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It's obviously inappropriate, but not beyond what a young executive might do. Startups need to move quickly, changing your mind after 2 days is normal, it's just the politics (and optics) that are affected.

It's kind of a rookie move ... but in a way, maybe it's the rookies advantage.

Evan can get away with doing this because he's young.

Consider that an older exec would have not changed his mind out of fear of 'looking bad' even if it were not the right thing for the company.

This isn't good, but it's not a big deal at all.

Of course this assumes he mad the right decision in the end ...
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This. I had my account disabled for a while and only recently re-enabled it. I try to check it once a week and 95% of the notifications aren't relevant.
Tell HN: Transfer.sh will shut down on November 30
Developer of Transfer.sh, file sharing service with command line interface, claimed that site (as service) will shutdown 30th of November 2018:

> transfer.sh will shutdown 30th of November 2018

> After running transfer.sh for 4 years, it has to come to an end. I started this project, because I needed something quick and simple to share files between from the command line. Now it has grown out of control, with millions of files being shared each month, and no longer sustainable and affordable to keep it running for free. From day one the code has been opensource, of which you can run your own instance. Special thanks to Andrea Spacca for maintaining the opensource version, the amazing community for all efforts, the patrons for all support and to Gopher for being you.

> So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

> Remco Verhoef.

This message now placed on homepage[0,1,2] and all other subpages.

R.I.P.

$ curl --upload-file ./hello.txt https://transfer.sh/hello.txt

P.S.: Source code hosted on GitHub.[3]

[0] http://i.imgur.com/13GEUoA.png

[1] https://transfer.sh

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20181027144208/https://transfer.sh/

[3] https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh
It looks like that article you quote is referencing "Metabolic profiling reveals anomalous energy metabolism and oxidative stress pathways in chronic fatigue syndrome patients". However if you look at Tomas' study, they were not able to replicate that study:

"Contrary to previous literature [15, 28] which suggested that abnormalities in PBMC ATP levels may be caused by glycolysis, results from the glycolysis stress test showed that glycolysis in CFS patients does not differ significantly from that of the non-disease cohort. "

So you need to be careful that the studies you're looking at have actually been replicated. In this case it wasn't replicated.
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It is frightening how the internet outrage culture is getting people fired and destroying their lives over some stupid tweet.
In other jobs, I accept that I'm occasionally going to be waiting. The goal is to produce value at the organization level, and that just isn't compatible with each individual operating at 100% efficiency at all times. It's egotistical of programmers to think that they should. It's unfair of managers to expect this of them. Amdahl's Law applies to humans, too.

The issue is procedural. If you hate that code review of an API implementation might require changing the interface, then you should do a review of the API design before you implement it. That should be the case with every phase. Any time you have to perform multiple steps and worry that review of a later step might cause an earlier step to be invalidated, that simply means you're reviewing too late, at too coarse a level.

Or not. Adding more reviews keeps the big-O factor down, but increases the constant factor. As an organization, you can pick if you want individual contributors to never have to backtrack, or if you want them to be able to use speculative execution. One way is more predictable, and the other way can be faster if you're good at guessing right.
At what point does he realize that his decisions are bad and he needs supervision?
False Flag Bomb Psyops Prove the Very Deep State Is in a Panic
I'm logged out on my phone. Logged in through desktop in Chrome but have the "News Feed Eradicator for Facebook" chrome extension installed and am only logged in from my specific "personal" container in firefox, and all of that is enough of an obstacle for me to not spend much time on it.
Yeah, I ran into it here: http://docs.vespene.io/resources.html

If you would like to get involved with Vespene at a code level, “fork” the project at github.com/vespene/vespene.
If you read the article it explains that Foxconn changed their plans after Wisconsin refused to subsidize a necessary Corning factory.

I think that people are forgetting that this a subsidy to build. The state is not "giving" Foxconn money, it's just choosing not to collect taxes/permit fees/construction costs, for them to put in the factory. Once the factory is built, there is nothing stopping the state from modifying their corporate tax laws to recoup this investment much faster.

Also your last statement is just preposterous notion. Governor Walker is not personally gaining anything financial from this deal. It was a desperate bid to push his re-election campaign. Personally I think that the deal has soured so much that it should be cancelled, but the original $3 billion for jobs sounded very sound. Especially for a very economically repressed location like Racine.
Well, what was the response?
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How is that different than what he did with Kenya? He got a standing applause from the TED audience (hugely liberal (for America)/Democrat leaning) for that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNOnvp5t7Do&t=2m13s

There was not much criticism for "interfering" in their politics on that one (though I'm sure there was by certain political classes in Kenya).
Health insurance companies in the US are legally obligated to[1]:

1. Spend 80-85% of premiums on medical spending (with a loophole that "quality improvement" initiatives count). That leaves 15-20% for overhead and profit.

