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Introducing Downshift ️ for React ️ – Kent C. Dodds – Medium
Indelve Studios launched a new game on Kickstarter
We got access to MRI scans from numerous people with Alzheimer's disease or MCI (mild cognitive impairment) who happened to have an MRI scan up to 15 years ago, when they were still cognitively healthy, and our software detects abnormality in those older scans with a very high accuracy.

Regarding your second question/comment, we have just launched, and you are absolutely right, there is no reason not to choose our product. The biggest challenge is the huge skepticism in the medical community towards any novel technology related to Alzheimer's disease, given all prior failed big claims by others.
Not from idea to launch as I spend a lot of time daydreaming about projects before I begin work, but SendToMyCloud.com and PrivateForms.com both took less than a month to build, part-time.
Sure, but why not defer the test until a viable treatment is invented?
It's expensive to pull data out of their cloud partly because it makes switching providers or moving on-premise less appealing. It's a trap.
Honestly it was a difference in the userbase and how they interacted. There's some unknown threshold of users where once a platform becomes too popular it begins to degrade. I'd say pre-2010 reddit is a vastly different beast than today.
What is your opinion about the "premium" label?
It is a lot of valid feedback, we're doing a lot of emergency planning this week, but when the smoke clears we'll definitely start figuring out a "local restore".

> I may just want 5GB out of my 3TB, even for that "the browser restore interface" is just sad.

I'm slightly confused by this one. I assumed that pixel-for-pixel the interface of local restore would match the pixels in "the browser restore interface"? Is there an assumption that if it is a local application, then there would not be a "tree view" you see in the web and instead you would get something that looks like a Macintosh Finder or a Windows native "Explorer" interface?

If that is the case, what if we built something that looks IDENTICAL to the local Finder or Explorer but in a web page would that make some people more happy?

> And data retention! You didn't even touch upon it.

Just an oversight. :-)

> Kind of shows your/BB's stand is clear on it, right?

No, I can ALMOST guarantee you the Backblaze data retention policy is about to change, and possibly within a week. We heard all of you loud and clear and we're just struggling to figure out exactly how much this is going to cost Backblaze, or exactly how much of that cost we plan on passing on to customers and what that looks like.
I guess I've avoided crippling disillusionment because I never expected a job to be fulfilling or whatever. It's a means of providing for myself and my family, that's it. The idea that it's supposed to be more than that is really strange to me.

When I was in my 20s the only jobs I could get was stuff like waiting tables and working in outbound call centers. Whenever I'm down I remind myself that at least I don't have to do that bullshit anymore. Now I sit in an air conditioned office with a nice view, and can work from home on a regular basis. I know what my availability will be in a month. I can take vacations. That's pretty cool!

I literally can't imagine "loving" a job. No matter what it is, the fact that I have to do it every day, year after year, just to have health insurance and avoid homelessness, ruins it for me. That's not a complaint, that's an assertion that I'm about as happy doing this as I would be doing anything else.
We should take land away from motorists, not from pedestrians.
There's no reason to have the "claps" -- they could easily measure engagement without the readers having to actively do anything (visits to page/time on site, etc.). This reeks of a gimmick/someone trying to do something for their MBA thesis, vs. actually trying to get authors fairly paid.
Arsenic in groundwater puts 50m Pakistanis are risk
There's more than 200 countries listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states (I didn't actually count them, but jQuery says the table has 238 rows; a few of these are headers/footers, but there's still enough to have more than 207.) That isn't exactly equal to a nationality, but it's probably a good minimum - I could easily believe that there are more than 207 nationalities.
Additionally, glut of new world silver also greatly damaged the economies of India and China, which heavily used silver currencies at the time.
Interesting project.

