skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hrm. So the revolution will be closed source? No, seriously... are there books on the subject? Open source libraries? Which companies are developing such tools? Googling is not turning up a whole lot.
There is no irony. CSS replicate the table layout model in order allow you to separate markup from presentation but still be able to show tables. Otherwise, how should the default style sheet for table-elements look? CSS obviously needed to to have at least the same presentational power as presentational HTML to be backwards compatible.
I'm not sure how many of them actually audited it and how many of them had to get access to the source code to tick a box.

Government contracts for software often include having the rights for the source code in case the vendor goes out of business.

In other cases they might want to audit only certain parts of the OS, or just to integrate their own code at a level that out of the box Windows interoperability doesn't support.

If you say have a hardware encryption & security module which connects directly to the hard hard drive and includes a smart card reader for access you will probably need the ability to run custom code in the BIOS, boot loader and OS levels.

Then again if you have the resources of a US, major European power, Russian or Chinese state agency you might have the ability to also audit the full source code.
Derek Lowe on Theranos and its blood test machine
Jean-Louis Gassée is also the founder of Be Inc, the company which created BeOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e

Although BeOS no longer exists, there is the open source compatible OS Haiku:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29
Thanks for sharing your experience! It is one thing to read reports and another thing entirely to have gone through it all. I appreciate you writing about what must be a tough subject.

It is all too easy to get carried away with the Joplin tornado from an engineering standpoint. It provided quite a lot of data on structural responses, responses by people, warning systems, etc. But researching the event hit me hard; keeping the human cost in mind as the ultimate goal gave the other numbers much more significance.

I am happy to say the work is still ongoing. Unfortunately, my small part of it is complete.

Edit: Finally found the video that really put the numbers in perspective for me [0]. It is one thing to calculate "175 mph" winds, and another to see it tear up a family's backyard.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhU579An6PI
I'm not surprised I butchered it. I'm not a writer by any means. If you look at the few other things I've written, the writing there is just as terrible. Practice makes perfect though I guess.
Thanks for the help. I finally succeeded. I'm missing spf and dkim. Not easy to define.
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Thanks. I know :) Unfortunately, others have since come and bumped the comment back down.
From OPs article:
> the google analytics blocker does not stop your browser talking to google-analytics.com. Period.

That excerpt explains that it's not actually stopping any data from being sent. Thus it's not actually opting out of sending data.

Thanks for researching my comment history and establishing me as an authority. Not sure why you are saying that my insight is a conflict of interest here. I'm not promoting any products.
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For some reason, people don't think of it in this context a lot, but this is EXACTLY what Salesforce.com does. In addition to the usual "Sales Cloud" licenses, there is a much cheaper "Force.com Platform" license that doesn't have any of the core sales features but gives you the database to play with.

100% point-and-click creation of new objects, relationships, forms, etc... Easy baked in reporting, import, and export. Workflow automation totally configurable without code. Thousands of apps on the AppExchange to add interesting features. And of course, when you need to add code, it's very easy to get started if you know OOP.

If you frequently have to create quick web-based systems that would have been MS Access, go check out https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead, grab a free SFDC org, and build something cool.
Discussed a bit in 2012, with some interesting links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874284.
1996 was when DRAM prices was finally falling fast, and 64Mbit DRAM chips was new and very expensive.
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Reminds me of the rise and fall of Enron. Endless puff pieces about how amazing Ken Lay is and how they're revolutionizing the energy industry until a few reporters actually looked at their financials and published their concerns.

Enron was dead eight months later.

Substitute Lay for Holmes, financial fraud for medical concerns and that WSJ article on Theranos for Fortune's Is Enron Overpriced? and there you go.
Indeed, in a very real sense Ruby simply doesn't have "syntactic operators" in the C-ish sense he seems to regard them.

Ruby only has messages. Some of those messages just happen to have punctuation for names.
They couldn't date the teeth themselves "So the team dated various calcite deposits in the cave and used the assortment of animal remains to deduce that the human teeth were probably between 80,000 and 120,000 years old."

Seems flimsy.
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Oh yeah. I see what you're complaining about and this kind of thing is indeed incredibly annoying.
It is public because the HTTP standard defines it as public, and, if you claim to use this standard, its definitions apply to you (if you claim to support a standard, you have to accept that its definitions will be used in court against you)

HTTP directly says you should use authorization to make stuff non-public.

And third-party content scraping tools are NOT violating copyright law, as they do not redistribute it freely.

Otherwise services like Opera Turbo – which scrapes a website, removes cruft, compresses data, and sends it to your phone – would also break copyright law, and there is a nice exception for this case, under US law, it’s covered under fair use.

