skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have much experience with FDA, but it looks like they are arguing with technicalities. They are not saying that product is not working, just that it isn't approved by them (for this purpose, if Theranos website is to be believed [0] - "The Nanotainer™ and our devices have already been cleared by FDA for use with our HSV-1 test").

It looks like this could be solved very quickly if all parties were interested. I am quite sure that Theranos has made some powerful enemies, many of whom probably have some influence within FDA...

[0] https://www.theranos.com/news/posts/statement-from-theranos-...
>> How will the industry deal with people who can't hack/program at a low level?

Assembly programming is still being taught as a EE/CS curriculum, so the younger folks know (some) assembly as well.

That said, not all programming jobs require a low level programming knowledge. Now why would a Java or Rails programmer have to know ARM assembly, for example?

We can leave those things to the experts :D
This should be combined with Code Digger, it's a tool for C# that can detect all the possible ranges of input to a function by working in reverse from all the possible outcomes. If a function might throw an Exception somewhere it will show you the input that leads to that code path.
It's the Uber aggressive approach - break the rules, try to get big faster than they can slow you down - applied to something directly ruled by a federal bureaucracy. That'll never turn out well. With the FDA you have to play the game the way they want you to or they'll instantly nuke your operation. The Uber approach only works if you're dealing with lots of little bureaucracies.
I liked the cheery tone of this piece! It came without the unnecessary editorializing and fluff found in typical review articles. +1 to Networkworld.com
Ah, job security for Data Engineers. Nice.
Groundless accusations of astroturfing or shillage are not allowed in HN threads. Please don't do this again.

If you or anyone has genuine concerns about astroturfing, please email us at hn@ycombinator.com. We always look at the data, and when we find evidence we act on it. But lobbing such accusations at other users merely as weapons in an argument is strictly not allowed.

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One option there is to use Spark.

You can then write SQL, Scala, Python, R to interact with ElasticSearch. I can't recall the performance but against Cassandra, HDFS, HBase, MongoDB etc. it is very fast.
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Some cliches never go out of style. I was at a startup in the mid 1980s and the words "hockey stick" came out of the CEO's mouth quite often.

Edit: BTW that mythical hockey stick quarter never did arrive.
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this is huge! thanks for all the hard work to everyone involved.
No idea to be honest, just glad to hear it was a bug. Given it was more or less non-functional I was erring towards "bug" over intentional to begin with. :)
I've attempted to load huge amounts of data into ElasticSearch. It is a bit fiddly to disable indexing and the sheer write performance is poor against dedicated databases. It is a testament to how good ElasticSearch is that people do use it as a database.
Pump and dump before it goes bang.
I think that was merely an incorrect perception. The US had substantial 4G coverage long before Europe did. As a whole Europe has been far behind on 4G adoption until recently.

The same is true about broadband speeds. It's widely believed, incorrectly so, that the US lags massively behind Europe on broadband. It's not true however, it's little more than a bogus bashing point spread around online. The US has comparable average broadband speeds to the UK and Denmark, and is faster than Germany, and far faster than France, Italy or Spain. [1]

[1] https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/resources-connectivity-20...
It's not just teachers and students, it's the parents, government (NCLB anyone?), and corporations (e.g. textbook vendors, testing companies) who profit from the system.

Following the money often works for discerning most dysfunctional systems.
Hey Devon, wrote you a PM on twitter, not sure if you've seen it...
> The government doesn't give you "feedback."

http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/Inspections/ucm256377.htm

> when an investigator(s) has observed any conditions
> that in their judgement may constitute violations

Sure sounds like feedback to me.

> The process documentation and design specification
> and validation issues are not optional

No, but they can be iterated on.

> I am taking the fine article at face value

The "fine article" presents small snippets of a heavily redacted article. There's not that much value to take...
I used greenplum until about three years ago when that employer replaced it. There is no way to describe it other than brittle and unsuited for production work. My peers discovered multiple ways to kill the db, all with data loss. Before you use it you should find a current user. It is one of a handful of techs on my personal "never again" list.

Licensing was also ludicrously expensive, including an attempt to multiply our license cost by 10 one year. I'd be very leery of lock-in given the owners. I also suspect this is the result of a failed attempt to sell it and is an open-source hail mary.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/senate-intelligence-co...

TL;DR: More surveillance under the guise of "Cybersecurity"
School-to-Prison pipeline, maybe?
Url changed from http://www.wired.com/2015/10/is-it-foolish-to-model-natures-..., which points to this.
Working with different character sets and character encodings is one of the most frustrating areas of programming so congratulations to the VLC team.
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I'm not disappointed. It's great to see Rackspace competing in container services.