Illustrator has a similar feature called shape builder. You can create new objects from intersections and such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izi0mtItHh4
Alaska's thawing permafrost has big consequences for greenhouse gas emissions
Also the sea king helos. When they do water landings everyone panics.
https://techcrunch.com/2008/01/01/zed-shaw-puts-the-smack-do...
OVH isn't an American company, that probably matters to a lot of use cases.
Ask HN: Optimum office lighting for developers?
All,

We're moving to a new office, and doing some tenant improvements. Our compromise in the whole 'open office' debate is a few medium-sized rooms, with room for maybe 8-10 desks apiece, with individuals and teams sorted by distraction/noise level. They will have wonderful natural light from North-facing windows, but I'd like to replace the overhead lighting, which is currently old 4-ft T-8 fluorescent bulbs in pairs.

Is there an appreciable difference between LEDs and Fluorescent tubes?

Are dimmers appropriate in offices?

What about color temperature? Are warmer or cooler better?

I'm primarily interested in fostering a comfortable, collaborative, attractive, and productive workplace. I also understand that we will likely leave the overhead lights off most of the time...
The Centre Cannot Hold
git was invented before continuous delivery

Maybe before the word was invented, we just called it "developing in the production environment" before "continous delivery" was trendy. (And yes, we used the derisive name even if it took a couple spins on a developer workstation before getting rushed to prod.)

releasing often from one stable master branch

Subversion has serverside hooks. It was common to use them to push trunk to production after checkins. I know this because I was there writing some of those scripts.
It's more like investment vs. consumption.

Keynesians would say the government should employ policies to increase overall consumption in the economy (aggregate demand).

Austians would say government shouldn't do either, but rather allow the free market to find the correct balance between consumption and investment. They are particularly against monetary policy because it increases overall investment in an economy (aggregate supply). The problem is that artificially high rates of investment inevitably lead to businesses offering goods and services that cannot be sold profitably (malinvestment).

That's why Austrians believe that artificially low interest rates cause business cycles.
They could market it as an exclusion test - "Congrats, you will not have Alzheimer's in the next 15 years" vs "Sorry, we can't say for sure that you don't have Alzheimer's. Why not upload your 23andme data here, and we combine your high risk alleles with our confidence of you having the disease, to produce a higher confidence result. Also, here is a list of lifestyle changes that reduce your risk of Alzheimer's (and also stroke, heart attack etc)".
Nice find.

What is the ping time from India to Iran? That is a long trip for a packet.
The point of this was to learn how to question decisions at work, and doing so in a way that you will be appreciated. The god believe was just an example of a believe that usually is hard to challenge.
It was all reinvested and channeled to the social justice projects.
Heh, that's awesome. I think it illustrates how confused people are in general about where bikes are supposed to be, which I think is a complicated cross of law, culture, cycling ability, and infrastructure.

The police have never hassled me for being on any road on a bike. But man, do the dudes in pickup trucks with truck nuts love to tell me to get off the road.
This took about 4 months from idea to first real user registrations: https://www.turbo360.co

That was back in June or so. Since then, have made many many changes based on user feedback so the current iteration is more like the cumulative work of 6 months.
My Lightsail gives me 3TB. It's a huge card for me. The only reason I use them at all for hosting.
It wouldn't.

Pure Python code is never going to out-perform a low-level optimized C library. Especially not when comparing iterative vs vectorized code.
The algorithmic democracy
They could simply ban adult websites in their ToS, I doubt this is the reason. Also seed boxes are nowhere near useful if you still would pay $10 / TB and at the same time can get traffic for free at OVH or Online/Scaleway.

It's most likely vendor lock-in and people are dumb enough to pay for it.
Were you serious about your bet?
https://web.archive.org/web/20080103072111/http://www.zedsha...
Random observation: the font-background contrast ratio in this post makes it very hard to read comfortably.
On Zed Shaw’s notion of String typing (and typing in general)
Absolutely valid criticism for a font. The page hurt to read.
So what was it?
The dumbing down of the curriculum so that music/english majors can pass CS classes doesn't do anyone any favors.

