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The criticism is not that she didn't work with the sick and the dying for decades, it's that she maximized their suffering and sickness to glorify herself and to aid in fund-raising.

She raised billions of dollars and very little of it ended up helping the people she was supposed to be caring for.

> I wish more people would be "bad" like Mother Teresa.

Don't worry, there are people like Benny Hinn, like Peter Popov, like Creflow Dollar who are out there taking mountains of money from people in the name of faith to spend on their gold-plated jets.

Mother Theresa did more damage to the world than you can possibly imagine. If instead of celebrating misery she worked to mitigate, instead of being staunchly opposed to birth control she had encouraged family planning, if instead of using the sick and dying as a fund-raising tool instead of helping them get back on their own feet to lift themselves up the world would be a better place.

Mother Theresa clearly didn't give a shit about women's rights.

> The world is made better by the good things people do for others.

Especially if those good things help others pay it forward. She kept her flock just sick and miserable enough they didn't escape. She's like someone with Munchausen syndrome by proxy in a monstrous scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchausen_syndrome_by_proxy
What about if you used Googles cloud infrastructure?

I agree that it's probably crazy but I think it is possible that large organizations can miss on their core value propositions once a certain time/size has passed.
What's your math for that? It really all depends on the financing deals and Uber/Lyft seem to have no problem getting money at favorable terms.

It would create a huge boost to revenue since drivers get ~75% with Uber. If they drove the same schedule it would be 4x the revenue, but autonomous vehicles don't have to sleep or see their families so the revenue difference in switching 1 human into 1 robot should be at least 6x.
Hey, some people sit on messages boards and shit on others AND manage to build successful businesses that let them live the lives they want. I'd rather choose them as models than the douchebags drinking kombucha in their Tesla.

(i <3 u 'idlewords)
Yeah, I was just about to reflex-respond to your comment before I read the last line, because med science is something that I'd contend the vast majority of HN to be unfamiliar with. Depending on what the pay or benefits or whatever the retention situation for medsci workers at Theranos is, maybe it's just good sense to milk that cash for however long they can before going back to whatever else is there for them.

I agree though, it certainly says something about an employee who worked at Theranos, or Enron, or higher-up Samsung, etc.

220 is a lot of people, too.

Anyways, my point about medsci is that the field of medsci is so diverse and specialized that it might be hard to find somebody with both neuropsychology + pharma experience (just an example) and I think that a few people lingering around are probably just being overpaid so much to stay that it would be foolish to give that money up until you absolutely had to.

Super elite talent (Lattner comes to mind) has some different dynamics to it, but it's the same principle of having such a strong but also highly specialized base of knowledge, that it makes sense to ante up in order to get that talent onboard, and for the talent it'd be ridiculous to turn down the money since you're so valuable that you'd be able to morph your new workload into something that will make you a stronger developer regardless. Similar to someone with extremely advanced medical knowledge, just being around the right environment and tools and stuff would probably give that person tremendous ROI, on top of being paid well, that when the storm passes they'll be stronger because of it.

Lots of angles to think about with all of this!
'Thousands' is very committed. I wonder if they are doing this to make a statement, or if they feel rapidly scaling up to a thousands strong prototype test fleet is the most effective way to accelerate progress towards market ready L4 robotaxis.

As the analogy goes, just because it takes 1 woman 9 months to make a baby does not mean 9 woman working together can make a baby in 1 month.

Either way, it's very committed. GM isn't fucking around, they mean business!
Sure, but if you name the solution to this problem "virtual identity suicide" (I had to look it up too) you're not going to get many adopters. That's like naming marriage "single status suicide". It's not even accurate. What things are named matters a lot because most people cannot tell the difference between the name and the thing named nor can they easily remove implied yet unintended meaning from text.
There's a lot to like with AppEngine, but the support is showstopper for anything you can't afford to be down.

Outbound emails, for example, mysteriously quit working for a month straight until someone there admitted that the anti-spam dial was tuned incorrectly. There was no error back to the users indicating the emails were being trashed. https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...

You might check out the various lower cost plans that many providers offer to startups. Here's a few:

https://www.digitalocean.com/hatch/

https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/bizs...

https://aws.amazon.com/startups/
Ethereum takes the record for paying out $53 million dollars (943 BTC X 53 = lots). Technically, it wasn't even theft or a bug since Ethereum & DAO proudly claimed "Code is Final Law".

