skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once LibreSSL has reached a point of minimal disruptive change, FIPS support could be re-implemented as a series of third-party patches, which could then be certified as needed.

For example, create a fipssl project which is patches to a specific version of LibreSSL; take the result (LibreSSL v1.x + fipssl v1.2 = libfipssl v1.2) and then get that certified. Companies/contractors which need FIPS certification then use libfipssl v1.2.

The fipssl maintainers then just have to track LibreSSL changes until their next release, which (for a series of small, maintainable patches) shouldn't be too difficult. The grsecurity project has been doing the same thing with the Linux kernel for years.
Yes, you have to pay taxes when repatriating that cash.
Why I decided to be indie game developer
App looks nice, but how do you differentiate from companies like tabbedout, mycheck, dash, etc..

One thing that is really hard about this sort if startup is POS integration without breaking the flow of service.
good podcast. its apparent that the ACH network is considering intra-day settlements and with Check 21 as an option, money can be moved/settled quicker
There is a need for biotech startups that help navigate FDA regulations. Think process & documentation for medical solutions, like shovels for gold-miners.

I've been doing consulting work at healthcare manufacturers. The environment is insane -- constraining, slow, unproductive, depressing. And it's used as a huge moat.
The stock is up 36 points or 7% in after-hours. I would be short. These moves from management reek of desperation and don't give me much confidence. They missed big on ipad sales
After-hours ZNGA has reclaimed today's loss, so I take it Wall St. likes the news.
What do you mean by being easier to internationalize? Do you mean you can lookup the string at runtime and it will then interpolate on that? That's not a safe way for interpolation to work, because then random strings from unsafe sources can start including any variables from your environment. String interpolation should only apply to string literals. What you actually want (no idea if it's available in Go) is something akin to Sprintf but with named instead of positional arguments, and then explicitly provide a map of those arguments rather than letting it get them from the lexical environment as interpolation does.
Will the dividend paid per share also decrease by 1/7?
"Sounds so simple, why doesn't everyone do it?"

Well, need & money, both of which Red Hat has. I am unclear how a company that maintains an enterprise distribution and writes a lot of code cannot find the folks needed to do FIPS if it is that important for their government contracts.
It's because of the taxes.
thanks man!

bookmarked.
This is a great idea, I really hope it takes off. Ordering one for my little brother.
TDD is fun
I believe it to be the taxes. If they repatriate those dollars they'll pay a significant tax. I believe there are also bills in congress that may someday make it through to address this, but it probably won't be soon. Getting to not pay tax on foreign profits is just bad policy, imho.
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Hangovers tend to occur when you've had MDMA mixed with one of the ever-more-frequent mixers such as methamphetamine, cocaine or even MDA, which actually targets dopamine receptors far more prominently than the serotonin and knock you out for days. Pressed pills are usually the culprit, and I would avoid them unless you know exactly where they're coming from.

From a wide array of experience, pure MDMA (in recommended doses, meaning 200mg or less) produces less of a hangover than two beers, with a very real "afterglow" which lasts for days after. Excellent focus and concentration included.

This is a good read:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pure-ecstasy-...
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/8/headlines/hilary_clinto...
Well, that sounds attainable.
They'd have to pay taxes if they bring foreign cash back to the US to pay dividends.

Google floated $1B in bonds earlier this year: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-20/google-said-to-plan...

Probably for the same reason.
My comment was a little off hand and out of keeping with our standard, I apologize for that. Let me try to better explain myself:

There is a form of survival of the fittest taking place; new languages need frameworks for people to operate within. Those frameworks spring up, some work many some don't. You consolidate some into one, and then you build that out. It has won. Within it you have aspects that you want to change, so you contribute an alternative, to make those succeed you have to build clean interfaces. Once you reach this point you have a real framework: i.e. something opinionated about the relationship between varied modules.

Rails is, imho, the best example of this - it has had millions of hours of code contributed to it by the OSS world. It has reached maturity to the point where people wish to make it behave differently. They can do this because of that maturity.

When I see things like Goji, my frustrations are not at goji (again, I poorly expressed that in my initial statement - sorry) but rather at the fact that the initial ramp up period as described above is so inefficient. If you consolidate into one sooner then you're in a really good spot. From my POV golang already has a great micro-framework for web services - so why not invest the time in making that better? For example the graceful http server termination aspect (where goji shuts the listen socket down but services the remaining connections), why not contribute that? Why contribute routing?

