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Ask HN: Where do you prefer to work? Pure tech or consumer focused companies?
Contemplating the different working atmospheres and cultures at various companies and how that differs based on the product focus of the company.

What are your thoughts? Where do you like to work?
I just want to point out an important distinctions between a pre and post acquisition deal. Previous to an acquisition being complete it is entirely possible and very common for the acquirer to stipulate that a certain employee or set of employees must stay with the company throughout the acquisition. Before money, stock, and assets have changed hands almost anything can go. Both sides can (and often do) back out of the agreement for any number of reasons. The reason many companies have a "Quiet Period" during an acquisition is so that employees don't panic and leave, ruining the deal. Frankly, this company probably shouldn't have shared the acquisition with the OP is at all possible.

However, it is very uncommon to stipulate payment (or vestment) on a particular employee or a group of employees staying AFTER the acquisition is complete, at least in the US. This is because of anti-coercion laws. There are a number of laws that protect a worker from being held captive (via liability) to a company. If I were a previous owner who's previous employee left a new company one day after the sale and the new owner said "Well, you don't get paid now," it would be an easy argument to say "They have the right to leave and it was you who lost them, the liability is on you."

If the laws did not protect from such then you would see an amazing level of scam which could go something like this. The acquiring company would stipulate that the price of the purchase of the acquired company was based on an employee being retained. The acquiring company would then tell that employee to quietly (under the table, without anyone knowing) leave a few days after acquisition. The acquiring company would then say, "See! That employee didn't stay so you don't get paid (as much|anything) anymore!"

That being said, this is why so many lawyers are involved with contracting the sale of businesses. I have seen buyers attempting to stipulate payment on some really crazy things. I have seen sellers pull the plug for some other really silly stipulations. It's usually quite the circus to watch.
Thanks! Just donated what I had left on my phone and added 25Eur via paypal
There are secondary markets for most bonds so yes, you can short them. However most traders would do this through derivatives such as bond futures or ETFs.
I agree. I'm a lot more comfortable being charged (and the new pricing for iCloud storage is pretty reasonable). For comparison Dropbox only gives you 2GB free.
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I have spread the word in bitmessage chans. People there are certainly concerned about privacy and love free software.
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Just bought my first new car in November. I tried really hard to get a used car, but honestly, it just didn't make any sense -- the cost of financing was much higher, and the cost of the vehicle itself was nearly as much as a brand new model year (this was the case for both the '15 Toyota Corolla and '15 Honda Civic, and their '11 to '13 model year used counterparts.) This doesn't even touch on how difficult it was to find a decent used car in the first place.

I guess if you're comfortable with dropping $10k in cash for a decent used car, then you'd save money, but when/if you can finance a new car for very low interest rates, why tie up your liquid cash like that?

> For those families, a new-car payment is a burden — but it’s one they can predict and live with. It sucks to “throw away” $300 or $400 every month, but it’s never a surprise and in exchange they have freedom from surprises.

How exactly is paying $300-$400 monthly for a new car "throw away" money? It's going towards the ownership of a useful piece of property. Maybe the author is talking about leasing? I don't know.
Yep... that was roughly my starting approach. Current one I'm playing with uses multiple samples (chosen as a function of the initial hash and the previous samples), to ensure the attacker has to actually take the whole file... otherwise the attacker gets away w/ 10% of file & 100 hashes, they've got good odds that one of those hashes only needs the first bit of the file.

Still trying to play with it to see if I can make it harder to parallelize assuming attacker does get the file. But that gets into designing an entire password hash, not just a friendly wrapper, which is more than I'm prepare to chew on right now :)
Neat. I'll have to try that out some day.
You're ignoring the systematic factors that lead to one person being able to attain car-repairing skills over the other.

"Al, in fact, was a former Lamborghini tech. What’s that training worth? Do most poor people have it?"

No one is denying that Al probably put in a lot of hard work, but that he was able to get to that point is a part of privilege too.
> An actual mechanic may not make enough to afford the parts.

What? You realize mechanics can make good money right? Most shops charge $100+/h.
According to the official Ministry of Justice figures, there were 745,000 reported burglaries in the UK in 2013 (last figures I could find), and there were 26,300 convictions for burglary. Although the rates fluctuate, they don't change by orders of magnitude, so a steady state assumption isn't accurate, but is near enough for ballpark figures.

So on that basis, the likelihood is > 95% that you'll get away with it.

And note that those statistics are for all burglary, including aggravated burglary. I can't tell from the data, but I'd suggest it is reasonable to assume that petty burglary has a lower conviction rate still.
To add some data:

Companies like Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) pay experts $750 per hour for one hour of talking to someone on the phone.
Thanks :-) Powerstrip will see a lot more adapters in the next few months - including one for flocker!
> unlimited free auto-backup

For pictures below 2048x2048.