You sound butt-hurt
No one would really notice, as there's no way to prove it.

You just steer as many block rewards as you want towards your accounts, maybe give %10 to normal users.
iPhone 7 / 7 Plus case with Credit Card pocket
>>> ... costs $80 and for that price I can rent a beefy server with a dedicated gigabit pipe for a month.

No you can't. One doesn't get dedicated gigabit for that price.
I have met plenty of very skilled Thoughtworkers. However the consulting model doesn't reward doing things right. It rewards things like selling the "A team", then swapping them out as you sell the next big client. And shortcuts that enable payment milestones, etc. They have zero incentive for what code does, how maintainable it is, etc, after they leave.

TW can deliver well, but you have to manage them closely.
Yes, I text (albeit rarely). I'm one of those people who would prefer to hang out with my friend rather than spend time writing walls of text or firing texts back-and-forth ad nauseum. I'm very much a minimalist at heart and this pervades most aspects of my life.
So the one thing that makes the idea of caring about pages interesting is it gives you control of the reading experience. Making sure you manage certain things (for example, ensuring you put a hook on every page to keep the reader asking questions) is interesting.

However I would personally think that should just be a secondary view available when doing a late pass going over a book, not a normal way to see things while writing.
I am assuming you're making a larger point about life and death, and on that level I agree with you. But as someone who also works with seniors full-time, I have to point out that Alzheimer's is:

- not the same as dementia, and never will be [1]. Dementia is an umbrella term that includes many diseases (e.g.: Parkinson's, etc), whereas Alzheimer's is just one of the many specific diseases with its own causes, symptoms, and chances of developing a cure.

- not painless. Apart from increased physical pain sensitivity [2], there's endless emotional pain that impacts the patient and their loved ones [3].

The point you're making about the inevitability of death is valid, but it shouldn't lead to the conclusion that we should just accept Alzheimer's as an incurable disease - of all the ways that a loved one can pass away, many families I work with would agree that this may be one of the worst.

Having worked with thousands of end-of-life clients, I am surprised that the research funding for Alzheimer's is far lower than that for cancer, heart disease, and HIV/Aids. My assumption is that people's view of Alzheimer's is rooted in the old and incorrect perception that it's an inevitable and natural part of aging, sometimes referred to as "senility."

Today we know a lot more about Alzheimer's, and I would challenge anyone to point out why Alzheimer's is fundamentally incurable - it's just a matter of when, and I certainly hope we'll find a cure sooner than later.

[1] https://www.kindlycare.com/dementia-vs-alzheimers/
[2] http://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/neurocognitive-disorders/al...
[3] https://www.kindlycare.com/still-alice-portrait-of-a-disease...
[4] http://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-2015/alzheimers...
I'm quite used to articles like this appearing as (flagged) by the time I click the actual comments.

It would be interesting to know who is constantly flagging the articles, either users hell-bent on hn being only about tech, or right-wing people that don't want to be reminded about this.
I sometimes wonder if the best economic system is the one the people living under that system believe in the most.
This is a great list, but most will never get through all the way to #7. People have major fixed costs that they simply cannot cut out. Hell, I struggle to get past #4, and I've cut expenses to the bone. Yes, I could drop my mobile phone and Internet. I can move 3 hours away from work (I'm currently 2 hours away) to save on housing costs. I can stop going out with friends once a week and live life as a hermit. I can collect rainwater to drink. Maybe after all that I can get up to #5. But at what point are you sacrificing your certain life today for a possible future life?
> I have never seen anyone over 75 that does not have some kind of dementia.

> PS, I work with seniors.

