skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “It’s not Swiss watch precision,” said Gerhardt Meurer, an astronomer from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in a press release.
Street Fighter II rebuilt as AR multiplayer game
Xero is probably my favourite peice of time saving software we use, possibly just my outright favourite. It works flawlessly and the fact that our accountants can login and work with us on something is a huge bonus.
The question, as always, is what did those people do to earn the food with which to not starve?

(Many people do just fine by producing things of value and engaging in voluntary acts of trade.)
No we should call american football "Hand Egg" instead
Aside from everything else rightfully pointed out in this thread - the other interesting bit is that it's likely that their investment in commercial real estate will net a pretty massive return. I can't think of many places in the Bay that are better for a large office that can hold 100's of employees.

For reference, the HQ they built in PA: https://www.google.com/maps/place/1701+Page+Mill+Rd,+Palo+Al...
Google's computational photo/video expertise is so far ahead of any traditional camera manufacturer..

I wish they would release a prosumer Android camera with a 1"+ sensor, perhaps m43 mount, 10bit video and large bitrates - with all of their computational photo goodies.
> There's a word for this. Unacceptable.

Expressing emotion and anger can be healthy. But let's discuss this and find out why this is and can and what should be done?

* US justice system is designed for settlement. In US 97% of civil cases are settled or dismissed without a trial. 90% of federal criminal cases resolve without
trial. 94% of state cases end via plea bargain.

* Normal criminals accept harder sentences when they plead guilty. Is it because it's easier to find them guilty or because they don't have access to better lawyers?

* Criminals can be put into prison only if they can be convicted. Many financial crimes
are very hard to prosecute and end result is uncertain. Proving intent can be very hard. Concrete proof even harder. Getting something is better than getting nothing. When federal prosecutors go ahead, it's not uncommon that the result is acquittal.

sources and backround

The Difficulty of Proving Financial Crimes
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/the-difficulty-of-pr...

What prosecutors have to prove in order for you to be charged with a financial crime
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-proof-for-financial-crim...

So what do we want? Do we want to relax the the burden of proof in financial crimes? More regulation
and paper work that leads easier to prosecute trail (called bureaucracy that increases the cost of enterprise).
I'm not a huge fan of progress meters generally, since I hate in-page animations. But if you're going to have one, the thin bar growing left to right seems like it can't really be improved on. The point of motion actually shifts, so I can judge progress without ever focusing on it.

All this gave me was "something in the annoying X button overlay is moving", which was useless and also worsened the impact of an already bad overlay.
What about an IDE, tooling, etc?
I think there is a fair distinction between "fake it until you make it" and actually willfully defrauding your investors and customers. Sure this may work at the beginning but you have to do some kind of magic or goal at the end of "faking it" and have results.
There's probably not a law explicitly restricting it, because that's not a power it ever had in the first place.
>the internet has no mechanism to surface bad content on the whim of its users.

Don't think this is true, search engines and crawlers can surface anything that users want to find.

>All it takes on reddit to surface something terrible is coordination and hitting the upvote button.

You need never see content from subreddits you are not subscribed to
Criminal litigation authority is on a whitelist, not a blacklist. It's not that a law restricted them, it's that they simply were never granted that authority.

Random government authorities can't bring criminal proceedings anymore than the meter maid writing a parking ticket has the ability to haul you to court for parking in the wrong place. They send the information along to the people who do have that authority and act on it if they see fit (prosecutorial discretion).

The key words in the article are "civil, not criminal".
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Microsoft withdraws protest against U.S. Transcom's classified cloud plans – FCW
There is a difference between complaining that the SEC should have the authority to send people to jail and complaining that the SEC can send people to jail but won't.
One part of me thinks that they are not going to treat Linux (my favorite platform) as first class, so this prevents me from investing in C#.

It might not be true but I am not stating a fact, merely expressing my bias against the dotnet platform. I hope they succeed anyway :)

We now use python, ruby, rust, go religiously.
I like to entertain the (not-serious) fantasy that people actually did show up to his party, but Hawking didn't tell anyone because sci-fi reasons.
Man, never did I think I'd see the day when people would get mad at rich shareholders for not demanding enough money for themselves.
While I don't know either of them so it is an unfair judgment to make, I would guess there's a big difference in thoughts in the back of their head:

"These idiots aren't getting their money back, wait for my next play..."

"If I can hold them off for another year, we'll have a big breakthrough..."

Making larger bets to cover for an hide losses is a very common story for traders on wall street. Buying an AIDS drug to price gouge is not. In contrast, it seems like Holmes had an earnest desire to improve medical tech.

