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I've never used iTunes match, but it sounds like you are "matching" your music signature which music that is already on Apple Music. Can you upload brand new songs that are not on the system with it? This is a major reason why I went with GPM, a significant number of the music in my library was not on any streaming service, and back then, it was the only way to get those albums streamed for me.
I still remember the way I found his blog -- back then designing a website meant pulling out photoshop to lay things out and using non-websafe fonts in images. Pixel fonts were common in designs and I found Silkscreen, which linked back to kottke.org in the readme :D
It's worth nothing that one of Theranos's VC funders, Tim Draper, did defend Holmes despite the fraud allegations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973102

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/theranos-investor-cl...
You've shown that you misunderstand the term. Your misunderstanding includes nonsense examples like "those dictionaries are a dumpster fire". Nobody else would say that.

The "dumb-store-burning" thing is something you made up and you've already managed to convince yourself it's the real definition.

Folk etymologies are never a good way to define a term, but this one is particularly weird and out of nowhere.
Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16585892
One thing that continues to amaze me is that WebAssembly isn't being discussed more outside of the context of the web. Think about it just as a format that (a) is low-level enough to support performance tricks, (b) is fast to turn into native code, and (c) easy to check.

Compilers could stop worrying about obscure/old architectures. Deploying an application onto multiple platforms is no longer a problem. Sandboxing is much simpler. Formal verification becomes possible (the WebAssembly spec actually reads like a spec, unlike the C standard which reads more like a religious text).

I'm so excited about WebAssembly, but really not because of the web.
> Why are so many people discussing REST in GraphQL threads so oblivious of what REST is?

Why are you discussing graphQL you're oblivious to the problem it solves. Graphql obviates the need to version, like with REST. Facebook had that problem with 30k react components, their processes are fine. My processes are fine too, you are obviously just biased against graphQL. You can specifically optimize a graphQL query by the way.

Versioning creates an explosion of REST end points in fast changing code bases. GraphQL solves that problem. If you don't have that problem then don't use it. You don't need to insult other people who are explaining the benefits it had in their project. That seems oddly defensive of REST, which is the de facto transport for a GraphQL query (they aren't even mutually exclusive). This comment thread is like arguing what is the better fruit apples or potato. And potatoes aren't a fruit
Sorry, I mis-remembered his position. Thanks for the correction.
>> One big 2018 goal for the Rust community is to become a web language.

Without DOM access I fail to see how that would happen. So until WASM gets DOM access no other language(except JS) can become a(first class) web language.

What is JavaScript without DOM access?
Yes, that's the only reason anyone has voluntarily used JavaScript.
No one is lining up to buy Theranos shares, where is the ROI here?
One job I look forward to being replaced by AI.

I worked for a search engine / media company early in my career. Big enough that if I said the name you might remember their TV ads from the 90s. But when I worked there it was after the dot-com bubble and the content moderation team was down to one guy in a room with the door shut so know one else could see his screen.

So on top of looking at disturbing content all day he was isolated from other humans. And it's not like he could discuss his job with them. It's not really "polite conversation."

I wouldn't wish that job on anyone.
When Broadcom has a less shitty SoC for them…
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Unless of course you steal Holmes' car. Then you'll probably be killed, or at best, incarcerated for 10 years.

Remember kids, the rich are not playing the same game the rest of us are.
Growing tech companies have never really been expected to pump out dividends.

Microsoft didn't pay one until 2003, when it was 28 years old and sitting on $43 billion in cash (and then it declared an annual dividend totalling less than $1 billion).
I've curious, when was that? I know that Google's engine has improved quite a bit over the years. Considering it's 7 years old, I'm sure it has changed quite a bit since the early days.
Ada wouldn't fit because of compatibility and availability, but it's old, fast, safe and relatively simple, as compared to C with extensive scaffolding.
FreeBSD/arm64 works great on RPi3
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Had some customers. But never got that hockey-stick growth all VCs want. And you're always competing with the big boys, Quickbooks, Netsuite, etc... It's a constant arms race to add more features, more integrations, etc... A lot of customer support because your customers rely on you to run their business.

I enjoyed it, but it's a tough nut to crack.
Yes, I addressed this in the comment's [2] footnote.
Fake it 'til you break it...
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If you accept the notion that all disc galaxies are oriented on exactly the same plane (which is current scientific consensus I believe), then it doesn't seem that far-fetched to think that they all rotate the same way as well.
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You can access the DOM, but you have to call into JS, which adds some overhead. When people say “DOM access,” they mean native, not through JS. Check out the stdweb crate.

