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Sales, marketing and HR can all be done by engineers, and sometimes is (our company for example).

But you'll run into a roadblock with finance. Not many engineers knows in the inn's and out's of tax law, GAAP or financial instruments available to a company.

But would you really want all your people to be engineers, awfully expensive and wasteful to engineering experience for tasks not at all related to engineering.
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Mozilla's a non-profit - the money it collects goes into supporting additional open-source products. At the moment, it does this on income of $300 million per year (mostly from their search provider). Of this money, $200 million goes on software development, $10 million goes on running their services (downloads, sync etc), and $70 million goes on administration, general costs (buildings etc) and marketing.

So yes, if you're hoping to crowdfund you a browser, then if you can't persuade people to donate millions and millions and millions then you're not going to be successful. A modern browser engine is millions of lines of highly optimised code long (check out Servo), and that corresponds to hundreds of millions of dollars of investment.

At the moment, you're essentially trying to say that being open-source and being actively developed are mutually exclusive, which seems odd (if Mozilla threw away Yahoo, they'd be bankrupt).
I do the same many times. Here is another workaround:

Go to Settings -> Manage Search Engines -> Other Search Engines then enter the following 3 fields:

"Google Search Shortcut" "g" "{google:baseURL}search?q=%s"

Now you can just type in "s " (the s key followed by a space) and it will search whatever else you put in there.

I don't actually use this much, but it's there if needed.
That rule #1 doesn't quite apply in this situation.

That you should never need to give out passwords is mostly a safeguard for social engineering and phishing scams for accounts stored on a server over the internet. Only a malicious third party would ever ask for these types of account passwords, because those with legitimate needs to access it (you and the service operator) already have it (hopefully just the hash in the case of the latter).

The password you're referring to here is an encryption key for a local hard drive that nobody else has access to. If they do in fact need access to the encrypted OS partitions stored on your hard drive in order to diagnose your problem, then they have no choice but to ask you for your encryption key. That's cryptography working as intended.
There's also https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout if you don't want Analytics tracking you.
This works in the early stages of startups.

When it starts to fall apart is when you scale - you need to switch from generalist to specialist roles very quickly. The person managing your sales now is likely not going to have the experience to build out a dedicated sales force (when you reach this point). It's the same for marketing, HR, design etc.

These 'titles' will require full-time dedication one day, which would require your current team to give up their engineering tasks. I'm not sure they'd be prepared to do that.
This makes me curious what would happen if we played Prometheus and gave the chimps access to fire. Would they fear it, or be intrigued by it?

Better yet, cook food with it, let the chimps watch, and see if they'd imitate.
It's not a question of if, it's a matter of when they go public or get bought by one of the giants. Visa, Mastercard, Discover, AMEX, PayPal are all candidates for trying to buy them.

PayPal itself got caught in one of these types of decisions. The dotcom bubble peaked around Nov 1999; PayPal was founded (merged) around Dec 1998; they IPO'd in Feb 2002 with the Nasdaq having lost about 50-60% of its value at that point. July 2002 eBay bought PayPal, with the Nasdaq on the floor that Summer, having lost ~75% of its value. This was a massive mistake of timing, the Nasdaq doubled within about 16 months after that Summer of extreme lows. PayPal undervalued itself dramatically by selling when it did, timing the sale exactly wrong.

Venture capitalists have poured $190 million into Stripe. They're going to require an exit, it's a question of whether Stripe catches this stock market boom period, are forced to wait until the next one (potentially 5-10 years or more), or they miss this window and sell themselves to a big acquirer in a few years instead.

The business they're in doesn't quite print money, but it does have solid margins at scale. Visa prints money - $12.7b sales, $5.4b profit (incredible margins). Instead of Visa's 42% hyper net income margin, Stripe might reach 15-20% at scale (more like PayPal's).
By that argument CDNs shouldn't exist, since the government could theoretically compel them to inject code into the sites they serve.
neither scenario for 2 makes sense though. why would you pay an engineering salary for HR work? and, why would an engineer want to work for an HR salary? and if you're hiring an engineer and paying them like an engineer, would they really want to be doing HR work?

although now that i think of it... if you pay me my salary i'd might be happy to switch to HR...
Apple collects tons of user data, and I'm sure they use some of it to provide machine-learning backed services, and I'm sure they'll come out with much nicer products to compete with Google in the future, also enhanced by machine learning techniques.

The difference that Tim Cook wants you to believe in is that Apple doesn't directly make money from your data, they just use it to improve their product; alternatively, Google makes money from your data by providing advertises with guided access to your eyeball.

