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> The blood donation ban isn't because of the stereotype of changing partners. It's because men who have sex with men are much more likely to have HIV. [1] (81% of all newly diagnosed HIV cases are from men who have sex with men)

Those aren't unrelated. They're much more likely to have HIV because of the many simultaneous partners.
Throughout this article and many others in the substantial volume of articles written about the 911 talk about 'the purists' in disparaging terms, as though they are some unappeasable group. 'The Purists' are a straw man that must be run through before a model can introduce changes.

It's more than a bit disingenuous, though.

'Purists' never complained about going from Torsion bars to coil-over, or from k-Jetronic (CIS) to Motronic, or even lengthening the wheelbase and using aluminium suspension parts. 'Purists' never complained about extra power or displacement or bigger brakes.

The reality is that regulations are what have driven most of the changes - from the body structure to the engines and electric steering to things like the rear bumper height. Everything from Targas to impact bumpers, exhaust thermal reactors and catalytic converters, flashing seatbelt lights and quiet inductions and exhausts are not done because that's what the buyers want, but because that's what the Ralph Naders of the world want. Maybe they're necessary. That's not the point. The 'Purists' are just those people who point out that these things haven't necessarily made the car better.

Funny how the 'Purists' these days are more likely to want a Singer than a brand new 911, because the Singer is a small, light car with a modern efficient engine and big modern brakes and suspension. In fact, if you list the differences between a Singer and a new 911, you get a list of all the things the 'Purists' have simply pointed out haven't necessarily been changes for the better.

So enough with 'the purists' already. They're just an imaginary group made up to skip over the fact that some change was actually for the worse when it came to the primary purpose of it being a sports car.
It's not just women's clothes. For years, I bought jeans at gap because their sizes were true. Then 6 years ago some asshole decided to monkey with their sizing, and instead of being able to walk in and pick up jeans in the exact same size, I would have to try on a range each time. And it wasn't even consistent between different styles.

I now buy Tommy Bahamas and hope they don't get bit by the same stupidity.
A student is considered a "rising senior" during the summer between junior and senior year.
I wonder if there has been art that was acceptable or at least tolerated once but is now illegal or so out-of-fashion that even libraries won't keep it? This certainly doesn't seem to be such a thing though.

An example might be if the age of consent for being in a porn video or having sex has ever been lowered. Then the older work might become illegal to keep in a library.
Hey everyone, we launched Thrive for iOS at the end of July after several months of hard work. I'd love feedback from all business owners and especially if you own a brick and mortar small business.
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Yup, you will. It's nice to show where that comes from though. :)
It depends on the size/type of the transaction of course... A financial transaction might not be exactly comparable with a call setup.
A kilocorn?

Sorry, everyone.
> If there was no patent system, you would keep all your ideas and research secret. And that would hinder advances in science, as people would keep discoveries to themselves.

What about all the open knowledge and technology, such as most of what's published in scientific journals? Was Einstein's physics research hindered because he didn't patent relativity? Watson and Crick? Norman Borlaug? Think of all the open source computer innovations that have been given away and continue to be (are you excited about Rust?).
Except for those engines that don't use oil. (Think toy airplanes.) And oil coolers are also found in some water-cooled engines. My old bike (2000 Honda VFR800) used both water and oil-filled radiators.
All blood is tested for HIV and other infections diseases[1]

The reason for the questionnaires is that a recent HIV infection won't always show up even with the best most sophisticated tests.

So we do the best we can to screen out people who are most likely to have recently acquired HIV. Screening out IV drug users, men who have sex with men, sex workers, and people form countries with high rates of HIV, eliminates the vast majority of new HIV cases without eliminating a large percent of the population.

Again, people can lie so self-reporting may not be worth it. You'd have to do a study to find out. And even if it is, the number of HIV infections prevented may be so low that it doesn't justify infringing on the rights of people to donate. But, that's the debate.

[1] https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/prevention/reduce-your-...
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The Cayman is missing the rear seats of the 911, which still drive sales more than 50 years after Porsche decided that their new model would be a 2+2.

Sure the seats are small and mostly useless, but they do increase the ability to use the car on a day to day basis.

There's little doubt the Cayman can be a better car (in part because it hasn't gained mid-life flab, but also because it is mid-engined) If Porsche still built a small, nimble 911 it would be much like the Cayman. But as the range-leader, it had to grow bigger and bigger and now does not resemble the market space the original model occupied.

