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This article is referring to Navy Corpsman. They are medics, closer to an EMT than a surgeon. After boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes, they go to "A" School (basically, their specialty school) in San Antonio.

It is my understanding that this training at a hospital trauma center would be after their school in San Antonio, before they were attached to a Marine unit and deployed.
> I would argue git is not novice friendly.

Git is not friendly period, it's a huge pile of leaky abstraction and incoherent commands, the "high-level UI" being closer to shortcuts for common sequences of lower-level operations than an actual abstraction. It simply can not be understood "top-down".

> It's original intended audience was not lay people learning how to program. It was seasoned kernel developers working on the Linux source tree. It (made) assumption(s) it's userbase were experts in their domain.

Domain expertise has nothing to do with it, unless the domain is playing with footguns and expertise is having toes left.

> I agree git is complex

Git is not complex, it just has a very, very shitty API.
Private Placement Memorandum - http://www.capitalfundlaw.com/blog/2015/04/05/whats-in-a-pri...
> let's not just go slapping it on every new airframe that gets developed.

Indeed. The Diamond DA40 (without chute) arguably has a considerably better safety record than the Cirrus (with chute). Engineering decisions (even if they concern life-or-death questions) still involve tradeoffs.

The Volocopter is designed to have a ballistic rescue chute, if I understand correctly; but for such a relatively new technology (without autorotation capability) that might be the right decision.
I don't believe any government. I simply don't know whom gto believe.

I vividly remember the US presenting "evidence" in the UN to start the war in Iraq. None of the allegations held water.

How about holding these affairs to the same standard as crminal trials? Means, having a verifiable chain of custody, presenting the evidence to public scrutiny and having each side challenging the evidence.
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i guess the most famous practical application at least in the crypto community right now is called CryptoKitties build on top of Ethereum.
So if I understand correctly, you're asking: "if I already have 16 months of experience, isn't 7% a bit steep to help me find a job?"

The way we see it, no matter your experience level, especially if you still haven't actually been at a real full-time position yet, it's probably true that you can make your job prospects at least 7%+ better.

I would definitely say plenty of students we work with are fine and plenty capable on their own, but job seeking is rarely a binary of you're either fine or you're not. It's a spectrum from underemployed to dream job.

We try to get students the job that's the best possible fit for them, which is at least 7%+ better of a fit than they would've found alone.

TL;DR - It's not steep in the case that you believe we can provide you more in return in value.
I would advise them to not cold-email students about 'Engineering fellowships' which upon further inspection are just resumed workshops and interview prep. If you want students to take your company and service seriously, don't send out disingenuous emails about 'impressive backgrounds'. It makes your company look like one of those pay-to-join academic honor societies whose emails everybody[1] ignores.

[1] Obvious not everybody or there wouldn't be a business.
"Private Placement Memorandum" - first result on googling 'investor PPM'
His name is Tyler Shultz.

He is the main reason we know know what Theranos was doing.

He had his life destroyed, he knew it would happen, what Theranos would do to him, and he did the right thing all the same. Tyler Shultz is a hero.

Never let someone tell you that you don't matter. Try hard to do what is right. We need more people like him, be one of them too.

Be like Tyler Shultz.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/explosive-new-detail...

Edit: Pic: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3944392/Theranos-whi...
It's worth reading the popsci works of Steve Weinberg. He's older than Hawking, so not in the junuior generations. But he's still alive, a gifted expositor, and a genuinely first rate physicist. He's basically the person who assembled the Standard Model.
If you have smart storage on, those photos are not saved on the device but in the cloud.
Understanding that in git 'branches' are not really the branches but merely post-its that can trivially moved between the 'real' branches on the tree of commits really opened my eyes. Along with the use of visual tools like https://github.com/gitx/gitx, https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit, https://github.com/jonas/tig and aliases like `log --oneline --decorate -50 --all --graph --remotes`.

It really changes Git from a bunch of vague commands to a toolkit that you can use to apply the changes you desire on the database and worktree.

But even then I still get confused as the concepts of Git are not well translated into the commands, the various functions of reset and checkout. I think it is mentioned often before on HN but http://gitless.com/ is an good approach to create a new API/concepts on top of the same internals.
The recent announcement of Fortnite on iOS/Android seems like a big "Look what you can do with UE4"!
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> Meaning that if you are human you will make mistakes.

You can make mistakes in any language, and they will bite you in the backside any way.