But the danger isn't in the fact that Google lulls you into complacency with free services. The danger isn't in the fact that Google sells guided access to your attention. The danger is just in the collection of data, and the fact that one day the government or somebody could find a way.

There's only one way to be safe. And that's to collect only minimal amounts of data for minimal apps. That means gimped Siri. No Apple competitor to Google Photos. And I don't think Apple will do that. I think they'll continue to amass all the data they use to improve customer experience. The fact that Apple makes money differently off the data doesn't change the fact that it's collection that's inherently dangerous.
At the moment, this thread seems more like a YouTube comment section than a HN one. Though it's not exactly surprising given that Tim Cook's speech is obviously aimed at Google/FB.

Let's start with the facts. Apple makes its major money in hardware. Google makes its major money in search. Obviously, iOS has to be able to compete with Android in order for iPhones to sell well. Google offers services like Google Now and Google Photos that can be tailored in a more personal and effective way. How? They collect as much data as they can get away with. Consumers get to have services that should be better suited to them because of this.

If Apple wants to compete, it seems that there are two options:

1. Start mass collection and become a better Google.

2. Reject Google's model, and build iOS around privacy and non-invasiveness.

That's what this is. I do think Apple will either make a search engine focused on privacy or buy one (e.g., DuckDuckGo). Personally, I am happy that Apple and Google are competing in this way.
The technical name for this is "collaborative filtering". I think they are basing their work on this paper

- http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume10/takacs09a/takacs09a.pdf

EDIT: Actually looks like Eq (15) from

- http://public.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/BellKorICDM...

Anyway there are lots of papers around on the topic.
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From what I have seen FTPS seems as secure as SFTP if well configured (i.e. no fallback), why do you say FTP is such a bad protocol?

I have tried to look it up, but the answers seem to revolve around firewall being hard to setup and FTP being not secure (which is resolved by encapsuling it in SSL).

Also my search suggests than ssh provides an additional overhead compared to using ssl for file transfer (i.e.
http://serverfault.com/questions/131240/ftp-v-s-sftp-v-s-ftp...)
YouTube doesn't primarly use VP9. It uses H.264 on iOS, Safari, IE, Flash, Consoles, TVs and a lot of Android devices. Those combined are a sizeable amount of traffic.

And I would argue that the driver of higher end content e.g. 1080p, 4K is not going to come from YouTube but from Netflix, Amazon, Apple and illegal content which a lot of people watch on consoles.

Nothing has fundamentally changed to see this being anything other than a repeat of what happened with H.264/VP9.
Enhanced versions of Gaussian elimination are used for quite large matrices (with many millions of non-zero coefficients), but for even larger matrices, approximate algorithms can be used. These converge to the desired solution, as opposed to computing it directly, as with Gaussian elimination.
If you have full disk encryption enabled, the system won't boot if you don't give it the password. They write it down because you can't expect a tech to remember 16 digits of alphanumeric password for each client, as it looks bad when they have to phone up the client asking what their password is when they forget it.

Writing down passwords is bad because other people can find them. If they're kept safe, there's no issue.
Comcast also makes most of its money from users directly. Yet, somehow, the incentives are not aligned. Why is that? How might that apply to Apple?
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I am running my home server on ChromeBox (Linux Mint running Samba attached to a Bravia TV). I don't think I can get something better.
Actually, I don't see how the 2nd amendment is incompatible with a training requirement. It specifies the need for a well regulated militia, and I disagree that a training requirement constitutes an infringement. It's funny how 2nd Amendment boosters seem to have no problem denying gun privileges to ex-felons and the like, even though the Constitution makes no such restriction and there's no question taht even people locked up in prison have first amendment rights. I remember being at a legal symposum a few years ago where a lawyer cheekily offered a paper arguing that 2nd amendment rights must extend to illegal aliens, which was met with consternation from some of the more 'patriotic' types.
You clearly have not lived in Africa if you think it's a non-existent problem.
That's just moving goal posts. Not sure why you even want an Apple account if you want to maximize privacy.
What if Google validated PGP signatures for you from trusted, popular certs?

They'd have Facebook's pubkey on file, and -- transparent to you -- would create something analogous to my browser's lock icon in their email browser. Any time you got an email from Facebook, it'd say "Verified Sender".

Heck, couldn't we tie mail from Facebook back to their domain cert given to them by their CA? If it says @facebook.com, and it's passes verification from the cert on facebook.com, then it's actually from Facebook, right?
From my experiences in a hospital I've seen doctors that can hardly spend any time with a patient and it's really up to the patient and their advocate to look out for themselves.
Name a feature. I've ported tonnes of POSIX stuff to windows. 99% of it's there and the rest is easily plugged into a bit of win32.

