skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone will eventually do this, or at least something similar, just maybe not with ultrasound. Whether that company is uBeam or another company is hard to say.

I was a little surprised to see Suster's response. One half of me says that is great to see an investor sticking his neck out for one of his investments and conveying the faith he has in that investment. Personally, I don't get judging uBeam and calling them a failure quite yet. I think it is unfair to compare them to Theranos. At least with uBeam there is no claim they have faked results or compliance issues. There are no criminal investigations over falsified technology. The only issue really at hand with uBeam is an overzealous CEO who stated they would have a prototype available and they haven't delivered yet. So what? They are behind, it is bleeding edge tech that will have a huge impact if they are able to pull it off. Is it because she is a female everyone is quick to judge her a failure at this point? Or because she is a young, first-time CEO? If Elon Musk was the CEO would the same negative press be surrounding uBeam about a failure to deliver?

Now on the flip side, even Suster's post lends truth to Reynolds' statements. This part, to me at least, is a little more damning, and leads me to believe that Reynolds really was trying to put a stop to the hyperbole marketing.

Suster states, "Throughout my many discussions with Paul over our time together, he never questioned the viability of uBeam and the technology that he was critical in developing. Instead he expressed concerns that we not overstate our capabilities or fall prey to hyperbole."

To me these are one in the same essentially. Reynolds apparently was concerned about the claims being made, said something to Suster, which Suster confirms in this statement, and now Suster is downplaying those concerns.

In the end this seems like drama over nothing to me. So what if they fail to deliver? Thousands of companies before them and thousands of companies after them will fail to deliver on a product at some point. That's the nature of the beast. To me it seems the only issue is that there is a young CEO who is excited about a product that has yet to be developed. She makes exciting, dramatic statements about her company and product than she really should be making, and both Reynolds and Suster tend to confirm this. But I believe her statements and the Theranos situation are in two different ballparks, so I think the comparison is far from fair to uBeam.
It seems like there are 2 very simple metrics that make everything else pretty irrelevant.

For applicants - how many who "pass" get jobs?

For employers - how many positions did you fill?

I found it odd that the blog post intentionally left that out. Getting someone an interview is not a good metric!

And as someone who has spent a fair bit of time on both sides (it sounds like the founders have minimal experience actually applying for jobs) it is a huge mistake to interview serially. Companies take their sweet time getting back to you (weeks is not uncommon), and their initial offer is not as good as it could be. When they know that they are competing for a candidate, they are very quick to move on a candidate. This helps the whole "follow up" problem solve itself. While it might seem like it requires more mental bandwidth, it probably requires less. And customer satisfaction goes way up. For someone job hunting, every passing hour waiting for an outcome can be brutal.

Also, I am simultaneously impressed and confused by the technical investment. It's fantastic work, but doesn't seem like it is helping to increment #1 or #2.
Good questions.

* One thing that can stop them is the law; it could be made illegal, which does stop a lot of behavior. International treaties often work too.

* Also, if it's considered out-of-bounds by the scientific community then it could ruin the scientists' career; that's probably not a risk that a talented scientist with a promising career would take. They couldn't even publish a paper, publish in arXiv, get feedback on their work, or participate in any online discussion. They couldn't go to a conference (there wouldn't be one in their field) or even tell anyone what they are working on. What a life to choose.

* Significant progress likely requires more resources than could be mustered covertly, including financial, technological (where do you buy equipment and supplies?), and especially labor: Not only do they need talented PhD students and postdocs, but progress in most fields requires a whole community of scientists who build on each other's work, not one who discovers it all themself.
Yes. When it's that far out, it's easy to hide. :-) But still very exciting!
Unfortunately, it really depends on where you are, and what color your skin is. I don't think recently arrived refuges would have the same opinion as you do: http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2016/02/gun-wielding-prot...
Yep.. Texas is frequently last or near-last on the progressiveness of their state tax scheme. The poor pay much more tax in Texas than they would in most other states due to the reliance on sales and property taxes for revenue.

Having done business there as well, it seems like a sport to aggressively minimize property taxes by claiming 'ag' exemptions for having some cows graze your property a few days per week. Obviously used by the rich more than the poor.

It's clearly their prerogative how to run their state but it left a bad feeling in my mouth.
Look at that, the most expensive one is best rated!
"God Bless this Great State. It is the last Bastion of Truth and Freedom....."

I imagine those trying to seek abortions would have a very different definition of "freedom" that you do.
The Top 20 500 Startups Batch 16 Startups – Sorted by the Growth Score
No need. Make sure "Don't load tabs until selected" option is enabled and then restart the browser once in a while.
Obviously marketing works, and sales reps can help physicians by pushing research and information at the as part of their outreach -- just like any other relationship based salesperson.