Again, I'm speculating, we'll see if this unfolds any further. Fun story to follow.
> I personally find it a bit difficult to believe they would actually put the formula for dangerous nerve agent in a book

As the author explained, knowing what the chemical is doesn't help you much with making it, and such information was already available for Sarin and others. Producing these chemicals is a difficult engineering challenge, and incredibly dangerous. Even in the professional labs, people died trying to produce them.
(Pilot CEO here).

Here's the thing that's a bit different about Pilot: it's not a software product — it's "You have a bookkeeper who does your books (in QuickBooks Online), that you can call and email when you have questions, and that sends you a report every month."

Under the hood, we're building the Iron Man suit for the bookkeepers—letting our team do all the heavy lifting to make sure the work is super-accurate in a way that your typical bookkeeper definitely can't.

Basically, the last thing I wanted as a startup founder was "Yet another software product"—I wanted someone to just take care of the problem for me —which is why we built it this way.

I also find it annoying when people gate software behind sales forms — "Just let me try it!" — but in this case, there really is nothing for you to try, by design. We do all the work for you.

(The next steps today are: we quickly chat with you to better understand your business, and if it's a fit, we pair you with an account manager here, and then send you through a web flow to get read-only access to all the systems we need — your bank, payroll processor, etc.)
> IBM's Watson comes immediately to mind.

All of the industry AI labs follow the same pattern, even (perhaps especially) the en vogue ones (well, I guess depending on wtf "solve intelligence" is supposed to mean...). Watson is just old enough that it's now obvious the advertising agency was given too much leash.

Ditto for self-driving.

Ditto, in fact, for basically any basic or applied research happening in the research arm of any for-profit organization. And at a lot of universities besides! In fact, as far as I can tell, positive PR is some non-trivial aspect of the ROI for industry research labs.

BUT... there's a HUGE GAAP ( ;-) ) between marketing hype and lying in financial disclosures. One is eye-rolly and should be called out on internet message boards and during sales pitches. The other is criminal.
and lost his wu-tang album :(
It's very unlikely that he didn't know about the security problems, that hadn't be released. I'd say about 99.9% chance that he knew. We know that it's very tempting for otherwise intelligent people to fall victim to this, like our favorite domestic lifestyle wallstreet-er CEO, Martha Stewart.
http://time.com/5198663/30th-anniversary-of-pi-day-2018-fact...
Try this blog post - http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
This is why due diligence is important folks.
1 year and a couple of months.
It was only a handful of engineers who "created the space" to begin with, so even though there isn't much overlap, it's pretty much always been a community made up of shady folks, it's only that the fraudsters have become less technically sophisticated and more brazen as activity has increased and the blockchain community has grown and continued to radiate cosmic rays of hype.
Then I'm confused: how can you a) hastily dismiss all self-doubt as Impostor Syndrome and b) believe "no one knows what they're doing either" while remaining able to accurately, honestly self-assess your skill, quality of work, and prospects for success?

Edit: If you have a good answer, then I would suggest we start posting that as the advice ("here's how you know if you're good enough") rather than immediately tell everyone they have they have Impostor Syndrome (as seems to be common practice).
A question I'll tack on...for payroll do you guys automatically pay and file taxes for unemployment, medicare etc?
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Tech giants are harming the internet, opines World Wide Web creator
That's extremely interesting, thanks for sharing.

Think about the decision that he had to make in 2016. He had to choose between admiting his mistake and doubling down. The downside of admitting his mistake is that he's guaranteed to get negative points; the upside is that it will minimise futures downsides. By dubling down, he's guaranteed to reduce his negative points in 2016 but exposes himself to magnified upsides (if he's proven right) and downsides (if he's proven wrong) in the future.

Now think rationally how you'd choose. The second strategy is a lot riskier so it better have better return as well! But the second strategy can only have higher reward if you either believe high probability of future upsides (i.e. Theranos might be faking till you make it, but they'll make it) or low probability of future downsides (i.e. I'm not sure what's going on, but definitely not fraud). I submit that the only way that you could come to believe either is if you're hugely misinformed about the company.

I.e. that guy is just a bit incompetent.
Which of those ideas caused her to defraud investors for hundreds of millions of dollars?
I feel like they might have noticed if it was that simple.
I guess this means no XRP/Ripple ads, a company Google has heavily invested in?
Yeah, the social factor is way more important. We might actually get WORA that can't be blocked by a walled garden, cause it would be a suicidal move for whichever company does it.
The ad I see on the website is an ad from the Carbon Ad network. The ads are clearly targeted, which can only be done if I was tracked. Allowing ads on this site, with the G Suite ad I see right now, creates requests to servedby-buysellads [dot] com, then ad [dot] doubleclick [dot] net.

