skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Its been 127 years since the Sherman anti-trust act was passed. Its probably time for a serious re-think.

I don't know much about anti-trust law specifically, but I agree that as it pertains to technology, we need to seriously re-evaluate the way the law is applied and revise some of the imperfect analogies that have been used as guidelines in tech-related court cases.

Due to misapplied and woefully outdated IP and computer access laws, tech companies have protections that meatspace companies can only dream about.

Walmart would LOVE to be able to tell people associated with Target that entering their store was a felony, and that they weren't allowed to duplicate their latest seasonal display. I'm sure they would also love to be able to put anyone who walks out of their store with a cart full of groceries under strict contracts forbidding the use of the public courts of law and mandating any dispute be settled in binding arbitration.

Walmart doesn't get to use these types of protections (because they're ridiculous), but companies that exist in cyberspace do. They're unfair to everyone except the massive companies that are already entrenched players. Tech entrepreneurs would have a much easier time competing against the mostly-illusory "network effects" of cyberspace if there wasn't someone waiting on the edge with a sledgehammer to destroy your company via legal fees and/or handcuffs to literally put you in jail, as happened to Aaron Swartz.

Tech companies also have totally unparalleled access to private data about their users, extracted just by utilizing them. Parcel carriers including the USPS aren't allowed to open your mail, scan it, and store the contents in a database associated with your name -- but Google is.

Ironic that we were worried about someone reading our mail before the technology to collate more than a tiny portion was available, but now that every communication we've had over the last decade can be neatly arranged and instantly analyzed from anywhere in the world, we don't seem to mind at all.

Tech law has gotten by under the radar for a long time. We need to rein it in.
Your definition would include tradesmen and craftworkers, then, who are not strictly professionals. Anyone can work in wood long enough to say "That wooden bridge looks like it'll hold X people," and not have any way of conveying how they came to that conclusion, because they didn't learn via a means of studying a specific body of work that can be measured and accredited. Without this distinction, many professions would not exist.

https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/The_architectural_...

Also, your definition includes itself as part of its own definition, which is a circular definition fallacy.
I'm guessing you work at one of the big 4.
> Plus, the only price I could find for a 1960s Cessna 172 is $12k.

Seems unusually low, compared to the offer prices listed here:
http://www.aircraftdealer.com/aircraft_for_sale/Cessna_172/9...
Charitably, "anything" also included "reality", "the truth", "potential negative outcomes". She was just telegraphing her intent all along :)

/s
Man, I started out so sympathetic to Theranos, too. Just goes to show how good my instincts are.
Pretty much what other have said: if you want to retain the ability to code, you're going to have to keep coding. The bare minimum would be running through the exercises on various coding sites, such as HackerRank. What would be best is to devote a weekend a month (more if you can afford the time) to actually building something, be it a mobile app, web site, etc. for something that interests you.

Also, bear in mind that the farther along you go in your career, the harder it becomes to switch tracks. If you go more than a decade without coding professionally, it may be hard to get yourself considered for a coding job by many employers without an exceptional demonstration of your coding skills.
What does someone stand to gain by lying about the time?
> the top 1% of US tax filers pay nearly half of all US income taxes

The top 1% also own more than 50% [1], so if they would pay their "fair share" they'd still need to pay more. Much more if you think that the differences should become smaller.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/10/14/1-percent-global-wealth-credit...
Even software companies do it.

This is the reason we have bloatware.
Obtaining an opposing party's waiver of their right to pursue legal remedies is not the same thing as obtaining non-binding indication that they may not pursue you legally.

In the first case you have extinguished a right that could be used against you. In the second case you have obtained nothing more than the illusion of safety.
Interesting. It would be nice to surface this approach as a simple spreadsheet app so people could develop an intuitive feel for the concept.
Next time I'm in Japan, I plan to look for and buy a DVD for which I made fan subs.

If a DVD has subs, chances are the pirated versions of it contain the ripped version of those subs. Fansubbing generally refers to making subs for material that has no subs at all, or not in that language. OCR-ing some captions or subs and pumping through Google translate isn't exactly fansubbing.
The presence of UB is not statically detectable. Global analysis may help, but it's probably reducible to the halting problem. (of course, you can detect some common mistakes, which is what many analysis tools do)

UB is not a property of the local code. It's a property of the code and the values you feed to it. Without explicit annotations of contracts you won't be able to statically detect this for C/C++.

