skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's basically because this reads like a real-life plot arc from "Silicon Valley," a parody of Silicon Valley. This company makes a $400-$700 machine that basically squeezes a Capri Sun pouch of fruit juice into a cup for you, and the company has raised $120M in venture capital, even though you could just squeeze their "proprietary juice pouches" with your hands (or, like, buy normal juice and pour it).

Probably there's more to what the machine does, etc., but the story has legs because it's so absurd-sounding and reads like an indictment of how out of touch Silicon Valley actually is with what qualifies as a good idea.
Huh? Dean Kamen is still alive.
The author has been on the payroll of the Koch brothers for most of his career.
"Intellectual Property Rights" - Copyright and related rights, registered designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names and domain names, rights in get-up, rights in goodwill or to sue for passing off, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets) rights in and to any inventions, patents, design patents, utility patents and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications (or rights to apply) for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights o r forms of protection which may now or in the future subsist in any part of the world.

"Inventions" - Inventions, ideas and improvements, whether or not patentable, and whether or not recorded in any medium.
This kind of behavior is well understood among techies. We all know about the "DRM printer ink" issues. I think most "average joes" don't really get it. DRM on juice packs is something they can wrap their brains around. I'm imagining this is the first time non-techies are encountering this in a way they understand.
A few reasons:

- it's funny

- it plays into popular conception that Silicon Valley is largely out of touch with the real world

Not everything is a conspiracy (and Juicero really does not want this publicity)
It's a good article. The title is slightly bait-ey in that 'less fun' is a good thing in this context. C++ metaprogramming, at least for this example, requires a bunch of boilerplate. The D equivalent is built with standard language features and produces understandable error messages when mistakes are made.

It's a nice little anecdote about why you might want to use D in place of C++.
So not only is the machine unnecessary, you can drink from the bag?

It's the SV version of a Capri Sun?
The other alternative is to use the tax income to offset other taxes, or even return it directly to citizens as a dividend.
I like the idea, but this is very confusing to end-consumers:

- Is this just a messaging app? A payments app? A web browser?

- It's all of those things, except not a web browser, it's an "app browser" (why not app store, especially considering the whole point of these is that they are paid?)

- The starting experience is anything but compelling: http://i.imgur.com/U69Gskl.png

- Is this developed by Coinbase? If so, why is there no mention, and the app is developed by "Bluxome Labs"?
Emotional Chatting Machine Assesses Your Emotion and Copies It
Because the children have no control over who their parents are, and we shouldn't punish with a lifetime of diminished opportunities because their parents aren't as "good" as others.
Overcast Podcast App Gains Standalone Apple Watch Playback Feature
"There such thing as bad publicity" - this is what I learned, too.

Compared to this company, is so sad to see other projects not taking off because they fail at the funding stage (for one of the many reasons they might not control).
Sounds like Traefick.io mentioned above should do the trick there. Looks like an interesting tool...
Fortunately, this is not an either-or situation. :) I advocate all of the above, but it's important not to be in ignorance about where the real issue lies.
I've been told (in other threads on HN) that you can disable GC in D. I don't know how that integrates with stdlib (or other library) bits that use GC (are they disallowed, or do they fail at runtime?).
Even better than that, you hook it into the water supply and it cleans itself.
In a word: Glee.

I still find it surprising they managed to attract 120M funding. Sometimes the thing itself is not noticeable but the circumstances of its existence are. And then it can teach us something about reality. Or the reality of other people.

Apparently some people thought this would become as big as Nescafe. You don't need a machine to pour juice, you need one to brew coffee. So it seems investors let themselves be fooled to think that the juice would be "special".
Yeah - especially when the opposite is much more likely to be true.
No, it's still better for it to be taxed than not. I would be perfectly happy to see a revenue neutral carbon tax. What the tax is spent on is orthogonal.
Sounds like Nespresso or Keurig for juice. The amount of coffee in both are fractions of what you would use in a real espresso machine or pour over. Those companies are probably minting money and so everyone is going to do this for 'X'.
Ask HN: What are some great futurism / high tech related websites ?
I really do like futurism.com and motherboard.vice.com (for a 1/3 of their stories). Can you name some other news sites that cover these topics ? Cheers
Perhaps you can use web scraping to build bots to read and classify these tech blogs. I am sure the API to these metadata graphs will have strategic values to VC, recruiters, tech consultants, etc.
> As a quite graphically-challenged person, it's the only graphics program I have been able to learn to an acceptable degree

As somebody who spends most of his workday in graphics software, inkscape is a nightmare for me to use. And I think a lot of that is because it rejects a lot of the pseudo-conventions enshrined in other graphics software that I have burned into my muscle memory (shift to lock aspect ratio when scaling, control-plus to zoom, double-click to enter a group, etc etc etc).
Galaxy S8 review: Gorgeous new hardware, same Samsung gimmicks
Related ProPublica data visualization: http://projects.propublica.org/louisiana/
Not so much of overengineering, but of a failure to properly segment the market and find product-market-fit. Remember, they're putting some serious markup on those pouches (like any "capsule"-style product e.g. Keurig/Nespresso), so they could probably sell the pouches and app (for those features like reminding people to drink before it goes bad) by themselves and make a decent enough profit that way to serve as a foundation for future growth.