RE: security. Recently I came across a piece that delved into the depths of why websites are insecure. The author made the compelling case that a great number of reasons for this is that most engineers do not understand web security, and in some ways that is down to the spread in frameworks - some handle security as a first class concern, others do not. The ones that do not are "easier to use", and so proliferate.
Speaking for myself here – the Mill material is some of the most interesting that's appeared on HN in recent memory and I don't think we're close to being fatigued by it.
The whole payment space is getting really interesting in the last couple of years. Banks and retailers trying to work around credit card processing fees as they became larger part of their balance sheets.
I refuse to use Comcast due to my experience with them which is anecdotal. But fair enough to call me cynical. :)

So, ummm, maybe you should ask if I've used them before going on a rant?
does it concern anyone? or will it be effective only in Russia?
Correct. In theory it doesn't make much of a difference (ie, 20 nickels vs 4 quarters). Investors generally perceive it to be management having a bullish outlook on stock price. And there is a small liquidity benefit (although AAPL already pretty liquid).
He got his.
> Because they'd have to pay taxes if they use the foreign reserves?

Yep.

Apple can borrow at somewhere near 2.3%[1] on the public debt markets. They have billions overseas, but if they bring it back to the US, they'd have to pay corporate income tax on it (35%).

They're just biding their time until the Chamber of Commerce lobbyists gain enough influence to get congress to pass an overseas tax holiday to repatriate the money at 15% or 20%. To this end, expect a huge PR onslaught near election time about how much economic stimulus would be provided if we changed the rules about taxes just this once (note: happens every ~10 years).

[1] - http://quicktake.morningstar.com/StockNet/Bondsquote.aspx?ci...
One difference is that the first one, with a good implementation, will be more efficient because it doesn't need to allocate intermediate strings.

I don't think such a micro-optimisation is enough to sway the argument though.
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Yes, but math/wording not quite right. It will decrease by 6/7 (or be 1/7 of what it was).
> I spent a great chunk of the book focused on the sovereigns that cyberspace would enable — geek driven sovereigns, as the law of those spaces would be code. And as a lawyer too often disappointed by the limited justice within my own field, I was hopeful that maybe here, something better would be built.

Justice requires empathy, and empathy is a character trait that humanity is not well-endowed with. Certainly not engineers, as a class, nor lawyers. Ironically, both groups of people skew towards having the same failing, which is using rules and axioms as a crutch to avoid exercising empathy.
He now has all the time he needs to enjoy the half a billion he liquidated upon the Zynga IPO. Gotta hand it to a determined Machiavellian who is a master of his craft.

Just goes to show folks, its not what you know, but who you can exploit.
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Maybe the proper framing is that Apple (through Braeburn Capital) hid this money in offshore tax shelters much like Google and pretty much any other large corporation does.

Bringing it back simply allows Tax authorities to "see" it again.

Perhaps the fact that it's even possible for companies to shelter the vast bulk of their earnings from tax is the problem in the first place?
Agreed. Google does this to me regularly. "Hooray, you can X" and then I spend a while poking around, trying to do X, before eventually realizing they've probably punked me again and giving up.

I don't understand why they do it. Instead of being amused by their new feature, I'm annoyed that they've wasted my time again.
Careful. MDMA can have beneficial effects, but there's mounting evidence that it's some degree of neurotoxic. If you use it weekly, you'll likely cause some amount of permanent damage in the long run. I can also tell you that MDMA can cause anxious/depressive episodes that last a few days after use. There's even a name for this (suicide Tuesday). Not everyone experiences this side-effect, but like any other drug, it's not for everyone, and people should be careful with it. It nearly depletes your brain's serotonin reserves, and some people don't deal with that very well at all. A large proportion of users (most?) are not careful: they do not supplement, do not use test kits, do not know how much is in a capsule/pill and will redose multiple times in a night.
This is the last chance to get in before they release two more disruptive products.

Wearable + Television product.

Get in now. It's quite literally the surest bet in the market.
Pets.com had a Super Bowl commercial. Zynga is just as likely to disappear without a trace.
Not to speak too poorly of Mark, because he's just human and I'm sure he makes many tough decisions under stress, but I was just thinking today about how he represents how not to found a company. Particularly his approach to equity and trying to prevent early employees from getting rich if he felt they didn't contribute like he wanted [1]. That is, trying to prevent a Google scenario where the chef got a $20 million payday on ipo.

I don't know about you guys, but the chef at my old company was pretty spectacular. If it were up to me and my company went public, it would be very important to me that all the early guys got big paydays.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-pincus-to-zynga-employee...
The narcissist in me thinks it will go down further than 1/7th the previous price, because whenever I hear about Apple stock, it's going down. Apple sold 5 million iPhones, stock goes down; Apple announces new product, stock goes down; etc...
Yep.

For the sake of the math, I'll use a 5:1 split.

Day 0: Company trading for $1/share with 100 outstanding shares -- Market cap = $100. They are offering $0.05/share dividends -- Total dividend = $5

Day 1: Stock split at 5:1

Day 2: Company trading for $0.20/share with 500 outstanding shares -- Market cap = $100. They are offering $0.01/share dividends -- Total dividend = $5
Yes. Dividends are % based.
So, how do I get a wall-sized print of these?
I agree with this completely. Like everything, moderation is absolutely key.

