skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much has the Internet done for your business that a smaller, proprietary network wouldn't have?

Why do you think other networks wouldn't have grown global?

> If there are three or four proprietary networks with limited and expensive communications between them, growth is hobbled.

I agree, and there was tremendous pressure to interconnect them. The "inter" part of internet is the result of that, it's why it's called the internet rather than Arpanet. Numerous packet switching networks were developed in the 1960s, not just Arpanet.
Tim Draper is, quite frankly, the Trump of Venture Capital. He's a great, nurturing guy though in terms of personality and affect.
I can't speak for the US, but here in Canada prices have gone through the roof. When the iPhone first came out you could get a 6GB plan for $55/month with Rogers. Now for 5GB you're looking at $105/month, bring your own device.
New businesses eye the opportunities in managing genome data
as of 10pm in London last night, when one could reasonably expect it to be getting more accurate, it was at 11%. And 25% was in any case a very poor prediction considering these markets are supposed to be more accurate than polls.
> Similarly, I wonder if it's simply been long enough -- when the UK joined the European common market, today's pensioners were too young to have much if any experience of the business/labor world -- that the people of the UK are in a similar situation of not realizing just what a risk they're taking, or how bad the consequences can be, since they have no direct experience.

Actually the graph in the mentioned article clearly shows that younger people were in favor of staying in EU. It was the old population which wanted to leave.
Where the set of "bad things" gets bigger and bigger, and increasingly detached from reality, every year.
.. confused by the title?

> Yet, just as Cameron prepared for the end, someone spoke up. In Cameron’s retelling, a voice “rose above the deafening roar of the mob,” speaking “sharp and crisp, like bells ringing out on a clear, cold winter day.” The voice — “feminine” and “sweet” — delivered a simple instruction: “Take this boy back. He had nothing to do with any raping or killing.”

i think it should be 'how to stop a lynching: speak out against hate'
> Healthcare is one area where many people (particularly Americans) have the absurd idea that everything has to work perfectly.

Yes, healthcare tech should at work at near perfect. There is an enormous difference between getting poor search results or not seeing photos of your drunk friend from the weekend and determining if you have a life-threatening illness. Healthcare is not an area where you want to be "bug testing" and the outcome can be life or death.

I agree that the tech should be explored and probably could be refined over time, but healthcare is an industry where you can't "fake it till you make it."
Does the FBI have special powers that allow it to violate habeas corpus? No? So this ruling then means to me, "Anyone Can Hack Without Warrant Because Computers Get Hacked All the Time". Let's begin everyone.

nmap fbi.gov
No, I know it's nothing to do with the EU.

That's the point - people were told by Brexit that leaving the EU would free up £350m per week, and the money would be spent on NHS.

I know that was a lie, you know it was a lie, but many people believed them.

The Sustainability and Transformation Plans were looking rough before brexit. I dread to think what they'll be like now.
There is a saying I can't fully remember about the nobility of an old man planting a tree, knowing he will never sit in its shade.

At which point should you switch from trying to shape your generation's future to trying to shape the next one's?
Just needs to be <50%
Yes, but without the tax if you have a 90 day window when you leave it wouldn't be a big deal that the company isn't liquid yet, you might just buy the shares as an investment. My point is that because if the tax, buying the shares in this scenario (if the stock isn''t liquid enough) is not obtainable.
It's in hearing stories like this that we should better understand how brave men like this really were: http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-08-17/10...
> I mean the much narrower point of not being able to tell -- from the press -- whether a company actually has a technology that works.

There has always been a simple solution to this: it is the company's own job to clearly demonstrate that it has a working technology.

If you view it that way, then the press's inability to prove it one way or the other doesn't matter because the responsibility lies with the company. In fact, Theranos was quite unusual among lab companies from the beginning in that it didn't follow the path other companies followed in showing they had a working technology. Anything less than a clear proof by the company, and the subsequent confusion is the company's own fault.
Not a comment on the API itself, but I like how Stackoverflow/Stackexchange has interactive documentation, allowing you to fill in prompts and have it create the request for you and show the live results.

https://api.stackexchange.com/docs
Have you a source for that? Would like to read up on that. I was always under the impression that Greece was already not that stable financial before entering the EU, and that they faked their economic data/audit with the help of a bank from the US to get into the EU (and EU politicans knowing about it but ignoring it).
For any given SaaS company, the fastest response is probably not the optimal result. At least 3 other variables are equally important:

1. Quality. How thorough is the response? As the blog post says, "Plus email reply time says nothing about the quality of support."