The other equation missing is the impact of pharma sales practices with respect to the gatekeeper pharmacy managers. Who is taking the CVS/Caremark guy out for steak dinner and what is the rebate or consideration that the insurance company gets for choosing one drug over another.

In my case, my insurance company standardized on a drug in a broader class of medications that wasn't as effective for me -- I had some minor side effects and the metrics changed for the worse.

So my doctor switched me back to a non-preferred drug. His mousepad was provided by that drug maker. Is that an ethical issue?
How many solar thermal plants have been built before?

CSP has been around for a while, but not many plants have been built in the USA. Those that have been built haven't done all too well.

Here's a plant that was operational from 1982 to 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Project#Solar_One

The most memorable thing about it was you could easily see it from airplanes flying in and out of SoCal.
Some people here are commenting on how bad the idea is. There are worse ideas out there that did and continue to do so much better.

The problem here I think was defining the MVP with a timeline. They could have just started with some virtual currency (like a point system) ... kids don't care about money or points as long as they accumulate something. This virtual currency or point system could have been used by parents to say to their kids "if you get 20 points I'll hand you a $20 bill".

You can make an app like that pretty fast, independent of any "partner ecosystem" and then if the idea lifts off then invite the big players into your ecosystem.

Everything they did was opposite.
And the Fortran-convention BLAS API is quite a bit more widely used than the CBLAS API. idamax in the Fortran API, and pivot vectors in LAPACK factorizations, return 1-based indices.
That's an pretty surprising finding.
Only way that can happen, I think, is when someone did a bait and switch with a return.
Christopher Hitchens Was Shaky in His Atheism, New Book Suggests
What is more likely: that Alibaba is making up its numbers, or that Yahoo has actually made one good investment in the last six years?

Ponder that thought for a bit. I don't know if you actually need to open up an accounting book to know something's fishy :)
Moore’s Law Is Dead. Now What?
What song is that? I grew up two states away from Texas, and worked in Dallas for some time, and the only thing I can come up with is Chuck Norris's "Eyes of a Ranger". I'm pretty sure that's not what you mean.
Ask HN: What is a good consulting niche for AWS and PHP?
I'm currently a Zend Certified PHP Developer and I also hold all 5 AWS certifications.

I'm struggling to find a niche for both combined that compliment each other. Perhaps I'm afraid of becoming TOO niche.

Has anyone got any AWS + PHP use cases they can think of apart from traditional LAMP stacks that could be handled by AWS Beanstalk?
Those aren't structural problems, they're a difference in opinion on how to raise kids. You may not think that's a good way to teach kids about finances but that just means you're not in the target market.
This article reads like the goofy cliches New Yorkers spout after spending their first week in Los Angeles.

So here's mine:

Texas is enormous and odd and has no state tax and yet you can't drive 20 miles without seeing another massive multi-billion dollar highway construction project that seems about 100 feet taller than it needs to be.

Dallas is not Austin is not Houston.

Austin in the context of Texas pretty much makes no sense. Might as well be its own state within a state. One that needs really, really strict DUI laws -- not dopey politicians picking fights with Uber. Day drunk, no tech to be seen, and basically a cultural vacuum given what it should be given its massive population and history.

Dallas makes little sense either. Amazing travel hub. $59 flights to/from anywhere. Want a $19 rental car? They got 'em. And they'll email you the night before to see if you want to upgrade to a minivan for $23. Why aren't other hub cities like this? Dunno. I must underestimate the scale. Easy to do there.

But Texas is on the path to becoming unmanageable just as California did before it. Whether this comes from growth, or growth compounded by cultural "diversity" tearing its internals apart remains to be seen. I'm not optimistic. Too big, too broken, and too growing. People are opinionated and divisive. And a little bit nasty. And armed. When you hear about "doing what's right for America" and "compromise" -- Texas is the exact place that would benefit the most from it. Yet Texans don't seem interested in starting the conversation.

But this article barely scratches the surface of what I saw. Texas is a surprising, complex beast. And I only spent about four days there.

Also, consider investing all your retirement savings in Torchy's Tacos.
You must have a very different definition of "awesome" than many other people.
... I did! :)
> Combo it with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa.... that lets you organize your tabs into groups and you can have hundreds of well organized tabs without using much memory at all.

Be careful with that because every tab has a constant memory consumption even when not loaded, so it will actually have a noticeable memory consumption when you have several hundreds of tabs. I learned it the hard way.
Something I see a lot of in my area. A couple of people, usually friends, pair up for an app or a saas idea. It falls through for one reason or another. A little later the same folks end up launching a web dev agency, work on random contracts and make a ton of money. I have no idea why more people don't just pursue that to begin with. I have a friend who makes very good money doing this while keeping his full time job.
Feds to start mining social media in security clearance reviews
I've done that once but since building rustc requires a specific nightly I'd need a glibc environment each time I want to build rustc. Replacing the glibc builds with a musl static build (not targeting but built with musl statically and no glibc requirement) would give us a single binary that works on Alpine and Ubuntu. If that's not an option I'd welcome a musl variant that's automatically installed by rustup when on Alpine or VoidLinux musl edition or any other musl linux environment.
Odd but not too rare, unfortunately. I've seen countless articles about the contents of a photograph or piece of art that did not include an image of any type. Puzzling.
Exactly.

