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Unrelated to the content of your article, but something that I noticed:

The link to your GitHub profile page in the footer of the article is broken: it points to 'https://github.com/https://github.com/vcolano'.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/847882289581359104 as of 1.5 months ago.

> Considering trying to bring upper stage back on Falcon Heavy demo flight for full reusability. Odds of success low, but maybe worth a shot.

So they've definitely not abandoned it, and in fact, are actively considering at least as a small possibility again.
This is an important insight, however I think more of a research topic. The guide was careful to provide guidance on problems that have a very firm foundation. It didn't want to discuss something that would just drag its audience into the weeds.
The free market rewards people with money. The problems in healthcare aren't really being felt by people with money.
This gives no indication one way or the other of which direction causality points.

ie. I could just as accurately say: maybe their value as a reference has led to reductionism. We can't go back and do an experiment, so we'll never really know.
Companies don't want to deal with being debt collectors is what this comes down to.

My last job paid for a good portion of my masters, every time I was reimbursed for tutition there was a set amount of time I had to still be with the company or I had to repay a certain amount.

Ended up leaving before finishing my degree due to really hating the company, I was prepared to hand back 15k, but they never even bothered asking for it. Same thing happened to a coworker of mine, though it was substantially less money in that case.
I'd say they've successfully deconstructed what it means to be a building though.
> You are an ignorant fool.

That is a serious breach of HN's civility rule and the sort of thing we ban people for. When someone is provocatively repeating wrong statements (or appears to be) and is getting increasingly rude, the way to deal with that is not to lose your own cool, it's to realize that there's no win in this and just leave it.

A.k.a. don't feed the trolls, it takes two to tango, two wrongs don't make a right, and sundry other things our mothers told us.
Can you point me to a few erroneous articles?
PlanGrid (YC W12) is hiring Back end, internationalization, Web Engineers and more
Agreed. It wasn't very insightful in terms of novel methods.
I don't know if that's a matter of hindsight. AirBnB operates by pushing the boundaries of rental law, frequently overstepping them, constantly getting into fights with municipal governments. Not everyone wants to have that sort of a business, no matter how potentially profitable.
If you don't return any CORS headers, all cross-origin requests will be blocked by default. If that's the behavior you want, there is no need to return any CORS headers.
Tokio feels like something that needs its own funding and dedicated team... it feels like its development has been slower than what you would expect of a critical (to me) tool for elegantly handling async connections, which is particularly important for web servers.
>ah I've set my UI to always use my colors :D white over black background

How do you specify that? Are you using Stylish or something?
You're getting downvoted but... what doesn't make sense to you?

There wasn't a lot in that comment that was super dense. Was it just some of the terms used?
> Craigslist has 50 employees and minimal vetting of anything. It's great for what it is, but I would never use it to rent anything​ site unseen.

This is one reality show I would watch. Forget all those "We sleep in a dark place recording all the sounds buildings make and then speculate wildly about causes" shows. Sleeping overnight in a house/room/whatever rented randomly off Craigslist would be way more interesting and probably frequently more frightening.
This kind of behavior has been reported at many startups. Venture capitalists have apparently made an implicit analysis that the risk of settling a lawsuit is cheaper than adult supervision and an experienced HR department. The free market has spoken.
Not everyone agrees on aesthetics though.

That being said, I find FLW's designs more aesthetically pleasing.
Definitely. And you could write queries for the various indicators/files/etc., too (or use the built in YARA support and grab the rules from US-CERT).

I just started working at Kolide (http://kolide.com) a couple weeks ago where we're building a whole product on top of osquery. I'm constantly surprised by "can it do (x)" and the answer is almost always yes. It's pretty solid!
LLVM bitcode doesn't make a great interchange format, because it's not really hardware agnostic, last I checked. Obviously you _can_ run it on hardware it's not created for, e.g. in an emulator or via some extra transpiling. But now you're introducing some serious inefficiency into the pipeline.
It has to have been possible for the information to have traveled between the parties normally. In this case, it has to have been possible that a photon would have traveled between the two. Since the information couldn't have arrived FTL normally due to the everyday causality problems, it also couldn't have passed through this channel FTL.
So throw some advanced carbon fiber construction at it and launch it from a mass driver. Then you'd have an SSTO with a small usable payload!
Password resets are not as bad because the reset code is only useful very briefly, and then becomes useless.

Don't use this startup's products, not now, not ever. They've already revealed their true colors as obviously not just not caring, but not even really having the capacity thinking about security, which is even worse. And they're a financial/banking startup! Geez.
This is why I signed up.
Doing things via pen and paper can be safer than doing things by a complex, poorly designed computer system that doesn't take into account actual work practices, patterns of collaboration that involve artifacts like paper as an essential part of communication and work flow that isn't captured by these computer systems. You need some serious perspective if you think just computerizing something is necessarily making it better, and that it can't turn out to be a disaster.
This has nothing to do with the battery. The claim is that they have solid intelligence that someone is trying to fit a bomb inside a laptop/tablet and it would be hard for screeners to tell the difference between legitimate devices and bombs.

