skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that UK healthcare costs are lower than US healthcare expenditure in part because there's no parasitic insurance industry. (Or rather, there is, but it's tiny: private healthcare accounts for &lt;10% of UK healthcare expenditure). Instead, there's a single payer that funds everything and doesn't bother with assessing individual eligibility for treatment except in edge cases (foreign visitors, or rare and horrendously expensive cancer cases, mostly).
Ask HN: How to Notify Company of Personal Invention
I am required to notify my company about any inventions that I "conceive, develop, or reduce to practice" and that I believe are exempt from being assigned to the company because they are not related to company products or R&D, and because I developed them on my own time using my own resources.

My questions is: What level of detail needs to go into this document? Are there any good blogs or example letters to go by?

Thanks!
I agree completely that most web sites are poorly formatted with columns that are too wide to scan, the site cluttered with animated ads, and/or improper guttering that allows text to collide with the actual window frame. It is a known problem and one that the majority of sites obviously don't care about even though they should.

The referenced page though, as an example of proper design, is not a good solution. When resizing the window, column widths jump erratically so it is hard to keep your place; and at a comfortable column width, there is so little text it takes but a few seconds to read, and then one has to scroll. Having to scroll every couple of seconds sucks big time, even worse than dealing with small font. Furthermore, he has done something to sabotage the font resizing buttons so when I try to make the text less gargantuan, it retains the text size but inexplicably shrinks the column size. As ghastly and infuriating as sites that make me disable javascript before I can copy text. I am sure his gargantuan text looks nice on his iPhone or whatever high density display device he is using, but it is way too big on a normal screen.

Unfortunately, screens are now tied into film aspect ratios (as if this is what you spend most of your hours on), windows for non-film watching applications resize most easily to fill the screen to these film dimensions, toolbars are crammed on top and bottom of applications, using up even more vertical space, and HTML has no flowing multi-column support whatsoever, making good solutions impossible and small font the least worst among many terrible choices.
However, GCC and friends are licensed under the GPL: the code is published at http://opensource.apple.com; their only technical barrier so far is actually making it run on another OS.

That's not to say they couldn't block something like that, but with GPL code it does become significantly more difficult, if not (technically, not "this would take forever to port back to Linux") impossible.
This problem was solved brilliantly by computer science in the 1970s. FTFY :-)
Just apply for an internship in a different European country. That kind of arbitrage is what the EU is for.
>if you maximize Firefox

This is what has me concerned. I never maximize windows. I've not used Unity yet, but the trend with both it and OS X Lion seems to be moving toward more and more modal interface paradigms in a world where we have the largest, highest resolutions displays that have ever been available to the average person. I'm not happy with the idea, personally.
I got fooled for most of the article, his comments on deep packet inspection give it away.

"But there are other options as well. Content holders could advertise to these people. If you are downloading a certain band's music, that band could contact you to say, “Hey, we're going to be in your town next month, what if you buy these tickets?”"
To explain for Americans and non-Brits, A Reliant Robin was a 3-wheeled car that was designed so that it could be taxed as a motorcycle with side car (ie 3 wheels).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Robin
You're right, we'll have to work on communication for the public-facing side over the next few days! Thanks for the feedback.

And, I loves me some Erlang, I understand :)
No, USA.
It's easy. Vendor decrypts it. It gets ignored. Done.
There's a difference between stable (reliable) and stable (unchanged). When talking about the stability of LTS, people are meaning that the package set, and the versions of those packages, will not change throughout the support cycle of the release. Eg, if the release comes with Firefox 3.0, it will stick with Firefox 3.0 for the duration of the cycle, even though Firefox 4.0 or later versions are released in the interim.
> Can Predator be used to stabilize and navigate a Quadcopter?

> That is not straightforward.

anyone know why not?
I'm not a typographer, but I am a reader and I don't agree with his opinion that the list with hanging bullets makes it more legible. I find them slightly confusing. Maybe it's my programming background, but it just makes sense to indent something positively to emphasize context.

I do agree though that the hanging bullets add sophistication, but when I write that's not really my primary concern.
That's possible, and also for the SMB market that's producing lots of software but might be just a few devs. Think: iphone, ipad apps, small sites. There's not much for them either.
A few questions have been coming in about the you@startupguild.net email address. Hopefully these notes will answer those questions:

- The main purpose of the email address is for the signup process with Yammer

- We are not suggesting the email address becomes your new general email address

- The email address is simply a forwarder to your normal email address

- We do this because Yammer requires that all users have the same root email domain

- We are unable to offer short versions of the email address all users have firstname.lastname format
I started to try to work that out, and after a while found myself unable to care. In the end, that was what made the decision for me to stop interacting with the site so much. The following are observations from my personal point of view, obviously, and it's worth keeping in mind that I'm not necessarily your target demographic anyway.