2. Rebate you any excess they collect if they don't meet that medical spending requirement[2].

3. Justify large rate increases.

The insurance company really does pay those costs, rather than playing theater. They have absolutely no incentive whatsoever to limit inflated passthrough costs, and every incentive to justify as high of passthrough to providers as possible. Any attempt at cost control above the bare minimum will result in cannibalizing their own profit potential, because they're not allowed to keep that improvement. And the more inflated the passthrough costs, the more they can justify large rate increases (which then increases the absolute size of the 20% they're allowed for non-medical spending).

But wait. Only their health insurance arm is subject to such profit capping. Now that "market rate" for various intermediate services has been established at such an excessive level within the environment of payers having no incentive to reign in costs, they can gobble up some of those middlemen and reap the benefit of those crazy profit margins. Because their insurance arm is complying with their 20% overhead mandate, but their newly acquired PBM has no such mandate on profit[3]. That way the profit transfer from one internal entity with a statutory profit limit to another without one is seen as kosher and not a run-around.

So it is theater, in a sense. But it only works because it didn't start out as theater. They had to truly passthrough costs and get acceptable and normal market rates established, then start gobbling up the intermediaries in the value chain that they fattened up. If they hadn't done that, it would have looked like self-dealing from the outset and never would have been successful. Whereas now they're able to hand-wave it through regulatory approval with vague promises of efficiencies.

[1] https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...

[2] Individual plans rebate to the individual. Group/Employer plans rebate to the employer, and don't have to pass it through to the employee if they can think of a way to "apply the rebate in a way that benefits employees".

[3] https://www.hallrender.com/2018/03/16/the-wave-of-pbm-and-in...
> That's not how the world works.

That's not how it works right now. Some want that future and are working to make it happen.
There’s a free version (with more options) at http://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/

Haven’t printed anything yet, but the STL loads great into a slicer (I used cura) of your choice.
You sue. You don't go destroying property.
Both the Altera & Xilinx tools seem to work well in a linux (ubuntu) VM on my Mac. (At least at the tier where I can afford FPGA hardware).

For lattice, the open source iceStorm project is a good way to go.
>How have politics become so corrupt?

Anonymous dark money being funneled into politicians pockets, a complete lack of oversight on many departments and overall complacency from many people who now view the security state as a safety measure for us all.
How reliable is this source of news? The farther I go, the less tied to the truth the content seems to be.
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A bill was passed labeling Wikileaks a "non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors and should be treated as such." Though I don't think there is a public warrant for his arrest, they likely do have some sealed charges.
Same problem. Then I saw the domain name: ejroller.com and associated it with jroller and everything made sense. I wonder if that happened to others...
I made a Social Media Facebook app https://2fb.me but Iv'e never used Messenger, or Instagram outside of testing their functionality and haven't posted a Facebook update in over a year. I occasionally react to posts. Yet as far as Social Media, Twitter, the most depressing site of all still manages to suck in a lot of my time. Am I a weirdo? Man, does the internet need to change. It's all the same. VR gamerooms? Non of this will help Facebook. The network effect that made it popular is already working it's way in reverse.
> That is not what propaganda means. By its very nature it is misleading.

No, propaganda is designed to influence belief and behavior in a particular way (the defining example was material designed to lead people to the Catholic faith; “propaganda” comes from the former [pre-1967] Latin name of the modern Catholic Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples [0]); it is not necessarily intended to be misleading.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Evangel...
Great. If that's such a great deal, unbundle the games from the network access. I am perfectly happy not getting bonus games if I can use my own network connection without getting permission.

None of this addresses the fact that console manufacturers are erecting tiny tollbooths on the wire between the computing device that the customers own and the network router that the customers own, extracting rents from transactions that they no longer have any business being a part of.

The best anti-cheat system I have ever seen is the ability for users to refuse to play with other users whom they suspect may be cheaters. Whether they actually are or not is immaterial. You should be able to not play with someone who makes a game less fun for you (blacklisting). And you should also be able to play with only friends whom you know and have invited (whitelisting). Needing anti-cheat measures beyond that is usually a symptom of not allowing customers to run their own private servers, likely because they won't pay for access to the main company servers if they don't have to. Get caught cheating or griefing on my server, and you can only play in the trashbag-exile instance, which is somehow still fun for some twisted weirdos. Get caught cheating on a centralized corporate server, and someone has to Report you, then there is a Process, and then that guy is banned and maybe just replaced by yet another guy just like him, doing all the same stuff that got the last guy banned. If your culture turns toxic, the good players abandon the game altogether, instead of just switching servers.

