skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am genuinely confused by the overall thrust of the article.

1st Theme says: Theranos doesn't use Edison (thier in house testing device) & instead use regular equipment from companies like Siemens. This is a marketing problem because the company is saying its using one device but is actually using another one.

2nd theme: lab tests from Theranos differ from generally accepted standards. How do they differ if in fact they are using the same tests as everybody else? Is it just the general variability of lab results and similar variability could be find in quest diagnostics as well?

3rd Theme: almost all people say Theranos is dramatically cheaper than competitors. How is that possible when they are using the same equipment as everybody else for most of the tests? Is it a process innovation in operations rather than from Edison/better equipment tech? Or are they just subsidizing these costs and being cheaper and possible have bad unit economics?

The are two plausible storylines that can seem to reconcile these three themes is:

Storyline 1 (Negative)-
Theranos seem to be doing a process innovation rather than an underlying equipment innovation. That process innovation perhaps includes diluting blood samples 1) to meet thier marketing promise of taking less blood 2) somehow taking less blood and diluting the samples to meet the standard for traditional equipments AND still lead to cheaper operational costs that lead to lower prices. But - somehow these diluted blood samples show more than normal variability.

Storyline 2 (not so negative)
Traditional lab companies are ridiculously inefficient from an operations perspective. Theranos is able to take the same equipment as everybody else but because of thier operational efficiency make the end service dramatically cheaper. The variability in tests results is kind of standard in the lab testing market.

Am I thinking about this the right way or missing any big parts?
More likely they're getting lots of data from analytics users for a great number of sites as it is, and only really need to do custom renders for load time analysis for some sites, and not necessarily all pages... to a larger extent, I'm pretty sure they could have an optimized rendering pipeline for a headless chrome that actually works better than, by comparison, phantomjs.
Save some bandwidth by turning off TCP Timestamps
yeah, it is a mechanism of iOS gesture recognizer
Diversity Efforts Need to Extend Beyond Gender
Dozens of countries amass cyberweapons, reconfigure militaries to meet threat
This is discouraging, but if she was infectious it would probably have shown up by now.
First let me say thank you for your work on R packages, you've helped a lot of people accomplish some great things!

Unfortunately I can't go into specific details without potentially divulging proprietary information, but broadly most of the issues I've seen in production with R are corner cases involving multithreading with large amounts of allocated RAM (over 100GB), and corner cases involving the data.table package. I've also seen packages that update and break backwards compatibility, although that's less of an issue. The biggest concern we have with R, however, is that the documentation and coding practices for most R packages make small bug fixes difficult without having extensive knowledge of the package code. This is not always true, but it's true enough of the time that we can't afford to maintain much production R code.
I sat in a mock-up once. Glove was not my impression. For me it was more 'spam in a can'. I would much prefer Vostok's ejection seat to landing a tiny mercury in a vast ocean.
What if they don't actually "render" the dom as part of the "load" analysis... this means they don't necessarily need to handle certain UI/UX aspects that can be bypassed.. they could then output the "rendered" content for passthrough to the same system that does their general crawl analysis for additional details.

The work could be broken up in any number of ways... from my own testing, and experience with others testing. Content crawls/recrawls from JS data tends to lag a couple days behind initial scan... having an updating sitemap xml resource is a good idea for "new" content if you're doing JS based content.. also, rescans will still lag well behind the general non-js content scans...
Several comments leap out

1. To all intents and purposes this is a co-op model of an agency.

2. If the team could not break through to their employers that the employers were in the way and not letting a team of eight build something to help, then why do they think they can do this repeatably (is the value of an agency the ability to build valuable stuff or to persuade business to take the valuable stuff it needs?)

3. This should be the model for the future. Damn it, succeed damn it.
Maybe, maybe not. Usually, advocates of universal (or more commonly, "unconditional") basic income favor using it to, ultimately, replace existing means-tested aid programs. Whether they would also have supplemental, non-means-tested, programs based on special needs (e.g., medical conditions) or whether they would address those some other way (or not see them as public responsibilities) varies considerably between which source of need you are discussing, and which UBI advocate you are discussing it with.
Well if they're not using their own technology for most of their tests it isn't just a marketing problem, it's an image problem that would lead investors to believe they don't have faith in their own product. Secondly, according to the article, their protocols even when using conventional machines differ from the norm in that they are forced to dilute samples to increase sample volume because they take less blood to begin with. This is generally accepted as being a less accurate practice.
The more I read about this company, Theranos, the more I get this feeling that one day I'll be reading an article in the WSJ or NYT titled "The Greatest Diagnostics Company That Never Was", or something along that line.
It's also a great safety mechanism, being stuck between an electromagnet and the metal sounds unpleasant, just shout at the guy stuck to not touch the handle and it will not hurt them!
lol those fees
Well, that is sounds plausible but hard to prove. And I don't know what you mean by "middle boxes", especially that would be involved with DH. Most boxes other than endpoint and client are only doing TCP. And if I'm wrong I desperately want to know!
My own experiments/experience shows that recrawls happen about 1/3 as often and tend to lag a few days behind for JS content vs inlined/delivered content. It's helped a little by dynamically delivering the sitemap data, but even that only speeds things up a little.