At runtime UBSan exists to detect this.
I like type erasure and depend on it a lot for Scala and Clojure interop. Any JVM language works with the same objects and methods, and can implement its own type system/syntax on top.
oh man, human "race" is such a complicated concept....as an example, Zidane who is Algerian descent by all means would be considered "white" in the USA...but then he is also an African who was born and grew up in Europe.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/XI...
You kinda have to find what works for you, but a good rule of thumb is to double the time - e.g. review after 1 day, then 2 days, then 4, then 8, 16, etc. If you get a card wrong, it goes back to 1 day. Pretty soon, the cards you know will be permanently memorized, and should only get reviewed in 6 months or a year, etc.
I think most standardization in the LISP sphere happens around RnRS family of standards, ie Scheme.
I don't have an Alexa, so maybe this feature already exists, but will it tell you how much something is if u ask it? "Alexa how much is toothpaste". Also, I would buy in if I could set a price threshold for previously ordered items (aka, it would automatically warn me if toothpaste rose > 5% since my last purchase)
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~30k-40k for a mid 60's 172 that will actually fly, after some maintenance.
>public or well-known figures

you're equating two unrelated issues. Nobody needs or is entitled to a private company's CEO's tax returns. However, it is totally reasonable to see the tax returns of a politician who makes decisions on a daily basis that could very easily be tailored to line his pockets. It is not about tax returns, it is about transparency and accountability.
Even in the CEO's case, if the board of his company wants to see his returns, I would not really fault them.
It is pretty basic requirement that you have to be accountable to the people you work for.
In case of the Trump (I am assuming he is the reason for your comment), he seems to be confused about the roles. People are not his employees or customers. They are his bosses. The former don't need to see his finances, the latter do.
Because they're qualified if they have aviation patent experience. They would have aviation patent experience if they have clients.

I want to license to those clients. It's kind of a Catch-22.

The most qualified attorneys I can find easily (by Googing) are right out.

At this point I think the best approach is to pair with an aviation engineer who has gone through all this... hence my comment here.

It's by no means a simple situation. That said, I'm not really sure where I can find such engineers. I assume most of them are working with large companies and are not open to this sort of collaboration.
> The entirety of the internet runs on AWS. The rest is an inconsequential rounding error.

None of the top 5 Alexa websites [1] (Google, YouTube, Facebook, Baidu and Wikipedia) run on AWS as far as I know. I'm not sure what rounding mode you're using.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites
"Another issue is that my approach to software design has significantly changed. Where I would previously do a lot of inheritance and explicit design patterns, I’m far more motivated toward using composition, instead."

This, more than anything, has dramatically improved the quality of my designs... and made coding fun again.

Immutability and Lambda functions have also had a tremendous impact on my designs.

Is the term Object-Oriented-Programming relevant anymore?
> That's pretty much trying to shut down business with their customers.

That's not how credit cards work. You close that account, transfer the balance to a new card, and issue it to them in the mail. I've done it a half dozen times, and my CC company is only out for odds and ends like postage and stamping a new card.

> In fact, why were you making demands

I wrote "asked", and then you pasted that, and misquoted it as "demanded"? If you hadn't included my quote, I'd accuse you of dishonesty, but now it's just weird.

I asked them to proactively protect their customers, because my grandfather had been through hell after his identity was stolen, and I wanted to do my best to protect other people from the same.
The cost of living in the SF area is about comparable to that in major cities in western Europe. You can't easily make a 1:1 comparison, some things are way more expensive on one side of the Atlantic, and some on the other.
As a taxi service, the unit would have to travel to the client, do the client's run (repeat those two steps if possible), then return to base where the batteries can be swapped out, all while maintaining some degree of emergency reserve. I'm not sure how useful it would be for a taxi service if it only had an hour or two's endurance.

If the batteries can't be easily swapped out, then there's quite a bit of downtime in charging as well.
Horses were and are pretty expensive.
There isn't. There's a port of authbind, but I don't think anyone was able to get it working with caddy. The only solution I've heard of working is using the pf firewall to port forward, for example, 8080 to 80. Like this: https://salferrarello.com/mac-pfctl-port-forwarding/
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I know. With the greatest of respect your counter argument is literally just reiterating the point I was making. Albeit in the quote you've left off the part of my post where I said it's stupid to use robots.txt in this way.
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>rich can afford accountants and lawyers to keep their tax burden very light.

