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> That's how accessory companies get around the Lightning port and MFi program in the future.

Classic Bluetooth devices need an authentication co-processor to support the encrypted iAP protocol, and you can only buy those co-processors through Apple-approved vendors once you've been MFi certified. There's really no "getting around" MFi for Classic Bluetooth on Apple devices.

Bluetooth LE devices can bypass MFi licensing, but do not have the bandwidth to support high fidelity audio.
We do not :)

Also, hi Nik, been awhile!
Actually, the news prior to the IPO about FB's advertising not being quite as effective made people lose a lot of confidence in FB and want to pull out.

This exposed a race condition within the IPO process that bungled it up. The post mortem talks about "order modifications" which are actually order cancels right up to the point of the cross was supposed to take place.

http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/TraderNews.aspx?id=ETA2012-20

Pricing the IPO lower would have had people not feeling that the IPO was overpriced. The overpriced feeling people got caused them to want to tap out and brought out the particular race condition that Nasdaq hit. Normally, IPOs get lots of buying interest. The all-in, then folding behavior was unprecedented as people who didn't believe in the company IPO would never have put in bids in the first place.
I think the public political issue is about 'gun rights vs fear' The actual issue is over the right of the gun manufacturers to increase their sales by 5-10% per year as required by neoliberal economic policy. Thus the fight is limited to 'fancy' assault rifles which are a relatively small percentage of gun sales. Vs handguns which are a large and growing percentage.
You can think a company should have a say and still think it's windy to use that say in a particular way.
It's been awhile since I've used Django, but I work with those who use it frequently. Django certainly shouldn't be put out to pasture- but you'd be surprised just how robust and production-ready Phoenix is.

Of course, no one can tell you whether it's good for your particular business case- but Erlang is battle-tested, and Elixir/Phoenix have made it both easy to reason about and perfect for being productive. If one had the option of choosing a framework right now, I don't know of many reasons to not use Phoenix.
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> Twilio is a company built against the prevailing Silicon Valley wisdom of "how companies are built"

Sell NYSE:TWLO!
"datum" means "a thing given" - a fact or presumed fact.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/datum
For a company with a yearly gross profit of USD92 millions and net losses of USD35 millinos, I cannot imagine who is buying shares at a USD1.8 billion market cap.

Are we in the 2000 again?
I'm calling it here, this trial will fail hard.

The basic idea is this: the cancer has a number of mutations that produce novel antigens that don't exist in normal cells. If we can train T-cells to recognize these, they can attack the tumor with great specificity and kill those cells.

The problem is, all the tumor has to do to evade this targeting is shed the problematic mutation, which is easily done - tumors are great at acquiring novel mutations to become resistance to therapy, losing a mutation is even easier. All you have to do is ditch one arm of a chromosome, revert the mutation, or otherwise eliminate the novel mutation, and your tumor cell is now resistant to this therapy.

Add to this the fact that we are basically shit at predicting which mutant proteins will produce neoantigens and you have a recipe for total failure, even in concept.
And what is your position about hardware?
There are actually many advanced statistics available to NBA teams via SportsVu. It can measure who passes to who, how far people travel on a possession, gravity (how close opposing defenders are drawn to the offensive player, how much someone dribbles, and a host of other stats. I don't think the system is in place at many colleges (if any).

The tricky thing with the draft is finding players that have a high ceiling and can perform far in excess of what they were able to do in college. Sabermetrics can help you identify that some of the time but I think attitude, ability to improve specific skills, and innate physical attributes are things a team would have to evaluate in person to uncover undervalued talent.
and that is true - but enabling the (default disabled) ad-blocking in Opera to test comparable metrics means that Opera, in my eyes, just lost any credibility they had.

Given that even with the ad-blocker it barely beat Edge I'm almost certain they tried it initially and found the result was true so enabled this feature so they could write this fluff piece.
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I'm a huge fan of BigCommerce. https://www.bigcommerce.com/

They just rolled out Stencil, which is a local development environment for building the themes for storefronts. It's using Handlebars for syntax, ES6 with Babel and WebPack, and is incredibly easy to setup. There's no local database as it pulls the product catalog from a running store, and it's installed with one npm install command.
But that's good for the GGP's argument. Going down means they extracted maximum value from the market. It's a very successful public offering by GGP's metric.
I keep hearing how .NET and C# are supposed to be pretty great these days. C# often gets credit for popularizing async/await, although I don't actually know if that's true.

