skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people here and in the media seem very troubled by Theranos and say it is a sham or a fraud. But a fraud upon whom?

Theranos is a private company with a small number of sophisticated institutional investors: ATA Ventures, Continential Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tako Ventures, and Larry Ellison (founder of Oracle) [1].

These sophisticated investors presumably performed due diligence before parting with $400 million.

But then again, maybe journalists and internet commenters know more about this company than Draper Fisher Jurvetson and should all set off on lucrative careers as biotech venture capitalists.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theranos/investors
There must be some science there, but between all the place and people descriptions and other stuff, it felt pretty glossed over.
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PayPal reveals how it will finally cash in on Venmo
This Is How Bad the Sharing Economy Is for Workers
I wonder: How much Helium does each balloon takes and how long does each last once it's filled up?
Why did LifeLock purchase a music streaming service (not really a music streaming service but kinda sorta)?
>It isn't. Depending on whose numbers you use, the statistic is either actually true or sufficiently close that disputing the difference is pedantry.

Sensationalism in this case is saying that 0.00003% > 0.0000009% and expecting people to care. Both scenarios are so absurdly rare as to be disregarded, even if many people are more afraid of terrorists than the police and statistics say it should be the other way around.

The following is also true [0]:

"More likely to trip down stairs and die than be killed by a shark!"

Well.. I'm not about to avoid taking the stairs. Nor am I going to stop being afraid of shark attacks. I know they are both rare and often rarely fatal, at least here in the US [1], but that doesn't mean I'll be less scared of them.

[0] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_attack

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It is a cost for society at large. Any workers that are employed in solar are not employed in some other job, so we have to be losing out in production somewhere if we switch our power generation from something that requires fewer workers to something that requires more.

Even if the extra workers required to make solar work came exclusively from the ranks of the unemployed or retired, we are still losing the leisure time they had previously been enjoying, which is a production of sorts.
> they are not able to turn down their plants during the day

Why is this? Can they not regulate how much output they produce by shutting down "sections" of the plants?
No word yet for us at this point, I thought the emails all got sent at the same time. Pragmatically hopeful that we're in the call queue. :)
Seconding that.
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"At some point you, the end user, are going to get a small black epoxy chip package which you have been told contains a particular chip design. You can't modify or realistically inspect that object. While for software you can at least attempt your own build, Ken Thompson attacks notwithstanding."

That's true. It's why you have to do a probabilistic approach with open HW whose behavior can be compared to spec in field. Additionally, you can make sure I/O is easy to inspect so a subset of users monitoring for suspicious behavior can catch it. It's certainly going to be a black box but easier to catch problems if open HW. Also, easier to avoid them if you retarget it with obfuscations and mask/fab vendor of your choosing. Much more difficult problem for your enemies than a total black box(s) from one source and set of vendors who are all purely profit-motivated (read: subject to bribes or contract coercion).

Note: Gaisler's stuff predates Cobham IIRC, mainly funded by grant money for embedded and space applications, etc. Plus licensing what he built. He's also gives synthesizable specs and code to his customers with OSS software. Risk level of Gaisler doesn't begin to compare with Freescale, Xilinx, etc. Even post-Cobham because you can inspect the product's source and even strip what you don't trust.

Additionally, your easily inspected software runs on a small, black, epoxy chip. You don't know what that software is doing any more than you know what the chip is doing. Especially if either gets hacked. My point is your arguments counter FOSS software as easily as FOSS hardware on verification side with same results as my hardware security approach. Yet, you still go for FOSS software because you think that level of assurance and verification is worthwhile along with future potential it provides. I'm making same argument for HW while citing other companies and projects that do in practice what I'm encouraging to justify it as practical. The full benefits will take time to accumulate. That's fine as long as we're on that path. :)
What's "textbook" about it?

Google could eliminate all adblocking extensions from the chrome store instantly if they wanted to - but they haven't. This seems like, and now proven to be, just a mistake.
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> How do you tell between telemarketers and legit cold calls?

If you're calling someone who didn't give you their phone number with the explicit intent of doing business with you, your behavior is ethically disgusting. Stop smearing your crap in other people's ears and get a real job.
You need to tell us the place!
The "called in error" rate is not pretty rare. It's quite high in my experience. There are a number of reasons:

1) People who owe money often put fake phone numbers on forms so they can't be contacted. They will sometimes randomly choose your number.

2) Debt collectors don't believe you when you say, "There's nobody here by that name. You have the wrong number," because that's what people who owe them money try to say.

I had this happen to me when I moved into a new apartment and got a new phone number. I told them 3 or 4 times that the person they were looking for was not at this number. I even told them that I had recently moved and was just assigned the number. They literally said, "Yeah, right."

