skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify, average $200k per person in staffing costs. Staffing costs > salary.
Taxes, health care, other insurance (disability, etc.), and other benefits (401k, etc.) are a significant fraction of the cost to employ someone. These things are not cheap.

The standard overhead is (I believe--correct me if I'm wrong!) anywhere from 25% to 100%, depending on your base salary and how competitive the benefits package is.
It depends a lot on corporate structure and actually HQ address for tax filling. Each city has their own business license rates and deductions. And some cities (like SF) have extra taxes per employee. Their website lists their HQ as SF, but it would be impossible to know from the outside what their exact tax situation would be.

I guess my point is though from a company perspective not much more than anywhere else. The biggest cost to a company here is competing on wages.
Was digging around GitLab's source code yesterday to be very pleasantly surprised to see that they're using Vue in some places.
It is almost certainly necessary for them to have dedicated hardware in neutral datacenters. They can't just run their infrastructure on AWS or Google.
A follow up tweet clarified that it was 10 people and not eight. But even that is a pretty high cost per employee I agree.

But the question is: Can you get a team of engineers that have the ability and crypto know-how to build something like Let's Encrypt in Canada for 1/3 of the salary?
"Being in SF" is a silly excuse. There is no reason for them to be in SF.
So, there's no new features that anybody asked for, save the clipboard thing, which has unfortunate security implications, and there's a ton of nonsense none of us will ever use, as the Mac platform gets increasingly complex ("the computer for the rest of us" is now anything but), moves away from Unix compatability, and doesn't do anything useful with this additional complexity, but does cause emacs to crash.

I'd wait until they stabilize it a bit before upgrading. Or just don't upgrade.
Employer taxes, standard benefits (health, vision, dental, etc), extra benefits (like free food, budget for books, and other niceties), and office space.
This has been my mantra as well. Test big and you'll likely fail or win a lot faster.

I'd also suggest making sure you approach testing by starting with a hypothesis and then testing that hypothesis. By voicing or writing down your hypothesis, you will be more likely to avoid the "stupid test trap", a phrase I use to describe running tests like changing button colors -- what hypothesis is changing button colors trying to prove? That people like red more, "for reasons"?

As mentioned above, each A/B test you run has a serious opportunity cost. I'm fortunate enough to have thousands of people going through my sales funnel daily but, even then, a test will still take several weeks or months to validate and anything approaching a change of 5% or less will really eat away at your ability to test more meaningful things.
December 2015 – Comcastro Podcast
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When it was announced in WWDC, Apple clearly said APFS would be released in 2017. As announced then, what's available now is a developer preview.

> "So Apple File System will ship, by default on all devices in 2017. So to summarize, Apple File System will be the default file system for all Apple products 2017,... " [1]

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/701/ (go to the transcript and search for "2017")
Actually it is for 8. Two of the people are being paid by another company. At least that's what I understood.
Wow, making a claim who broke the license is rubbing nose?
If voicing the wrongdoing makes a company untrusted, I have no idea your view of trust. Maybe someone who can keep wrongdoing a secret is more trustable.
All the complaints about salaries are dismaying. Why not consider that plenty of other places seriously undercompensate engineers instead of trying to cut this organization's pay structure down?
Sounds like it may take a while:

> macOS 10.12 changes of the generic keyboard and mouse drivers made a great impact on Karabiner and Seil.

> We should make a large changes in Karabiner and Seil architecture.

> There is not a workaround for this issue.

> Please wait an update of Karabiner and Seil for macOS 10.12.

> (It may take a long time.)
Can the business model be charging for the certificate directly, just cheaper than others? I'm fine with that.
Yeah, I get that you think that. But you haven't explained why that would be. What prevents him from leaving Russia and flying to Ecuador? It's not the passport. But that's the only reason I've seen getting.

There are direct flights between Moscow and Havana every day.

Fun fact: the country Snowden supposedly wanted to flee to has an extradition treaty with the US.
Your application likely uses more routes, and has other real work to do that won't be as brief as the example. However, the examples do work for me, and seem like a great place to start building up from.
This comment reminds me of high school physics, when we were learning about interference and those double slit experiments. The teacher would give different scenarios and ask us to predict what patterns would be observed. In one, the pattern was alternating bands of dark and light. I was the only kid who could figure it out, and the physics teacher was so visibly impressed, he to started calling me the thinker. That thing, visualizing something given to you in mathematical form, feels very good indeed.
Good reminder to backup before you upgrade, whether its your phone or your desktop.
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The NTSB is doing that right now.[1] They're looking at Tesla's first fatal crash with the level of detail they apply to air crash investigations. This takes months.