However, aviation experts have weighed in and stated that even a full pound of pure explosives detonated in the cabin of a modern airliner is unlikely to bring the plane down. So you could just ban very heavy laptops and leave the rest alone.

You know what HAS brought two 747s down in the last decade? Lithium battery fires in the hold. UPS and FedEx no longer permit bulk shipments of L-Ion batteries by air because of the risk. So they want to move devices from the cabin (where if they catch fire someone will notice and they can be dealt with) and put them all together in the hold where fires are harder to detect and impossible to fight!

Smart, so smart!
The bulk of the responsibility for this ludicrous flamewar is yours. You became increasingly uncivil and spatty in this thread, and proliferated reams of tit-for-tat filler.

This is the sort of argument that gets a few combatants hot and bothered and clogs up the site with tedium for everyone else. We ban accounts that do this, so please make sure it doesn't happen again. HN threads are for good conversation, and there's no worse conversation than this kind of bickering.
I don't really agree with this, but I upvoted it because it's the best charitable explanation I've seen, even if I'm frustrated by what I perceive to be a missed opportunity.
No - he has figured out the salary game. He values his time and doesn't want to do crazy hours but when he hears or reads salary data it's never transparent. I've had him for about 4 years and he has 9 yrs experience as a full-stack dev.

I understand what you're saying and I agree if it's not entry level and in a major market, but you don't have enough data to suggest that the parent didn't find anyone they want because of a low salary. All I'm saying is that if you are offering 80k and only expect 40 hrs, he should probably be clear about that because that could help him attract better candidates who value their time. Otherwise, I agree it could look low depending on where he is.
It's not like a car that just needs more gas to keep going. It takes a lot of refurbishment to make it so it fly again after it's taken off into space.
What?! You found that international first class wasn't worth the $100 upgrade fee?
They've been taken to the ACCC previously for anticompetitive behaviour however the focus of that was on nepotism ie the way trainees were selected. The process is more blinded now (to the extent that is possible in a country the size of Aus/NZ with somewhere around ~100 trainees for general surgery a year).

I actually attended the ICOSET conference for 2 days prior to the ACS and there was much discussion over it.

For example, compared to the US situation, where surgical training is run by the universities, surgical accreditation is done by the Board Examinations, and the ACS is essentially just a bit of a union/membership organisation (You can not pass your boards and practice surgery in the US although it cant be good for your insurance), RACS is both trainee selector and accreditor.

There is talk about accreditation being devolved (Macquarie University Hospital is apparently trying to do a course for Neurosurgery) and the Orthopaedics guys left the RACS a few years ago to start their own body (but with similar principles, ie they select trainees and accredit). The MUH model seems interesting but has it's own problems because rumour is they want to charge ~$150k to do their training course. So essentially we have the americanisation of our quaternary training, which I don't agree with.

It's hard to see a real way forward; and even if another organisation came around and said they were going to start training surgeons, they have a couple problems: getting surgeons to say that they are happy to be the Trainers for them and getting hospitals to allow that organisation to train them.

A similar problem exists with the RACGP and it's (my opinion) much better, more nimble and beneficial to the Australian Population Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. ACRRM has been steadily building up to become a formidable training force for GPs particularly in rural and remote australia wityh a focus on TRUE generalism, ie GPs that run scope lists, minor surgery, obstetrics and aesthetics. The RACGP has a firm focus on city GPs and City training despite a desperate need for ACRRM/rual generalists. RACGP this year has put the state governments over a barrel and said that trainees must now do X amount of time in a big city, and that rural training is not going to count for as much; with the result that current ACRRM trainees may not make cutoffs in terms of time worked in city practices and fail to achieve their final qualifications. So basically RACGP is making moves to push ACRRM out of the way by introducing changes that benefit it over ACRRM.

all terribly interesting/boring, depending on how much you care about petty politics :)
It pains me to see Carmack at the center of this, as he's definitely one of my nerd idols. But my biggest concern is what this means for the future of VR. Did it just slow down thanks to software patents or are the others not affiliated with Oculus (SteamVR, etc) going to be able to keep pushing forward without fear of some bs East Texas lawsuit after Samsung has its day?
Will add once I introduce private bins feature.
That is one of the primary targets for IBM's Watson, and it seems ready[1][2]. More and more my subjective risk calculation favors AI for diagnosis. This one aspect I believe accounts for most of the overall time/effort spent in dealing with patients.

