephone (Who financed Bell Labs for years) or Xerox today, with the pressure to go public and cash in, rather than building a long-term viable business?

One of the few counter-examples would be Apple under Steve Jobs, but such cases are few and far between.
Who wrote or ratified the Constitution is irrelevant to its effect in limiting government.

How people now are willing to defend what those people now perceive to be its limitations is all that matters.
I've had a few emails about Open sourcing the stuff we've done. We're considering adding a few features and releasing it into the wild, I'd love to hear what people would add?
We used skype at my last shop and it was not very smooth. I prefer self-hosted jabber / XMPP.
That's true, but I can't see the average console owner doing this, at least based on my own anecdotal experience.
Quit your boring job and became a dance music maven instead
Saw that one too--it's a cool thing. There are still things being done, for example, in making greener concrete that has better water permeability and whatnot, but I don't think the author would consideration that the sort of innovation we need.
All of those you have cited, were innovators before they were rich..
when they lack the comfort you quoted..

on the contrary, maybe when they need those things for themselves or others, then they created their inovations through hard work??!
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I'm not sure where I made the argument that heath care wasn't available.
Obviously, it's the colloidal silver version of homeopathy! I just hope the authors of the article haven't lulled themselves into thinking that they've just invented a silver bullet for infections.
Do you believe that Obama (or secretive figures in the NSA) are actually planning gulags and concentration camps?

If not, instead of arguing by outrageous and irrelevant historical innuendo, you could express quite reasonable concerns about consequences of excessive security powers that are actually likely to happen.

It would be a much more convincing argument.

(since both the Nazis and the Bolsheviks very openly stated their intent to violently suppress people fitting certain criteria and had militant wings actually targeting them long before they achieved the power that enabled them to set the surveillance, I'm not sure the historical comparison even works...)
I love that "What Happened to Innovation?" is right below this post right now...
You've posted several times in this thread so far complaining about the ads, do you have a source? There aren't any video ads right now nor did they specify _anything_ about how they might work. The only thing they _did_ say, was that user content won't be used in ads.
If you want karma all you have to do is submit a lot of garbage, just keep it coming. Most of your submissions will get 0 votes, a few will get you 10 or 20 votes, and one or two will get you 300-400. That's how downvoters get their downvoting powers.

Another option is to submit quality comments for a decade without being banned for saying something against Ruby or whatever the mods are emotionally or economically attached to at the time. Then you may be able to downvote.
See distributed Zipkin traces for a web request in your browser
Watch the 6 LaunchPad finalists pitch at 11:05 at Structure
The public absolutely can follow up.

If the public chooses not to, because its not important relative to other priorities, then, yes, on those points there is no constraint on the federal government.
Thanks :)

It's true that it's easy to package such applications for unix systems, but it's much harder on Windows. What makes Node Webkit great is the fact that it's cross-platform with very little pain, and in that case having the DB in the JS code makes packaging a breeze.
Heroku should not be put alongside Firefox, Linux, Django, etc. It is not an open source platform, only their client-site tools are open source.
Ha ha. She's working on it!
Awesome, thanks for the info.

He still didn't remove the obvious branding ties all over his website, but at least he did change the physical cover, I'm still not convinced it worked out as well as JD would have liked.
It is all about OC -- original content.
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There's a difference between asking an interviewee to implement an obscure data structure and knowing your basic algorithms and knowing how much complexity is added by using certain data structures. i.e. I'd expect any coder to understand what the performance trade offs are between a hash table and a binary search tree, and why you'd use one over the other. This stuff matters in day to day backend code whenever you're dealing with a non-trivial dataset.

However writing off in-depth knowledge of algorithms as esoteric or a waste of time is disingenuous in my opinion. I've seen lots of coders write over-engineered, far too complex code, but they were usually not great at algorithms.

Studying up for a Google interview was a transforming experience for me as a programmer - I realized how much I was missing and how little I'd let myself forget the basics since college. It made me a much better coder and made it much easier for me to learn new languages and systems. Understanding CS fundamentals gives you a great platform to work off, and understanding the complex issues makes you a better coder for the day to day stuff.
Especially since the innovations usually revolve around devastating weaponry (not to mention all the potential innovators who just get killed in war)
The video introducing video on Instagram is on Vimeo.

That speaks volumes about this service.
oh the joy loading a static html page @ 150ms
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Maybe this is me projecting, but I feel like it's way more difficult to create a good video than it is to create a good photograph. I see lots of great images on Instagram and a lot of terrible videos on Vine. I hope my Instagram feed doesn't fill up with terrible videos.
That only works if you think of apps as traditional software with the App Store as a traditional store. Apps are closer to websites: a few are very profitable on their own, most are just a neccessary part of a larger business.
"a little different..."

Videos.. on the internet.. now, that's something new! ;)
Capitalism tends to monopolies? This is not true at all in the common case. Have you read "The Innovator's Dilemma"?

