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The difference is that Python 3 is far more backwards incompatible than an update to Ruby, Go or Java. If there's any component of your Python project that was written for Python 2 and it hasn't been ported, your project as a whole is probably staying in Python 2.

I certainly wouldn't call the Python 3 path "dead", as starting a new project you'd be silly not to use Python 3. It's just a very slow process.

Also, porting from 2 to 3 isn't even that hard (there's a script that does 95% of it for you).
On the positive side, it's better to be a janitor than be unemployed. It's never a good feeling to lose a job, even if you're "just" swiping the streets.
Right Placement of Broom
The sad thing is that in some ways Trump is actually better at making Lessig's pitch than Lessig is, because while Trump is a clownish, racist buffoon he does have one thing Lessig completely lacks: charisma. He knows how to deliver a line, how to work a crowd. Those are important skills for a politician!
I'm impressed at your infinite snark and sarcasm to actual arguments ratio. When you START your post with a combination of intentionally misunderstanding my point with the sarcasm tag than it is literally impossible to take you seriously.

To end the post with saying "you are severely disillusioned as to the true state of your industry." is just like, jesus man, are you going for some sort of insufferability award? Go outside. Perhaps there is something more rewarding there than grasping at straws to get mad at a stranger on the internet...
I'm working on an open source DNA analysis framework to solve exactly this problem - everyone should be able to check out their own DNA without paying for it http://genomejs.com/
Google reappears in China
It's a great time to tap into such a massive user base at a huge discount... should Google come knocking, Steve will be dancing.
Yes, such a word is "problematic"
"You've clearly been lucky enough to never had a crappy job."

I'm getting a lot of REALLY bizarre straw men responses to my posts but this one has to take the cake.

You managed to turn me saying that people should stop bitching about IT recruiters calling them for offices jobs that pay well and have great conditions ito a conclusion that I have CLEARLY never had a crappy job? I...what? How? How does a human brain take my input and produce your output? I'm blown away.

I'll give you a hint. No recruiter called me for my crappy jobs. I went and applied for them. Sorry this doesn't fit into your projection that you were clearly qualified to make from that single thing I said.
{% for x in y %}

isn't a loop?
The thing is though, Lessig is completely right. Members of Congress spend 70% of their time raising money. They're not lawmakers, they're professional fundraisers. Think of a startup whose founders spent 70% of their time raising money, they would never get anything done. And since fundraising is now such an integral part of a Congressman's day to day, they have two classes of constitutes to think about: the voters, and the funders. And there is a very small group of people who give > 50% of all campaign cash and more or less have control over the entire country. This is why common sense laws that have majority support from the voters (gun control, marijuana legalization etc...) never get the traction they should. The funders don't want them, and they have the final say, not the voters. It's crazy how complacent people have become about government incompetence.

The becoming president and then resigning thing was weird. I'm glad he's dropping it, because you can hate the method all you want, and I too think he comes off really distant out of touch sometimes, but what he's saying needs to be heard.
Bin Laden was a Wahhabi, as are the Saudi governing elite. Wahhabis are vehmently, even violently, opposed to any kind of "grave worship". As far as I know, even the kings of Saudi Arabia are buried in unmarked graves, and the Saudis would demolish the structure over Mohamed's grave if they had the chance. It is therefore extremely unlikely that Bin Laden's grave would have become a shrine if his corpse was returned to Saudi Arabia, which was the initial excuse given for the burial at sea.
Mourning Jake Brewer, Visionary Civic Tech and #RebelAlliance Leader
Not sure if you noticed, it's a carousel, the second slide mentions FDA clearance, the third mentions about the CLIA waiver.
I started a previous company on F-1. If you graduate from a STEM degree, you have 12 months of OPT + a 17 month extension (under review). So you have 2 years and a half to create something valuable enough so you can sponsor your H1B (which I did)
yeah I saw those, what about examples from independent people reading the article on HN?
George Church [1] said the following about their board:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/15/th...