Also I'd rather pay for storage then expose my data to web app automated algorithms and lack of local editing software with two way sync.
Please don't link straight to PDFs on the arXiv.

Link instead to the abstract:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880
I can't speak to Apple, but I know for a fact that AWS' claimed 11 nines SLA (99.999999999%) for S3 is purely theoretical - in practice, they've never lost an object yet.
According to the author of Inferno, TypeScript copies all the "bugs" and error-prone behaviors of JS, and is also a superset, not a subset. Inferno being a subset lets you use all your JS tooling directly with Inferno code.
If you're necessary to the deal going through, then you should have been consulted when that first came to light.

I suspect that if you are part of the deal, if you wanted to work for the acquiring company, you could have already gotten a job there long ago. Clearly they were not your first choice of places to work. The terms that are being offered don't change that, and perhaps no terms can.

That's o.k.
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If you're only dealing with pure maths, Haskell really isn't that hard to pick up, it's only once you start wanting to do I/O and deal with monads that it can be a bit of a burden.

For something like this, where you're probably just loading some pure functions into GHCi? No harder than Mathematica or something like it really.
I'm pretty sure it was sarcasm. IBM is infamous for their massive patent portfolio. Just about anybody who knows about patents knows that IBM has a metric ton of them.
Same here. I owned two cars for a while with the same philosophy. Insurance was actually cheaper with two cars instead of one so it saved me money.
CII is a consortium of consumers of free software, not publishers. If openSSL meds gpg, openssl should spend its funding on gpg.

Perhaps via a "Free Core Infrastructure Initiative"
Assembling is being democratized, PCBs are being made available faster than ever, but that still doesn't level up with the ecosystem that is China. Especially, when you are prototyping.
Link i posted in earlier comment points out exactly this : http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
It's a great initiative by YC, but hopefully there is more to come.
I don't like it, but that's already the status quo in the US and Europe (which the US extended its terms to match, ie the Europeans did it first). The whole copyright system is in drastic need of reform, but you can hardly blame stakeholders for wanting to maintain the regime they currently have. It's worth bearing in mind that all the TPP negotiating countries are already signatories to the Berne convention and are therefore obliged to respect each others' copyrights: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?treaty_id=15
Interesting. I've always found apple's promotional images to be a bit more casual and not so overly photoshopped.
Bought this yesterday. My kindergarten son has been asking a lot about volcanoes, islands, and continents recently so this is a perfect fit. Good mix of learning with interactivity.
The problem of reward for innovation is one that goes back a long ways under the market / capitalist system.

The tale of the unrewarded genius is legion, one set of substantiation is presented in Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms looking at key inventors of the early Industrial Revolution: John Kay (flying shuttle), James Hargreaves (spinning jenny), Richard Arkwright (spinning frame), Samuel Crompton (spinning mule), Reverend Edmund Cartwright (power loom), Eli Whitney (cotton gin), and Richard Roberts (power loom, machine tools).

Of the list, Kay, Hargreaves, and Roberts died in poverty. Crompton and Cartwright were granted substantial payments by acts of Parliament (£5,000 and £10,000 respectively), Whitney made money through arms sales to the U.S. government, and of the lot, only Arkwright earned significant wealth, half a million pounds, after his patents stopped being honored by other manufacturers.

Invention and information goods fare poorly in economic systems.

Most of us are coloured by the experience of Microsoft from 1980 - 2000 or so, but what is generally not recognized is that Microsoft as a seller of "shrink-wrap" software was exceptionally anomalous. Most other pure-play software firms were nowhere near as profitable as Microsoft. Some technology companies had large revenues, but they were often based on hardware (Sun, HP), professional services (Oracle, Price Waterhouse), or both (IBM). Hardware does well, but has a small fraction of the profit margin of software, and professional services -- brains by the bucketful -- is very difficult to scale. Companies which do well at the latter almost always have a distinctly mafia-like reputation (IBM, EDS, Oracle, PWC, Accenture, etc.).

Werner's situation is unfortunate, and I really do hope he finds a way to survive. He's hardly alone, and frankly, the proprietary commercial model has proven highly problematic as well.
A more fair system might be to embrace the "property" rights that media companies hold so dear

You seem to be forgetting that copyright protection applies to creations by individual authors as well. Should they be taxed for their creations?

Do you think poor people should not be allowed to own their creations because they can't pay up?
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Ooh, that looks interesting ... and not just for ROM feature. They've packed a TON of things into there. Even SCRAM support!