Based on that, and the point you made, I'd definitely go the .NET/C# route if I ever ended up in the unfortunate position of having to develop software for Windows. Barring of course some reason that it had to be written in Go or something else.
This is true, and is shameful shortcoming in the law, a throwback to a less enlightened time, when racism was still a core value in a large segment of American society.

http://harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Reaching-M...
True, but I'd say the larger impact is in how levels are designed and the aesthetics - not so much the platform.
I do see some difference. I might agree that there should be a difference between a person who owns a property primarily for their own use and rents on Airbnb and someone who owns a property primarily for renting on Airbnb. One is more commercial, and one is more personal.

But Airbnb hosts seem to be taking advantage of legal grey areas. Airbnb is directly competing with the hotel industry, but they are claiming those industry regulations don't apply to them. I'm not saying that they are necessarily doing anything illegal or definitely acting unethically. But I do think that they are operating in some legal grey areas, so it's not overreaching to try to increase or change how regulations apply to them.
Not to worry. In just 25 more years, the metro system will go almost all the way to the airport.
It's great and important when an innocent person is freed from prison. Are you the attorney described in the LA Times article? If so, that's amazing and I'm sure everyone here will warmly applaud what you did.

The HN aspect is strangely beside the point, but maybe I'll address it, since it might help in future situations. Condemning the community seems a bit unfair. One need only look at the top comment in the earlier thread to see that 'nobody took the time to read my letter' is false. The problem was that the post was flagged by other users.

Rallying readers urgently to a cause is a hit-or-miss endeavor on HN, and the way you brought it up likely made it hard to distinguish from the run-of-the-mill politicized stories that appear every day and get flagged every day. On HN, an urgent tone turns out not to be a great way to represent an urgent case—even a genuinely urgent case—because countless stories take an urgent tone and they nearly always turn out to be crying wolf, overselling, or misleading. Readers have built up antibodies to that, and many come to HN to escape it.

Had you asked us for advice (which people are welcome to do by emailing hn@ycombinator.com), we might have suggested that you post an Ask HN and explain that in addition to being an HN user, you're an attorney who has discovered a miscarriage of justice, and would the community critique a letter before you send it. That would have been different in two important ways: you would have engaged readers' intellectual interest, and you would have established bona fides as a community member and an attorney. By contrast, trying to stir up interest Reddit-style tends to backfire on HN. And comments like "What we're dealing with is essentially the classic deontology versus util debate" probably took the thread in a direction that diminished its credibility.

But all of that is nothing compared to correcting a profound injustice, and if you did that, deep respect is due!
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000082

The NRA has power because people support their mission. They are not especially big political spenders.
Is it me or is this substantially uglier than the C version?
Your Self-Driving Car Will Be Programmed to Kill You–Deal with It
There is a lot of code being written outside of your bubble. I don't mean that in a negative way; we all have our own bubble, but you have to appreciate that what you're into does not represent the industry as a whole.
At what point are there consequences for bad decisions by judges? At what point are there consequences for bad decisions by prosecutors?

At some point, judges and prosecutors have to be held account for decisions that are clearly unconstitutional or against the law.

Where are the checks for these institutions? Appeals courts and whatever bodies oversee prosecutors is not enough.
That is reportedly what happened in Australia. People sold their guns on the market for twice what the government was buying them back for.

They had a huge amount of increased gun violence after the buy back.
Original article here https://www.toptal.com/javascript/write-code-to-rewrite-your... (linked at the bottom) has proper code snippets, but a super annoying fullpage interstitial.
> most of the best upper year engineers finish their studies and then abandon Canada for SV.

That might have something to do with it. If none of the good people are willing to stay for reasonable rates, companies may have trouble finding people regardless. That can reduce the costs of moving to SV.

For example: if the people you'd want to hire are comparing your offer against a SV salary, you may need to pay SV salaries anyway. But you'll still lose out on people who also like the job density of SV, or the weather, or that their friends have moved.
So Republicans don't want to use guns to fight crime? Could someone explain? I'm not American.
I'm convinced IBM has spent 10x marketing this thing vs. developing it.
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>> There is no way it's difficult to hire talent in Toronto, which consistently ranks as one of the most desirable cities in the world.

It's not hard to hire talent in Toronto if you're willing to pay full price.

In my experience, a lot of startups will try to use the lure of risky options/equity/bonus promises with the occasional signing bonus in exchange for a "startup discount" on the base salary.

