skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Promising to do something you aren't entirely sure you can do or haven't done yet, isn't fraud unless you lie about having done it before or being ready to go tomorrow or something.

Arguably, it is not even fraud when Theranos took samples and used a different method of testing (as long as the testing was just as accurate).

Therano's fraud was then telling investors and potential partners/clients that it had been testing using their test, when they really weren't. That is a lie designed to get additional funding or contracts.
> Java and C# are statically typed, garbage collected languages with a huge adoption and massive amounts of tooling.

1. Java and C# are designed around JIT compilation, which results in a number of architectural choices that may or may not be to your liking.

2. The JVM and CLR are pretty heavyweight pieces of machinery.

3. Neither Java nor C# are particularly well-suited for working "close to the metal".

> D's attempt to become an alternative to C and C++ was eclipsed by Rust, which doesn't have the GC overhead and has a ton of other really compelling features.

This goes both ways: Rust doesn't have a GC, so if you want one, you're out of luck. For example, for most of what I'm doing – where GC works fine –, Rust offers me no benefit, but significant costs (note that this is a matter of application domains: the ones that Rust is designed for are simply not ones that matter much to me).

> There are a bunch of other new and exciting languages too: Go, Nim, ...

Go and Nim are indeed the languages that D is competing with more directly, but there's nothing wrong with having competition in this area, given that all of them are relatively new.
I love this response.

The H1-B program was meant to import labor only in the case that there is absolutely no American capable of doing the job: in reality, it has become a means of labor arbitrage.

Make no mistake though, that labor arbitrage is a challenge special to the U.S.

As I have explained in my answer (https://www.quora.com/Are-H-1B-visas-causing-large-scale-une...) and comments (https://www.quora.com/Are-H-1B-visas-causing-large-scale-une...) on Quora, most developed nations make extensive use of labor arbitrage.

Sure, China and India is the center of labor arbitrage, but there are a lot of applicants from developed countries too.

I have spoken with Canadians immigrating to the U.S. because they can't afford to live in Canada; I have spoken with Germans immigrating to the U.S. because they can't afford to live in Germany; I have spoken with Finns immigrating to the U.S. because they can't afford to live in Finland and so on. All have the same story.

The reason being that at their home country, the companies are hiring immigrants from developing countries at lower labor costs.

That depresses wages for that industry and I am not only talking about tech jobs. My Quora answer shows how doctors are similarly affected: https://www.quora.com/Are-H-1B-visas-causing-large-scale-une...

The Canadians/Germans/Finns/etc have an expectation for a quality of life they are now unable to maintain on such depressed wages and hence they immigrate to the U.S.

Here are some more datapoints: https://www.quora.com/Are-H-1B-visas-causing-large-scale-une...

None of them are happy they had to immigrate to the U.S. and the U.S. citizens they likely displaced are not happy about that either.

I hate the exploitation of the H1-B program: but the H1-B is capitalism, free markets and the global marketplace at its best.

The free market does not care if it burns the factory and workers its making money off to the ground.

The free market only looks at one thing:

Profit.
SIP softphone (zoiper, etc) and route calls through an asterisk server you control, which is set to record.
Good point, he was subject to the extra wealth tax.
The EFF, ACLU, CBLDF all exist even though they act as lawyers for many people. Safety in numbers, plus trusted reputation.
Serious question: Would the FBI actually come to your door if you went full disclosure with a banking zero day? Is there real legal exposure here or was that just bluster from Zecco/TradeKing?
Google doesn't know how to market and sell when there's competition. Not much sales expertise is required to make people buy into AdWords.

I've been in the room when they try to sell GCE. The sales pitch is roughly "you are not smart enough to figure this out on your own, so you need to buy this". That may be the case, but it's not the best pitch.

For the one where I was in the room, Amazon won out, even though they were clearly more expensive. They knew what buttons to push, and what buttons not to. And they knew how to at least fake a bit of humility when it mattered.
I'm amazed that apparently, multiplication with an orthogonal matrix (simply rotating and mirroring the word vecs) is able to align two languages!!
Helicopters can auto-rotate, "gliding" on the momentum of the main rotor. This allows for a controllable landing under loss of power.

There have been rare cases where a mechanical failure seizes the main rotor, such as the crash of the WNBC news chopper (N8617B) in 1986. This particular incident was caused by poor maintenance, however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Dornacker-N8617B.htm
$593M could be used for developing the company and its products.
I could easily imagine it picking me up from the top floor of my apartment building, taking me to the heliport at the top floor of an office building.

My current commute is 10 km of horrendous traffic.
Driving time on rush hour = 1.5 hours
Flying time @ 100kph (average of speed up, slow down and cruise) 6 minutes!

