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I stopped reading at this bit about the Free Wheelchair Mission:

"Over 700,000 have been distributed in 90 countries - they could have easily and affordably produced a more appropriate and desirable wheelchair."

Not only did you inaccurately describe the product they deliver (which is constantly increasing in quality), your critique minimizes this example of what is actually fantastic design that has helped nearly a million people.

Would you rather those million people live without mobility while waiting for your mythical designer to build the perfect wheelchair?
Speaking for myself, I couldn't care less. But then I wasn't following the story at all to begin with.

The truth though is that this isn't the kind of stuff we continental Europeans care much about. Heck, we elect notorious pussy hounds as presidents around here, so I imagine that whatever the guy did is benign compared to Berlusconi's sex orgies with barely legal (or not legal at all) prostitutes. (Not saying it's any good, mind you. Just try to picture the yardsticks we have.)
"The Dead Zoo Gang" (Irish organized crime, rhino horn theft)
"The Study of Anglophysics"
I think calling OpenGL from Java for performance-critical applications is an odd choice as well. I think the relative performance of native versus ART android apps is a good example of that.

Not that it's impossible to keep framerates up using GCed languages. But framerate will be extremely important for applications that more or less require screens with higher refresh rates than commodity LCDs.
You're imagining who you are now being in that state, not who you would be after enough brain damage to leave you in a vegetative state. Imagine that you're not (for example) laying down long-term memories, or that your ability to sense the passage of time is compromised.
There is presumably a difference between "strangers" and "friends".
Even the most secure cloud storage may not be so secure, study finds
There is little to suggest to us that one account is more credible than the others. Our main take-away here should be uncertainty. We don't know what happened; we can only know what some people think happened. Considering other viewpoints, even anonymous viewpoints^, serves to highlight the inherently uncertain nature of the truth.

^ Non-anonymous viewpoints could perhaps be considered more trustworthy because there is the threat of a libel/slander lawsuit if they are complete fabrications. However on the other hand, all/most of the non-anonymous viewpoints that we have are the viewpoints of people directly involved in the scandal. We can assume that the anonymous viewpoint, if it is not a fabrication, is not from somebody involved in the scandal. However since they were not involved directly in it, it is also possible that they received an incomplete picture of everything... Everything is uncertain. I am reminded of the closing dialog to "Burn After Reading".
My point was that named types in Go are not type aliases like in other languages.
damn I would use this all the time
You should contribute maximum possible to 401(k) plan of your employer. You get two main benefits from your contribution - employer match and tax reduction as contribution are pre-tax.

Why would you need to withdraw early? In case you do go back to your original country, either leave the 401(k) alone or rollover to an IRA. There is no issue leaving the money in IRA/401(k) in US until you become eligible for penalty-free withdrawal.

BTW, depending on the country and its tax treaty with US, you may be able to move retirement funds penalty free from US to your country (for example (401k to RRSP in Canada). Also, if you paid social security in US, you can get equivalent credit in to your country's similar plan (for example, Canada Pension Plan).
That's because the pricepoint is ludicrous. If I buy two CDs a month, that's more money that both creator and music business will see than a month of Spotify. (Now, I happen to buy the CDs and use Spotify as a discovery service, but most people think their moral obligation is satisfied when their legal obligation is.)

Further, free/cheap alternatives reduce demand for premium services. Why would content creators cannibalize their own revenue streams?
Very nit-picky comment, but: Can you explain in one or two sentences what the value proposition is?

I might be dense, but it took me quite a bit of clicking around, reading HN comments, and poking at the Omega paper to understand what you want to do their. (Well, I think I understand. The "private Heroku" line points in the right direction, at least)
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Why? You'd still have the same sense of doubt as to whether or not the non-anonymous person is telling the truth. The only extra information you'd have is a) you'd know it was coming from another GitHubber who could conceivably know these details, and b) if you know the person, you can weigh the words against his/her reputation and past action.

Not saying those two things aren't useful, but I would certainly not characterize this anon blog post as "worthless" by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, it makes the whole situation make a lot more sense. The original one-sided account from Ms. Horvath always sounded a bit implausible to me, at least without more information to frame it.
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>if Julie wants to share this story so publicly then everyone should at least have all of the story

the whole thing is crass and distasteful to my british sensibilities, but if this the future of how conflict in internet corporations is represented, then we shouldn't be surprised to see allegations from all sides. The key skills that we as audience have to develop is critical thinking, impartiality and a good sense of decency.
Can this technology be refined?

