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pmarca and gurley hate each other. pmarca is definitely the investor I would take money from. In fact, its funny you mention him. He's been hugely useful to Lyft (and his other investments) since he's "purchased" so much "goodwill" among The Who's Who of journalists covering Silicon Valley. As John Doerr once quipped, "No conflict, no interest", and pmarca has learned this lesson well. Every investment he's made in journalism companies is a conflict of interest that earns him interest. Investing in Silicon Valley's loudspeakers has given him a steady stream of positive submarine pieces in favor of him and A16Z and unfavorable pieces against those companies that compete with his investments.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Switch to using Spectacles by Snap, they're cooler.
The Stripe business model, basically.
They were saying all decryption would happen client side and the only operations done by the server would be ones where the server can operate on encrypted data and yield encrypted results. I suspect that the main sticking point in that plan would be that the current state of homomorphic encryption is fairly limited/slow, so if you need AWS for computation as opposed to storage, it's not a practical plan.
Held for 180-day period. Far longer than needed for customers to get returns and far from sane imo.
Mint is probably the one you don't have to worry about. The service that stores credentials and scrapes bank sites is the same one that powers TurboTax and QuickBooks. Intuit spends a lot of money keeping that service secure and they're well aware of how catastrophic a breech would be.

In short, that service is run out of private datacenters, not publicly available. You'd have to compromise not just Mint/TurboTax/QuickBooks but then the FICDS service, which only has methods that take a token representing the credentials and passes back transactions, not the actual credentials.

It's the competitors to Mint who can't afford their own datacenters and don't have the many millions of dollars to put into securing their service the way Intuit does that should be much more worrisome.

Disclaimer: I used to work at Intuit, though not on any of the products I mentioned. But I have had many conversations with the people that run Mint and FICDS and I know the overall architecture used. I give my bank credentials to Mint without any worry. It would probably require a state-level entity to get in, and they'd likely need to get someone hired into that group to facilitate it. The service is very secure.
Yup, last story I heard was ~3 years ago. With the game industry there's always a new set of fresh blood that has idealistic views and hasn't seen what publishers(or exploitative dev studios) can pull.
Rust also shines when it comes to high level abstractions. This is what attracts me to the language: as in C++, it covers the super low-level stuff, but it also powerful in business logic abstractions.
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They definitely aren't just running a VPN to make a quick buck. The amount of guides and such that they offer for integration, etc. is confidence-inspiring as well.

What sold me was their mention of using Qubes OS in-house. They clearly give 100% fucks about keeping their infrastructure safe.
This has been typical approach in mainframes and other OSes with bytecode as executable file format.

AS/400 architecture upgrades are done without any big worries about CPU backwards compatibility thanks to them being like this.
The article is about vendors selling Saas to Walmart. Having the ability to turn off the service makes it easier to get invoices paid.
Yup. The Holder report seems scathing, too, from what little we've seen. I would think that everything we've seen would have lead to a significant down round if Kalanick hadn't resigned (we still probably will). Given Uber's lack of profits & burn rate, a down round could send them into a death spiral.
Perhaps there is something else they are taking the focus away from. (Otto/Google)
I haven't read this paper, but I remember it being theorised that Mt. Gox operated on a fractional reserve by using bots to manipulate the price.

That after being "hacked" and losing the coins, they kept operating even though they knew they couldn't payout everyone. They tried to make up the losses by manipulating the market against their users.
> So the probability of a competitor inventing such a claim was literally zero?

Enlighten us, which competitor made such a claim?
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Inspired apparently by (the under-appreciated) Lawrence Hargrave's box kites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Hargrave
I'm find it surprising that some Americans don't think their country is big enough or their economy is strong enough to support both local entrepreneurs and foreign entrepreneurs who want to build businesses in the USA. You don't have to choose - you can have both.
Being aws only is probably a risky strategy for any Saas vendor anyway so at least this requirement is forcing vendors to make an investment (porting their app to gcp or azure) which would make sense anyway.
Unfortunately, it seems the true lesson is "after years of being assholes, they get to go home with more money than many of us will ever see".
Yeah. AWS isn't the best for just plain old storage so I guess this just isn't quite feasible yet. I'm hopeful we'll figure out the fully-encrypted cloud within the decade.
This looks really cool, I was just thinking earlier today that I need to set up some Anki decks.

I just have one question: Do you gain any rights to user-made decks? Ownership or usage rights or otherwise.
Kalanick forced him to resign as a condition of him resigning
I completely agree with you but your wording is insufferable.

