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This is what I often think. I like the idea of democracy, but in reality it just means people who don't know shit voting on things that are actually important. We don't just let anyone be a doctor, we make them do years of training first and get certified. In the same vein, maybe some people's votes should count more than others. Like if a bunch of economic experts say brexit is a bad idea, their votes have more sway...
I'm curious, when you say a limited set of capabilities, what libraries or systems would you juxtapose us with?

Our large goal was to make the sharing and collaboration piece much easier than other systems allow for. So let's say that one person might be responsible for instrumenting a system, but others want to be able to create their own notifications or visualizations. One user can publish a stream of events, and then allow others to subscribe and create their own transformations/visualizations. There are other pub/sub systems that achieve a similar result, but generally access control doesn't exist and usually lacks any real system of discover-ability. In the same way that github/bitbucket/etc make repositories easier, we wanted to enable a similar effect with streams of data. And in the same way, we built in a number of tools that make manipulating or visualizing a stream of data easy without leaving the system (sure, you shouldn't probably do the bulk of your code editing out of github's text editor, but it's very handy for quick changes).

I'm not sure if that helps frame our system better. We're still working a bit on how to position the system, so we might even try and revise our landing page to emphasize this more.
I'm pretty sure other millionaires hate taxes too.
Ask HN: What becomes of Anthony Lewandowski and Uber if Google Wins?
Uber's entire timetable towards a profitable business model depends on being (among the) first to market with a competitive A to B self-driving solution. If Waymo err.. Google err.. Alphabet gets the victory in District court, what becomes of one of the fastest growing businesses in the world?
Always loved this website design whenever links to it get shared here.
The average web page is around 2MB, 60% of which is images [1]. Base64 encoding makes the size even larger. Would that compromise on higher disk usage make sense for you? I like both the OCR and DL ideas. Shameless plug, I've been working on a bookmarking service (https://github.com/crestify/crestify), and local archiving with images is something we're looking at add. Since it is something a lot of people seem to want, contributors are welcome :).

[1] https://www.soasta.com/blog/page-bloat-average-web-page-2-mb...
This looks really nice and clean.

I'd been using Juvia a lot over the year's, built by the people at Phusion. It's worked really well, but seems to be unmaintained now.

The killer feature needed in any project like this is spam filtering, which Juvia accomplished by just integrating with Akismet, which works mostly, but not completely.
No, that's not how taxes work in the US. Business taxes are before, and in addition to your income tax.

Single member LLCs get special treatment - you only pay personal income taxes and self employment taxes, but not business income taxes.

But let's talk about business income tax. Let's say you have a company that you own but do not work for (so I can skip payroll taxes). The company does $2,000,000 in sales at a cost of $1,700,000. The company has a profit of $300,000, which it currently pays corporate taxes of $120,000 on. After corporate taxes, you take home $180,000 in personal income. Then you pay personal income taxes of about $62,000 if you live in CA. You end up with $118,000 out of the original $300,000 profit.

This double taxation is a reason many people support ditching seperate corporate taxes altogether or at least lowering it substantially.
China used night soil as fertilizer historically; they don't anymore (when was the practice abandoned, I wonder? And is there any Chinese interest in terra preta?), but it got them into great habits. The same is true for at least Korea and Japan; I don't know as much about Southeast Asia.

Only drinking hot drinks also helped China's health. Fernand Braudel, in The Structures of Everyday Life, discusses this in passing; even 17th-century observers felt that it would be better for the Spanish colonials to adopt Chinese practice in the Philippines rather than keeping their custom of drinking everything iced. (Where did they get the ice?) Braudel also mentions a case where St. Francis Xavier drank a cup of cold water, to the horror of his Chinese entourage, who warned him not to keep up such a dangerous practice...
Great design is much less subjective than people think. A good creative director will be able to look at a portfolio and recognize quality, much like a tech lead can look at someone's code and see if it's good.
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>Enticing millenials to "trade" individual stocks is quite possibly the most anti-Robinhood thing I can think of.

Listen, I understand that this is widespread, so I'm not targeting you specifically. But could we try not to use generalizations like "millenial", especially when they refer to vaguely defined generational boundaries?

Your point is very strong, and stands on its own without making what I interpret as an implicitly ageist assumption about a large swath of the population. Millenials are adults. Young adults, sure, but they have agency. It is no more predatory or clearly unethical to lend to them versus lending to baby boomers or gen X.

I take issue with this because you have implicitly robbed them of their agency as a group by phrasing your criticism as "Enticing millenials...". There's no reason to single them out. They may have less money as a group, yes, but there's nothing about trading on margin that makes it inherently more dangerous for millenials over any other generation.

