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Did you read the blog post? This is precisely what the OP is saying, that the contest is flawed. They are basically saying if you can break my new fancy lock you win but you can only see the lock over the webcam and not touch it.
Depends on what area of health you want to focus on.

PCP/patient interaction - WhatsApp Doc, a iOS app that is based off books/resources like this: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=13... that help patients plan their apt. with specialists/PCP ahead of time.

Pharmakinetics - More for pharmacists but apps that store drug information for different drug regimen that the patient is on and figure out if there's a bad interaction.

Health Informatics - More in hospital and clinic settings. Electronic medical records.

Personal Genomics - 23andme as a consumer startup; but data mining and analysis based on either SNP or more available in the future, whole genome sequencing for a person ($3000 and declining)

Retail Medical Devices - Tracking devices for diabetics that is linked up to their mobile devices, etc.
This blog post is partially about the crowd funding campaign, but the author didn't include a link to the campaign!

http://goteo.org/project/gnupg-new-website-and-infrastructur...
NSA is known to abuse their intel for USA commercial interests (the largest published example probably is Airbus vs Boeing).

You don't have to fear them unless you're a terrorist. Or you're a member of a social organization with a somewhat similar name to a religious organization (Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim case, for example) in which case US authorities will treat your info as terrorist info. Or your partner criticizes US government (e.g. David Miranda case), in which case your communications apparently can be intercepted as well. Or your company competes with US companies. Or something else that I hadn't noticed...

I mean "may collect lots of data until they have some need to use it" is evil enough to be perceived as a hostile enemy act.
Sorry, it seems the Buffer article gave me a Halo here.
I used to think transparent salaries were a good idea. Until I was hiring people. Over time, I learned that it's not just transparent salaries in your own company that causes a problem - it's transparent salaries in other people's companies.

I've worked for multiple HR companies who performed studies, all of which showed that salary isn't the highest priority on employee concerns. Yet, in my experience, the number one reason I lose employees (or have left a job) was money.

Also, yes, I have poached employees from competitors by simply finding out how much they were making and offering more. You want to show me how much you are paying your people? It will tell me either that you are not profitable (if you are paying too much) or it will tell me the exact number I need to beat to take your best people.

And rest assured, I WILL take your best people.

Rest assured, I HAVE had my best people taken as well.

Business is not a democracy. Business is a competition. It is a fight for survival. No business is going to be so transparent to reveal enough to help their competitors. Even those 'transparent' companies who post on blogs their entire process? Trust me, they ain't showing you some of the most important stuff. They are marketing to you.

I don't know how this comment will be taken on HN, but I realized some time back that the number of people on HN who are smart is very high, but the number of people who actually run businesses is much, much lower. So I run a company. My comments are based on my experience.
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I laughed when I got to The Futurist, because it's totally me. Then I felt shame when I got to The Artist and The Island, because those are also me.
Have you ever tried getting a VAT invoice (invoice with price and vat amount and rates and numbers written down on the invoice) from any eBay seller?

I doubt many of them are even VAT registered

Amazon on the other hand clearly state the Tax amounts and/or import duties on the invoices and receipts.

Anyways Ebay/Paypal are one scummy company who are being rightly out-competed by Amazon, they deserve it for their treatment of buyers and sellers and users of Paypal.
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The catch is, transparency forces a certain amount of fairness to come with it. I should probably have mentioned that in the article too.

It's difficult to keep unfair arrangements when all is transparent. You can't just implement transparent salaries, without also making the salary scale fair. And the benefit there is that once salaries are transparent, everyone knows that they're fair, because they can verify it for themselves.
Indeed, I could pinpoint at least 4 or 5 that apply to me (not at the same time, more depending on mood). How I pity my colleagues. I wish there was a "does this apply to you? Here is how to get out of it!" part to this taxonomy.
If you want to know the salary of someone you want to hire, you can just ask him... In which way is it hard?
I don't know how is in those countries here in Canada taxes are a combination of several factors, and you can be in the same salary range that somebody else and still be paying a significant different amount.
Is the absurdity the charge or the statute though? Why is there a law on the books that allows them to be charged for glitter?

The answer is because an over-reactive police force encountering an "unknown substance" may end up spending significant resources shutting down the area and checking it for chemical and biological weapons, and nobody wants them to do that but neither does anybody want to be seen blaming the police for being overly cautious, so the blame is assigned to anyone giving them an excuse to do it. And then the police and prosecutors are given another weapon to use against harmless protestors that amounts yet again to felony causing trouble for the establishment.

