skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>An incorrect number on a blood test could be a potentially life altering event for some one - NOT something you want a fraudulent "unicorn" to be putzing with.

My immediate reaction to this statement was what if bad behaving private VC-funded companies cause regulators to come down hard on the entire VC/startup ecosystem, and potentially cause serious collateral damage to the entire ecosystem? I don't know if this is something to be legitimately concerned about or not, but it just popped into my head as a systemic risk all VC backed companies face because of bad behavior from a few.
I doubt Theranos voluntarily changed the board structure. It is more likely that board members left after the expose.
Ask HN: Do recruiters follow up emails ever work?
If you are a recruiter, do you ever get a response to a follow up after the original email was ignored?

If you are a recrutee: do you ever reply to a follow up after ignoring the first cold email?
> trello

You're looking for Twilio.
I wish people would quit repeating the farmer myth. No farmer I have met wants daylight savings time. Look at Indiana for some perspective. Farm animals do not have watches.
So technically someone could have bid $1, $2 .... $x, then not do anything and delay the project by 10*x days?
Sign up and do the style quiz, Brian! Margarita will surely bump you forward in the queue ;)
IIRC that was part of the plot too. There was no string reason to prefer this technology, except the company that owned the destructive-scanning IP was pushing their solution before the other ones matured enough to be cost-effective.
How to GET Your EX BACK
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Honestly curious: Are you making an argument that laws and punishments for breaking them are wrong across the board? Or are you saying that the laws might be just in some cases, and the punishment a necessary evil, but that even in those cases you think it's important to place responsibility on the enforcers of those laws?
The thing about smaller cities in flyover country is you need a support system. There are often decent small communities of people doing things, but it's all of the stuff you hate about bigger places -- insularity, politics, etc. -- without the ability to find 100 other groups like it within the same place.

Also everything EVERYTHING moves slower. Nothing is open really late and people taut the culture and so forth, but realistically, it's just a lot of folks who get married really early and talk about soccer games and stuff.

None of this is bad, it's just...a deliberately bleak picture. That said, more people ought to make this move. It's just not one person though, we need communities of people making exodus like this for it to really work.
There are quite a few Android apps out that crowdsource call blocklists. I have been using Truecaller[0] with good results thus far.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller
Can I get bumped in the queue too?
I actually prefer Lyft, but I use both simply because of surge pricing. Being in Boston though, between Lyft and Uber and their pooling options, I feel like I rarely pay for surge when I'm going somewhere alone.

Also, sometime I Uber or Lyft of the busy area (i.e. outside of a concert or sporting event) and then call another one that won't have surge pricing.
You know what, you guys who did this are better than this. If you are going to downvote, then explain why.
You're quoting a criticism of Win98, then saying that "the OS" (nt/2k/xp) was the bad part. I don't think it's fair to lump in NT with 9x in that way. The criticisms of Windows 98 and the criticisms of NT are going to have a lot in the former category that isn't in the latter.

I feel like these days Windows has the opposite problem as you describe. The kernel is OK but explorer.exe sucks at copying directories.
The bidding structure, as specified is:

1. You can only bid lower than the previous lowest bid.
2. At the end of the auction, the lowest bid will have 10 days to complete the project. If they fail, the next lowest bid will.

This appears to be a simple attempt to game the system. A low bid of $1 prevents any other bids from being registered, which guarantees that whatever the previously lowest bid was will not have to compete on price with other good-faith bidders.
The micro-purchase experiment is .. an experiment!

My guess is that bidders are interested strengthening the mechanism, so they've demonstrated exactly how this early version is broken.

Why would bidders want a stronger mechanism? So they can have a reliable income stream going forward. The broken mechanism serves no one well.
One-child policy began in 1979. In 1980, My mother hid in her relatives' houses and finally delivered her second child - me. I was very lucky because if my mother was caught, I can't sit here to type these sentences.

I do understand the one-child policy because there are too many people in China, especially in cities. The population should be under control. (However, as far as I know, one-child policy never really works in the very poor area. It's common to have 3+ children there.)