Even then, there's tons of logic you want to execute in the browser that aren't related to UI. For example, any sort of number crunching. That stuff is now feasible, which opens up all kinds of applications.
It's definitely nowhere near the same. My music is at home, and the whole reason started using a music subscription is exactly to listen to it at work or at the gym. If I was home, there are dozens of free services that stream your music locally.
It's a little trite but the best thing college taught me was how to read critically and teach myself as needed. The second best thing was providing plentiful examples of good pedagogy (I went to a teaching college, not a research U.) which turned into models for how I try to mentor.

others comments about the difference between school work and real work are spot-on.

It's funny how much I hated group projects as an undergrad, but how in some ways they were the best preparation: How do you still get things done when everyone has different ideas, varying levels of competency, available time, and motivation?
In the US, coal electricity is now just 30% of the grid, compared to 32% for other fossil fuels (almost all natural gas), and actually 38% for emissions-free (half of that is nuclear and the other half a mix of wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal roughly in that order).

That means the US CO2 emissions per kWh are significantly better than Germany, by the way.

And beware of old data. Even a couple years makes a difference. From 2014 to 2017, CO2 emitted per kWh has dropped by 13%.

(My figures mostly come from here, which has up to date info through December 2017: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph... along with calculations for emissions per kWh based on efficiency and CO2 per heat unit for a given fuel source.)
All he had to do was keep quite. Smirking to congress and being obnoxious in TV studios wasn't the smart play.

Offering a bounty for Clinton's DNA while she was under the protection of the secret services was pure suicide.

I quite like the guy if im honest.
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The constant rotational speed is the observation that requires dark matter to exist. Otherwise, small galaxies would rotate faster just like close planets do.
It's literal click bait, and should be flagged as such.
Most people don't buy at Amazon because it is the cheapest.
It's the only language supported by web browsers. That's the reason people still use it.
let's dispense with political bullshit. A protracted lawsuit would cost the government millions of dollars with an uncertain outcome. Instead, Holmes is paying the government 500K and returning shares. The SEC is going to court against Balwani, where the case is presumably stronger. the plebs is strictly better off and not everything the government does is bad.
So, to be fair, they both refer to it as 'faster ethernet' to try to distinguish it from 'full Gigabit' and say explicitly in the post:

> While the USB 2.0 connection to the application processor limits the available bandwidth, we still see roughly a threefold increase in throughput compared to Raspberry Pi 3B.

And then show that they're typically seeing 314Mbps for TX/RX in iperf.
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Someone called Tim Draper the Trump of Venture Capital[1] :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973420
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The SEC can't jail people, they only have civil authority. They can only refer criminal cases to the us attorneys and DOJ and offer assistance (and i assume they did)
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It also helps that virtually all their competition is in a race to the bottom of making customer service, the stores themselves, the shopping experience, etc. all markedly worse to cut costs.

I have never once heard of a company made successful by cutting costs. Sure you can defer the death, but the death is still coming. You're just buying time.
The more SEC oversteps their boundaries, the less anyone will take them seriously.
Tim Draper also stands to gain from Theranos being reviewed positively, valid product or not, being an investor.
I think there is a significant difference between lying about what you can do (fraud) and simply saying you hope to accomplish something.
Yes, probably. Get some experience with languages that are good at memory layout (C), concurrency (Erlang/Elixir), productivity (Ruby). It's eye opening. You may realize you've been hammering nails with a screwdriver your whole life.
> The only thing that matters is the harm that certain types of disclosures will do to average users

I disagree. This does not account for the fact that malicious actors are likely to exploit these before the vendor fixes them on a schedule that they would prefer to dictate. And all users are not incapable of making alternative judgments about the use of vulnerable technology. Users include my Mom, hackers at small companies, giant corporations who are capable of overnight turning off SMB V1.

The harm to users comes from vulnerable software that the vendors put there in the first place.
In what way would it noticeably differ from the LLVM IR then?
Yeah...hehehe....sure he was...

And Elizabeth thought her technology actually worked. A honest mistake...

Junk away....
It’s not clear that it doesn’t need a central authority. There is a rich history of blockchain consensus failure needing a central authority to tell everyone which chain is the right one. Satoshi did it in 2010, the Bitcoin developers did it in 2013, Vitalik did it with Ethereum in 2016. When the ledgers don’t reconcile, the developers are the central authority. And proof-of-work can’t save it because that too is centralized.

So if it can’t do the first thing it promises it can do, maybe it becomes more like a Rube Goldberg machine than something that is meant to be useful/practical. The fact that people are praising CryptoKitties as a “practical application” seems to support the Rube Goldberg machine/toy theory.
The only reason JS is popular is because it holds a monopoly in the space it operates in.

