skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes of course, your family needs to eat and you need to eat. If you're most concerned with just making enough money to eat, you have a huge number of jobs available. If your app's failure vs. success is the difference between eating and not eating, you've made that decision consciously, knowing that you (necessarily) have the skills to get other jobs without such dire consequences.

The point I was making is that this rhetorical device of "I need to eat" is used way too often as a euphemism for "I want to make a lot of money". It's used that way because the former statement elicits sympathy and the latter statement attracts derision.

In the context of the original comment, the "need to eat" phrase was used in the context of an app developer. You don't create an app on the app store as a last ditch attempt to feed your family. You do it to make money, and you do it knowing the risk that it won't be successful and you won't make any money. Apple's inscrutable opaque approval process is another annoying risk on top of that, but whether you're going to eat shouldn't be a part of the equation here.
HN doesn't like your comment, but it brings up a good point.

Groups that have had (or have had the promise of) something react differently when that something is taken away, compared to groups that never had (or were promised) it in the first place.

There were never the same promises made to black men as were made to white men. So while black men have lost that nebulous "american dream", they're much less interested in demagoguery and strongman solutions.

A portion of white men, however, might feel a sense of strong injustice at losing something that has felt almost like our birthright. Others might change their perspective and realize that the promise was never all that concrete to begin with.
One of the key take aways I got from this article is that it is nearly impossible to depair the efficiency of exploitative capitalism of 'physical industry' and the abstraction that is an economic, or generically a bloodless, revolution.

It is economically more efficient to centralize the resources but far less robust. SV could disappear tomorrow and a significant amount of the Internet's "revolutionary" capabilities would disappear. This doesn't appeal to SV's narcissistic sell of a special snowflake, but the power they wield in their capacity to damage any progress associated with the growth of the internet.

On the other hand, a distributed internet is far more diverse and robust yet the economic costs can be exponentially far more damaging and costly.
Sure... local grocers/pharmacies offer flu shots and blood glucose testing. Why pay for Theranos branding?
Does Richard Branson have passenger vehicles that can achieve interplanetary flight?
Arrogance is exactly the right word. Arrogance that is not justified at all by their execution lately. Developers were willing to look the other way while the app store gold rush lasted but those days are long over and it's increasingly looking like a Faustian bargain sold cheap.
Apple commercial actor, Dos Equis most interesting man style:

I don't always charge my iPhone 7 (shows headphone plugged into the lighting port), but when I do...I do it without bringing down commercial airliners.
From an outside perspective, the "mini-lab" sounds like a slightly different name for the same thing they already promising five years ago. What am I missing? Anything?
This is what is so distressing to me as a founder. The fact that our company is actively doing exactly what you describe but despite our best efforts and press and everything even tech people who reside on the same tiny internet island as me have no clue we exist.

*I appreciate the downvotes! God forbid someone be honest with their feelings. This isn't an indictment of the previous poster but rather an expression of the grinding head fuck that is building a company - which I would expect others to appreciate.
You seem to be implying they're doing something else?
In July 2011, Holmes was introduced to former Secretary of State George Shultz, who joined the Theranos board of directors that same month.[48] Over the next three years, Shultz helped to introduce almost all the outside directors on the "all-star board," which included William Perry (former Secretary of Defense), Henry Kissinger (former Secretary of State), Sam Nunn (former U.S. Senator), Bill Frist (former U.S. Senator and heart-transplant surgeon), Gary Roughead (Admiral, USN, retired), James Mattis (General, USMC)

There's some crony capitalism for you.
A big part of ending the drug war needs to be some form of restitution and reconciliation.

Commuting non-violent felony drug charges to class A misdemeanors would be a huge first step.
They'll probably change their name (why hello Accenture), and the people associated can now put the untainted name on their resume.
This chart of men's civilian labor participation rate by decade roughly describes what the article is talking about.

Fewer men are working, and it's been a long term trend.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300025

Women's participation increased dramatically but has come down in recent years.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300026
Jeppesen KLGA Approach Plate Honoring Sully [pdf]
Encryption means I can leave my private data unattended and be confident nobody will read it. That was easy.
MIT Thinks Furry Wetsuits Could Keep Divers Even Warmer
Sorry to hear about your Nexus 6 =(.

From the presentation and all the hands-on so far, the Pixel is definitely a high-end phone (both in prices, and specs).

And from the reviews the camera sounds pretty awesome (good quality, fast, good low-light performance).

For wireless charging, my understanding was the issue is the metal body. (I used to use Qi wireless charging on my Nexus 5 - but to be honest, it was always flakey and sensitive to placement - and super slow). With the super-fast USB PD charging (7 hours of use time in 15 minutes), I'd honestly prefer that over slow wireless charging:

https://ausdroid.net/2016/10/05/google-pixel-pixel-xl-new-18...

