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> we've overridden the flags

Can you elaborate on why, given that apparently a large portion of the people who saw this flagged it (relative to most articles), you decided to override the flags? Would you do the same for an article which was misogynistic instead of misandristic? Or, if you don't agree with my labels, can you elaborate on whether this is a viewpoint-based unflagging, and whether promoting specific viewpoints is considered a part of HN moderation?
Unfortunately, the DEA and US public like to poison people with APAP to reduce the perceived danger from opiates. Someone, literally, decided that if you add APAP to hydrocodone then it can be under a lesser restriction (Schedule III). Not to mention the doctors that go along with this wickedness and are very hesitant to prescribe opiates without APAP.

And just look at the outrage a year or two back when Zohydro was announced. All they did was remove APAP from hydrocodone tablets, but it was spun as creating super power heroin for everyone.
Your numbers and math are wrong.

There are 120 employees total and you're only accounting for salary paid directly to employees (good rule of thumb is employer pays an additional 25-40% of your actual salary in employer taxes/expenses).

Under your scenario (assuming the 120 employees figure from the article is correct) a jump in average salary from $48k to $70k minus the CEO's old salary results in a net increase of $1.7mm (or about 75-80% of this year's profits as the article stated).

This scenario isn't correct though, because an average salary of $70k means there are still a significant number of employees still making below $70k. A more realistic estimate is the average salary will be well north of $70k, and if we include the additional cost of payroll taxes (let's say very conservatively 10%), then we're talking about:

($80k new avg - $48k old avg) * additional 10% payroll taxes * 120 employees = ~$4.2 million in additional wages

Granted, that's over 3 years, but this is a very conservative estimate assuming 10% payroll taxes, no additional employees hired, and the new average wage will be $80k which is also very conservative.
I agree. I stopped taking him seriously when he wrote that Java didn't have pointers. (Java's references are pointers w/o arithmetic. But they're still pointers: they're occupying space and are allocated separately from the pointee.)

Also, in the summary list of features to be removed: in that case the diagrams of "Languages that disallow X" should all be mutually intersected, and I suspect that the resulting intersection would exclude too many valid programs (i.e., you'd end up with the graph "languages taking away the wrong features).
I can ride a bicycle to a coal deposit in about an hour and pick coal off the ground with my bare hands. There are plenty of easily mined coal deposits that have not been exhausted.

What matters is volume and economics. The amount of man-hours per tonne of coal extracted by modern mines is far, far lower than during the early phases of industrialization. And that means that some coal mines, even ones that are easily mined, are just not economically competitive in modern times. But they're still there, the coal's still there, it's still easy to get at.
Just leave earth SOI, and the vessel will be orbiting the sun. the orbit will naturally decay in years/centuries/+

just try not to hit mercury too much. but even if this happens, not that big of a problem
I would try and answer the following questions.

1. Can a competitor enter your market, outgrow you and reduce your expected slice of the pie?

2. Does the revenue your business generates, increase exponentially as you increase the number of users? (e.g. revenue based on ads)

3. Can funding let you approach a different market? (say your target customers are SMB and the different market is Enterprise)

4. Can your business gain significantly if exposed to a group of startups that are funded? (one immediate advantage to being YC funded is access to other YC funded companies)

If the answer to any of the questions is a Yes, I would definitely consider looking at funding.
I frequently worry that the measurement of success is shrinking from how a community prospers to how well an individual prospers. As low-wage workers commute from distant communities and we become isolated in our own worlds of gated communities and like-minded netizens, there's little incentive to improve our surroundings.

It's tough to quantify the happiness and peace of mind that I get from experiencing a well cared-for community.
As an alternate opinion for this thread, this is my most highly anticipated show this year. The drama, pacing, acting, and technical details in this show are completely unparalleled; its strengths heavily outweigh its faults. No other show comes close to the breadth HACF strives for.
Freeze Drying Market to Reach $2,655.9M by 2019
Browse 83 market data tables with 31 figures spread through 190 pages and in-depth TOC on Freeze Drying Market-
http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/freeze-drying-lyophilization-equipment-market-24018886.html

This report studies the freeze drying equipment market over the forecast period of 2014 to 2019. The global freeze drying market is estimated to be worth $1,969.7 million by the end of 2014 and is expected to reach $2,655.9 million by 2019, at a CAGR of 6.2% from 2014 to 2019.

