skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If most of the employees are technical, and the company is run like a typical tech company (ie, with too much middle management, but not headcount literally dominated by them), then line employee headcount costs likely dwarf those of management.

That is one reason why executive compensation can get so outrageous; if you have a lot of employees, most singular expenses become rounding errors.
I love these sorts of excluded-middle arguments. "Our government wastes hundreds of billions of dollars on war toys that are at best unnecessary and at worst a threat to humanity's continued existence. And as if that weren't bad enough, we have a lot of selfish, wealthy asshats who don't want to give even more of their money to the same government."
Doesn't Russian use angular quotes or double quotes where angular ones are not available?
That's where the crowdsourcing comes in :-)

I'm sure there are young lawyers that would like to give some of these cases a try. Surely there must be someone with a conscience in that line of business. I could also imagine that companies and individuals might want to donate.
Hi,
I'm looking for a mentor for math (proofs, abstract algebra, real & complex analysis) and algorithms.

I'm a software developer working in Node.js, and very solid with JavaScript, MySQL, Mongo, and other web technologies (jQuery, Angular, etc...). I also have experience with a number of other languages including PHP, Java, C/C++. I'd be happy to mentor folks in those things as well.
Pretty much no. Most synthetic blood efforts are focused on replacing the oxygen-carrying components of blood i.e. red blood cells and the hemoglobin they contain. That is what's needed in emergency settings and surgery where lack of blood flow can kill tissues in minutes. Immunoglobulins (aka antibodies) are important for preventing infection and thus long term health but they would be difficult to impossible to produce synthetically.
Yep, if you are requiring SNI, SSLv3 might as well be disabled as SNI will never work with it.
Sounds like early days to me. Using Excel makes sense if you're a startup still figuring out what best practices are for fulfillment.

Fab was good to me on all fronts.
These markups can affect full-words only, they are not effective if they are written in the middle of a word.

What if you want to emphasise parts of a word? I know I've had to do that at least a few times. This seems like one of those things that felt like a good idea and does work most of the time, but then really infuriates you when you find out that it's virtually impossible to do it.
Employees received an average of $1MM over their time there?

Global workforce is/was ~275-300 according to the article.
I am a longtime customer of Newegg. No where will you find product reviews written by such a dedicated base of geeks. Newegg customer service is also really really good. I buy virtually all of my hardware on Newegg, even if its a few dollars more.
That said, I am an even more loyal customer after reading this article.
> I'd rather everything be declared up front.

I'm all for declaring up front, just not in html.

> Reading someone else's Backbone code (as compared to Angular or Ember) is really, really not fun for me.

Backbone is far from what I consider good readability. If encourages bad habits by not providing templating and sort of encouraging use of jQuery for dom modification. Binding events to backbone view is what I consider good readability.
I think CmonDev refers to apps made with PhoneGap, Cordova etc., and I agree that using this type of solutions for 3D games might not be the best choice in order to offer a good user experience.
There appears to be billions to be made in profits from anti cancer drugs, no surprise that companies are spending like crazy on cancer research.

On finding replacements / alternatives for our fast reducing arsenal of effective antibiotics - not so much. We are on the brink of a very scary phase in modern medicine - where antibiotics may soon become almost useless and very little is being done about it because it is not profitable.
I am interested in having a designer/front end dev/UXer to bounce off and help me get started with my portfolio.

I am a Market Research Consultant (Data Analyst) so I could offer mentoring/advice for surveys or data analysis. I also am pretty handy at programming (python) and maths (early uni.)

Shoot me an email! jackgolding@live.com.au
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Or, you retain ownership of your house and become a landlord, whilst being a tenant in your location of choice.

Edit: Here the question isn't whether you should buy a house, but whether you should live in the house you buy?
Happiness is a glass half-empty
Adam Carolla is spearheading a group of the top podcasts in the world doing exactly this. I've donated, I know Carolla can rub people the wrong way, but he's the guy you want running something like this, since he'll spend a ton of his own money to prove his point.

http://fundanything.com/patenttroll?locale=en
Perhaps he really was comparing Mr Goldberg to a young Mary of Nazareth? I confess that the point of such an analogy eludes me. Something to do with carpentry?
Probably. I think my complaint boils down to a complaint that every new language is so intent on using an uncommon syntax style for little if any benefit. To me, R is amazingly cryptic for what little it is trying to achieve.
I really wish NewEgg had shirts that looked better than the ones they sell.
Backdoors being engineered into stock hardware is unlikely. A large number of people would have to be involved in this engineering process, and all of them would have to stay quiet about it. This does not seem realistically feasible to me.
Commercial drones are maturing incredibly fast already. The DJI Phantom II Vision has amazing capabilities for under a grand already. But it still seems to be only research/hobby interest in drones (or dronies). What's the "killer app" for drones going to be?
Ed Snowden is the fourth NSA whistleblower to come forward.