And of course, like the Nexus phones, software updates would be fast, and some of the software stuff they demoed in Android 7.1 is pretty nice.

If it was me, I'd either get one of the Pixels now, or hold out for a price drop. But that's me...haha.
Quite a sad development. I always thought they would have found more success if they had adopted MongoDB's API (or similar).
I feel like this article muddies so much of what is cause and what is effect. It pushes the idea that there is an "age-old male quest for a paying job", whereas I don't think men or women or animals or anything has ever had that as their primary objective. The pressure has been to meet basic needs, meet societal obligations and expectations, meet peer pressure and similar outside forces that lead someone to take up a 9-to-5 job.

I think it's natural as those forces have weakened for this to be the consequence. It's become easier to meet basic needs, gender roles have become less rigid and there's not the same expectation of a male breadwinner, and society no longer demands everyone has children.

"One manifestation of regression, Donald Trump, is perhaps perverse evidence that some of his army of angry men are at least healthily unhappy about the loss of meaning, self-esteem and masculinity that is a consequence of chosen and protracted idleness."

Maybe they are, but just taking up a "pointless" job isn't going to change that. Without the sense that there's something bigger that they're working towards, being a Gap Factory Store employee in itself (as per the header image) isn't going to give any kind of meaning. People don't work bad jobs for themselves, they work it for something bigger. Family, society, some kind of grand purpose. Can just look at that Congo cobalt mining piece by the WaPo to see what motivates people to endure horrific work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/c...
Swarm systems are limited by nearest neighbor spatial interactions, not dissimilar to how you only communicate with your 10-20 FB friends.
Exactly. You're expected to naively trust 'the algorithm', because people are nowhere to be found near your supposedly anonymized data.

Speaking of which, anyone following today's stories about the Yahoo email scandal, the pressure on the folks who own Signal, and recent litigation from Microsoft against government gag orders?

But, let's go back to talking about none of us have free will and talking about how clever Now is.
> I cannot install Firefox on iOS.

Yes you can.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ios
A shame that a company like mongo can exist while a company like rethink folds.
I guess I was speaking more broadly. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but my hunch is that there are more elements at play such as the economy that is slowing early stage deal flow. But this whole situation sure is making it easy for someone investing in a company to spend more time scrutinizing the team and company. Again, may not be a bad thing. Time will tell.
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Then you should have mention that and not use your weak arguments to try to prove your point.

I have an iPhone and I don't use HomeKit, AppleTV, CarPlay or the iTunes Store, and use Whatsapp instead of iMessage.

And I'm afraid I can't see how replacing the headphone jack with a physical keyboard would make your argument better. If you want to charge your phone using microUSB there are hundreds of options.
Sometimes you guys are after blood, what do you want them to say?

"We're the worst, we'll never try at anything anymore, sorry for existing."

Would that make you happy?
NSA Contractor Secretly Charged with Stealing Classified Secrets
Being able to see what I write the same way as a reader would helps me empathize with them. Perhaps now I can have just one window open instead of Sublime Text + Marked.
For me prose is a really hard medium for parsing trends like the ones Will is describing here, so I made a scraper that turns the Bureau of Labor Statistics API into live D3 charts that refresh themselves every day and stay current. I’ve found it really useful.

For instance, here’s manufacturing jobs per capita -- you can see that the bump during the Obama administration, while real, is truly nothing to get excited about.

https://www.numer.al/us_bls_data/figures/manufacturing-emplo...

Conversely it becomes clear that manufacturing jobs have been pretty much smoothly and steadily disappearing since World War II, and it seems (to me) highly unlikely that any kind of immediate policy solution is going to reverse that.

And here’s the civilian labor force participation rate that Will is talking about in the article:

https://www.numer.al/us_bls_data/figures/civilian-labor-forc...

You can see clearly how much lower the value is now than it was at the turn of the millennium -- this is Will’s point at the start of the piece -- but you can also see that we’re still above the entire 40s, 50s, 60s, and most of the 70s.

Although the difference there is that the people not participating in the labor force were, I’d have to guess, women. Interesting that Will focuses specifically on men. It doesn’t look like the BLS breaks labor participation out by gender, which would be interesting.

If there are other BLS stats of interest to HN readers, I haven’t finished making a way for other users to add their own scrapers, but I’m more than happy to add figures for other BLS data. Just let me know.
It is fairly easy to assume that there are other routes to food than publishing apps in Apple's App Store. No one is guaranteed abundant income in general, never mind via some third-party business.
Do you mean the kind where my wedding cake costs twice as much because I'm gay or the kind where my car insurance costs twice as much because I'm a serial car wrecker?
> We’re excited that the members of our engineering team will be joining Stripe

So is this one of Stripe's BYOT hires?
Wow, cool facility. That is some automation.
I hope this isn't true. Having worked at/on multiple competitors I have nothing but respect and admiration for the work the RethinkDB team has done to make a great database and development platform.