I've tried not to let this turn into a rant. I may not have succeeded ...

Anyway.

The front page does feel a little worse, but there's still stuff that does belong there. There's still a lot that's good, and perhaps my perception that it's worse is simply because I've grown. I talked with Ward Cunningham once about this - any good community helps you to grow, but after a time you outgrow it. Perhaps they should be like a book - you read them, and then after that you dip into them for a bit, then less often, and eventually you don't pick them up again.

So maybe the front page isn't that much different. Later this week I'll try to get the time to compare some of my snapshots from two years ago. If I have thoughts, where do you want me to send/put them?

But the comments, they definitely feel worse. There are still brilliant and insightful comments, and there are many, many good and valuable comments. But there are also many valueless comments that nevertheless get upvotes, and there's definitely a more snarky feel. I've felt myself being dragged into that at times and had to pull myself back. That didn't used to happen.

I also hang about on the "New" page because I think the longer-standing members should do that, and I'm really, really tired of the apparently endless repeat submissions of the same stories, endless re-submission of older (although admittedly valuable) items, and the rise in content-free gossip. But if the experienced members don't read it, how will "the right items" get upvoted, and inappropriate items get flagged?

You can't do much about how people vote, but people seem to be upvoting things that they find amusing or entertaining, and confusing that with "gratifies intellectual curiosity." People down-vote things they don't agree with, even when they are genuinely valuable.

Er ...

That's it. I hope that helps.
Zed, could you make your e-mail address a bit easier to find? I don't use twitter and figured you wouldn't want me phoning you up.
Perhaps you would be interested in http://www.macmagsaver.com/
Were there backups of the source code? The article seems to indicate code corruption on the application hosts, which would also indicate a VCS restore would have reverted the systems to the state prior to the attack.

OTOH backups that cannot be used to restore service are by definition, not backups.
Not digital, but if you happen to have an Aston Martin, then you have to have this watch: http://www.astonmartin.com/eng/thecars/dbs/amvox2dbstranspon...

The HD3 Slide is neat-looking: http://www.hd3complication.com/en/#home

If you're into E-Inky things, like I am, then this one's pretty cool: http://www.atysdesign.com/proddetail.php?prod=watch_digital_...

Touch screen, and about as fashionably acceptable as you're going to get out of a digital: http://www.kennethcole.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=42189...

If you don't care about fashion, then this one's a winner: http://uncrate.com/stuff/casio-databank/
Remember exchange rates aswell. It almost to to £1 = $2
Nice law.
But the "monied elite" of earlier science were human, too. So are those who determine which outcomes are desired and what incentives will achieve that. Why should the overall result of that be any better?
You know, I always sign these documents but I don't think I'd ever actually tell them about anything I made during my free time if it had nothing to do with what the company did. That's just me, though. I doubt that it's the advised approach.
Thanks for the feedback!

I was thinking about being the "middle man" basically because shipping comic books has the problems you exposed.

For example:

- if I have 10 comics to swap, it may be that I will have to swap them with different users and having multiple shipments would not make sense

- comics can get damaged if not packed carefully. While this website would target comic book fans (who know how to properly take care of comics, shipment, etc.), the "middle man" would help in assuring that these comics are in good status.

I was looking at paperbackswap.com, it's a beautiful example of swapping system. Users post their books. When someone requests a book from them, they ship the book and receive 1 credit. With that credit, they can get a book from another user.
I use "variable" to mean "binding" exclusively.

> Sure, but it's not like immutable bindings are required for that, just go the internal iterator route and you're set for most cases.

Right. That's why in my first comment, I said that not creating a new lexical scope for the loop body is the real issue here. I didn't make it especially clear that it doesn't matter whether you do that using an internal iterator or by giving for statements a statement-level scope, but of the two examples I gave of languages with mutable bindings and the "correct" (IMO) behavior here, Perl 5 uses the statement-level scope approach, while Perl 6 uses the internal iteration approach(for is very light syntactic sugar for map).