To apply AI at the start of the process makes a lot of sense -- reduce/eliminate errors at the start and allow doctors and their time to be better used.

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ibm-watson-proper-diag...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/ibms-watson-may-soon-be-the-b...
They work on making those refurbishments done within 24 hour time period.
I don't know, I grew up on welfare and after 20 years of being middle class I still have a hard time buying new shoes until my current pair is literally falling apart. Though, I guess my leap isn't as drastic... I'm still poor enough to be in a hotel and think "wow this carpet is really nice"
IANAA (I am not a archaeologist), but I'm guessing the dating is based on the materials that encased/surrounded the artifact rather than the material of the artifact itself.
There are plenty of dropouts at every step. Probably the biggest drop-off is the PGY-1 year (internship). That's when you really find out if you can cope with clinical medicine. Staff physicians only want interns and residents to do the scut work they don't want to do: in house call, dis-impacting old ladies in the ER, etc. If it wasn't for the parts that suck, they would assure you they can handle the hospital without residents just fine. I suppose that's why teaching hospitals consistently deliver better care: because the staff can do everything just fine. If it wasn't for parts that suck.
Is this something you could do with Presto? You'd need to write a custom connector and it doesn't look like there is support for dynamically adding/removing catalogs (https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/2445) but it would presumably handle the heavy lifting for you.
Thats lighting network on litecoin's chain. Bitcoin is still far from activating seg wit.

Any metrics on how large the lighting network is on litecoin yet? I have a couple laying around and would be happy to lock them up with a big node.
Ask HN: How to acquire seed funding?
Seeking around 150K USD for seed stage startup, in data collection / BI, with a time to market of 6 months, and a no-free-tier PaYG business model. I have a Delaware C Corp, started recently on Stripe which has not taken any funding. As well as funding I'm interested in taking advice and guidance on go to market strategy, business model and initial target markets and applications. I have deep technical knowledge of this space, and have technology prototypes, but no prototype for the application. The biggest risk I see is that this is not a real market, because it's similar to, but significantly different to other offerings in this space. The second biggest risk I see is that this is a solution looking for a problem. This could also be advantage. The third biggest risk is that I am unable to complete this, either in a team, or as at present, working alone as a solo founder. Please ensure I can verify you are a real investor prospect. If you're interested in funding this or know someone who might be please let me know. If you'd prefer, please email newbilead@gmail.com thanks!
Not arguing the social clout thing, but having sales teams hounds you on the regular, no matter how high the perks, sounds awful. To each their own.
Exactly. Wanted to learn a couple of new technologies. Nothing's better to develop a small app and learn as you move ahead with it.
So? Reward people for telling you that there are some people who aren't into your thing, but that they did try. This information has value.

"Sorry it didn't work out, here's a coffee!"

I mean, by what standard of "business practice" is this "horrible?" Keep in mind we're in an era of exploding conventions.
For reference, the specific quote "WannaCry appears to primarily utilize the ETERNALBLUE modules and the DOUBLEPULSAR backdoor. The malware uses ETERNALBLUE for the initial exploitation of the SMB vulnerability. If successful it will then implant the DOUBLEPULSAR backdoor and utilize it to install the malware. If the exploit fails and the DOUBLEPULSAR backdoor is already installed the malware will still leverage this to install the ransomware payload. This is the cause of the worm-like activity that has been widely observed across the internet."
So your scenario is

>code gets leaked

>incentive to find bugs in signing increased

>bug in signing found

Offhand I would think the value of an exploitable signing bug is an order of magnitude greater than the cost of making a custom software. At the very least it trivially allows jailbreaks, which puts it in the million dollar range depending on how exploitable it is, and I think creating iOS software that skips the passcode would at worst be in the low six figure range if it didn't need signing, more likely mid five figure.

Saurik said it could be done in a week by a talented programmer (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11153022), so even though the supply of such programmers is limited I'm still confident the total cost would be 5 figures.

So the additional incentive would be pretty insignificant compared to the existing incentive.
MSFT upgrades are a joke. I worked at MS and the number of times a machine decides to restart in the middle of a presentation is not even funny. This was in the windows department.

It seems the decision was forced down by management. I hope someone up the chain realizes how much its cost to the actual users.

There was a joke at MSFT "you don't become a VP without making the company lose a billion dollars"
The problem is this isn't for theater. A Somali passenger plane was bombed this way back in January, and the only reason it didn't cause a loss of life is the person did it at 10,000ft which is too low to cause catastrophic decompression.
Ask HN: How will Artificial General Intelligence be invented?
I am curious to learn IF (and a big if) an artificial general intelligence will be invented, what will be the roadmap for such an invention? e.g. what would need to be created / demo-ed along the way to ascertain that such an invention might be possible? First it was chess, then image-classification, then Go...maybe a natural language demo will blow our minds soon...what would be the "next demo" (or a set of demos) that would show that such a goal is increasingly within reach?