You didn't mean to intentionally portray them this way, but you singled out a particular group because, like I said, it's ubiquitous. We should really try to curb that, in my opinion.
I am not saying either one is good or evil here, just commenting that the $4500 device is not super relevant to the actual Sanofi lawsuit.

Obviously Sanofi should have been able to massively undercut the Mylan price if there truly was xxx% profit margin built in, so it is not really apparent why they didn't do that.
> How unsuccessful could someone be if they were extremely talented and hard-working, but had little luck.

Homeless level bad.

> How far can luck push someone with no ability or desire?

Extremely far.

I have seen examples of both, luck is a huge factor, and it comes in many guises (timing, circumstances, meeting the right person and so on).
It's not really an oversight. There's just not a good option that normal people will actually use. You could have the keyfile exist only on the consumer's computer, but then when their computer crashes, the exact reason they installed Backblaze, they aren't going to be able to access it. You could tell them to make a copy of the keyfile and store it in a safe deposit box at their local bank, but that's an additional recurring cost for the box and an additional time cost, and what if they can't get to the box when they need to restore? etc.

This is one of those situations where security and convenience are diametrically opposed. If Backblaze doesn't keep a copy of your keyfile and you didn't complete steps B-D to make and keep a secure backup, you're screwed. Most consumers are better off trusting Backblaze to keep that data safe for them.

You could say that they should offer this as a secondary mode of operation, but then people would say "Yes, I want the most security possible! Yes!" and then they'd sing quite a different tune when they get their backups back and can't actually use them, and Backblaze already has enough problems with their customer service dept.

If you want full client-side encryption, use B2 and hook up something like duplicity to automatically difference and encrypt your files before you upload them.
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Good or lucky? Bad or unlucky? Very tough to tell the difference.
No, I don't have a specific reference supporting "for most mainstream anthropologists." Rather, this comes from most of my reading of books, websites, and various forums, and the general consensus I've gotten from it all is that there's few people trying to defined Clovis-First. See <https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3kmwfq/clovi... for an example of such a commentary.
Sweet, thanks for making this!
> I don't know how we do it, but we need to start rebuilding community as a social network of interpersonal support

In my opinion, this is one of the problems effective religion solves. I'm betting one of the reasons Utah is good at "giving a crap" is because it has a strong religious infrastructure that encourages members to reach out to others in the community. I remember one part of the article even talking about redrawing church boundaries such that people in middle/upper class neighborhoods are mingling/reaching out to people living in trailer park neighborhoods.

I too am tired of the mentality that government programs can solve any problem given enough money. Social workers can only make their clients feel so loved. Having a neighbor reach out to your family without being paid to do so has a tremendous impact on mental health that social workers can't replicate.
But how is competing on price a business model in and of itself? Surely Etrade can do the same thing, right?
> I seem to remember that Roman toilets were often in the kitchen...

Not unusual for buildings in Europe or the US built around the turn of the last century either.

These days, they're typically renovated so that there's a wall in between and the bathroom door leads off of an incredibly narrow kitchen, but a hundred years ago, those were in the same room.

(And those were the ones who were lucky, because they actually had a private bathroom).
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If I'm feeling like being productive, switch to another instance of my dev environment working on a different branch of the source code, in which I'm working on a different problem entirely. It's just two (or more) branches being developed on the same machine in two instance sets of my dev env, side by side.

Usually, though, I do that thing where you open your mouth in different shapes and smack the sides of your face to make noises. I'm trying to play "The Entertainer".
I don't understand what you're saying. I haven't installed third-party software. My focused windows have bright blue accent colour for the title bar, my unfocused windows have white title bars. I have turned off "automatically pick an accent colour from my background"

I prefer the styling available in older windows versions, but my title bars have different colours if they're focused or unfocused.
[sploiler] For those who want a TLDR of this story, here it is from his Wikipedia:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Chris_Sacca

> During law school, Sacca used his student loans to start a company which was unsuccessful and used what was left to start trading on the stock market. By leveraging trades for significant amounts (discovering a flaw in the software of online trading brokers)[15] he managed to turn 10–20 thousand dollars into 12 million dollars.[15] Eventually, when the market crashed, Sacca found himself in debt with a four million dollar negative balance. He negotiated to have it reduced to just under 3 Million and by February 2005 it was completely repaid. [15]

[15] http://www.financemagnates.com/forex/brokers/chris-saccathe-...
They've literally had zero success reforming education and figured the best way to rectify that would be to lobby to bring that zero success to the entire country. For someone who believes in evidence based policy(and bonuses for teachers), this is such a fucking failure there's no other way to put it.
I'm currently reading a reprint of a 110 year old book about how China and Japan have kept their farms fertile for 4000 years.