I really hope you don't talk like that in real life.
There are other people that want to socialize and not drink though.
Yes, but their crap products overwhelming their ecosystem tend to be Russian, not Chinese.
Dumb question: would it be possible to turn the desert green?
I'm imagining something done little-by-little, through farming and maybe public trusts. If this kind of technology were to continue to fall in cost, could we have farms and forests in the Sahara?
Coincidentally I just started working on an editor for touch screens that relies on displaying nesting like this. I also worked on a syntactic zoom which I'm sort of proud of, but don't know how practical it could be yet.

Editing is still in progress but I have a read-only demo at https://gashlin.net/tests/ecola/hn/
Not the one I worked in back in the early 90's. You could walk along to rolling line and had to hit a pause button to stop the feeding of billets in the reheat furnace to cross the line to the other side of the plant. Nucor Plymouth.
Etsy will cut 15 percent of its workforce in a new round of layoffs
The laws they were breaking are employment laws. Financial institutions are rooting for these kind of rebels.

Making profits without employees is the holy grail of finance. They are willing to look away on law violations if you blind them with that dream. By the way, in my opinion, a similar sentiment is driving the hype in deep learning funding.
Regardless of the outcome, gaining that outcome through legislation (force) is immoral. It's sad that these days the default for a group to get what they want is to use a third party with guns.
Oh, no. I am quite happily retired.

However, I would suggest that we have a moral obligation to avoid sinking as low as we possibly can. Yes, if people are hungry, they will work for pennies on the dollar.

Ethically, I would suggest we avoid desperate people en masse, for a whole mess of reasons. Hell, I can make a financial argument that suggests we not do that. You get better work from content people who have the means to consume.

I guess it's more a thought exercise. It's probably up to us, as individuals, to do the right things. We don't really have much history of doing so, collectively. Buggered if I have the answers.
I wasn't suggesting that, no.
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I am learning rust now, but D seems quite promising.

Rust guides you more toward certain approaches. That makes rust easier to learn, but it makes it harder to integrate with existing projects. On paper, rust could work great in a lot of environments, but I'm finding that it takes a bit more work to integrate with a real codebase. It can be done, and I feel like that's well supported, but it takes some real work to port the concepts of a C API into a good and safe rust API.

D might make that easier because it's an "everything" language, so there is likely a corresponding D equivalent of almost any existing API. Of course, you won't get the same level of safety or other benefits, but it could be a smoother path.
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No it is not. The word "illegal" gets thrown around way too much; it has a very specific definition in law, and nothing you described is illegal.
> Transfer money between accounts, make external payments using Faster Payments, and manage your payees, standing orders, and Direct Debits all through the Teller API.

What will the fees be on sending/receiving money?

Scraping data from your own bank account seems rather uninteresting to me. I assume sending/transferring is limited to domestic banks. Is this the case?
Yeah. I have fallen into the VM hole. I even have images for Plan9. I am not proud of this, no... No, no I am not.

My only defense is that I didn't do so out of a fake memory of a glorious past. I just like tinkering.
IRT modeling doesn't care much whether an item is free response or not, just the scale on which it's scored. Binary and polytomous scoring = IRT model. Continuous scoring = Factor analysis.

If by mentioning free response, you mean students are unlikely to guess the correct answer, even when they don't know it, it's a 2 parameter IRT rather than 3.

Best of luck! :)
Ask HN: What is the most important thing you learned at your last job?
We've seen things. We've seen companies scale. We've seen products get built. We've seen things we thought were amazing fail. We have learned culture, business, and tech lessons.

At your last position, or maybe the position before that, what was the most important thing that you learned?
A question mark is more valuable than simply reporting nothing.

And I think as the Samsung / Intel / semiconductor fab article (about birth defects and cancer caused by chemical exposure) the other day noted, traditional lawmaking is ill-equiped to deal with fast-moving technical fields.

The first step is public awareness.
This seems to be source-dependant. Looking at world news, articles from Reuters have no summary whereas CNN's articles feel relatively well summarised to me.
I know this will cost me mucho karma, but

what I hear: self promoting excellent technology, best practice ops blog posts, a/b testing, poster child for product management [1] and then after years of excellence a sudden product failure (reviews, China, ...), CEO kicked out for failing and slashing staff in several rounds.

To me this looks like focusing on the wrong things. I wonder that the CEO discussed with the CTO and VP Product over the years. We'll see if I have to replace Nokia with Etsy in my "Focus" conference talks.

[1] Etsy is a database webfrontend not SpaceX

Edit: John Allspaw, famous for blameless postmortems, Linkedin profile says his CTO gig at Etsy ended May 2017.
It's never too late to get into anything if you have an interest and a desire to learn. You may not be able to fit the standard path, but there are always ways to cut your own.

For ML/AI, with the massive amount of public material, open source software, and companies sharing cutting edge research I'd say today is the an amazing time to get started.
Algorithmic sorting is a way to circumvent privacy protections by laws enforcement. For instance: "I only capture the emails that contain the word Al-Quaeda inside". For this an algorithm is fed all the emails of a given ISP but only selects a few.