2. Cost. Are customers willing to pay more for speed and/or quality (either in dollars or because the company spends less elsewhere)? Up to what point?

Those 2 are the obvious trades (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle#.2...). There's at least 1 more:

3. Point of diminishing returns. Assuming a customer is willing to pay more, what's the real impact of a longer delay or lower quality? How {fast,good} do they actually benefit from?

Faster is only better when the test is only measuring speed. If you're reading this post and thinking "Man, our team should respond faster!" -- maybe they should, but maybe those other factors mean they shouldn't.

To give three examples I've seen in support teams:

- Company A has a big team of inexperienced staff sending fast responses. They succeed on speed (and would show up at the top of this list), but probably fail on quality. As a user, this is form letter hell.

- Company B has a big team of very skilled staff sending fast responses, or has developers or whole engineering team task-switch when a question comes in. They succeed on speed and quality but, depending on the product, probably fail on cost. May also have lower quality, since customer support/service is a skill that not everyone does well. As a user, this feels great. Sometimes the person who coded the feature I'm asking about is replying to me. OTOH, if I don't actually need knowledge that's unique to them, their time may be more valuable working on that feature :-)

- Company C succeeds on all of these, with a right-sized group providing high-quality answers quickly (let's say 2 hours, not instantly). Alas, customers aren't willing to pay for that. Their customers perceive diminishing returns from answers in less than 24 hours, and/or the price premium they want to pay for a faster (or maybe more thorough, or more clearly written..) answer is very low.

Sounds obvious, but based on how often companies make one of these mistakes, it's not. When one aspect is relatively easy to measure and others are hard or impossible, they tend to lose.
SBA loans exist, but they are not specific to any industry. I'd be interested if you could show a connection between SBA loans and the incredible growth of the software industry.
It is clear that immigration was the emotional issue driving Brexit. So it would be foolish to ignore that angle. (There were other angles, but I really doubt the resolution would have passed if it was just "EU regulations".)

I think it is also clear that it would be foolish to just focus on the "you're a racist!" angle.

Today's globalization and technology -- while bringing many benefits to the world -- also are leaving a lot of people behind, as seen by the growing inequality in much of the world today.

So you look at the Brexit demographics. The single biggest predictor for the Brexit vote appears to be average educational attainment -- the higher educated the area, the more likely the Remain vote. Social class was also a strong predictor -- lower middle class and above leaned Remain, working class and below leaned Leave. (http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2016/jun/24/the-are...)

The core issue to me, is that no one has really come up with a great solution for people "left behind" in today's economy (eg, those with low education or low skills). For them, things really are worse than it used to be. I know in the US, for instance, that real hourly wages for the lower class actually have fallen 5% over the last 25 years (http://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/). I cannot find similar charts at the moment for the UK, but I think I remember reading that it's similar (maybe even worse).

I believe a lot of these people have latched onto immigrants as the problem, as a proxy for issues brought on by other factors. Perhaps because immigrant culture is a very visible sign of global change, and they know things are crappier than they used to be... and, well, they blame what is obviously new and strange to them. This is a phenomenon found in many places, from Donald Trump to the Le Pens.

It's wrongheaded -- I believe this vote will economically hurt the lower classes more than the middle to upper class. The world is not going to un-globalize and technology is not going to un-invent itself. But without solutions to address inequality and wage stagnation, I'd expect more votes in the same direction.
Maybe. It adds a whole layer of complexity, but it might be worth it. Depends on your team's structure and relevant experience, and on the details of the project.
EU, United States agree on changes to strengthen data transfer pact
This is cool but what about a waterproof tablet case and the cheapest android tablet you can find? Would probably have the same computing capacity and is easier to replace/carry spares/deploy multiple.
On a more humorous note - I'd like to see you volunteer as a Beta Tester for Theranos' next release :) :)
No, not at all. But as another response noted, trust is a lot easier to lose than to regain.

A clear statement about the matter can help a bit. Active steps to make the ecosystem less proprietary would help as well.