Today, a number of pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers are increasingly expanding their existing lyophilization capacities in order to enhance the lifespan of the high value products such as vaccines, antibodies, proteins, enzymes, hormones, blood plasma, and bacteria-derived compounds. In addition, there is an increasing adoption of technologically advanced lyophilization solutions in the pharmaceutical industry to minimize human intervention in the lyophilization process to avoid contamination risks for the high value pharmaceutical and biotech products. However, shortage of skilled personnel with the expertise to operate, maintain, and scale up lyophilization systems, expensive set up and maintenance costs of lyophilization systems, rising adoption of refurbished freeze drying systems by pharmaceutical companies for cost-cutting activities, emergence and increasing utilization of alternative drying techniques in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, may restrain the growth of this market during the forecast period of 2014 to 2019.

In this report, the freeze drying market is segmented on the basis of different types of equipment and accessories, and geographies. This report also discusses the key market drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges for this market and its submarkets.
Maybe so, but HBO isn't obligated to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Arguably if someone can't keep the screener secured from internet thieves they're still not a trustworthy guardian of the content.
Guess it sucks when reality gets itself conflated. You cannot have "security of transport" (encryption?) without authentication.
If anything, this gives you good reasons to trust these guys. Many people have installed and are relying on ML without reading the warranty warnings. At least they're pushing you to use good practices that stand you in good stead with any other dev and their product out there.
Yeah! If your mutability is completely limited to the scope of your function, then you should be fine.

If your programming language takes the power to mutate away from you then you have even less to worry about: You don't have to rely on self-discipline to not write a bad program, the compiler tells you it's not good.

Even in really small functions, with tiny scopes, I think reasoning about mutation takes a tidy mental toll. You can express about almost everything you need (well, I don't really know you or what you are programming) with maps and folds and recursion.

In object oriented languages the traditional belief has been that encapsulation with privacy modifiers and getters and setters is sufficient to make well behaved programs. I don't think that goes far enough. I think that to reason about programs effectively you need some sort of immutability guarantee.
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Exactly. I can't see why the author is complaining about white light. I have a Kindle Paperwhite and in no way can the background be called "white"! When you adjust the backlight down, it's a nice warm off-white. Maybe I have a different model, but I can't see any "white light problem".
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I thought it was good and had a chuckle myself.
Slightly less of a garbage link:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-32294655
"A fully fledged independent computer"? You need several such "computers" to compute an MD5 checksum according to an application note at their site.

Anything anyone in the industry dares to call a "core" (apart from NVIDIA's ALUs misnamed as "CUDA cores" or whatever) blows a GA "computer" out of the water, in particular, in terms of memory (you'll get kilobytes or more likely tens of kilobytes of cache and/or RAM per core.) And anything anyone in the industry dares to call a "computer"... well, it's in an entirely different league from a GA "computer", for starters, well, damned peripherals are considered to be a part of a "computer".

Good luck running anything of use on 144 tiny cores only talking to their neighbors, only supporting 18b integer arithmetic and having tiny RAMs for code and data. (Do you even get a DRAM interface? How about Ethernet?)

The chip is a bloody impressive achievement - an async design, no reliance on standard EDA tools, etc. etc. And perhaps it has its uses in really - really - energy-efficient applications with very - very - limited functionality.

But the "multi-computer" business... let's say that it makes GPU marketing look honest.
Does it run Linux? ;)
That was my thought as well. They need those numbers (or some contractor that handles payroll need those numbers) for reporting taxes etc anyway. There's no way that it is "cumbersome" to implement. I mean they need to total them up (salaries) for the quarterly reports -- and making one of those must be far more "cumbersome" than to report on a couple of core business stats...
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The fact that you have to just "sign up" on the website and manage this sort of delicate financial information is probably the worst they could have done.

I complain that my government gives me a piece of paper with the password (after they checking biometrics and lots of paperwork), but I now see that we're decades ahead of the IRS.
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1. Run ads on Facebook, Google content network (and google search if the cpc is not too high).

2. Sign up at forums where your target customers hang out and help people out. Have a link in your signature that points to your website.

Right now, you want to get targeted traffic to your website and capture their email addresses by giving something of value. [free ebook, a discount for early adopters]. Not only will this give you a list of customers for the launch, but the ad copy and the website copy will help you understand what resonates with them [based on conversions] and will prove very useful at your launch.

It is never too early to build an email list.
What exactly are you trying to do?

ElasticSearch isn't that difficult and the new guide they published a few months ago walks you through getting it set up without going too in-depth [1]. As a beginner I had it running on a $5 digitalocean droplet within a couple hours and indexed way over "a couple thousand" documents before the end of the day.

But if your needs are really that simple, MySQL does support full-text search [2].

[1] http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/i...
[2] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html
Huh? So, what, you think that C can handle writing the language you write your web app and similar in but somehow it suddenly falls apart when transferring text back and forth across a network socket?