Aren't you interested in knowing the capabilities and bias of the algorithms used to filter out these data?

Also, there is another important question in AI: what is the status of the neural networks generated through feeding some other data inside? Is it a derivative work? If you feed an AI some GPL work does it make the resulting NN GPL too?
A lot of those other providers are niche offerings, or are otherwise leveraging existing business relationships. They aren't trying to devour the world, they'll be very happy with a small sliver.
Yes, but reference counting allows for deterministic destruction. This is a game changer to leverage the power of destructors.
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And that conclusion is wrong, because a bigger battery has a longer life... the lifetime of a battery is better thought of as being a number of miles, instead of a number of years.
I have yet to find a place that can maintain "basic standards of human decency" yet still be aggressive enough in its endeavors to push the limits without people getting hurt.

Listen, Uber gets lots of flak for being a nasty work environment, but maybe all it ever did was play very, very hard ball. People think the solution is to, figuratively speaking, play nice, but maybe the real solution is for the other side of the team to play just as hard, if not harder. Meaning for employees to not just own the assigned work, but also the work environment, to blow the whistle when they see something wrong, to dig up the hatchet when things get unfair, and most importantly to never be accepting of status quo just for political reasons or for lack of perseverance, but to confront every thing they disagree with, for the very simple reason of "communication" more than anything else.

The idea is not to punish but to make points known and push evil back into its hiding spot.
I was about 10 years old in the mid 2000s and much of what I knew about computers at that point were just about the use of weird software (like editing the config files of emulators) and some google-fu.

When I was first introduced to Python by my parents and left alone with it, I didn't have any idea of how software was written and didn't even really know the concept of saving code. I downloaded IDLE and it was really confusing that the place where I put my code was also the interpreter by which I ran it, and it really just didn't make sense to me at all and I never got around to doing more with it. I lost a lot of motivation because of all this confusion.

It was really the first teacher I had in high school for programming that got me on track to learn that stuff because he introduced me to the concept of doing stuff on the Linux command line. That was the first time that everything really clicked and I did so many stupid Python side projects that year just because I liked how it felt to use a more bare-bones text editor and run things on the command line, and accidentally became much better at writing software because of this.

I went on a tangent but my main point is that it often takes even just a small nudge from an external entity to even develop the desire to get started. Perhaps the OP will be successful in nudging their friend into a valuable activity and possibly career path. Perhaps it'll be a Sisyphean struggle -- many of my classmates in my first programming class learned the same material but it never quite "clicked" for them and they ended up failing the class. But I don't believe there are any inherent red flags from how OP described the situation.
It's not like you are required to sell to Walmart. You can always refuse. Plenty of successful companies don't sell anything to Walmart.
I will give Trump supporters some credit, because many of them became genuinely disillusioned after Trump's continuation of the status quo foreign policy in the Middle East and after the Saudi arms deal. Hard-line Obama supporters are easily as racist as Trump supporters, why else would they go mute for 8 years while hundreds of thousands of Muslims are murdered by their candidate?
To emphasise this.
The entire plant needs to be maintained, with daily, weekly, quarterly, annual and longer preventative maintenance schedules. Sometimes these will require taking down the whole plant for a week or two, other times for shorter times or the work can be done without interruption.
There is also unplanned maintenance - when the plant stops working and a team is needed to get it bak up and running. For this yo gals need a warehouse full of critical spare parts - and people to manage it all.

The plant also needs people working on product development (e.g. different wire materials and weights), process development (improvement in capacity to over name place capacity), health and safety (even with a hands-free plant like this there are plenty off hazards and a large amount of environmental and H&S compliance work), and so on. All these people need managers.
And then there is demand management - figuring out what to make and when, goods inwards (and its quality control), dispatch and managing all the associated paperwork and QC.

And there need to be people who make are those controlling computers and all the transmitters and controllers are working properly.

and so on. But a laudable achievement nonetheless.
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Tencent is the 10th largest company in the world, making it larger than (eg) Samsung, and they already have their own OS as well (Tencent OS), which is an Android fork. I expect it's a matter of time before they either arm-twist Apple into compliance, or Apple becomes irrelevant in the Chinese market when better integrated and shinier alternatives leave it in the dust.
Housecleaning indeed, though some departures were voluntary. 8 top level execs and two board members so far. Link contains a visual of who has left the building, 2 incoming execs and vacant C Suite spots.
https://www.recode.net/2017/6/14/15794816/uber-charge-leader...