Combine high living expenses of Toronto with the fact that there are so many large companies in Toronto offering stable jobs, your talent pool shrinks to those people who can or are willing to take on the risk of working for a startup.
Suicide is just another form of self-defense
If you run your own instance, you can turn off sampling: https://docs.getsentry.com/on-premise/server/config/#data-sa...
Whether as Jester or Joker, Adams likes to stir the pot, for profit. He is Dogbert.

We forgive his cynicism when applied to the modern corporate office. Because that's punching up and resonates with other victims.

When applied to current events, science, or politics -- especially when he's punching down -- not so much.
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
You're only required to distribute sources if you modify them _and_ distribute the resulting binaries right? Is there any evidence that the busybox and/or dnsmasq binaries are anything besides the normal stock installation? The customization is in other binaries that need not necessarily be GPL it seems.
And gang violence. I think it's safe to say, gun crimes among gangs would just be replaced with something else if guns were taken out of the picture. (Which...removing guns is not possible nor realistic, so let's be realistic about the solutions..)
I'm still learning, but I've already noticed some incredible response times. Phoenix is very fast. I wish I had actual numbers to give you that compare to Django but I'm just not that far along yet.

Elixir as a language is very nice. This is my first taste of "functional" programming and I really like it. Shifting my mindset from object-oriented has been difficult, but I find the code I write much more straight-forward so far for the types of apps I will be building.

What do I miss? Maturity. Django dotted its Is and crossed its Ts a long time ago. I wouldn't say Phoenix is buggy at all—I think it is production ready—but the recent work Django has been doing with things like Postgres libraries are several steps ahead of where Phoenix is at today. Also, Django documentation is bar-none.

There is nothing about Phoenix that jumps out at me and says "Django would be so much better if it had this!" Maybe Presence will be one of those things, but I have not had a chance to play with it yet. I am excited about how Elixir (on top of Erlang OTP) scales horizontally with virtually no effort, which is something that Python cannot replicate as easily without a lot of thought and some sort of bolted on message db—and in the end, slower. The robust concurrency story (and what that could mean long-term) is exciting to me.
How long will this process take? Is it enough to create a new therapy to target the mutated cancer?
Boston is an amazing city in terms of intellectual capital, no doubt due to its rich history and many universities in the area. The brutal winter and steep cost of living are what make it difficult for me to see myself living there long term; unlike NYC or SF where tech salaries tend to be at least somewhat adjusted for the cost of living, I noticed Boston tech salaries were only marginally higher than Atlanta's, while Boston has the third highest CoL after SF and NYC.
Statistics? Because every actual statistic shows the opposite.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/gun-control-in-australia/
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I'm not sure Pu would work in a gun barrel bomb.

It won't; it will predetonate, producing a "fizzle yield". With plutonium, the nuclear reaction starts so fast that the big problem is getting the critical assembly fully assembled before it blows itself apart.

With enriched uranium, the reaction starts so slowly that the gun bomb will work. That's why nuclear proliferation people are much more worried about enriched uranium than plutonium.
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Not the OP, but removing the 2nd amendment doesn't make guns illegal. Cars are not constitutionally protected for example. But cars can more easily be regulated because imposing regulations on them doesn't bring us into a constitutional argument over the intentions of the founders regarding the individual's right to a car.
Not really, the cord is a feature sometimes. I can undo one earbud and let it hang there if someone wants to talk to me quickly. Since they're essentially on a string, I don't need to worry about them falling out and getting smashed on the ground or touching a gross subway floor.
Minus the type system that is itself Turing complete.

In all seriousness, the culture behind C# is way too conservative for it to ever to become like Scala. They add features, but they're nowhere near as bold and daring as the Scala team. As a language, Scala's is both incredibly impressive and terrifying from an Abstraction Astronaut's perspective. Even F# is very conservative compared to Scala.
Yeah, right. Because there's nothing more destructive about a semi-automatic pistol than a knife.

Hmm...
> They cant forbid people to decline users, nobody would use such a platform.

That's absurd. The USA is full of business running on platforms that are forbidden to discriminate against protected classes.
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I don't know if this idea is stupid, but in an area like politics, I wonder if something like this could be useful for detecting subtext. Politics and diplomacy in particular have a sort of universal protocol for interaction that I wonder if it would be easier to read the subtext of human interaction to get some clues about the overall relationship, just through studying how the interaction deviates from the universal protocol. For example I wonder if you could build a map of hot-cold relationships between countries just by watching how their diplomats interact and using methods like this to try and read the subtextual communication happening.
I distinctly remember when "whenever I wanted to search something" I just visited altavista.digital.com. And then, somewhat reluctantly, altavista.com.