"Usually such deficits in the board of directors would be offset by an equally stellar scientific advisory board and/or medical advisory board," Church said in an e-mail. "I don't see either for Theranos."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Church
Yeah, but that's true for monoclonals too, just a matter of degree.

A polyclonal antibody is an extraction of (usually rabbit) blood from an animal that has been insulted with the agent you'd like to detect. The extraction is enriched for antibodies. They are less reliable, because there could also be other antibodies in there. Even the antibodies that recognize what you're looking for could be a population of antibodies, each recognizing a different part (think the blind men and the elephant parable). Presumably, you have tested that a positive control of what you're trying to look for works.

A monoclonal is different. You insult a mouse with a sample of what you'd like to detect, and then resect the spleen, which contains b-cells, cells that produce the antibody. You then fuse the b-cells with a special strain of cancer cell that will immortalize the b-cell (these are called 'hybridomas'). After sorting one cell to a well, you then test to see if the cells in the well have produced an antibody that detects what you're looking for. Therefore, you can be confident that a monoclonal antibody contains only one antibody, that recognizes only one antigen.

You don't necessarily know what the antigen is that is recognized (that's called the epitope). The epitope could be, say, a piece of protein on the outside of the fungus or a different piece of protein on the outside of the fungus. It's even conceivable that even for a monoclonal there are side-reactions against things that are naturally in the sample.

And: Epitope retrieval techniques are really complicated. So figuring out exactly what epitope is recognized is not trivial.
I prefer cabs to the bloated arrogant "unicorn" that violates laws and calls it innovative.
I didn't say the subject was bad, I said the writing sucked.

The excerpt I quoted was isolated like a paragraph, but I don't remember a paragraph being 2 poorly written sentences.

How would I have worded it? For one I would have presented one side of the entire story, and then an opposing view-point (i.e. the view point of Theranos execs), instead of "person a said x. person y said x'".

I guess I'm sorry I'd prefer writing hidden behind a pay wall to be a little more elegant than what an 8 year old could write.
Same thing happened on Safari on my iPad 2. Putting the page into reading mode solved the problem.
Uh, I understood what they were trying to say, I'm stating that they were shitty at actually saying it.

If someone expects me to shell out a subscription for their articles, the absolute least they should do is make sure the writing is above a 5th grade level.
Fantastic comment. Totally agree. Biotech, pharma, you're a zero revenue company until that massively expensive FDA approval comes through. Investors are aware of this, and it is an all or nothing play.
Did they use a microtome with a diamond knife? Floating slices on water, to grids or slides?

Might grinding yield better resolution?

Such technology might be useful in the process of developing open-source hardware.
It'll be interesting to hear his foreign policy. He's probably the smartest guy running, and the least corrupt. That said, I'd have a hard time voting for someone whose only official job is to be the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and whose only platform is to be a placeholder representing the concept of reform. I want to know how he's gonna handle {the Middle East, Russia, etc.}.
"But every time he wades into electoral politics he does so in ways that are so desperately naïve that they'd be funny, if the stakes weren't so high."

Same was said about a big-eared Senator from Chicago with a funny name, that gave a good political speech in 2004.

Lessig is trying to find a mix between himself, the platform, and the process. You need to be naive if you ever hope to solve any seemingly intractable problem.
Well - if you have big enough database (of anything) - the Feds will come after it, and the Supreme Court chances of reaffirming 3rd party information doctrine are high.
Well, Python-related threads have been cluttered with comments about Go for a few years now...
I think many agree with Lessig's policies. But I have serious doubts he wants to get money out of politics. If his voting history's any indication, he wants the money in politics to be from a wider range of the population.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/lessig-lawren...
Okay, but so what? Lessig has no chance of winning the Democratic Party nomination, so his campaign basically amounts to hijacking the primary to promote his message. Even if that message is “completely right”, so what? You think if Lessig gets a seat at the Democratic primary debates, he’ll be able to convince the Republicans in Congress to reverse course on campaign finance? Fat chance.