My guess is they're putting about 1/10th the effort into keeping things freshly indexed for JS, but may well be devoting 2x the resources vs directly received content.
Do you have a sitemap.xml for common routes.. also is your angular app actually doing routing (hash based or push state)?
One consideration after 40 years of experience, we can estimate about 1 really serious nuclear incident per 15-20 years. Adding enough nuclear power to cover our energy needs means we need 25 times more reactors than we have now. I don't really like where the math takes me at that point.
Yes, I'll take back the prohibitively part since I had my internet upgraded a year ago. But prior to that, it was. Can you think of a way to do so without Skype? Or a reliable internet connection? Something that would be possible to do from home since the only overlapping hours are after 9/10pm in my timezone?

And aside from that, it still does not detract from my original statement:

> the effectiveness of getting your voice heard by your "representatives" (the reps from your last permanent residence in the US) is much more difficult

It's not just the contacting. It's also getting them to even care because you don't live on US soil. None of what I'm saying is an excuse, and I don't know why you seem intent on not acknowledging that it can be legitimately difficult.
Minor nitpick: it's actually the U that makes it not actually stock. Owning Restricted Stock counts as being a shareholder, but Restricted Stock Units aren't Restricted Stock.
Ubuntu might be the problem there I'm guessing. On CentOS 7 or Fedora 22/23 it takes less than 15 seconds to install to a complete, working state. Then the command line tools are very basic to work with.
Revisiting a 3-year old storymapping tool and making it 2015-friendly
Square, in terms of market share, is relatively tiny.

First Data is practically 90% of payment terminals in the US.
I spent some time travelling when I was younger and supported myself in part by working as a waiter.
I got a job in one place in Hong Kong where the owner hired a manager who brought his own team with him - four other waiters. After a couple of months delay until his friends were released from prior contracts, he also brought in his own kitchen team too.
It only lasted a year though when owner and manager fell out and the same thing happened.
And in C++14 you can do away with the recursion and just use a `for` loop.

Compile-time hashing of strings can be used to create a string-switch:

constexpr unsigned int hash(const char* string)
{
// hash the string
...
}

And then:

switch(hash(some_string))
{
case hash("Hacker News"):
break;

case hash("Y-Combinator"):
break;

default:
break;
}

If there is a collision, you get a compile-time error due to a duplicate `case`.
I think an RFID ring worn on a finger would be the best bet for that.
COZ: Finding Code That Counts with Causal Profiling [pdf]
We took off the /tests part. If that's wrong, OP, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.
We let programmers run our lives. So how’s their moral code?
Depends on what you mean by "make it". Banks quite often convince people to by into funds they know won't perform. They "make it" in terms of fees, but I don't find it very admirable.
Reveal adds loading/saving snapshots, iOS 9, tvOS and El Capitan
It's apples and oranges. Overshooting a turn at by a few seconds at 35,000 feet isn't the end of the world. Missing a turn in a car by even a quarter second means blood on the pavement.
I wrote about cosmonaut's training, not a trained cosmonaut's job. Those who got hurt or died in training didn't get to fly rockets. Also, that was in the Gagarin's time; after getting enough data they probably relaxed the training a bit in the next decades.
Experimental smartphone app for touchless map control via accelerometer
Word Embeddings for Fashion
Care to clarify why not?
Inside Isis Inc: The journey of a barrel of oil
I'm not sure if that's an apt metaphor because the consequence of failure is much, much lower on the startup side.

If failing at a startup means you'll never have another chance to succeed, I bet the norms for risk tolerance would be entirely different than what's in the landscape today.
The default is Archive, just like Google Hangouts but you can delete conversations by clicking the Cog icon on the thread.
Why assume that accident rates will drop in the all-autodrive scenario?

I haven't seen any such testing. I have seen many miles of google cars in amongst human-driven cars. I have yet to see any tests involving thousands of cars from a variety of manufacturers (and ages) all trying to drive together. To assume that the robots will cooperate perfectly, negating the needs for safety features ... wasn't there a movie about that? Big lizards in an autonomously-run park?
I'd say both are pretty likely.. another round of lower-power servers with potentially more cores... more infrastructure... Combined with improvements in headless rendering pipelines. I haven't looked into it in well over a year now, but last I checked dynamic updates took about 2-3 days to get discovered vs. server-delivered being hours for a relatively popular site.