The AC on the 1990 onwards cars is OK, and it can be fixed with aftermarket parts on the earlier cars.
It's nice but let's be clear on the best feature: application-accelerators. I brought up the Cavium Octeon 3 in a discussion on game systems:

http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-III_CN7XXX.html

Intel, IBM, mainframes, and embedded SOC's are all taking the same approach to a degree of combining 1-N general-purpose cores with dedicated hardware for performance-critical stuff or just stuff that shouldn't add overhead. The Octeon line is an extreme example with them adding accelerators till they hit around 500. Most modern variant being the "semi-custom" business of Intel and AMD that is making more of it happen for those with the money.

This is peripheral to an improvement in computers known as network on a chip. This plus extra layers of functionality in silicon lets the companies easily do stuff like that. The next step is incorporating FPGA logic in the processors. We already see it in embedded scene. Just wait till Intel uses Altera technology in Xeons. SGI's Altix machines with FPGA's using NUMA were already quite powerful. Imagine the same benefit of no, remote-memory access for the FPGA logic working side-by-side with CPU software. Will be badass.
I’ll share my experience. I was basically looking for customers and projects. I had my CV on Linkedin, Freelancer, Elance, and was checking out Odesk. Someone recommended me Toptal, so I sent an email and received the invitation to do the automated test. I was sceptical, is this worth it? Or will I loose my time.. my friend insisted, as the rate is very good and you will not get clients like that on another freelancing site. So, I invested the time, after some hours learning about the codility tests, I did the test. Followed by another interview with with an engineer while coding and sharing screen. In less than 15 days I started a part time job (earning more than I was earning before with a full time job for another US customer), then other projects came, and have been there for 3 years and never stopped.

About the rate, I shall not share my rate here, but I can tell that I'm in Argentina and I earn more than most of the developers from the US, actually many people I know and are with Toptal from my region got offers to go to work to San Francisco and rejected them, because they prefer freelancing and the freedom which it brings.

You’re milage may vary, but I am happy to be working with Toptal.
Imagine what Hilary might have deleted from her private emails if politicians try to delete what is public
Of course it is!

If you're reading a blog post about a product, use the rule that the maker/distributor of that product was involved in the production of the blog article, unless you have compelling evidence to the contrary.

I've seen inside that machine, and money talks.
I was hired to rebuild a project that was DOA. I've seen worse but not that frequently. After failing to find the initial developer's GitHub profile I found his toptal.com "CV". That was the first I had heard of it.

Since I do contract work at the moment I wanted to see if (this developer notwithstanding) toptal was worth having a relationship with. I contacted support since there were a number of questions I needed answered before I would consider going through their interview process.

The support guy I was put in contact with, who had zero programming experience (I asked), told me my questions would be answered on day three (or maybe it was part three) of the interview process. I politely said that was a deal breaker for me and his response, in so many words, was that it didn't matter since I wouldn't make the cut anyway. His lack of ability to determine that aside, he had zero information about me at this point.

My advice: Avoid like the plague.
It's a form of discrimination equivalent to banning African Americans from donating blood. [0] Because a group "might" engage in risky behavior, it's unfair to assume all members do and are therefore treated differently than other groups.

0: http://www.avert.org/hiv-aids-among-african-americans.htm
That's just the thing.

Having a framework in place minimizes the impact of those "bad programmers" to just a single ui component, or api route, or database migration.

Not having a framework in place means that that intern or contractor from india can now introduce bugs that impact the entire system and are nearly impossible to track down.

I feel like it shouldn't be such a hard sell to get software engineers to admit that structure and consistency are good things.
Not to mention that if you had done that, and kept it all these years, you'd be sitting on a car worth up to $200,000
The fast-food and processed food maker lobbyists are involved, that is for sure. A fat nation is a profitable nation, but if everyone just went for a daily jog (a half marathon perhaps...) then they can just burn it all off.
A unicorn? I don't see a single one.

I'm currently consulting in the food delivery space, and I can tell you one thing -- don't believe it. It's certainly possible to create solid local businesses in the space, but not businesses at a scale that a billion dollar in valuation demands.

And when you add in the lack of barriers to entry for many of those companies that are in existing sectors overrun with competitors, I think you can cull the list by 50% right off the bat.

But I'm sure they are excited to see themselves on this list, as I would be, even if I knew our fundamentals that got us there were only based upon clearly unrealistic hopes and prayers for future users and revenue.