I'm really intrigued by one of the planned features... "Hash upgrades to higher cost settings without knowledge of passwords". I can think of a way to implement that alone, but to pack that all in with those other features will be really impressive. And would be a huge boon to systems w/ infrequently logging-in users.
Even if they were seized and nobody has provided any evidence to corroborate that, there is no way they'd have a 24 hour turnaround on warning letters/emails.

It is just a coincidence. No doubt if your friend downloaded something "yesterday" they also downloaded something a week ago, two weeks ago, a month ago, and so on.

Also the fact that that email doesn't say what they infringed is extremely odd as well as when. Doubly so as you can find a sample of this exact email that contains exactly that content:

http://help.twcable.com/twc_copyright_alert_notices.html
> If you think of the network as part of the memory hierarchy, transferring data to nodes in a distributed system is usually slower than even spinning disk storage.

According to Google quick search, the bandwidth of DDR3 is ~12.8 GB/s, or ~104 gbps. As I understand it second-hand (read: cheap) infiniband givies ~40 gpbs, and newer, high-end gives ~100gbps[1]. Now, if you're using regular gigabit ethernet (or even 10gps with cheap-ish switches) -- you'd probably see around 5-8 gbps -- or if we're being very generous, on the order of 1/10th of cpu-ram bandwidth.

Sata2 is rated at ~6 gbps for comparison. In other words, 10gpbs ethernet/infiniband should be on-par with local SSDs, but "proper" infiniband should push the node-node ram-ram performance up compared to that. It appears fiberchannel is also moving towards the ~100 gps mark[2], but isn't there quite yet. And you'd have to have something on the other end -- with high speed networking it is quite natural to assume that both source and destination is RAM.

It's actually pretty crazy with ~40gps infiniband -- I'm considering getting some second-hand gear just to play with at home. Seems both cheaper and more reliable to work with than try to get 10gps ethernet to work (on a home/hobby budget!).

Eg:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Flextronics-F-X430066-8-Port-SDR-Inf...

Or:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mellanox-MHGA28-XTC-InfiniHost-III-E...

All that said, I think the article makes a lot of great points -- and it does seem a bit funny that people seemingly are thinking of 1 gbps as "fast" when so much has happened on the cpu/ram side since that was remotely true.

[1] http://www.hpcwire.com/2012/06/18/mellanox_cracks_100_gbps_w...

[2] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2096980/fibre-channel-will-co...
The police are usually very trigger happy in these situations. This is very dangerous and could easily get someone killed!
With that many transactions they should be able to negotiate a lower fee than that. My company did a bit over 4 million in CC transactions last year and our rate is 1.9% and I believe the flat rate per transaction is 25 cents.
I know this is a dumb question, but is there a conclusion to the benchmarks that which one would be more ideal to use?

I'm just learning GO, that is why I'm asking.
GPG's goal is about privacy, while OpenSSL is more of a toolbox with most of the tools you need for anything crypto-related.

I imagine those people need to control integrity of the software, to make sure it is deployed correctly on their servers and distributed securely to their clients and users, and OpenSSL has all they need for that. Privacy, OTOH, is unneeded because they are not (or rather much less) after their own or their users' privacy.
I'm picturing something like this http://www.soundboardarchive.com/game/603/George-Takei.html but with audio and recording functions as well?

A quick google search turned up http://www.mobilepodcaster.com/ which is somewhat similar. What's the killer feature that sets your idea above this one ? Also, what are your ideas for an impressive demo of this idea?
Lightroom has a new importer to pull in Aperture data, including tags and all of that...so it's not really a "export the files and import into Lightroom" situation - it appears it should preserve your metadata.

http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2014/10/aperture-imp...
I'd argue North Korea isn't a secular government. The Kims are portrayed to their people as a lineage of gods under the divine authority of Kim Il-Sung, and their people are forced to literally worship them.

Stalin's government was also very anti-religion, but it was based on portraying him as a secular divine figure, "infallible sage, 'the greatest leader', 'sublime strategist of all times and nations'", etc.
Yes, as I understand it, police authorities allocate resources for categories of crime based on national and local policing priorities.

If your low-priority crime (like criminal damage) can somehow be placed in a higher priority category (like hate-crime), the police will find it much easier to allocate resources to it, and you will see a more spirited investigation.

My original point was merely to say that there are such things as low-priorities for which the police don't put much effort, and by doing so they set a precedence for what crimes one could reasonably expect to get away with.
>> How exactly is paying $300-$400 monthly for a new car "throw away" money? It's going towards the ownership of a useful piece of property. Maybe the author is talking about leasing? I don't know.

