skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, it's as if the WSJ anticipated that Theranos was going to respond with "the WSJ's reporting is a bunch of lies; we're passing the FDA's gold standard of quality", and so purposely held back the revelation that an "inspection was triggered by concerns the agency had about data Theranos had voluntarily submitted to the FDA" for a second-day piece.

I understand PR is an exceptionally hard game when you want to be a revolutionary company, but Holmes's response so far has been shameful. Theranos's first public response last night was a tweet [1] to John McCain, Joe Biden, and Arianna Huffington linking to a puff piece of bullet points and unlabeled line charts. On Kramer's show, besides focusing on touting the relationship to the FDA, she avoided answering the most basic questions that required stating actual numbers or facts [2]. And instead of doing a point-by-point response against the WSJ's claims [3], Theranos chooses to throw a bunch of impressive sounding numbers -- ("more than 1,000 pages of statements and documents"...because volume of printed paper is in itself evidence?) in the same vague way that it has been bragging about its purportedly revolutionary technology while refusing to even name the third-parties that they claim to have audited them, even to friendly journalists [4].

It's sad, it really does sound like she hit on a worthy-billion dollar idea. And she's put in the time and energy into it for many years to see it through. But I hate the way the way her company's official response has been to kick up a cloud of meaningless data in such a way to obfuscate true accountability, hoping that most people will think "Well medicine is above my head, there's probably just no way to test their genius inventions!"...good for the WSJ for actually putting some time and thought into examining the claims while many of its respectable peers have been publishing puff pieces, even as recent as this week [5] (yes, I know the NYT's style section is not the same as its investigative team, but it doesn't seem likely the NYT had an active investigation into Theranos).

[1] https://twitter.com/theranos/status/654547567426928641

[2] http://www.inc.com/kimberly-weisul/elizabeth-holmes-refutes-...

[3] https://theranos.com/news/posts/statement-from-theranos

[4] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler

[5] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/12/t-magazine/eli...
Ebert was an idiot and an idiot's reviewer.
Anyone that reads /r/movies semi-regularly would have seen this happening a lot.

The posts there are so blatantly advertising it's insulting, though it seems the mods are in on it, they have no interest in changing anything.
For me, I get the satisfaction of solving the really crazy problems, and seeing how it affects team productivity. Every week you find a way to save the team a manhour or more of frustration, and it adds up quickly.

You also tend to fix bugs and perf issues nobody else is sanctioned to spend that kind of time to tackle.
Having done a little bit of work on stuff like this for Fandango a long time ago I learned a little bit about their view of customers from their marketing folks.

Their average customer is a person that sees all the big blockbuster movies. They are not discerning about what they see and they are not critical viewers.

Comparing these people's reviews to the professionals on Rotten Tomatoes is a little silly. As mentioned, Fandango has no motive to reduce the ratings, the more "must see" movies there are, the more money they make.

edit having read more of this article now, I see the issue with Fandango's rounding. Pretty lame.
City of Utrecht to Experiment with Basic Income
people have thought proof-of-work to death and what we have now is the best that they've come up with.

every other scheme that people suggest replacing it with runs into difficulties because you can't predict the amount of time (roughly) it takes to do the work. in Bitcoin's case, you CAN predict (roughly) the amount of time it will take to roll 3 1's in a row when repeatedly rolling a 6-sided die.
Why Tesla Autopilot Isn't That Impressive
uBlock and uMatrix are two separate extensions. Both are available for both Chrome and Firefox.
The US has fought ISIS from day one, and before Obama left Iraq they had been reduced to nothing more than a few armed mafioso collecting protection money and robbing banks. And if anyone created the Taliban, it was the ISI. The worst the US did was join a Middle Eastern and Pakistani coalition to arm and train them against a brutal Soviet occupation.
...monopolistic part of the work market (if I don't work I will starve)...

That's not what "monopolistic" means. "Monopolistic" means one supplier.

Is the argument for BI really "we have no idea what will happen but it'll sure be massive and we believe without evidence that it will be good?"
It's something that a lot of professions are specifically trained to avoid. Awareness is a hierarchy. No one can remain hyper vigilant all the time, but you can be trained to remain in a state of relaxed vigilance. In this state, you can react appropriately to situations and heighten your awareness state as the situation calls for it. If you are in a state of unawareness and are unprepared then your reaction to a situation that suddenly calls for heightened awareness will be very sub-optimal.

I think the issue with self driving cars that require a driver to be ready to step in at a moments notice, is that we, as a population are not trained to remain relaxed and aware at all times, nor is it reasonable to really expect most people to be able to do this.
Love the work Chattanooga is doing on this. In my area, you have to get a full leased line at prices that might net you new cars or houses if you ditched it. I've considered relocating there just for the Internet. At least have some servers over there with a thin client connected to them.