(Unless the scraping service makes your content accessible publicly – and even then, fair use applies usually, as in the case of pure archival like archive.org or archive.is)
I'm not sure I really need much code running on a server that I don't control. I could just share my data directly with those people I want to, instead of handing it off to FB to catalog and exploit.
Modern coffee roasters don't expose the workers to the smoke. They have a big box mounted to the side of the roaster called the after burner. It filters the air that comes out of the roaster to remove the chaff (basically the thin paper that covers the bean). It then passes the air through a large heating element that finishes burning any particulates (A tiny coffee roaster's after burner draws 50 amps at 220 volts, or 11000 watts. A small space heater draws around 1500 watts, for comparison). This hot air is then either piped outside through a vent, or passed through the beans again to help them roast. Then, when the beans come out, they land on a grate with a stirrer. A large fan sucks air past them, and also blows it outside. There is very little smoke put into the room, basically only when the beans are falling from the roaster into the stirrer. It's a large, expensive, relatively complicated computer-controlled machine with the main goal of eliminating smoke. From my understanding of this research, they're saying workers are being exposed to harmful pollutants despite all of this equipment to reduce emissions.

And in all my time repairing coffee grinders, I have never noticed a significant amount of fine dust. Coffee is actually a little oily, so any fine particles turns into a thick buildup that's a huge pain to remove.
> Or at least within an hour of each other.

"Taken one hour apart, the Stanford and Theranos HCT numbers differ by about 7%: 44.1 Theranos vs. Stanford 41.1."

He was comparing the draws of the same day mainly
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Yeah, I wasn't disputing that this is how the US does it. I was disputing that absent this, things would be skewed.

The issue is not taxing personal income, the issue is taxing corporations. A nearly ideal situation would be to eliminate all corporate taxes and tax individuals at a fixed rate when corporate wealth is transferred to shareholders. The only better situation would be eliminating all income taxes and replacing them with consumption taxes.

Unfortunately, this is a political non-starter - it would eliminate the ability of politicians to pretend they aren't indirectly taxing people when corporate taxes are raised.
No, metadata is not data. It's metadata.
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The recent rush of bad press is mostly because of the one WSJ article which was the first mainstream, in-depth media scrutiny of Theranos...it's possible that they can overcome it if they really do have what they claim they do.

edit: grammar
I worked for a company thatnwas owned by 2 christians. An employee, who talked about his athiest ideas all the time, was fired for the same reason (many coworkers were christian) Are you also okay with this??

My brother works with a guy that talks about islam contantly, to the point that it makes many people in the company feel uncomfortable. Should this person be fired?

i would have no problem if we gave equality to all, but its just not happening.
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To be precise, you don't want someone whose interests oppose your own controlling the ads. I don't use ABP, but paid "acceptable" ads make them a straightforward protection racket, beholden to advertisers who can pay. Google and the other big players can buy them off for pocket change, so they're useless.
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Maybe .... just maybe... you don't like programming that much. Maybe... just maybe... sitting on a computer 5 days a week all day to make some other guy rich IS kind of depressing.

THAT'S OKAY. You can do other stuff. You don't have to be a programmer for the rest of your life. You don't. Don't listen to HN people just telling you to take pills and get on with it. Jesus christ.

If you feel like working the same kind of job that is going pretty much nowhere is pointless... IT IS. That's not necessarily depression or some kind of mental illness.
deciliter is very common in cookery here in Norway.
Can't really call it a browser hijack if someone is downloading and installing an EXE file that replaces and pretends to be Chrome. That's just malware/badware. While the people that make these programs are absolute scum, a true browser hijack would mean this program somehow replaced Chrome through a JS exploit or installation of an extension. The article is not clear how it gets installed. Anyone know?
Metadata gives information about other data. The length of your password would be metadata rather than data. I'm pretty sure no one really wants that out in public?
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The website clearly states it does stop data being sent:

> Whats missing? Well, the original referrer. My google search. Well, it does appear that installing the GA.js blocker stops that info from going to google directly, however.

> Not sure why you are saying that my insight is a conflict of interest here

You are making false claims about a competitor without revealing that they are indeed a competitor nor that you have a long standing grudge against them.
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Passwords are my data in 1Password. If you say to me that 1Password is leaking my data, I'm thinking it leaks my passwords. The headline is misleading.

