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This feels more like an over-correction to the prevailing cultural wisdom that everyone needs a post-secondary education. Contrary thesis to the prevailing wisdom is where a lot of startup fortunes have been made.

Hopefully we're about to land in a cultural place where getting an education is seen as getting an education, rather than either a panacea for individual success or a complete waste of time/money for the docile masses.
That does not apply in the non-US world
(Maybe also EU, I don't know if they are being sold there)
I clicked because I was interested in how TechCrunch can write this about themselves....they haven't.
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[disregard this, not enough caffiene today apparently]

Separation of powers. The SEC is part of the executive branch. The judicial branch is responsible for bringing suit.

If you want the why for that why, that's a philosophical discussion that probably won't be well served by a HN comment thread.
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You can create shared libraries in Go, which can be used as any C-implemented shared library. This would make a Go-implemented SQLite equally usable by other programming languages as a C written one.
> most programming is now done for (MIPS|ARM|X86|X86_64)

but not necessarily posix/windows/etc

having C as a least-common-denominator toolchain which almost all platforms will provide is still useful for the embedded world where sqlite has a huge number of applications..
The true sales of “voice enabled speakers” could be 100% Amazon, and they could still not lead the “voice assistance” marketplace, or reach the claimed 70% of people. The big issue isn't confusing usage rates with market position (those probably are close, though in theory they could be divergent), it's confusing the voice assistance market with the voice-enabled speaker market (and then also confusing the current market for those products with the whole population.) Voice assistance isn't about selling dedicated voice devices, it's about voice-enabled services, for which dedicated devices are simply one gateway. Dedicated devices are a small share of voice assistant usage, far behind smartphones, and even behind the combined category of tablets and general purpose computers [0].

[0] https://www.voicebot.ai/2017/12/12/46-percent-americans-use-...
great list. thank you
Well, Hedera Hashgraph implements Solidity smart contracts -- at >50,000 globally distributed public aBFT consensus (finalized) confirmations per second.

That's going to leave a mark...

The last 15 minutes or so are a bit, well, terrifying. A globally distributed AI processing 1/2 billion events per second consensus-distributed across millions of machines using Hashgraph. Basically, Google-level AI, available to anybody, using any network-connected camera, microphone and the entire real-time corpus of the 'net (eg. the Twitter firehose, ...). What could possibly go wrong? :)

https://youtu.be/FCy9FnOq19s?t=5795

https://satori.com
I think I might write a self help book around that idea.
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Theranos was more about using politically connected power-brokers to set up deals with kickbacks (their board/investors were government and military elites), less about "disrupting the industry with new ideas"
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I think it plays into it quite a bit. Odds are, of the two crimes listed, stealing a car is more likely to be done by a black male. Hence, it's punished harder, despite Theranos objectively doing more harm.
My understanding is that competence only matters when other people are giving you money, and doesn't matter at all when you're giving people money. I think you're really overestimating the downsides.
...and it was developed with the hindsight of many of these previous failed or only partially successful efforts.

You seem to imply this approach wasn't successful before. IMHO it's been successful, more than once actually, just not awesome.
Personal rights are enough to protect token rights, because all that's required for someone to be secure in their possession of a token is for criminals not to be able to torture them into giving up their decryption key, and practically every country in the world enforces personal rights.

The blockchain secures everything else in a censorship resistant way. Some governments may be able to go to some extreme lengths to control information flows on the internet and stop people from having unrestricted access to the blockchain, but I do not think this will be commonplace, both because there would be significant push back from most populations, and because the government would not want to create an illiberal environment that's unattractive for investment.

As for what keeps token issuers honest: the value of reputation, and the fact that their reputation is at stake. The reason high-ranked eBay sellers deliver the goods they promise is not to avoid being charged with fraud. It's to maintain their 99% positive rating. And eBay has a strong incentive to maintain an honest rating system because they want to maintain their reputation as a trusted market. The world is filled with relationships that consist of iterative interactions, and iteration creates incentives for cooperative behaviour.
Headline is misleading. Securities Fraud is not fraud fraud.
> talking to a web server written in C

The HN web server and application are written in a dialect of Lisp, unless something has changed.
Impeachment provides for this. At the federal level, you are bared from public office for life upon conviction. And it doesn't apply only to elected officials, but all public officials. Even some low person on the totem pole could be impeached, removed from their office, and bared from holding any public office ever again. Pardons do not apply to impeachment convictions.

