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> Way to miss my point. Well done guy. Fight that good fight for unfettered capitalism. Americans don't need no stinking commie health system, amirite?

This is what bugs me. You're arguing against what you THINK I'm arguing, not against what I'm ACTUALLY arguing.

I'm not saying that American healthcare is a paragon of efficiency and low cost. Nor am I arguing against "commie health system" but instead that the idea that having a SINGLE purchaser of medical care will quite likely result in less good information about prices and as a result less efficiency.

Right now in the US we have a problem where not enough price information is known: almost no doctors list prices anywhere that a person can find PRIOR to going to a doctor. How could that be remotely efficient?

Wanna buy some Microsoft stock? OK just call up a million people who may or may not tell you how much they want for their shares. Depressed yet? That's how terrible the price information is in the medical world. It's no wonder everything is so damn expensive.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/why-we-should-know-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/hospital-billing-...

Yes you can trot out the tired old trope about "but medical care isn't something you can't shop around for!" which is true really only in trauma cases where minutes are the difference between life and death. Got a cold? You've got time. The flu? You can check around. Broken bone? Uncomfortable yes but realistically you could spend 15 minutes on doctor-yelp so long as it's not a blood-gushing compound fracture. Mess up a joint like say an ACL? They're not going to operate on you the same day anyhow so might as well spend an hour reading reviews. Having a kid? Guess what, there's a roughly 9 month lead time on that one. You could spend a week shopping around.

> Once again: universal health doesn't mean price regulation.

If the government is the only buyer of medical care and they "negotiate" for discounts and don't do business with people who "charge too much" then that's EFFECTIVELY regulation. It might not be in the technical sense; there might be no law saying "an ACL surgery costs $4200" but if the sole purchaser of ACL surgeries says it's not willing to pay more than $4200 that kinda-sorta sets the price.

You can argue 'til you're blue in the face on technicalities and whatnot but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck most people will agree that its a duck.
You are right. It probably only seems reasonable to my eyes because I live in San Francisco.

Perhaps Kansas City, with its Google Fiber and relatively mild climate, is a better option overall.
Additional note: Could I just use XMPP or that may not be sufficient given that the mobile device connectivity could be intermittent? I would love to get the community thoughts on this so I can make the right decision.

Thanks
Ritesh
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> immensely better via SMS

Why is that? On Android, sending an email and an SMS follow nearly identical courses of action, and require the same number of taps. I can only see cons with an SMS approach (can only access from single device, can't bundle csv data in reply) so I'm honestly curious.
Nothing for domestic rights in the US, Canada or Latin North America? The 'regions' page doesn't let me select North America.
In other news, China, North Korea, and Syria jointly announce their intent to acquire Movements.
Well done guys, this is really slick. Some feedback:

* The marketing site should have screenshots. The app looks fantastic - you should show it off!

* When I installed the Chrome plugin all my (many) tabs reloaded. Is this normal?

* I never saw any mention of price until I discovered MORE > BILLING, and was surprised I ended up on the "team" plan. This needs to be worked into the onboarding somehow.
Well put. Things you do today will set yourself up for mobility later. Consider continuing-education part of your job. For me, at least 25% of my time is spent on education every week. There's no end-goal, you just have to stay up on the technology to compete in the workforce.
I predict a society where men, women, couples work until age 60-70 and then retire and have children (assuming medical advances).
While I acknowledge the author's opening statement, I still need to add a few details and refinements. :P

In addition to what the author describes for LOS guidance, there are a couple other, related guidance mechanisms. One is known as semi-active radar guidance. This scheme, used in early radar-guided air-to-air missiles, has the launcher illuminate the target with a special fire control waveform. The missile has a receiver in the nose that uses the reflection of this signal to correct its course. This arrangement still requires cooperation between the missile and the launcher, but the launcher does not need to track or communicate with the missile. The general scheme is known as bistatic radar.

The second, known as semi active radar homing with terminal guidance, is related. Most of the interception runs as described above. However, when the missile enters the terminal phase it switches to an onboard, short range seeker. This seeker is either a short range radar or some sort of IR device. At this point the launcher is out of the control loop.

Also, the section about proximity fuzing: cruise missiles are intended to physically hit their target with a high explosive warhead. In fact, the missile launch pictured in that section is an RGM-84 Harpoon, which is such a missile. Also a nit, but most anti-tank missiles (which I assume is what the author is talking about in the last paragraph of the section) aren't kinetic penetrators. They use special high explosive (HEAT) warheads.
What prompted dropping all links to supplements purchasable online? Because you guys are an unbiased source, did you still feel it was wrong to offer an affiliate link to the product?