Incidentally, in aviation and aerospace, everybody reads crash reports. Pilots study them in training. Engineers read them at work. Flying magazine publishes monthly summaries in their "Aftermath" column. The safety culture is very different from software. In commercial aviation, just about all the single points of failure have already been dealt with. It's a design criterion of aviation that there must be a way to recover from single failures. When you're one single failure away from real trouble, it's time to land. When you read a crash report today, there are two or three things that went wrong, not just one. That's what a safety culture looks like. Self-driving cars may have to get there.

[1] http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/HWY...
My company uses Confluence as well. It's been really useful - we use the Q&A and also document features a LOT. It makes sense since we are mostly on the Atlassian stack (JIRA, & Confluence)

Previously we used Google Docs. However, in every company I've worked at I've seen this tool fail. People start of using it but after a while people forget. The main issue I think is that docs lacks key capabilities in discoverability, search, and engagement; essentially confluence does a way better job of pulling our team back in so we "remember" to use it again. We have a senior manager who is addicted to the Q&A feature and looks at it daily to help answer questions from our team.

The main tools I've seen consistently fail in large orgs for documentation has been Google Docs, Google Sites, and Wikis. All of these fail in the "living" component of "living documentation". They tend to be places where you write and things die / don't get updated / are never seen.
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Heh, I'm pretty sure OP actually works for Let's Encrypt.
Yeah, I noticed that tech products aren't much cheaper in eastern Europe than in the West.
I agree that ignorance of scrollytelling existence was the most likely cause for the situation.

If you put the CDN bandwidth tester file aside.

Wouldn't a paying client of scrollytelling be able to distribute that product (CSS included) if they wanted to? If their platform is a content creator/editor then the purchaser should be able to redistribute, and if they are a production shop then the same would be true. If not wouldn't it be similar to photoshop or sublime claiming copyright on something created with those tools, and if they are a production shop something similar to a commercial studio claiming copyright to something they produced and then sold to someone after they resold it.

I understand they are providing a service and a value add, but wouldn't the output belong to the purchaser? I assume scrollytelling could have a very onerous license that prohibits this, but it seems if their customers knew those limitation they would probably be hesitant to purchase.
The question "would I do this for 10 years" or "Do I see myself doing this in 10 years" allows for the possibility that they don't see themselves continuing for that duration and it allows the person to not look that forward into the future realistically. Rather an answer of "YES!" really shows enthusiasm and passion that they currently have in the present day.

The question is about the future, but the answer is about the present.

A better question, therefore should reflect this reality. Something like: "Do you feel like your current interest and enthusiasm for this would keep you going for years here?" (or better worded...).
Would the business perform any better if they were paying $2.05M for 20 employees? That's $100k per employee including overhead. Salaries would be significantly less than $100k. On paper it may sound better, but you end up with extra administrative overhead, and lower quality work. Could twice as many junior staff perform as well as that many senior staff? My guess would be no.

Their staffing cost probably is on the higher end, but I'm guessing thats by design.
I've worked in finance for a medium-sized SF company and a small (~50 employee) startup in SV. Our standard assumption for 'all-in' employee cost was to add an additional 30% on top. For highly paid employees, this actually gets reduced a bit since FICA cuts off at $118k.

To get to $250k total outlay with an admittedly outdated spreadsheet, the salary would have to be $200k (benefit load of only 26%). Of course this depends greatly on PTO, Health Care, Worker's Comp, etc.
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Isn't one of Apple's UK mappings sufficient?
In a "free market", I'd demand higher wages to cover medical expenses, my membership in the local road association so I could use the roads, etc. And I'd get it because I'd be in a union (as a programmer in this current non-free market, I don't feel super compelled to unionize, yet). But otherwise, yes, agreed.
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iHeartMedia Nearing Paid Streaming Service
Tell me about it! I ended up doing a protest using keynote at the Apple Store:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hgury35bsickbvu/MacProProtest.jpeg...
From my time in Cisco, they take security VERY seriously. There was the story about Cisco devices being intercepted by the NSA in-transit to high-profile targets[0]. This was really bad press, especially since a lot of people assume that Cisco was complacent in the practice (there was no evidence as such, this was very likely the NSA intercepting the package in-route to the target). Many hardware companies (Cisco included) are trying to do verified-boot approaches where they can detect if the firmware or hardware is not genuine, there-by defeating these package intercept cases.

If you are a high-profile target, no matter what vendor or software you use, Five Eyes will do whatever is needed to infiltrate your network. Cisco is a large target just due to their volumes compared to most other solutions (you are more likely to see news of Cisco attacked due to volume of sales). But with that, Cisco will also dedicate resources to trying to defeat this type of attack.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-...
With the exception of homemade gifts, pretty much, yes. Why would you keep useless crap around?
> Can you think of a concrete example where the government got it wrong?