Someone should do a startup to build devices that allow higher bandwidth communication.
I have to agree that I found that particular example ambiguous - how could it be made more affordable?

The other 3 examples seemed pretty convincing, though.
Even with a name to back it up, it's still hearsay. I agree that it seems plausible, though, and does make a bit of sense given the rest of what we've all heard.
How is that unlikely? Unless Github has a very, very atypical employment contract, all employees are at-will[1]. Sure, it might damage Tom or Github's reputation if he just randomly fired people[2], but he could. Saying that it would also bring down the rest of the company doesn't really help.

[1] Of course, you still have to give two weeks notice if you want to exercise that at-willness for yourself!

[2] I mean, unless he "randomly" fires all the people of race X, or something like that
Not really; even if that were the case, she still had no business sharing that with work colleagues.
It's much closer to how people actually behave.
Can you describe what was inaccurate about the description? I'm not familiar tbh, so just want some more information!

That being said, I don't think Ehsan (author) is arguing for a stagnant system that waits for a perfect wheelchair. He is simply advocating for better feedback processes within nonprofits and humanitarian-focused product development.

The wheelchair is a good thing, even with it's arguably effective design. What could it be, though, if designed with more care and feedback?
I don't think a fight between zed shaw and anybody signifies anything. Zed likes to fight.
1/0 (bootstrapped and solo)

In nearly every respect, things have gone exceedingly well. Thankful for the positive changes to life it has given my family. Betting on myself was one of the best decisions I've made. Good luck to anyone on the journey!
Ask HN: Is UML still relevant today?
Are UML diagrams worth to be designed? Are top technology companies still using it?
I don't want my system to crawl or my eyes to burn because someone decided that yellow on white or white on yellow or yellow on magenta was a good idea or that having a song from 2006 auto play whenever i browsed to someone's page was a good idea or...

If you want all of that, build yourself a home page. Tumblr and Livejournal did it right by offering ways to view someone's account with out their idea of what good taste is. Still, between NO customization and customization, I'll take the bland option.

It works great on Reddit for subreddits because if you get it wrong, you can just move to another subreddit or find a moderator who knows a thing or two about CSS.

I can't just up and find friends who aren't fucking colorblind.
The Free Wheelchair Mission is a very nuanced example. The organization is great and the version 2 of their wheelchair I think has embraced the mindset I am discussing. They have learned from their mistakes.

Generation 2 of their design: http://www.freewheelchairmission.org/site/c.fgLFIXOJKtF/b.64...

I wish they they had maybe distributed 1000 of version 1 before they went to version 2, not 700,000 of a cut-up plastic chair attached to wheels with bolts. I think in the long run they will do great.
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Would be interesting to see how that works out for Microsoft.

I know that the modern ui and the attached usability/workflow- but I have to say that my 3 year old girl has no issues operating it (she has no problems with Android/iOS as well).
Unprofessional workplaces-

Limited or no dress code
No set hours
Limited involvement of HR
Wide degree of responsibility -- limited written work descriptions
Amorphous groups of collaboration that develop and disband

And on and on. Most technology companies, even once they are larger, try to hold onto those "unprofessional" traits. A strong HR group with heavy controls limit or eradicate the ability for some of the less pleasant behaviours, but they also can completely undermine self-motivation and creativity. It's a delicate balance.
Yeah, I hope they improve and fill the gaps in current AirDrop and AirPlay. It has come a long way, but there's still room for improvement.

Namely, AirPlay between OS X devices and iOS devices (including just audio and both audio+video), in either direction. Here's hoping for OS X 10.10.
I don't think I could ever so narrowly define "how people actually behave," personally. I'm not even sure what you're implying the implausible behaviour in Horvath's account is.
^fyi, author here
You are mixing up registration with registration with real data. You could still register an email address with arbitrary details and after a while you could establish a score that would grant your non-spam status. What you are confused with is that in this system there is no disposable email address. That is actually a valid concern but I don't use those so i really don't care.
I've purchased a Mod Notebook and am waiting for it to be delivered. They launched first, so I get to compare you to them naturally.