I personally have no problem seeing an ad for something on a page, as long as it is out of the way, which is the case with this website. The problem I have is the amount of tracking done by this ad. Now both Google and some other company I do not recognize knows that I visited this website.

While it seems that Carbon's ad code does not allow for running arbitrary javascript, but I have no idea, nor do I want to spend the time researching if Carbon's ads do have that capability. The last thing I want when I visit a website is a random bit of javascript running on the page. As we have already seen, companies have been abusing that capability by running cryptocurrency miners (which I have a serious objection to as that is a waste of my electricity and computer resources), plus it has been possible to exploit security vulnerabilities such as Spectre.
the rotation of a galaxy isnt the same thing as the rotation of the stars contained within in. The rotation of the galaxy is measured by the rotation of arms/other features, which are due to a traveling density wave (think about how traffic speeds up/slows down)
That observation in itself is not a disproof.

(Imagine standing in a room with a bunch of CDs suspended horizontally from the ceiling. From any vantage point you can see some CDs edge-on, some from the top, some from the bottom, etc. But they're all oriented in the same direction.)
Hedera Hashgraph: 50,000 aBFT consensus tx/s, with Solidity smart contracts
> The key words in the article are "civil, not criminal".

My keyword is why.
These are good points. I've worked in this space and it's a huge time sink. And you can't afford to get it wrong because you're dealing with people's livelihood.

I'm currently working on a time attendance solution with an emphasis on usability for non technical users. You'd be amazed at how much paper / friction still exists in this domain.
I learned CSS by reading the source code of kottke.org and trying/failing to rebuild the nested boxes layout it once had. Love the memories. Thank you, Jason Kottke.
But why would you exclude of marketplace and AWS? That's where rivers of money come from to help them enter into new categories!

Setting any of the major parts aside would disregard the benefits Amazon reaps from being so integrated. For instance, do we credit the market with Prime membership? Well, now that Amazon originals and prime video exist, there are people who are Prime members because of video. And for others, it may be the various benefits in combination.

And, in turn, Amazon is able to use Prime membership money to outspend Netflix. Etc.
> Keep in mind there's a part of the Lisp crowd that prefers loop and setf over more functional idioms.

I have used Common Lisp for low-level concurrency and IO code, and as a target language for transpilers, and the most indispensable construct for those applications is GOTO. The only other substitute is a good compiler with guaranteed tail-call optimization. Some people love to point out how you don't need Lisp because "modern" dynamic programming languages have borrowed this feature or that. Ok, but none of those languages (can anyone provide an example? I cannot think of any) has GOTO or guaranteed TCO. If you want to do systems programming in a dynamic programming language, the choice still comes down to either Common Lisp or Scheme.
I mean, at this point three of the four DID get away with it. Not to mention we haven't heard a peep about the Intel CEO also selling stock prior to the meltdown/spectre public announcements. So...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/03/equifax-special-committee-sa...
Seriously, can't the sheer speed of the inner components of a galaxy cause the gravity variance we attribute to dark matter? Wouldn't the speed increase the mass of the objects and therefore also their gravity?
> Why is there no such thing in the financial world, especially after 2008

Recklessness is well defined in respect of cars. (It wasn't when they first came out.) Recklessness is well defined in respect of selling stocks and bonds. (It wasn't a century ago.) Recklessness was not well defined in respect of certain new financial products in 2008. It is now.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't have a contract with Equifax so there's no way binding arbitration can apply.
oops, embarassing... there's been discussion about equifax too, but I guess that was the criminal part and not SEC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16584980
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I agree. Doesn't make sense to have the current date or time displayed. (edit: I mean those where it gets updated by Javascript after initial pageload)
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> It's sad to see people arguing for a return to those norms

Where do you see anyone arguing for that? Or is it just a strawman? What I see is not people arguing against disclosure but people arguing for disclosure with an embargo longer than a day. You're going to have a hard time proving that one day is a norm, or that it correlates with a renaissance in securing software. Your response looks much more like circling the wagons when a member of your tribe is criticized.
> In my opinion, the more useful kinds of marketing is to physicians

Your colleagues in marketing agree with you, though they probably have a different definition for "useful". This 2012 article[0] says pharma spent $24B in marketing to professionals vs $4B to consumers. I assume relatively more is spent on consumers now but didn't find any more recent numbers.

It is also worth mentioning that pharma now spends more on marketing than research.

> On the other hand, there are tons of people who have stories about knowing something was wrong, being told by 3 physicians that it was nothing, then finding a 4th who diagnosed them with something the others missed because a patient is usually their own strongest advocate.

Are there any peer reviewed studies to back this up? As a researcher in the field I'm sure this is the threshold you would want to meet before making such an assertion.