States vary in their impeachment proceedings and what burdens must be met.
The bigger they get, the more the chorus for anti-trust will grow.

Look at this article for example:

https://www.ft.com/content/aba8d444-fb94-11e7-a492-2c9be7f31...

Which cites this too:

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

The problem for some of their competitors too is that if they do suddenly trigger a slew of new laws, then Google Play and the Apple Store will probably get caught up in it too.

The other thing that could happen is the balkanization of the internet, where heavy trade tariffs will start being applied to America's dominant internet firms. It's already effectively happened in China. They've certainly not engendered any positive will in the rest of the world either for all their tax dodging.
Mright. Looks like someone left the default value in the universe's config file.
Mr.Wizard far surpassed Nye, even back in the day. There was never any competition. Nye was always an entertainer first, science teacher second.
Score one for the deist "divine watchmaker" idea.
If I said the same about technical documentation, I bet you'd tell me I was either reading it wrong or I wasn't the target audience in the first place.
Their rss posts used to include images, now it's just text, cut in the middle of the word.
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I’m glad, and frankly I’m tired of all these “fake it till you make it”, “lean” startup, wizard of oz type companies polluting people’s attention with fake or half baked product offerings for shit that doesn’t exist just so they can get a signal to see if something is really worth doing or not. Consumer hostile.
Right.

"We had $50 million in bookings this year" - Misleading because it seems like that should mean $50 million in revenue but all of the bookings were for 10 year contracts so it is really only $5 million in revenue, but it is not fraudulent because it isn't factually untrue.

"We will be able to raise prices enough to be profitable" - Often optimistic to the point of delusion, but without a time machine it is not a statement of fact so it isn't fraud.
If your voice sounded as cool as his you would want to listen to yourself speak all the time too.
no, you are totally confused. SEC doesn't have a strong case to prove that Holmes is a criminal. get it? you have to PROVE first that Holmes is a criminal and SEC decided, based on the quality of the evidence, that it is better off settling with her than trying to PROVE she is a criminal.
I think what people don't understand about Amazon, is that internally it's not one big company, it's a thousand little companies that serve each other through what amount to API's. In that sense it's much more like a conglomerate.

This confused me when I went to meet with some of the teams because it didn't seem like they even talked - and that was kind of the point, they weren't supposed to really talk. Each stove-pipe had to "sell" their services to each other or build them from scratch.

So in that sense it's always competitive because every group is basically fending for themselves like a startup, but has fantastic resources and access to services backing them up. That also means they can "move" into any industry that there is margin in, and rapidly grow inside of it.

Pretty genius really.
> In 2015, AWS was responsible for two-thirds of total
operating profit. Last year it was more than 100 percent

wait, so why doesn't amazon ditch the online shopping business?
Well your statement was that other systems could not exist. When looking at the figures it doesn't make much difference, even if drug costs doubled it would only mean a 10% increase in NHS costs.
"Fake it til you make it" generally refers to acting like you believe in yourself even if you're filled with self-doubt. Not actual fraud.
Why? Are you saying that remorse should not be taken into account?
Agreed...started using Wave but I feel like I should have used quickbooks.

Though they have payroll, they do not pay your taxes for you (only in a few select states). You need to do it manually...and at times I've forgotten and had to pay penalty. Now I use square - and they do it all automatically. I didn't know I had to 'turn off' payroll in wave and was charged the $15 a month even though I didn't run payroll for any employees.

Payments...their recurring invoices are good, but you need to do some manual work. They create the invoices and it adds to your sales. When they deposit your money to your bank it adds to your sales as well. So you need to find the one they deposit and manually delete. I asked if there's like a report they generate that tells me everything they've deposited...it doesn't exist. So you could mistakenly delete something, or forget to delete something...and it throws everything out of whack. You could be underpaying or overpaying taxes.

Their 'ACH' requires people to log into their bank. I'm not going to try to convince my customers to click on a link on my invoice and put in their bank credentials.

I have other gripes...there's definitely room for improvement. I haven't seen that much changed in the last few years...not sure if they cut back on their development team or what. I probably should have looked more heavily into Quickbooks since that's the industry standard. I will look into pilot, though.
Has anyone used this? Does it work well? I'm currently at a startup and this could truly be a game changer, just trying to decide how much time to invest into trying it out.
Because it's always better to be more specific in all cases.