This was real technology! I'm truly sad that the environment is such that great work like this can't continue to be funded.

Thanks for showing everyone how to write amazing documentation, caring about the fundamentals, and for the incrediblly snazzy admin panel.
Who says Mongo won't go eventually as well?
That is sad. We were considering switching to RethinkDB from MongoDB.
Loved that they took care of the engineers! Stripe is a great place to work where their expertise is surely welcomed.
This is really sad. RethinkDB is an amazing product.
Really sad to hear this; you guys were doing really cool work.
Ironically, I got a contact from a recruiter at Viv recently, and my main concern was that I didn't see how they could succeed unless they were bought by someone else. Either "intelligent assistants" are going to be a fad, or they're going to be a built-in feature: in the first case, the point is moot; in the second, standalone assistants like Viv was will go the way of standalone grammar checkers, i.e., either get bought and integrated or wither away. I agree that the open platform idea just wouldn't be viable; Viv would have to be so much better than Siri or Google Now that users would be willing to not just download it but use it in preference to the fully-integrated AI that came with their device.

Samsung doesn't strike me as a great place to end up, but I suspect they were the only place to end up, practically speaking. It'll be interesting to see if they can really compete against Google Now, though.
MongoDB is like the Microsoft of operating systems. Well promoted and easy to get going with. Hopefully they use the money they have to rewrite MongoDB to be better.
Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid
Globalization: A Pickle'a Tale
Training Recurrent Neural Networks [pdf]
Sorry, I don't understand how your conversation is relevant to the conversation.
> The paper looks at twins in Sweden. Hence, everyone in the study was subject to more or less the same environmental conditions, while only a portion (the monozygotic cohort) are genetically identical. You can use this design to isolate the portion of variance in longevity attributable solely to genetics, while making no other structural assumptions about the possible mechanism.

You seem to be completely missing my point. Twin studies do not prove that genetics are not a component of longevity. All it shows is that among the genes the commonly vary between human twins there is little influence on longevity. A far narrower statement than genetics does not influence longevity.

> At the extremes of the age distribution (this includes your lobster people) they essentially found no such component. Over the entire age range you can explain perhaps a third of variability in longevity by genetics.

My lobster people are not captured by any distribution. They do not exist. You cannot simply extrapolate the curve of Swedish twins out to lobster people. That isn't how statistics works - that isn't how anything works.

>Also, you seem to be under the impression that lobsters and humans are completely different at a genetic level.

I am not at all under that impression. What I am under the impression of is that lobsters have extreme longevity relative to humans, and that that can be explained by the ways in which their genome differs from ours (primarily, at least).
I would be curious to know this as well
> Thus, only I can be trusted to control, secure and curate my experience.

I think this is conflating two different meanings of trust. Apple hopes that you will trust them to choose to respect your best interests; but what I think most people are inclined to trust is that they are able to respect your best interests. The vast majority of non-techie users are not able to act in their best interests, even though they (presumably) want to do so.
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I'm not familiar with RethinkDB - what was their monetization strategy?
Ask HN: How do you stay focused?
I have a lot of ideas and there are many things that interest me, but I end up working on one thing for a few weeks and then move on to the next idea.

What advice do you have for ignoring the noise and staying focused?
Okay...but if Rethink couldn't make their business self-sustaining, why would Mongo when there are a plethora of other open source databases/datastores that can do Mongo's job better than Mongo?

EDIT: We'll just wait for Mongo to burn through all their cash then.
>about what you'd expect to find in this forum

I disagree, you find a diverse set of viewpoints on HN, this isn't representative. The fact that a distillation of r/theredpill dogma is the top comment is upsetting to me, but then again, I have come to expect that when the number of comments exceeds the number of upvotes on a story, such stories are more of a lightning rod of politicizing than it is substantial conversation.

Eventually the up/down votes equalizes it out. There are a couple of interesting comments below this that shock discuss the content of the article and probably will take this comment's place.
I agree 100%. This means both processes are insecure, though probably it's a matter of degrees, since you at least have the apple approval process filtering out blatant fuckery
Don't write off RethinkDB yet.
Sometimes consistency is desirable, as well as performance. Compilers are heuristic. They evolve and get better, but they can mess up, and it's not always a fun time to find out why the compiler made something that was performance sensitive suddenly do worse, intrinsics or not -- from things like a compiler upgrade, or the inlining heuristic changes because of some slight code change, or because it's Friday the 13th (especially when it's something horridly annoying like a solid %2-3 worse -- at least with %50 worse I can probably figure out where everything went horribly wrong without spending a whole afternoon on it). This is a point that's more general than intrinsics, but I think it's worth mentioning.