He's talking about the difference between that monthly payment and paying cash for cheap used car and not having the payment. If you spend $2000 on a crappy car that you maintain yourself, that monthly payment seems like throwing money away. The whole point of the piece is that's not even close to the whole story.
Does Open Source guarantee the right to publish derivative source?
iClouds lack of file structure makes it seem not ideal for storage.

I also shoot raw.. Wait, unlimited cloud photo storage at amazon prime. That seems like a good deal.
I believe that Negroni is considered a library rather than a framework. https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni#is-negroni-a-framewor...

But I don't know why that would preclude it from these benchmarks because httprouter is not a full fledged framework either.
Are they talking about Superstring Theory branes?

Also, this:
"So any change in this gravitational field should influence the rate at which the neutrons leak in and out of our brane."

How can this happen in a unverse that obeys both the relativisc principle and the gravity acceleration equivalence? Will different observers see a different number of particles written at the detector display?
Fair point, but it only takes 1 failure for a catastrophe. I suppose my question would be: is cloud-storage alone enough?
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Because writing an app in one language is easier than writing it in two or more, and since JavaScript is the only language you can do client-side scripting in you're probably going to be writing some JavaScript no matter what. So if you want the ease of writing your whole app in one language, the only language that one language can possibly be is JavaScript.
He and I have, since that time, made up. Which is a nice thing! But yes, greed really ruins things. It is quite powerful.

I have been involved in start ups in two ways in the mean time. First, I have built up and sold my own small start up. This was much easier though as I was the sole owner and employee. Throughout my time building it up I did occasionally hire contractors and consultants on a 1099 basis. Overall, this made selling the company and assets a whole lot easier.

Second, I have worked for start ups, quite a few actually. But at this point I actively will not take an equity stake in any start up I work for. I always work hourly and get paid my standard rate for any work produced. In this time I have been involved with two start up sales. They were much easier on me, the owners, and the acquirers. Basically, I had been paid all along what I felt was fair so I didn't try to get anything out of the arrangement as it was being sold. I could be very focused on the owners best interests and not my own. In the end, both gave me substantial bonus amounts for my help and trouble and we all walked away happy. I also contracted with both of the acquirers after the fact in these cases. Again, everyone was quite happy.
in the email they also specify the file and date it was downloaded (yesterday)
It seems to me that there really is no hope for developed, advanced economies. There's not a lot to be done, other than high-level technological advancement, within these countries. The high-level tech generates little tax revenue and employs negligible amounts of human labor (actually it usually eliminates jobs). So any economic gains will just be from productivity improvement (via technology and regulatory reform) and selling goods and services to developing countries.

It seems to me that the best thing these stagnating developed countries can do is band together and really push to open and develop Africa, the rest of Asia, India, etc. Adding a couple billion to the middle class is their only hope to sell more goods and services; their own birth rates are never coming back nor is immigration the answer as we've seen.
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Your mention of exceptions to the GPL is probably what the OP was talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing

It might be a little tricky in the case of GPG since it is really a GPL port of the commercial PGP software. So a major reason for it's original existence is that it is GPL code.
Yep! Generally if your weld breaks before the material in the HAZ it is considered a bad weld and certified welders working under structural standards are generally required to produce welds that are stronger than this.

(Not actually a certified welder right now, but I have a brief familiarity with the D1 structural standards as getting a cert is something I've looked into.)
New ARM Cortex-A72 nearly twice as fast as -A57
China involvement suspected in hack of US health insurer Anthem
You want to say "full of false truths"...
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I'm sad that I feel the only way to get a handle on my photos is to put them in Facebook or Flickr. For example, there was the OpenPhoto kickstarter, but even though the code is open source, their hosted service (since renamed to Trovebox) is shutting down next month.

There's also Origami, where the team and product were split in an acquihire/aquire under eFamily.com.
Good for the simplest of "rich" interactions, but quickly drops off when responsiveness becomes a factor. For example, you cannot implement optimistic responses using this library (click the "save todo" button and the saved item immediately appear in its read-only interface; this interaction requires reimplementing your templating library and validation code on the client and the server).
Not that the TPP is a good thing, but personally I think that the fight to not extend copyright terms beyond the term US have now is more important.
Thanks for pointing that out. It was news to me. I have no idea why, either.
There's not many situations where these types of products help, in my experience. Especially for the type of data that's going to be transferred between UCI and the Broad. Enterprise compute data, cached webpages, etc., may have a good amount of deduplication capacity.

But for actual "data," being measurements etc, these products will achieve nothing. The data itself almost never has any duplicated chunks, and if there are petabytes of data, it's almost certainly stored in some sort of compressed format already.
Because for some families those $3-400 could be better spent elsewhere so putting it towards a nice new car might seem like a waste, hence the air quotes.
I am not questioning intention. I am questioning competence.
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