Just because some people prefer to live in padded rooms that doesn't mean they can't or won't get hurt if they decide to pull stunts. Padded rooms just provide them with a false notion of safety that ends up making matters worse.
Areas where natural disasters have hit have been very problematic, and the US has had large scale riots. Houston seems to be the exception. Local area reversions to anarchy can get you shot.
These discussions devolve quickly when you use the word "they" as if scientists, politicians, etc are all one big group of people. The same thing occurs when people talk about big tech, big business, politicians, advertisers, homeless people, etc.

My point is that there is no "they" so assigning behavior makes to "them" makes it impossible to counter-argue. You say they did it, but you can't even define they, so how would I prove they didn't do that?

(Which is related to the article - "they" doesn't have a reputation, except for the negative one you just insinuated on the spot)
Because Congress' intentions are taken into account only after the actual text, and most of the time not at all (or they would have written their intentions clearly within the enforceable provisions.)
Most of our life is lived off of beliefs the majority of the world believes. It is only an extremely small subset that we've reduced to science and technology.

Perhaps you can explain what science has discovered about consciousness. As far as I know, the closest is a network analysis metric used to signify whether something is conscious. But that does not tell us what consciousness is, only some of the necessary conditions, if that.

Here is a list of problems off the top of my head regarding material minds:

- Math is inherently immaterial. I cannot destroy the number 1. Infinity cannot physically exist. Negative numbers, zero, imaginary numbers, the real number line do not correspond to physical objects.

- If our mind is material, there is no way we can know any kind of truth. Truth doesn't really have meaning. Yet we do know some degree of truth.

- If consciousness is a particular configuration, then the same configuration is the same consciousness, which would imply instantaneous awareness of two completely distinct parts of the universe by the same consciousness with two copies of the configuration.

- Free will and qualia have no meaning in a materialistic worldview, yet are essential to just about everything we do everyday.
Learn blueprint scripting. It takes a little getting used to but it's essential to being productive in UE4. Once you get the hang of it it's basically another scripting language. You can get a long way without writing any C++, and because it's faster, less error-prone, and has great auto-complete it makes it a lot easier to learn UE4's APIs while working in BP than in C++.

Besides that, read the docs and learn UE's concepts of actors, components, blueprints (prefabs), actor inheritance, pawns, and controllers. Then when you want to add some C++, make C++ base classes for your blueprint classes so you put some functionality in each.

Epic has great docs, this one might be a good place to start if you have Unity experience: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/GettingStarted/FromUnity
So from a sample size of one, you thoroughly concluded that this was because of democracy vs dictatorship. Just to offset that for you, India is a democracy with pollution even worse than China (although conveniently not often discussed in western media).

The conclusion you came to that China is trying to curb pollution "mostly" because of foreigners visiting during the Beijing Olympics, again do you honestly believe that?

You don't think the CCP, even being one of those "communist dictatorships", cares at all about lowered life expectancy across its population? Why did the CCP lift most of its people out of severe poverty over the last 20 years? What evil agenda was it trying to achieve then?
Paris train attacks, hurricanes in Florida, the machete attacks in London...
Schadenfreude is a word commonly used in discussion of the Theranos debacle and it really aggravates me because it presumes that anyone not throwing a pity party for these pathological liars defrauding people of money and potentially putting lives at stake with their bullshit tests that don't work are somehow bad people with negative personality traits.

No, Holmes and her people are bad people with negative personality traits. The folks going "Fuck yeah, this bullshit never made sense to me and I am glad to learn I am not crazy" aren't suffering some personality disorder. They just are glad to find reality aligns with their understanding of reality.

Also: Justice is a thing. Righteous anger over bad behavior is not schadenfreude.
We actually use LinkedIn and other sources to evaluate a student's background if we send out a cold invitation. You are right that we have no way of knowing your academic performance.
Pretty much any natural disaster.

The quakes in Mexico and the hurricanes that hit the gulf region islands and countries last year spring to mind.
Sorry, meant "newbie entrepreneurs."
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I think this is all too true. I think a lot of what's going on in the world right now is explainable through the death of ubiquitous, reliably-sourced information.

Growing up in suburban Illinois, we had a local paper. It was nothing special but at least had a commitment (in theory) to report things accurately. In a world where most people get their news from social media, people are driven by their incentives/dopamine conditioning toward a lot of behaviors that promote neither truth, nor engagement with opposing views.