> If you need to raise money to launch your product do that first. Don’t even think about building out your product outside of a very simplistic prototype.

There are products that need initial cash, but this isn't one of them. If they had a fully functional MVP that people could use and enjoy, funding would come to them.
>Personally I feel that if we had more data over a larger group of people we would be able to learn what leads to disease better.

The article is pretty much arguing that there isn't currently a method that exists that will accurately give us more data.

How useful is "more data" when 73% of it is garbage?
I was wondering the same. Can only guess that was not mentioned since location was known since 2007. Only new information is size.
Let's look at a specific policy, then, such as a universal basic income (that means no means testing, no policing of morality, no step-wise dropoffs in benefit as income changes). Most of the working class would receive the same net income, or more. There would be no more income-driven involuntary homelessness. There would be less incentive to avoid working part time because UBI benefits would still be paid. The UBI would be funded by the surplus productivity that results from automation and consolidation (i.e. professionals and corporations pay higher taxes).

What factors (emotional, moral, intellectual, cultural, derived from propaganda, whatever) feed into a decision to support or not to support UBI, as an example?
Does 1 based indexing actually matter? It does if you are doing index arithmetic for rolling your own multidimensional arrays for example, but one shouldn't do those kind of things anyway.
I think the term would be non-resident Texan.
They mention it taking 15 years from 1997 to get a sign (e.g. ~2012), so perhaps the article isn't dated correctly.
I moved to Texas when I was 19, from South Carolina (if ever a state was more aggressively regressive than Texas, it would be South Carolina), and I lived in Houston and Austin for a lot of the past couple decades. I travel full-time, currently, but I still call myself a Texan; and not just for tax purposes. There's a lot to love about the state, or at least the major cities.

I'm regularly embarrassed by the governor and the state legislature, particularly in recent years as anti-woman/anti-immigrant sentiment has shaped the political landscape in toxic ways. But, I love so many things about the place. I love the food trucks (which are unmatched anywhere in the world), the fantastic Mexican and Asian food in Houston and Dallas and Austin (easily competitive with the best California and New York have to offer on those fronts, and you don't have to dress up or spend a fortune to enjoy it), the visible and unique counter-culture in all of the major cities (weirdos in Austin or the Montrose are unlike weirdos anywhere else), the music scene that often seems completely independent of the world outside of Texas, the summer-year-round weather (even the hot days are fine with me, if it means winter will be short and mild), and the diversity of its best cities (though Austin is a bit too white and suburban for comfort, and getting whiter and more suburban over time, unfortunately).

I like to think I'm above jingoism, but I love Texas. I travel full-time these days, because there's a lot to love about all sorts of places in the US (currently in Eugene, OR, as I've never really explored the Pacific Northwest, and summer is a great time to do so). But, I'm pretty sure I'll circle back to Texas eventually, as I always do.

But, don't move to Austin, y'all. You'll hate it. It's just one big traffic jam, and the restaurants and bars are all too crowded now.
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You're totally right. I have no idea how I got that backwards!
I wonder how many people who are nowhere near SW Portland right now are fucking with their sign.
Not sure why this is on the front page because the criticism in this article is fairly superficial. Julia was designed for scientific computing and interpreter start-up time doesn't matter at all in this context, especifically the start-up time of hello-world. Baseline memory consumption isn't an issue either and one-based indexing is simply something to get used to. If this stops you from being productive, it's not the language's fault. The comments about the syntax remind me of all those people saying Lisp is a bad language because it has too many parentheses.
Julia seems like it's meant to be friendly to people who know MATLAB, Python, and R (even Fortran). R and Python are really comfortable with working with data science and that's what Julia is geared toward. I have no experience with MATLAB, though. Julia's programming "world" may indeed be a different programming world than C programmers.

I'm not defending Julia per se. I've been patiently observing from the sidelines to see how the language shapes up.
Capitalising all words in a headline is an acceptable grammatical style - you'll find it in US newspapers, for example. It does look a bit weird in some cases, however.
I suspect this is pure spin doctoring and poppycock. As someone who was raised Catholic and was an altar boy, there is for the thoughtful atheist, absolutely no shame in having an emotional reaction to the words, the pageantry, and the music of the religion of your youth. I might get the "heebeejeebies" in a creaky old house, but this doesn't mean I will start making political and investment decisions on the basis of the existence of ghosts.