Sub-questions:

1) There are some groups (e.g. Strong AI group in Berkeley, OpenAI, DeepMind etc) that are working towards the explicit goal of inventing artificial general intelligence. If a group has to start working on it today, what would be the approach that group can/should take? Is it possible to open a new line of inquiry that will add to this research?

2) IF (and again, big IF) something resembling AGI would be invented, would it be in large companies (with lot of data and compute power) or can a smaller group (e.g. a startup) approach such a lofty (and nebulous goal)?

Does HN have any thoughts on this?
Please allow me share my personal experience and as to why I don't consider a "formal education" to be anything special or unique or magical (including my own). For the record, my degrees are in engineering, and not in CS.

I would describe the majority of the classes (not course topics) I sat in during my time as completely worthless and a waste of my time. There was a very typical pattern from undergraduate courses all the way to graduate courses: professor would come in, dribble a bit on the board and often copy verbatim from a book onto the board, mumble a bit, and erase the board move on the the next topic and then leave. I'd then have to go read the book and pick up 1 or 2 reference books to try and understand what was going on. Maybe I had a total of 2-3 courses that I felt I actually gained something worthwhile by sitting in the _classes_. So almost all of the time I was "self-teaching" despite having a "teacher" and getting a "formal" education. And now, 4 years later, I'm continuing to self-teach by picking up books and reading through them on my own.

Having said all that, unfortunately I would have never gotten my current job had I not put down that I have an "X in Y" on my resume/CV -- not because it's required for the job, no, _not at all_, but because it just helped them check off one of those "requirements" off their list.
Right, so why is the FDA the bottleneck to drugs coming to market? It makes no sense and creates a massive, overly risk-averse bureaucracy.

There are tradeoffs involved for allowing a drug too soon, failing to take it off market fast enough in the face of new evidence, and for needlessly delaying time to market.
You're demanding the impossible here and elsewhere in the thread. Asking for the impossible is maybe ok, demanding it not so much.

No one can demonstrate productivity gains because productivity can't be measured. Lines of code can, and those are often a bad thing. Some of our most productive efforts make programs smaller.
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I think the GP was right—there are very few business ideas that can pull off bootstrapping. The space of business ideas executable with funding is a superset of (and probably much larger than) the space of business ideas executable without funding.

Also, most of the ideas you can only execute with funding are such because they'll never make any money. ;)

The majority of all successful businesses, meanwhile, operate off a very small sub-space of the space of all business ideas. The part of the space called "workable business models."

I'd agree that if you look at the space of workable business models, probably the majority of them are either bootstrap-friendly, or common and low-risk enough that regular consumer banks are willing to finance them with debt-capital (i.e. "business loans".)
The mechanism is open competition. Right now hospitals and clinics don't have to give you a price for their services, and you have to pay them whatever they ask for. It should work just like a mechanic or a lawyer, you are told the fee, you pay it, you get service. Don't like the price up front? Shop around.
I've deleted the offending line. But I admit to being a little surprised that "ignorant fool" is considered a serious breach. That honestly seems fairly tame to me. I was looking for a phrase that meant that not only are they ignorant, but they're either unwilling or unable to recognize this. But I suppose I can believe that other people may read more into the phrase that I intended.
I recently went on a trip to Europe where I had to swap out my regular SIM card for a European SIM card, then swap back when I returned. Changing the SIM card on my phone requires removing the battery, so, yes, I powered my phone off to do this.

Otherwise, I almost never power off my phone. I do switch it to airplane mode when I fly, and set it to silent when appropriate.
Yeah I would wonder, but it wouldn't automatically raise concerns. I'd imagine that the unemployment rate for that demographics is relatively high. 22 is still very young and I'd not be surprised if many had not yet had a professional job at that age.

Perhaps my views are not typical, but I find a lot of maturing happens in late teens and early 20's. I might be jaded but I find people get significantly easier to work with when they hit mid 20's. There are many exceptions to this however and not all people mature at the same age.
200k is also on the low end. A friend of mine just finished her residency and is making almost twice that now. I did some on-site PC service for a few doctors in a job about a decade ago. They literally all had 911s and mansions. Anecdotal sure, but from what I've seen, doctors here are loaded. Anesthesiologist always seemed like the best gig....you work a few days a week, set up your schedule months ahead of time, bring in your kit and pump the person full of drugs, sit there and watch the screen for however long the surgery takes, bring them back to life, then go home with a few grand. The anesthesiologist is typically an independent contractor.
The Digital Karnak Project
Agilevetures has a variety of opportunities to volunteer...and as the name suggests they use agile methods. They also are set up for people to collaborate remotely.

https://www.agileventures.org/