What I find interesting, and absent from the conversation, is the social class dimension of this. The rich have always paid for reliable information, whether through newspaper subscriptions, magazines, or other high-quality private newsletters, some of them absurdly expensive (hundreds/thousands of dollars/year). As I get older, I find myself much, much more discerning about what I read. I've completely stopped using facebook (5-6 years ago), but now read The Economist, The SF Chronicle, Stratechery, and a handful of blogs from authors I trust. I don't know for sure, but I suspect "willingness to pay for good information" is a pretty strong correlate of wealth worldwide. I just have no idea whether it's causal, or a side effect of having disposable income, or what.
Yes, if you want to lie about some drone-based burrito delivery service you're probably not gonna draw the same ire as life-saving medical equipment. Although if you swindle investors for over $700 million in either case I imagine the SEC will be knocking at your door eventually.
What the copies think is the crux of the issue. Denying the problem isn't a solution.
I'm aware of P/Invoke. I'm pretty sure that's how the ADO.NET wrapper to SQLite works. GP was referring to statically linking a native binary to a .NET application, and as far as I know, there's no way to do that.
I wonder why this is getting so many down votes?
probably private placement memorandum
There's a lot of ways in which I worry about Amazon's dominance, but actually if the alternative is (and it was) Barnes&Noble (books) and Wal-Mart (everything else), which drove small retail completely out of business instead of just coopting them, I prefer Amazon.
You're making some mistakes here.

If the problem is complacent programmers, switching languages is going to have no effect.

You're also making blanket statements about the attitudes of C programmers which have nothing to do with the C language. That probably means your generalizations are overly broad and not true, not even for a significant fraction of C programmers.

I think you need to use some logic to argue your point, not wild claims.
Maybe it's because you weren't paying attention to it at the time. Or wasn't* reading HN when the investigations were coming out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053721

Less than a year later, before punishments really started to be officially levied against her and Theranos, a movie project with Jennifer Lawrence drew a frenzy of bidding.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/06/jennifer-lawren...

edit: added "wasn't"
SV/tech/USA is so great, anyone can make it big. You just have to be smart and work hard. Oh, and be family friends with billionaires. Yeah, that's all.
Actually I'm relying on the SEC's statement that she was an active participant in a large multi-year fraud. True, I've always thought Theranos was Too Good To Be True and had doubt about la Holmes' probity.

But I think you're getting downvoted because you're arguing that white collar crime, even at scale, isn't worth prosecuting, and ignoring the perverse incentives that result from such decision-making.
I guess that's true. Then it's even more bold and wacky to declare that we need new physics to describe a thing that is so controversial in its function or effects.

I (possibly mis-)translated into intelligent behaviour in my memory, since that's something most people agree does real work and needs explaining.
It took them long enough!
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How do you not go to jail for this? This isn't fake it until you make it. This is massive fraud. 100 mil vs 100,000 is off by a factor of 1000.
How can anyone justify in a P/E ratio of > 250 is beyond me. Math and logic seem both out the window. For investors who want to invest on the scale of decades - like you and I- this will become either a cautionary tale or the greatest returns on an ecommerce stock - ever(Only by then it will be much more than ecommerce).
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> You can believe in yourself without faking anything...

I don't think so. Self-doubt is natural. Mandatory, really. Someone who never has moments of self-doubt is a bad investment risk; it means they probably aren't thinking hard enough about what could go wrong. But concealing those doubts is also mandatory: if you can't, it may be a sign that you have more problems than you know how to deal with.
Private Placement Memorandum

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/offeringmemorandum.asp
Ask HN: How should one format plain-text documents?
I would like to store short plain-text documents that are readable as text (without being converted to anything else).

I am familiar with LaTeX and Markdown, but I consider the former to be too unreadable for my purposes (since I don't plan to convert the document to any other format), and the latter to be fairly good, but not quite there. I have heard about org-mode, but I would like a format that works as a stand-alone file, regardless of the editor used.

I am looking at the way that RFC documents are formatted, and I have to say that they are fairly readable, though I couldn't find a specification on their format.

My current solution is something that resembles Markdown, without header markings (because even though they make sense in plain-text, they don't really give a sense of hierarchy structurally), with single blank lines under paragraph headers and double blank lines after the end of a paragraph. Text in a paragraph is limited to 80 characters, and words are not broken.

What are some good ways to denote header hierarchy? Should I indent paragraphs? Should I indent lower levels under a header, so that it's clear when a section ends?

I understand that I have mentioned several subjective preferences, so feel free to add your own subjective opinions.
Because frontend devs migrated to the backend and didn't want to learn a better language.
"A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it."

