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Limits to data transfers can work in several ways. If the EU says it is limiting data transfers to help its citizens, I'll trust that that is how they are using the limitation. On the other hand, if a country like Egypt or Russia wants to limit transfer of data, I will be skeptical about why they want to keep that data in their country. I think I trust most countries about as much as I trust Russia, and would prefer that companies have the option to take data out of such countries.
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So I'm currently biking through Vietnam. An interesting questing is just how far and often these bikes go up and down Vietnam.
So the question is, could we design and build a mobile-internet enabled GPS tracker that could log and submit distances traveled to a web service inside a week?

How I envision it working: design the hardware and get it manufactured, I'll pick it up in Hanoi (after covering all costs) and install it on our bikes, where we will then on sell them.

Future backpackers can then get an interesting history on their bike, and we score +1 for the open source movement.

Are there any people with the requisite skills who would be willing to help out?

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You're suffering from startup myopia.

Things like GPS are society-level upgrades. Uber is just one application of GPS.
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Because you never really know until you _really know_. I know there have been times in my life that I was 100% sure of something and never thought there was a way I could be wrong, but somehow new info came to my attention and turned everything upside down. What if there's some kinda stuff in a chinese document that FireEye hasn't read yet, stating that this is normal functionality of the SDK and the developer, who read the docs thoroughly, knows that it does this. Better to just present the facts and stick with "suspect" or "alleged" type verbage and only drop the bet-hedging when it is known without a shadow of a doubt. The fact Apple removed the apps does strongly indicate FireEye at least found something suspicious and the readers of this article are probably mostly convinced at that point anyway without FireEye having to risk officially throwing around accusations.

Also, nowadays it's getting a bit too easy to blame hacking/spying on the Chinese & Russians so you don't want to accuse them until you're absolutely sure. If you're wrong, it's going to look extra bad.
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I've been looking at trying out AppHub https://apphub.io/, which is comparable to CodePush. I'll have to try this.

As it is, both are definitely useful for better handling upgrade process with users. A couple drawbacks with mobile apps are that it's harder to hotfix errors, and you sometimes have to support older APIs for longer. With a web app, a user can visit the site and the entire app bundle can be downloaded after a cache bust.
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> The idea is generally correct - bias in a decision process will be visible in post-decision distributions

I find what's wrong with the idea more fundamental, that it talks only about the 'selection process' but in fact bias that impacts success or failure can come at other points.
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I'm sorry, but as an advertisement for their network protection services, they're going to have to prove maliciousness beyond what is currently possible by downloading any app from the App Store.

What they describe is a JavaScript to objc bridge in this library - would would be completely containerized by the embedding application. No, this bridge cannot be used to write outside of the apps container, nor steal keychain credentials outside of the ACLs provided by this application.

If you're embedding a third party library, any of the above could be true. But your user will still be protected to the extent provided by the app security model.

So this is just annoying FUD.
Read it again. He's talking about the counterexample there. It's a hypothetical.
> Does anyone believe this will not become the law?

If enough will protest - it won't. ACTA failed in Europe.
The basic problem is getting hold of good data. Most VC rightly consider their data in this area very valuable and they are not going to part with it easily. Not even Paul delved into YC’s data.

More fundamentally even if you could get enough data, the data is just too messy to analyse and draw any valid conclusions.
But a gravity only particle can't do any of those things.

1: They can't measure gradients because they can not "feel" another particle except via gravity. You can only measure a gravity gradient by comparing it to another force, but they have no second force to compare to.

2: They can't see redshift because they can't see photons at all.

3: They can't see gravitational waves for the same reason as #1, to see a wave you compare two particles (distance in current experiments), but they can't do that, any comparison would be via gravity and would be affected identically, so there is nothing to compare with.

Interestingly pure energy only experiences gravity (I don't means photons, I mean simply energy, that "thing" which is conserved).

Which is why I personally think dark matter is simply energy, there is no extra particle. The only question is what form does this energy take.
As a team of web devs who love mobile, we definitely wanted to help bring as much of this kind of update experience to client apps as possible. I look forward to hearing any feedback you may have after giving us a try :)
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Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time. This is my seventh monthly post and have hired a couple of great guys from the past posts.

Expanding the scope to include crypto and math majors - especially with experience in Blockchains. Please read on.