I believe I misread your previous comment as suggesting that mutability was the key issue here. In response to that, I wanted to point out that even in a situation with immutable bindings, one still needs to have each iteration's binding be a different binding to deal with this case.
So are you looking for people to send in their 4 pages of saved stories, or are you not ready yet?
How A Scammer Got Condé Nast To Pay $8 Million With One Email
This is massively ground breaking. You'll get it if you've used motion tracking on several game interfaces and had to make perfectly white backgrounds with bright lights to make it work. This is incredibly accurate - really game changing stuff.
Also the applications are enourmous. Watch the end of the video for ideas. For example, it will be a huge enabler in robotics and some of the quadcopter applications you've been seeing.
Predator doesn't need gloves
I think you missed his argument. He isn't saying "We want to take advantage of interns." He's saying that there are a lot of interesting positions and projects which frequently are scrapped because they are not financially viable. He wanted to offer these positions to unpaid interns, giving them press passes and full access to the resources they need. Either they turn into financially viable projects, in which these interns have a job prospect, or they become a valuable bit of hands on experience for a resume.
Previous discussion (cpl months ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2141542
To use your analogy, I don't think Brad is saying to wear shorts outside during a blizzard. He's saying that if it's a sunny day, you shouldn't wear earmuffs just cause it's unseasonably warm and may or may not snow tomorrow ;-).

edit: Perplexed at the down-votes. Is it the smiley face?
Firefox 5 Details: Social Sharing, Extension Integration
Imagine that you have an opportunity to "bid" on the right to be a waiter this evening at Masa, the NYC $400/plate (not including alcohol) sushi restaurant. You are an experienced waiter and expect to average 18% in tips on 20 plates served over the course of four hours. Presuming that no one orders alcohol, that's $1440 or $360/hour. If there were no labor laws and Masa really had a free market system such as this in place, it would be rational for a waiter to pay a great deal for the right to collect these tips given that there are few opportunities available to make this much money relative to the supply of capable servers.

I see the internship market as similar. How much is it worth in future earnings to directly observe "how the sausage is made" in a Senator's office? To watch a PR mogul operate after Client X is caught on video grinding up cute puppies in a blender? There are many more people who could profit later from these experiences than there are internships to dole out. It is only the relatively constrained supply of good software engineers which prevents Google from charging for the right to spend a Summer there (not that I think it would even if it could).
Let's try a few of your supposed scenarios:

1. Researcher posts it.
2. Vender pulls it down and looks at it, then says it's harmless or not an issue.
3. Researcher thinks it is, and since the vendor says it's not, the researcher posts a cleartext version for them.
4. If it really is, then the vendor should have paid attention.

Next scenario (not sure why you can't think past solving these yourself):

1. Researcher posts bogus spam.
2. Vendor decrypts, sees that it's bogus spam.
3. Vendor posts the decrypted version and flags it as spam.
4. It gets taken down or ignored if it is, and researcher is blocked eventually.

Next scenario:

1. Researcher posts a vulnerability.
2. Vendor fixes it but half-asses it.
3. Researcher tells them it's not fixed, they say yes it is.
4. Researcher calls their bluff and posts the original cleartext.
5. If it really is fixed, then no harm done. If it's not, then vender screwed up.

Pretty much, in most of the situations you've envisioned, you've assumed that the communication is one-way from researcher->vendor. Is there a reason you assumed that vendors wouldn't be able to post their replies back or decrypt and post the decrypted vuln for others to see?
Regarding applying, I run my own business and I am sure I make more than all you guys combined. My comments are because this is posted on HN not on your web site and I have a right to comment. Maybe some kids will read my comments and realize how bizarre a $6000 offer is all things considered.

Sure, I understand that you are claiming to provide all sorts of introductions to power players, politicians and the illuminati who your site implies are your close and personal friends. Presumably then like Facebook one can get laws passed requiring internet ID and position themselves to get a monopoly. Work the system and create a global police state rather than provide a solid product customers want and choose to use voluntarily because it is valuable to them. Not all creators want to go the route of leveraging politicians with bribes and back door deals to succeed. Some of us just want to make a solid product free from interference from so corrupted politicians working to squash entrepreneurs that don't cut them in for a share as if they are the mafia.

Who are you guys again? How many successful businesses have you founded? Which politicians exactly are you related to and what are examples of your past successes influencing them in subversion of democracy?

A lot of innuendo, very little specifics. It all sounds like a bunch of big talkers looking to grab a slide of ownership of a bunch of companies for peanuts when those companies don't need any such help to succeed.

My opinion would be different if the offers weren't so tiny.

$6000 is nothing. Typical software product should be selling $6000 worth in a day or at most a week or what is the point.
Though this rule falls down a bit when your net worth is negative ;-)
Interesting how close this is to the statistical value of a life (dated, but see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/10/american-life-worth...).
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States the total household wealth in the US is $55 trillion. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... says the US population is 313 million. $55t/313m = $175k per person on average.