The problem is the system rather than the people. "Punish the prosecutors" is trying to cure the disease with more of the disease.
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"When imagining different potential attacks on your house you can't go laying down rules that the burglars have to follow"

Of course. But everything is limited and for each scenario there's a specific chance that will happen. Some RSA key sizes are breakable if you can put a lot of computing power behind.

For example, a house may not be built to withstand tanks, so there's your limitation.

On the other hand, there's a huge likelihood someone will walk past your house and see the door ajar, or try to open it.

So, again, everybody is right to secure against KPA, CPA, etc, BUT don't forget that there may be something easier, and yes, if it resists the deeper attacks it's probably safe against capture of cyphertext.

"But we all see how foolish that would be. You plan for the worst case scenario and hash+salt your passwords"

Sure. But in practice the plaintext + strong DB security may be safer "overall" than a hash + salt on a MySQL with the credentials forgotten in some config.php somewhere.

(It's not an excuse to not hash the passwords, though)
For a more readable format: https://www.readability.com/articles/jzsno986
So true. The guy that is currently driving me nuts this way is a former sys admin who is now doing programming.
Talking down to people helps nobody. If I were a random potential user and read what you wrote, my reaction would not be polite, and I would probably feel polarized against your recommendation out of spite.

The problem isn't that potential users are lacking anything. It's that nobody on our side of the table has communicated clearly and succinctly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6941007
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Interesting : I was mainly responding to the comment about US expats having a special cocooned existence (which may well be true, for expats from all first-world countries). But its parent post also fingered low taxes as being a reason that Singapore is attractive to individuals (which isn't really the case for US taxpayers).
Transparency forces fairness assuming you can afford to fix the discrepancies in an acceptable amount of time.

If you can't fix discrepancies in an acceptable amount of time then full transparency forces something unpleasant, and in this context it is potentially unhelpful to everyone.
Why are the other people creating value, while HFT traders do not? Both types of players extract value from the market, while improving market efficiency.

HFT definitely has high entry costs (10's of millions of dollars), and firms that aren't serious about HFT can't participate. Note that HFT only makes 2 billion a year, so they aren't actually missing out on that much. HFT just isn't a very big space, compared to long term investing, and doesn't represent very much movement of capital. (The wealthy don't really invest in HFT, since HFT firms generally don't accept outside capital, or need any substantial amount of capital to operate)
Why would they tell you? Unless you are in the process of actually making them an offer, you are just some random stranger asking personal questions.
You can try zenmate.io as well if you want to do this.
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Blocking via web browsers is definitely not going to work. It would require that every browser on each PC, phone, TV and other internet enabled device all activate the filters, all of them have a facility to activate/deactivate the filters, all of them don't allow other web browsers to be installed and don't allow booting from alternative sources. Most parents don't know how to do this. They do know how to tick a box when they are signing up for a broadband service. There are millions of devices already out there.

SSL-enabled sites can already be "blocked" in the UK, they block the entire domain and the IP.
I just ordered one. Payment is still via Paypal.
I'm an athiest and I get really annoyed when people say such things [..]

Why? You make it sound like you think that's an entirely reasonable response, but as a fellow atheist: I don't think it is. Why not just say 'Thanks'?
Don't be sorry, that idea comes to my mind any time I see that pattern too. It is somehow funny, like people hacking the stories and titles to be used as another level of conversation.

Not new nor HN exclusive, but still interesting.
Not sure how this made it to the front page when it's essentially a rehash of the formal announcement and how-to from AWS's blog. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/12/aws-management-console-au...
or log into their ISPs account area and do it.
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some institutional trades aren't available for the public to see..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_liquidity#Dark_pools
The problem with this thinking is that it's impractical to vote on the basis of single issues when we elect representatives at a local level.

When choosing from the ten or so candidates available we have to consider a broad spectrum of issues; who will manage the health service the best, who will be best for the economy etc. Whilst internet censorship is an important element, it's by no means the primary consideration even for us that work in the industry, let alone the wider electorate.
I wouldn't say it's healthy and reasonable, but it's certainly not hypocritical.
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Of course. If you're committed down a path where your company is basically unfair to its employees, then yeah, transparency won't help.

A good example of transparency not helping is our sudden transparency about the activities of the NSA. Obviously that's not helping them. Though arguably it is helping us.