I have recently taken up a role to build a payment network from scratch, out of Bangalore, India. It is funded by a big corporation, but will be arms-distance from their central business.

It is a large, complex and fascinating problem to crack. The potential to bring banking to 600 million un/underbanked Indians is what excited me to work on this.

In the past I have built both fast-data and big-data companies and have a few patents in this space.

We are looking to hire a good core team of full time math, physics and CS majors, UI UX and product managers, who will work of Bangalore, India.

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The content of the article relevant to its title is basically this:

"In 1963, an American chemistry graduate named Lawrence Herbert devised a system to standardize color, specifying the exact ink formula for every shade."

How he did this, how quickly it took off, what challenges he faced, how people worked with color before, why Pantone's system was better -- the kind of things a New Yorker piece with this title might cover -- is utterly absent.

The rest of it is gimmicky fluff about how Pantone has become a pop culture thing (not that I've noticed -- and I worked with Pantone colors for years when I did print work -- but apparently in some places).
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My local sports stadium (Allianz Stadium, Sydney Australia) recently installed two enormous ultra-wide 27 by 10 metre screens. They are astonishingly clear and bright, however the saturation is pumped up so hard that grass looks like Simpsons-esque nuclear sludge and many team uniforms look fluorescent or luminescent.

It's particularly surprising because it's constantly being used to replicate the reality right in front of it. You can just look at the pitch to see what grass should look like.
One other thing which both this and PG's original theory get wrong:

Their basic premise is wrong, if bias continues to exist after the selection event in question.

For example, if YC had (hypothetically) a real bias against black or women entrepreneurs, it is almost certain that future funding rounds, as well as all possible exit scenarios, would exhibit very much of the same bias.

In which case, the future "performance" of those candidates would be poor, and by PG's definition unbiased even though the only meaningful result is that YC is no more biased than subsequent performance evaluations.
The article makes it very clear that they are talking about the first "recognizable human form" in a photograph, and they go on and on in great detail about what they mean by that.
Actually, when a patient with a mysterious illness lacks a functional version for a particular protein which healthy members of his family do have, this is a valuable clue. It narrows down the search significantly, and there have been case reports on this.

Of course, not every mysterious illness can be solved this way...
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Good. These e-cigarettes are the worse thing to happen to health in a long time. Just as smoking rates started to decline, out come vapor cigarettes which are in some cases more dangerous (exploding in peoples faces). I've seen too many people "vaping" on buses and trains for something to not have been done about it.
The problem is that there is no objective means of determining a "legitimate story". That's why we have votes and flags and whatnot. The assumption is that the community will follow the rules and use those tools to promote "legitimate" content, however, "legitimate" or good is inherently subjective. You can punish people for having an opinion and using the tools provided by the site to express that opinion.
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I totally can, but no, it's not the same. As mentioned above it's a pain if you don't fully move to one system or another. I want to use ios devices with icloud data syncing - and have something else sync google data to icloud.
This seems so obvious that it's possible we're missing something. It seems, at best, "A Way to Diff Your Bias", which isn't the same thing as detecting your bias at all. No one has the goal (I hope) of aligning their negative biases with others.
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This is really important. Lets say the whole VC ecosystem is biased against redheads (just to pick a random group). What would happen is the redheads would under perform other groups as they were discriminated against at each stage of the VC lifecycle. They would not show up as a group that over performing later. The only bias you can detect using Paul’s approach is bias that only applies at the initial stage and not later.
Yes, yes you should.
I still maintain the FUD factor, but a more careful reading shows that they are aware that this third party library is restricted to the apps container.

But I don't see how this could be considered a back door since the app developer specifically embedded the library for the functionality it provides. It's more like inviting a vampire to dinner. It can't enter your house if not invited. (And vampires are too "proud" for the servents enter for.). Ok, as a metaphor, this needs work...
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your ISP can simply turn off all your encrypted traffic .

And then everyone starts using steganography.
The fact that they have to exclude Uber for no good a priori reason should have been raising red flags all over the place.

"But Uber skews the results!" So what? You don't get to just throw out data points you don't like without good reason.