In recent decades, China becomes much richer and people have better education. Many families (in cities) get used to having only one child and don't want to have the second child because the cost of raising a child becomes very high. Two-child policy should come earlier.
Am here to appreciate a man who has brought back the most precious thing back into my life .After Hayden left me for good 2years i was in deep pain and so confused because I truly loved him so much because he meant a lot in my life, So i was at a shop one day buying something’s when i was listening to the radio hearing a lady talking about Dr Eka on how he has helped her in bringing back her ex,lover i was like truly this Dr Eka has really been the talk of UK now So which then i got home and had a re think about contacting this spell caster So then i got his contact when i went to meet them at the radio station, They gave me dr Eka cell number and email ID, Then I decided to contact him and i explained to Dr Eka how my Husband left me for good 2years,He told me not to worry that he would surly bring back Hayden into my life within 5days i was so happy when i had that I was thinking if truly what Dr Eka is saying is true So then i said if he was a scam people would not talk good about him in an international radio station here in the UK,hat baffled me the most was that before the 5days completed i already got an email from Hayden begging me,i was like are you sure this email his real,i was doubting then the next thing was a call from Hayden telling me he is in front of my door i rushed to the door i opened it and saw Hayden standing and crying for me to forgive him which i did,i forgive him and he was so happy and promise to be with me forever, This happened due to the help of this great man Dr Eka,Please friend Dr Eka has brought back happiness into our life in the UK how wish we could give him an award for the great thing he has done for us in the UK. Dr Eka is a man to contact for help please don't fall victim into the hand of scam Dr Eka is here to help and a living testimony to his great work contact him on his private mail dreka14demons@gmail.com
Texas had (has?) a similar problem with wind energy. The utilities were actually paying for people to use the energy. Batteries are the game changer for solar and wind since on-peak, off-peak will have less dramatic differences
Personally, I would find it more astonishing if we proved humans were not evolving.
You're sort of making his point, since Mercurial Queues are about representing revisions as patches rather than snapshots. It's actually a pretty simple idea, just not how Mercurial normally works.

That said, the problems with Mercurial Queues come from (1) a bolted-on command-line interface that doesn't fit in with the other hg commands and (2) poor integration with the rest of Mercurial. Which is why for most use cases evolve is considered the better option these days.
Here's a talk and wiki page on Xen hot-patching (xsplice), from the Aug 2015 Xen Summit: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XSplice & https://youtu.be/C2R79Ob8KOA
Apparently I have something in common with RMS. Although it took me many years with all the other graphical options to get to that point. Memory access problems while using Xorg was the last straw. I will never go back to any graphics layer, except perhaps I might use a framebuffer. No modern graphical operating system is worth my time. Text mode is fast and highly portable.
From Side Project to Profitable Start Up – Part 2 – Suspiciously Optimistic
No they don't.

Why? Because the two thing you need to run a professional housecleaning service are access to people's houses and their credit card numbers. Maintaining this access demands far more judgement, care, and integrity than Aaron Cheung is ever likely to have.
Define "you". By "you" do you mean criminals and others who are evading, resisting or shooting at cops? Or do you mean the majority of law-abiding citizens without issues that involve the police coming after you?

I'm in the latter. So is my whole family, friends and, afaik, co-workers. So do I think that 8x number applies to any of us? No.
What you fear and what kills you.... I think this[0] is relevant.

I believe people whose counter argument is to compare death by police officer to other causes of deaths are missing the point.

[0] http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FEAR.jpg
I would turn an investigative eye towards the second lowest bid.

[edit: cwarden's comment in the thread explains the problem perfectly - rule's lawyers are quite useful]
I wonder if he realises that browsing over Tor with IceCat will be causing him to have quite a distinct browser fingerprint. He should just use Tor Browser.
World's best CAPTCHA (2008)
I also switched from ABP to UBO, and I also feel that it does a better job out of the box and uses fewer resources, but it's a marked downturn in usability. Quickly blocking an element like an annoying gif is a breeze in ABP (with Element Hiding Helper), and also quickly seeing what's being blocked (CMD-Shift-V), or adding a custom rule. I have yet to figure out how to do any of those easily in UBO, and enabling advanced mode deliberately disables all mouseover help.

I'm close to switching back to ABP, but we'll see...
Teforia, a Tea Brewing Robot for the Home
As the root poster said, it's comic book villainy. I believe that he had a bad experience and that the interviewers were rude but the story as told doesn't pass the smell test.
I was wondering what it was. That explains the 'Critical Xen Maintenance' reboot ticket I got from Linode 11 days ago.
Erlang's very existence is a pretty solid refutation of the claims you're putting forth. :P
Calling it verified seems like a stretch. When I think verified, I think seL4, CompCert, etc. The role of testing isn't verification, it's falsification.
Stop Doubting the iPhone, the Macintosh Company
I live a few blocks away. It's alright. Been there three or four times in the years I have lived nearby.
The Lenny algorithm is quite simple: wait for silence, play the next recording. That's it.