The others were Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe.
or perhaps primo uomo, if this cat's male.
Thanks for the link in answer to my question. A tip: if you know the title of an article (here, "Skin microbiota: a source of disease or defence"), and put that article title into a Google Scholar search, you will often find a copy of the article that is not behind a paywall (here, because it is also hosted on the Pub Med Central public access website). Now I have to read the full text of the article, and see what subsequent articles say on the issue.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746716/
There is a bug in the game where if your search page 503s I lose a turn (computer takes a square, the square I clicked isn't acknowledged).
I'm kinda confused about how to win. Do I choose a number and if the computer also chooses that number, we both get X's?
People click on the search result... and hit the back button right as they see the color scheme. This ruins the Google ranking of the site.
I agree that there would be economies of scale to saving up energy at off peak times for use on peak. But the only way I know of this happening on the MW scale is pumped storage. Utility pumps water up into a reservoir all night and then let's it back down through Hydroelectric generators the next day. But the ability to do this is limited by geography. Maybe we are at a turning point. The island of Ohau recently put out an RFQ for a large energy storage system. Will be interesting to see if and who bids.
That's a very nice detailed line-by-line confirmation that they were doing their job to the letter of the law. But you make no comment on the notion that the UK may have modified these devices to spy on the Guardian and needed to destroy the evidence. Of course that isn't your job, and because it would probably be illegal (IDK UK law about that) you couldn't prove it either way. Just sayin'
Ahh, you and another commenter pointed out multiple targets, I supposed that alone would be reason to need a functioning crew after the detonation. It's interesting stuff.
I assume that companies like Stripe have people writing JavaScript and people who write JS will be willing to use their own productive environment.

So if you're a single guy writing everything by yourself, yeah you can also use your own programming language for both backend and frontend.
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Fair point. Happy to see more facts introduced into any discussion on HN, regardless of whether they confirm my biases. :)
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Something tells me their plan could be for Fedex to take them out instead...
Minor nitpick: I went back to find the links in the article, and it wasn't clear on the first read that the 'this is what happens...' sentence was a whole slew of individually linked words.
End the Lavabit lie
NaCl is not exactly a stepping stone to the renderer. NaCl modules live outside the renderer process in a much tighter sandbox that uses control flow integrity and software fault isolation. Gaining code execution within the NaCl sandbox (easy since you can just send the user a NaCl module) does not expose the same attack surface as gaining code execution within a renderer process.
Your meter will read lower though. Nest gets signal to implement demand response. Nest sends signal to all participants to up temp setpoint by 3deg. Homeowner uses less electricity. Meter spins slower.
Between 2008 and 2010, IANA was allocating 10 /8s per year. In 2010, they allocated 20 /8s. There are only 256 total in the system, and not all of those are even usable.

Rapidly-developing Asia already has about as many people as there are IP addresses by itself.

Where are you going to find enough /8s, how are you going to recover them fast enough to do any good, and who's going to pay the massive legal bills from the ensuing litigation?
I haven't used it, but https://git-annex.branchable.com/ sounds like it fits your bill rather nicely.
When you lay an argument out like this, it's easy to knock over, however, that doesn't mean that there isn't some truth in it. It's abundantly clear that the Western lifestyle is carcinogenic, especially for certain types of cancer, like colorectal, prostate and breast cancers.

The actual causes are less well understood. One hypothesis is that we live longer, but given studies that have tracked aboriginal people who moved into cities and compared them against their native kin have shown an increase in the Western cancers, that hypothesis is weak at best. Beyond the unhealthy SAD ("standard American diet"), we also have pollutants, stressors, and who knows what else that can influence cancer.

So you're left with a slew of variables and a lot of sick people. Fifty years ago, cancer was seen as a metabolic disorder, and maybe some are. One of the largest pieces of evidence for this is cancer's inability to metabolize anything but glucose for energy. Cancers that are metabolic diseases would certainly be affected negatively by a growth-hormone-rich environment coupled with consistent access to as much blood sugar as the cancer wants.

Trying to oversimplify with "it's the bread" causes a near visceral reaction in many people, which is unfortunate, because, while it may not be the bread, the bread may be acting as Miracle Grow for the cancer. For me, I'm choosing a diet that, hopefully, won't be an energy smorgasbord for tumors.
Isn't IPv4 good for privacy? My IP address doesn't uniquely identify me unless you get records from my ISP. But wouldn't I be more likely to keep the same IPv6 address consistently?