The top 5% in the US pay 55% of all Federal income taxes.
If they actually achieve their goals, then this would be a lot faster, quieter, more accessible, and quite a lot cheaper than renting a helicopter. Check the "mission" section on their site for estimated costs -- cheaper than or on-par with a traditional taxi.

Aside from not being easily bookable, helicopter rentals today are quite expensive (hundreds to thousands of dollars an hour, depending on the helicopter, origin, and destination).
That's where every Visual Studio dev will see them used, because it's been a VS pattern since the beginning. But I create them manually often enough. Overall I use them sparingly, but there are cases where you definitely want a set of things in one class for code-organization, but still want to think of them as different modules for human-organization.
I'll take a stab at it. I'm not an electrical engineer but I do have some experience with industrial control systems.

From Wikipedia: "Generally substations are unattended, relying on SCADA for remote supervision and control." These SCADA systems may or may not be connected to Internet, which could allow an attacker to remotely access and modify the code that controls transformers and other electrical equipment.

In another comment, someone mentioned the power company was, in this case, pumping C02 into the substation in order to contain smoldering electrical insulation. This means that, most likely, the copper conduit heat up beyond defined tolerances. This could be due to more current being carried than those conduits are rated for. Normally, the SCADA system would be responsible for keeping these currents within tolerances. What I am saying is that they could deliver a payload to the PLCs via the SCADA that could trick the transformers into taking more load than they could handle.
With Swift, that assumes that the function being called reports the error in the first place. Very few functions do.

Cast a large double to an int -- crash. How do you catch that error? You can't. You have to make sure it never happens yourself.
The UserDefaults is another great one. All sorts of ways that it can crash your app, none of them can be caught or handled. Your app just crashes. My advice: convert all your object to a text string (like json) and store that. Do NOT store a dictionary representation.
And that's just direct subsidies! Don't forget that rockets, autonomous driving[1] and solar power[2] were developed by the government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Renewable_Energy_Labo...
> That Rust and Swift require explicitly bubbling error values should be a point in favour of checked exceptions

I thought the explicit bubbling was the nicest thing about error handling in Rust. It's usually just a single character ('?') that the editor can easily highlight, and nicely indicates where the operations are that might fail.

I'd add that checked exceptions don't play nicely with general functional/stream operations like "map" which is why Java went with unchecked exceptions for their streams api in Java 8. Rust on the other hand can handle interior failures in such functions nicely, promoting them to a single overall failure easily via collect(), using the blanket FromIterator<Result<A, E>> implementation for Result<V, E>.
Pipistrel was trying to do this (along with a few other companies). At that point, the mechanical complexity is prohibitive along with the insane operating costs. You still need enough batteries to get back on the ground if something fails but you have the added weight of a combustion engine and it's fuel as well.

The whole appeal of electric motors is that they are basically solid state. You don't need to change oil or perform a ton of regular maintenance. Just replace bearings every few years if ever and you're good to go. Gas/jet engines need to be overhauled regularly which contributes a large portion of the operating costs. For instance, a Cessna 172R/SP uses a 180 hp I/O-360 engine that needs to be overhauled (completely disassembled) every 4000 hours at a cost of around $20,000. That's $5 an hour just for the engine replacement assuming no excessive wear or metal flakes in the oil are found.
My impression is that GCE is relatively young and growing very fast. To say Amazon won seems premature to say the least. This is an active battle.
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Scare people away from looking. Security by obscurity
> Just putting electric motors in current generation airframes would cut costs ten-fold.

Absolutely. I didn't mean to disparage the idea of an electric drivetrain for aircraft in general. Check out Pipistrel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiADDbeFanU) they're doing some incredible things right now. They have a LiPo powered twin seat LSA trainer in production that gets an hour of flight time at 80 knots and 600lb useful load with hotswap batteries. This is the future of trainers IMO.
Imagining it is as close as you'll ever come to flying this thing. It just isn't going to happen. See also: Moller Skycar.
Not true at all on the health side. These days, most of those people have plenty of money for gym equipment at home, personal trainers, etc. and they have the motivation to actually do exercise.