"1Password Leaks Your Metadata" would be both more accurate and less clickbait.
Of the many password vault tools out there I still prefer ones that store the data locally, secure with published and and peer-reviewed crypto, sync directly across devices without uploading to a service. I just don't need the hassle of discovering belatedly that an online service has leaked any data. Especially if they are inclined to say it was by design.
What a crap article. No examples of "predictive patterns in unfamiliar data sets" are given, no explanation of the competition, nothing of value. For all we know the humans could be toddlers.
Metadata is data about data.
It's data about data. So, still data. The title may be a bit sensationalized ("your data" sound like "all your data", but it really is "some of your data"), but it is not false.
Ya, B-spline, as the article defines it: Cubic(1, 0), is an example of a very blurry cubic filter.
Fix already available for ABP: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41068.
> Google and the other big players can buy them off for pocket change, so they're useless.

Why do people post this nonsense. Their use is to block intrusive ads. They are very clear about it and every argument against this has been incredibly misleading.

Whether payment is required or not isn't even clear, because it is mentioned only as a potential.
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Event data and entity data are entirely different
Exactly. If there's any loyalty, it's in these personal relationships within a company. Regardless of how loyal you are to each other, if the company bottom line says you're gone, then you're gone, and the notice will probably come from a person to whom you are loyal.

It's just bidness.
Ah, cool! I'm the owner/maintainer/person-who-built-this-project a couple years ago. For some context:

- The Wub Machine used to use music intelligence APIs provided by the Echo Nest, a music data company that was recently bought by Spotify. It now uses a combination of open-source algorithms that work just okay.

- It's somewhat open source (well, an old version of the codebase is): https://github.com/psobot/wub-machine
Perhaps I wasn't clear in the article. This is an entirely optional feature. If you don't want to store 1Password in Dropbox you don't have to, and you certainly don't need to have it in your public folder (I'm not sure those are even a thing any more?). The concern is that if someone has access to your keychain in any way at all, it is open to this. Perhaps you left your machine unlocked for a few minutes? Set up a read only network share for friends to stream movies from you? etc.
This is indeed the basic feature of any language that's evaluated at runtime. When working with such a language, one needs to learn the program as a dynamically growing construct instead of a vision cast in stone when you press the "compile" button.
Nice thing about 1Password (and other password managers) - password length isn't that important. My HN password is 30 characters, 5 of which are symbols, 5 of which are digits.

That's lots of metadata, but probably doesn't help you in the slightest in guessing my password. Agree with you that its problematic that 1password was leaking things like site names and URLs though.
When you take a loan from the bank, you sign this sort of one-sided agreement. I think this has always been the case.
> which lets us have some confidence about how the thing works

I don't buy this at all. Without understanding root causes, this is just stamp collecting, and we have no clue how far we are from those root causes. At the very bottom (we think) is quantum field theory, which we only really understand in simple situations (eg. single particle interactions). At the other bottom (and this is perhaps a more orthodox concern) is "chaoplexology", emergent phenomena and all of that.

If a four billion old intelligent alien race handed you one of their computers, do you think you would be able to work it out any time soon? (btw i'm not suggesting this is literally how we evolved, but just to give a different perspective on evolution as we currently conceive it.)
When I first saw Mr. Gassée's name in the byline, I immediately recognized him as being the Apple exec behind this quip about Steve Jobs, according to Andy Hertzfeld:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

> Whenever you saw a big Mercedes parked in a handicapped space, you could be sure that it was Steve's car (actually, it was hard to be sure otherwise, since he also had a habit of removing his license plates). This sometimes caused him trouble, since unknown parties would occasionally retaliate by scratching the car with their keys.

> Anyway, the story is that one day Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee, who had recently transferred to Cupertino from Paris, had just parked his car and was walking toward the entrance of the main office at Apple when Steve buzzed by him in his silver Mercedes and pulled into the handicapped space near the front of the building.

As Steve walked brusquely past him, Jean-Louis was heard to declare, to no one in particular - "Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped...".
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This is exactly correct. You arent allowed to disagree with pretty much anything mainstream these days publically without suffering huge consequences.

The people that do successfully have the power, which means enough money that a firing doesnt matter.
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People have different risk assessments.
What's also bad is it's under shared origin dl-web.dropbox.com so some kind of persistent XSS or cross window JS can leak all your passwords.
> No, but in the course of doing their business, this third party cannot wrongfully interfere with our business.

Um... they're an email filtering company, and you're an email sending company. Interfering with your business is their business! That's what Comcast is paying them to do --- Comcast want your business interfered with!

> As to the rest of your comment, you are assuming that the problem was the content (advertising).

I'm afraid you've missed my point here. The content is important, because having advertising in the content means that they will have already written you off as a reputable company. I'm pretty sure the conversation at their end went something like:

A. Hey, Bob, I've just got an email from someone claiming we shouldn't be blocking their email, but they're on the honeypot list.