That was wiktionary.org, but it's not too different from other dictionary's definition, I bet, and that's because it's what most English-speaking people mean when they say "monopoly". That doesn't mean it's the right way to think about it, of course, but it's not uncommon, and the meaning of an English language word is defined by how the typical native speaker uses it.
Fixed this for you:

git commit -a -m "Commit" && git push || ( git push --force; echo "Bob, my git is weird again, could you please help?" > /run/slack/dm/bob-the-local-git-expert )

Obviously, you do this from master.
I was a pretty good CS student and do not remember any of those terms outside of git.
I skimmed those threads and read them pretty differently. Even many of the pro-Theranos comments were careful to say things like "How can I know to trust their numbers?" and "the enormous change her company is saying is possible" (emphasis added). Those seem to me to have aged pretty well, and then there are the many skeptical ones, including from people like you who have direct experience in that field.
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Based on my experience with Headspace (meditation/mindfulness), I can second the benefits of having a dedicated app for this kind of stuff. While it's mostly just audio files and a few videos, having them wrapped in a neat package and adding a sense of progression really matters.
I agree that this is a foundational "liberal arts" skill, nevertheless, it's one many are never taught.

If you look at the last electoral cycle, I think we had the most democratic (not Democratic) election in US history. The candidates went around the traditional party/media gatekeepers, "disintermediating" them by building "direct to consumer" brands on Twitter and other media platforms.

I don't think the US electorate was used to having so much choice. In the past, we got what the party gave us, which tended to be more centrist. All bets were off this time. All to say, I think you overestimate how critical the electorate at large is, it's just that it never mattered, until now.
Forcing your coworkers do deal with your incompetence, I see.
In my experience when we brought our small (10yr old) brand to Amazon prime it doubled our revenue in the first year. Albeit at a lower margin, but still higher that wholesale. The customer crossover is surprisingly minimal, so it is not stealing from our traditional online business. I know this through extensive promotions on our direct website that do not seem to sway demand on amazon.com for the same thing at a much higher price.
all of the direct dialogue has subtitles built into the UI anyway. I can't remember if that's an option for the radio, but if it is (or could be implemented), then this seems like a really weird reason to cancel.
This story is gaining a lot of traction, and publications like Inc are picking up on it as a David-vs-Goliath tale. Some of them link to Christian Haigh's blog posts (https://blog.legalist.com/i-won-8-000-from-equifax-in-small-...). What seems to get lost in the secondary articles is that Christian Haigh works for Legalist, and the entire article, while I believe it to be true, is an advertisement for his legal services company to help you sue Equifax as well. This isn't David-vs-Goliath, this is someone well-versed in the law with the resource of a company behind him, taking on Equifax armed with knowledge and resources that the average consumer does not have. It may be possible to repeat his success on your own, but it's certainly not likely. He was prepared to respond to common legal tactics that Equifax's lawyer would easily defeat a normal plaintiff with. And again, this is all an advertisement for his legal services company, so I've got a bag of salt we can all share.
Could they not have required the user to own a copy of Fallout 3 and then extract the needed sound files from the original installation on first launch? Then the copyrighted works wouldn't need to be distributed with the mod itself.
> Second, the fact that Quickbooks is so awkward and inconsistent to use isn't a UI problem, it's a feature. This is an important lesson in designing software that people use for their jobs.

This is an interesting point but isn't there a risk that this will backfire long term? Existing bookkeepers may stick to Intuit, but if a new bookkeeper can learn Pilot.com in half the time, and without a class, won't they be able to get customers at a lower price, and eventually cut into Intuit's business that way?

Edit: And also this doesn't account for DIY customers, for whom any time above 0 is too much spent on bookkeeping, and would definitely value an easier product.
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It's a bit more abstract than that. The finding is actually that there's an approximately linear relationship between the measured distance of the outermost edge of a galaxy from its centre, and the average linear velocity of objects at that distance.

Define a rotating circle based on those two measurements, for each galaxy. These hypothetical circles will all have similar angular velocities no matter how big they are, hence they all take roughly the same amount of time to make one rotation.
How so? Isn't that what due diligence is? You get a third-party expert (be that in accounting or biology) with a signed NDA, and have them verify those results.

What they probably can't handle is outright fabrication.
Yes, SQLite is coded in C and that is okay. But there are situations, when you wish it would be different. For example if you want to cross-compile a Go project and you have to find out that the Go lib sqlite3 just provides bindings for the C library (probably due to the high quality of the C lib) and therefore breaks the easy to use Go compiler :-/

I don't know an easy solution to this as most C compilers seem to be platform specific. In general, I like C and even more SQLite. Nevertheless, it is quite unfortunate if you can't make use of the modern cross platform compilers.

Maybe one day we will live on a world where cross compiling isn't an issue anymore.