My fiancee says something similar, but she's a resident in a hospital, so she tends to tag "... in the hospital" or "... in the ICU" on the end of that statement because she's not seeing a random sample of all >75-year-olds.
A teacher of mine tied tourniquets on boylston street and was accused of being a part of some Jewish conspiracy that used the Tsarnaevs as a fall guy.
No, Mach used unidirectional messaging. There was an RPC system, but it came with some formatting and marshalling stuff. Not sure about MacOS. Apple has an explanation of the five or so IPC mechanisms they ended up with.[1]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Da...
The number of actual nazis around is so incredibly small that it's not just statistically insignificant, but had that car related incident not happened recently it would go almost totally unmentioned.

The number of people such as yourself who want to censor speech and police thought, however, is frighteningly high. You are the same as those who advocated for book bannings and burnings at other points in history and it is depressing that your point of view has the strength it currently does once again.
Do you really think Google didn't study it before building their network? You think they hired Vint Cerf to cook omelettes at the cafeteria, or something?
Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide into the air
Correct, but the pundits are also correct, because there are really two different economies in the US:

- the "Walmart" economy - no inflation there, regular Joe Schmoes have not had a real raise in years

- the "Hamptons" economy - lots of money sloshing around (thanks to the Fed), bankers, etc spending big on luxury real-estate, etc.
|Any change that doesn't benefit them directly

a.k.a. gentrification
Here is a relevant article.
http://mashable.com/2017/08/22/john-oliver-hulk-hogan-lawsui...
LFTRs require on on-site chemical plants but that's not the case for some of the MSRs fueled by uranium.
Pretty much every major CDN and Google/AWS have a peering agreement that gives discount egress.
> I wonder how it's working out for them

Dane here. We're fine. It's not affecting consumers directly. The negative rates are locking at zero or close to zero. Government has talked about intervening if it would go negative, which I would tend to believe. I honestly don't know the exact consequences of what would happen in any case. I feel motivated to buy a new apartment because of the low rates, so I'm guessing it's working as it should. But that's all just anecdotal.
I don't disagree that AI is over-hyped. However, I think the research environment is not as likely to dry up this time.

That is because much of the machine learning research is coming from industry, particularly the mega-corps. And for extremely important disruptive events such as AI, they are willing to drop $$ into collecting a stable of research scientists to not fall behind in this space. So while the AI winter was driven by a drop in academic and government spending on research, I think our present situation is far less likely to result in a similar drying up.

Start ups could get hit, however.
Yeah (better) advertising for the community meetings could have gotten a larger group of people involved. I personally don't come across much info about meetings happening for this or other issues so this might be a problem worth tackling in a more general sense.

And yeah, Arguello seems to be way out there with his ideas and he has really turned me off from the Calle 24 group. Unfortunately they are a major influence in 24th street politics because they have big megaphones even if they don't seem to represent the views of the people in the neighborhood sometimes.

Glad to hear Japantown appears to be headed in a good direction. I actually think a lot of SF's planning is improving the city.
The image at the top of the article was extremely jarring. My immediate thought was whether anyone in the image died, and then my stomach sank with the sense that the use of this image for the topic of fake news is exploitative and disrespectful.

If anyone who read the article disagrees I would like to hear your point of view. I closed the page after only a few seconds.
I was wondering the same thing.

The screenshots in the article would be more helpful if they were zoomed a little closer, at least enough to show all the street names being mentioned. A topo or shaded relief map would also help.

I'm glad people are working on this. The bike directions on Google maps aren't very good, IMO
I know there's a longer cycle, but IIRC, there's also an economic lapse going into the fall as well, especially on years with high Atlantic hurricane levels
Double spends attacks aren't the only issue when you have access to a large portion of the network.

Malicious pools can prioritize their transactions and manipulate activity in the network to grant them as many block rewards as they want.
iPod Touch sales were about one quarter as many as iPhone sales. That came to 100 million units in the first 6 years. Given their lower ASP that's a bit less in revenue but it's still pretty significant.

Sure, without the iPhone they'd probably have sold a lot more, but it's not a very compelling counterfactual. Palm started off selling PDAs, but a smartphone is really just a PDA with a cellular radio and a phone app. By the time the iPhone came out standalone PDAs were already dead.