Highly regulated industries, industries with network effects, or industries that require very rare natural resources (diamond mines) are exceptions. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Oakland mayoral campaign turns to Crowdtilt for support
The law does consider outcome, not just intent, doesn't it? A contract killer who offers to kill his victims by voodoo would get a lesser sentenct that someone who offers to use a gun, and this somehow makes sense.
In my experience, the rare quality is not the ability to do these estimates, but the ability to recognize situations where such estimates might be valuable. Most educated people can come up with reasonable estimates if posed the question, but far fewer realize when the question is worth posing.

Imagine a world where car2go does not exist yet. I would expect most of my friends to be able to roughly answer the question: "how many cars do you need to start car2go in City x?", but only a handful, if any, would have the imagination/insight to realize the potential and ask that question in the first place.
How does this compare with Youtube Capture's stabilization? I haven't used either.

*If this is any indication youtube's is pretty good, but not as seamless: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/05/video-stabilizati...

Though we haven't seen a video comparison yet.
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This is why I'm moving back to Sweden. Your points 1, 2, and 3 are guaranteed for everyone no matter how much money they have.
Its too bad they don't address the media question. While its great to write 9 nanometer dots if your media fills them back in after a while, well its not as useful.

I've got media from the 80's (gold backed) that is still readable with no errors, and some that is aluminum (silver) backed and is readable with error recovery.
Ask HN: Is developing apps the easiest way to the gravy train?
I currently work at a bank and I'm realizing I hate my job and the corporate world. After I finish (and sometimes during work) I study mobile development but I don't have a mac so I can't really make anything, so I'm just making wireframes and design mockups for now, use cases, technical doc, etc.

How profitable is it really? I have a lot of design skill and I consider myself a fairly decent programmer capable of making some cool apps, so I'm taking a shot.

I'm actually quitting my job late August to go full time into app development.

Can anyone share their experiences when they first started in the mobile world? I feel like there are so many mediocre developers that if you're even remotely decent you're going to ride the gravy train.

My second question is: Assuming I don't become a millionaire off app development, is there a good market for hiring good app developers? I'm taking a year off and my goal is to develop 3 apps of ideas I have.
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The tone was sarcastic and not directed at the developer. I don't mind that. How constructive it was is completely subjective.

How am I the one derailing here? I didn't start on this topic. If I'm derailing, so are you. You can stop responding at any time.
Dateline is December 2011. Why are you posting it now?
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GR;YL -- Great Read; Your Loss
FWIW, Youtube has had this feature since May 2012, for videos considerably longer than a handful of seconds:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/05/video-stabilizati...

EDIT: the demo video on that link above is pretty spectacular.
It seems unnecessary to belabor a common point while trying to make a counter-intuitive one.
You didn't think that through, did you? It's longer than 15 seconds.
What's interesting is that civilization simulators (like Civilization, Europa Universalis, etc) don't take this into account. In those games, military action almost exclusively leads to major losses that are only made up for if 1) you won and 2) you gain a huge advantage from taking the territory you fought over. Even then it takes significant time.

Looking back at the technological innovations that came about at the early part of the last century simply due to the war effort, I have to wonder why it seems like no simulation games allow you to take advantage of that fact. Why couldn't declaring war with the right amount of propaganda lead to a massive spike in productivity and technical advancement?
Companies routinely fail to disable access to users who no longer need it, creating security risks and increasing costs.

This seems very valuable to large teams, and like a small convenience to large teams.
If GhostMail was compromised, the attacker would be able to read messages as they are being sent. Sending messages as images does not stop them from being copied or held for an indefinite amount of time.
"There's not much code on this page at all, just simple markup for paragraphs, hierarchy, and emphasis."
I can empathize. Just keep in mind that such comments make it actively more difficult for others to understand your opinion, and the physical act of typing them out makes it more difficult for you to think dispassionately.

As an aside: I honestly don't think caycep's question was supportive of anakata. I can see how you could interpret it that way, but it can also just be an empirical question. Heck, caycep compared anakata to Al Capone, and nobody would argue that Capone's tax evasion was acceptable.
This will be safe until it isn't, and the user wont be able to tell when that has happened.

The more you advertise it the faster that will happen.
I suspected many in the community here would host their own XMPP server.

What XMPP server are you using or would you use?
Since when was eclipse the same as the java language? That analogy seems almost like a deliberate misdirection - do you really mean it?

Your TLDR says it all - you tell us to look at Dart as if it were some disembodied platonic entity independent of the goals of the corporation that controls it.

But Dart isn't independent of Google, so can you explain why we should limit our thinking like this?
But player.vimeo.com, how long until someone uploads to youtube?

UPDATE: It looks like it's back (kinda): https://vimeo.com/68765934

UPDATE 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uehy21pHDW0
I simply don't trust our (the USA's) federal government to handle a socialized system with any amount of efficacy or competency.

