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+1, never realized Mark S. Was the founder of Thawte! I co-founded one of the first ISPs in Brazil back in 94-95, so we used VeriSign for SSL certificates and had to put up with their high prices ($500 or so), plus the hassle of having company's certification of incorporation officially translated into English (rinse and repeat for every of our corporate hosting customers).

Thawte came soon after, but IIRC their root keys weren't included in the first few Netscape releases (or was it the first IE?), so it generated a warning when accessing the site. We had to keep paying overpriced VeriSign certs for a few more years, until Thawte became widely accepted.
Pentagon working to develop tech to let troops control machines with their minds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsistent_comparison

Josephson phase qubits aren't even utilizing the same fundamental concepts to examine the qualities of the mediums that quantum uncertainty affects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_qubit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_voltage_standard
The brain distinguishes causes of errors to perform adaptation
It depends on the particular game. You can make the game mechanics, such that round-trip latency doesn't really matter.
> In a distressing early sign for Zoox’s investors, Kentley-Klay also spent $16,000 on a Sub-Zero office refrigerator because he thought it looked cool.

Let's say I'm an investor and a founder of a company in my portfolio does this. What would be an appropriate response? This seems like a cartoonishly gratuitous waste of capital.
Brianna from Stripe Press has commented on this HN story and is the main comment on the Product Hunt announcement: https://www.producthunt.com/@brianna_wolfson

If there are female tech/business authors/books you'd like to see listed, you could send through the suggestions?
Thank you. My worldview is, far more often than not, based on evidence I’ve read. I hope HN does not turn into Reddit and “downvote for disagreeing with what is in fact true upon further examination”
From a USian perspective I think it's worthwhile to think in terms of the "base case" of individuals paying cash - from the perspective of the median person, our "health insurance" system is primarily a way of getting upfront pricing.

I don't focus on the market dynamics to argue against a single payer system (it does seem to tackle the problem better than we've currently got), but to point out the utter hypocrisy of labeling the current regime as anything remotely market-based. As I said above, I'm personally open to a fusion of the two different philosophies when they're sensible together - not the worst of both as we tend to get in the US.

To go with the train analogy - it's like knowing snacks are $8/ea on the train, so you're encouraged to buy a $20 pass for "all you can eat". Then you get hungry and find out that the pass just means you can wait in line for an hour to get one small snack at a time. The pass wasn't actually a solution to the high prices, and making buying the pass mandatory certainly isn't going to help the overall situation. Barring an honest train operator, the only thing that will keep prices down is actual competition - in this analogy the people who plan ahead and pack their own snacks obtained from an outside vendor.
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> There is very little financial incentive to push consumers to buy drugs they don’t need.

I have to disagree: Homeopathics and Viagra.

In general I am in favor of this change, but homeopathy and vitamins are 'generic' and companies see a huge incentive to sell them, even if we do not need them. Supplemental vitamins are mostly wasted when you urinate.

Viagra is another drug I can (and do) see a lot of money spent to encourage people to take even if they do not need it.
The laundering part is easy. A guy has $1M need to clean up. Release a $1000 app under account A. Buy the app 1000 times with account B, C, D, ... Account A earns legit money.
> The pair have mastered the hyperbolic vernacular of the Silicon Valley startup scene. Text running around the wheel wells of the Zoox vehicles reads, “Infinity is enough,” a phrase the company has trademarked. Kentley-Klay’s own name is another invention. He was born Tim Kentley and adopted the Klay. “I have added Klay to my surname, as I find I just love making things and [sic] is a big part of me,” he wrote to the Zoox employees in 2013. “So, clay, or mud, is the primal aspect of this spirit, and ‘K’lay is a word play on that to keep the K in the mix of the evolving family name.”

This... hubris hurts when it's not in the show Silicon Valley. At least the show hurts good.
It is incredible, and sad, how much bloat is in the common webpage these days.
Stripe cofounder here. It's a very fair question.

> I must admit to being somewhat uncomfortable that Stripe seems to be spreading themselves out into areas outside their core business

The vast majority of Stripe employees (and there are now more than 1,000) work on our core functionality today. But we see our core business as building tools and infrastructure that help grow the online economy. ("Increase the GDP of the internet.") When we think about that problem, we see that one of the main limits on Stripe's growth is the number of successful startups in the world. If we can cheaply help increase that number, it makes a lot of business sense for us to do so. (And, hopefully, doing so will create a ton of spillover value for others as well.)