Mod Notebook Pros:
-Notebook and scanning included ($25)
-Only less $10 than Moleskine and includes digitization, syncing
-Prepaid shipping envelope
-Native Mod App to read notes
-Syncs with Dropbox, OneNote, Evernote

Mod Notebook Cons:
-Shipping delays in the current order, still waiting after a month from unexpected high demand on their part
-$5 more expensive than you guys

Papersync Pros:
-Cheaper ($20)
-Can use any notebook

Papersync Cons:
-Mailing cost not included
-$5 less but no notebook
-No dedicated app
-No apparent syncing

On first impression I would splurge the extra $5 for Mod Notebooks every time. I would definitely consider you guys for old notebooks I have already used up - but I would expect the cost to be closer to $15 for future notebooks to save against Mod. Good luck!
> They need the facts to help decide if they want to keep using GitHub going forward, or if they even want to adopt it in the first place.

Bullshit again. How? This is not an OkCupid/Mozilla (against browser but not against programming language). It's needlessly poking your nose until it bleeds. For a customer paying $200/mo, how would knowing the fine print help their decision making? Assuming the details are appalling and sick,

Would you stop using jQuery because they wouldn't move from GitHub? Other open source projects on GitHub too?
Would you switch services because the organization decided to stick with GitHub after all?
If you would use services and projects on Github no matter what, what's the point in asking for these details?
You can bet your ass that Tom and Theresa negotiated the right to share these posts and that they were reviewed by all lawyers involved.

The right to make public statements (or not) is always a heavily contested point as I personally both can and can't talk about. ;)
The closest:

* mangomarkdown.com

* marked2app.com

But they are not open source. I am thinking of starting to work on something. Would be very useful.
>The problems specifically associated with an upsurge in short term rentals in stable residential neighborhoods largely did start with AirBnB and their competitors and their facilitation of illegal activity.

And now that airbnb exists and is largely software enabling already present behaviors, if this subpoena results in an injunction and somehow halts airbnb, will the cat be put back into the bag now that people know something like it is possible?

>AirBnB doesn't really solve a problem most of the time - most of the time their are adequate hotel rooms available in most places.

That's highly suspect to say…

>This means that the value proposition for travelers is much more cost sensitive than for black market hoteliers.

… because you say it yourself, they must be doing solving someones problems (cost sensitive travelers) if they are even in business and growing the way they have. Are there laws that go after the demand side (cost sensitive travelers)? It seems like the laws now are only on the supply side (renters who illegally list) and if that is the case, I question what those current alternatives are. What are they, and why aren't people using them?

>And going after demand requires much less harsh measures. Fining the renter $200 a day plus a court appearance significantly shifts the value proposition if there is a substantial risk of being caught. On the other hand, the owner can roll small fines and attorney fees into the rents they collect.

Aren't renters (people who list) the supply side if your looking at it from airbnb's perspective, and who has the incentive to do that now? Not airbnb, and evidently not even the managers, because the current "solution" for them is to whine to the government.
Meanwhile, someone should design logos for those GNU projects.
The point is that everyone say that about their own language, I've encountered French, Dutch and Hungarian proclaiming their language is the hardest.
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Take a look at a recent project of mine, which begins to implement this idea. The approach uses Wikipedia to help find 'related' and 'prerequisite' concepts for generating a curriculum.

I wrote a quick article about it, here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7511837
https://medium.com/p/b45429ef49e4

...And the supporting code:
https://github.com/pjama/wikigraph
That's really interesting, I'm glad you delivered.
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>I disagree with and down-voted you, here's why

Downvotes are not for disagreement, disagreeing with somebody is a natural part of that human process that we call conversation. Disagreeing is good. This is not reddit where people upvote what they like and downvote what they don't. Use downvotes for flagging inappropriate comments that do not contribute to improving the quality of the site, not as a personal argumentative weapon.
Right, but there is no actual way that you can say that something doesn't exist; you can't prove a negative. There is absolutely no other wording you can ever use. Pointing that out as some sort of indicator that it's possible that there is some evidence is a little silly, because... well, duh.

Ultimately it depends on whether or not you trust the investigator to be thorough, and to be able to ferret out the truth where people lie and omit details.
Thanks. The link I want to remember though is

http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-src/log/lib/li...
12 years? Put the poor bastard out of his misery already.
> making statements like the guy in the article that 90% of crime can be attributed to one factor is nonsense.