So I called the police. They filed a telephone harassment report for me. I then sent the report to the phone company who set up a tap for me. Whenever the debt collectors would call, I would wait until the call ended, dial a special number and it would figure out what number called me (even if they turned on caller-ID blocking), and note it in a file. After 3 or 4 times, they sent it to the police who contacted the debt collectors and told them to stop harassing me or they'd face criminal charges.

It shouldn't have to come to this for innocent people, but this is by no means an isolated or rare incident. Every person I know has had these types of calls, with differing amounts of success at getting rid of them.
On the flip side of this thread, some projects have started to adopt specific tagging in their issue systems for folks looking to get started as contributors. I really like this as it's clear communication to both new contributors and to existing contributors that the issue in question is an on-ramp for the project.

Here's Neovim's "entry-level" label, for example:

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
Git isn't broken, but it's sort of the lowest common denominator in the DVCS space. It's a solid workhorse VCS, but it doesn't offer much beyond the essentials.

Examples of things Git doesn't do or do well:

* Shared mutable history (this is where Pijul/Darcs come into play).

* Scaling to large repository sizes [1], especially for monorepos.

* More intelligent merging (based on text history and/or semantics). Extracting the full text history of a file can be very expensive in Git (for example, see the performance problems of git blame).

* Long-lived branches (due to lack of meta information in Git's storage model, this is often a problem; for example, compare the conceptual complexity of bzr join vs. git subtree).

* Annotated history; Git does not have branches in the traditional sense, and this means that history is largely a soup of anonymous objects. Compare this with Fossil's model of propagating tags [2].

[1] See these two talks from Git Merge 2015 for example: http://git-merge.com/videos/git-at-google-dave-borowitz.html and http://git-merge.com/videos/scaling-git-at-twitter-wilhelm-b...

[2] http://fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/branching.wiki
> I hadn't reported the bug though.

I don't think its reasonable to expect a projects core developers, when they become aware of a bug through mechanisms other than formal bug reports, to deliberately stall confirming and resolving the problem because the person raising the issue is entitled to a crack at fixing it.
The existence of such a catastrophic bug shows that Xen is unfortunately not suitable for use as an hypervisor in a secure system and needs to be replaced.

We really need a properly written open source hypervisor: entities using secure hypervisors commercially like Amazon AWS should fund the development of one.
I trust your word on this iamsohungry.

Seriously though, do you know how much is safe?
Mass sterilization of financially desperate young men. What could possibly go wrong?
Yes, being tall, in good health, physically well-built and smart gives you, on average, more success in career and with members of the opposite sex. But does it give you more offspring, which is the important thing for evolution? In our times having a lot of sexual partners or one partner with a lot of sexual activity doesn't mean you have a lot of children.

To be clear: do rich and successful people have more children than poor ones? Someone has any source on that?
Isn't being recumbent known to decrease performance on mental tasks?
Evolution doesn't "require" anything except breeding.
I think you're unfortunately wrong on this point. While high earning well educated people may live longer, at least in the US they aren't reproducing more. Most of the educated/high-earning people I know are either not having kids at all, or are having 1-2 kids. Most of the lower educated, lower earning people I know have 3+ kids and have them at a younger age, which in turn leads to larger descendant populations in a shorter time period. Medical care is good enough (at least here in the US) that virtually all of those children are making it to adulthood, and then reproducing.
Depends, really. During the Ebola scare, the Nigerian government came down extremely hard with military enforced curfews, public water/transit shutdowns, involuntary quarantines, etc. Not only did these "harsh" strategies work, they worked spectacularly at preventing widespread infection.

I highly doubt these measures would be used against TB, though-- it just isn't deadly enough. The countries with high TB infection rates are the ones without a serviceable central government.
I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..
without any serious infrastructure you can also hot patch single instructions where the bytes you want to change fall in an 8 byte alignment. though, probably this is not useful for this bug but I know other cloud providers do this for security patches.
Is KVM not a "properly written open source hypervisor"?
Did you know that AWS uses their own version of Xen?

Xen was actually written with security in mind, they push as much of the features and driver code out of the hypervisor and onto Dom0 as possible to minimize the attack surface in the hypervisor itself.

Source - The Definitive Guide To Xen - 2007.
> Some tried giving Arab countries democracy and it turned out they never really wanted it

Does the presence of terrorists in developed countries prove "we" don't want democracy either?

Because I didn't see the people (of the middle east) choosing, I saw the same thugs and warlords of the past continuing to make the decision for them.
> Thats interpretation of QM not QM itself as such no?