But I agree... At this level of abstraction ECS is far more attractive because of the rest of the AWS services and ecosystem.

Joyent deserves a lot of credit for removing the extra layer. However Triton is missing key functionality like a good load balancer.

Abstractions are important, but pure functionality is more important. How can anyone beat AWS?

(Disclaimer: I am building open source tooling in top of ECS, and have published a head to head review of ECS vs Triton)
The VC game in Silicon Valley isn't about investment, it's about playing the lotto. You dump money into as many companies that have even a small degree of promise, you blow them up to the point where you can find out whether or not they have market traction, and then you collect your winnings from the tiny fraction that hit it big. Not only is it vastly disadvantageous to not have your fingers in as many pies as possible but the VCs with the most money are precisely the ones who have been playing this game already and hit it big with google, facebook, instagram, etc.

Investing in 9 sham companies that fold and 1 unicorn that pays out at 10:1 or 100:1 is more lucrative than investing in 10 companies with modest, but reliable RoI's. Peter Thiel's Facebook investment paid off at 2000:1, Accel's facebook investment paid off at 800:1, Andy Bechtolsheim's google investment paid off at 17000:1, Andreessen Horowitz made 300:1 off of instagram. If you've got a good enough pitch you can get as much money as you want.
I urge you to read this classic, The case of the killer robot. http://tareksobh.org/online_courses/cpe300/Lectures/Lecture1...

I believe all engineers have a responsibility to adjust design for risks, especially unintended use cases.

Most engineers would generally agree with this principle, although I have found software engineers tend to be a little more lax than, say civilian engineers.
Augur is a great example, and you mention my concern right here.

Under no circumstances should Ethereum Alarm Clock be used as the signal source for Augur's "signal source" / adjudication on prop bets.
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These things come and go in cycles. Back in 1980 there was a startup that raised $230 million. That was, as they say, "real money" back in the day.

Great pedigree. But, eventually, poof, gone. Nothing much to show for all the investment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_Systems
I highly doubt that it's possible to publish such data anonymously. There are less than ten billion people, about 33 bits are enough to identify everyone individually. If you publish a couple dozen genetic markers you almost certainly have very few people who share the same pattern.

See http://33bits.org/2009/12/02/the-entropy-of-a-dna-profile/
Containers are here to stay and almost certainly will be the new abstraction of computation.

My big question is around a service like AWS Lambda. Is that not already the logical conclusion of container based computation? If magic units of computation can run instantly on demand, what more do you need?

No hosts, but also no OS images, and no specific containerization tools!
There are better ways to accomplish this if you just want a fixed filter... such as displaying the image with the filter already applied instead of relying on user's (non-IE) browser to do it. Unless you plan to not support IE users at all, which is a rather big "don't do this" for front-end dev.

So a UI to select filters to apply in FF/Chrome as progressive enhancement seems to be the best use case I can see for this, if I can be frank.
Growth in VC funding to Bitcoin startups slowed substantially last quarter
Mark's speaking live right now in India at an IIT Delhi campus

Livestream via a local television channel(s) (as of 12:08 AM 10/28 Pacific)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EFFag29JWg
Verizon is not the only one. Every major carrier (ATT, Sprint, TM, etc.) operate email-to-SMS gateways.
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I assuming hsv-1 was approved and successful because it's a pcr test requiring very little blood already. Most of the other tests require much more volume. It sounds like these tests were the ones that were supposed to be revolutionary but were not successful.
What's the story behind greenplum? Is it an old startup that has been bought by pivotal some time ago? I found an article about greenplum raising 20 mln $ in 2008 [1]

I was wondering whether anyone used greenplum in production and with what kind of loads. With today's in-memory fad, I am also interested in whether gp model supports loading everything into memory in a MOLAP fashion.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/21/greenplum-takes-27-million-...
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Are you being self-referential or what?
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Url changed from http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uos-fsf102215... to a more original source.
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Synhtetic rhino-horn is a clever idea, but one could suspect that once it goes "mainstream", the demand will also rise. Or am I completely wrong?
The reason Yogi Bear wears a collar and tie was solely so they didn't have to animate the head-body transition and save money.
No, it is not. Parent is not suggesting there are only two options on which we may choose to spend public funds, but instead voicing a preference of a single specific option over another single specific option--with no mention of there not being millions more. Stating a preference for one of two isolated things is in no way a false dichotomy.
I have 2 stages of news reading: The first is discovery, the second is digestion.