There are so many superior languages to it.
Having worked at Intuit, I'm always amazed at the number of people that look at how crap Quickbooks is and think that beating them is a matter of just making better software. There's some really important psychology that most competitors completely miss.

First, Quickbooks is frequently not chosen directly. Many, many small businesses choose their bookkeeper first and use whatever they use. One trick Intuit uses both in Quickbooks (bookkeepers) and TurboTax (CPAs) is to put a lot of effort/money into focusing on those relationships knowing that they have a huge indirect impact on acquiring and keeping customers.

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. When you make elegant, intuitive software that almost anyone can use in short order, it stops being an impressive item to put on a resume. And it stops being a barrier to entry for competing professionals. Software like Quickbooks that's hard to use correctly becomes a selling point for bookkeepers and almost accomplishes the same purpose (though to a lesser degree) than professional licensing organizations...it limits the competition and keeps the rates they can charge high.

So many Quickbooks competitors have failed to knock them off their perch by not realizing that their customers aren't really their target audience and what should be their target audience doesn't want easy.
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My mom was a judge, and I learned that saying because she had it posted in her chambers.
I wonder if Holmes was male if she would be treated like Martin Shkreli and attacked in every horrible way possible. Don’t see much rhetoric against her.
Honestly, it looks like some chunks were pasted from Word and their CMS didn't handle cleaning it properly
LLVM IR is not platform independent, for one. See http://webassembly.org/docs/faq/#why-not-just-use-llvm-bitco... for the projects' own explanation on this topic.

I share the parents' excitement in this regard. The spec is well written for this kind of thing, and I think it has a lot of potential. We'll see!
So she can’t be a director of a public company? Other than Yahoo, who would even consider hiring her?

This “punishment” doesn’t seem like one. She should be in jail.
People keep complaining about lack of jail time.
As has been repeated in a number of subcomments: The SEC cannot send people to jail. Full stop.

They have only civil authority.

They refer criminal cases to the US attorneys/DOJ, and offer assistance. All evidence suggests they did so here.

The decision to criminally prosecute or not is out of their hands.
This reads more like a pamphlet you'd be handed at a bus station than compelling journalism.
Even with the new bootcode.bin, Pi 3 firmware netbooting has been extremely unreliable for me.

And at this point, if you already use an SD card for the bootcode, might as well put the whole U-Boot onto the card (which I did)
Money today is worth more than money tomorrow. If you have idle capital and I have something valuable, I can cash in sooner and you can get a valuable resource. So there is a legitimate reason for me to sell you something that is guaranteed to go up in value assuming that I want money now more than you do.

That's not an endorsement of any asset in the crypto space, and I would never remotely suggest that any token today is guaranteed to go up in value.
Exactly. Domain verified certificates guarantee one thing and one thing only. The data transmitted is encrypted and cannot be tampered with. That's it. They do not guarantee you are communicating with who you think you are.

But to be honest if your DNS service is compromised, you have bigger problems.
You must be new to Hacker News.
Theranos is a case study about the consequences of Wizard of Oz Experiments.
The fact that dirty money exists is well known. The fact that property prices are high is well known. The claim that the two things are linked requires a bit more than a newspaper article, sorry. FWIW I would not be surprised if it were true. Similarly for the claim that "demagoguery" caused Brexit. That proposition is widely believed by people who are against Brexit; I don't know of any evidence for it though.
Norway gets most of its energy from renewable sources (99% of mainland electricity). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Norway. This greatly exceeds any state in the west (the closest being Washington State, who gets 75% of their energy from hydro).
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Hi HN,

I'm Kevin, co-founder of Pathrise (https://www.pathrise.com). Pathrise is an online replacement for career services that helps students get better jobs and make more money. If and only if they get hired during our program, students pay us back a tuition fee of 7% of their income for 1 year.

For more context, you can read about us here: https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/09/pathrise-wants-to-be-the-....

The problem: universities aren't directly incentivized to get students good jobs since they make all their money in upfront tuition. As a result, college career services centers aren't results-driven and can't properly support their students. Most students are essentially left to figure things out on their own, and they think to themselves, career services are useless. The easiest way to verify this is to ask your average student how many times they've visited their career services center in the last year.

In reality, career services (that actually work) are probably one of the highest value things a student can receive. You can take any step of the job search (e.g. online applications), train students on one technique (e.g. lead gen and cold emailing), and produce significant and measurable returns (e.g. we've measured that this technique in particular can 4X response rate from under 5% to over 20%). Pathrise does this with every step of the job-hunting process, from training students from a 2/6 to a 5/6 in technical interviewing scores based on real company rubrics to helping students get a 10%+ higher salary through negotiation.

