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Literally everyone I know in real life who has an app idea.

They are looking for a technical co-founder, full-stack developer which can implement their ideas into reality! They'll do the brainstorming "Hey, why don't we add a Like button?" as long as someone else handles the implementation, with all the nasty details.

UPDATE: @cnkk beat me into it! :-)
My condolences to all the LC employees. By all accounts Renaud was a well liked CEO, and he was there since the start. This must be such a morale killer :(
Broadly, your argument sounds like "people shouldn't become voluntarily disabled because society isn't very good at accommodating disabled people".

I feel like we'd become better at accommodating disabled people if there were more of them. And that would be good for people who don't have a choice about their disability.

As an example, "large screens for fat fingers" also sounds good for people with poor motor control.
I think it's time to go either buy simple fresh product or go buy soylent joylent Huel and others.
The food industries is only making us fat!
The real cost of sequencing: scaling computation to keep pace with data generation :
http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s130...
Unlikely that there's a single cause. One possibility is that people's value systems differ: do you like smoking? Do you like eating bacon? Do you like sunbathing? For each, there are people that disapprove, or would like you not to do this, or would even ban you from doing so (I could pick more controversial examples, but these are sufficient). Conflict clearly exists - but a way of resolution is not clear at all.
I have a couple Windows desktop apps (animal husbandry and event management) that have been around for years and still doing quite well. But I think these succeed primarily because they have a nice specific vertical and are particularly well suited for desktops.

For me, a successful desktop application has the following traits:

-- A nice specific vertical that is deep and complex to process,

-- Complex entry screens with lots of necessary rules and data validation,

-- Lots of manual data manipulation during the events,

-- Substantial benefit from ability to take advantage of desktop level mouse and keyboard actions,

-- Some complex grid based screens that can be tailored by each user,

-- Fairly complex reporting after the events.

These requirements are still too much for browsers to handle well. The grid based screens are especially horrible in browsers. And browser apps are still pretty horrible for complex data entry screens that want to be customized by the user.

That said, I'm porting the first to a mixed mode where the engine will be internet based but the primary interface will still be the "normal" download and install desktop model. This is to allow some portions to be used in a browser, but the main application still keep the full desktop power.

FWIW: my original apps were Delphi based, but the language long ago stagnated and had become tedious (comparatively). Since I'd switched to .NET for contract work, I started my rewrite in C#. But but I ended up hating the server deployment crap with .NET and also of got really tired the direction Microsoft is going in general. I've now switched C# for the desktop side and Google's Go language for the web/model portion. I picked Go primarily for the trivial single executable deployment. While I don't really get much enjoyment out of coding in Go, it is eminently practical for this type of work. (Note for Gophers: I don't think Go is bad either ... just sort of there. I do use it quite a bit these day and do get the "fun vs practical" trade-offs the Go team made.)

But the future may be bleak with Microsoft moving to an app store. Why the F do I want Microsoft sitting between me and my customers. It adds no benefit to me and provides no benefit to my customers for a portable or unzip and go desktop application. Plus they, like Apple and Google, want to become effectively the worlds most expensive payment processors.
> Check the forums, rarely people get it in few weeks

These posts are probably from summer of 2015 when the online ordering was launched and the operations didn't manage to keep up with the waiting list.

> Do not agree. At the end of the day you need just one tax consultant.

If you're running a one-man show, then the sum of costs matters a lot. Simpler framework -> less help needed -> less hours on the invoice -> money saved. I haven't ever needed a tax consultant for my own undertakings, but then again I'm an Estonian and I don't have the tax-residency-in-another-country angle. But as we are talking generally, without specific examples, then let's agree that:

1) one definitely needs to look into this subject before deciding on the best course of action when starting a business anywhere (do a total cost of ownership for the next 3 years, etc.),

2) this area needs modernization as more and more people are moving around the globe every year.

> Sorry but this is getting now bold.

My intention wasn't to imply that US is for shady offshore stuff. Or that offshore/nominee stuff needs to always be shady. I only wanted to say, that if you happen to be the guy wanting to do shady offshore stuff, then Estonia is not the place :).

> Sorry have to disagree here again.

Let's agree to disagree for now, and let's re-evaluate our opinions in a few years when these new programs have had a change to make their stand.

Br,
Erko
> That fact is now being used against you, and all of us, in a big conspiracy called "marketing".

addiction would be a better term IMO.
I'm lumping Linux in that group because my impression is that Linus is ambivalent about security--it seems to be just another feature to him (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-...). Additionally, with most of the popular distros, once I install the OS, I have to spend a bunch of time locking things down before I do anything else, whereas OpenBSD has pretty good defaults that I can build up from. Also, when Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distros, started capturing searches by default, that got me questioning their commitment to privacy.