I absolutely love Examine.com and have shared it with many friends, but I seriously questioned that move from both a business and helpfulness perspective.

1. From the user's perspective, it's helpful to click right out and get the product if you want it.

2. From the business perspective, that's a shit load of Amazon cookies to be dropping, and you're not compromising your message since you treat all supplements equally and back it with research.

Thanks for creating an amazing resource!
I'm surprised that he also stars in them. That seems like it would make things more complicated to shoot (but maybe cheaper and easier to produce.)
My friends endorsed me for some more obscene stuff, and I naturally responded in kind.

Of course, now that I'm looking for it, I can't find the interface in LinkedIn :/
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i could talk your ear off about the corp culture that led to this situation, but i'll spare us both! we have no style guide. the code is not modular - everything is global. when i asked if i could at least encapsulate my own feature so that it wouldn't interfere with others' code, i was told no.

i think a lot of people in hiring positions (esp at legacy corporations) just don't understand what they should be looking for with a UI/UX person. you can't just wait for the first interviewee who uses a word you haven't heard yet and hire them. it's both a science and an art. hire accordingly.
yea, I'm just surprised they have enough current to power a projector + arm cpu + fan.
>That you don't have what it takes to change it doesn't mean that someone else can't.

Change what? My objections to panhandling on the internet so others can pay for me to take a year off? What makes this such a novel or morally enlightened idea? Is OP the first person in history to not like working?

I think I'll quit my job, move to China, and help feed and raise red pandas for a year. But I don't want to work or pay for any of the trip myself because working is evil, and I don't want to work for the man. So who wants to pay for it?
Same sort of situation here at my job. Myself and a group of three other developers began meeting weekly after work to go over coding technology and to challenge each other. We will bring ourselves up to speed with or without the help of our company.

And that's the attitude you need to adopt. The relevance of your knowledge base is your responsibility. Fight for it. Defend it.
Would there be anything to prevent someone from creating a one off file format that requires a license fee and just start making FOIA requests in that format. If not, this seems like something that could be exploited for profit.
Anybody remembers MetaCreations Canoma released in 1999?

Worked also with only one photo.

Extending this into using known 3rd party geometries of identifiable objects instead of reconstructing by hand seems like a very logical extension in retrospect.

http://www.canoma.com/

http://digitalurban.blogspot.de/2006/12/great-software-from-...

As cited in the paper and by Canoma this 1996 paper by Paul Debevec is really where it all started: Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs:
A hybrid geometry- and image-based approach

http://www.pauldebevec.com/Research/debevec-csd-96-893.pdf

Still very impressive Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPhGEiM_6lM
Yep anything that engages your language processing: speaking, listening to conversations, singing, etc. interferes with your ability to process what's going on in front of you. Carrying on any sort of conversation, hands-free or no, impairs reaction time and your ability to drive safely.

You're not supposed to talk to bus drivers without good reason, and this is partially why.
You'd be surprised how many places I've heard of that would give push back on that.

They tend to be small startups that haven't had to "grow up" yet.
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No, it really doesn't. It illustrates a changing business reality and your fond wish that things change in a way you happen to find convenient.

You want google to provide not the thing that google and users think is most useful, but the things that YOU think is most useful. And incidentally (totally by accident, I'm sure) most profitable for you.

Who do you think has more data and is in a better position to make that call - google or you?
Doesn't help if someone is dictating it to me.
Wouldn't it still make sense to use a configuration management for automated building of docker containers?
You'd need to put the key into the camera's processor chip, where it would be hard (but not impossible) to compromise. A minor problem is that any cropping, gamma correction, etc would invalidate the signature. A bigger problem I see is that you could print the fake scene on a big piece of paper, take a picture of that, and the digital signature would be totally valid.
"Apple‘s operating system offers numerous advantages over other platforms when it comes to image processing, and it is also favored by many designers for the same reasons. imgix has written tools which allow us to leverage these strengths with our service, using OS X for image operations where it provides superior quality and performance. "

Looks like they use them for OS X.
Great product, English works great. I also tried it out on Dutch text, but that didn't work so well of course.

But still, very nice! Probably also a very useful tool for people who have dyslexia.
Movements.org focuses on closed societies (rated Not Free or Partially Free by Freedom House) with populations above 15 million.
Gmail Now Works With Addresses With Non-Latin Characters
I agree with this. Also, many years ago when they started allowing unicode domain names several of my Japan friends thought Japan would switch over to unicode domain names. It's now been several years and I have yet to see a single Japanese website with a Japanese character domain name. (I'm sure someone will pull one up just now ;)

The problem (one problem?) is legacy devices. At the time most phones and possibly even some browsers had limited input to URL fields in ascii only. The keyboard they'd show when you when to enter a URL didn't provide the input methods for non-ascii text.