In this case, especially because it's an international, but heavily American audience.
Agreed - I should have clarified that I believe a purely academic environment is necessary, but should (ideally) be a non-profit venture. Continuous education should be encouraged, but we need to decouple the idea that a 4 year degree == career skills.

I am curious - do countries with free or very cheap higher education see as big of a divide between those with 4 year degrees and those without?
The people getting silenced on a privately owned platform are the ones who are saying group X should not be allowed to have any rights/exist/not be assaulted. It's not a "being racist" it's saying "lgbt people are pesos who should be beaten", "jews are in control of everything (they're not) and should be kicked out of the country". Being generically racist is clearly ok on all these platforms, its saying whole groups should not be treated as humans that seems to be the bar.

Liberal bigots tend to censor out their public statements somewhat more -- I don't believe this is an intelligence thing in as much as a learned culture, similar to the whole "being called racist is worse than being racist".

But yeah there are all sorts of double standards -- take youtube's nazis are ok, the muslim equivalent isn't, etc etc

That said the issue of censorship is always irksome to me, even if it is on private platforms, specifically how are the rules set, how do you avoid forcing stagnation...
> 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?

IDK, I feel like that's a sweet spot most people hit at the end of a PhD. Enough confidence in yourself that you can expend lots of resources trying hard things.

Enough humility to recognize that you'll probably fail at most of those things.

And most importantly, the project management, risk management, and communication skills to hedge your big bets.

Enough experience working with top-tier people to know that all of these things are learnable skills that other successful folks are using (including fields medalists and including high-school dropouts).

Maybe there's a difference between the "informed arrogance" of a researcher working on an open problem in their field (or a serial entrepreneur trying to disrupt a huge industry) and the "uninformed arrogance" of a charlatan, hack, or (in this case) fraudster?
Everything's about the scoreboard.

Y'know, unless you want to be happy.
Let's hope that it decides to offset the cost of all those planes hauling its boxes around the country by selling tickets to paying passengers.

I don't know how accurate this is, but a private jet pilot I was sitting next to on a flight told me that excess passenger airline baggage space was already being used to ship packages. If that's true, then baggage fees make a lot of sense. Passengers would be competing with Amazon and other companies for that space.
It seems to me that, out of ten graduates from a CS program, only one is going to go on to do academic computer science; the other nine are going to become computer programmers. CS programs are doing a poor job of preparing those nine.

Now, in other areas, we have a distinction. We have physics departments that teach people theory, and we have separate engineering departments that prepare people for careers putting the theory to useful work. Well, where does the CS program live? At least where and when I went to college, the CS program was part of the Engineering department.

So I think it's fair to say that colleges should take on considerably more of the job of preparing software engineers for real-world careers in software engineering. Hiding behind "we teach CS, not software engineering" is a cop-out, especially if CS is within the College of Engineering.
I was one of the last classes at Caltech that used SICP for the intro to programming class before they switched for similar reasons (this would have been ca. 2005)
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"Dude is gender neutral."

When everyone you've ever known, and all media you've ever seen, for 30 years, has exclusively used "dude" for males only, is it really "gender neutral"?
I think if you are exploring the city during rush hour, sure subway makes sense. If you have a fixed route you go between everyday and know when the traffic ebs and flows, taxis are much more convenient. If you are out at night after rush hour, then taxis are the obvious choice.

Beijing's subway system is crowded, some routes are super crowded (line 10, ugh), interchanges can be long and windy, and can also have their own long lines (e.g. transferring at dongzhimen during rush hour). There are a lot more lines definitely then when I started living there (2007, line 10 didn't even exist yet), but there are very good reasons didi is still extremely popular.
While I'm all for avoiding 'chick' if it offends people, your comment completely sidesteps the fact that the meaning of words change. I don't think you're doing whatever cause you're fighting any good by this kind of pedantry.
> Curious about a link between kids not playing in the dirt enough and autism.

I'm sorry, but it seems, you don't really know much about autism. It is not a disease which you develop over the years, because you have been not played enough in the dirt.

You born with it.

Also, there is no known 'cure' for autism.
> I always thought the "guaranteed to go up in value" claim was silly.

So would 99.9% of people who see that ad. Everyone knows that if it sounds too good to be true, then it likely is. Especially in a paid advertisement. Modern consumers are more than well atuned to not trust every ad they hear.