As we grow, we have to get good at walking and chewing gum -- just as Google or Amazon have. However, while we go and tackle other problems, our aim is not only to continue to improve our core payments infrastructure, but do deliver improvements at an accelerating rate.
Sounds like there’s a few objections: the book is so effective its techniques will be adopted by everyone, and the book is based on flawed survivorship bias so the techniques are unlikely to work.
Ah, so even robot taxis block traffic when they stop. I guess pulling over to the curb is too difficult a problem to solve…
This is the kind of logic that has brought us the plague of “As a mom, I know what’s best for my kids’ health and that’s why I’m not getting them vaccinated.” Despite what a charming mantra it sounds like, people are not automatically experts on themselves any more than on any other subject.
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Did I miss a thing? I didn't see the reporter say it drove without human assistance.

It's frankly sloppy that the reporter doesn't mention it. He also incorrectly reports that Waymo only tests in places like Arizona.
That wasn't the only ethical lapse being gleefully mythologized in the story.

I half-suspected that they didn't bother taking out a permit for autonomous vehicle, but I was pleasantly surprised to find them on the list:
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/permi...
TLDR: Guy without skin in the game thinks something out loud.
French restaurants serve free water if you ask "une carafe d'eau". They will bring tap water instead of a bottle of mineral water. According to the law, prices should include the service, tap water, bread and other "basics": https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/Publications/Vie-pratiqu...
> What is the lowest price point they can get to for that product? Cause if I can pay a highly reliable driver for less, what's the point?

Let's assume that the technology and mapping becomes a Solved Problem.

Then the competition with humans boils down to the cost of sensors and compute (plus recouping R&D). I expect prices for both of those to plummet whenever self-driving capabilities are clearly demonstrated because the massive anticipated demand will justify huge capex in improving efficient manufacturing of these often bespoke sensors.

The market for computing machines 1950 - 1990 is instructive.
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You might need more than 1 human driver in certain cases, unless you have one that is 24/7 in it and ready to drive. Funny point of view nonetheless
They do something similar in Japan: special needs individuals can receive two sexual experiences in their lifetime, provided by a government agency.
The avoidance of a myriad footguns and being forced to avoid complex logic in your templates.
Theoretically, yes, it can happen.

Realistically, the chance of a tornado taking out the Swedish datacenter built inside a former nuclear bunker under 100ft of granite bedrock is so small that it probably doesn't affect the number of 9's that you can claim.
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> For example, even though you can create a basic IKEv2 config, most of the parameters that are needed to actually make it work with a given router are not accessible except in Configurator. You cannot configure the encryption or hash algos, DH Group, group identifiers, etc.

It seems like some of these, such as encryption, hash algorithm, and DH group, should be configured on the server side, not the client side. I know that in the IPSec world the peers are roughly equal, but in this scenario the Mac is definitely playing the role of client. Likewise, there is no ability to configure the traffic selectors, and I'd argue that there probably shouldn't be.

I agree that there should be more configuration exposed in the UI though.

EDIT: I spent about a half hour trying, unsuccessfully, to configure an IKEv2 connection on MacOS to a StrongSwan server. I suspect a configuration problem on the StrongSwan side, but the MacOS side is so opaque that it makes it hard to match up the configs properly.

EDIT2: I remember why I stopped trying to get IKEv2 working - the fact that Split-DNS is not in the protocol yet, but with IKEv1 I can use the Cisco Unity extensions to do it.
Meh. So long, have fun.
To be fair, demos can be faked (and were, in Theranos' case). But I think the commenter is actually referring to the palpable cult of personality being spun into this article. The article is more of a profile of the founders than it is of the company. In fact the details of the company and its mission appear to be a backdrop for talking about the founders' pedigrees and just-eccentric-enough antics.
That's true, but not in the 20th century. For lots of reasons, China broadly missed the industrial revolution. By the time of the communist revolution, they had... basically nothing indigenous. There was no export industry, most people were at a subsistence level, and essentially the entirety of the social elite were foreign-educated aristocracy simply living off of assets worked by a staggeringly large underclass. I mean, sure, "the potential of its people was already there", but you can say that about anyone. Objecvtively, it was a mess.

And now their grandkids are almost as rich as Americans.
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I'm always struck by the intensity with which some HN folks hate their doc - reminded of this by the number of comments invoking conspiracy theories about docs scheduling extra appointments to bill more or push more generic drugs.

Perhaps obvious but perhaps not: in the US and most EU countries I'm aware of, you can choose a new doc. You can shop around. Despite the flaws in online reviews, just as with Amazon, you can read between the lines. Choosing instead to avoid healthcare completely seems self-defeating.

I'm sorry to read so many horror stories - going to the doctor even for docs (especially for docs?) can be a frustrating experience. But while you're burning down the FDA, at least shop around and find yourself a good primary care doc.
This is already a standard piece of how JITs work today. See the discussion of Java intrinsics and Array.fill() here [0].

> An intrinsic function is applied as a method substitution [...] and the compiler will replace it's apparent source-level implementation with a pre-cooked implementation. In some cases intrinsics are sort of compilation cheats [...]