I've used Feedly as a backend ever since Google reader went offline to keep my lengthy RSS library usable, but never ever use the web interface, which this product reminds me of. It's too overwhelming to have everything there all at once. 100's of hours of reading starring at me all at once. Instead, I prefer to use android widgets across my various devices to display random snippets from across various categories which catch my eye over the many times daily I open up my phone. That's my discovery and selection method.

When it comes to digestion, I will sometimes read it in pocket or some other reading app on my device to optimize that experience, but curiously am compelled to send it back to my computer for social media sharing and/or saving/bookmarking/note-taking.

So I guess for my obscure usage pattern, having a type of dashboard or headline section that shows you LESS, perhaps using some type of popularity or personal preference metric would be a much preferable main interface. Keep feeding me more once I reed it, but it stresses me out to see LISTS and LISTS of stuff to read that I might be missing out on and don't have time to read!
I've never understood separating by odd/even. Typically the people who do this only want to add styles to "alternate" rows. So I would use 'class="alternate"'.

>Basically, I need to see some more examples to understand the distinction better.

Personally I do it only for organizational purposes more than anything else. The "actual use cases" are a bit contrived if I'm being honest, at least for this example.

Let's say you have 5 photos on a page, each with different filters applied on different locations of the page. You want to allow users to normalize the page by selecting a single filter to apply to every photo.

I'm not a JS expert - but the first seems a lot easier to manipulate multiple images at once. A single check of img.dataset.filter instead of checking against an entire array of classes. (If there is a simpler way of checking the class example, I'm all ears.)

<img src="/" data-filter="oldschool" class="medium"> //change to greyscale
<img src="/" data-filter="fuchsia" class="large"> //change to greyscale
<img src="/" class="large"> //not to be changed
<img src="/" data-filter="1970" class="small"> //change to greyscale

<img src="/" class="medium oldschool"> //change to greyscale
<img src="/" class="large fuchsia"> //change to greyscale
<img src="/" class="small"> //not to be changed
<img src="/" class="small 1970"> //change to greyscale
Wow, you value a persons life so little that you would let them die if they didn't work. If a person killed you to feed themselves or their family, I would consider them more ethical, because at least they had a reason to kill you. You would let them starve over almost nothing.
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What do you mean blackbox? It has explain analyze, it has rich query meta info, it has a web interface to query stats. You even know on what hardware it runs. Genuinely not sure what's blackbox about Redshift.
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See this paper "Header Enrichment or ISP Enrichment?
Emerging Privacy Threats in Mobile Networks":
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/hotmi...

For example Orange in Jordan adds an HTTP header with the phone number of the client to every connection. And there are technical people out there still saying HTTPS/TLS should not be mandatory…
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What a great contribution to the open source space! We'll to get our hands dirty with this library! Thanks! :-)
Is there still some kind of demoscene? Do people do that stuff still, or were you being ironic? Would love a link (if you're not being ironic)!
Url changed from http://qz.com/441672/insects-may-be-able-to-feel-fear-anger-..., which points to this.
Kind of related, but what happens to the source code and designs of old spacecraft? Apart from Apollo, has NASA ever realeased any?
Well yes, obviously wholesale rates have always been capped lower than retail rates. Now, I can't really find a precise account of what's going to happen in 2017, but I see no reason to think it will be different.
Well not _only_ two things, but the idea is that you need to specify _relationships_ between objects. You can't do that by just considering each object in isolation.

- "A goes TO THE LEFT of B"
- "The header goes ABOVE the content"
- "The list goes INSIDE the table"
- "The menu goes BEFORE the advert"

You could try and combine more than two objects together in a single rule, but it's obviously easier to specify the rules one pair at a time.

A layout language without prepositions isn't much of a layout language at all.
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https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/

Try this out man, one of the best tutorial ever!
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I disagree. I'm an autodidact, but I'm not rich. As a kid I did things like repeatedly read every volume of the encyclopaedia cover-to-cover. On a tour group a few years ago I was nicknamed "google [vacri]" because I knew a bit about everything and people started asking all sorts of esoteric stuff. But I didn't earn average wage until my late 30s (median wage early 30s) and didn't earn above average wage until this year (42). There's lots of people out there like me, who love learning about all sorts of things, but don't learn about the specific things to make one wealthy.

What makes rich families generationally rich is not autodidactism, but skill transfer and network effects. For example, it's easier to handle money when you've been around people who know a lot about finance and money movements than it is to autodidact-learn about money.
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This is already the case for some carriers, Vodafone (when Passport is enabled) off the top of my head, and also Meteor. Has been the case for some time.

