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No, that's not typical. Blood tests are not usually offered in pharmacies either, and are reserved for clinics and hospitals. Blood tests typically involve needles, privacy, etc. They're the wrong atmosphere for a casual grocery store or pharmacy.

Theranos's vision was to make blood tests easier and more accessible by requiring only a finger prick instead of drawing from a vein and by giving results quickly instead of hours or days later from a lab. It sounds like Safeway got on board with that vision as a forward-looking opportunity.

If a full panel blood test was as easy as a finger prick, then I could see blood testing going mainstream in the way that Theranos is hoping, and Safeway was hoping, but it all depends on the technology actually working as advertised.
He's saying that we live in 21st, not 24th century.
It's mostly a matter of scale. Google are big enough and their internet connections are big enough that they can absorb a regular-sized DDoS without breaking a sweat.
you mean firmware updates? What is the problem you are talking about?

Plus its a regular problem ensuring that an API is stable. People do it all the time - aren't you wondering why you are the only person arguing this point? Many people in this thread deal with these problems on a daily basis...
Because Google is large enough to

- Build defenses against DDoS into its networks

- Have large enough capacity that such attacks are less effective anyway
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And here is a video of the random selection process for last week's election (the two tweets above are from last year):

http://sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=4938

This took place this morning (Tuesday, November 10). I'm the lone member of the public who showed up and rolled the dice the first few times (5:15 into the upper video). :)
If you're only web, you should be perfectly fine behind CloudFlare.
Yep. I think this unicorn has a broken leg.
I feel like I'm wandering into a Monty Python sketch.
That fits the WORM profile that I suggested. During normal operation, the disk IOPS is the bottleneck. The network only becomes the bottleneck during repair/failure states. Even scrubbing falls under disk IOPS and not network. At least that's what I've found in EC clusters. Replicated clusters might be different.
Bummer to hear that :( Keep up the good work! I'm a very satisfied customer, and I wish you all the best.
There are a lot of details that the average person wouldn't notice, per se, but that add up to a subconscious feeling, style, or perception of quality.
One would assume DDoSing the biggest service around, run by a company that has experience running giant internet facing services, a lot of security experience and tons of cash would be a lot harder than a provider with in comparison small connectivity and a small number of locations, yes. Pure size helps, + if you are at the scale of Google your upstreams probably have more interest in helping you if it were necessary.

It would be interesting to see how often people try though.
I have no idea what you think I said.
And Protonmail. https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-ddos-attacks/

Fastmail, pro tip: don't pay any ransom.
Ironic that the article is from Mark Simonson, whose Proxima Nova is, quite frankly, the Helvetica of the Internet age.
The problem is that no one is going to do firmware updates on their smart washing machine.

Your software can’t be updated. You have one try to do it right.

It’s what next to all of the modern startups don’t get right. They build fancy software, but then in a few years your smart house doesn’t work anymore because the services it connected to have changed APIs and the house itself encountered a few bugs?

The lifetime for a washing machine is 30 years. Your software on that will last 30 years. Using a development method designed to make quickly changing requirements easy is stupid when your code will be "write once, never change".
The only real defense is to serve your site from somewhere with more incoming bandwidth than incoming abuse. Afaik, the only type of filtering you're likely to get from an upstream provider is null routing of attacked ips, which helps protect their network, but doesn't help you serve users (you can switch ips, but abusers will likely switch too)
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or you could get Supermicro 6048R-E1CR72L with 72 drive-bays or something similar for 3.5K and save yourself all the pain
True. Helvetica is slightly more pleasing to the eye. Typefaces are all about the subtleties.

Liberation Sans is metrically identical to Arial, and yet it is hideous.
Yes, I should have been more clear. I meant both.
We used to use TCP proxies when I ran a game server where skiddies would try to attack it. I know buyvm.net is where we got one small $15 a year VPS with $3 a month "DDOS protection", not sure if we ever had issues after that with DDoS or not, we kept getting more and more proxies. We would give users a different one upon refreshing the page (it was a browser based game, but they would connect to a game server via TCP). I know the Minecraft community offers proxies as well. If you're on HTTP though, cloudflare is one of the cheaper options.
Detection isn't the issue, mitigation is.
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> people make mistakes and most of the time the victim notices quite soon.

This is exactly why it's a poor gamble to make in most circumstances.

I'm not offering prescriptive advice. I'm not advocating that someone should steal or break contracts. I'm merely describing reality. If the reward outweighs the risk for someone, they'll come along and do it. That's a simple fact. Pretending it doesn't exist and we should all just be nice is only going to cause people to lose money. Either decrease the reward or increase the risk until that isn't the case.

People put locks on their doors and keep their money in banks instead of in a big pile on their front lawn. Why? Don't criminals know it's wrong to take things that don't belong to them, even it it's sitting right there in plain sight for the taking? Why don't we just depend on the values of honesty and integrity? Wouldn't that be so easy and great?

Locks are pretty easily defeated, but they provide enough of a hassle and increase the probability of detection enough that it's not worthwhile for most people to bother. If all your valuables are sitting on the lawn, some people who would never kick down your door might run up and grab them. Why? Are they "assholes" and "douchebags"? Maybe. But the incentives and penalties also shifted so there's less risk, increasing the probability that someone will find it worthwhile to take the chance.