That would help turn the message from "sorry we got in trouble" to "sorry we made a mistake, here's what we learned and what we're doing to fix it".
I reckon that wasn't any ordinary lady. I thought this was going to be about the psychology of the mob, but it seems it was about its spirituality, so to say.
By term "physical lynching" doesn't make sense. The act of lynching is physical in and of itself.
How did you manage to get back to Colombia without the passport with the visa? (I also have an expired one but TSA checked my Visa).
I think you're taking the phrasing too literally. When we say software rots, we're not just talking about the bits that make up a program, but also its interface with its environment, and the knowledge about it in people's brains. Both those connections are indeed subject to drift/evaporation/entropy. The two failure modes you mentioned are symptoms of that underlying evaporation.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this (http://akkartik.name/about), but lately I try to steer clear of metaphors, because they're so often clear in my mind but utterly opaque to someone else's. So, I don't care what we call it, as long as more people try to fix the problem.
There are a lot of Indians (~1.3 billion), if even a smaller percent of them are programmers, thats a lot of programmers.
I diddnt down-vote you as I dont have that power, however generalisations about groups of people based on country of origin, race, gender, financial status, whatever is a large part of what caused this exit, if you read your post you are falling into that same trap.

My retired parents voted out not because they are right-wing or xenophobic (their son is a New Zealander now with an Asian Wife) but because they read right wing media (which they do not believe is right-wing) and believe the hype of the politicians and journalists. When they wake up tomorrow it is not going to magically be the UK of the 1960's they remember and the journalists and politicians will find someone else to blame.

Trump is doing the exact same in America and politicians from the right and left wing are doing it in other countries too. Generalisations are what gets politicians off, the fact generalisations also cause conflict is neither here nor there to them so long as they get power.
People react to things in different ways. Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my friend, whether or not that actually makes sense.

Look at the reaction on a forum like this which represents the upper middle class business-oriented citizen towards the societal impact of tech. Globalism is seen as an opportunity here, not a threat. Politicians, media, academia and business have told millions of people that things are great, but they are the problem -- they lack education, skills, wherewithal and have expectations for prosperity that are misaligned with reality.

So they lash out. They think to themselves "If some douche from the Bank of England or the Conservatives doesn't like this, that's good enough for me." That's democracy -- it's a messy business.

Is that a "good" reaction? History will judge. Depending on your POV, the crowd is either wise or rabble. But -- the critique that democracy is somehow broken is an incredible leap of ignorance. We (speaking from the US perspective) have been offered a sham of a democracy that isn't meeting the needs of many. We're very fortunate that we live in an age where peaceful democratic revolution results in a bad day/weeks for stocks. A hundred years ago, you'd have mobs in the streets and soldiers with bayonets shooting into crowds.
People were lied to. Some of them believed the lies.

Borris and Farage said that £350m will go to the NHS. Here's a picture of Borris by a sign that he had created for his campaign:

https://twitter.com/mgtmccartney/status/746245181532418048

It says "Let's give our NHS the £350 million the EU takes every week"

Here's a picture of their campaign bus:

https://twitter.com/mgtmccartney/status/746245181532418048

That says "We send the EU £350 million a week

Let's fund our NHS instead"

What have the Brexit campaigners said the day after the referendum?

Here's Farage explaining that saying it was a "mistake" to say the £350m per week would go to the NHS.

https://twitter.com/GMB/status/746218028195426305
Its redundant, but that doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.
Standards like Human Rights, which is something the UK has already expressed an interest in removing.
I'm a cold brew fan and once in a blue moon I'll heat it up when I'm in the mood and it tastes fine.
Not everything. https://xero.uservoice.com/forums/5528-xero-api/suggestions/...
The rights to the Theranos movie (Adam McKay, JLaw) have been picked up by Legendary Pictures[0]. Looks like the tentative title is Bad Blood. Too bad they didn't go with the HN-recommended title, Unicorn Blood[1].

0: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/06/jennifer-lawrenc...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11876937
Yup. Really, no OS is developer-friendly if you're going to mess with the system Python interpreter, because the system Python interpreter exists to serve system software written in Python. You can easily get yourself into very similar problems with Debian or Fedora or whatever else.

Install a virtualenv, and on OS X, maybe install Python from python.org, and then everything works amazingly.
Who wasn't? I am glad Lenin became a normal corpse, and I grief it has low buryability.
Stop writing shitty health checks
> The comparison is immature

Quite the opposite. Health regulations suffer from a number of perverse incentives that economists have studied extensively:

Drugs are needlessly delayed in getting to market. Doctors and patients are perfectly capable of assessing the risk/reward of an unproven treatment by looking at scientific studies. The FDA adds a layer of false-security... in spite of its sluggish process, the FDA is often quite wrong and drugs that were approved get taken off the market. For other drugs, they are delayed for several years and much harm is caused. Economists have studied this and found that regulators cause much needless suffering and death by being excessively risk-averse.