It also makes it hard for websites to block users based on IP without also blocking lots of legitimate users sharing that IP. I think this is a good thing to keep the internet more equal and anonymous.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/6

Paragraph 1 here essentially states that anybody who knows enough policy to be able to tell you how classified systems work won't be telling you.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

Is an open source article that gives an understanding of the basics.
> why can't the third party perform the operation "is x equal to 5"?

They can; the output is an encrypted boolean.

> And if it's possible, then programs are naturally obfuscated: the interpreter is operating on encrypted bytecode input. But the original paper I cited says this is impossible!

No it doesn't. Isn't your paper talking about an obfuscated program Ob(P) that does the same thing as P? P takes plaintext to plaintext, so Ob(P) takes plaintext to plaintext.

Homomorphic encryption is a different thing. Hom(P), if it exists, takes ciphertext to ciphertext. (Or possibly plaintext to ciphertext if it's a public-key cryptosystem.)
But there isn't always (or even usually) a "mothership" from what we've seen lately. Look at the Prenda Law saga (Ars Technica has some great write-ups). They can't even figure out who officially owns the company, it is almost entirely opaque. I think the problem is that corporate personhood has run completely amok. It is far too easy to invent a new corporate person with little or no visible or even provable connection to any natural person.
Wired was not kind. http://www.wired.com/2014/04/johammer-j1-electric-motorcycle...
Interesting idea, but sounds too expensive. I do believe the the image filename and alt/title attributes come into play, though those are easily spoofed so can't be taken too seriously by Google.
Without the fairing and controls, the J1 looks pretty rad. I'm guessing they get to 200km with some specific aerodynamics, but I'd really like to see a naked/clubman/streetfighter version.
Not if you're trying to write in a conversational tone, which is common for many blog post.

'Wanna' has a particular confrontational connotation (possibly a joking one) that I believe was desired here. 'Want to' wouldn't have had the same effect.
Better batteries.
If they can't pay due to bankruptcy, isn’t there a chance as someone they owe money you will get some of their patents (assets)?
Not sure who PTC or EMC are...

I worked at Bridgestone Golf for a few months (a tyre company that also made golf items, go figure), and because we were situated in their manufacturing plant, we were lucky enough to use SAP for our sales and distribution.

It was the most horrendous experience of my life, and I sat there thinking that surely there would be a part of this beast that could disrupted. However, SAP is such a sprawling mess that where would you start?
humannature, you are probably hellbanned, so I can't reply to your comment directly.

Ok, yes, you are right...70 years, not 99; though there is some suspicion/optimism that the government will extend the leases indefinitely. The property tax in CQ/SH is only on second properties and easily avoided right now through transfers or sham divorces. It will be interesting to see if the gov is really serious about property taxes.
As the CEO of a small 5-person startup, getting sued by a patent troll scares the shit out of me. Seeing Newegg take it to these asshats puts a grin on my face. I'll be voting with my dollars by shopping at Newegg.
Ah, thanks for the full text. I'd be very interested to hear what you find out from reviewing the literature.
If that is the case then Zen Pro is inviting everyone to google for something they will not find. That's not enhancing the credibility of his claims.

On the other hand there is evidence he is something of a Walter Mitty.
The question for me is why they choose to destroy some chips and not others. I could guess about what makes a chip destroy worthy and another chip not destroy worthy, but I'd like some groundtruth.
omg is that a recent development? Which departments are affected? (PC business I presume)
They are adding a Toll/HOV lane to 405 in the Seattle area. There will now be two HOV lanes and both will be converted to tolls for solo drivers.
I couldn't wade through the article to see the conclusion. But I'm not exactly buying into it helping. Right now there are 3 free lanes, and one HOV lane. During rush hour the HOV lane is under utilized. So adding a second lane means only toll users will make use of the new lanes (i am sure HOV use will increase, but not by much, as it could increase today)
So some people will chose to pay the toll, if traffic is bad. If it isn't, they won't as there isn't much benefit. The question is, is the cost of adding the second lane worth it? I would think that making the second lane free would be more beneficial, to the environment, and to the travel time. And how long will it take them to recoup the cost of adding the second lane? I'm not against making the single HOV lane also a toll lane, I just don't see how adding a second one is a win.
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I don't know what its range is, but I'd rather ride this: http://youtu.be/6EI6IhNqGCU
Fedora isn't really meant to be a server distro -- it's a bleeding-edge distro so it has rapid releases, a short life-cycle, and lots of new code.

As the Fedora docs say, it's "often running in uncharted innovative territory," which is great if you want the latest stuff on your desktop, but it's not what you really want in a server distro. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is derived from Fedora every few years so it's battle tested and stable, in the same way Debian is.

For servers in the Red Hat lineage, use RHEL or CentOS, esp now that Red Hat has officially joined forces with CentOS (http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-ha...).
I have a few programming mentors I work with and I'm looking to develop the business side of myself thus I'm looking for a business mentor. In exchange I can help you with web projects and give you a percentage of whatever business we create.