> The intrinsics are all set up in vmSymbols.hpp and if you look, you'll see Arrays.fill is NOT on the list. [...] Because it is something like an intrinsic... [...] What is it then? Arrays.fill is a code pattern substitution kind of compiler shortcut, basically looking for this kind of loop:

```
for (int i = 0; i < arrayB.length; i++) {
arrayB[i] = b;
}
```

And replacing it with a call into the JVM memset implementation.

[0]: http://psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com/2015/04/on-arraysfill-intrin...
That's hilarious, props to the ones who made it. It's likely they got some multi-month paid holidays with that.
What would that cost on every road?
Sure. Until you're playing Dark Souls for the first time, you get summoned to help someone with a boss, and then get invaded by someone with a 360 degree one-shot kill spell that breaks all your weapons and armor, gives you an egghead that you can't remove unless you know where to go, and gives you an item that marks you as a cheater so you now get constantly invaded by exclusively cheaters.

The item that marks you as a cheater might have been a drop in another invasion, I don't remember. The point remains, once the cheaters realize you have a separate cheaters' matchmaking system, they will weaponize that too.
What about the 30% comission the app stores take?

What's the going rate for money laundering? :P
Studs Terkel on that:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/wfmt-studs-terkel/published/22485.m...
> the father having to explain to his daughter that being associated with Snow White is a good thing

How can that be a bad thing? I honestly don't understand(I'm from China).
Do you store the datasets as tar/zip archives on S3, or do you have some way of representing how a collection of items goes together to form a dataset?
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I like this, with the exception of anti-biotics because misuse would spread immunity.
A rural hospital kept my grandma alive 10 extra days to milk Medicare for the maximum allotment. There is nothing American healthcare won’t do to make a buck
Except a Thermos bottle instead of a plastic water bottle.
> Go packages aren't allowed to blacklist versions, though your top level module is. This just means that package authors are going to have to communicate incompatible versions out of band, and that the go tool may pick logically incompatible versions with no signal to the user beyond (hopefully) broken tests!

Yeah, it seems if the Go system ends up not working out in practice, this will be why.

But because of the minimal nature of MVS, you won't run into this problem unless something else is compelling you to go to the broken version. And by the time that's happening, you'd hope that the bug would've been reported and fixed in the original library.

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out in practice.

(Also, if I have a library A that depends on B, which is being reluctant or slow about fixing some bug, I can always take the nuclear option and just fork B and then depend on that. Basically the explicit version of what Cargo would do through deciding it couldn't resolve w/o creating two versions. But I think the incentives might be set up right that the easy/happy path will end up getting taken in practice.)
I can't believe you're really quibbling over the possibility that some high schools assign Shakespeare...
I'm not an American, but I am used to being able to modify an order. I don't think of this as being entitled as I am after all paying for the meal and depending on the restaurant it's not exactly a cheap meal. That being the case I don't see any reason for negotiation if I'm not happy with the meal. The only thing I'd agree with is that it'd be absurd to request another meal for free simply because the one you chose wasn't to your fancy.

The customer is always right attitude is one that I appreciate Americans having. While not as bad in Australia as some parts of Europe, the attitude here is definitely closer to "give me your money and and leave" than "what can I do to ensure you leave happy?"
Let alone the internet, the latency is noticeable in local networks.
You are not hearing what I am saying. "The history of an object" is a concept that ceases to make sense in the presence of atomic-level replication, just as (for example) "simultaneous events" ceases to make sense in the presence of high velocities.
> Quite interesting is the bit about hiring the "former lead of GNU Radio" who had experienced pain in getting closed/proprietary hardware things to be useful. I wonder if this will lead to more open platforms. If for no other reason, that bit makes the article worth reading.

This makes me more worried, not less.

The reason why you couldn't repurpose those things targeted at "specific technologies" is that they were engineered for purpose.

You don't want a general "radio decoder". You want a 4G modem. You don't wan't a wideband ADC--you want low power for battery usage so you want to narrow the bandwidth as much as possible. You are willing to give up generality in order to get a couple more dB in order to increase your range by another couple miles, etc.

The problem is that it is so expensive to do your own chip that everybody tries to shoehorn their solution into something that exists in volume but really isn't quite right simply to avoid that expense.