Depends on what you mean. The explanation of how classical reality emerges from the wave function is mathematical. Once you understand that you will understand why the apparent "contradiction" between classical locality and quantum non-locality isn't a contradiction any more than Newton's absolute space and time is a "contradiction" of Einstein's relative space and time. Classical reality is an approximation that holds under certain circumstances (systems with a large number of mutually entangled degrees of freedom), just a Newtonian mechanics is an approximation that holds under certain circumstances (low velocities and low spacetime curvature).
Two projects seem to be free. They are called "Start Bootstrap" and a clone of code4startup itself.
Seems like you should just allow anyone to bid anything at any time. There's no reason to disallow someone from bidding higher than the current lowest bid.
Source: (in chinese, please use Google Translation)
http://www.21ccom.net/articles/zgyj/fzyj/article_20120629627...
Yep, magnets. They are discussed briefly in the Ars Technica video, here: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/sit-stand-nifty-new-w...
For anyone interested in time zones, I had a terribly unproductive afternoon the day I started looking through both the time zone mailing list[1], and the raw zoneinfo files. I love the history that lies beneath all of the changes.

[1]: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/
That is actually one of the free options.
"Pijul" sounds like "dick" in spanish lunfardo :p
Or you could significantly adjust your odds by being black, hispanic or poor.
If I was holding your fist, pushing it into your face, can't it be said that you were beating yourself up?

Why won't you stop hitting yourself?
But the rich and successful aren't having kids.

What we are currently selecting for is people who have lots of kids and let society pay for their upbringing.
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Can't you just brush your teeth afterwards?
You have to realize that artists were already using Twitch to do what they are now providing a category for those same people to stream under. I've watched clay, 3D, 2D, etc artists on Twitch; I've watched/listened to DJs, including deadmau5, play with their equipment for hours on stream. These same people also tend to play games now and again, and a lot of the graphical artists tend to have gaming themes. The same is probably true for all of the streamers that will use this category.
No green-on-black terminals? So disappointed.
They made a few proprietary apps that support/enhance/empower elasticsearch (marvel - a monitoring/operations dashboard/control panel, shield - security, ACL, authentication, encryption (for compliance) and so on, and watcher - alerting for your data, so you can define queries and thresholds and get alerts, call a webhook, send an email, save it into an index), and you get them bundled with their subscription.

So I'd say support and they have just gotten started with the hosted thing. (Which is probably great for a lot of things, big-ish data, full text search for not so latency sensitive applications - such as traditional websites, but we shall see.)
Right, because if nobody killed the inmate they'd still be alive.

Your "need" to kill them because they crossed some line is your need, and you're the killer. (For better or worse...)
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I was down there recently and did the exact same thing with a friend of mine. Probably one of the best meals I ate at while there, and the vibe was awesome. We were the only group there, so service was great as well. There's a Brazilian startup that connects these underground restaurants, that you would usually need to know by word of mouth, with interested parties: cookapp. Its pretty popular in BA and I think trying to make it to NYC, but has regulatory hurdles to get around.
anyone find this interesting?
Ironically, sliced bread is the worst.

Normal bread can get stale, dry and hard. But packaged sliced bread is much less perishable. I've seen sliced bread having the same texture and taste after a whole week of lying on a kitchen countertop. And when you read the ingredients on its packaging, you begin to understand why, as sliced bread is subject to the techniques of processed foods such as the addition of preservatives, antioxidants, stabilizers, anti-caking agents, or packaging gases, in addition to that bread being bleached, blanched, stripped of nutrients and with added sugar to make it taste better and because high-fructose corn syrup is so cheap, so why not. In addition sliced bread is subject to every health-related fad in existence. Low carb bread? Sure. Bread with Omega-3? Of course.

Basically the packaged substance in super-markets is anything but bread, then we wonder why our meals don't satisfy us and why we get fat.
Not to discount what you're saying as I'm sure the bread was very good, but I've been thinking about whether knowing a bit more about the process and story behind food products helps enhance the experience.

So in this case, knowing that he mills it himself and that he seems to use old school methods, in addition to just baking great bread is a recipe for a better bread experience than that of simply eating great bread without knowing the story.
Android brings people into the Google eco-system which is where they make their money. They want people using their services which is why they give Android away for free. They make money on every app, video, music purchase. People who pay for Google Music, etc.

Saying Android doesn't make them money is ridiculous. Are you just looking at the Android division as a single business unit working at a loss or something? You need to look at the bigger picture I think.
... because I can't fall asleep while standing, whereas I'll be out like a light in minutes if I lie down?
Sorry, but I don't buy that.

I don't care who you are, nobody could straight up dupe their way into $88M.