This mostly benefits datacenters. Many medium-to-large companies have central datacenters that their branches, offices, stores, etc connect to. The connections that big cost huge money in most places. Keeping that cost this far down is quite an incentive to be there.

Would also help people trying to seed torrents, boost Tor network, collaborate over high quality audio/video, and so on. Many uses. It will take time before people in the Tri-State Area realize that and start moving to these towns with their growth-focused startups.
My biggest energy expenditure is usually right at the beginning of a release cycle, or even a week or two before it when our process is working correctly (a good process means a boring release week).

We will have figured out some big infrastructure or design issue we need to fix and between requirements meetings we code like hell. Blocking people during week 1 or 2 goes a lot better than week 8 or 17.
You have to at least aerobrake enough on the first pass to get into some orbit, and it's preferable if the orbital period isn't a few months before you get the second pass.
Right, not yet. Supporting IDL files would be great to have though. I'll look into it when adding protocol support.
When my coworkers bitch about being underpreciated I tell them to take a week off and find out if they're right. if everybody isn't on the same page it's time to move on.
I was recently checking out arc, and I do have a question. The arc community seems very small, if I had to guess, it looked like a 'dead' language in terms of community participation.

Did I miss it? Are people actively using it? I want to play with it, but I would hesitate to use a language with such a small community for a project that was mission critical.
"Tolerance" should never apply to bigotry. Fifty years ago, we'd be having this debate about the version of Brendan Eich that believed black and white people shouldn't get married. Society didn't tolerate bigotry then, and it shouldn't tolerate it now.

Brendan Eich has the right to his opinion, and his employers (and customers) have the right to fire him for them. Political beliefs are not a protected class.

(As for Condoleezza Rice, she participated in war-mongering, which is totally different from "political opinions".)
I wonder who he thinks the state lotto victimizes?
A slow series of aerobrakes would run up against the time factor. Today's H2 storage boils off about 1% per day. So if you spend a few weeks slowing things down gradually you quickly defeat the advantage as much of your fuel has escaped.
It's likely that you just have specific tastes, and you were not the target audience for that movie. It is almost universally liked by critics, earning a 93% on RT and 90% on MC. The high rating on IMDB wasn't misleading in any way.
The Fandango scores were also higher than the Rotten Tomatoes user ratings 74% of the time. But yeah, Fandango is obviously incentivized to be biased.
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If you are returning from the moon, capture isn't the issue. You are already captured because the moon is captured. You are in a highly elliptical orbit around earth. So aerobraking is still an option, as opposed to the more violent aerocapture maneuver where it all has to happen in the first pass.
That's very cool. Thanks for letting me know. It seems like a good middleground between OwnCloud and SpiderOak.
I think the point of the article is that if you use the naive selection criteria, anything over 41-43% on a 50% random chance is actually 'hot'. So it's probably worth reviewing that study's selection criteria to see if in fact there's a larger hot hand factor than you might think at first glance.

The second point the article makes is that it's very likely the selection criteria in your NBA study is not precisely defined enough to determine the baseline percentage.
Far it be from any person to do things just because they can. They're all saints w/o blemish, protestants at that (i.e. they don't enjoy the work, rather they suffer with their victims).

Whatever the job description, you will get people gravitating to it who enjoy that kind of work. It's not controversial that cooks enjoy cooking, and programmer enjoy programming. And it's not unusual that they stay after hours and do some extra work just for fun. Why would you think jobs that involve killing and torture be any different?
Dealing with tools automating software processes. Especially those created in JavaScript world. It seems like there's a new build tool released every week.
Would you expect Chrome browser performance to be similar to node performance? My use case involves shipping large arrays of doubles to the browser, and JSON read/write is a bottleneck.
Wait, why did they tweet to Biden, McCain, and Ariana? They're not on the board, they're not known advocated for the company, and they didn't just make public statements about Theranos. That's just bizarre.
Fwiw, Greek also has one letter (sigma) that differs in rendering depending on where in the word it appears. It's the same letter, it's just that when it appears word-final, it looks different. But Unicode decided to split it into two codepoints, rather than treat it as a rendering issue. Therefore rendering of Greek codepoints never depends on position within the word, even though rendering of Greek letters can. Instead it's up to the user to make sure that whenever a lowercase sigma appears word-final, it should be encoded with a different codepoint, GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA (U+03C2), 'ς', rather than the usual codepoint, GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA (U+03C3), 'σ'.
Thank you for linking this through google.
It seems almost impossible to me that physical sports maneuvers like a golf shot, basketball shot or baseball hits are truly random variables. In my own (laughable) sports experiences, I am working to build muscle memory -- a good move or bit of mechanics absolutely increases my likelihood of recreating that move. And, as time drops, the correlation between my mechanics and that 'great' mechanics moment drops -- my body forgets, and that's where the benefits of practice come in.