The $400 machine could then be marketed as the premium, upmarket option - allowing you to freeze the pouches, allowing you to get pouches with fruit and vegetables that are harder to squeeze by hand, etc.

Now, the pouches are probably too expensive anyway, and the $400 for an upsell is also probably too expensive anyway, and Jeff Dunn probably raised too much, too quickly (forcing those kinds of high prices), but... that's a different matter.
If I'm reading the description correctly, the pre and post conditions are analyzed statically during compiling, and not added to the output code. So it's a similar idea to type checking, where the program won't even compile until the versifier is sure your code meets the conditions.
He has a stake in Bitstamp (an exchange) and, from the sound of it, one or two other blockchain companies (he seems to have a close relationship with Joe Lubin, the founder of ConsenSys so they are very likely Ethereum-based startups). The rest is assumed to be invested in the currencies themselves.

I was at the panel discussion and he seems wayyyy more excited about Ethereum - I wouldn't be surprised if he held more ether at this point (which is probably why he was so enthusiastic).
brilliant bricklaying. Is this really the best thing CV researchers should be doing? There are so many unsolved problems and they're working on removing glare from old photos?
Legit or Bullshit? Breaking Down Jeff Bezos’ 2017 Letter to Amazon Shareholders
LOL at 1-10 meters.
Random semi-related anecdote

Japanese video game companies pay like 1/3rd or less what USA video game companies pay in salary. AFAIK similar things are true for other industries. Maybe not as bad as 1/3rd but that's not relevant to the point below.

In Japanese school (17 years ago) my teacher brought up the topic that CEOs don't get paid as much in Japan so it's more equal. My response at the time was "why do I care that my USA CEO makes 100x my salary and my Japanese CEO only 10x, the 100x CEO is still managing to pay me 2x to 3x more than the 10x CEO."

How true that is overall I have no idea. I can say that video game programmers in Japan with 15 years experience make less than interns at Google.
JanusGraph (fork of TitanDB) 0.1.0 Released
Jimi Heselden was the one that fell over the cliff; he had become owner of the Segway company after buying-out the founders.

Segway was later sold to a Chinese company which itself was subject of a patent action by Segway. Good manoeuvre.
Jack: The guy at your ISP in charge of selling your data. (Humor)
Naked mole-rats can live without oxygen, they just act like plants … wait, what?
You seem to have a very rosy idea of Russian society which is no doubt colored by your opinions of Western culture. At least the Russians I know would laugh at the idea of "calling out BS" or even "service to community."

My own experience is simply that it's a culture where everybody is expected to work. Concepts like "house wife," "stay at home parent", "work-life balance", "trust-fund kid", "socialite" and "sabbatical" were completely alien until very, very recently. Everybody works. And while not everybody works hard, those that do, do it expecting a payoff.

It's also important to understand that women were never not part of the workforce in Russia. It's hard to say for sure because the numbers were fudged but there are estimates that even in the 60s as many as 80% of women in the USSR were gainfully employed. (See this interesting CIA report for one estimate [1].) In the US, during the 60s, you had a female labor force participation rate of about 40%. It's not like Russian girls grow up being told they have to "lean in" -- it's literally laughable, like somebody telling you that you have to breathe.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000380594....
South Korea’s deployment of THAAD upsets China, seen as espionage tool
But we're not punishing them. We're simply not taking, by force, money from one person, to spend it raising the children of another.

If we force people to subsidize other people's poor children, we create perverse incentives to have a maximum number of children with minimum personal investment in each. It cannot end well for society.
Produced by Juicero though.

Seems legit enough, but it's still a classic information problem.
"Hmmmm, what's an object that's heavy but still shows off my high-tech credentials..."
Anecdotal evidence is evidence (hence the name). You just can't apply the usual statistical methods that assume the evidence was sampled perfectly randomly from an effectively infinite population. Empirical evidence rarely lives up to the theoretical requirements, either, but that doesn't stop science from progressing.
I really like the packagecloud one: https://blog.packagecloud.io/

With posts like these one: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tunin...
maybe like the art market----the startup market is becoming a cover for money laundering.

launch a completely absurd product claim it 'failed' and then you wash 120 million dollars with perhaps 4 million of real expenditure.

perhaps the middle men in the art world laundry became too expensive.

it's not easy or cheap laundering 120 million dollars. you cannot do that with a car wash or a restaurant.

startups are such ridiculous bullshit that maybe this is your answer.

or maybe silicon valley has its fair share of complete fucking moron investors.
Did you try an inversion tableÉ I went from shuffling around with lower back pain to fixed in about 6 weeks.
I disagree because I think children should not be punished for the quality of their parent(s).