I don't know of any games that have both a PC and a console version that charges for the PC version, but not the console. That money to the games distributor pays for the server maintenance and the development team salaries, and there is a clear line of demarcation between what I own and what I am paying for. But there have always been free servers, pay servers, prince/pauper servers, and donation begging servers out there in the computing world, since shortly after 1 Jan 1983. It has been entirely possible to waste all your spare time online, from your home computer, without spending a single dime above the cost of the network link, for decades now.
fry squinting can't tell if ironic or earnest...
Can you please not feed trolls on HN? This is in the guidelines: " Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

For how to flag a comment, see the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I don't think you understand what the environmental concessions actually were. The article tries to make it sound like they were related to the dumping of heavy metals, but in reality they are just for the construction of the site and water usage, (e.g. For every of acre they fill to build, they have to create 1.2 acres of new wetlands). The company will still be held to the same pollution standards as every other company in the state.
The point was that the way VLAs were designed in C99, it was a motorway to stack corruption, leading to dropping it out as optional feature in C11 and C++ not even considering them.
If you think Ruth may be paranoid, consider the case of John Lang, a traffic-light scam whistleblower in Fresno, California who posted on Facebook that police were trying to kill him just days before he was found stabbed to death in his burned down house.

Police ruled his death a suicide.

Wow Xerox don't play.

[EDIT:] after a bit of online research, it seems plausible that Mr. Lang's death was actually a suicide. That doesn't change the fact that a three second yellow would be unsafe at most normal automotive speeds...
A private middle class citizen suing a $7B company... Yeah, right...
I imagine a large part of it is the dramatic lower barrier thanks to services like twilio and competitors. They enable a lot of really cool tech but the programatic access to the phone network like that makes all that stuff significantly easier
"then downloading a Java applet with a very specific (obsolete) version of Java. The applet didn't support copy and paste, and frequently repeated keys"

Ah, yes, Lantronix Spider. My current colo still uses that old bastard. It's the only reason I still have Java on one of my laptops. And, now that our colocated servers are getting old and crotchety, I'm beginning to think it's not worth it and considering moving out to some cloud-based thing (but to keep costs down we'd need to reimplement a lot of stuff, because "big box with a bunch of services running" is outrageously expensive on the major cloud-based virtual machines, compared to ~$100/month to stick a fat server in a rack and get a gigabit pipe plugged into it).
They’ve tested it time and time again, most recently last year. There’s less posting of images and stories which they figured would lower engagement across the app in general if there was marginally less content (they see it as their high growth crown jewel). I suspect when growth plateaus we’ll see the iPad app
...and if any of those four are not in place, it can be a nightmare. At a rough guess, less than a 1-in-16 (2^4) chance of a non-aggravating code-review process at any given company.
So this is just my two-cents based on working for a VOIP company for a couple years, but I noticed a few patterns, specifically the industry-wide pressure to compete with Twilio, that seem to make it easier to spam text/calls.

1.) VOIP providers have low-barriers to sign-up (typically just a credit card fraud check + check to see if IP or address is from certain countries where fraud calls are common). The up-side to this is that it makes the user experience more friendly to real customers b/c they don't have to wait around, but the downside is that any spammer semi-familiar with the checks that get done can sign up and start sending spam calls for a day or two before most places get complaints and shut them down. The fact that many voip providers allow users to set their Display Id to anything too without any approval also is also really convenient for spammers (ie, there aren't usually ways to immediately detect when a user fraudently set their Caller Id to the name of a bank or something)

2.) APIs everywhere. Twilio got big in part b/c it made APIs available, but the smaller providers are catching up and also adding APIs for texting and calling services. Spammers can automate their spam and re-use the scripts between different accounts when they get banned, so it makes sending out spam texts easier too.

3.) VOIP companies actually are ok with some degree of spam, as long as the spammers pay their bills. So they don't have a motivation to actually stop all of it. Instead of blocking all spam-ish calls outright, some places will just make a deal so that some callers (identified by having a high rate of unanswered calls + very short length calls) pay a higher rate to compensate for potential reputation damage. This is meant for legal cold-calling I imagine, but in practice, they don't know what is actually being said on those phone calls.
Sure all that stuff is nice but increased staffing can create the same improvement as all of that right now without the massive up front cost of new stations or rolling stock.
anybody ever been to Milbrae? It's a tiny town with no courts and no police of its own. The cameras at intersections around the BART station make $millions for the city, mostly for vaguely marked and unnecessary no right turn on red.
No. As I understand it, it is exactly that - the Hawking radiation is how the information escapes.