I almost feel like cryptocoin and blockchains are set out to do 1 thing really well-show how superior centralized systems are and how easy it is to trick people with pseudo academic jargon-just read Vitalik's writing peppered with superficial pseudo-academia-charlatan pendant language it's zealots gladly eat up-with little to know effort to dissect and analyze fact from fiction.
Why have I confused Mulesoft with Nullsoft all these years?
Until companies actually launch their products, I think nothing is a foregone conclusion. We don't know that Volvo's technology is just going to work flawlessly. People assumed that about Tesla and at least 1 person died (there are reports of accidents in China as well that tend to miss the US media).

I am strongly against the PR blitz that self-driving cars have been getting for years, but to judge a company's product before they have a product is a little presumptuous.

Each company has its pros and cons. Waymo certainly seems to have the current lead, but they bled so much talent it's strongly indicative of a serious internal cultural problem. Delphi has been steadily improving their technology over the years, but as more automakers build their own tech it will be hard for them to find a buyer. Argo is the new up and comer, but they haven't really announced anything other than a large amount of funding and some great leadership. Volvo seems to be doing a great job and I hope they deliver on their promises, but they haven't launched yet so who knows what will happen. Uber pursued the technology aggressively and that has led to something of a shitshow, and they've already lost a lot of talent. Tesla had the PR machine that is Elon Musk behind it and their customers love them (and many of their customers believe they have level 4 autonomy) but their track record for self-driving technology is questionable. Cruise has a great business model by working with Lyft and GM and have clearly developed quickly, but they haven't released nearly as much data as Waymo. Then there are the others that haven't really had any PR announcements and the companies that are completely in stealth mode.

I don't think anybody knows what's going to happen.
Huh? This is still an issue? Well, glad that we finally have a decision after 129 years since George Eastman.
Just out of curiosity, did you reach to this conclusion based on what you read in the news about Theranos or do you have some other extra information? I have no relation whatsoever to Theranos and I am genuinely wondering how someone can have such a strong opinion on a company that they read about in news, which we all know never tells the full story.
> When workers were deliberately disempowered, their work suffered
> and of course, they hated it. “I wanted to hit you,” one
> participant later admitted to an experimenter.

Everything everything everything makes more sense when you remember that humans are tribal, territorial mammals.

If you're given autonomy over your space, it becomes your territory. Even team
automony is OK if you are emotionally tied to your team enough for them to feel like "your tribe".

But if you are not, you are forever in some other mammal's territory. Imagine a wolf walking through their own woods, smelling the scent of their packmates. They are confident, relaxed, calm. Now put that wolf in anothers' forest. Anxious, hunted, always on the alert for an attack. This is what it feels like to inhabit a space you can't have any influence on.
I have considered writing a Hacker News Reader app for iOS a number of times. I still think it would be fun to write, and I commend the author for making the effort.

I have never done it myself because I always come to the same conclusion: reading HN in Safari works perfectly well, and I don't like introducing a new user interface unless there is a compelling advantage. Does this app add new features that the web interface doesn't provide?
Well a large part of the reason she got her initial funding was that she grew up with Tim Draper's kids and he's still sticking up for her, so I bet he's got a nice soft landing for her in mind.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/business/theranos-founder...
Qualified immunity is one of these baby-boomer neighborhood patrol vestiges with a subtle undertone of racism and xenophobia that will hopefully be limited in due time as the vast abuses it enables today become more apparent.

The legal burden on the victim is just absurd, not least given how the qualified immunity boomerangs further into the 4th amendment claims.
In other news, water is wet.

"If you aren't paying for it, then you're the product."

Facebook, Reddit, Google... they are all out to sell you.
Blockchain and Cryptocoins will face the same fate HYIP forums / Liberty Reserves went through-regulatory enforcement and social stigmatization.
Exploiting such a tiny bug is damn impressive if you ask me. The bloke who pulled this off deserves the cash.
So could many of the shares in the Dole case be due to naked shorting?
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Should we be calling Autism an illness? Like OP I feel like this condition is not a negative thing, just a different thing with some drawbacks and benefits.

Communication and socialization are different categories. Personally, communication isn't an issue if it is goal oriented. When I do not understand the goal of many social situations, communication does not follow.

When you get fired for not being chatty enough and you cannot change even if you wanted to then autism means something. Not a scape goat but god dammit people need to understand "a culture fit" does not mean hiring friends.
Where I live in Switzerland trash pickup is paid by volume (and free for cardboards and paper).

PET, glass bottles and cans can be deposited for free at recycling points. For larger items there are recycling centers (where I think you pay by weight once you deposit more than XXX per year).
lol - that's a good list. thank you.
They did detect the hack.
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In Snapchat, people actually routinely engage with ads by spending time setting up and taking photos using branded filters, then sharing that ad with friends. That's starkly different from the typical loons you see replying to an ad on Twitter.
Why not? It's a technology problem and technology almost magically gets cheaper over time. I don't see why it won't eventually be like all the other required safety features (airbags, ABS, etc).