The most likely way to improve things at the moment is to elect another Democrat to office, and hope that Justice Scalia and/or Justice Kennedy resigns within the next few years, and the composition of the Supreme Court changes enough to reverse the Citizens United case. Also, hope that the Justice Department under a Democratic president stays aggressive about promoting voting rights around the country.

Beyond that, the next big hope is getting Democrats back in control of the House of Representatives, which probably can’t happen until after the 2020 census, and only if the Democrats gain control of enough state legislatures to redraw fairer district boundaries.
That's not really true. With Jenkins, the Jenkins master controls 100% of the execution of jobs on the slaves and Jenkins cannot be multi-master. With cron, each host is responsible for executing its own cron jobs, removing the single point of failure.
Beyond the things you point out, my biggest point of skepticism on Theranos is its business and the potential value of it.

Lab Corp is worth $11 billion. With $6 billion in sales (and having generated ~$1.6 billion in profit over the last three years). The market Theranos is tackling is not as huge as some people apparently would like to think. Lab Corp is a monster in the field, and they're merely doing $11 billion. It's not an Uber situation, where a company blindsides an entire industry, and that industry stands still - Lab Corp has the resources and scale to respond to anything Theranos can do.

In the perfect scenario, Theranos is doing little more than pulling at least a decade of future returns forward at a $9 billion valuation. There's nothing they can do that will generate $6 billion in sales in the next five or six years. Their business model is partially built on neutering the high margins that companies like Lab Corp enjoy.
Windows 7 is not ancient or outdated by any means. If you enjoy a non-messed up user interface and can live without stupid apps, stay with Windows 7.
Oh boy. Looks like he'll have to show he can be president to get his reform passed... and otherwise his campaign hit a wall, what a surprise. My response: http://magarshak.com/blog/
If you're Australian, and assuming you have a relevant bachelor's degree, the E3 visa is trivial to get, and to maintain.

It has basically zero cost or effort for the employer: just need to get a Bureau of Labor statement that the offered salary is above market rates for role and location.

It sucks a little for the holder: you've got 10 days to leave the country if your employment ends, and you need to demonstrate every two years that you don't want to remain in the US permanently (yup, that's proving a negative). The renewals seem like they're pretty automatic, but the criteria aren't public and if the decision goes against you, you've again got 10 days to get out.

You don't need a lawyer to get an E3, but once you've got enough cash flow, it might be worth it for renewals and the potential for an appeal if your renewal (technically a new visa issue) is rejected.
I just reported results from experimenting on myself at a bio-tech conference called "Basel Life Science Week 2015".

Cocoa seems to have made me two years younger.

The poster I presented is at

http://morse.kiwi.nz/kingsley/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media...
Nice app. I like the relational model that links two sheets. Simple.
Maybe it's because people in the US would get charged foreign-transaction fees? (probably twice, once from their originating bank, and another by stripe)

Not to mention I don't see how any of the claims you make can be substantiated. How exactly do you determine a modem from a fridge if both use the same 120V source? Even if you could determine device class, how can you narrow it down to actual device-type?

Maybe it's because the "rewards" are obscenely expensive? 17 dollars for a circuit-testing screwdriver? I can get one at lowes for less than $5.

Finally, maybe it doesn't have "viral" potential in the US. We already have power-monitoring devices that you can run on your home network, and the number of people in the US who actually use one is minimal.
Skype's a strange example to hold up. Propriety protocol, with heavily obfuscated client to prevent reverse engineering. And with an obviously centralized system (hint: if it's got password reset, it's not secure).
The "eventually much more" part is what most interests me.