Also, there is nothing wrong with speaking to other people in the philosophical language they understand. As a humanist, I believe in "walking a mile" in your shoes, even if you are a 1st world middle-class Christian. You are still definitely human, after all.
This is what I try do. I review website builders at sitebuilderreport.com— but I actually in-depth reviews (for example: I pay for each website builder with my own credit card to test their cancellation policies).

The hard part (I think) can be establishing that trust— getting the reader to understand that hey, I'm a real guy, who's really spent a lot of time looking at website builders.
I spent my highschool and college years in Texas, and I couldn't agree more. Austin is a beautiful city with a beautiful culture, and even more "boring" places such as Dallas and Houston are filled with super friendly and down to earth people.

I now live in Silicon Valley, and I find that there is much more social tension around here. I've been hated on as a young techie, as a Chinese immigrant, as someone who moved in from another state and doesn't "understand" Bay Area culture. People here are also the opposite of "down to earth".

I've never experienced any of the above when I lived in Texas, yet the first time I went to a NBA game here a few years ago someone shouted at me "Go home China boy, Yao Ming isn't playing today".

Weather in Texas is atrocious though.
Same thing.

Are you telling me that to "make a marketable product" you would need to pay 10 engineers $100k for a year?

Hell, just hire 5 engineers at $100k a year (which is expensive) and that still leaves you with a decent budget for marketing/sales/running costs.

Certainly enough to make a marketable product.

It's blatantly untrue no matter what way you cut it.
>God Bless this Great State. It is the last Bastion of Truth and Freedom.....

Oh my god I just groaned so hard. Seriously? Somehow Texan exceptionalism is a whole extra level of silly on top of "normal" American exceptionalism.
Mark Suster responds re:uBeam
How Clearbit, zoominfo, Insideview, Netprospex get their lead data?
Hey, I'm just curious do you know how companies get lead data before they start selling it? Crawling and parsing Linkedin, Crunchbase, About.me, Angel.co?

Are their any specific strategies in getting a better quality data?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic about that list line about Austin.
They aren't going to do it with EM either, as most of the same fundamental limits apply.
It's probably visible from a highway. Distracting signs are distracting.
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Heroin has been illegal for a hundred years. We still have junkies.

You can say the same about alcohol. Does alcohol ruin lives? Yes. But we limit many of the social impacts by treating it as a regulated substance vs a controlled substance.
Yeah .. one should definitely examine all theories and the space of theories.

For a large enough number of theories the probability of one of them starts to become pretty low.

Also nothing more than trying to take advantage of a poor dying man who's probably questioning everything he's done to get there. Great time to appeal to a man's emotions rather than his intellect.

And not to mention he had to write a book about it.
Oh. This should really be clearer on these pages. I was using multirust-rs after having used rust up and had no idea this was related/a successor.
Apache Milagro: security framework for cloud-connected apps
Do you have an example of a case where this provided a performance benefit to 6502 code?
como faiz?
> we don't produce all that much anymore

If by "we" you mean the US, this is not true. US manufacturing production was as high in 2015 as any prior year. Production took a big hit in the "great recession", it may be on the decline as percent of the total economy or as a percent of global production, but it's still a huge amount. https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/OUTMS
Ask HN: How can I seek out successful mentors who I can connect to?
We always get told about the importance of having mentors in real life. Most successful people have/had mentors who they're grateful to for their achievements. I'm super curious to learn how one finds such mentors to connect to.
In the specific case of prostate testing, all they can do is repeat the test. And it likely comes back with the same results.

Many men in their 40s and 50s have high test results. Those same men can live 30, 40 more years with the condition. Or they can die of prostate cancer in 3 years. Or they could get treatment, and lose all use of their prostate for the rest of their life.

It seems like prostate cancer testing is the poster child for "the test tells you something, but often you statistically don't want to act on the test...".

I have no plans of ever having the test done.
> Get mistaken for a teenager on a prom date, and you can be refused service in a fancy restaurant.

Wait, what? I don't understand. Why do people feel that teenagers can't be allowed to have nice dinners?
Well... yes. There's that. I TAKE IT BACK. THEY'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE.

I still like more competition.
I also grew up in the panhandle. The state isn't so bad, but it's also not great.

I don't understand the exceptionalism, either. There are a lot of really nice places in the world, and frankly big chunks of Texas (anything north of San Angelo and west of Abilene) are pretty depressing on social, cultural, and ecological fronts.
Fair enough. But the more rare a condition, the more observed positives will be false.
"By some estimates" is reference to the logic that one professor scored humans on a log scale 1-5 and Einstein was a 0.5, therefore some human could be a 0.1

By that same logic, there are 0.0001 or 10000. Its completely baseless.