But that being said, unlike many drugs MDMA has a built-in cut-off switch (another perk) which basically prevents you from feeling anything more after about three doses. That's not saying that eager people wont continue to do more (especially if they're on other drugs or at a festival and not thinking clearly) but the effect is basically nil once you get into the 300mg range.
The new most powerful Android phone is the OnePlus One, and it’s only $299
Are you the same Nick in MN? I know a small IT coop in St Paul.

Funding a bench doesn't seem appealing to me. Too many people at contracting companies view it as vacation time.

Otherwise I think a coop sounds cool.
I meant "1 in 1000 people with disease have a mitochondrial cause".

There are many diferrent figures as "mitochondrial disease" is a broad term, but check these out:
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/1/177.long
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18674747?dopt=Abstract
Show HN: Tracking Flu Outbreaks with Wikipedia
I wrote a script to import Wikipedia traffic data for the Influenza page and graph it. (Updates daily)

Graph: http://www.additiveanalytics.com/solutions/flu_tracker

Inspired by this study published last week: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003581#abstract1

The researchers found that Wikipedia page view data provided better real-time reporting on influenza outbreaks when compared to the CDC's data (which has a typical lag of 1-2 weeks) and Google Flu Trends (which had trouble with the 2012-2013 flu season and 2009 H1N1 panic.

Graph was done with d3.js.
Clickable link: http://www.additiveanalytics.com/solutions/flu_tracker
> Because they'd have to pay taxes if they use the foreign reserves?

This is the main reason.

> Because they are somehow getting a higher interest rate return on their reserves then they'd have to pay to borrow? (That would seem pretty impossible).

This is also a possibility. Apple has extraordinarily good credit. They can consequently borrow at near-zero interest rates. They can then invest that amount of money in some (perhaps only slightly) higher risk security than their own bonds and turn a profit -- and if the money was originally held by a foreign subsidiary then so is the profit from the investment.
Yes. Basically, a stock split changes nothing about the value of the stock. However, it might lead to a slight rise in the stock price since small investors will now find it easier to buy, and so total demand for the stock might be a bit higher.
I'm close to piling on the anti-Tim Cook bandwagon. Everything he does seems to have no relation to product (buybacks, splits, dividends, environment, supply chain cleansing, repatriation taxes, etc.).
Last tax holiday was the Homeland Investment Act in 2004. HIA II could be an issue worth debate in 2016.
We have statements from the two most relevant people in this situation: the accuser and the accused. Their statements are contradictory. Without further evidence, I see no reason to believe one over the other.
I definitely agree. It was a groundbreaking game too. He gave a great postmortem talk about it:

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014630/Classic-Game-Postmortem...
Here's Apple's denial: http://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/

I would be surprised if any of the companies allowed FBI equipment to have direct access to all their users' data. Not only is it a bad idea from a privacy perspective, but it is a terrible idea from an engineering perspective as well.
> (for example (401k to RRSP in Canada)

Any sources on this? I find the laws around this to be incredibly complicated. Good advice is hard to find due to the cross-border nature of this.
Apple isn't working on your schedule.
Apple announces 7-1 stock split, dividend increase, and more stock buybacks
It's hard to be an officer in a public company for any significant amount of time. Especially a CFO. You are personally, criminally liable for any fuck-ups your company may make, and that wears on a person. You don't see many CFOs that stick with companies for more than 5-7 years.

Undeniably they blew their numbers out of the water. And I don't think his departure has anything to do with the numbers; he's probably just tired.
Isn't the goal of Apple's huge piles of cash to finance & consolidate their manufacturing as well as distribution? Could we interpret this as a signal that there aren't any new products coming down the line that would require such expenditures?

By new products I mean the release of a totally new line (e.g. iPhone 1) rather then an iteration upon a current line (e.g. iPad mini).
Apologies, I shouldn't have been quite so dismissive.

I mean that the ISA wars are over in the sense of multiple relatively similar architectures competing against one another for negligible gain.