Stem cell research.
Here's the entire note from Ira Glass on that topic, in a video with him: https://vimeo.com/24715531
Destroy the world with your right hand, try to clean up some of the mess with the left hand.
As someone who uses both stacks regularly, on different projects:

More people should consider using Angular 2 for some kinds of projects.

Now, I have professional projects in both Angular 2 and React/Redux ecosystems, and frankly I enjoy using React a lot more in projects where I can focus on the frontend. I moved some projects to isomorphic React (ie, render using React on backend) in Node.js and Rails apps, and thoroughly enjoyed that experience. I keep on top of Elm and omnext and so forth, and I have personal projects built with those, and I do experiments with completely unidirectional dataflow in Elm using an Elixir backend ...

However.

Twice recently, when I had a full-stack project with a relatively short timeline, I made a conscious decision to keep the frontend from getting too uppity and absorbing too much of my mental energy.

In those cases, I used Angular 2, generated from the ng2 CLI.

It's worked pretty well. Well, the first one had some dependency issues from time to time, which is understandable because of the beta -> rc1 -> rcX -> Angular2 release process that was happening.

Why ng2? Well ... not because I'm convinced that it's "the best" in any particular dimension. Its special sauce is supposed to be Zones, which make knowing when side-effects have occurred less something that we have to track and manage manually, but there's other work in that problem space!

I used it because it's an opinionated stack that already has the important pieces in place (router, DI, build/minify, type checking, components), and more importantly, because I can be fairly confident that another dev could get up to speed quickly due to decent docs and guides ... and it's less easy for someone to "paint themselves into a corner" by doing things really wrong.
Funny I don't particularly find anything interesting after Snow Leopard.
After Jobs left, they decided not to decide on anything and just sit on what was already there. At least they're free.
Perhaps the most interesting thing these days is what kind of new name they come up with.

It seems to only break apps.
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But echo cancellation should not be a problem on mobile devices.
Maybe I was a bit harsh on the article the iHeart media employees posted here about how they were using tech for 'fan' reasons (counterpoint: audience retention). Well now they're possibly going their own way. Not official yet I suppose, but will be interesting to see if/when it develops.
> Edit: A bunch of people are saying "why not remote". I think they are in fact mostly remote, but they still have to compete with SV wages because really good people command those wages whether they are here or not.

This doesn't make sense. In the case of remote workers it's the San Francisco workers that have to compete with global offer/demand because nobody cares how much you are paying for housing.
Flycut clipboard history also broken. (Menubar icon flashes open then closes on click, rendering it unusable.)
Ok i definitely want one!
This is one of the best smartphone controlled products ever.
I am sure this was actually a clever marketing trick.
Check out the video of him discussing this and you'll actually hear his voice: https://vimeo.com/24715531 :-)
12 fuck ups whilst making a chatbot
sure, defcon comes to mind http://www.networkworld.com/article/2462478/microsoft-subnet...
There isn't as much as people bitch about, generally speaking you have a few items:

- FICA payroll tax - this is US wide, so not really more expensive in CA.
- CA state payroll tax, this isn't that expensive, just a few percent.
- Workers comp, could be cheaper in other states, but coders/office workers have cheap workers comp.
- Health insurance, maybe a bit more expensive in CA

Basically hiring people isn't expensive because of the taxes, but because of benefits and just generally having a higher income rate. In my experience it was about 10%, and if you add health care another 10-15% so about 25% total overhead.
Yup I can relate a lot.

Since I started working for myself from home the difference has been night and day.

I hope I can survive on my own for the longterm because the thought of having to go back to yet another office, especially an open one irritates me.

One of the things that I found as an introvert is that being around people all day exhausted me so much that by evening I was just all numb.

I had to isolate myself for the entire weekend just to recharge enough for the next week.

So I would get into this never ending cycle of kind of wasting my weekends.
Ars Technica has written a detailed review [0], there's some things on the networking side related to IPv6 and ECN, but that's pretty much it. APFS preview is interesting, but not really stable/usable yet from what I understand.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/macos-10-12-sierra-the-...
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Phew, was going to lose my Caps Lock -> Ctrl + Escape binding. I downloaded the update, but will wait for Karabiner to support it.
I can't speak for everyone on the project—I've only really interacted with one person—but I just wanted to say that $200k all-in is an absolute bargain for him (if that's in fact how it breaks down) given his skills, experience, and ability to operate/drive the project.
You linked to an article that only mentioned Petraeus in your previous comment. Regardless, Comey spoke briefly on Nishimura as well so my response is the same.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/07/wolf.01.html
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No I don't, which is why it was a qualified statement. They've released very little information about their design, and it's up to them to convince the taxpaying public it's anything more than a mirror machine. How do they keep the plasma from squirting out of the sides? That'd be the real innovation, but they're silent on this point. Almost as if they're not worried about it.