I don't think it would have made a lot of difference to the iPad. It is what it is. It might have had more of a 'wow' factor rather than the 'just a big iPhone' jibes, but even so it sold, and is still selling in very large numbers. Sure sales are down, but they're still selling about 40 million a year. That's more than Dell's annual PC sales and twice as many as Apple's Mac sales, it's also one sixth of global PC sales. So bear that mind when people say it's a declining business. It's slowly declining from spectacular success.
Probably a combination of both.
Ask HN: Hiring employees from Apple, Google, etc.
Are there cultural differences between employees from the major tech companies that make their alumni more or less likely to succeed in a startup environment? As an example, given two candidates with 5 years experience at Google and Oracle, all else equal, what are the tradeoffs?
You can go further with the type/representation dichotomy.

An obvious example is printing: All of a sudden, you need to convert an object of that type to a representation that can be read. Read by what? Humans? Other code? Both to some extent? The representation is dependent upon both the original type and the intended recipient.

(In Lisp, "readable" means "acceptable to the read function, which parses Lisp expressions"; some objects, such as compiled functions, inherently cannot become "readable" in this sense, so they get printed in an unreadable form. Should that be a type error?)

You can even have layers of representation: Length is a type of value, whether it's expressed in inches or centimeters or light-seconds is a representation, and whether it's in ints or floats or strings is another layer to the representation. You can add inches to centimeters with the right conversion, much like you can add numerical values represented ints and strings with the right conversions. The conversions just have to be at the right layer of representation.

Your ideas sound a lot like the original Hungarian notation, BTW: If your language-level types are representations (as in, your type system says int and float, as opposed to semantic notions like pixels-from-edge or alpha-percentage) you can encode the real type information in variable names. People mutilated this to encoding language-level type information in variable names, which is utterly pointless and potentially harmful.
How does the Venezuelan crisis affect the World Economy, though? AFAIK they are neither well integrated into global trade and finance (Japan and US), nor do they have so many people as to cause a serious change in the labor market (USSR).
Cool! It looks like you're doing most of your canvas-drawing with canvas draw commands? You might consider looking into WebGL rendering with regl: http://regl.party/ I've found it to be really powerful.
Biggest lesson I learned from building a SaaS side project that actually had revenue is this...

You cannot develop your way out of a marketing problem.

There will ALWAYS be technical problems to solve but it's all irrelevant if no one is using your product. Long development time also tends to create a familiarity with your product that users likely will not have, possibly ever.

I am a huge fan of Steve Blank's How to build a startup (which is free on udacity)
https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245
kolabnow has reasonable terms (termination needs no justification, but must be announced at least 30 days prior)

yet, it is much more expensive and the service seems of lower quality (in particular, not clear how to transfer the bulk of gmail stuff, and how to use my own domain name).
>I don't know about India. They probably just printed enough money to avoid the Great Recession.

I doubt they did only that, or even that. The RBI (Reserve Bank of India) and the Indian finance ministry have some well-educated and experienced economists (some even with Harvard / Oxford type backgrounds, or at least were earlier) (though I'm not saying they are perfect, no one is). Even without being a finance professional or economist myself (though I did take a year of Economics in 11/12th grade), I can tell that (mainly gut feel or educated guess, of course).

A sort of caveat or counter to what I said above, though (and what you said as well) is that (IMO) no economist fully knows what they are doing, partly because the field is so complex (dealing with economies of nations or the world, after all), and partly because economics is not a science like the physical sciences are (and hence not perfectly predictable, even if you have a supercomputer), not matter how hard proponents of that try to claim so. It's not called The Dismal Science for nothing ...
>, the related phenomenon of a company introducing a new, notionally superior product line at a higher price than the original,

Yes, and airlines charging a new extra fees for baggage when they used to be included in the base airfare is another form of inflation. This "shrouded pricing" is used to hide price increases in various industries.