Anyway, I would write a library akin to the STL, then write a library that overlays that which handles whatever I needed to do (id est HTTP library with an extension that handles REST/etc).

Then I'd sell all of the extra servers I no longer needed and hire actual programmers to replace you.
That's the wrong question. The right question is "Will he be more satisfied with a million dollar salary or a company full of employees whose lives he knows he's making better?"
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Anonymous secure transport is fundamentally not possible. If you don't know who you're talking to, you may be talking to a MITM.

It's possible to have pseudonymous secure transport, if you identify sites with key-based pseudonymous identities rather than some form of authenticated identity, but you have to have some notion of identity or you don't have a secure transport at all.
Isn't this beautiful?
What's the hardest English word to pronounce?
I don't know if you've ever met a narcissist in your life, I have been involved with a narcissistic woman before.

And here someone describes the concept of a "mental filter".

"Narcissists install a mental filter in our heads a little bit at a time. Before we know it, everything we do, say, or think, goes through this filter. 'Will he get upset if I do/say/think this? Will he approve/disapprove? Will he feel hurt by this?"

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolution-the-self/2014...

A person can perpetuate sexism without meaning to. It is just a matter of getting people aware and encouraging them to actively think about whether any things they do might be making women uncomfortable, and to try to be considerate.

This sounds like a rephrasing of what a narcissist might tell me, suggesting everything wrong to do with her is my fault and my responsibility.

The suggestions of advocates of feminism remind me of many aspects of that experience.
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Ask HN: Is anyone else getting tired of “awesome-blank” on GitHub?
...or any other similarly based repo that isn't really a programming project?

These repos somehow manage to make it to the top every day, and it's been going on for quite a while... https://github.com/trending Some of them are pretty useful, e.g. "free-for-dev".

Just want to hear what the consensus is.
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sounds very expensive, surely there must be a more efficient way?
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A fairly good overview of Android’s graphics pipeline for apps dev
I highly doubt a company that's running OK today will get shut down by a the $30/month expense equivalent that is a wildcard cert.
Not sure; I'm not the author of the post (a colleague), but I'd guess it's a fairly complicated patch. I know the author has made some changes to the HAProxy codebase[1], so I'm sure he considered it.

[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.haproxy/21025
Yeah, that sound quite a bit above the minimum for Argentina as well (though a lot less than any software developer or similar professional would make).

Remember how they say that you can feed someone in Africa with just 1USD per day (356USD a year?). Well, you've got plenty of countries that are halfway between these places and USA, and a lot more than you'd guess.
I either squeeze it myself or buy juice that was squeezed in my (local) grocery store. No store-bought brand comes close to the taste.
Yeah totally. Pretty much every time I have a code idea, I create a new github repo. If someone went through and did pull requests on every single one of those to add a license, it would probably do nothing but piss me off and convince me to spend time figuring out how to report the account. That being said if an actual individual developer sent me a pull request/email/tweet/whatever asking for a license, I can promise you I'd be sitting there on my phone scrambling to get a license on there.

If GitHub wanted all the repos on GitHub to have licenses, they would require it, or create a policy where all repos with no licenses automatically meet a minimum licensing requirement.
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Could anyone recommend any books about Turing's life and works?
Well, with regards to what "Westeners" nowadays consider civilized - Singapore is lagging behind SF I'd care to argue. Just consider gay rights and expressing affection in public - so in that respect there is rather an anti-correlation between cleanliness of public facilities and cultural development.
Thanks dexxter, seems to be the only way I guess. Was kinda hoping to discover a secret ;)
Because they dont want to reduce their own pay, which in turn would mean they have to pay their employees much more than they do now
Yeah, I get the sense that it's just Dan too. Which means this is even more likely to fail.

Don't get me wrong, I totally support this from a moral perspective and wish more companies would follow suit, but the economics of this move are just not favorable.

The system is structured in a way to dis-incentivize this behavior (paying above-market rates for labor), and I'm skeptical what one man/company can really do to change the system. They will have to make up the increased expense/opportunity cost of having less money for re-investment & new employee hiring somehow, while their competitors will have a significant marginal advantage.

I hope they are wildly successful and I hope this becomes a trend because, in my opinion, income inequality is probably the greatest threat to social stability going forward, but I am not holding my breath. History has shown that anything short of real organized labor and government regulations (anti-trust) are just swinging at windmills, unfortunately.
I wonder how the conversation with finance went on this one.

If he's sensible he'll have taking his marketing director to the meeting. One of the most important things for a financial institution is being seen to be both ethical and trustworthy - setting out how you're not greedy and you want to improve the lives of your employees goes a long way to doing that. This move sets his company apart from the usual faceless, greed-driven credit card businesses, possibly to the point where they'll take a lot of the green/ethical/social business market.