If your "test" is that sensitive to individual outliers, then perhaps it isn't really a good test after all.
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Why would you ever want that? After seeing that script, I checked his own and sure enough... he runs it on his own. It only took a few clicks to see that it just changes some number on one file a few times a day. If you are "decorating your calendar" like that to impress people, you're just going to look foolish. Or is there some grand plan I'm missing?
Thank you for your wisdom. I think I vaguely grasped that but I let bias prevent me from fully thinking through the other possibilities.
Because the Bay Area has a lot more attractions than tech jobs.
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Awesome article, thank you for sharing. I am currently working on a large-scale application myself, but I am lucky to be able to use IndexedDB because of the browsers we are targeting.

Same situation, except we are dealing with an application that has customer data and tonnes of entities. Fetching this data which can go into the thousands of rows of data, we actually intelligently prefetch data from the server on initial load and store it in IndexedDB.

Then we have an intelligent data layer which checks to see what data the client-side has and if it doesn't exist, it will ask the server for the data that it only needs (usually a few kilobytes) and then store it, so if requested anywhere else in the app it gets it from IndexedDB.

As a result we've seen app speed go up and the load on our databases and servers go down. The client-side is incredibly powerful if you support modern browsers to the point where you can reduce load substantially on the server.
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Am I the only one that wanted to write autositer.com - $200 after seeing it so many times?
It looks like the Yesod websockets version fixed the issue?
I never said that Pyrex is unbreakable. But it certainly wont break just because "an ignorant person left it in the oven for hours on end".

Almost every material known to man will break/crack/shatter/do-something if you rapidly cool it from an elevated temperature.
Ahhh interesting, I had noticed a comment thread being "throttled": I could post new replies until about a 15 minute delay. I guess it was "flamewar": more comments than upvotes. :) Thanks!
Good point. You're right -- it's possible. I don't think any of my other family members have gotten analyzed. That would shed more light on the situation.

Edited to add: well, look at it this way. If one were part African in Alabama in the 19th century, one would be well advised to claim to be part Cherokee, if one's coloration and features were such that one could get away with it. Given that, I think Occam's razor inclines me toward the possibility I suggested.
You've gotta find some semblance of product/market fit or traction before staffing up to 22 people.
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The composition of the Pyrex glass sold in North America did change from borosilicate glass to soda-lime glass when the brand changed hands, yes. But the important thing about "glass not breaking at high temperatures" has much more to do with the annealing process than it does the type of glass.
Huh? I thought Gumroad was one of the better services out there for selling stuff. Too bad "hypergrowth" mania devalues companies like Gumroad because they look like a pretty awesome and sustainable business.
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I had someone tell me recently, "do what you are passionate about and you will love your job." As I sat there and reflected... I wasn't sure if I am "that" passionate about anything... Anyone else in this boat with work?
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But if you've done: "$(fgcolor red)red text$(fgcolor green "green text") what color is this?"... then it would have to model a stack on top of the actual underlying implementation, which does not have any concept of "closing" a sequence to pop the colour back to the previous colour. It could automatically emit the \x1b[0m, but it would be making assumptions about nesting.
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iOS apps are difficult to index because apps lack searchable metadata. Searching for "espn" or "fantasy" while looking for the "ESPN Fantasy Football" app will provide no results because the official name of the app is 'Football.' The app name (also disjoint from App Store name) is really the only out-of-the-box search indexable string
I was actually really surprised by this post. While yes, he worked at Google, and yes Google values their performance reviews, based on what I read in the VP of People's book "Work Rules", this isn't exactly the Google system.

I think this is a pretty heavyweight system, but he's right that any measurement is better than none. The time commitment though I bet will get difficult as they scale further.

One thing that really surprised me was no mention of the Google manager surveys they use to benchmark managers (https://getlighthouse.com/blog/google-management/). It's a big part of the book "Work Rules" and core to how they ensure their managers are doing their job well...which then is key to retention.

They also didn't mention it, but hopefully they're doing one on ones between those reviews as it's the in the trenches action that bridges any reviews that ensures things really get better and you have good things to reflect on in a review. Otherwise, it's hard to remember much more than a couple weeks ago.
True - though this means only that the signal (outperformance by a group that is the target of discrimination) might not be present (if discrimination continues past initial selection as you point out).