> I've mentioned elsewhere a plausible third factor that drives both

You see the problem here? You claim that a factor being able to drive that much is nonsense, and then you... claim to have identified another factor which drives that much (of both lead and crime).
Hence the popularity of that Secret App.
I mostly use Netflix + Amazon, where I rent movies or buy recent TV episodes from Amazon for a small fee and use Netflix for general exploration and children's programming. If Netflix could offer me the rentals and TV episodes for an additional fee, I'd happily use it... I generally prefer their experience over Amazon's, and Netflix is rock solid for me vs. Amazon's occasional failures at prime time (YMMV, of course). But they've really bought into this "one fee for everything" model, and, well, I guess that made sense three or four years ago, but I fear it may be the hill they die on. Instead they seem to prefer some sort of ideological purity and for more of my money to go to Amazon every month, even though I actually spend more clock time with Netflix.
Also, things like articles (the, a, an). My Chinese father, an academic biologist, sometimes asked me to help him copy-edit papers. It was difficult for me to explain when to use the definite article, the indefinite article, or no article at all. For me, as a native speaker of English, there wasn't a hard-and-fast rule. One way just "felt right".
> I don't think I could ever so narrowly define "how people actually behave," personally.

Really? I can. They behave messily and almost always with a keen eye towards advancing their own position, whatever it may be, rational, honest, or otherwise.

> I'm not even sure what you're implying the implausible behaviour in Horvath's account is.

The part where complex, multi-party, interactions are dramatic in the extreme, bad behavior is completely one-sided, and the entire situation ascribed to a simplistic (gender bias) narrative.

That never happens.

Putting the pieces together, what seems to make a more convincing narrative is that Howarth was a bully herself.
That's really soft pedaling the headline here, four of the biggest Silicon Valley companies were colluding to suppress wages, this should be one of the top stories on the board
Indeed. One would expect that Sam and other YC leaders did carefully consider the implications, and the consequences.

The following will probably mark me as persona non grata with some people at YC.

I find American politics abhorrent, including both parties. The president's policies have been and are abhorrent, too. Further, the notion that one would pay tens of thousands of dollars for such an event is profoundly disgusting. Part of what is wrong with politics in this country is that kind of money.

As for those who claim that it's politics as usual, that one must play along -- when did conformity become justification?
To be fair, even lots of tech geeks don't want Glass. Overall I'd say it's pretty unimpressive. I'd certainly be interested in a more powerful device of that nature, but Glass seems like a pretty niche product that most people have no use for.
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Wait, really? That's surprising, since pronouns in Chinese are gendered. However, they are all homophones, so that might be the reason for confusion.
Linear in this case means y = m * x. The relationship between Fahrenheit and Celsius is affine (y = m * x + b)

For gory details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_transformation
I think the first question to ask yourself is "What do YOU want to do?"

If you did the coding from scratch to bootstrap your product but don't see yourself as a developer in the long term, then it is all fine: you find yourself other responsibilities in your company (and there will be many to take care of) and let your CTO take care of the developments and hires in the tech team.

On the other hand, if you did this to actually learn to be a good developer reuse that skill later (eg. launch another startup later) then you fall into the questions answered in other replies: is it political or is it only about code quality? (If it is about code quality, maybe your CTO is a jerk saying it this way, but for the sake of your product, it can be logical that you'd be out of its developments...)

As from my own experience, my guess is that you are in between those two situations. In my case, here are the reasons why I was:

- it was good fun bootstrapping the product with little constraints (small team, little production code, few processes, 100% reliability not mandatory etc.): I want to keep doing this

- it can be useful to gain experience into the getting big (team, code base, user base etc.) even if it is less fun

As for now, my best answer to this dilemma is to:

1. know you skills really well to know your value

2. keep innovating as much as possible: when being an entrepreneur (cofounder), your first required talent is not to make sure your code is 100% clean/safe etc. neither is it about having hard processes, but to create new things, to trust your ideas and to make them real. As a matter of fact, YOU cofounded your startup, not your CTO, so remember you have this skill and USE IT!
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PluralSight has an excellent tutorial featuring the creator, José Valim: http://pluralsight.com/training/courses/TableOfContents?cour...
Just curious, what would be your motivation? Do you know her personally?
I've found similar across the board; I think it boils down to different philosophies/development cultures.