In a case where a company is intrinsically unfair to its employees and can't correct that, transparency would probably hurt the company but help all the employees - by sending a strong message that it's time to get the hell out of this crappy company.
Sounds like it would cause salaries for talented individuals to rise. You make a good argument in favor of transparent salaries.
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If balance is only about equal chances, then chess actually rates poorly - White wins about 1/3 more often than Black. War (the card game) or rock-paper-scissors can both boast a considerably better balance :)

So if we talk about balance in chess, I think we mean something deeper than your view of the concept: the harmony between its different aspects, like attack vs defence, strategical vs tactical thinking, calculation vs aesthetics etc.

More like balance in art.

A "well-balanced painting" is not simply the most symmetrical one :) That's the easiest thing to achieve, but that's not the point, I believe
So few people recognize this as a fault, I wish you the best of luck!

"Real artists ship!"
It is one of those potentially awkward questions - a candidate has no obligation to answer that question, and in some cases, I believe it is even illegal to ask.
Interesting.

I would like to meet this person.

I find it very helpful to surround myself with people that have a different way of seeing the world.
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You say higher level like it's something that's attainable by simply playing a bit more often but actually you mean 'highest'. A level of skill with manipulating units that's only attained by 0.0001 of Starcraft players, it is not something people suffer from 'at the beginning'. It's a skill that's generally thought not to be attainable or even sustainable past the age of 30.

I am not debating whether Starcraft has strategy, tactics or whether fast decision making is a cool element of a game. I think it's all true. It's just that in Starcraft those things are all only relevant when you're better at manipulating units than your opponent is.

It's what makes Starcraft more a sport than a game.
> I've worked for multiple HR companies who performed studies, all of which showed that salary isn't the highest priority on employee concerns. Yet, in my experience, the number one reason I lose employees (or have left a job) was money.

I think when people are polled they feel guilty about how important money is to their job decisions, so they downplay it. I always thought that was odd...its a job. You have it so you can afford to do all the fun things you really want to do. I think millennials are still figuring this out.
>"Looks like you missed this."

Or not.

When I read this yesterday, knowing nothing of Seattle history I felt a lot like what the parent is expressing because of the quoted bit.

The article spends 1200 words basically forcing speculation on "the object" (So ominous!) and casting a load of preemptive ("want to believe") doubt on an obvious explanation.

It's the scripted "reality" TV analog for news - manufacturing suspense from the mundane.

That said, I do hope "the object" is in fact an alien spacecraft.
I'm sitting on the fence between learning some web-oriented stuff like angular/rails, or some systems stuff like Rust/x86ASM.

Then there's node.js, which I toyed with earlier but now has some pretty exciting applications like nodecopter.
All the best for your products and projects, current and future. When I first saw this topic, I thought the name was familiar.. then I remembered having saw it first in /r/singapore, where you announced GOM and 6900000.

You're helping a ton of people out while taking quite a bit of risk. You're a good man.
Oh man, totally forgot about this one!
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The places where I have worked (all in India), the offer/joining letter specifically mentions that "You will not disclose your salary to any inside or outside person. If you do so then you could be/will be asked to leave the organisation."
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> How is RT or Zeitgeist (bleurgh) a primary source for any of this?

It's a simple question. The post you replied to didn't even mention Zeitgeist or RT, it's you who equates "opening your eyes" with those.
I've learned to stop complaining and lead by example if that helps.
Maybe I don't understand what you're suggesting. If you view Bitcoin as a currency without a central authority, it's an innovation. But a company would have a central authority, also has the ability to create any kind of financial controls, also the ability to create stock, and different kinds of marketable financial securities. So, a blockchain is just a different, possibly more convenient API than the books and records of the firm, and the stock transfer agent.
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Another sucker visits Singapore. 'Sucks doesn't it? (SHOULD HAVE GONE TO HONG KONG)
It appears that SCHAFT and THOR are the only bots being shown for round 1. SCHAFT seems to have a decent handle on the door challenge.
I am entirely uncertain of why this was downmodded. The _s functions are part of the C standard (Annex K), and truly are better replacements for their counterparts. It's unfortunate that the glibc maintainers have shown so little interest in implementing this (optional, to be fair) part of the standard.
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Cable :)
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Transparency sounds good from the employer perspective. You get to control the negotiation procedure (by completely eliminating it) and set salaries how you like. Take it or leave it.

Transparency also sounds good to lots of engineers who don't like negotiation, see it as unfair, and aren't any good at it. No need to bother with all that. Salaries are set. Everything is "Fair", which resonates nicely with an engineer.