You would have to be astoundingly incompetent to make a socialized system more expensive for the USA.

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6220/economics/global-heal...

Plus, I don't think such a system should even be possible with our form of government because of the powers enumerated by the Constitution.

Pretty sure your federal government can recognize human rights, and ensure they are respected. Health care is the one section of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that the US has not ratified.

I share your pessimism though in any meaningful change taking place. The USA has a rather bizarre view of the role of health care in society as compared to other nations.
Reminded me of This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself mixed with Web Design is 95% Typography

http://consc.net/misc/moser.html

http://ia.net/blog/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period
"Nowadays, we have the digital tools to make information available to people with vision loss almost instantaneously."

No, we can't let the Kindle read books aloud with text-to-speech; it'll deprive publishers of audiobook revenue!
For content-oriented web sites, you're correct. There are even workarounds for the often-discussed problem of image tags without ALT attributes, so IMO that one isn't a big deal.

Rich web applications are more challenging, since they often invent their own UI widgets (or build on top of toolkits that do this), in addition to or even instead of using standard links and form controls. For these, the W3C has a standard called Accessible Rich Internet Applications (http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria). But in my experience, ARIA is often subject to misinterpretation by the browser, the assistive technology, the application/toolkit developer, or some combination of the three.
It takes some time for an update to propagate trough Google's CDN. Usually 2-3 hours.
We have 100s of developers using Github, HipChat. This service would be quite useful. Especially the offboarding.

Another thing that would be awesome if your could get even finer grained control of some of the services. Like having the ability to maintain some additional Github permissions. A big pain point for us right now is you need to have admin to manage teams, webhooks, etc. Have some levels between admin and write would be great (and I don't blame GH for having these. It's a more enterprise need.)
Tumblr founder criticises rivals' publishing of performance stats
> Nobody's forcing them to meet a quarterly P&L

Yes they are, that's the problem. Running for re-election is equivalent to quarterly reports and it results in most politicians thinking in just as short of time scales as corporations.
Oh I see. That works as long as nothing you do online can identify you. That rules out the vast majority of things people do online.
I missed the "as a default" bit, sorry.
I am willing to bet it already works with their existing API. If you check out their API docs you will see they include a "type:" attribute (which has just been image thus far).

http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/

They were already prepared for video.
Also to be fair, there would be no Vine without Instagram, it is almost an exact duplicate interface, with video instead of images.
That all may be true - but is it asking the wrong question?

It can be tempting to stand on an ivory tower and proclaim theory, but what is the real world cost/benefit? Are you building a NASA Shuttle Crawler-transporter to get groceries?
Well, don't most people catch any bacterial diseases, because we're good at healing the ones that do?

With no antibiotics, the bacteria would spread more rapidly, and more people would be sick, and die, right?
Yeah, but the only reasons it was close were political. The individual mandate is well within the bounds of interstate commerce regulation when you compare it to some of your and my examples of existing jurisprudence that aren't politically controversial at the moment.
Learning to use GIMP won't help you if you're actually trying to get something done, either.
>Another option is to submit quality comments for a decade without being banned for saying something against Ruby or whatever the mods are emotionally or economically attached to at the time. Then you may be able to downvote.

That strategy has worked for me.
Internally hosted Jabber/XMPP. It's actually been one of our longer lasting decisions, so it was a probably a good choice.
I tried to address that question in the full version of the article, but had to condense it somewhat for the InfoQ post. http://aphyr.com/posts/286-call-me-maybe-final-thoughts
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Why are you surprised? Ads in the app = instant uninstall for heck of a lot of people.
Lockheed Reassigns Workers to Fix F-35 Software
Even guys in university choose a thing and go "I'm a java back end developer, that's what I do", and spend all of their time on that. Most curricula cover a wide variety of languages but that doesn't really teach you enough to mean anything.
Regarding super-sonic flight in particular. IIRC, the main reason for Concorde service being discontinued was the lack of people willing to pay for it. Further, when door-to-door times are extended by excessive security and waiting at the airport it doesn't really matter if you've cut your in-air time in half.

I'd be really excited if someone airline offered pilotless aircraft. I think this is technically feasible now. I know that we are currently capable of landing planes autonomously currently. Plus this would reduce door-to-door time as well since you'd reduce the need for long security lines. After all, if there's no cockpit to hijack what is the use of screening for potential hijackers?
Long-rumored. Releases like this are just bringing it closer. http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-s-video-ads-delaye...

"Based on how they were being positioned for the summer launch, video ads will appear to targeted users in their news feeds up to three times on the day they’re slotted and will begin silently playing when a user scrolls over them, according to source who heard Facebook’s pitch.

Audio won’t be activated unless a user clicks on the 15-second ad, at which point it will restart and spread over the right- and left-hand rails of the page."
Grip strength is similar predictor of longevity. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541735