If you live in the middle of SF it might sound silly to own an autonomous vehicle, but if you live out in rural Sonoma County it is going to sound a lot less silly. I frequently go out to the mountains and I doubt I'm going to want to call an Uber to load all my camping gear into and be gone for a week.
To those that downvoted, care to explain? I think it's a reasonable point to make that many of us read as much (or more) code as we write. Therefore, my concerns about readability.
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Manifoldjs is becoming PWA Builder
I must be a freak of nature. I'm only motivated when it's difficult.
It must be working if they are keeping the name...
Ask HN: Tax transistors? Funding basic income in post-work world?
Had a thought that taxing transistors would be the fairest way to fund transistors in a world where automation was destroying jobs at a rapid clip. I acknowledge that taxation around any single metric would incentivize non-optimal work arounds but this seems like a fair enough proxy for "work done" that would be hard to word-around.

I'm interested from the UBI proponents how we would fund this kind of social program in a capitalist system where profits are still accruing to companies that controlled "intelligence."
Something I'm slowly coming to realize is that unless you have a logically defensible moral position, it's hard to argue with people that disagree. Terms like reasonable are so flimsy it's hard to use it as a model to communicate with people that don't already agree with you.

The successful operation of a principle like "reasonableness" requires an intake filter to suss out whether people joining the department roughly agree on what it means. If someone doesn't agree with your definition of reasonableness, it becomes a bludgeon wielded by both sides that can't be affixed to a definitive state of the world and the winner will necessarily be side that can exert more political force.

Element three is more concrete. "[3)] No one is special."This is the classic statement that all are equal before the law regardless of position in the department, which is the only way to grant popular legitimacy to rules.

"[4)] Do not be offended if someone suggests you are not being reasonable." I feel this rule is a symptom of the lax definition of reasonableness. The reason people become offended when someone accuses them of being unreasonable, is because the standard is so loosely defined that someone can (reasonably, ha!) believe themselves reasonable when others do not.

I read an interesting article the other day where the author took a moral position and reasoned it through [0], showing how it was legally reasoned through in high profile situations. This kind of cooperative principle is harder to state, but more easily defended on grounds that are still require agreement, but in principle can reference an objective reality (e.g. from the article, elements like "proportionality"). Obviously, the referenced article is not a scholarly work, so there is more that can be done, but

I guess this is the kind of thing political science majors learn about in school that I didn't get exposed to as much except through my own reading.

[0] https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
That would be the case if Instagram/Facebook's only source of lock-in was a user's established friend connections. However, Instagram/Facebook also have extensive history of each user's actions and content.

This is valuable, and why Facebook creates retrospectives for its users (in the last year you posted X times... here's where you were 2 years ago... etc). Snapchat lacks this due to the very ephemeral nature of the service.

Edit: grammar
"In a decentralized economy, one person's mistake must be distributed to the collective."

Hackers rob the mortgage downpayment you made with Bitcoin, said platform gives everybody an haircut because platform provider won't take responsibility and claim it's the cost of decentralization without really understanding the responsibility of the platform still falls upon the main facilitator.

What a great new thing decentralized economy is, everyone will be dying to get in on the action!
> When workers were empowered to design their own space, they had fun and worked hard and accurately...

Generalize this from physical space to development environment: It's nice when ui doesn't change by a few pixels each morning.
It's nice when namespaces aren't continuously churning.
API stability makes work fun.
The incidence of accidents with any reactors is very low.

The risks associated with those accidents are extremely high.
No, the API is read-only at the moment. So from the app, you can't login/post/comment. It's more of a reader.

I mostly made it to have a canvas that I can try to add/build fun features whenever I want.
I'm assuming office is closed.
I'm sure that some people don't care if it's dying they enjoy their job, I'm sure that some people are hoping it will pull out and their longevity/loyalty will be rewarded, and some may not give it any thought at all.
But the [multi billion dollar] question is do they then buy the stuff from the sponsoring companies? Most advertising on Snapchat is experimental, we'll have to stick around to see if the experiments are successful.
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Ageing and death are the accumulation of errors; is my take from this study.
Last week in LineageOS
>Creating anonymous magic Internet money out of thin air, then selling it.