That's not to say there aren't distros and contributors to Linux that care deeply about security--clearly there are. I just don't find the overall ecosystem nor the most popular distros nearly as focused on or as trustworthy on security and privacy. And as the stakes get higher with more of our lives going digital and more companies, states, and criminals trying to take advantage of that trend, I worry.

As for OpenBSD vs FreeBSD, I've had an easier time getting OpenBSD working on my hardware and OpenBSD seems to me more concerned with, focused on, and practically innovative on security--that is to say, they don't just introduce new security features that can be configured and used by someone smarter than me, the OpenBSD folks work hard to introduce new security tech that's on by default with no special knowledge required by the end user, i.e. pledge, W^X.
This. When folks come to my Startup events I host and ask about Lean I point to this book. Informative and an easy read.
Thanks for the rant! I'm with you. Many people probably would not read an article about incremental advances in science. As an economics topic, genomics may be turning into a bigger influence.

For a scientist working incrementally, accumulating data, sieving it for information, fighting for grants, doing administration while making sure family gets three squares, articles like this may cause a wince. But they probably influence support for more funding. Pro scientists I know do not have time to read these articles and will never see them unless it's from someone else, but budding scientists, career-changers, influencers, all get misinformed.

In short, news on science causes long-term damage for short-term gains.
FreeBSD follows a similar pattern to linux, security at the expense of performance is a regression.

the reason people say that Linux is insecure is probably because Linus' stances take a hard line, in that "you must understand what you're doing in order to make a patch".

The problem is, QA and auditing is only so good and doesn't always catch the people who really don't know what they're doing.. So Linus is openly hostile to people who do stupid things consistently in some sort of attempt to fend off the others who are doing silly things although perhaps not realising it.

That's my impression and it's based on nothing more than an outside perspective so I'm probably way off base, but Linus has certainly been quoted before as saying things like "anybody who pushes for security first is a masturbating monkey", avoiding integrating GRSec and PaX for aeons and it's usually left up to distro maintainers to cherry pick the bug fixes from the mainline kernel branch.
Who is this big and sad for? The loan buyer?

It isn't sad for retiring CEO Laplanche is it? I mean, it looks like they cooked the books, and now he's quitting before having to deal with the repercussion.

My guess is that he was forced out, but I'm not sure it matters if it was under his own will or not. Either way, it's definitely not sad for him or LendingClub.
That letter by Dijkstra was certainly hyperbolic. But he was also referring to a version of BASIC where unstructured programming was the norm. To say that that ruins programmers is not entirely wrong. Consider the developer who has to unlearn years of habit involving the use of numerous global variables and temporary variables that produce unreasonable code. What does t1324ab123 mean?!? Seriously. What does it mean? This is in code written by people with bad habits. The hyperbolic element is that they're "brain damaged". But the truth is, they have to be rehabilitated and convinced that what they're doing is unmaintainable and unreasonable. Programmer background does matter. Modern BASIC is not at all what he was railing against in that letter.

EDIT: EWD498 - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF
> Also since when exactly did websites have a mandate to economise to the scale of mobile data? It's always been edge case unless you are specifically targeting that.

Trends towards mobile-first have been a thing for a while. Especially in developing countries where mobile users outweigh desktop users.

Targeting desktop is slowly becoming the edge case for anything targeting a mass audience. Look at a lot of the recent high-value tech companies. Do Uber/Snapchat/Whatsapp/Instagram target desktop or mobile first?

Where are users in general spending the majority of their time? On a desktop/laptop, or on a phone/tablet?
From reading the comments, and having been born in Brazil, raised in Portugal, and for spending a lot of my allotted time on this wandering cosmic orbe on many countries, I feel that many don't get the _global citizenship_ concept.

Nations are abstractions. I belong to a greater human community. Fortunately I could witness the advent of the internet and of massive information exchange between peoples. I rejoice with a untold pride when human beings make some amazing advancement in whatever field of knowledge we happen to strive for: the many fields of science, art, philosophy. I watch with amazement when a new boundary in space travel is surpassed; when we (humans) reach political agreements that make the world a bit less inhumane (insane) and more sustainable; when we stop thinking through the lenses of arbitrary divisions and reach to a higher goal.

I am a citizen of the world (global citizenship) — and I am proud of it. I am glad I am able to learn and to share information with such a vast array of different peoples. I literally live on an utopia (no place) that is an information matrix inside my head. And I am glad to be here today typing this comment within an international community (HN).