Then it would just fly on it's own to pick up the next customer.
I do expect to live to see the day that such things are ferrying people around. But I also do think that it'll take a major breakthrough in energy storage technology. And if that happens, then all kinds of things become possible.
I wouldn't count out the likes of Walmart. They're making big strides and taking ecommerce and digital marketplaces ever-more seriously.

It seems like it will be much easier for Walmart to close the gap against Amazon than vice-versa; Walmart has already done the harder part of getting a warehouse within 10 miles of most populated areas.

Californians or people in other anti-Walmart areas may not realize the nexus that Walmart represents for many Americans. In most places that are not actively anti-Walmart, it is one of the most frequent touchpoints for virtually everyone.

Amazon's retail operation is being threatened from Prime-like shipping offerings (free 2 day) from lots of online stores, including Walmart. Walmart can also often allow same-day pickup at a local store, whereas the only hope of getting something similar on Amazon is living within Prime Now range.

Amazon is also hurting its reputation as a retailer by allowing so much counterfeit material through FBA.

When you take away the retail core of Amazon, I'm not sure what consumer-facing value you really have left. They have Echo, but that's pretty meh. They have a crappy Netflix ripoff, which may hold some attention, but without a reason to shop at Amazon, the reason to use Prime Video is diminished. Google has them nicked pretty good on web and mobile platforms. You sort of get stuck with a group of loose things that are kinda good, but not really enough to hold interest independently, IMO.

If Walmart et al go in for the kill, I think Amazon's prospects as a consumer brand are weak. I suspect the only thing that keeps Walmart from seriously weakening Amazon is a dissonance between corporate values that keep them from competing on the same wavelengths (see Clayton Christensen).

Of course, AWS will continue to make gobs and gobs of money for the foreseeable future, but there's nothing really inherent about that either. Google is laying the foundation to plow over them in cloud via Kubernetes. With the right marketing buzz, AWS can be cast as outmoded and overpriced and hurt significantly on that front too.
> I personally think that after the first 1.5 million that they tax rate should be 100%

Not that I'm anywhere close to this problem, but I would simply stop working after hitting that mark. Why would I work for free?
Air frame parachutes are great at high altitude but under ~500ft (where you're going to have the highest load on your electrical system during landing/takeoff) they do absolutely nothing.

As far as the flaps, they are not sufficient for controlled flight. Increasing the angle of one of them increases both lift and drag on that wing so you have at best a dutch roll/adverse yaw and at worst a flat spin.
> There was no income tax in the US prior to 1913.

Did I say income tax revenue or just tax revenue?
I think Enron makes a good example: because they had insulated themselves from reality for so long, they convinced themselves that what they were doing wasn't really that bad until it was clear it was going to collapse, at which point they were already fucked. Also, a lot of those people got away with it because they left before the fraud was uncovered, despite being part of it. And there are more than enough examples of people getting away with it completely. Fraud has been uncovered by banks in the past couple of years and they just gave the corporation a fine, not jailed the people involved in it. KPMG got away with tax fraud by paying a fine, too. In fact, it might be the case that you're far more likely to get away it than not:http://people.stern.nyu.edu/msubrahm/papers/M&A.pdf.
A helicopter can auto-rotate, though that's really the least-bad option if you're in that sort of situation. It turns an assuredly fatal scenario into a hopefully, maybe, possibly survivable one: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/14605/how-does-...

Here's a demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTqu9iMiPIU
I'm not so sure it's fraud for 2 reasons: 1) how easy it would/should be for the buyer to discover the issue; 2) these transactions generally have very detailed disclaimers / disclosure -- basically making them 'as-is' transactions.

If I were a betting man, I'd bet the buyer knew about the issue and basically didn't care.
Yes, obsolescence (all aspects) has always been the bane of any leader and entrenched entity.

There are many factors that are in favor of AMZN and GOOG and the likes. Factors that are for you can also work against you.

Generational shift of competency and drive. People get older, a bit rounder around the waist, wealthier and are also getting more choices. All companies have to deal with this factor. And some will do that better than other.

You change the world and the world will change and change you. Are you able to adapt and account for all changes?
Do you mean "fair" in the sense that it tries to be equally painful for everyone?
Well a 0/0 safety system seems like a solvable problem in the scheme of things. airbag + chute? Who knows.
Ever played a game with a chat box?

I've played one implemented on top of Canvas and it was horrible.
I couldn't disagree more. The entirety of the internet runs on AWS. The rest is an inconsequential rounding error.

> Google has more machine learning relevant data

Subjective. Relevant to what?

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> It has a strong brand image as "THE company for AI "

AI is so early there's isn't a recognized brand yet. Maybe to the HN crowd, but that's astronomically small in the grand scheme of things.