B. Sigh. Again? Do we have one of their messages?

A. Yup. Here.

B. <spends two seconds skimming message> It's got advertising in it. They're a spammer. Screw 'em.

(It may not even have gone that far. I have no idea what format your newsletters are in, but if they score badly they may not even have bothered to look at them.)

My point is: you may not be a bad guy, but to an awful lot of people in the SMTP industry, you're going to look just like one.
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"If a former Apple executive who works down the road from Theranos can't get a reasonable response, makes me wonder if Theranos ever addressed customer/client concerns?"

A few possibilities (in all fairness to Theranos)

1) Elizabeth Holmes doesn't know who Jean-Louis Gassée is..(noting her age).

2) She gets a ton of email and didn't see who wrote the email. So it could have been from anyone and unless for some reason she had noted the name in the reply address (and it was more than "jlg@") she would have just passed on it.

3) She forwarded it for someone to handle (given 1&2 above) and they haven't acted on it yet.

Noting JLG says "You can guess what happened: Nothing, no response." but doesn't specify if he waited 1 day or 4 weeks.
One rated OV for Organic Vapor should be enough.

Evidence:

https://www.aiha.org/events/AIHce/AIHceAbstracts/Pages/Respi...

Section "SR-101-02 Determination of the Service Life of Air-Purifying Respirators against 2,3-Pentanedione"
All of you are misinterpreting Twitter's "features" here.

Most likely the root cause of this is an internal feature at Twitter called "per-country takedown."

If someone from Germany asked (and had a valid court order) that the Tweet be taken down for German users, then Twitter has the ability to disable the Tweet for people coming from German IPs.

I don't agree with this, I lobbied heavily against it while I worked there to no avail, but it's a solid explanation for why you wouldn't be able to see a Tweet in different regions.
My theory predicts that even intelligent Asian professionals will make bad choices faced with enough material deprivation, environment and stress.

In that case, India falsifies your theory. Virtually all of India - including the professional class - is stuck in material deprivation vastly worse than American poverty - the average American poor consumer unit consumes $20k/year, while Indian GDP/Capita is $6k/year (adjusted for cost of living).

They don't usually make the same bad choices. They get educated, save money for a rainy day, mostly avoid drugs, etc.

Actually, now that I think of it, English literature adjuncts are another counterexample.

My theory predicts that if you solve his direct financial needs for a predictable while...

Why financial? Why not just fix malnourishment directly?

I did google the fundamental attribution error, but I did not find any studies showing that certain specific environmental conditions will cause all sorts of people to engage in the same bad behaviors that poor Americans engage in.

The most I found is studies showing things like "people will attribute a basketball player's poor shooting success to ability rather than reduced lighting." This suggests a bias is present, but doesn't come close to proving your thesis.
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I'm starting to wonder when someone will write a c++ compiler in c++ templates, in effect making a program whose source code includes its own compiler. I mean, not like gcc, which is written in C and compiled by itself, I mean a program requiring only a c++ template interpreter with none of the other stages.
I'm not saying this isn't a significant risk, or shouldn't be treated as such. I'm merely saying that the headline implies that the primary data in 1Password is leaked, when it is not.

In what possible way would this headline not be more accurate if it were "1Password Leaks Your Metadata"? How would that be diminishing different peoples' risk assessments?
Firefox with Noscript: big sign suggesting I switch Javascript back on.

Terminal with w3m - all text visible including the 'skip to content' accessibility link at the top of each page. Appears to be full text of articles (my German is sadly quite limited).

Yes, I agree, some kind of arms race will no doubt commence.
Really? Before socialized welfare, your place within the community was entirely tied to your working ability. Too old to farm? Go sleep under the stairs. Then take a walk in the forest in winter and don't come back.
To be fair, Tsinghua is widely accepted as the second best university in all of China; the quality of the students is extremely high. The quality of the research is probably not so high.
An algorithm can predict human behavior better than humans
I don't get why people are making out this isn't a big issue - people would assume whatever is saved in the 'vault' is completely encrypted.

You'd never encrypt a password but leave all the filenames/directories viewable without the password...

(I've noticed this before when grep-ing for a domain, and it came up with stuff from my 1Password vaults, but couldn't work out a better solution so still stick with 1password ). Its a shame, because 1password is great in almost all other aspects.
Megabyte songs, gigabyte videos, and games in the tens of gigabytes flow freely. And these guys think they're going to control how a couple kilobytes of text is viewed.

Game on.