And here I was honestly hoping for a real 'unicorn' list. I should have known better.
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And the only game in which you can drive Porsches, because of the complicated licensing deal.
This. You have not seen Van Gogh's paintings until you've seen them in person. He heaps on gops of paint on his canvasses, and the third dimension is an aspect of the paintings that cannot be appreciated fully in 2D reproductions. As a corollary, the lighting of a painting is an important aspect of viewing it, as the angle of light will affect highlights and shadows, especially for some paintings which use glossy paints.
There also seems to be a constant barrage of assembly/CPU posts (I counted 4 posts including this one earlier on the front page) , I'm not sure where GP gets the idea that no one here cares.
Why 'The Martian' is NASA's best marketing event in years
It is not a secret at all....
There's not really enough ultra wealthy collectors to buy up the sheer amount of stock.

It's part fashion, it's part bubble, it's part QE. But the people driving up the prices are just regular guys buying the cars they've wanted for a while. Once supply dwindles, price goes up and creates a positive feedback loop.

It will all calm back down in a few years, where values will stay is anyones guess.
Thank you, this is good information.
There is no debate that a hateful double-standard (lifetime ban) is allowed to stand, the questionnaire can be essentially eliminated right now by more rigorous and comprehensive testing using modern lab processes. If the testing is up to standards, arbitrarily throwing out certain groups is a only shortcut which imposes hate systematically and normalizes it.
100% agree on the food delivery space. I've told a few investors not to touch it. Basically it will parallel the restaurant industry at best. Lots of players without much margins.
I'm with you. It's ridiculous. I call hitting a billion dollars a good finish unless I'm wanting to gamble. A start-up are people with a plan, some money, determination, and maybe some customers/users. They're just getting started with no clue if they're going to make it or they've existed a while with uncertain business model.

The $10-100+ mil club are typically established companies still growing, still adapting, and with huge valuations.
I quite like the chart representation used in cookingforengineers.com, showing the parallelism in a recipe, eg

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/87/Carrot-Pulp-Cak...
> I really wouldn't mind if someone who knows more about the JVM implementation could talk about how and why the JVM threading model is better than native processes, for example, especially in light of memory contention.

The JVM can assume that JVM threads cooperate. The operating system has to assume native processes are hostile.
The more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be (2003)
But you don't have "free market capitalism" anywhere in the world. Especially not in the US, between the amount of lobbying and the pouring of billions of dollars into the military-industrial complex every year in what effectively amounts to hidden subsidies, or bank bailouts. It's just a question of degree.
Good statement so far.
But wait... do you assume that censorship could cause another civil war or could avoid another civil war? And where is your reasoning or evidence?
So - what is your hourly rate (on average) on toptal?
Roads that charge electric cars will be tested in the UK soon
Like the idea, glad to see apps for meatspace businesses.
Indeed, it passed the annoying stage some time ago. Is it even a real usage? I've only seen it in press articles.

We took "unicorn" out of this HN title and will probably just keep taking it out of all HN titles until it finally goes away. One could almost write code to replace it, but I think not quite.
I know folks in their 40's who do them so...

No! Go, have fun, learn, meet people.
Some extra data in case anyone was wondering what other the top developers earn.

According to the BLS(Bureau of Labor Statistics) the top 10% of developers makes $148,000 a year in salary alone(does not include insurance, FICA etc...).[0]

FICA -> $159,000(7.5% employer tax for Social Security and Medicare)

Insurance -> $169,000(health and disability, sometimes life)

I'll assume 2 weeks of holidays and 2 weeks of vacation which is standard in the U.S.

That puts the top 10% of developers at around $88/hour(1099 rate, 81$/hour w-2 rate) at a corporate or salaried consulting gig. That is a pretty high rate but similar to my experience for top end developers make.

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s...

P.S. I probably mishandled some of those numbers but it's getting late and I'm pretty sleepy :P.
The author of that article obviously missed the part where jailbreaking is a prerequisite for getting surveillance software installed unless you have authorisation from the iTunes account.

http://daringfireball.net/2015/08/it_may_seem_silly

As for "authorisation from the iTunes account": https://xkcd.com/538
Was tongue-in-cheek, but that's why I used the word "first". All three have turned a quarterly profit at some point (Twitter only if you discount losses from stock-based compensation).

Twitter and Tesla have not yet turned on the money spigot, so you could argue they're still startups. Amazon is a grown-ass business that can turn the spigot on anytime it wants to impress investors.
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I thought exporting crude was forbidden. Could someone explain the 2014 export slide?
apparently you've never watched / read harry potter
Chinese tech companies hiring 'pretty' women to motivate male employees
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Aren't most things from the 70s? Did we get any serious new language tech since then? Tooling got nicer, runtimes faster - but the language breakthroughs?
Check this Nucleus out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC_4000_series

Seems that Microsoft copied the idea in VerveOS with its Nucleus. Sure they improved on it but they patented the whole work. Good that I found the prior product to help invalidate those. The reason: I think the Nucleus concept is smart and especially making it the firmware. Like Wirth's system modules, it means everything above can be written in a safer, consistent language instead of a bunch of them. Plus, fewer abstraction gaps as everything uses same core model.