In this sense, we're kind of like YC for students instead of startups. Founders give 7% equity to YC because they know YC will increase their company's prospects by more than 7%. Students give us 7% of their first year's income, and our program is designed to increase their job prospects by more than 7%. They know we'll do everything in our power to provide them that value because we have aligned incentives - we only make money if they do.

What this ends up looking like is an online accelerator for students that takes place in 12 monthly batches a year, followed by an average of 3-4 months of support until a student is placed. Instead of focusing on a technical education (like our friends at Lambda School), Pathrise is entirely about optimizing your job search. This involves services like resume review, prospecting, referrals, interview preparation, and negotiation advice. Again, unlike career services today, we track every data point so we can hold ourselves accountable to actually produce significant and measurable value for our students.

Thanks for reading! I'd be happy to answer any of your questions and would greatly appreciate your feedback.
For network applications the improved networking speeds are far more important.
Geeks and Sundry is okay.
> They just don't want to be associated with companies that are related to fraud.

More specifically, Google doesn't want the SEC to hold them liable when they go after some of these fraudsters.
In NZ, UK and Australia we have been using Xero for years, and there is a vibrant ecosystem around it. And yes - it’s turned bookkeepers and accountants into advisors, completely changing their professions.
Xero is listed, worth $3-4 billion and growing quickly.

So how is this different, and how is it going to integrate with Xero, QBO and other cloud accounting software? And why does the article not mention these elephants in the room?
Do we know if she was rich before? Maybe she was able to cash out a lot of her shares during some of the financing rounds, but she also could have just been "rich" on paper by owning many Theranos shares. If she was rich by virtue of holding Theranos shares, her wealth has decreased a ton in the last couple years since the value of the company has surely plummeted.
Oh the noble Americans! Suffering under the yolk of oppressive pharma so the rest of the world can take advantage! Praise be.

Really, though, it's absurd to demand that the rest of world be grateful. Try changing the system in the US and you will find it exceedingly difficult due to the deep pockets of big pharma and the massive role money plays in the US democratic system. So no, the rest of the world should not be grateful that a capitalist system is doing what it does.
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I work at CERN, so Brian Cox is an obvious choice as far as I'm concerned. Tangentially, Adam Steltzner (the engineer who lead the Entry Descent and Landing of Curiosity) is another one of those "used to be a rockstar" types.
It helps when you’re the opposite of a black male.
That's true, which just compounds the problem of newbie investors thinking "fake it until you make it" is OK because they get positive reinforcement from their investors.
FYI, I still believe in an afterlife. The bible talks about a resurrection where all will be raised from the dead for judgement. It's common misconception to think we float off to heaven or hell as disembodied souls. The difference is we will again have physical bodies, and thus have the capacity for consciousness and memory again.
I think you should call it "soccer" or at least "association football" in this context.
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In my experience, articles that end with "...and It's Totally Brilliant. Here's Why" tend to be shallow clickbait, and this one pretty much meets that definition.

Obviously, not all 143 million victims of the Equifax breach are going to prove damage. In fact, almost none of them can. Even if your identity is stolen, can you prove where the thief got your info?

The best and most realistic action individuals can take is to freeze their accounts at the big three credit companies. If you need a new credit card or apartment lease, you can un-freeze it temporarily. Otherwise, turn it off; why should it just be available to anyone who wants it, from year to year?
I’d be interested in reading more about this. That employee changed Amazon’s future (and indeed the future of computing in general) immensely. I hope he/she was fairly compensated and relaxing on a beach far from Seattle now.
Most children who are different in some way get treated pretty badly for it. Their behavior is presumed to be malicious and the adults around them don't know effective coping mechanisms. The adults often put out the fire with gasoline a la the beatings shall continue until morale improves.

The fit of rage at the end is not necessarily associated with sociopathy. That kind of lack of control is common with things like fetal alcohol syndrome and head injury syndromes.

I raised a sociopath. He's 30 now. We're close and get along well. My other son is not a sociopath, but has a violent temper. Neither has a criminal record and I find articles like the one under discussion rather unsophisticated and annoying.

My sons are okay in part because I never expected them to be born knowing things like "Lying is bad." One child went through a lying stage. The other did not. I successfully broke him of lying because I viewed it as "Wow, you dumb kid who has no idea how social stuff works" rather than "You evil badly behaved child doing bad things on purpose."
So if it’s too expensive, we should let criminals walk? Fraud is a crime you know.

She should be in jail. Kids have gone to prison for marijuana possession and this lady walks? Martha Stewart and that Martin guy went to prison for less.