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> It has (at this point in time at least) better machine learning hardware. This will change in the near future, but Google is far more likely to take a competitor in this area seriously and acquire them.

Competing on commodities? Doesn't seem likely.

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> Google has not one, but two (Deep mind and brain) world class research labs.

Again. Doesn't seem like much of an upper hand.

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> Google's ML APIs are objectively better.

AWS doesn't need better APIs or Developer UX. That's not what this is about.
Agreed, some people need to make everything about color.
Downvoted because, well, you didn't make much of a point really.

The idea that the argument is stupid should be presented with an argument as to why. For what it's worth, we have existing law in most (American) municipalities that support the argument that if Musk can be shown to be a better steward here, then he might have a claim to make, i.e., adverse possession, which is basically a claim against the state that says "I can tend to this property better than you, and my doing so provides social and financial utility to the state, to my would-be neighbors, and to myself as well.

To be sure, it's an argument in abstracts, but there's precedent enough that it clearly isn't an entirely meritless (or stupid) argument to be made.
I moved to Canada in 2005 or so. It set me back a little financially to wait for my visa and build up a credit profile here but 12 years later I think it's one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Would might net worth be slightly higher if I had stayed in the US? Yes, because I spent around $30k to get established (that was also a personal choice, I needed a break after a rough startup go between '98-2005.

I, too, like BC, but SW Ontario has more jobs.
You haven't gotten the memo? Racism is ok if it's against whites.
https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...

Helicopters, as opposed to this vehicle, have the ability to be controlled even when power is lost. This is a much safer failure mode for personal aircraft then depending on a chute: useless at altitudes high enough to be fatal but low enough to result in a failed chute deployment.

Similarly, winged aircraft can glide, where this one cannot, given enough forward velocity.

This thing will drop like a rock in an incidence of power failure at low altitude and the operator will have no way to control where it hits the ground (for either their safety or the safety of those on the ground).
I'm not sure I understand the point. Are you asserting that the FBI is keeping muggers and highwaymen away from Elon Musk's money?

Edit, to respond to your edit, which added "Also, who mentioned federal tax revenue or income tax? It wasn't me."

The title of the article we are ostensibly discussing.
> 50 years there won't be that many application developers left either.

I like your comment, but the crystal ball statement in the last sentence is a bit too much.
You ride it to work?
They are also betting and why shouldn't they publish results that would let them win even if that's not the correct result ?

One could argue that the masses would always return the correct score but imagine 50 people debating about sports, there are 50 opinions and the truth somewhere in between.

And therefore those people also called 'scouts' must be trained in order to accomplish the job.
Ok, I'm calling it, this is technically a flying car!
[Case Study] Becoming a One Person Software Business
Especially if you take into consideration how much Musk has personally benefitted from a well funded government.

>Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The Times.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-2015...
As someone who just started a company in California, I can tell you why I did it. The main reason is because I already live here. My family lives here, as it has for the last three generations.

I like the fact that I get great weather year round, that I live amongst a diverse group of people, and can get just about any kind of food I want very close by. I like that my child will go to school with people of all colors and religions and beliefs. And my cost of living is lower in the sense that I don't have to pay a ton of money for heating in the winter and cooling in the summer, nor for a bunch of clothes I can only wear 1/2 the year.

As for the business, yeah, it's not great, I'll admit that. I don't like paying extra corporate taxes for no apparent reason (I'm incorporated in Delaware, why am I paying CA tax?). And I may not even hire here, since I'm fully remote and hiring in other states is viable for me.

But if I were going to open an office and hire local, I would most definitely do it here in California, where a lot of the talent live and a lot of the people I would want to hire who like the same things I do.
The Crucible of the Application Process
The other thing is that they could still be flown a few feet above ground but without an actual road. It would eliminate the need to maintain a road system and if the thing fails at least it will not be the high altitude crash landing that kills you( although traveling at 300km/hour and loosing power will still be really bad even if you are just a few feet above ground). I think it would make it an easier sell to the public.

[Edit] Obviously I know nothing about aviation. So based on the comments below I stand corrected.
Wind will always affect flight speeds regardless of configuration. To use physics terminology, the air around you becomes your frame of reference. 10kt tail wind and 100kt True Air Speed = 110kt ground speed
I live about 50 minutes from Cambridge/Waterloo/Kitchener. I'd totally move that way but my wife wants to stay close to her mom. If we made that move I'd be mortgage free after selling the Mississauga house for $200k more than the Guelph/Cambridge house would cost.
Firewatch is an excellent indie game that deals with themes of solitude and escape.
Idea: vertical take-off via a detachable umbilical. On landing... well, gravity is on your side :)
You may deduct charitable contributions of money or property made to qualified organizations if you itemize your deductions. Generally, you may deduct up to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income, but 20 percent and 30 percent limitations apply in some cases.

from https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
It's implemented as a literal table lookup anyway, so it wouldn't be any different from the taxpayer's standpoint.
What is the point of this comment?