So, having a non-ascii domain would have only lost you customers. Or made it more confusing. As in do I go to mitsubishi.com or 三菱.com? (三菱.jp is registered but googling for site:三菱.jp brings up zero hits)

I'm not saying I'm against non-ascii email names. I'm just suggesting it's not likely to change much anytime soon. Just a guess
I guess I didn't recognize your point, because I don't see a huge discrepancy in ability-to-demand overtime, between cleaning people and technology staff.

Tech workers are more-well-paid than the cleaning staff and generally better situated to negotiate for any given job. But I don't see how that necessarily carries over to increased success in negotiating payment schemes that differ from the legal and industry standard for the position.
May I ask which program did you use?
This looks like the course: https://www.udacity.com/course/ud884

Blog post announcement: http://blog.udacity.com/2014/06/new-mini-course-website-perf...

But it looks like this was made available in June.
The major problems are not really technical in nature. Homographs, Unicode madness (normalization etc..), and the biggest problem of all: input methods. It would be highly ironical if "international" "more global" email would lead to more nationalized islands because only local people can input those "international" email addresses. A single global character set (in the non-technical sense) is required for a system to be really global. You might argue that ASCII being that global set is eurocentric, but there isn't really any good alternatives available. Afaik pretty much every computer can input ASCII with relative ease no matter how exotic their users native script is.
... I mean, if you showed me a dingy outhouse on one hand and a serene field on the other, I can kind of see the appeal. Until you realize that the serene field is full of other people's poop anyway.
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When I had LinkedIn I got endorsements for Copy & Paste.
So on a rather non-lethal note, I built a pair of robots for a predator/prey sorts of experiments[1]. I had written code that used an R/C servo to locate a beacon, and then navigate to the beacon. It worked quite well, but when I put the beacon on the 'prey' robot it rarely worked at all. The challenge was the added complexity of no fixed reference point. I found a great book[2] which described a number of approaches to the problem and ended up using a pretty simple pursuit model. The trick for me was tracking both the bearing to the target and the bearing on loss of acquisition (so keeping track of "how" it left the field of view) I ran out of CPU and memory before it got too interesting but now I should revisit it as I've got 10x the CPU and memory to play with.

[1] One thing about robots is once you get them doing the easy stuff you want them to do harder stuff.

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=Ag9TAAAAMAAJ
From the article:

"OS X

Apple‘s operating system offers numerous advantages over other platforms when it comes to image processing, and it is also favored by many designers for the same reasons. imgix has written tools which allow us to leverage these strengths with our service, using OS X for image operations where it provides superior quality and performance.

Deploying this type of hardware in a datacenter environment is a bit of a challenge, and one that we worked on extensively with our systems integrator. Our custom cabinet design allows us to operate these servers the same as any other in our production environment, and ensures they are a reliable component of the imgix infrastructure."
SIGGRAPH 2014 Technical Papers First Pages [pdf]
It's easier and simpler.

While we linked to only the generic search from Amazon.com, it's easier to doubt the research when we still profit from the sales.

Examine.com is run as a lifestyle business. If we wanted to maximize revenue, we could easily 2-3x our revenue in the span of 6 months. Just not our approach.
One small fix would be to mark non-latin characters in an email address.
Nikon had something similar for the D2X in 2006. I assume there are newer versions for newer cameras, but I didn't look further.

http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/software/img_auth/index.htm

sadly the spec does not say how it works.

Broken:

http://www.photographybay.com/2011/04/29/nikon-image-authent...
They say “Apple‘s operating system offers numerous advantages over other platforms when it comes to image processing, and it is also favored by many designers for the same reasons.”

Although I have no idea what those advantages could be.... AppleScript+Photoshop? Who knows... On any platform you have essentially the same choice in performance and flexibility of imaging libraries, so it's anyone's guess for now what they think they need them for.

It's especially funny because of just how much they talk up fibre connectivity, and how the copper is just used as a fallback management fabric.... but these Mac Minis are obviously connected with copper.
I am sorry, but what I meant was "I thought that in any developed country the overtime work was obviously paid" not that "oh I think you were in EU zone".

Basically for me is very hard to understand why I should work for free ( I could want to work overtime for free, but if I am imposed to work overtime I must be paid)
I did not vote for your comment either way because of the limited information. Bragging or not I wanted to know what you were bragging about, so thanks for the extra info.
I think a lot of it depends on what you grew up with. I grew up with 4 seasons and gently rolling hils, others grew up with mountains, and others grew up with the beach and pleasant weather year round.
My guess is that they have some custom Photoshop remote tools.
Apart from learning, try these:

1. Put yourself in situations where you can meet more tech people

Most (not some, most) of the work I've gotten came from a chance conversation with someone who was working at a place that needed the skills I have. So try to have more of those conversations. I live in suburban Ohio in the heart of the rust belt, so this can be done anywhere.