EDIT - See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox for more details, and note that I may well be wrong...!
Arts is not mere entertainment.

Students with an arts rich education:

Have better grade point averages

Score better on standardized tests in reading and math

Have lower dropout rates

http://www.artsactionfund.org/pages/why
lol, Yea...

You do know the government has sovereign immunity right, and a cause of action around Traffic Management would be tossed almost instantly
I can't think of an example of this cycle in human history. It sounds great, though.
Seems like every wanna be Steve Jobs completely misses the point of what made Steve Jobs great, but then use all the bad parts about his personality to justify doing horrible, stupid, crazy things.
I struggle with the same thing, but I am getting over it. I try to do a better job of being extra proud of myself and my accomplishments. I frame my self-praise with something like 'Look where you started compared to your peers; and now look how far you made it!'
Malloc does not corrupt the heap if it cannot accommodate the requested block size.
Every organism has its pathogens. Fortunately the immune system worked (user flags in this case).
In most Western countries, the content can be illegal independent of the real-world event being legal or not, or even if there's no real-world event at all (i.e. fictional depictions). It's not illegal for a teenager to pose in the nude, but it might be considered illegal for them to take a photo of themselves and post it on the internet.

I think linking illegal depictions to illegal events would be saner, but that's not how it currently works.
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What improvement in quality? I'd argue that most improvment is due to increased efficiency of information retrieval, content creation and content delivery, all driven by technological advancement.

I agree that diversity of entertainment options is important, but we're well past the saturation point even without subsidization.
My reply was going to be "that's not their core competency" until I read your last sentence and realized "well, YC is probably better at this than the companies they fund doing it individually.."
All they did was switch to Instagram so who cares?
If I had a database of all Wakandan military assets and their locations, and I published it, that would be both truthful and definitely interfering with a (albeit fictional) foreign nation.

There are legitimate reasons for countries to keep secrets, just as there are legitimate reasons for individuals to keep secrets.

And that’s without one-sided reporting (“Her emails!” “If that’s important, what about his phone?”) or outright falsehoods (I am glad to say I don’t think Assange has done that outside of misrepresenting himself).
> Creative outputs are zero sum..

> Efficiency upgrades for entertainment are tied to technology advancement (think the invention of TV, electronic audio devices, VR, video games), not creative output.

I was largely reacting to these two lines though I also think if we're talking about large scale subsidization, ie a basic income or whatever it may become, saying we shouldn't subsidize something must mean it's significantly less valuable than other work. (Which since we're on HN generally means tech is pretty high up on the value list)

But back to the meat of what I was responding to. I disagree that entertainment is zero sum, even if a creative work isn't consumed by a particular person directly it still goes into the cultural millieu and contributes to the texture of society where it can enrich indirectly.

And the second line just reeked of dismissing the increased space for expression driven by new technologies in favor of looking at just the raw amount of consumption that can be done.
Not when Microsoft is about to acquire GitHub!
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> Welch showed at GE

I thought his contribution was "rank and yank" and financial services, both dubious to say the least. Have I been misled?
Here[0] is first discussion on HN where this service discussed when it launched.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387312
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but my core argument wasn't trying to say Jeremi Gorman is better than Kristen O' Hara for this job. I don't have enough information to factually check that.

I was defending Spiegel's decision (hence my devil's advocate opener) and why something that seems wrong for the general public may be what's best for a company like Snap at this point.
Could you expound on this structural corruption? I'm totally unaware of it. As an outsider but near neighbor, (MN/IL-based), I have to say the narrative I've heard about WI in recent years is not that of a corrupt government, but of a state that had the poor sense to start voting for Republicans.
Seems like he tried that, and other venues and was ignored.
We need more boycotts, protests, civil disobedience, voting with our feet, delete Facebook/Google/Uber/etc, Robin Hoods.

We need a society driven by values and humanity, not the Dollar Almighty.

If not us, then who?
The risk/reward of posting humor on the internet nowadays is terrible. Reward is maybe a few of your friends find it funny, maybe it gets ignored. Risk is someone is offended, you lose your livelihood and become an internet pariah because someone organized an angry mob against you on some Discord. Maybe someone doxes you, finds your address and starts harassing you at your home. The internet in 2018 is kind of a terrible place.
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