I initially misread "company" as "country" - and in that interpretation I wholeheartedly agree.
Why didn't they just give him $10K to shut up and then go fix the issue? It would be cheaper than all the lawyer fees.
Please leave partisanship aside on HN. Besides they shoot any attempts down because it's the solution they disagree with: i.e. letting the IRS do it for you. For a small government conservative, this is a mortal sin. For me it's a big no-no on a common sense level. Why am I going to let the office responsible for taking my money decide how much they get to take if it is at least somewhat in my control now? If government offices charging you money have taught me anything in my short life on earth, is they always charge you more, and expect you to go through the motions to get that price adjusted. Your property not really worth 208,000 dollars, but 196,000? Sorry, gotta pay at least 2 people to come and assess the value on top of having the tax assessor come out. Have a nice next 6 months. By the way, you need to pay the higher rate now, and wait for us to refund you. You might get it next year. Yeah, no thanks.

The irony of it all is our taxes are complicated because we want them to be complicated. To quote a famous The Atlantic article,

"The irony is that the tax code is complicated because we want it to be complicated. Home owners want to be rewarded for their home ownership. Parents want to get money for their kids. Everybody wants a subsidy for health care. Poor people appreciate the extra cash. Break by break, tax breaks are popular. Hugely popular. Come-and-take-this-from-my-cold-dead-hands popular. But in the aggregate, they make people furious about the tax code. They push up rates, distribute money to the rich, and make it look like people aren't paying their fair share. That's democracy for you."
I disagree, but I don't think that people should have down-voted you.
That's a pretty big stretch. Roads in WA are awful.
Some of the Afrikan Developers Celebrated at Facebook's F8 2017 Conference
Yet security researchers go to prison for iterating the ID numbers in a URL to access private profile pages :/

This is negligent. If they are running banking ecommerce infrastructure and are unable to deal with 101 security risks then it is absolutely negligent. The "it is too complex for the average person" isn't an adequate defense.

The only thing is that there has to be someone who lost something of real value for it to go to court as negligence does it not?
This is why I said "claims". He no doubt failed at some of his shorts. On a livestream he said he made all the money he still has on his companies, not trading. The strategy is still relevant to the discussion, though.
Rent tripled once I moved to SF, and there are quite a few other things than just food and rent. For example, Crossfit Classes and Yoga classes cost 3x as much ($10 vs. $30). Going to the bars here are at least 2x as much ($5 vs. $10+). So really it comes down to lifestyle, admittedly I tend to live an expensive lifestyle.
It's funny that you mention highways since they wouldn't exist w/o tax revenue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility#Diminishing_m...

Interesting.
While it's true that Swift and Rust don't unwind the stack, this is just an implementation detail.

The comparison to Go is very misleading. Neither Swift nor Rust require you to return a value on error like Go does, nor do they allow you to simply ignore errors. The semantics, not the implementation, is what matters.

Swift's error handling is not "syntax sugar." try/catch in Swift are not macros that desugar into normal Swift. Errors are not returned via the normal return path, but via a dedicated register. Just like stack-unwinding exceptions, Swift errors are part of the core ABI.

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ABIStability...
Not that long ago we had 90% tax rate (70% effective) in USA. It's been plummeting since WWII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_history_of_the_United...
FWIW humans happen to be able to choose their user-agent at will.

Not so long ago changing your user-agent to one of the search engine bot as a simple workaround for some paywalls that appeared in search results was a thing.

It's also part of the techniques used to give extra privacy and messing with fingerprinting. For example random agent spoofer: https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer
Interesting... So seeing that it's a federal standard, now I wonder whether it is sufficient notification of recording...

If so, as you point out it seems like an interesting way to avoid having to announce the recording to those not knowledgeable.

EDIT: I don't know how reliable this site is, but it seems to indicate the recording beep is sufficient for notification, but not sufficient for consent, which makes sense.

http://www.justanswer.com/criminal-law/5dj81-question-record...
Kimono shut down on February 29th, 2016 and the cloud service has been discontinued. It only exists as a desktop app now.

Bought by Palantir, they retired in a good way, keeping people's data available for a moment and communicating well.

It was a great product still complicated to get a practical business model.

This WrapAPI v2 is an alternative I think, but I would use them with care as the economical model is unsure and it seems to be really new, still promising! :)
Hairy yes, but really, really powerful.
Amazon probably has more shopping data. More importantly, more credit card fraud data to train an AI fraud detection system.
Why you should refuse to participate in coding interviews