I'm in my late 30's so I have a lot of experience. I don't mind working with people who are younger , but 30 is about the cut off limit. My goal is to seed a lifestyle business that has the potential to grow very large. I'm more interested in a good fit between myself and the mentor than the mentor being extremely successful. However, you should have a track record that reflects a degree of successes. wktdev@gmail.com

I'm looking to get started in about 2 months.

Thank you.
Perhaps you can point them to sites like http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/ and show them some of the stats on networks that are using it. You can also point them to the fact that Facebook, Netflix, Wikipedia and all of Google's sites are available over IPv6. So the "almost no one uses it" doesn't quite fly.
>FHE works by constructing a (malleability-exploiting) circuit to implement the desired logic on the (malleable) ciphertext.

That's a very simplistic view of FHE.

There are much more complex homomorphisms that you can take advantage of, that I don't think can be called "malleability".

There is a lot of research going into FHE based on ring homomorphisms, because you can e.g. encode any logical operations as addition and multiplication over GF(2).

I would not be surprised at all if you could encrypt computations with FHE.
I would agree, and say that universities with an entire /8 probably shouldn't have them anymore either. That's a case where it definitely made sense early on, but stopped making sense quite a while ago.
IPv6 provides temporary addresses and privacy extensions - check your operating system for support.
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That's a bit extreme. If they offered me 500k in cash to work for them, I would take any shit management throws as me. :)
I'm in the same boat as you: I was hesitant to actually comment at all earlier, but before I posted, I thought the comments on this thread and others were reading very much like they were being hijacked from being about Stripe's feature release to being all these "me too" comments from the co-founder and a developer at another payment processor. It didn't seem very classy to me at all, so I threw my two cents out there to provide what I thought was some balance to the discussion. I'm sorry if it reads unfair at all, it's just IMHO.

Can't tell if that was a little jab at the end there, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. :-) My preference for and interest in Stripe as the operator of a Stripe Connect service is clear to anyone who clicks on my profile. :-)
> Our intention isn’t to sensationalize these mishaps

Fail. It's put me off Tug-of-War. And lets be realistic, it was the intention.

But an enjoyable article none the less.
Not sure if you're just being snarky, but I would assume people who write "pre-Madonna" are under the impression it's a reference to the pop star (which sort of makes sense).
Interesting! But not sure how long will it take for me to learn to ride it. LOL!
Personally, I love the fact that this title evokes the "Don't mess with Texas" line, given that it's the East Texas courts that aid patent trolls so greatly.
If you win then their patents aren't very valuable.
This version is better:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...
> Sales of T-shirts with "There is no place like 127.0.0.1" drop dramatically.

The nerdy t-shirt industry experiences a boost in margins, as they can now save ink by printing the much shorter "::1".
At somepoint Congress needs to offer some small tax incentive and companies will slowly confert with that business justification. (Like the Electric Vehicle credit for network hardware - come on Cisco lobbyists get on that!)

Not sure if that if that extends internationally
Hi! I think you missed the security implications of the current getUserMedia model for screen access.

While you wish to have the easiest user experience (no extension, one click screen share/capture), this is a dangerous problem.

Let me explain... when a user currently enables the #enable-usermedia-screen-capture flag in Chrome, this allows any JavaScript on any webpage to capture a chromeDesktopSource such as a window or tab without being initiated or approved by the user.

Imagine a malicious website or advertisement that now calls getUserMedia and takes a screencap of your personal email account, bank account or private chat. The user may or may not notice the Chrome notice saying "http://website is sharing your screen" (paraphrased) but even if the user noticed it and pressed "Stop" the damage has already been done. It only takes a fraction of a second for a malicious app to screencap each browser tab.

By Chrome 35, you will no longer have to set any flags, but you will not be able to get the chromeDesktopSource without first going through the chooseDesktopMedia API.

Each time a website wants access to a Desktop Source (screen, tab, or window), it will have to explicitly ask the user for a source and permission via the Chrome dialog.

Does that make more sense now? Hope it helps.
> The good news is that this is happening faster than you would think.

The research might be moving fast, but access to these new treatments still moves at a glacial pace. At least for the people who need them... patients have to wait years until drug trials run their full course, even when preliminary results consistently show these treatments are effective.

One can understand why these rules and regulations are in place, but surely there's a better way of assessing the risk/benefit of prematurely approving certain treatments for diseases that will almost certainly kill (or gravely, permanently debilitate) those who suffer from them long before the drug is approved.

Speaking from personal experience dealing with this right now, it's extremely frustrating that these treatments are just out of reach because access to them is surrounded by so much red tape -- If you don't have $120k sitting in your wallet, that is.
Depends on which term. Retirement roulette.