You guys might actually be some of the first researchers in the world to experiment with this kind of model. I can see this being very big if its marketed right.
Note that hnov's awk command is the equivalent of "sort (random order)" at that and shows good randomness properties in the plot. However, that link shows "sort (random comparator)" by default which looks terrible at randomly sorting lists. hnov's awk script should be suitable for most needs, though I'd tweak it a bit:

awk "{print rand(), $0}" | sort -g | cut -d' ' -f2-

which is shorter allows more than 1,000,000 random values, namely ~52bits in awk's 64bit implementations.
Completely agree. Being rich isn't good enough. You have to be rich and have had to done something to "change the world" (barf) along the way to be truly cool.
"Because this particular military spy organisation is being deployed by the US government against its own citizens, en masse"

But it's not. That's the problem. There's no evidence whatsoever of it doing that.
"drank koolaid, used tool without knowing what its good at, lost 2 years and probably a million or two in engineer resources"

Gratz. Next time, use C. PyPy won't solve your problem. You're writing a low latency, high performance, large throughput, super-optimized message router. Even the libs you like in Cpython are.. freaking C. Do you know why? Do you understand what happens underneath the language? Do you know why PyPy is faster?

Don't get me wrong - and in fact, maybe you get me right:

Go rocks. Python rocks. It's just not the tool for that very job. Today, it's still freaking C.
CEOs beware: Your astronomical salaries may soon cost you customers
Please don't do this.

I really don't want to have to consider whether or not my email is tracking me. Even the IAB said that users don't like intrusive tracking[1]. So yeah....please...no.

[1]http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/online-advertisers-a...
"Anybody can fuck stuff up beyond recognition with any language" -anonymous
Elixir concepts for Go developers
I love Lessig but speaking of mistakes, he should do a poll about his glasses.

Whether he switches to something more likable or not will be an indicator of how savvy he would be on the job.
The problem isn't cron, cron is just a dumb execution tool.

The problem is that we don't have any way of alerting our monitoring systems from a cron job.

This is exactly what I've been implementing, a simple curl API call to our monitoring system when a cron job has run is all that we need. This puts the monitoring of cron into the same sphere as all other monitoring and puts the alert on a webpage where it can be found eventually by our 2nd line or our on-call personnel, instead of in someones mailbox.

Edit: And you don't need a fancy REST based API for your monitoring system to do this, ye ol' nagios agent could do it with some hacks.

The hard part is having the discipline to fix all your cron jobs in this way, but adding || true is already tantamount to this.
Obama was a career politician with lots of support and credibility, a best-selling author, and a charismatic speaker, with an absolutely incredible campaign organization. He was running on an anti-war platform during a highly unpopular war.

Lessig doesn’t have any of those things.
"Same was said about a big-eared Senator from Chicago with a funny name, that gave a good political speech in 2004."

Totally different situation. People recognized Obama's potential as a politician, even if they didn't agree with him. They only doubted how far he would go in that period of time.
I wish I could get all journalists into one room for a couple of hours and teach them the difference between energy and power, and what a watt and a watt-hour are.

In most of this article we have "storage capacity" being reported in GW. In the last paragraph, though, the article switches without explanation to MWh. <facepalm>

In fact, we want both numbers: instantaneous power capability in (some multiple of) watts, and storage capacity in (some multiple of) watt-hours. These are different numbers, just as the HP rating of the engine in your car and the size of its gas tank are different numbers.

I suspect people would be less confused if we used joules instead of watt-hours for energy, and then reported power in joules per second. Yes, 1W = 1J/s, but that's the thing: intuitively people expect the base unit to be an amount, not a rate. Then instead of "1.3GW", an article like this would say "1.3GJ/s", and it would be (relatively) obvious that that's a rate of power delivery, not a storage capacity. Or instead of "65MWh" it would say "234GJ" (the conversion factor is 3600, there being 3600 seconds in an hour).

Oh well. I know I'm preaching to the choir here on HN. Just had to rant a little :-)
Box clearly did not make a lot of people very rich. They made a tiny group of people richer (very early investors). Employees have not done well, as the stock has been a disaster. All of the big rounds that Box raised basically valued them at or above where their stock is now. They're worth $1.6 billion and raised $558 million; their last round was at $2.5 billion.