2. Try consulting instead of full time work.

A lot of businesses have problems, but can't afford a full-time coder. It also sounds like you don't want to be working full-time anyhow. Try doubling your rate and finding 2 clients who each buy 10 of your hours a week. This is much easier to do if you do number 1. Even better, charge a daily or weekly rate so you don't have to keep track of your hours. This also allows you to pay your taxes on April 15th every year, instead of having it deducted from your check, giving you more cash flow options and more runway.

3. Work Remotely

When you do 2, you can negotiate 3 pretty easily. A business that just needs you to fix javascript bugs on their website 1 day a week probably doesn't want to dedicate the infrastructure to have you in their office. This will save you even more time, energy, and stress by eliminating your commute.

4. Structure your time better

Set constraints on yourself for doing what you need to do, when you need to do it. If you're coding 2 hours a day, then set aside 3 hours of your day where you don't do anything but code. No email. No web surfing (other than what you need to code). No phone. If you have meetings, schedule them consecutively. Let your brain be in meeting mode for 3 hours, then go grab some lunch, then come back to the office and put your brain in code mode for 3 hours. This way, you can even have time to multi-task (answer emails, talk about local sports team, read HN) at the beginning and end of the day. This takes some discipline, but you'll get more done if you have full chunks of time dedicated to one thing.

5. Say "No" more

You can't do 4 without doing 5. Don't be rude, just explain that you're busy with something else and that you can discuss at the next meeting you have scheduled. Put headphones on while you're coding and gently set boundaries with your co-workers that you're not available for chit-chat when your headphones are on. I've found that music without lyrics is best for coding. I have a John Williams station on Pandora that I use all the time, here, have a listen: http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh216294333998280127&shareImp=tru....

Finally, don't give up hope. In my experience, it's easier to find a good job once you know what you don't want. It sounds like you have a good idea about that, so make sure to ask questions at your interviews, sales calls to make sure they aren't making the same mistakes.

Good luck!
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TL;DR: Wealthy man chooses to be less wealthy to be with his family.

Which is not something you hear often. I'm sure the guy could have moved his family across the country. However, the kids would have lost their friends, his wife her family. Instead, he stepped down to step up for his family.

Would YOU give up a CEO salary? I'm not sure I would.
And peach-shaped water towers?
I find that making everyone else look good is an even better way to improve your career. Colleagues will remember every time you helped them out and your bosses are usually more aware than you think.
Thanks for commenting (I'm the post author here).

I agree, it's a fascinating subject. I wanted to give a high level perspective and there were some liberties taken.
Pretty cool! How do I add a favorite app so that it shows up in favorites? Or is that not functional yet?
> To be honest I'm not entirely sold that these DSLs are what I'd consider "strongly typed." I can get jOOq to pretty easily yield queries that won't work if I switch out database dialects.

I can get Hibernate to pretty easily yield queries that won't work if I use a mildly unusual combination of JPA features. weeps
It annoys me as well but what I can I do?

Example: I'm supposed to pick up my friend from the airport. I've got my wireless headphones on so he can call but he never does. He always texts. "Just landed", "Waiting for Luggage", "Coming out of the terminal". Of course he never tells me where :P I'd prefer he'd call since he knows I'm driving but since texting is the default for most people nowadays it's what they do first.

As a driver myself it does occur to me I shouldn't text either if I'm being picked up but I don't know what calling is any better because a call requires them to pick up where as they can ignore a text if they want.
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An addendum to that is that that if a sufficiently large and diverse dataset is interrogated, then one can find connections between person A and criminal B, when such connections, while real, are accidental.
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Hi, Nolan.

You're blind and a developer? As I noted in my comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8138937 ), I used to write software for awesome folks like you. I'd love to chat with you for a bit if you don't mind? What's your email?

Thanks!

- Jonathan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131785 <- Discussion

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133871

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8136111

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133166
I would recommend to make many connections!

Meetup.com might be a start, find fellow programmers there. Go to your local co-work location. Try the freelance sites like e-lance , etc...

But whatever you do, don't let lack of portfolio stop you.
Having OS X in our stack allows us to tackle a lot of use cases that come out of the prototypical design process. Format support, color profiles, color space conversion, typography, etc. are all mastered in OS X, but lacking in other operating systems. Apple has had the best imaging scientists in the world working for the last 30 years on getting these features right. We want to be able to leverage that expertise, whenever it makes sense, to produce the highest quality image. In this case, the consequence of that decision means racking Macs.
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