I'm guessing they've likely cut this time in half through a combination of additional resources, and performance improvements. Wondering if they'd be willing to push this out as something better than PhantomJS... probably not as it's a pretty big competative advantage.

I know MS has been doing JS rendering for a few years, they show up in analytics traffic (big time if you change your routing scheme on a site with lots of routes, will throw off your numbers).
Didn't google enter search market when it was considered full and pretty boring already?
> They both have IDEs with automated refactorings.

Yes but they do not guarantee correctness. They can't, the IDE simply doesn't have enough type information for that.
The Art of the Propagator (2009) [pdf]
It's always lagged in my experience... I'm hoping this announcement means that lag is under a day instead of the 2-3 it was a bit over a year ago.
It can help against infoleaks caused by third party advertising packages that app makers include.

It's the same on the web, most web sites aren't exactly malicious, they're just (maybe willingly) oblivious about what badness is in their ads.

But yep I garee it's all pretty busted.
Why Perl 6 Is the Most Hated Programming Language of All Time
I'm genuinely curious, as an occasional motorcyle enthusiast myself, whether it's physically possible to counter the movements of the rider in addition to and counter to their movements, which represent a large portion of the vehicle mass. My gut feeling based on the segway is, yes, it's possible. But I'd love to hear any analyses to the negative.
You seem to be missing the part where former employees claim that the company skirted federal regulations by using other machines for the proficiency testing, while using the Edison machines for patient testing. The accuracy of those claims have some relevance to the kind of speculation you hope to make.
There is a chance it could be in 9.1 or 9.2 but your right, this kind of change has a much better chance of appearing in the next major release.
I want to like polymer/web-components... I just find that it kind of flips around the application controls that redux+react offers. I'm not sure that I like it better in practice.
Beyond that, generating prime numbers >= to 2048 bits takes a non-trivial amount of time, sometimes close to a minute. This isn't feasible for servers to do on launch, and might not even be feasible to generate during install---which brings us back to predistributed parameters.
Sorry, I thought this was a troll comment to get someone to upload their private key.
Yo if anyone at tesla is reading this, can you implement a feature for the car to move over into the far side of the lane when people are lane-splitting? People already do it manually on the highway, but if this car also did it would be neat.
thx
and look twice for motorcycles.
While adjusting for BMI eliminates the effect, this does not mean that dietary fat is not important

If the effect goes away when controlling for BMI, I'd say that's a pretty weak link.

A large body of experimental data generated in laboratory animals strongly supports the notion that high-fat diets are associated with impaired insulin action

"in laboratory animals"

Color me skeptical, but lots of things happen in animals that don't happen in humans. Animal studies are suggestive, but hardly conclusive.

Sound tenuous to me. But I'm also weighing that against a large body of research that suggests that high-fat, low-carb, moderate protein diets are a very healthy diet... possibly optimal for some people.
Could someone confirm if doc_value support for analyzed strings is part of the 2.0 release?

I find no mention about it in the release notes, so I'm guessing it's not... :\
Honest curiosity: What do you think you'll get out of it?

Well that's the rub, idnit? I won't really know the answer to that until I've read it (or a lot more of it). But offhand, I'd say it looks like there might be some good stuff for anybody who's interested in the intersection of computation and intelligence (which I am).

I could be wrong of course. I only had time to give it a cursory glance earlier. But I'm intrigued enough to want to read more.
Well... Yeah. What's your point? That Apple knows better about the content and performance characteristics of my app than me?
They probably do it to save bandwidth. Smaller images, smaller size.
Or "doing things that don't scale." Holmes and her hucksterism would have been a great fit for YC!
So, *this* is what the Army thinks #futurewar is going to look like
Oh God, thank you. You've restored the mobile web for me. I can't stand the stupid "responsive" design crap. There shouldn't be any way to disable user zooming on mobile. Web developers simply can't be trusted.
Please do not use the titles of HN stories to editorialize. That breaks the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hackers Prove They Can ‘Pwn’ the Lives of Those Not Hyperconnected
I have a friend in Phoenix who has used Theranos's testing system a few times, and he has been delighted by their service.
I wonder, if we were to rank team's abilities as a whole. Which factors could be used in it? (like skills coverage, understanding with each other, culture, etc)
That is literally stuff that I learned about in driving school. Why should I care about such mundane things?
You're quoting out of context. The "she" in the quote is not Ms. King, which is very clear in the article.
That's interesting. It takes me back to the '80s, when the logic-based AI people were in charge.

The "propagator" paper would be more interesting if there was a use case in the paper. The basic idea is to have a graph of computational elements, but insist that the elements be commutative, associative, and idempotent. Under those restrictions, you get the same answer despite race conditions, which leads to a simple model of asynchronous programming. But what is this good for? I could sort of see a theorem prover that works like this. Beyond logic problems, it's harder to find an application.