Relationships are hit and miss, in my experience. Some hard workers work hard at their relationships too.
As a low-level game dev, I consider C# a nearly perfect, wonderful language, tragically self-defeated by garbage collection.
Did you try to quantify the similarity or dissimilarity of language pairs (using GSVD for example)?
Do they get info about from which page they got requested when one includes just an image?
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Very cool, thank you.
Technically, it's a large drone.
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Can't read the Journal article so not sure if it has this or not, but reply from Theranos:

This is a one-sided filing by one party to litigation, and we will respond at the appropriate time in the appropriate forum. We disagree with much of what PFM alleges in its complaint. This is not, however, the time or place to contest their mischaracterizations of the record. We will litigate this case in court, where it belongs. What we will say now is that the items on which PFM focuses have nothing to do with why PFM invested, and they amount to a repackaging of allegations the media have already reported for nearly two years.

As for the tender offer: As previously disclosed, Theranos is in the midst of a tender offer involving its most significant shareholders. Elizabeth Holmes’ use of her own shares to recapitalize our C-2 and C-1 investors—and thereby prevent dilution to our other shareholders—is consistent with her longstanding, personal commitment to doing the right thing for the Theranos shareholder base. This tender offer has been in discussion between Theranos and its shareholders since July 2016. To date, more than 99% of C-2 and C-1 investors other than PFM have chosen to participate.

PFM, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund, opposes the transaction, and is asking the Court to stop the tender offer because it is “unfair” specifically and only to PFM. In response to PFM’s suit, the Court suspended the tender offer for a month in order to permit sufficient time for the court to review the transaction. PFM’s effort to enjoin the tender offer is meritless; their legal theories are self-serving and would harm the rest of the Theranos shareholders. The Company is vigorously opposing PFM’s new suit and looks forward to completing the transaction with its shareholders.

From: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/21/theranos-says-it-has-been-...

There will never be enough popcorn for the Theranos saga.
> They are still here to protect americans

That may be the charter of the the organization. But the individual people running the FBI goals are to 1) be reappointed / not get fired 2) continually expand their budget / power. Given US politics 1&2 are not always congruent esp in short term with "protecting americans".
I think that underestimates the TCO of horses - shoes, medical care, grooming etc!
This article isn't getting much press, but I had a ton of follow up questions as this is a space (nigeria + imports) I know very little about.

Does this mean Nigerian small businesses couldn't import goods prior? I would imagine this imposed severe problems? And as to what they are now needing to import, this seems to discuss Forex, but then more physical goods. Can anyone speak to where the major barriers have been historically, or in what goods systems for this sort of novel provisioning was most lacking?
I don't see something like this scaling in the way that a rail network can. Shuttling a few people at a time won't be enough for morning/evening rush hour, you'd need loads of these to match the carrying capacity of a train, and then you've reinvented the problem of traffic (although presumably much less dense; e.g. I imagine you'd join a queue and have to wait until the airspace isn't congested before your journey is permitted).

That's also an optimistic outlook. One contributor to traffic is people using a whole car just for themselves; since we've not figured that out after several decades of having cars, I doubt making them fly will solve the problem.

I can imagine niches for this, and wish them luck, but I don't think it'll make a dent in mass commuter transport.
For starters, all the details on how that particular transaction was performed, timestamps, IP addresses, all the browser fingerprints visible in the logs of that request (they tend to be quite identifying), subpoenaed logs from the claimant's ISP.

They don't have to prove that it couldn't have been someone else, they have to convince the court that it's more likely than not. Motive matters a lot - if there's some way how that transaction would have been useful for a fraudster (i.e. if it was a money transfer to them), then it's one thing; but if there's no indication of why someone else would want to make the fraudulent trade (which is the case for most stock purchases/sells) and a clear motive why the claimant would want the trade to be reversed (i.e. the stock buy seemed good on that day but turned out to be bad afterwards) then if there's any technical evidence whatsoever pointing towards the claimant, it's hard to be convinced.

If data shows that the transaction is e.g. done from some Starbucks and local security cameras show the claimant near that Starbucks at that time, it's probably not enough to get a conviction but likely enough to make them lose the civil claim.

The criminal case would be expected to get much more evidence than an ordinary civil claim, so they'd likely wait for its results and use everything that the police/prosecutors gathered to dismiss their civil claim.
be optimistic as Elon Musk, I mean remember the Facebook satellite launch with SpaceX ? nah who remembers that stuff, let's all connect our last place of privacy with an computer how bad can it get ?