I also think you are making a big (and incorrect) assumption that children who do not receive "investment" have parents that are neglecting them, rather than have parents who lack the means to make a substantial "investment".
AFAIK the early go versions of docker used LXC underneath, but that was ~3+ years ago
My favorite part of the article -

> "There are industries giving people diabetes. The leader of the free world just invited Kid Rock to the White House. I think we can give Jeff Dunn a pass on selling veggie juice to software engineers."
Even with those reasons, I believe the risk outweighs the potential benefits. It's not just about trusting the intentions and assurances of the company, but also their competency and knowing they're not being compromised etc. Hackers don't care about paper trails. These are things you typically can't measure.

If you have untrustworthy employees, you have bigger problems than you can solve with by MITM attacking everyone.
Another solution might be including http://archive.org in their archives.
You can't allocate with GC in @nogc functions, you will get compile time error. There is ongoing work in standard library (Phobos) to make it work without GC.
This is a specific case of a general problem with how violations of law are investigated and prosecuted in this country that happens to be made worse by the fact that in this case it involves federal officers and many people who are not native to the US (and aren't as familiar with their rights).

How "terrorism" cases are prosecuted is not the problem here. How cases in general are prosecuted is the problem.
Why the Measles Are Coming Back
I was typing up a response, but yours is great. You nailed it.

The only thing to add is that a tlsdate-like approach will not work consistently with TLS 1.3 as the standard makes time in the handshake OPTIONAL.
Kubernetes on bare metal, with additional tech to isolate VMs from each other safely. See link elsewhere in thread.
I'll bite. Why do I need this?
Someone has been successfully running brute forced attempts at login into accounts & spreading/amassing valid usernames & attempting brute force logins on them like a pyramid.
My password of alphanumeric password of 9 digits got cracked & Skype fucking sent spam to everyone & now is most likely attempting to brute force their accounts as well.....they can't even implement a rate limiter for the logins against an IP.
Problematic bits might be "in the course of your duties for us" (need a lawyer to know what that means) and "by using knowledge made available through your employment" is very vague...

My experience is with small companies you can negotiate changes that make everyone happy, if you have a lawyer to reduce hassle for company. Big companies... harder to say.
> It may be possible technically. I doubt it's possible in reality: they've probably made promises to a bunch of people over the years that this is how it works. People furious that Their Content is appearing somewhere else and go straight into lawyers on the first email.

They won't be furious when they're dead.

I think the main value of the Internet Archive is not so much in the near term, but in the long term. I hope in the future they enact some policy that ignores any robots.txt for scrapes older than, say, 50 years.
You don't have to have GC in D, and manual memory can work side-by-side the GC with or without disabling it.

You can delete objects early, or call GC.disable
Is there any nutritional value or improved taste to be gained by squeezing a pack of (already mostly pulverized) produce, versus just receiving regular deliveries of relatively fresh juice?
I was under the impression that hyperventilating is more about the reduction of CO2 in the lungs, rather than saturating the blood with oxygen.

It's basically to fool your body into thinking you've got enough oxygen (since it's C02 buildup in the lungs that triggers the out of air signal to the brain, not the lack of oxygen).

Hence why hyperventilating for, say, free diving can cause one to black out without triggering the suffocation reflex as one returns to the surface of the water.
Is status.im using whisper for messaging? Is there end to end crypto between users?
Yep but Netflix also has a decade of large scale arch wielded to AWS that we don't.

They might not be deploying containers on VMs on bare metal because they want to, but because they /have/ to.
This story is everywhere for the same reason it's a top story on HN. Startup scandals are entertaining and tech people love rubbernecking.

Side note, Olivia Zaleski has made a name for herself with these kinds of stories.

https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASoef4w-oqQ/olivia-zaleski
That's strange. Such a huge discussion here on HN, but very few explaination and discussion on ExplainXKCD:

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1827

Is this because people prefer discussion threads over collaborating in a wiki, or is this because ExplainXKCD is not as widely known as it should be?
You're right. Missed that, my bad.
> I'll show you ten people who who attempted a safe boring white collar job, tried to run a local service business, or planned to save aggressively over decade, but did not achieve $1mm net worth

For the purpose of this discussion that's irrelevant.

As you yourself stated

> [Survivorship bias is] about falsely attributing a causal relationship between the people's actions and their success

Given that within a 50km radius of wherever you currently are in the world there are almost certainly 1000s of people with >$1mm net worth it would be absurd to think that they achieved this outcome through actions which had little or no causal relationship to their success.