I tend to use PowerShell ISE that is built into windows rather than cmd, which you're right, sucks.
That's exactly what privacy means. When I'm dancing naked in my house, I don't care if the guy holding the IR camera across the road is a government employee or a company's employee. All I care is that he has a camera.

If some private data of mine (including, but not limited to pictures of my genitalia) ended up someplace other than on a medium I own, that data is no longer private. I.e. it was a privacy breach.
Stock investments depend on the right timing a lot. Something that was a successful strategy in the past might not be so for the future.
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Why would they need to charge more in CA than TX? Pricing is never easy, but at least you can use this as a good guide as to what you need to think about.
In a sense, you are programming your team, in all the things you emphasize and spend time talking about at meetings.

Also, there are obvious things that make developers more able to deliver quality software, and there are obvious things that make gamers more able to win games, just as there are with famous athletes. Thinking that there aren't specific predictors of success here is as silly as saying there aren't specific predictors for what makes a good QB.
If anyone manages to make a messaging app that both has strong security and is user friendly and supports features users expect, they will become very rich. Seeing as no one has even proposed a solution in theory, it's most likely unsolvable. I'll bet if you can formulate it clearly enough, you can even prove it so.

Look at say, Dark Mail. After all that hype, their design is "uh basically SMTP+TLS, or PGP if you're paranoid".
The only thing that comes close is PGPfone and similar things (ZRTP). And that's because when you call someone, there's an obvious and built-in verification system, voice. (Note: doesn't work as well with deaf people or async comm).

So pointing out Apple fails here? Yes, sure. Expecting anything different? Seems very unlikely. Either they'd break all user expectations, or they'd get an NSL/court order to break the whole system in order to comply with a wiretap.
This is a rather strange comment since we already know for sure that Google has already been hacked by both the British[1] and Chinese[2] governments. And of course the US government access information from Google without hacking: they just make legal requests, even when that means Google is breaking the law in other countries that they operate in.

The difficulty of compromising Google is to a large extent offset by the juiciness of the target. Google actually get compromised more often than the average savvy home user (which for most people I know is zero, compared to several times for Google). Not because Google is less competent, but because they are a hugely valuable target.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
That is why I suspect this is mainly a PR move by Facebook to show they are concerned about your privacy. Although the suggestion in the article about Facebook going in the PGP mail business is much more excited. Not that i would want to host my email on facebook servers, but if they are able to lay the groundwork for usable encrypted email that would be really great.
Some feedback from someone who's running a customer support SaaS with some thousands of users.

Tickets is our core feature. And we indeed have the requirement to show that 'Someone is also viewing this ticket'.

But the more important feature we need is to sync changes to a ticket across users. For example, if user X re-assignes the ticket to user Y, people who are viewing this ticket should be able to see the change without refreshing.

Knowing someone else is also viewing a ticket is not particularly useful for a ticketing system, because even if I know a ticket is viewing by others, I still need to do what I'm supposed to do (reply, re-assign or whatever).

I guess Also Viewing is great for websites where users feel comfortable doing something with others, and they don't make much changes to the UI. For instance, watching videos or listening to music with friends.

By the way, I personally know Paul (the author) and I wish Also Viewing could become popular.
R&D are surely contributing to the high price. But as can be seen in the yearly financial statements of these companies, they are not that high, as they want us to believe.

Take Europe for example. As far, as I know in Germany the producers can pretty much dictate the price (ok, the have to discuss with the insurance companies, but they just can raise their fees so they have no real interest in saving money). After the German price is decided neighboring countries (Belgium for example) take these, cut of about half of that and dictate this as the maximum price for the drug.

Looking at the financial statements, the regarding companies still make a lot of money in Belgium of these drugs. But way more in Germany.

So I really do not believe the story being told, that the R&D costs and the risk are the reasons for these astronomically high prices.

And - when your life is at stake, your are more then willing to pay every price necessary - so your bargaining position is not quite great and your market power is drastically lowered.
That's simply not true. Yes, development costs are high, but not that high.

The real reason the drugs are priced so high is that people/insurers pay it. I wouldn't even call it a free market, since the patent protection is involved. Essentially it is extortion. Eventually we might get a situation where drug companies raise costs for patented drugs, not only cancer ones, slowly to the breaking point where even less people can afford insurance anymore. Why wouldn't they? The insurers are very disinclined to refuse life saving treatments to their patients.