Blackjack though, maybe. I suppose it depends how on point you are with playing the odds.
Odds are good. There were no hardware differences in the last generation.

If you're serious about this laptop, buy it with a good return policy, and try Linux with a bootable USB.

Personally, I just bought the highest-end version of the last generation of this laptop for $1,000 refurbished (with 1-year Dell in-home warranty), and I feel like I made the right choice. Saving $1,000 is worth it for having a processor that's almost as good.

I also stopped using Linux on my laptops for the first time since 2010 and don't know how I'll ever go back. It's nice to have an OS that "just works" and doesn't make me cringe when I do system upgrades (i.e. kernel upgrades on Linux).
According to these reports, there is only one test that they are allowed to run on the proprietary system that is supposed to provide that advantage. All the others are being run using conventional methods.
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What should the US have done instead? He was planning and committing terrorist attacks and there was no way to simply arrest him. Why should the US be obligated to allow Americans to commit war crimes when they are unreachable by law enforcement?
Naw, I'm saying...services should do this for you. Twitter should be working on this instead of Moments. TwitterRecs.
What is the deal with IMDB's ratings? It feels like over time all movies end up rated around a 7.
This is way better than what I wrote. Thanks!

Here's an example in concrete terms of the power of this technique: https://github.com/laarc/monki/blob/master/sudoarc.l

That's a file which adds many of Arc's constructs to Lumen: printing (pr, prn), list building (accum), structure (w/uniq, aif, awhen), etc.

To put it another way: At the top of the file, the language available to you is Lumen. But at the bottom of the file, the language available to you resembles Arc. (It doesn't redefine anything from Lumen, though, so it's not a destructive change.)

That must sound pretty dubious. It probably sounds like it's useful only for lone-wolf programmers rather than a team. If you give people the power to reshape the language, wouldn't it wreak havoc in a team setting?

The answer turns out to be no, and it's surprising enough to write an essay about. Having macros available to your team ends up making your team more powerful, not less. It's simply a technique to generate patterns of code.

When coupled with a good debugger, there's no mystery when things break. When an error happens, you get a debug breakpoint right where the error occurred. It makes no difference whether the error occurs during a macro expansion or during a function call, because macros are simply functions that answer "What should happen next?"

It's like having a function that takes code as input and returns code as output, which is then executed. Except in Javascript, you'd have to do that by representing code as strings, which get passed to eval. In Lisp, code is a list. Meaning you can walk through it and see "This is an if statement. This is a function call." Etc.

It's true that there are ways to abuse macros which make them difficult to understand or debug. But this is rare. The most common case is a short, simple transformation like d0m showed: "here is a pattern; please generate it."
Oh wat no slingshot?
Ah sorry I didn't pay enough attention :-( I thought we were talking about returning from Mars, not insertion into Earth orbit from the Moon.
Holmes was on a media promotion spree and had met with some of these people recently:

https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/654714209360437249

https://twitter.com/ariannahuff/status/654312511794212864
That may not be the best example of macros since you can do the same thing in Python:

def awhen(func, callback):
val = func()
if val:
callback(val)
Kobe, the designer?
That's what happens when you crowdsource ratings. I like Rotten Tomatoes approach with the critics and audience scores.
Which looks the same at the input end of the process - they'll suck up anyone with four limbs and both eyes, regardless of the skills they have prior to enrollment.
I feel that's something like survivor bias - you may watch and rate only the movies you're interested in. My Goodreads ratings are at an average of 3.8/5 because I usually stay away from books I know I wouldn't enjoy.
> my denomination considered it all symbolic,

Is yours a Reformed church? The anti-institutional fervor of the later (post-Luther) Protestants led to many such purely mundane interpretations of the host, which Luther vigorously denied [0].

> I'm not sure how foundational that distinction was when
> the schism occurred. Do you know by chance?

Though I do not know the relative impetus imparted to the Reformation by differences in belief about the nature of the hosts in the eucharist, it seems to have been a deeper divide within Protestantism than between P and the RC [1]. Charitably, Luther accorded the question of the metaphysical connection between bread and wine, body and blood as axiomatically resolved by accepting the Word of their identical existence as a matter of belief, independent of argumentative investigation (i.e., he "unasked" the question, or said "mu" [2]). Uncharitably, he dodged by declaring the answer uninteresting or irrelevant to Christian faith.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacrament_of_the_Body_and_...

[1] http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2004/06/martin-luther-refutes...

Specifically: "Before I [Luther] would drink mere wine with the Enthusiasts, I would rather have pure blood with the Pope."

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28negative%29#.22Unasking....
Didn't consider that. Thanks!