Sure, I can file bug reports in those cases, and I would attempt to if possible -- but it also doesn't meaningfully help any users who suddenly experience the problem. At some point I'd rather just write the core bit a few times and future proof myself (and this has certainly happened for me a non-zero amount of times -- but not many more than zero :)
To be honest, I was really on the fence about making that comment because of exactly this. It's that raw "slimy but legal so it's ok" attitude that I'm trying to capture.

It's unfortunate that a presidential candidate epitomizes that sentiment, but that's what comes to mind when I hear something like "It's just business".

Edit: now I need to go and rewatch "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"
well depending on the service you are not allowed to halt that service for various reasons - for example you can't halt or refuse to provide service in just about anything for reasons of race in countries whose legal systems I am familiar with, therefore there is some requirement to provide a reasonable explanation for refusal of service in almost any business - it just so happens that an app store type business seems different enough that it does not have to provide the same level of explanation.
Very sad to hear, but hopefully the software will continue to be developed in an open source format.

Keep this in mind when you invest in a certain technology: some organizations, especially nonprofits (for example, the Apache Software Foundation, Python Software Foundation, the new Node Foundation) are probably going to support and develop their software for extended periods of time relative to, say, a startup or for-profit (Parse, MongoDB and RethinkDB immediately come to mind).
Ever thought what do these salespeople do in a software company? This is what happens when salespeople fail to do enough of their thing.

Sales are essential for a for-profit company.
This is really so sad. RethinkDB is top notch. Truly a great team.
Well, Slava himself posted the (sad) news so it can't be any more true than that.
The article seems to be suggesting that the idea that there are KGB moles inside the NSA is, in and of itself, indicitative of the NSA's ultimate failure.

That's ludicrous. You'd be an idiot to ever suggest that the NSA wasn't penetrated at any given time somewhere by some foreign power's own spy agency. Design for the failure that's going to happen, not the perfection that never will.
If I could give a thousand upvotes.

How this escapes otherwise rational people is just stunning.

Anybody with an explanation? Some kind of virtual citizenship?
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> I wonder if Samsung would ever put this on their Android Phones.

I suspect that may be part of the long-term plan. They already partnered with VoiceBox [0] for some of the services, this seems like a natural expansion into additional services. Possibly sharing leveraging capabilities across both companies.

[0] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/voicebox-provides-na...

(edit: fixed quoting)
I can recommend vim-hardtime [0] for anyone wanting to force themselves to learn the "vim-way" of navigating. It disables n subsequent presses of hjkl where n is any number you want.

For me I set it up to not allow more than 2 steps in any given direction to remind me to use jumps instead.

[0]: https://github.com/takac/vim-hardtime
To simplify, lots of votes in a short time gets the article to the top, unless penalties kick in. If you're interested in the HN scoring algorithm, I wrote about it in 2013: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

Some changes have been made to the algorithm since then, but it's still roughly accurate.
Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights left. - Marshall McLuhan
Well my reasoning was that Theranos' criminal fraud might taint a given employee's CV. It seems like prima facie it might be possible to argue that this translates into monetary damages.
I posted separately, but your graph is for everyone while the article is about idle men, which is on clear downward trend over decades.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300001 (Men)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300002 (Women)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300025 (Men, 20+)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300026 (Women, 20+)
Masking in Gentoo is a way to say "we don't know for sure it's stable" not "don't use it". You are misinterpreting and the supposed evidence for your point is invalid.

(Edit in reply to below: That basically just means 'we dont want to babysit people can't compile a kernel or recover an unbootable machine'. It has nothing to do with the currency or utility of PaX or Gentoo. You obviously do not have experience in this area.)
Cool! Do you now better understand the rationale of gun rights advocates?
Let's reserve flagging for clickbait and off-topic posts.

It's OK to disagree with an author and discuss why you disagree but there's no need to stifle the conversation altogether.
Is Dash iOS affected as well?
EMR systems are mainly constructed to solve financial needs not medical ones. (Mainly because they are the ones paying for the system)
Sharing medical information from providers out of network is not of much value for this purpose, so it does not goes up on the priority list.
It's referred to in the article.. But I agree that it is a weak argument.
Business is about more than just the product, even if that product is better than the competitors.
Personally I'm really glad we didn't go that route. ReQL is an amazing, well thought out language. You could make the same argument about Mongo should have emulated SQL. In practice other factors dominate.