This might be a good way to implement consistent-eventually systems. Those are hard to get right, and having to build them out of elements which have the propagator components might help. Not sure this is possible, but it's worth a try if you have to solve that problem.
It turns out that verifying whether a given prime is appropriate for Diffie-Hellman is rather slow. This means that, if you accept a prime supplied by someone else (e.g. whoever you're communicating with), and you don't carefully verify the prime, then you're at risk of ending up with a maliciously chosen weak group and/or generator.

For some protocols, this is fine. For other protocols, it's a problem. IIRC one variant of the triple-handshake attach on TLS involved tricking the client into using a weak group.

From memory (too lazy to look up all the details right now), the issue is that the order of the multiplicative group mod p is p-1. If p is a prime greater than 3 (which it is in standard Diffie-Hellman), then p-1 is certainly not prime, which means that the multiplicative group will have subgroups of varying sizes. Some subgroups might be small. If one party sends a public share in a small subgroup, then bad things can happen.

Unfortunately, validating the DH parameters is too slow to do with each handshake. So either you carefully design the protocol to avoid this problem (which is certainly doable in many case), you use a well-known group (which should be fine as long as the group is large enough), or you use something like ECDH. ECDH is nice because the index calculus attacks don't work and you can have a nice group structure.

Aside: While it's possible for an EC group to have a prime order, for various tricky reasons, the better modern EC curves deliberately have an order that's h*p for some small h (h is called the "cofactor" and h=4 or h=8 are common) and a large prime p. This gives some nifty benefits, but it requires a bit of care under some circumstances.
Ok, that makes sense. I don't have Messenger installed.
Most expensive book on Amazon costs $11,259,120.28
I hope the UI team make going back, even if an ad opened a new windows, super easy.

I often accidentally touch the screen while preparing my finger for a scroll or zoom. I see links get highlighted, but if I'm fast to complete what I actually wanted, iOS will understand it was an accidental touch.

No longer it seems. Shame.
It's really pretty simple, and rather clear from the article, that Theranos has been cheating, VW-style. They use regular equipment to get through "proficiency testing", but use the Edison machine for regular patient specimens:

From the article:

> The two types of equipment gave different results when testing for vitamin D, two thyroid hormones and prostate cancer. The gap suggested to some employees that the Edison results were off, according to the internal emails and people familiar with the findings.

> Former employees say Mr. Balwani ordered lab personnel to stop using Edison machines on any of the proficiency-testing samples and report only the results from instruments bought from other companies.

> The former employees say they did what they were told but were concerned that the instructions violated federal rules, which state that a lab must handle “proficiency testing samples…in the same manner as it tests patient specimens” and by “using the laboratory’s routine methods.”
I think this was the reason YouTube dropped the 5-star rating, people just put 5 or 1. So now they have only like/dislike.
I think you should watch the second video in bri3d's post. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY_zqEmKV1k)

It only requires you to grab the steering wheel if you want to change lanes or turn.
Is he able to properly evaluate the accuracy of those results?
Media is in Russia overwhelmingly owned by private shareholders, so please get your facts straight.
Most reviewed book on Amazon has 41,915 reviews
I'll shoot over an email.
this is exactly the reason I sneaked in fastclick[1] at work when noone was looking

[1] https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick
It's not necessarily bad business or bad practice to launch a company before the technology is ready, and to use a more conventional, cheaper substitute in the interim. I remember reading about a company that offered automated translation, but started out with human translators to validate the increased market size at the lowered price point. They used the validation to raise enough money to continue growing a user base at a per-unit-loss as well as develop the machine translation software to the point of marketability.
This has been my experience too. I surf in landscape mode on an iPhone 5, and far too often there's a fat social-sharing-bar at the bottom, and a fancy site-header-bar at the top, leaving about 1cm of readable and scrollable content. Wtf are they smoking?

A tip: Hold down your finger on the reload circle-arrow to load the desktop version of the page.
True, but cars can already navigate traffic autonomously. And there is much more to landing men on the moon than physics.

Check out Tesla's live shipping code:

http://jalopnik.com/teslas-autopilot-system-is-awesome-and-c...

Are you predicting that cars will never be fully autonomous?
Regarding VPN usage, is the fix a client-side or a server-side solution?
4.5) Quality drivers move to other service.
5) You use Lyft or any other competitor.
My guess is, you could put a 1m vertical pole behind the driver with some mass attached to the top end of it and motors controlling it at the bottom. That should give you enough angular control to compensate for whatever rider is doing.

Given the close interaction between the rider and the bike, I'm not sure how comfortable would such a vehicle be. It may turn out to be nausea-inducing.
there's allways fastclick
Our cipher recommendations on the Weak DH site come directly from Mozilla. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Recommende...
How can we know who the NSA works for?