Oh, and now it's 10 years from now? I thought they said it'd be ready in five? Wait, three, because they said that two years ago.
But they'd still be competing with Silicon Valley for top-end developers, who are going to be asking for a salary equivalent to their skills. You might save a little once you factor cost of living adjustments, though you'll also have to offset that with increased difficulty in finding the right person.

Folks who know security well enough to do this correctly are rare. You don't want to farm out critical X.509 infrastructure to the lowest bidder.
Well, there certainly seems to be no way for anything to move faster than light through spacetime. It's harder to rule out exotic matter or negative energy that could warp spacetime to (relatively) move an object faster than light.
This does not instill confidence in Let's Encrypt's longevity. It sounds like a cry for help. $250k may be a reasonable sum for an established company to pay it's employees but for a company to have that kind of burn rate with out having next years funding secured is scary.
This really doesn't tell us anything.

You could instead speculate that what we consider the "Visual Areas" of the brain are more than that. Hence we have been wrong about those parts of the brain.
Not really. A supernode isn't really client/server architecture, even if it's hosted by Microsoft. Communication between users is still peer-to-peer. Supernodes are basically meant to help you find the client of who you're talking to. (Like the master server in many FPS games, it's just helping you find other players, one of the players or a dedicated server someone is running is actually hosting.) You could see this behavior recently even, in that if you sent a chat or a file, it could not go through unless both your client and their client were simultaneously online.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...

Now, all of your actual communications are being stored in Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. This means the actual content is centralized, and can be delivered when the other client is not present, which will help a lot with mobile. It also means it's more able to be reached by government data requests, of course.
Do you have nay plans on putting a website front end on this? It would be great to upload an image and get a result
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Yeah, the great irony of progress is that your old stuff always looks bad to your (later) self. It's all relative.
Opera now provides free fast VPN with version 40
It's a good question, I've been asking that myself.

I have recently befriended a post-doc in neuroscience and in one of his lectures he referred to "part of brain lighting up" as a legitimate research method. So it's not pop-science, it's how the actuals science is being done today.

The brain is vast in it's complexity, so much so that we don't even grasp the magnitude of the complexity itself. There are between 10^11 and 10^13 neurons, depending on the method of approximation. There are 10^4 dendrites (inputs) to each neuron, and one output (axon). The inputs are analogue and mediated by chemistry. The output is binary, thankfully, however the axon is fairly long and itself can go in/out of order based on certain chemical balance along its entire length.

It's a heck of a job.
I'd say string theory has had more dancing proponents than supersymmetry by a long shot. Supersymmetry can be tested--that's what the LHC was for--and as the evidence mounts against it, proponents are right to change their theories.
Viber. You can also try Jitsi. There are many WebRTC-based services too(not peer-to-peer, though).
Hi Everyone. Maker of https://OldGeekJobs.com here. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post a redundant comment but the text post won't render links.

1. Last Wednesday, I read Tim Bray's post "Old Geek" and it resonated with me because of experiences I've had.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/09/14/Old-Geek

2. I immediately created an MVP with a static site and Google Form.

http://imgur.com/a/kTJK9

3. It made HackerNews and got a tremendous response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12506232

4. Over the next 2 days, I built out a more robust version of the site with Flask and Postgres.

Quartz then picked up the story:

5. http://qz.com/784118/someone-created-a-tech-job-board-for-pe...

and now Inc.

6. http://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/how-to-get-a-tech-job-when-...

Now I'm iterating on PMF. I'd love to know what you think of the idea and how I can keep the momentum going.
Not sure if it still works, but the ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict approach maybe?

I use it for putting # on the § key, and it's as simple as:

{
"\U00a7" = (
"insertText:",
"#"
);
}

in that file. YMMV on >capitan though.
> What I really miss is the ability to say that what is the return type of the method

Agreed! There's an open issue that addresses that scenario (and a ton of others):

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6606
Let's count the useful features since Snow Leopard:

1. Messages integration to text from laptop

2.
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It is ten (I made the budget), but I apologize for not making that more clear in the blog post.

We have eight employees now, and have budgeted for ten in 2017.
I don't care when my device stopped being sold. I care when I bought it, how long it lasts. I appreciate that I get even more life from my phone if I buy it when it is new
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As someone who doesn't connect my phone to my work computer, there are very few new features I can use. Picture-in-picture is the main one.