Consider too illegal drugs. Our regulators criminalize many substances, resulting in black market behavior and significant crime and other negative effects. Here too, backward regulations cause much unnecessary suffering, death (and crime too).

For people who do not understand healthcare, the world appears quite black and white. In reality no treatment works all of the time, and no test is without its share of inaccurate results. Doctors are equipped with enough Bayesian reasoning ability to use the available information wisely.

Also, a physician should not base any decisions on a single blood test result. That is not the proper way to use such tests. If it were, doctors and medical training would not be necessary. Most tests have a significant probability of false positive and false negative results, so docs are trained to consider the results only in the context of other diagnostic clues.
Anticipating the Future by Watching Unlabeled Video
I stand corrected then :). I was thinking about it in comparison to the PS2 and PS3 with their infamously weird architectures.
I'd guess they mean that the kind of people who think they are competent to do their own research are exactly those who are not.
Did you get your new Colombian passport while in the US? Otherwise it suggests you left without your passport? How is that legal?

In any case if you had a B2 in an expired passport, it is still valid (I came to the US with two passports, one expired but has my US visa). I was just lazy and did not transfer it, but there is no problem doing so. You just might have to explain your passport-in-the-US situation.
From my experience with a raspberry pi's, they're disks can easily become corrupted. If I needed a rugged computer out in the field, that would be a last choice. (I know he didn't use a pi, but I'm sure the problem still exists.)
I'm a US citizen and want to move to Australia for good. How can I find someone like you in Australia to get advice from on how to proceed? (I'd just be looking for a normal software/managerial job kind of like the one I have now)
yeah, this is my line of thought as well. But it gets complicated when there are two co-founds in the same boat :)
ultimately both of our claims are not falsifiable.
> Surreal how there are people smiling in that photograph with the corpses hanging.

One of the grisly and horrifying things about lynching is that this was quite common. Whole towns would turn out and gladly pose for the camera with dead bodies in full view.
The problem here is MacOS. The amount of work around and hacker I've had to do on Mac far exceeds anything on Linux and more surprisingly Windows. Let that sink in, it's easier to get things to work on Windows than Mac.
Although the GC is there and is the default, often D projects use various other memory management schemes in critical places. You can use malloc/free, custom allocators, stack allocators, and RAII in the usual ways as required.
Heroin epidemic is at 1996 levels, but the conversation is different
not if there are multiple co-founders and possibly some investors involved.
A Most Dangerous Game (2015)
Nooooooooo.

I dislike Stripe's API. There are parts of it that just make no sense.

Say, you want to set a billing date for that fancy subscription. Yeah, just set a trial date until the billing date you want. Oh, and don't forget to charge a prorated difference (by hand, with charges)!

Want to upgrade that subscription? Yeah, cancel that subscription and start a new one. Oh, and don't forget to set that trial again!

Want to cancel that subscription but not until their next billing date? Hahaha, yeah no. You need to cancel now through Stripe and set up a process to cancel on your side. (Not the biggest complaint, but really. If I am having Stripe manage my subscriptions, they should do it all)

And I am sure there are many other details which would also drive me mad.

With all of that said, I think Stripe's API is definitely one of the better ones since my complaints are more functionality / feature requests than complaints about how it is set up.
Well, all tests have some probability of returning a false negative or a false positive. The key is for the physician to know the probability of each and to reason appropriately using the diagnostic methods at his/her disposal.
Agreed, the sales page is completely broken. If the scrolling highjacking 'worked' I would still hate it.
Okay, so the FBI can do whatever it wants, just like anyone else. When they get caught, they should go to jail, just like anyone else.
Fake startup CEO punks big tech conference with fake apps and terrible advice
REST implies HATEOS. If you can't use an API response to navigate to other resources of the API, I wouldn't consider that API RESTful.

Also, verbs are not RESTful. Verbs imply an RPC interface.

RPC (verb):

POST https://<payments-api>/card_authorizations/<id>/capture

REST (noun):

POST https://<payments-api>/card_authorizations/<id>/charges
Right, it's redundant. Like this comment.
D offers type modifiers that include the notion of transitive immutability. This is very useful in function signatures in determining what a function may be modifying without needing to rely on comments.
Hi Peter

What would you recommend for a student who is on an F1/OPT STEM extension who wishes to found a startup ?

Thanks
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Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid
Fair enough, I was comparing the application + runtime interaction, basically I, app behavior.

>Java creates a lot more garbage.

Very true, Go is great about keeping things on the stack.

Also sync.Pool helps a lot when used as needed.