There has been an issue with data though, and I'm not sure the new proposal solves that. Also if you have a plan with minutes, they won't be included as minutes while abroad, you'll be charged, but at a standard home rate.
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Let me understand this, your friends are using 3 (based in the UK) as their service provider while they are living in Norway?

Potentially, the abolishing of the roaming laws will open up the European markets for the smaller service providers.
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> optionality

What?
Since this is no longer an option I assume that experiment didn't go well. I wonder what ideas came out of that group, a post mortem would be interesting.
I'm not sure if this would work, unless it was done in secrecy. From what I've come to understand, rhino horn usage has a superstitious component to it. If it's known a sample doesn't come from a rhino people wouldn't be interested.

In addition, poachers know how to make people stop doing things: keep killing rhinos.
You have no choice with 6S, since it shipped with iOS9. 9.0.2 stutters too.
Just took a look. Sadly they do not roam to Germany, as they are oftentimes cheaper (on a first glance) then our local market-players.

So no British data plan for me, sadly.
You get what you pay for... for many U.S. internet/tech companies India is typically at the bottom of the list of countries where the company's revenue is derived from.
It seems AKOM's willing to further outsource its animation jobs, including to North Korea: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/IC14Dg03.html
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The big caveats with AROS are basically:

- Lack of SMP

- Lack of memory protection

Both are very tricky to do while retaining any kind of reasonable compatibility with AmigaOS.

This + lack of a decent pthreads implementation makes porting of a lot of useful software hard (the amount of Linux/Unix software that depends on fork() alone is massive)

I like AROS, but it badly needs more developers to resolve the issues above if it's to get beyond the "fun to tinker with" stage for most people.
As far as I can tell, people are furious because he said that a stupid-looking picture was stupid-looking?
As far as I can tell, people are furious because he said that a stupid-looking picture looked stupid?
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1) They were mocking their competitor in this same area for years.

2) They explicitly praise improved user experience and performance enhancement for their most recent iOS shipped

3) These issues weren't on the iOS prior update.

So, bitching ? No thanks my friend, I just want something that was working as advertised before fixed. If I wanted frame drops and stuttering, I wouldn't pay 800$ for a phone, but get a 100$ Android phone (which at modern hardware doesn't even have those issues anymore that are so apparent).

Stop excusing companies.
I love the profits that this industry can bring, that much is amazing. Deploying that capital, like on R&D and acquisition is Apple's bigger problem now. The dividend is not bad either!

With the added competition from Microsoft, I'm sure they will be pushing even harder for the next release. I am hoping a recent down-trend will be well reverse via software updates to come, apparently the phones need some more optimization? But also nice to see competition on features, form factor, power, display size... seems like some really good Surface products and I'm not following Apple as closely I guess.

The market has no idea how to value it. Which should mean a huge opportunity for someone who does?

(I wonder if 10 hours late this can get any responses)
Here is some hard evidence to the contrary:

http://hitboxteam.com/content/articles/dustforce-sales-figur...

http://hitboxteam.com/dustforce-sales-figures

This isn't an exception, either. This is the norm.
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I kinda agree with the author if you do your software development purely with programming language. It would otherwise be call hacking or prototyping, and this is not exclusive to C or C++. This could also happen wiht Java, python or <insert your favourite language here>.

With software engineering, there are a plethora of other tasks and checks that needs to be done before releasing it into wild. ie requirements engineering, verification, reviews etc.
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Sounds like high demand driven by the slumping Euro.
Hey, forgive my ignorance, I'm the guy who uses this stuff, not the guy who builds it.

My understanding was that, typically, the DW is where the data gets ETLed from various places and lives in a normalized environment. Then from that big pool, departments get built columnar or OLAP databases for specific analyses they want to do, and I connect not to the DW but to the OLAP instance (we call it Datamart here). Was I living a lie? At first I thought that your master-segment system is the same, but then I read your comment. I looked into Greenplum a while back and wanted it because of Madlib, but my guys said "nope" and went with MS.
I totally agree with you. It was such a nuisance. I uninstalled the app 5 minutes after installing.

Also, after the hike fiasco, I kept getting callbacks from many of my contacts that I had given them a missed calls.

Very shady. I don't even know how they do it. I thought it was illegal to pretend as another mobile number.
Oh, right I see now, padding-top: 5%; is a %age of the width, not the height of the element. Yes, that makes little sense.
A couple of years ago I tried to interview him to get some of what he'd worked on written down. Unfortunately, I was never able to get a reply.

It would be wonderful for someone to sit down and produce a video interview with him going through his work and the architecture of Voyager.

If anyone knows a good way to contact him I would be very interested.
and let's not forget "Candy Crush Invitations Saturdays"