However, the test may still useful to help confirm bias. If outperformance is observed, you can infer one of 3 things is true:

1) there is bias at initial selection but not after (or at least reduced bias)

2) members of the outperforming group are simply stronger performers (different but still interesting)

3) there is no bias at selection but there are affirmative action effects after the initial selection (not obvious why this would be the case)
if he was a full-time employee getting paid-for health insurance, an older person costs the employer dramatically more, like 300% more than a young person, for health insurance at least.

Of course, even then you are only talking a grand or two pre-tax, which isn't the world, when it comes to programmer sallary, unless the old person has a bunch of dependents and the employer is paying for dependents.

I think it's pretty common for the employer to pick up most or all of the bill for the employee, and then have the employee contribute for their dependents, but it varies from company to company.
> they could possibly be used to offload tasks like hashing/dedup or other storage-related functions

Sorry, I was not referring to accelerating storage-related functions, I was wondering about efficient DMA copy from one PCIe device (Intel NVM storage) to another (Xeon Phi accelerator) which would be for useful many different functions, if the NVM storage device capacity is much larger than the accelerator device memory.
While I agree with you in this particularly case, in partial defense of the current system (or what I perceive it to be), perhaps there really are some topics that are so toxic that they cannot be discussed productively on this site without causing damage to the overall level of discourse. HN has remained usable for more years and more doublings in size than most such sites.

One shouldn't take for granted that this will continue. Maybe the current "canary" flagging approach has helped to preserve a better quality discussion about the technical issues than a more provocative approach. And maybe that's a better purpose for this particular site than allowing one more venue for important though contentious topics.
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You realize that this sounds very elitist to people who didn't go to college, right?
It seems to me like an accurate reflection of reality though. When governments and corporations propose legislation in secret it is never going to be in citizen's best interests. On the national and international scale democracy almost doesn't exist. We are being governed by the rich elite and being able to vote is just a sideshow.

Democracy as it is currently implemented is fundamentally flawed because it puts politicians and political parties in power. I mean, it fundamentally is about giving other's power. That is a freaking crude proxy to furthering citizen's interests. It's a blunt instrument. People in power can be influenced/corrupted/manipulated disproportionately by corporations and others with power. Citizens are disenfranchised and mostly powerless.

IMHO the ultimate expression of democracy would not to vote others into office, but to propose and collectively edit new legislation and vote on that. Skip the politician middlemen, go straight to the issues that matter. I imagine that citizens would be allocated a number of non-transferable expiring vote-credits that they can use to spend on pushing legislation.

In summary: until the very nature of democracy evolves we are destined to inhabit a dystopian world that serves only the interests of the elite.
I like most of those but here's some alternative stuff I made up that I think may work better for me (emphasis on may and me) -

~ -> it's a hint, so it's saying "hey, this is 'ish' that" or so (~ always kinda means 'ish' in my head). or maybe we use the fact that ~ is bitwise complement and say "it's info that complements the thing"

# -> "format it for a comment"

: -> ':' connects chunks of sentence together

; -> semi-:, so does half that and half something else as well, oh and also sem for 'sem'antic composition whereas col just 'col'lects stuff together ... actually that sem/col version really makes me happy.

Glad you're finding this at least vaguely constructive, I'm rather enjoying it too.
The theory presumes a reliable way of measuring "actual performance"; that is, the quantity against which the selection process is supposedly biased. That's a limitation, but I wouldn't say it makes the test "wrong".

It does mean that maybe monetary earnings or anything else sensitive to later-round bias are not the thing to use to measure candidate performance, at least if you're doing this for the social utility.

Of course, if you're only in it to make money, and you're only in charge of the first round... then you really do want just an unbiased evaluation of the (biased) future earnings prospects. So in that case using raw earnings would be correct...
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There have been some experiments where researchers paid people to do something they loved. Once the person was paid, their reward response to that activity diminished. In some cases, it disappeared entirely, and that once-enjoyable activity became only "work".
> It's pretty difficult to get software development to qualify for SR&D.

Every Canadian software company I've worked for in my 15 year career has used SR&ED.

Every single one. Most were small (ie. sub-25 people employed, most of those also making virtually no profit at all), a couple are large. Some tried to do it in house with only a lawyer to do late-stage massaging of the reports, others hired full on consultants for quite a lot of money to do it.

And they all got money out of SR&ED.

This is anecdata, but I don't think the idea that it's pretty difficult washes.
Thanks, good thoughts!