But it sounds really bad to an engineer who's genuinely good at what he does and knows how to negotiate a rate that reflects that. Why would a fella leave, say, 100k on the table to go work for a place like Buffer, where even the CEO is only making $150k/year? No thanks, but thanks for saving us the trouble.

The worst thing that could happen is that this sort of thing takes over the industry. That's definitely a possiblity because it's so attractive to those first two groups, and let's face it, there are a lot more managers, introverts and suckers in this industry than guys who are willing to negotiate their worth.

I could see a whole generation of engineers coming up, expecting to be valued on seniority only, and thinking the Industry Average is the correct value for their output.

Not a happy prospect.
How else would I have seen the correlating bubble graph to the bitcoin chart if not for this Forbes link today?
>I believe state borders are immoral, in and of themselves

Shouldn't this extend to private property as well? Who are you to say who can and can't be in your home?
Can someone paste it on gist? Work proxy is blocking the site =/
The OLPC XO machines also have it, as well as SPARC-based Sun workstations.
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I'm not talking down, it's clear that the commenter hadn't understood the article. And there really is no shame in that.

Further, your linked comment seems to be exactly what they're complaining about - Textmate good, Telegram bad. It doesn't explain why and why turns out to be quite hard to explain succinctly.
I prefer the later to the former in a heartbeat.
The buyer has to trust that the mechanism is sufficiently tamper proof.

(and once you have that, escrow service anyway becomes cheap)
You just made an argument that salaries should be artificially low effectively screwing the employee out of a fair wage for their skill by hiding information from them.

And anyway, money isn't everything. I'd be willing to work for a little less money to have an awesome environment where I am treated well, have good benefits, and do great work I enjoy rather than worked 50 hours a week with micromanagement breathing down my neck stressing me out and doing soul crushing work.

Because you lose people to salary is telling, perhaps your environment isn't actually the best as you imagined, or the salary isn't as fair as you imagined.
castling and en-passant are quite recent.

They're not, really. They date back to middle ages. Quite recent is only that they were made "official" and rules were uniformized.

As to memorization of openings, the current world champion Magnus Carlsen thinks the attention to opening theory is overrated.

Yes, but you need to know the context in which he thinks it's "overrated" :)

It's not unusual these days that more than half of the game is prepared at home.

Eg. when Topalov played Anand in World Championship 2010, Anand lost the first game, because he forgot the correct 23rd move of his home preparation. The game went on for 7 more moves.
You can't be a good leader if you can't follow. Thats the bottom line. I can't give you a group of people and expect you to listen to them and not alienate them when you don't seem capable of doing that when you have only one person to focus on.
Honestly? This is a question on hacker news? There are millions of ways to access a site via another site. W3C validator comes to mind. Or textmirror.net. Or browsershots.org. Or the Google cache. Or or or...
It can even happen to manual traders. If you accidentally screw up and run the wrong strategy (e.g. buying Tweeter Inc. when you intended to buy Twitter), you'll very rapidly lose gigantic piles of money.

Losing your money in the stock market != market manipulation.
False. Some institutional ORDERS aren't available to see. The trades must be reported.
Having more comments than points it will have triggered the controversial filter.
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Sometimes i am not sure if it is for an another level of conversation, or simple a try to get some traffic from strong visited topics.
These days if you write C you probably want to be in control of your allocations (and avoid as many as possible). At least that's what I do.

There are no excuses for not including strl* functions in all standard C libraries, it's just NIH that causes the status quo.

strcpy and friends are broken because they are C string functions that can generate invalid C strings and fail the Principle of Least Astonishment. The strl* variants are safer, easier to debug (it's easier to catch a bogus truncation than a missing \0 that might still execute properly by chance on certain systems/builds but not others) and only requires a couple instructions on top of the existing string copy functions. I have yet to hear a reasonable argument about why they shouldn't be included (no, "horribly inefficient BSD crap" is not a reasonable argument).
Then go ahead and break it down.
You wouldn't - and that's fine.

We don't have to hire everybody. If what you care about is salary above all other things, that's absolutely fine. I don't judge you for it. I care about making money too. The kind of people we do want to hire care about making enough money, and making a fair amount in relation to how the company is doing, but they care just as much about working in a great environment which has the features that transparency allows us to have.

In other words, you may be very good at what you do, but based on the above you would be a poor culture fit for a place like GrantTree or Buffer - and that's absolutely fine, on both sides.
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This is why I buy ebooks from Amazon when I can just as easily pirate them, the knowledge that I have a digital archive that I can transfer from device to device with ease (I use itunes match rather than spotify for the same reason).