Given that this move is already paid for, it seems to be a brilliant bit of marketing that also has a real positive impact.
If the CEo is also a chairman and major shareholder isn't this all meaningless twaddle
Sorry for the WSJ-paywalled link; the full story is currently available via Google referrer: https://www.google.com/search?q=Etsy+Vendors+to+Get+a+Piece+...
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Funny coincidence. I was putting my daughter to bed and she asked aren't rockets launches in danger of going into the Sun?
Yeah, I was thinking something similar.

All those who had to go through a lot of effort to get a job requiring higher education, are now earning the same as those who put less effort. They're certainly not going to by happy about this.
I can't tell if you're continuing the joke or genuinely missed it...

(although given your prior comment history, I'm guessing the latter)
i never understood this part: how could he hide his Waffen-SS membership for so long? He would have had a highly visible tatoo on his left arm; well, maybe he got rid of the tatoo somehow after the war or something like that.
I enjoyed 'Alan Turing: The Enigma' by Andrew Hodges.
> Why is that? While some people might be that petty, it's very possible that Gravity never hired those kinds of people in the first place.

It may be petty for someone making several hundred thousand a year to resent someone who's market value being 30-40K being bumped up to 70K but for the vast majority of college graduates that is a slap in the face. Your giving everybody the rewards they worked their asses off for. I don't consider that petty, I consider that basic human disposition. Especially in a place like a credit card payment processor. I doubt many people working there go home and take pride in telling their family and friends about the work they did that day and how its making the world a better place. The majority of them are probably working for the paycheck.

Now don't get me wrong. I do admire the guy for what he is doing. Its a great selfless act. But I'm just saying its completely reasonable and understandable for those employees who where currently making ~ 70K to feel resentment and it does not make the petty or bad people. I would hope they thought this side effect through and have plans to deal with it. Since its not going to just be one or two bad apples but the vast majority of people in that position.
My recommendation when anyone asks this.

1. Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Inspired-Imitation/...

Definitive and detailed biography.

2. Alan M. Turing by Sara Turing
http://www.amazon.com/Alan-M-Turing-Centenary-Edition/dp/110...

Deeply personal biography of her dead son.

3. The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold
http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turing-Through-Historic-Comp...

Turing's famous 1936 explained in detail.
Apparently Netflix is cracking down on users circumventing the geolocks on content -- but if you want to try, remember that ssh does socks5 (including DNS) proxying. Spin up a VPS at eg Digital Ocean or some other provider that has US presence, and simply:

ssh -D 8080 yourvps.example.com #or use putty on windoze

You might want to install FoxyProxy for Firefox -- otherwise just point your browser to localhost:8080 as a socks5 server. Apparently Chrome does some funky bits with DNS over socks5 -- but as far as I can figure out the new default in Firefox is sane (DNS over socks if a socks5 proxy is defined).

Not that you'll probably have to have "a US" Netflix account, unless they just use location data for determining what shows you're "entitled" to.

Same works for Amazon Prime, to eg. watch the free pilot of "Man in the High Castle": http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-High-Castle/dp/B00RSI5EHQ

Same deal -- you'll probably need to sign-out/register a "new" Amazon.com account. FYI.
I was going to argue that combining paracetamol (APAP) with opiates might make them more effective for pain relief, but then I found this, which points to the opposite (i.e., adding APAP may not increase pain relief):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17965980

I didn't read the paper, only the abstract.
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I'm not sure in how much details I can go since a lot of this is behind patents and NDAs and whatnot, but just googling for "video watermarking" should already yield quite a few interesting details for you.
If Earth was travelling a bit slower, it would just be on different orbit. Either more eccentric or just further away from the sun. This is encapsulated in Kepler's laws [1], which describe the motion of a single planet around a single star.

If you have other planets in the system (like our solar system does), things are more complicated. Orbital stability then depends on the arrangement of other planets. You are right in pointing out that the Earth's orbit is (possibly) unstable [2] over a timescale of billions of years.

[1] http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/circles/Lesson-4/Keple...

[2] Unstable in the sense that Earth's orbit may become eccentric enough to smash into another planet, get ejected from the solar system, or dive into the sun.
I don't really think it's "legal". In fact, I don't see how this is any more or less legal than circumventing region blocks on DVDs etc. That happens to be legal in Norway, but as I understand it would be a breach of DMCA in the US. Not sure about Australia, but I think (?) you have just as draconian content/copy-protection laws?

That said, see my other comment for using ssh as a socks5-proxy. YMMW which is easier (VPN or "vpn" via ssh).