My concept is to look at each of those things GEC's Nucleus does, find the best work I can use in each, and integrate them into a modern one on a processor such as SAFE or CHERI. Then, put a language such as Ada, Go, or Ocaml on top of that. The result should be highly reliable.
In what way are you referring to?
I'm trying to understand what distinction you are trying to draw.
You are simply stating this bare as if it makes any sense, and i can tell you, it does not :)

Unilateral contracts are still contracts :)

(you can make some sane distinctions between licenses and contracts, but only in pretty simple cases, and twitters TOS is not a copyright license, but instead, an actual contract)
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> Given the loss of manufacturing in the 70s & 80s

Loss of manufacturing jobs. Output has increased.
While that's true, verbose languages and crappy editors still add a tedium and frustration to programming. Perhaps it isn't deserved, and we should be fine even typing in double the amount of code, but it still feels bad. (Except for the people that love verbosity and boilerplate as it makes them feel like they're doing serious business.)

Also reading is important, and having concise, short code is a boon to understanding code. In most cases, every extra non-comment character is just a place for bugs or misunderstandings to hide.
There's 52 weeks in a year.

24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year.
Yup. Business theater is usually stuck in maintaining in-group approval, "industry standards" and historical continuity.

My favorite HR signal which doesn't seem to qualitatively work:

- non-rigorous certifications

The best interview styles are not labeled as such explicitly, whenever possible, because it makes for artificially-awkward pressure, alters expectations and ups the hype and hazing.
"Which is basically to say my understanding was that, in most countries, you can reasonably sign a legal contract and know you will never have to commit an illegal action in pursuit of it. "

This is false :)
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"imposing structure on your developers via solid frameworks and tools." is exactly why i use frameworks.
Being gay has nothing to do with high-risk behaviors. It's just that gays have been stereotyped as being promiscuous. But that was merely a sampling artifact. Highly promiscuous gays came out first. Indeed, being highly promiscuous was a political statement. But it's risky behavior, no matter what ones sexual preferences might be.
Canada is exempt from that ban.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-14/obama-said...
Where's the unknot?
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That is entirely possible. I'm not making a value judgement, I'm only stating the practical implications, and the reasons behind the ban.
Society may decide that it's not worth the marginal increase (if any) in public safety to infringe on an individual's right to donate blood (if society decides this right exists).

However there are a few practical differences. Banning African American's might mean less HIV infected blood, but it's not practical because African Americans make up 12% of the population, and they make up more than that for certain blood types. Furthermore banning heterosexual African Americans wouldn't reduce the amount of potentially infected blood nearly as much as banning men who have sex with men.

If men who have sex with men had similar rates of new HIV infections to African Americans and made up 12% of the population, they likely wouldn't be banned either.

If you ban men who have sex with men, you eliminate over 3/4 of newly acquired cases and only eliminate a few percent of the population.

>Because a group "might" engage in risky behavior

They don't ban people for being gay and possibly engaging in risky behavior. They ban men who have had sex with other men. This is classified as a high risk behavior (in respect to acquiring HIV).

They also ban sex workers, because engaging in sex work is defined as a high risk behavior, not because they are making a value judgment against sex workers.
We've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107744 and marked it off topic.
This used to exist in Gojee, with ingredient tagging. AFAIK they abandoned that feature to focus more on recipes and discoverability.
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That sounds like a slippery slope argument. You might as well worry about the privatization of the NHS next. With this type of approach, arguments degenerate into political partisan rhetoric and achieve nothing.
Blackberry owns QNX now. QNX has gone from closed source to open source to closed source to open source to closed source. Along the way, most of its developer community bailed. Sad.
This is usually the case in jeans. I find if I buy a 34" jean, to get the same size waist in a dress pant I have to go down one size.

Of course, then it doesn't fit around my thighs so I have to size up anyway.
The joys of LinkedIn. The author [0] was captain at Eleven Madison Park [1]. I've never been there, but back when I had an expense account job, the few similar spots I'd been to in NYC were mostly old fogies quietly eating dinner with their spouses. Occasionally you'll have folks on dates amusing themselves on their iPhones.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardframe

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven_Madison_Park
The homepage (above the fold) doesn't tell anything about what your app does. Move this text above:

"Thrive is the best way to receive key insights to running your business better."
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Don't fall for it! It's a trap! The collector is at it again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7xNXTpQA5Q