There's still plenty of scope for nontraditional architectures to come in and offer something different. We've already seen that in the more general availability of general-purpose GPU programming. As an architecture nerd, I'm already super-excited by Mill.
This article has a little more information, stating that this quarter's dividend will be exactly $3.29 per share of common stock for all shareholders as of 5/12/2014.

http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividend+Hike/Apple,+Inc.+(AAPL...
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And while revenue was up 72%, income nearly tripled! This is why you invest every penny you have into growing a software company and push profits out as far as possible.
A split has absolutely zero impact on the worth of your shares. The primary reason companies do it is to attract investors who are more comfortable paying lower prices for the shares, thus increasing demand and driving a higher price.
I used to work there, not sure if things changed (we've given talks and written about it in the past): Language-runtime patches + user permissions (setuid) + rlimit + Linux containers + runner boxes have no access to web server , db server etc, so even if you root, nothing much to do.
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You can interpret this as a signal that Apple has a lot of cash, and they make a lot of cash. CapEx and R&D have been steadily rising these past few years and Tim Cook has explicitly said new products would be released in 2014.
Why are there so many rich white and Asian people buying our $300,000 product?
It could definitely be an issue with network speed. I don't have the greatest connection, sure, but I think 10mb/s should be able to handle it.

I understand how the directions work and I agree it's super simple, but the intended UX and what I actually experience is different. The contextual search box doesn't consistently change in relation to what I'm clicking on so that I cannot click / type / directions as I know I'm supposed to.
I'm not seeing any pricing information anywhere. This could be driving people away. I know I personally hate having to do the whole "try before you buy" dance just to find out pricing.
A lot of biotech isn't "wet" these days. I work in a sequencing centre. More than half of the employees seem to be computer based.
Ha! Maybe I'm stuck on a beta version from when I opted in early. I could hope. I really can't imagine the performance being better, but I guess it's ymmv.
The arguement for the holiday the last time was "job creation" which didnt really bear fruit. Dont think it will happen again unless it is part of a larger tax reform bill.
Apple does earn a lot of money overseas.
It is one of the goals, and they are still actively investing in that area, for example the sapphire plant they recently invested/built. However given how much cash they have ($150bil+), spending all of that on operation and manufacturing in a short amount of time is actually infeasible. A state of the art chip fabrication plant would only run you around $2bil these days, even if you build it in an expensive country like the U.S (kinda tells you how over-valued WhatsApp was huh), so even if Apple decides to build 20 of such plants (Intel only has around 10, and a lot of them are older ones)), they STILL have over $100 billion in CASH that they don't need, which is still more than any other tech companies' cash reserve.
> In theory it doesn't make much of a difference

Options markets are where this has the most impact. In order to sell a covered call, I need to own at least 100 shares of a stock. A stock priced at $500 or higher (in the case of GOOG) makes it harder for a smaller investor to participate in the options market. Splitting the stock price makes it possible for a little guy to purchase options based on their stock holdings.
I think one strong feature is that it gives less for crackers to play with if they exploit the application. The less environment there is that is usable or recognisable, the better. So I am also in favour of stripping things down to the minimum.
You do understand that unlike the North America the Europe does not speak the same language in all of the countries? :)
This is excellent news. I have a rather complicated app which I fought tooth and nail to get working on Elastic Beanstalk. The provisioning scripts were just too buggy, undocumented, and full of bad assumptions.

I have a couple of apps running perfectly under EB. This neatly solves my main issue with it.
How doesn't it? It makes it completely impractical to use because the complexity you get for any string is entirely dependent on the language you use. We have no way of deriving what function set the universe uses from first principles.
And if computer science were a field in which men have historically been underrepresented, with company after company having culture issues about "femprogramming culture", your Turing Initiative might have a reason to actually exist.
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You're absolutely right, with the margins Apple enjoys, they could just have more money then they know what to do with.
Most people with kids and family and whatever else manage to watch television a couple hours a night. Why can't you study or code instead?
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but they deserve a ton of praise for taking on a tough task that no one else was willing to do

There seemed to be some serious momentum behind getting proper resources and financing in place for a real effort that the project deserves, but all of that dissolved when this team started making a lot of sound and fury about their fork of something purportedly "beyond fixing".

Aside from several incidents of spite-driven commits that were simply wrong (and dangerous), it is unfortunate that so many people who worked so hard on such an important project are treated so poorly, everyone rushing to condemn the code as was.
crikey, you gave me a platform to get Mill into yet another HN thread, and you apologise? Are you mad? I'm the one to thank you :)
It's perversely amusing to me that while an indiviual US citizen's overseas earnings are fair game for the IRS (and AFAIK no other country does this to their citizens), a corporation's earnings are totally invisible.
It's a shame the containers appear to be stuck at 1 container per VM, which is fairly limiting, there's no real reason why you wouldn't run 10 or more containers on 1 VM other than IP allocation (which AWS already does very well)
I have a 13' macbook pro w/ 8gb of ram.

One thought is that I browse in incognito mode, and i have ghostery running.
Well, I fixed it now, but probably nobody is paying attention anymore :/
After a long battle with Apple, ฿ Average for iOS is released.
After a long battle with Apple, ฿ Average for iOS is released.
Given how low the interest rates are on Apple's debt, I don't think repatriating cash would lead to any job creation in the US, anyway, even at 0%.
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