Well, not much different from what our banks do.
"Save the world" type narratives are a huge part of American culture and have been for quite awhile. It has especially ramped up in the last decade and a half or so since 9/11, usually coupled with yet another post-apocalyptic plot. Look at TV, movies, and popular culture. The theme even appears where it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I assume it must be really popular. Is it any surprise that businesses use this theme to drum up business, regardless of whether it makes sense or not? And let's face it, it doesn't make sense for any of them. No business has ever saved the world and no business ever will. The idea is beyond ludicrous but I assume it's fun for simple minds.
I've used GAE (Google App Engine) a fair bit myself too.

I think that new startups are well served by GAE for a couple reasons, with some caveats.

Easy deploys - you just upload a war file and you're done. Also, the versioning works pretty well, so you can have multiple versions of your app live at the same time and switch on the fly.

Access to message queues - those are actually very useful. You can send stuff off to queues fairly trivially and it'll get processed as needed with retry and timeout options.

The scaling advantages are overstated for startups - if you need unlimited horizontal scaling, either your app is horribly inefficient or you're already making enough money to write a simple scaling infrastructure.

The caveats are that the datastore is really nice (pretty much megastore), but if you use it, you'll have a hard time migrating to another service provider.

As for limited funds, GAE is actually fairly expensive as it's PaaS versus IaaS, but if you're a startup and speed is of the essence, it'll let you get something out there in front of consumers very quickly for very low up-front and fixed costs.
> until they gave up

Wasn't it mostly due to EUR losing ground against USD (due to QE?)? (at which point it didn't make as much sense pegging the currency only against EUR, I wonder why they didn't peg against a mix of currencies). In any case the SNB doesn't seem too concerned now, at least there's no peg anymore.
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Neat. Thanks for the info!
Possibly, but they weren't really testing to learn about the effects of old vs new foods in general. It's more a test of whether "metabolic junk" is significant to aging, so they used food sources that would have more or less of those factors present. The relevant compounds are different and not precisely known for the different organisms, thus the cannibalistic diets.
Thanks!

What is the "standard" menu icon? This isn't really a menu, but a dropdown, so I figured the chevron would work fine.

I'm really pleased with React Native. I am writing React at work, and I was surprised how similar it is to React. I know that is the selling point for it, but after learning the few gotchas from the docs, it was pretty much just like writing a web app.

I'm currently not touching local storage, I will as I add more settings, so I can't really comment on that.

The navigator is a little confusing, but there is a new navigation project[1] that is supposed to be pretty solid, I am planning on migrating to that soon.

[1] https://github.com/react-community/react-navigation
I am guessing that the strong feelings may be to do with the outcomes of the company's bungling. After all, we are talking about people lives being in the balance here.

The constant sugar coating, avoiding, or plastering over of defective methodologies and processes can elicit these sorts of feelings - especially if the person suspects, or knows of issues that should be brought to light.

Its different say, in the case of a soda manufacturer changing the recipe for their best selling beverage. The faux outrage there is probably an overreaction. But if it is a car/aircraft manufacturer that knowingly builds vehicles with a known defect that can cost human lives? Well, then, I think the outrage is justified. I think Theranos falls into the second category.
I also have Aspergers (or I should say had, because the diagnosis doesn't exist anymore). And yes, it sucks. I really wish I had some answers for you. I've always tried to fit in to the best of my ability, but they always see through me. It is a paradox that you can be very smart in other ways but not smart enough to execute behavior to make you a respected member of a group.

Sadly, it is perhaps so that regular software development is not a good career path for autists anymore because of the shift from hard to soft skills that has happened in the last 15 years. Maybe other avenues are more suitable, like book writing, lecturing or something.
Relevant question: if you decide to record the police as a result of this ruling, they tell you to stop, you refuse and continue recording them, and they arrest you as a result... could you get into any legal trouble? Is it safe to act upon this ruling, or should you just do what the police tell you to do regardless?
I think the odds in my proposition give me sufficient edge to proffer the bet.
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I live in the suburbs and I go on road trips all the time with the family.

About half of my neighbors own RVs.

Self-driving vehicles would be a dream come true.
It might be more useful for brand awareness. Car companies don't advertise their products expecting to get a sale - they're doing it to strengthen their brand with consumers in general (more often than not for the people that already bought their product).

I don't use Snapchat nor am I a marketing whiz, so I could be wrong.
Where do you go to buy a plastic gear for a RC car? Identifying a matching part and getting it is a task that probably most of us have become incapable of. I also believe that much of the infrastructure that made repairing things like this easier in the past has disappeared to a large part.
In the words of Harlan Ellison, "You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant."
Thanks! History is definitely something I want to add. I was just focused on a solid stories view/thread view. Now that I am happy with that I plan to add more settings/features.

I haven't worked with storing info to a device with react native, but it doesn't look like it will be too hard.