The basics are lots of elbow grease, and continuous application of river silt and (aged?) animal and human sewage.

It occurs to me that this book predates both industrialization (factory effluent) and the last cholera outbreaks. Which makes me wonder what sort of sweeping agricultural practice changes came in subsequent decades.
Is there a political cost or statutory block to doing a Bush-tax-cuts-style 10 year expiring plan? Regardless of the merits, most of those cuts are still law, and the GOP was able to extract concessions for the parts that were allowed to expire.

Once in place, tax cuts are hard to reverse even through inaction.
The difference really is that many French motorways are toll roads (that péage sign) and have far fewer cars and lorries than the German autobahns.

In Germany, the logistics clearly utilizes the autobahns a lot. You see constant lines of heavy vehicles on the rightmost lane, and sometimes your overtaking them is interrupted by one truck passing another one, very very slowly as they both have a speed limiter, just adjusted slightly differently.
Millionaire only when the tax man comes calling is quite a bit different than Silicon Valley millionaire after an IPO.
I agree with the sentiment and some aspects of science, like medical trials, may scale fairly well.

However the most significant scientific discoveries seem to come from the top of the pile. You need to be in the right place and time with the right background to make the right connections that reveal a previously hidden truth.

Science is about seeing something that's staring you in the face but nobody has even noticed before. That generally can't be farmed out.

So it's a long road from poverty to understanding to discovering something really new.
What a condescending response. How is it wrong? Look at VFINX for example:

- VFINX is up 72% in 10 years. AMZN for example is up 1220% in the same 10 years.

- VFINX is up 72% in 5 years. XIV is up 530% in the same 5 years.
I really enjoyed his fantastic GUI design advice here (http://toastytech.com/guis/uirant.html)
Man, I understand the desire to make every map a rectangle, but filling that in with endless ocean is just so wrong
$17.25! Amazon thinks I'm cheap. It's not wrong.
The Bush tax cuts expired in 10 years because the deficit projections allowed it to last that long. Projections for this proposal --- which again I think we should treat as fictitious, like every administration's first tax plan --- give it 2 years.
> It showed a Indians in a tiny village who were falling ill because they were literally taking a shit in the same river that they were getting their drinking water from, just a few meters away.

Take the western media's portrayal of India's poverty with a little grain of salt. India is very poor and I lived in a village where people use to shit in open but then there is something like "poverty porn" that western media often engages in to get more eyeballs.

In rural areas open shitting has its own unwritten rules. You shit far from water sources, temples and other places where people gather. You shit away from water wells. Sick people shit in a separate area.

People do shit at riverside because easy availability of water but it is essentially tragedy of commons issue and it was very common to beatup people who took a dump near potable water sources.
Again though I dont expect everyone to see the rhetoric I see.

When you get to this point, it's a good time to ask yourself if you are tilting at windmills, in my experience.
Ask HN: Math/programming problems solving in groups
Hey everyone!
I am interested in improving myself as a developer by solving some Project Euler[1]/Matasano crypto[2]/hackerrank[3]/etc challenges. At the same time, I really need to socialize as much as I can. So I thought about starting a Meetup.com group for this.
I am just not sure how to organize these events so they are as productive/fun as possible. What would be the best approach? Everyone solving the same problem doesn't sound like a good option just because for some people the problem might be difficult and for some - easy. Also, I don't want this to become a some sort of "who is the smartest" competition.
Maybe you participated/organized an event like that somewhere? I would love to talk to someone who already tried organizing that kind of event(-s)!

[1] - https://projecteuler.net/
[2] - https://cryptopals.com/
[3] - https://www.hackerrank.com/
You should. If I start calling myself an engineer, and start making noise, about how some bridge or other needs to be retrofitted right this minute... My opinion on the matter is not as valid as that of an actual engineer. And you should probably not conclude that the bridge needs retorfitting, solely on my testimony.

It's like a product manager, with no understanding of how software is built, coming to your daily standup, and telling everyone about what compiler flags they should be using. All the while, calling themselves a programmer/software engineer. If your company isn't insane, it should censure him for that - especially if he said he'll stop doing it.
Lifestyle businesses, by definition, turn a profit.
I doubt the same can be said for Robinhood.
Relatedly, be very careful which apps with "native browsers" you enter 3rd party credentials into. For example if you install an app and it opens a WebView with the google login screen, the app can read and write any arbitrary content to and from the DOM in the WebView.

Not sure about android but this is definitely possible on iOS.
> I do not enjoy having my empathy tugged at people who only seem to see me as a member of their community when I have something they desire and who will not regard me as a member once I have provided such.