This is my interpretation. If you try to make global citizenship a dystopian political agenda then you're talking about something entirely different.
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https://github.com/node-ffi/node-ffi
if you don't know if it's real how can you claimed it has arrived?
I think a lot of their volume is peer-to-peer, though, and there's nothing saying this $22m was from an institution and not a rich individual (though an institution seems more likely). I imagine this is more of a case of "I have a lot more money than your normal customer so I want special treatment" and Lendingclub then abusing that to take advantage of the investor. I wonder if the investor had taken their $22m to the automated web platform and setup their investment criteria if this would never have occurred.
Carry on. I'm with you.
Not all countries have HIPAA style privacy restrictions.
Public whole genomes are available.
Are there any plans in place for locking down the syntax? Major release 3 is coming and developers are still being expected to hit a moving target.

One of the nice things about C is that K&R era C is just as valid as C written nowadays, but Swift appears to be going in the opposite direction, every major release adding and removing bits of syntax.

As someone unfamiliar with the language, it makes me not want to pick it up, since guides and documentation I read now will be incompatible with the newer release when it happens. Some early toying around during Swift's original announcement led to hard-to-debug errors (in part, caused by terribly useless error messages) when trying identical code on newer releases.
Not a problem - but thanks for saying. I've given up caring about the down-votes. I often give a terse reply, thinking the implications are obvious, and then get down-votes until I explain my comment in extreme detail, at which point they are often reversed. I need to learn that people sometimes need things spelled out in full. It's happening again here.

That all sounds a bit harsh, but I'll let it stand. It's probably just a consequence of people being busy.
So what mechanism carries the information of how the body functions from generation to generation if not genes?
Microsoft sells productivity tools and videogames.
Very interesting article, thanks for sharing this. Worth looking into this concept.
Though NixOS and Guix form a different approach than the FreeBSD's, that is they treat packages as isolated immutable objects and use an unconventional directory layout (wanted to note this, because someone who doesn't know the OSs named may have thought that FreeBSD and NixOS/Guix approaches are similar).
It would not surprise me if the latter is a primarily American interpretation. (The US being the spiritual home of "NWO"/anti-Government sentiment.)
> Internet is plentiful enough that we don't need to scrape and squeeze every last kilobyte.

For you and I, perhaps. For the people on 2G/3G or worse, trying to read a simple article, modern web pages are hilariously heavy. The whole point of the web was openness. This is why Facebook, Apple and Google have all developed their own solutions to this problem: FB Instant Articles; iOS News app; Google Accelerated Mobile Pages.

If these companies are taking it seriously enough to develop solutions, there must be a real problem or serious sections of the market being missed/obstructed by the failure of publishers to build their websites responsibly.

And in general, no matter that heavy pages can still load quickly for me on my privileged broadband connection, it still pisses me off when it takes 3-5 seconds for a page to load when I know it should fundamentally take a second (or less) to show me text and some associated images whenever they're in the viewport.

Google AMP is the best solution for the web so far, but it's a step backwards to XHTML/WAP and mobile subdomain sites. The correct thing would have been to hit websites with genuine SEO penalties for shit mobile performance. This is especially true because AMP doesn't even work on older mobile browsers.

The biggest reason why the web needs to care about every single byte of overhead? Because native apps barely have this problem. Neither side, native or web, is going to simply be killed by this, but the value of websites and web apps will decrease if they do not prove to be viable vehicles for content.
I've been playing around with it a little and it's... fine? Very capable. Not run into any moments that have blown my mind, but neither have I found any that disgusted me.

In a weird way it actually reminds me most of TypeScript - JavaScript-y, but with types and stronger enforcement of rules.
The problem with this argument is that computers take very little time to context switch - a couple of milliseconds at most. Most humans take closer to 30 minutes or an hour to do the same type of context switch.

As a fellow ADHD'er, I realized some time ago that while multi-tasking, I was just doing multiple things poorly. I'd lose the stack, forget tasks, lose conversations - basically be a waste of space, except for the very rare times where I could write brilliant code due to hyperfocus.

When not on medication, I will be forced multitask, but I do so with "tasks" which require differing amounts of concentration - so I can leave one part of my mind stewing on a problem while looking at cat pictures.
There's a lot of discussion on here about stupid consumers vs evil corporations, etc. As is often the case, the blame lies with just about everyone involved to some extent. The US government choose to promote a low fat diet with it's original nutrition guidelines in the 70s [4] which led the public to demand the food companies to produce low fat everything in the 80s and into the 90s. It's now emerged that there was little evidence to support the health benefits of a low fat diet.