If you want to fix electronics, find a way to make VLSI fabrication cost $500 and have a 5 day turnaround.
One would expect the competition between the US and China to get ferocious over the next 20 years. The US hasn't had a serious direct competitor across the board (military + economic + political) in 70 years. My personal opinion as an American, is that the US has gotten lackadaisical about its formerly overwhelming superpower position, its focus, and the need to compete at a high level. That isn't surprising of course, one would almost expect that to always occur, and China has come on extremely fast. Hopefully China's rapid rise forces a reawakening of an older can-do spirit, across all spheres of US life (perhaps most especially in regards to the invaluable contributions a better functioning government can bring, as in the past). If not, then China will de facto rule Asia and half of Europe.
ICOs, cryptocurrency to that list.
How would you do that and ensure they don't interfere? Would have you have a separate server just for cheaters?
That's a reasonable point, however I'm not entirely sure the initial core business of Stripe was that. Was there a point where the core business broadened?
Bug bounties are a joke
it's the same run-around:

they tell you it's a feature or 'supposed to be that way' and then when abused fix it and you get no pay

or they give low-ball offers and or delay payment ,etc. with very onerous TOS
Ducati demonstrate 5G Vehicle-to-Everything technology (C-V2X)
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They should start their own practice and set their own rules. Good practices/doctors in my area are so in demand most aren't accepting new patients.
Children like to blend in and not be noticed as different (adults too of course, but to a lesser degree than children). The label itself is inoffensive, she just didn't like the fact she wasn't seen as just another kid.
It’s a total racket. The worst part is that they’ve managed to tilt the playing field in their favor for even routine fees. Cash prices are higher than “pre-negotiated” reimbursements, unless you cry poverty and a billing clerk cuts you a discount after examining your tax return and assets as an alternative to collections. So you have to buy insurance which is an act that reinforces the hidden inflated prices model.

Average people only have one rational response to random prices: don’t go to the doctor voluntarily. But this can cost them their health in some cases.
If this is a hierarchical culture, I worry that the changes you propose will be seen as a slight to whoever was in charge before you. Consequently, if I were you, I'd go in as a teammate and get something out the door to build camaraderie. Then, have an open meeting where everyone talks about the project, what is working well and what isn't working very well. I'd frame it as if there is nothing wrong, but that you could work together to improve things.
Not "every application," just applications making use of the GLB or services built upon it.
No, the real "bad scenario" is "people go without drug that could help them because doctors & insurance are seen as too troublesome and expensive"
> And now their grandkids are almost as rich as Americans.

False.

US: mean wealth $388,000. medium wealth $55,000. gdp per capita: $60000.

China: mean wealth $26,000. medium wealth $6,000. gdp per capita: $8000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
This is probably a dumb question, but could you spread out the error correction in time? I know it's hard to create very large entangled systems, so would it be possible/easier to do the calculation with 4000 real qubits 1000 times and use the repetition for error correction? (Checking for correct factorization is easy, after all.)
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I think we first used “increase the GDP of the internet” in early 2012, a few months after Stripe launched.
The Daily Caller's doxxing of Sleeping Giants was a dick move
The margins on homeopathic are way higher than generic drugs and there is a ton of competition among manufacturers.

Most generic companies make their profit off the first 6 months of exclusivity. The rest of the time they are barely breaking even (hence the drug shortages).
Even so [the western missionary] was stunned at how deeply and rigidly held the belief that making money was the entire meaning of life. There was no value system.

Consider also how the national psyche and personal outlooks on the world have been impacted by a lifetime of propaganda celebrating Han-centric nationalism, expansionist foreign policy, and a self-appointed party leadership whose control and policies can never be seriously questioned.
But your parents have control over hospice arrangements. The only thing a hospital can legally in most states do once you decide to let her die is to sedate if necessary and cut off food and let the body shut down.

What gives you the idea it was a conspiracy?
Things like... hypertension medications, ...are all OTC.

This would be so nice. Every time I switch providers, I have to hear the same tired "Lisinopril is the modern blood pressure medication and it's certainly all that you need!" "No asshole, it doesn't work for me and it makes me cough 17 times a minute, 1440 minutes a day. Just give a water pill, which does work and has worked for years."
So Americans can be even more heavily medicated? If you need a statin or high blood pressure medication, there should be a doctor in the loop to help motivate you with a healthy lifestyle.
What would you do if literally any other employee with a company card did this?

You'd either fire them on the spot. Or, if that's not an option [1], quietly figure out a longer-term strategy for eventually firing them.

Or, if you're a Nice Guy, you'd offer to let them stay on if they return the gratuitous waste of capital and/or pay the company back.

I'll never quite understand why founders are treated as an exceptional case by capital. Especially in hard tech fields like self-driving where the idea is literally obvious to a five-year-old but the execution requires courting `the best humans available.

--

[1] e.g., an engineer with mostly undocumented knowledge of key parts of your software or sales rep with close relationships to a client during a critical time period.
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This sounds like a bad idea until I remember that most countries have this arrangement and I've made liberal use of it to great benefit... but mostly that has to do with the lower cost of drugs everywhere but the United States. I stock up every time I go to Europe, and I just made a run to Tijuana for medication my insurance company doesn't cover.

The downside is that insurance wouldn't cover these often expensive medications if they are OTC.