EDIT: Maybe there are some improvements for storage available that don't make sense on Earth given H₂ prices? A magnetic containment field, perhaps? Or whatever chemistry shenanigans are used for hydrogen fuel cells? You would be trading the time factor for mass and volume (the latter doesn't matter that much in space, and could even help with aeroinsertion), but it may still add up moneywise.
Cons conflict resolved at last
Par for the course these days. I feel like we are on the verge of an ad revenue bubble collapsing, there's not much more that can be done to make the ads more intrusive unless you get rid of the content altogether.

Incidentally, that's basically what the print version of Forbes has done...they now have sponsored content which are basically ads masquerading as articles written by Forbes.
From the 4th paragraph:

>They found the most mass-efficient path involves launching a crew from Earth with just enough fuel to get into orbit around the Earth. A fuel-producing plant on the surface of the moon would then launch tankers of fuel into space, where they would enter gravitational orbit. The tankers would eventually be picked up by the Mars-bound crew, which would then head to a nearby fueling station to gas up before ultimately heading to Mars.

TLDR, the main Mars vehicle wouldn't land on the moon.
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You could probably spin it out even with the magnet activated. The friction coefficient is probably too low for any realistic electromagnet to be strong enough to make it impossible to "slide" out.

Just try with a magnet on your fridge door. It's much easier to slide it around than it is to pull it away.
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Man, the swell of that Shinobi tune at 25 seconds is an awesome thing.

About the video, somehow it managed to describe the Commodore SID without mentioning the programmable filter, too. Having said that, there are many great SID tunes (including Commando) which don't happen to use the filter at all.

I did enjoy the video though. Made it clear that the differing sound (and graphic) capabilities gave each system a unique personality.

Probably anyone reading this has already seen it but in relation to Japanese game music, Diggin in the Carts is a lovely, heartwarming series altogether. http://rbma.github.io/digging-carts/

Also this Youtube user has some mesmerising plots of C64 tunes with the waveforms nicely stabilized so you can really see them.
https://www.youtube.com/user/KapteinKUK/videos
"Cape (Canaveral) Is No Place To Launch Marriage
This Space Coast Town Is Splitsville, Usa, The Divorce Capital Of The Nation, According To The Latest Census Bureau Data."

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2002-07-07/news/02070701...

This is from 2002, but I recall seeing similar news stories during the original Apollo program.
I wondered that too (as in, why those people, and not all the other famous and influential people who believe in Theranos). I think it's just timing:

The Huffington Post recently published an op-ed by Holmes, which was tweeted out by Huffington: https://twitter.com/ariannahuff/status/654312511794212864

Senator McCain apparently visited the lab "last night" (as of today). Also, Arizona is the first state to allow people to get all the kinds of tests Theranos does without a doctor's note, and McCain had something to do with that:

https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/654714209360437249

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/02/fd...

Joe Biden visited the Theranos lab in July: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/07/24/biden-visits-t...

Nothing wrong with having powerful friends -- including all the government and military people on Theranos's board -- but making such an early, blatant appeal to political authority instead of some kind of scientific or health authority, when the controversy is exactly about the scientific part...that doesn't feel like a convincing rebuttal.
You can do some similar things with boost Fusion and the forthcoming boost Hana which primarily use templates but still use some convenience macros to declare those templates. Both these libraries let you work with lists of types in various ways but I don't know of any template replacements for stringizing and token pasting in the preprocessor, both of which come in very handy for this sort of thing.
Given we already have so many dialects of Lisp, what value does Arc offer that they do not? Why should I choose to learn/use Arc, as opposed to (say) Scheme or Common Lisp or Clojure?
9/10 times it wasn't technical people who made the decision to use services like these.
There's a bunch of resources on the darktable website:

http://www.darktable.org/resources/

The screencasts might be a good place to start, and the user manual is quite comprehensive. Disclaimer: I did some of the screencasts. Riley's course is a more-complete overview, but it's not free.

Also keep in mind that darktable just entered feature freeze for 2.0, should be released around the end of the year.
Yuuupppp!!! that sounds like what sama is implying. But sounds about right.
But what about the mass depletion to the moon! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress)
The relative population is not the point. Sweden's lower Gini coefficient is the point.

The fact that the bottom 160 million Americans are worse off than the bottom 4.3 million Swedes is the point.
A friend of mine suggested what I think is a very good idea for starting to fix the Yelp ratings problem: Rotten Tomatoes style ratings, where you're given both food critics and audience ratings.
Amazon Kinesis is a great tool, the main problem is that it's relatively new while Kafka have been around for a few years already.
I thought the main appeal was the ability to do so many tests, so cheaply, and so quickly -- and that doing it via finger prick was key. It's actually a brilliant concept for a business, the kind of thing that seems like other established players would just ignore since blood testing is already so profitable. But as I understand it, there was a high scientific bar to clear (less blood is, well, less blood to get a stable reading on -- and apparently blood from the fingertip has extra impurities compared to blood drawn from a vein)