Also, are there any studies that can tell us the ratio of marketing spent on informing consumers of legit ailments vs what is spent on kickbacks, hiring former cheerleaders as marketers, junkets for doctors, coupons for the on patent drug when the off patent drug works just fine, paying the generic company to not sell its drug to compete, etc or any of the other shady practices that pharma engages in?

[0]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
The author of this post is the creator of the Julia visualization package Luxor.jl (https://github.com/JuliaGraphics/Luxor.jl). One thing I like about it is the nice turtle graphics feature (http://juliagraphics.github.io/Luxor.jl/stable/turtle.html).
what actual evidence do we have of her intelligence apart from starting theranos and doing the original research that led to starting theranos? honest question
A simple rule is to post all videos by 3Blue1Brown to HN
Here is the actual text of the bill:
https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/6ba62ebd-52...
Are there Wasm->native compilers yet?
I display time on my dashboards because it gives me an idea how long ago they
were refreshed. It may make sense on a page that changes with a time, for
instance I could use a timestamp here on HN, both in comments and in article
list. Note, however, that this is static text determined at page load time,
not an ever-changing clock.
I don't know if there's a single "HN mentality". This site is an ongoing uneasy truce between the entrepreneurs (who have more of the attitude the GP is complaining about) and the developers (who tend to be more cynical about these things and, if they care about startups at all instead of working a 9-to-5, are more likely to have the "scratch your own itch" mentality). There's a lot of back-and-forth between which viewpoint is ascendant in the comments, usually depending on how badly-behaved SV companies have been recently.
With all due respect, this doesn't seem like the best advice.

Part of the appeal of Hashicorp tools (terraform, and also vagrant and others) is that they are platform-agnostic.

The tagline even says "ONE SAFE WORKFLOW ACROSS PROVIDERS".

Check out terraform.io to see what they say.

I wouldn't limit it to AWS, and AWS isn't even always the best option. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They may not have purposefully designed it originally, but they purposefully keep it hard to use now.

Internally, they have Quickbooks training courses that new employees and employees who work on other products can take. When I took the course, I asked why deleting a transaction was a completely different UI interaction from deleting a contact in QBO. Both pages were, at their core, list widgets so both should share UI, right? But, I was told, they'd done UX tests with experienced users who had strong reactions to making UI interactions like that consistent.

The problem isn't lack of good UX designers. When I was there, they hired Frog design to completely rethink many of the UI interactions. This was in addition to many talented UI/UX people that work on the product full time. It's a product that brings in billions of dollars a year...the resources are there to fix it. But the problem is an existing product and a user base that's resistant to change and one that views their proficiency in the product as an achievement that they'd like competing bookkeepers to also have to attain.
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- that an entire industry has been doing it wrong

- that it can be fixed by a low-bureaucracy, Angel-funded startup

- that any skill is just a matter of 10,000 hours of practice

Some of these things are correct sometimes. Many industries have been doing things wrong for very long, and massively productive changes disrupted the industry. Who knew that boiling water would change the coal industry forever? Some guy came up with the pump idea and changed everything. The mine owner that invested in him made a lot of money. The industry changed. Things like that happen.
Maybe "that YC/startup news mentality" would be a better qualifier. The whole "better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission" mentality. You can find some of that on HN but I hope we're a little more diverse than that.
All the less imposter syndrome to jettison if you ask me. If everyone is an idiot than self doubt is normal.
I wrote about this idea 8 years ago:
http://www.kmeme.com/2010/10/future-of-googles-street-view.h...

Will be interesting to see if it takes off. I think it might not work that well at first, but long term seems inevitable.
This reminds me of the Pontifex cipher that featured heavily in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, which in turn was developed by Bruce Schneier (and called Solitaire). [0]

[0] https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
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Dark matter theory tells why galaxies rotate faster than they should. The fact that this speed is constant requires some other explanation.
Google doesn't even allow ads for legal, medical cannabis or headshops.
The browser you're using to read this is written in C++, on your C++ or C OS, talking to a web server written in C.
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the same electricity could be used to displace dirty power if exported to Denmark

If you agree with the assertions in the green paradox[1] it's all a waste of time anyway. If Norway lowers its oil consumption then the price of oil falls in the global market and so Americans buy bigger trucks and we are back where we started.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_paradox
This is kind of cheating, but Lua looks like it would have worked.

I consider that a bit of cheat, because it replaces the problem of embedding one C program (SQLite) with the problem of embedding a different C program (Lua).

But for those whose objection is that writing the database logic in C is risky because C is too low level, this would put the database logic in a higher level language than C.
Exactly. Theoretically, it is much easier to improve efficiency and reduce emissions if power generation is consolidated in one place.