If they don't see the glaring risk in cryptocurrencies, as it is constantly mentioned as being in the media nearly every time it's mentioned, or if they didn't spend a minute Googling them to see the countless headlines about it's volatility before gambling on it then I really wonder whether their money would be going to a place of value elsewhere anyway.

Otherwise plenty of people know the risk and are still willing to bet on it because it is possible to gain quite a bit from the growth. I know many people who have successfully. And many who are in it for the long term because they fully believe in the technology. And there's nothing wrong with that.
The best often diverges from the good. Ad absurdum: if we get extinct, we'll produce less litter and pollution.
Other than HaikuOS, I can't think of any other real-world kernel written in C++. Linux, all BSDs, Windows NT, Hurd are all C. I'm not sure but I think XNU is C as well (the wiki lists it as C/C++).
Of course. Makes sense.
no. people are better off with a quick resolution because professional attorneys at the SEC decided that the legal case against Holmes is not strong enough to waste taxpayer money trying to PROVE she committed a crime. Calling their decision into question without a shred of evidence that they did something suboptimal, based on your political beliefs alone, is what I am advocating against.

EDIT: Which part of this statement are the downvoters disagreeing with ?
I wondered the same thing when I saw this. I've been working in enterprise SaaS startups for the last 5-ish years and my experience has been similar. Even when we had solid growth numbers, every single sale is a long fought battle.

I've experienced "drowning in demand" twice in my career. An ecommerce startup and a dating app. It is intense and you know it when it's happening. It's hard to fathom what that would look like in an enterprise software setting. Large deal size, long sales cycles, high touch everything, it just feels like it's geared differently.
What's the original referent of your impostor syndrome comment? As I see the term used, it generally means "I'm an impostor among this crowd of other people who do actually know what they're doing," not "I am unable to do this thing that nobody has ever done."

That is, if you believe that you can't learn kernel hacking, that's (potentially) impostor syndrome. Lots of people have in fact learned kernel hacking, you can learn it too. Your self-doubt about it is based on (falsely) thinking that you are individually incapable of doing a thing plenty of others have done. But if you believe you can't build a perpetual motion machine, that's just thermodynamics. Nobody has built a perpetual motion machine, and doubt about your ability to do so (which isn't really self-doubt) will be quickly confirmed by a survey of the literature.
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To me, "zero self-doubt" and "nobody knows what they're doing" are predictive hypotheses that can be falsified by future experience, when you get beat. I guess if you're talking about a psychopathic condition where your self-doubt bit is hard-wired to 0, then yeah you're not going to be able to assess your progress.

Those folks exist, but I meet plenty of basically honest people who are arrogant before experience and humbled after. Far more than the raging narcissists who will do what Holmes is accused of, though those get attention.

As a recent dad, I think a lot about sending my guys into a world with 10B people in it, moving incredibly fast publicizing accomplishments (real and otherwise) in ways that make it seem like every niche is filled up. It's clear to me that irreverence for status quo and honesty with themselves are going to be equally important in them finding a niche for themselves.
Jeez, this horse always gets beaten to death, twice. We get it. You hate JS. ${language_of_choice} is better because [Reasons].

In the end, it doesn't matter. JS is here to stay. If you don't want to write it, don't write code for projects that need it. Constant complaining about its faults does nothing at all except produce noise in threads like this.

And, fwiw, I don't see too many C projects for Front-end solutions like e.g. React. Maybe that means JS is a superior language in the context of the problem is was made to address. Holy shit! Who would have thought that "it depends" applies to development?!
I know of a company that hires fresh graduates, and doesn't expect them to really be able to contribute for two years. They're in Indianapolis, though, so they may have considerably fewer problems with their employees getting poached by others before they can contribute enough to pay back the training period.
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It depends where you are. Microcenters generally have them for $5 ($10 for the 'W'), although for Pi Day they're both on sale for $3.14. Sadly, there aren't any near me, but I had a relative who is near them pick up a literal handful last time they came down.

Several online places have them for $5, but shipping 'kills the deal' as they say.
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I also don't think Musk should be lumped in with those other luminaries, but Musk isn't the one doing that categorization, so nothing against him. It's just people and their penchant for hero worship
Hey HN, I've been eager to share this with you. I've finally released and I think this is going to be very useful for a lot of devs who are like me.

Coherence API is a twist on serverless that lets you deploy and run code the same way you call a local function. It integrates with the programming language so you can just pass a func and it's getting run. No need to change your workflow or toolset.

I'll be here to answer any questions.
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