With biologicals the cost of actually producing the drugs can be high. The only way to bring that down is to drive forward the necessary technology.
Yeah, I have no idea why I said that. Answer's been fixed
Will it finally enable us to find an offending tab that is consuming too much memory or CPU? Or it's just a tool that can be used to build this functionality? Something like Opera 12 has in opera:cpu.
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Where to download text corpus related to fields of academics?
I want to create a model which classifies the new text content into one of the above fields like finance, programming, design, analytics etc. I want to train my model and for that I need enough data set. Can you please link me to a site, where I can get the data?
I stand corrected. You appear to be technically correct that OS X is "Unix" [0] not Unix-like or a Unix clone like Linux-based operating systems. Legal precedent established in the SCO-linux cases [1] seems to confirm this technicality.

I think the distinction is pedantic, but I think we can agree that Android is the most widely shipped OS based on a Unix-like kernel.

[0] http://www.opengroup.org/csq/search/t=XY1.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversie...
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Actually, there's another alternative. Provide all these "insights" with offline, data-on-computers-you-own systems. The intelligence can be carried with you, without internet. This is traditional computing. Apple or Microsoft, or even any other competitor could provide that. They just need to sell you this software (oh and also build it first).
Personally, I'd rather have open carry than concealed.

If you are open carrying, I can simply leave your presence. Or I can request that you leave if I am a store owner, etc.

The reason why the NRA supports concealed carry is so that non-carriers can't call people out.
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"It could be argued that it [(Apple)] doesn’t gather enough, as Google Now, Google on Tap and other holistic offerings have the potential to give users much more lateral movement and ‘delight’ moments on Android specifically due to how much data Google gathers on its users."

Many years ago, thinking about the future, I imagined to have a device that would give me more or less what Google Now can give me. What I didn't imagine is that it would be a central server to collect all of that information (about everybody) and send me only a feed. This is very mainframe-like and that was the time we were starting to use Personal Computers (IBM/Apple/any) so you could forgive my naivety. Still I think that's possible to build a Google Now without a server owned by a single central organization and there are things like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9204954 to prove it (and also prove how hard it is).

So I'm left with not using Google Now and most Google services (no Gmail) because I feel that letting a company access to all those information is creepy and a transitive distrust for every company in similar markets. Recap: what I want is my data only in my hands and clients that query servers and collect the information I need. No clouds thanks, those are good only for encrypted backups. If I want sync and continuity, that should go through a server I control.
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Actually no, in Germany the drug companies can't take any price, because the insurers are negotiating as one party with the drug companies. But yes, drug prices in Germany are relatively high. Why would private companies leave money on the table unless forced by regulation? They have to squeeze every profit they can out of the health care system.

The situation in Germany is way better than in the US, where these negotiations are a lot more favorable to the companies, because they can "negotiate" with individual insurance companies and even patients. But especially in the latter case, there's not a lot of "negotiation"...
I disagree. Not even someone who's there to help you should know your passwords. Consider that many people use the same password for a lot of accounts. On top of that, they already have your email address. By asking their customers for their passwords, they don't just ask them to hand over all the data on their computers, but they also make them vulnerable with regards to their internet accounts.

If I have a hardware problem with my display, I don't want them to read my hard drive. Apparently they still try to do so, which I think is a severe violation of privacy.

I'd have completely understood if they'd asked me to wipe my hard drive because of some data crawling Apple hardware test with an uplink to HQ. So they do have a choice "Can you make a backup and wipe your hard drive?" But asking me for my encryption password means they fail to understand why people encrypt and they don't care for the integrity of your computing.
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> Eventually we might get a situation where drug companies raise costs for patented drugs, not only cancer ones, slowly to the breaking point where even less people can afford insurance anymore.

Aren't American drug prices already optimized around that breaking point?
Yeah, it's a remarkable thing that Homo Sapiens is closer in time to Tyrannosaurus Rex than T. Rex is in time to Stegosaurus.
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Call me when the ITAR is lifed.
Other than that, trying to get my green card.
Exactly. The Unix/Linux world has not gone the way of a Powershell type shell for the simple reason that for the uses where we want an object-oriented API, we have a plethora of scripting languages designed for that purpose, and we all have our own favourites.

When we want a text oriented API we use shell scripts. When we want an object oriented API we pick our favourite scripting language - which may very well for many of us be different for different problem domains.
> since the patent protection is involved

While I'm no fan of software patents, why would I spend billions developing a new drug when I can wait for somebody else to do it, then just copy it?