Granted, they did not have anywhere near the deep and broad reach that Google currently has, but I would not think it impossible for someone else to come along and tilt things in their direction.
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I assume that you haven't heard that immunotherapy is the new big thing in cancer research?

It's how they cured former President Carter:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/arleneweintraub/2015/08/21/jimmy...
So not a U-turn on the La Palma megatsunami?
He certainly fancies himself as Dogbert. In reality, he's more like the pointy haired boss.
>>If wages don't rise in line with skyrocketing living costs, then the only alternative is a permenantly impoverished underclass.

If wages don't rise, people will migrate further reducing the supply to a point it won't easy for normal people to live their normal lives. Then the next round of migration will happen and so on.. until there won't be enough people to rent to and then the rents will come down.

The worse, the better. Let the rents go up until it all collapses on itself.
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Sure, but at a state level lax gun laws are correlated with an overall increase in suicide, so it's not a free pass.

> Each law was associated with significantly lower firearm suicide rates and the proportion of suicides resulting from firearms. In addition, each law, except for that which required a waiting period, was associated with a lower overall suicide rate. Follow-up analyses showed a significant indirect effect on overall suicide rates through the proportion of suicides by firearms, indicating that the reduced overall suicide rate was attributable to fewer suicide attempts, fewer handguns in the home, suicide attempts using less lethal means, or a combination of these factors. States that implemented any of these laws saw a decreased suicide rate in subsequent years, whereas the only state that repealed 1 of these laws saw an increased suicide rate.

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2015.3...
I just donated, but only because the thread got this deep.
Sure, but then my browser with native procrastination protection will beat the pants off both: when you type in a url it just renders "get back to work, maggot."

It even works without a network connection.
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Basically, I believe it will be much harder for a competitor to reach the same capital as Google or Facebook.

Google and Facebook have massive networks, specialized storage strategies, proprietary protocols and hardware, and not to forget the actual data they have acquired. Lots of hard-to-acquire capital.

On the other hand, I do believe that both products could be better. Competitors could have better products, but not for a long time more capital.
You should just come work at Sentry!
AirBnB is a YC company, so I can see why this is relevant. But the biggest threat to their business model isn't hotels, or the behavior of hosts. It's that they're still in the 'disrupt' phase and none of their status quo has been tested in the courts.

If there is alleged discrimination, some wronged party will eventually file suit, and the courts will decide whose rights are more pertinent.

If there is alleged skirting of regulations, some wronged party will eventually file suit, etc. Until these threads play out, they're growing, but after, they could crumble overnight. This uncertainty is the biggest threat to their business.
It's BS, this guy is an idiot cartoonist who fancies himself a genius despite his failed restaurant and various public shamings for gross behavior.
People develop resistance to TKIs (tyrosine kinase inhibitors, the previous mode of therapy) within months; you could keep chasing the dragon, but the tumor is just going to keep doing the same thing, shedding whatever mutation you target. In this case you're not even targeting mutations that the tumor relies on (as you are with a TKI), so there's absolutely no fitness cost to the tumor to evade.
I think an argument that can beade that not restricting emergin nations from using fossil fuel would allow them to grow faster and we know that when society grows more wealthy we automatically have more kids.

If you are conserned that their are to many people, then faster growth is the best solution.

The question is one of degree. We know it can be bad, but its highly variable. For some it is good as well. The longer timeframe you are talking about the more unknowns their are. So a moderate policy of supporting alternatives and restricting the most harful stuff is not a bad strategy.
You can use the Foxx framework to create a REST api that suits your needs. There is also a community project for an ORM, see https://github.com/arangodb/arangojs/issues/215

However, in general it is more flexible and safer to use Foxx, because it allows you to fine tune complexes queries and supports transactions.
"Add to this the fact that we are basically shit at predicting which mutant proteins will produce neoantigens and you have a recipe for total failure, even in concept."

Do you think if we had more data surrounding those mutant proteins we could start predicting better?
May be that is the reason they are moving out!
I do cancer research at UCSF on an immunotherapy project...
> Something like .NET is available but this is supported by the creators of Windows.

and .NET isn't?