The recordings are always played in the same sequence. There's no speech recognition involved.

The cleverness, of course, is that Lenny's script (and vocal delivery) seems brilliantly designed to keep telemarketers and scammers going on and on and on...
It is possible, but I wouldn't consider it trivial. Given an obtuse triangle with vertices A, B, and C, where vertex C is the obtuse angle, one of the dissection lines must split vertex C in order to make two acute angles.

Now, you have some choices as to where this line goes. If it is simply dissected straight across to the line segment AB, then you can either form two right triangles, or one acute and one obtuse. Either way, you're right back where you started, needing to segment a non-acute triangle into acutes. So that can't be the solution.

This means that the new segment starting from C must terminate at a new point D in the interior of the triangle...
The punishment being justified depends entirely on whether or not the law itself is just (e.g. capital punishment is largely considered to be a legal injustice). Whether or not responsibility is transitive a separate, but important, matter.

As it turns out, responsibility for statutory laws is only transitive when applied to a party to the statute (e.g. a lawmaker or the enforcer).

A thief is responsible for restitution because depriving someone of their property is violation of natural law. A party who breaks a contract is responsible for fulfilling the terms they agreed to, because they made that agreement.

A thief, or a party who breaks a contract, is not responsible for a _statutory law_ enforced against them (unless they are a law maker or the law enforcer).

The creators and enforcers of the statue are responsible for creating it and enforcing it. They are responsible for its outcome, whether that is a dead murderer or a dead baby.
Python 3 is the future. There's a chance that when Pypy finally catches up with Python 2.7 (numpy, C extensions etc), it will be obsolete.
> As an Engineer, old books are far less useful than new ones.

This isn't always true. Many of the fundamentals of civil engineering, mechanical engineering, mathematics, power engineering, chemistry, physics, even computer science, are not supplanted by more recent texts. In fact, when I was a computer science and math student, I lamented many of the modern texts (math and physics ones being the most egregious) for their overly fluffy delivery, compared to my father's and grandfather's and mother's math textbooks from (at the time) 20 and 60 years earlier. I would use theirs to study because they were much better at conveying the topics than the recent calculus or statistics or whatever book we were given.

Now, in industry, and in the software industry in particular, this is more applicable. So much is changing so fast, but the basic concepts (functions, types, network theory, latency versus throughput, even multi-process computing) are the same, but the technologies we use and how they present or make use of these fundamentals change rapidly so my 199x book on javascript is only barely applicable to what we have today.
Cancelling a subscription: how brands should seize the moment online
DSCO is a new GIF app from the makers of VSCO Cam
Phoenix Framework (Elixir) Experiment, 2M websocket clients single server
People should also definitely check out "The Convert." The FBI sent some guy into a mosque to act like a Muslim radical and to try to get members of the mosque to plant a terrorist attack. He befriended some guys and hung out with them, and then tried to get them in trouble by telling them they should plan a terrorist attack. The guys from the mosque promptly called the FBI to turn over the FBI plant (not knowing he was an FBI plant). The FBI responded by pressing charges against one of the guys from the mosque because of some youtube videos he shared.

It's insane.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/471/t...
How much emphasis would I have to use to convince you that I am participating in good faith and actually understand what a robocall is and all the rest of it?

The ellipsis in my terse comment was sort of grounded in why the hell else would I post what I posted, and now we are 2 or 3 rounds deep in you asking me if I'm really sure.
Isn't what version control is for? You could see how the code evolved by looking at its history and combined with meaningful commit messages you can easily identify the original problem and how it got solved.
It seems that he hacked the culture at NASA. Showing that spectacular things were possible when one decides that certain (in retrospect unnecessary) limitations can be ignored is a very hackerly thing to do.
They didn't think that they would be attacked.

The system specifies that the lowest bidder gets the job, and has 10 days to fulfill it. If they don't, the second-lowest bidder has 10 days.

The lowest bid possible is $1. Once that bid has been made, nobody else can bid.

Strategy: create 2 companies. Company A bids the maximum price as soon as the auction is created. Company B bids $1 immediately thereafter.

The underlying entity now gets 20 days to complete the work for the maximum price. During the first 10 days they need to be careful not to accidentally send in the final project.
Twitter Poll: Should directional fabrics be banned from curling competitions?
typedef unsigned int	u32;
typedef unsigned long	u64;

This does not look like portable code.
Thanks. I am having trouble understanding how crypto would help (I did read [0]). The hash and the files are stored in the same repository. If an attacker edited a file, couldn't they update the hashes of that commit and everything related to it?