They must have something that works at some scale - but probably not the scale they claim. Like most unicorns that don't have valuation based on their revenue multiple.
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"no acceptable ads" - this is where the situation doesn't work out. Content isn't free, you either pay directly or indirectly. Ads are perhaps the best, easiest and most efficient passive payment system there exists today.

Yes there are a lot of bad actors and general crap that has damaged the industry greatly but that doesn't mean the model itself is somehow broken.

Not sure this falls under "rights" either - you definitely have the ability to do it but not a moral or legal entitlement to it.
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Short video: In situ Fabricator a “game-changer” in construction methods
I started off my career at 19 years old building custom 468x80 pixel web banners back in 2000.

I found customers on EBAY (yes, literally EBAY's web section) and charged $9.95 a pop which was a fraction of the big agency rate.

I would pour hours into designing and tweaking the banners to fit into the 15k size allotment of the day while also being aesthetically beautiful.

After hundreds of iterations I learned how to not only make beautiful banners, but banners that drove CLICKS & conversions which was all the customer ultimately cared about.

As the free market took hold in my own life the customers that were showing up for the cheap rate were pushed aside from the customers that wanted to harness the value I was delivering and were happy to pay increasing fees.

On the back of those customer relationships I've spent 15 years building amazing businesses and exceeding my highest expectations for where a lowly photoshop jockey could go in the world.

My point is while this 18F project is fascinating as a thought experiment the publicity alone for the winning bidder @ $1.00 disqualifies that from being the actual "rate".

This isn't an experiment in "I'll deliver quality, high-skill work for $1.00" this is an experiment in "Who wants a SHOT" at making a name, an intro, or have a permanent stand-out line on their resume.

If you want to see what kind of work really gets accomplished for $1.00 at scale, go poke around Mechanical Turk or Fivver.
After net neutrality vote, DTAG wants “a few percent” of revenue from startups
The website appears to exist as more of a promotional platform for the CEO's personal celebrity than it is a place to learn anything about the company or product.
China is a very big country. But only a small portion of the land is suitable for living. Almost 94 percent of Chinese people live in the Southeast part of the country which covers 43 percent of its land area; while the other six percent people live in the northwestern areas which cover 57 percent of the territory. [1] And people like to live in cities. Can you imagine there are 23.9 million people [2] in Shanghai City?

[1] http://www.travelchinaguide.com/essential/country.htm

[2] http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/shanghai-popul...
This confused me because I thought it was just a map of the stars (looking for constellations and planets sort of thing).

That being said, after figuring out a bit more at the home page, I found the blue squares fluctuating over the map annoying after a while. It seems like something that could use a description or instructions or something.
Can our industry/18F figure out train speed control before Amtrak?
I interpreted the opposition to using carrying capacity to mean that it's not helpful from the perspective of a technological species. If we had that many humans, the odds seem high that we would have a way to supplement resources available to use from outside Earth. Carrying capacity is really about an _ecosystem_ and the resources it can provide vs competition with other species. We effectively have no competition, and we can create our own ecosystems, so it's kind of a strawman to apply the wildlife biology concept to our understanding of how human populations will evolve in the future.
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Yes, IANAL, but they would look for their client to get off on a technicality rather than being innocent
* the war we wage on drugs

* the war that drugs and alcohol wage on the impoverished

* a large population that came out of the slave class and the long-lasting effects of poor integration

* poor education spending and allocation

Even if we put all our resources into fixing these issues, we're talking several years. You can't use that discussion as a talking point to deflect the violent realities that police in those environments face.
I saw a demo of BeOS at MacWorld (Jan 1996 I think) that blew my mind. The guy started a video playing. He started playing a 16-track audio arrangement. He opened a web browser and more. Flipping between apps, the video player never lagged, the audio never skipped, you could adjust the audio mix instantly... it's like that BeBox could do anything and everything, all at once.

And the hardware that BeBox was running: two PowerPC 603e's. This was not the powerful PowerPC of the era, it was the crummy, low-cost one. They ran at a measly 66MHz. BeOS could drive those things like nothing else, though, it was amazing.
It's not all bad. Dave's Killer Bread is decent when it comes to ingredients. Even so, I've moved almost exclusively to baking my own.
With new site, Google makes public many of its internal HR tactics
But on the flip side it must be very good for the shareholders.
> Since it is still the case that those with more money (on average) have more reproductive opportunities, get better medical care, live longer, etc.

That's nice. Financially secure people tend to have way less children then the working class/poor. Remember, viable offspring is that which lives long enough to reproduce.
Get your smart things to work together
> Tough shit.

Not really, it might hurt in the short term but it only gets worse for users to have paywalled/closed access, which will actually lead to more ads and tracking.