So you helping others is for your own self-satisfaction, and not to help others? You're looking for someone to convine you to be happy with the decision of helping others. That's what all your comments here read like. :)

I'm not surprised you're from the Bay Area, given that.
I'll be using HTTrack a day or 2 before to get the whole lot.
Possibly coincidental, but July 1, 2013 was the date Google Reader was discontinued.
Also worth noting is that FBI agents are permitted to lie in the course of their duties. So anything they say to you cannot be trusted.
Have you considered strategic/management consulting in the medical field. I know the big 4 will have specialists focusing on this - possibly related to the healthcare setup in your country - along with niche boutiques. I can't vouch for how much this would just involve powerpoint and Excel modelling bullshit in suits versus R analysis but I imagine data science skills would be extremely valuable. Also health policy if you are interested in the political side of things.
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If a certain brand of cigarettes is creating secondhand smoke that causes a significant number of bystanders to die of anaphylactic shock somehow, and the government refuses to force a recall, and the manufacturer doesn't care, and the smokers don't care because it doesn't affect them, then YES, it is morally correct to destroy these cigarettes illegally.
The problem I have seen play out with friends that have tons of relatively easy money fall into their laps is that it saps ambition. Waking up every morning knowing that you have enough money for a hundred lifetimes can be freeing, but also means that you aren't required to do anything at all. Many people in that situation choose exactly that.

My understanding is that Chris isn't the nicest guy in the world, so perhaps he's doing entrepreneurs a favor by backing other VC's. Some of his capital will still be out backing startups, but their founders won't have to put up with him personally.
I agree, but think of it this way: imagine a doctor arguing against washing their hands. The analogy is pretty apt. Washing your hands is as effective in reducing disease as pentests are at improving security. So why are we still seeking ways to justify to ourselves that we can do without pentests?

It just seems like pentests need to move from "nice" to "necessary." (Part of that is reducing their cost from $60k to $6k.)
"If wishes were horses we beggars would ride."
Don't forget collecting a huge number of really well-framed, massively-metadata-tagged photos of peoples' otherwise-relatively-private bedrooms and closets.

I look forward to being denied a loan because people in my neighborhood have displayed increasingly-messy closets, indicating growing stress and probable imminent economic trouble among my neighbors, and they couldn't find any spy-photos of my closet so they're very sorry, but they can't make an exception because they can't second-guess the machine, only feed it more data.

Or, you know, all kinds of other horrible dark-future stuff that's increasingly part of our reality. Aside from the usual of making their constant psychological warfare (targeted advertising and marketing) more effective, which is bad enough.
I believe that actually it can become worse (or better) if it changes.
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The text and the pictures are confusing - the picture shows haplogroup X having a european origin, and the text says otherwise.
I think most technical users - the ones making decisions about which backup product makes sense for family and friends - would expect that a backup service that offers the ability to encrypt locally would also offer the ability to decrypt locally. Anything else is a big surprise.

When it comes to restore you have the users over a barrel - if they want their files back, they've got to pony up their passphrase. If they don't, their data is gone.
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> With a bit of good financial planning, you can live off 2$/day/person or less.

Prove it.
It's a personal post, why shouldn't he have an opinion?
Also, how do you get to "devil incarnate"? The most negative thing he said was that the current administration are oppressive zealots. Note that he didn't specifically call out Republicans. The current administration has flouted norms, both Democratic and Republican.
I read a book by a French philosopher about this very subject. The main character remained optimistic even though he and his professor friend encountered a world of trouble. It described a brutal, yet somehow ideal world filled with endless horrors and tragedy. Can't recall the title, but the story itself was quite candid.
Then it seems to me that more nurses and less dependence on fragile technology is a better option. Costs can be economized by many other methods. Labor is something that should be the last thing to pare down.
It matters to the GOP when they're not holding the Presidency, apparently.
The reason people are taken aback by their service is that if they're going to store the private key on the server, then they shouldn't even be using client-side encryption to send the backups in the first place. It doesn't provide an additional layer of security to use asymmetric crypto the way they are using it. So why do they have it at all? To make their service sound more secure than it really is. The service is essentially using false advertising to trick nontechnical users, and that is what turns people off.

You either use private keys that remain with the client, or you don't use asymmetric crypto in the first place. They're trying to mix security with convenience by eliminating the security aspect, leaving only convenience with a false sense of security.
Ask HN: How to get started with Augmented Reality?
How should a Computer Science undergraduate student get started on the subject? I would prefer a project oriented approach.
How could some human settlements exclusively on and around the Pacific shore kill all megafauna on a whole continent?

Postulating that the first settlement is more important than the time of a population explosion seems to lack the kind of common sense that Jared Diamond is talking about, to me.
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