I'm surprised Thuan Pham (CTO) survived the carnage since he was mentioned in Susan Fowler's post.
As an aside my dark horse candidates for CEO or COO are Thomas Staggs former Disney COO and Susan Wojcicki (Current YouTube CEO)
the full contact details are in the research paper linked.

But yeah, wouldn't hurt for the guy/gal to add some easy contact details.

Sheesh, academics eh.
You change the environment. Be clear - this rhetoric, which is so naively being echoed here on HN, of all places, is based on assumptions of a world which does not exist.

In this specific case, and depth in the comment tree, there have been 2 incorrect assertions made, the clarification of which leads to the truth.

The first is - maybe now america will invest in its own talent

the second is - many times people are being told to train their own replacement

The issue is that job distribution is bi-modal in tech.

Theres a cluster at the very high end (jobs as a google scientist), and theres a cluster at the lower end (guys maintaining web pages).

The talent people compete for around the world is for the top end of the curve - and america has been sucking these people away from their home country for ages.

Furthermore - I have seen American talent in American colleges, you do a very good job of converting people into smart people.

This process has only recently been corrupted because of the poor job scenario for the lower and middle ends of the job curve. But its still damn good.

Closing those doors, after the rank xenophobia being displayed by the Administration means you lose out on the part of the curve you want to be competitive on.
You make it sound like the Elm architecture us just OOP done wrong or by hand. It’s not. The big difference is who owns the state and who is allowed to change it. If anyone inside the object graph that makes up your app can own and freely change important state, we usually get the tangled mess we know so well. When you move the important state into a single place and only allow it to be modified by a privileged, specialized set of objects reacting to a well-defined set of messages, you get the state under much better control. Which sounds like a great proposition to me.
For a serverless system that uses Lambda together with eg CloudFormation, Dynamo, and S3, Cognito etc - it's pretty low level and you spend a lot of time understanding, refining & debugging basic things. The end-to-end logging and instrumentation throughout the services used by your app weren't great.

Doesn't like big app binaries/JARs and Amazon's API client libs are bloated - Clojure + Amazonica goes easily over the limit if you don't manually exclude some Amazon's API JDKs from the package.

On the plus side, you can test all the APIs from your dev box using the cli or boto3 before doing it from the lambda.

Would probably look into third party things like Serverless next time.
Also, if you're taking in user input into a regex you want to use something like RE2 or Hyperscan. To do otherwise is to expose yourself to DoS.
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you could maybe embed the original ascii, or a meta representation of it in the generated image?
Huh? Sexual harassment and retaliation are both illegal under the Civil Rights Act.
A major reason for US prosperity and world-class science and technologies is the immigration of best minds from all over the world.

Within 12-20 years, China's real GDP will overtake the US, assuming that China's GDP grows at an annual rate 2.5+% faster than the US for the period. This is quite plausible given that the current per capita income of China is only 1/7 of the US and its major focus on R&D. Even now, many of the best Chinese graduates from US universities are returning to China to pursue better opportunities there.

China is spending $409 billion (PPP) on R&D, the second highest in the world after the US and ahead of the EU. This amounts to 2.1% of GDP and very high for their stage of economic development [1]. Their goal, from a variety of sources, is to overtake the US as world's no. 1 and reclaim their historical place.

If you look at PISA, China and the rest of East Asia, together with Singapore, consistently perform at or near the top in math and science, and quite well at reading. Even the best performing US state, Massachusetts, is significantly below those in Math and Science [2].

Relatedly, China is catching up to the US in AI. [3] Most groundbreaking research is still conducted in the Western hemisphere, but East Asia is getting there despite much later starts. Also, many top researchers in Western labs are from East Asia, who may later decide to move back once the circumstances change.

Given the above factors, and only one-fourth the population (330 vs 1390 million), if/when the US cannot take advantage of best minds from these and other countries, would it be able to maintain the technological lead for long?

If the answer is no, how about the military and diplomatic dominance, which almost always follows economic and technological leads?

A possibility: If a larger portion of the GOP wakes up to the above, possibly within the next 10 years, they will start to actively recruit high-skilled immigrants, perhaps with some sort of point-based system as in Canada and Australia. Whether it would be too late or not remains to be seen.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/technology/china-us-ai-ar...
> I think you'll find most people are willing to pay a premium for convenience and optionality, even when they don't use it.

Not much of a premium. CenturyLink offers 1gbps in my area. I only know one person who's subscribed to that level of service. Cost has been cited as the deciding factor every time.
Or extracting value before the big coming changes?
s/Hipchat/sed/
Teller allows developers to build applications on top of their users' bank accounts, not just your own. Read more about TAuth and how it works here: https://blog.teller.io/2016/04/26/tauth.html
It's originally from `ed` then `sed` then `vi`. It's been in use in email, Usenet, and IRC for a very long time.