The most conservative proposal from the survey splits the wealth at roughly 40:20:20:10:10. That means if we had an average representative of each of the 5 groups, they would each be worth 5* $175* (that group's percentage) = $350k : $175k : $175k : $87.5k : $87.5k

Meanwhile, the most liberal proposal was roughly 30:20:20:15:15 giving $262K : $175k : $175k : $131k : $131k
It's more like a mental babystep. If you are not able to compile Hello world in a given toolchain, that says more about your competence with that particular toolchain, than it does about the toolchain itself.
I don't know the roots of your strong emotional reaction against Linkedin but at the end of the day we all have our own opinions. Project Skyway can't be everything to everyone. Wish you the best. And I mean it.
Or journaling file systems.
VCs, Stripper Poles and G-Strings
I personally prefer 2 screens, with the ability to separate tasks on different screens... or separate distractions to another screen.
Thanks for pointing me to the site paperbackswap.com. This is a really cool idea, specially how it manages book transfer and the concept of book credits.
I think the middleman option is not very scalable and you should look at other options. The reputation concept suggested before does seem like a good idea. To make sure that a user is shipping high quality comics you may introduce the concept of deferred comic credits, until another user ratifies that this user indeed ships high quality comics.
Good luck!!
Not ready yet - I will return to that thread and contact anyone with contact details in their profile. At least one of them will probably post for me.

Thanks.

PS: Also attempting to set up an RSS feed on my "blog".
Can't see it. Can someone describe what is this?
No, the Bugatti driver's other pastime is punching jets on the nose.
Best advice- "Don’t get distracted by speculating about “bubbles” other than the ones in your bathtub. Instead, spend your energy creating amazing products, thrilling your customers, building an awesome organization, and living your life."
Another problem with XCode is not that it is difficult for a user to install, but that XCode 4 is not free (as in beer), and some MacPorts/Homebrew users object to that.
Great work Paul. Quite nifty. The Photo Particles demo[1] is pretty cool as well.

[1] http://lab.aerotwist.com/webgl/photoparticles/
^^^ I came here to say this. With that said, I'm a little sick of the quora hype. I have a love/hate relationship with the UI decisions they made. I haven't had a ton of luck with the questions I've asked on the site, but I have found it useful when researching existing (answered) questions. Although those questions tend to be very valley/startup centric.
I can think of another; as long as we're delving into "completely hyptothetical" territory:

In the one-way-transfer example I listed, don't think "big company"; think "who besides a company might need a one-way-transfer". Maybe they're more "agency" than company, maybe in fact their name is an acronym (a lot of times those acronyms have three letters).

In that hypothetical example, the situation resolves itself the best way that it could:

The "agency", after reading your report about some fundamental insecurities in the product, realizes that it is currently deployed in places where the potential damage from the product being insecure is closer to "people being killed" than "money being stolen". So they pull it "off the market". That's an example where the vendor being actively hostile doesn't actually ruin your day (and you get to sleep soundly that night thinking that maybe you've actually found something that will be more useful than a cross-site-request forgery vector in an online dating site) .

As an alternative (and one which I should have used initially, but didn't think of at first), consider this:

You've found that a product being used by a client to facilitate check and credit card payments is a horrendous piece of shit (think "the custom crypto to encrypt the user database is literally an off-set substitution cipher that repeats every 13 places...the effort required to break it is less than that required for a cryptogram in the newspaper).

The client is glad to hear this, but is not in a position to either 1.) force the vendor to fix the issue, or 2.) replace the product with a more sanely developed one (the product is PCI compliant, after all, and the only reason you are there on-site is for them to pass a PCI audit).

So in that second scenario, you know that there are other people using this product, and it will most likely never be fixed. But yes, you've signed an NDA with your client, and all that you can do is make sure they're aware of the issue.

I don't think the system Zed is proposing will actually help in that example though; as you mention, what you discovered belongs to your client.
Because while it is a false dichotomy, people's reaction to both are real and extremely unbalanced. We're used to coal, so people don't fear it as much as we should. We hear "nuclear" and get cold war propaganda popping up in our heads.
Email Breach At Email Marketer Epsilon Affects TiVo, Citi, Marriott And More
Unlikely, the issue from subprime was that the advent of CDO changed the risk model of the underlying asset. This allowed CDOs to the classified as Triple A which were not triple a worthy. The problem was not the risk, but that the risk was not communicated because it was largely unknown and that the system incentivized rating agencies to exaggerate credit ratings. Everyone in vc knows the risks and fully communicates the risk, almost anyone can buy real estate on 20x leverage (5% down) very few people can buy private tech sector stock on 20x leverage.

When 60% of the population holds the vast majority of their net worth in tech sector stock at 20x leverage there may be larger issues, the risk taking culture in tech is very appropriate because they can bring large improvements to the lives of millions, your house is not likely to be 100 times more productive in the next 5 years. Thus taking huge risks on housing is inappropriate where as it's very appropriate in tech R&D.