When you remove fat from food it becomes unpalatable unless.... you add sugar. Thus the increase in added sugar in just about everything which has helped to contribute to the rise of obesity and metabolic syndrome and all the diseases that come with it from diabetes to fatty livers, heart disease, etc.

So who's to "blame"?

The government in some ways, even though they seemingly meant well when recommending low fat diets (they're just now beginning to recommend reduced sugar and ease up on fat warnings).

Food companies in some ways who seem to have known about sugar's addictive properties and engineered their food to keep you coming back for more rather than keeping you healthy [3].

Consumers in some ways for not reading labels, exercising more, reducing portions, etc. But who could blame you when the government and the food companies were trying to convince you that what you were eating was good for you? (unless you had time to dive into the research yourself but let's face it, that's not an option for 99% of people)

One of the best explanations I've read of not just why sugar (fructose to be specific) is bad for you (in the quantities Americans but also most of the world eats it at) is the book "Fat Chance" by Robert Lustig [1]. You can also get a glimpse into his arguments via his youtube lectures [2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Chance-Beating-Against-Processed/d...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

[3] http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/food-cravings-engineered-by-in...

[4] http://time.com/3702058/dietary-guidelines-fat-wrong/
> There can only be one explanation: most consumers are dumb.

Incidentally, this also shows why democracy is flawed.
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I've never read her work, so I'm hardly parroting her. IIRC I've read about this in a few news articles about pharma finances, and in Ben Goldacre's "Bad Pharma". I don't know whether the marketing/sales figures include administration, but it does appear to be true, and I'd be inclined to think it's bad...
Kind of, but a bit more elegant and much more general in nature.

The idea is to put this device between the electricity outlet and whatever device. I could then go to a website and toggle the electricity switch.
Interesting anecdote, but

1. It's quite possible (though it's a huge rabbit hole we shouldn't plumb here) that they were taxing the wrong macronutrient entirely, that is to say, that fat on the body is more a factor of sugar going in than fat going in. So in addition to imposing costs it may have failed to give benefits (whereas had it worked to improve health outcomes maybe it would have been worth the costs of enforcement etc.)

2. The Danes taxing butter?!? That seems extremely odd given the dairy industry and culture. But I suppose major kudos for being able to overcome such prior biases to even run the experiment.
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To be fair, there has to some point in time you choose to claim that the "future has arrived". But I agree that great care should be taken to give credit where credit is due; and that means giving credit to all the failures as well, without which successes could never have arisen.
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I don't think HN could ever do this as long as it's associated with YC. It would be hypocritical of YC to be against paywalls and advertising if they have funded, or will fund, a business model that relies on it.
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This is a scam, theyre actually delaying the news by like 50 minutes. Probably due to corporate sponsorship or something ;)
Our medical and social systems are ill-equipped to deal with cures for widespread diseases, which is what Harvoni and its related drugs are. We are used to paying for disease on time: relatively small amounts of money for periodic treatments that might last a lifetime, however long that lifetime may be. And we (at least in the US) often think more about the value of the treatment to the patient rather than the value of a healthy person to society.

These questions of cost and value go far beyond HCV. It is a popular, medical, and entrepreneurial dream to cure cancer wholesale with a single easy course of treatment. While cancer isn't a single disease, perhaps we should begin asking now how we could assess the value and pay the price for such a "miracle" should a cure for any of the most common cancers be developed.
Most of the time is about ignorance, but even if you know Sugar is not good (Parent wrongly assumes just refined sugar is the problem) it will be very difficult to see where is contained. There are many names for "Sugar" and hidden in different ingredients, like HFCS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup
Do be honest, for someone who is interesting in pursuing an idea with a given individual, creating a reddit account shouldn't represent a barrier. If it does, no problem, it wouldn't have been a good match anyway.
This isn't a direct response to your question, but people often refer to the last few decades (or even centuries) of philosophy as "current". 40 years may be ancient in experimental science, but it's practically yesterday in philosophy.
I lend on Prosper but I am worried that there are borrowers who have figured out how to game the system. If you look at the borrower applications they are clearly not filled out by real people. When I first started lending there in 2007 you could tell it was a real person applying for the loan because the application form contained more information about the borrower and they actually answered questions. It seems pretty sketchy to me but I haven't pulled my money out just yet.
I'm not very strong on finance at all, but if the hedge funds have pulled their money out of the Lendingclub platform then shouldn't that reduce the amount of money that Lendingclub has to lend and therefore drive up the cost of taking a loan from them, assuming demand for their loans hasn't dropped as well? Like a basic supply and demand thing?
The language around the industry has changed over the past year as institutional investors began to make up more of the loan buying volume-so the name changed from "P2P" to "Marketplace Lending"