The numbers speak for themselves. In Australia where I'm from there are approx 234,000 high net worth individuals (HNWI) (defined as having more than US$1 million ($1.35 million) in investable assets, excluding their primary residence, collectibles and consumables). We have 8 capital cities. Using a simple naive, even, distribution gives approx 30,000 people per capital city that fit this definition.

This means that being "rich" is relatively common. If it's common, then it's silly to think that all these people got rich through actions that have little or no

>causal relationship between the people's actions and their success

The uncomfortable conclusion which follows from this is that if you're not rich by this definition you're not trying hard enough.

Edit:

and just to put those numbers into further context, In AU there are approx 70,000 flu cases in 2015. In the same year approx 9,000 new HNWI joined the ranks. Becoming "rich" is almost as common as getting the flu!
No, the governance structure of a union is democracy. The governance structure of a corporation is dictatorship. The corporate structure is designed with the interests of management and shareholders in mind. To protect against brutal abuses of workers by these classes, unions were formed.

What you are suggesting is akin to suggesting that fascism and democracy are both the same because democratically elected representatives do not at all times represent all of the interests of all of their constituents. Which is often true, and can be a serious concern -- one that you should bring up at your local union meeting. Where you vote on the behavior of the union. And discuss with your fellow workers. Where you can advocate for yourself without being immediately fired/denied promotion/punished for it.

Or I suppose you could talk to management yourself and ask to be treated better. Better have that resume ready to go though. I hope you live in a town where work is plentiful and you don't need your job.
I really like Stitch Fix blog :http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com
It wasn't manually hacked, there's someone out there running a program to brute force known Skype usernames & spreading spam & confirming more Skype usernames. Alphanumeric password upto 9digits are not safe absolutely.
Well, I guess that's great. It's a free market, and the best option will win, but a blockchain isn't a blockchain unless you have enough distributed hashing power behind it to ensure that no one entity or small groups of entities has control over the network.

I'm still puzzled as to how banks think they're going to do this.
The issue is that of the three issues you listed, they aren't all due to luck. There is some degree of chance associated with running a business, but you're missing that there is a difference between 'planning to save aggressively' and saving aggressively, which is a matter of living below your means. There's no luck in how much of your paycheck you put towards your savings account.
How the heck did it walk enough to end like this is the underlying question, more a SV sit-com than business, then the farcical reactions and some rage from probably legit but unknown and unconnected players worldwide.
Since the article uses an event system as an example, I'm wondering: how well do closures work in D? (Closures are very convenient when dealing with events).
I mean some people are born smarter than others. Maybe low IQ people deserve a monthly stipend, that high-IQ people are forced to pay, to compensate them for how unfair the universe was to them.

I'm sorry for the facetiousness, but I just don't see any reasonable case for the government playing this kind of role in society. It all seems very moralizing and controlling.
Hey everyone, look & archive! This is where Jerome Renoux of Akamai announces that he doesn't believe in any morality beyond that codified in law, and how he will lie in court if you try to get him to behave decently.
Surprised there isn't more talk about the MITM detection here. Anyone got a TLDR of how this is supposed to work? I'm going to read the full doc when I get home, but I'd be interested in hearing peoples opinions on how accurate it is likely to be.
What's wrong with Kid Rock anyway?
It's not a leap at all.

MS lost an anti-trust case. There were good legal and ethical reasons why MS in general and Gates in particular had to admit in a public courtroom that "cutting off the oxygen supply" to their competitors meant destroying other companies and other people's livelihoods.

Aside from that, once a company gets big enough it effectively becomes a kind of proxy mini-government in its market space, and smaller entrepreneurs either work with it and pay tribute for market access, or sometimes simply pay for the right to continue to exist.

And even then there's no guarantee that they really will be allowed to exist.

This is what inequality means. It's not just about poor people having no money and rich people having plenty of money. It's about inequality of power and influence.
How do I deal with a NNPP Tech Lead?
Several months ago I began working on a project. I really like the company. The pay is good, the hours are easy, the benefits are fantastic. Since day one I've been working on upgrading the framework we're producing. I've worked on hacked together stuff before and can accept that anti-patterns slip in. But I've finally had to accept that my tech lead is a net negative producing programmer.

Is there anything I can do other than find a new job?
There is, as you say, some amount of rhetoric from people that are opposed to the H1B program in general. Most of what I see from the HN crowd, though, isn't that. They seem to be fine with how companies like Google are leveraging H1B...honestly filling slots that can't be filled locally. The angst is with companies like WiPro and Tata that are gaming H1B to undercut the labor market.
ES6 Structuring and Destructuring
I'm a fan of Rust, but I think you must be reading a different HN if you don't think the Rust community focuses on comparing it to C and C++. The Go language creators have specifically stated that they created Go to solve problems they had with C and C++: http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428.html