Their latest quarter they did $73m in sales and lost $50m, with rapidly slowing growth. Even worse, they're bleeding significantly on an operating basis, implying the business may never be capable of making money. They might be lucky if they have four or five quarters of cash left before disaster hits. The near future returns for employees holding stock, is not likely to be pretty.

Even the primary founder didn't get very rich in SV terms, after he had to be diluted down to a sliver of ownership to keep the lights on.
I feel sad because I'm probably Lessig's ideal target audience, but I don't like any of this. I don't like that he backed down so quickly from his first approach, because of the polls. Isn't that what corrupt politicians do? I don't like that he is so vague about what he's going to do to fix corruption - I get it that it's about taking money out of politics, but how do you get there, especially when Congress is seized up?

And I want to hear about other issues, too, if he's seriously running for president. What about local police corruption, violence, and abuse? What about drone assassinations? What about corporate welfare that socializes risk and privatizes rewards? What about poverty and basic income? What about simplifying the legal system so that justice isn't too expensive for most people? What about extra-legal punishment like no-fly lists? What about the goddamn NSA? What about the security theater at the airport we pay for and endure?

From the other candidates all we hear about is "the economy", mid-east terrorism and related problems, immigration, and now and again (against all odds) climate change. From Lessig you just hear about corruption. If you want to impress me as a real Presidential candidate, speak eloquently about the days when the US would never have even considered torturing someone for any reason; when 1984 was a cautionary tale about surveillance, not a manual on how to do it; when we needed to work together to defeat an enemy, we did it, or to achieve a great goal like the moon, we did it, and how we can do it again, but this time we're going to End Oil, worldwide. I want to hear about how we can use technology to make government at every level more accountable and more responsive, and I want to hear more about our aspirations. I want to hear that we will recover the first asteroid from the asteroid belt within 20 years. I want to hear that federal funding will be tied to the creation of independent police review panels in every major city. I want to hear that blanket surveillance will be made explicitly illegal.

But I don't hear hardly any of that, not even from Lessig. Which makes me sad.
Not on a campus sidewalk. At least not in my campus.
Learning with Skewed Class Distributions [pdf]
Theranos CEO fires back at WSJ
Factorization of Hermitian Matrix Polynomials with Constant Signature [pdf]
Servo is a new web browser rendering engine by Mozilla, written in a new programming language called Rust, which is safe language that runs as fast as C/C++. Servo is expected to be more performant on modern CPUs than the rendering engines used by current web browsers. People are excited both by Servo and by Rust.
There is no road, cars are not allowed at campus after a certain point. only bikes and pedestrians..
Let's start with the fact that it's 6,3 euros, not 0,88.
Arduino 101: Intel Dev Board Offers Advanced Features for NextGen of Innovators
Could you elaborate on the visa types you use?
As a supplement to that article, here is a blog post linking to it that contains those pictures:

http://bintphotobooks.blogspot.de/2010/12/shelf-life-for-sto...
There's very likely going to be a profitability bonus, but at the most it's going to be half of my salary. Pretty good for a bonus,but it's not making up for the low salary over all.
Altis-Life RPG
This study covered mental health issues of entrepreneurs (results summary starts on page 13):
http://www.michaelafreemanmd.com/Research_files/Are%20Entrep...

From the study, if you're an entrepreneur, you are more likely to have a mental health issue (49%) than not (48%). Significantly higher rates of suicide, depression, etc.

It's higher across the board.

But it isn't just from the stress of starting a company.. entrepreneurs are more likely to have close relatives with mental health issues too.

I wasn't able to find much other than that... so if anyone else has more links, I would be interested in reading them.
> reliable way to find good leads at companies that do the simple things to keep their staff happy and are continuously looking to make whatever they make the best possible.

Just word of mouth, right?