[0] http://ericsink.com/vcbe/html/cryptographic_hashes.html
If you are connected to an untrusted (public) network it Ethernet vs. WiFi makes very little difference.
Very interesting. I often kill time browsing through photos on houzz.com. There are also user discussion forums (formerly gardenweb.com I think) that talk about all sorts of home topics like house design, plumbers, etc.

I then think of computer build discussions[1] for gaming or AutoCAD work that insert links from pcpartpicker.com. Notice how pcpartpicker urls enables posters to easily dissect each others' "what if?" component choices.

It seems like a website could really combine the enthusiasm of the houzz/pinterest crowd with the deeper integration of a pcpartpicker.com. Instead of the "green tags"[2] on houzz being someone else's choice (and hence an unchangeable "ad"), the green tags would be picked by the user of a particular 3D generated model. The "green tags" could also be choices crowdsourced from others including freelance interior designers.

[1]http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1988274/good-computer...

[2]example: http://www.houzz.com/photos/30526217/Black-Is-The-New-Farmho...
I had one too, and it WAS fast! I built it from parts I got at the Oakland Computer Show. It was my beloved "duallie". :)
Well, I read through the entire article and despite the detailed attention lavished on CPUs and GPUs, there was not a single mention of their disk's security.

It's disappointing that if they are "aware" of the problem, they didn't mention it to their audience in an article about their device's security, don't you think?
An endless pursuit of more stuff.
Our timezone/calendar system is convoluted, but that's because there are inherent issues with any calendar reform. I recommend looking at the following articles:

http://qntm.org/abolish ("So you want to abolish time zones")

http://qntm.org/calendar ("You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform")
Why is Dr Rice on the board of Dropbox in the first place?
The "reintroduction of the rest of the universe" is a euphemistic introduction of the general idea of Mach's Principle [1]. Such an idea is certainly possible, and physically interesting, but nobody's yet figured out how to test it. A well-motivated and compelling experiment to test Mach's Principle would be worthwhile and a lot of fun.

The current, locally-determined, laws of physics would produce the same outcomes for our rotating astronauts with or without the presence of anything else in the universe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%27s_principle
There's a lot of subtlety in choosing colours and feels, not all greys are the same. I mean think of how many premium devices come in grey aluminium finish - there's lots and they look great. No one has ever made a "concrete finish" device, because that would be horrible.

Likewise, you can't put OSX and win95 next to each other and say "they're both grey, therefore they are basically the same" because that's obviously rubbish - the shading, layout, spacing, and shapes of osx are much more pleasing because they benefit from years of refinement by people who are visual designers rather than engineers.
I don't understand numerical analysis as business applications.

For me business applications are what you would use Cobol, Clipper, Java, Delphi, C#, Eifel, ....

Of course Fortran makes sense for number crushing, but that is the language domain, not doing CRUD, ETL or distributed computing stuff (not counting MPI here).
Well, except for the Lyx and KDE founder, Matthias Ettrich, who calls out his use of proportional fonts in his email on that very page!
No, forced abortions and drowning of infants is the result of a godless culture that does not believe in the sanctity of a human life.

If you can accept these as being OK because they are occurring in a different culture, then my only response is "God help you".
SendGrid launches Marketing Campaigns
yeah, an app for the car.
They should add Code4Startup to the list.

..And this is a good idea.
Right, but what I kind of meant was that he used his celebrity to get himself a better setup and unique situation. I'm pretty sure he runs some "exclusive" type deals to people who subscribe and pay him monthly. As in, he's using Twitch to make himself better off, rather than simply joining the platform because he's trying to make the place more interesting or unique. It's a difficult thing I'm trying to say, sorry if it comes off obtuse.
This would work if the lowest bidder failed to perform, they would have to pay back the second lowest bidder. For example, if they bid $1, but the second lowest bid was $1000, they would have to pay back $1000 for not performing. They should probably also establish a floor to eliminate this $1 gaming mechanics.
I don't see this ever happening but it would make me very happy.
Really diggin' Rob Malda's Ryoko background.
It's trivially broken if you can get in the first two bids:

(1) Bid high, profitable amount, then:

(2) Bid the lowest possible amount.

(3) Do nothing for 10 days, meaning the result of the auction reverts to the 2nd highest bid (your initial high bid).
Your indentation levels will show up correctly, and that's really all that matters. Relax. Or, if you really care, switch to Go and use gofmt.