Someone who would never rob a bank might steal a sandwich if they were starving. Did they suddenly give up on the implicit social contract? No, the possibility of dying of starvation just became a larger risk to them than whatever penalty might exist for sandwich thievery.

In practice, I think the AirBnB subletters are just exploiting a temporary knowledge gap between the landlords and the AirBnB guests. With enough articles like this one, landlords will wise up and close the gap, either listing their properties on AirBnB themselves, or checking occasionally that their properties aren't listed there and shutting down the lease if they are. The subletters obviously have no leg to stand on, legally. Once they have a few evictions for breach of contract on their record, they won't be able to get a lease anywhere anymore. More's the pity for them, but that's the risk they took.

>and someone will somewhen, way before the heat death of the universe

Probably. But then again, by definition we have no knowledge of crimes that nobody notices. There could be an untold number of crimes that have gone unnoticed.
And they've very clearly refused to pay the Danegeld demanded by their attackers. Smart, principled and yet another reason I'm a happy customer of theirs.
Not a chance :)
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Yeah, when you run websites that everyone accross the world hits at any given second all at once, I think a DDoS might tickle it a bit, but it would take a pretty massive botnet possibly, maybe a nice chunk of legitimate Google visitors to affect Google?
Have you never been in a situation where you were in a rush to go do something but you were hungry and didn't want to be hungry while you did the thing?

This means that soylent (which you could make in literally 50 seconds using a blender bottle, soylent powder, and faucet) would be somewhat useful. You'd probably want to add some flavor like chocolate powder though.

Myself, I very occasionally get really nervous and anxious and really just feel a bit of a revulsion at chewing and eating food. But, I know that I should eat because to maintain homeostasis. Perhaps you are capable of a sympathetic response to that situation. Soylent has been a good solution for me for those times.

Normally, I do enjoy food. I'll admit as a hard-of-smelling person, I probably don't get as much joy as other people, but I do enjoy it. But it is indeed sometimes an obstacle.
Where and how to update the IP dataset?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
Read the informed comments on Derek Lowe's blog about Theranos [1]. This is the money shot quote from johnnyboy

"@Pete: it is entirely justified to have doubts about the validity of blood results obtained from finger pricks. The blood you get from a prick will be a mixture of blood from small venules, small arterioles, capillaries and lymph vessels, mixed with whatever loose tissue and cells have been cut by the prick and carried over into the blood. No way you could ever get a reliable CBC from such a sample. Since the kind of general blood tests that this company is targeting are usually CBC + chem panel, even if you could get your chem results from the prick, you still need a normal blood draw for the CBC, so the competitive advantage that they are trying to push (quick sampling by patient at pharmacy, without need for phlebotomist) is lost. On top of that, the variability inherent in chem results from prick blood will be significant for several analytes, like CK and AST (present in muscle so could be raised from prick injury), glucose and lipids (different levels in venous or arterial blood or lymph), etc… They are focusing on their fancy technology without much consideration of the underlying biology, typical error of engineering types.”

1. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/10/15/the...
That's a fine observation on your part, exactly the kind of thing we all need to do to preserve civility here.

It sounds trivial, but isn't, so thank you.
> 4) Public transport info generally relies on there being a competent transit authority that can provide a solid GTFS feed. You'd be surprised how hard even big, 1st-world cities can find this (here's looking at you, Melbourne).

Sometimes the authorities get into exclusive deals with other companies. Which is infuriating, because while I understand competition, et al., it's Google Maps (and by extension Google Now) we're talking about! I don't want to use that stupid startup that provides public transit navigation in my city. I want Google Now which is properly integrated with everything else on my phone.
The anecdotal evidence is absolutely overwhelming at this point: Theranos simply doesn't work. Books will be written about this company...
More likely the connection is to the area under the bell-curve: sqrt(pi). The connection to quantum mechanics is via probability theory.
First, I read the letter to Fanduel and it says no such thing. Second, when something is illegal in a state, then it's illegal in the state. If the manufacture of alcohol were illegal in New York, it wouldn't be legal to manufacture it there as long as it wasn't distributed to New York residents. If fantasy sports is illegal in New York, then all aspects of it are illegal, whether it is running the operation there or offering it to the residents of the state.

I am just saying that FanDuel needs to move its offices out of New York. They don't need to cease operations.
What? This has nothing to do with Itanium.
Soylent powder doesn't spoil for a year and at a cost of $2, I can make myself breakfast in literally 50 seconds using a faucet, 5cm^3 of chocolate powder, and a blender bottle.
The attack on Gmail would likely not even be a single percent of its traffic every minute.
At the time, those were very questionable assets. We don't remember how close both Tesla and SpaceX came to failing. Had those not worked out, Elon really would have lost all his money.
Sorry, I was not clear.

For consumers, gmail should provide the optimal email experience- if they don't like it, they have the choice to use a different product.

But for developers, gmail should provide as many tools and as much functionality to meet developers need. That way developers build, Google profits.
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Sorry to hear about that... Do get in touch with one of the providers listed above, they may be able to help you out in the short term for free in exchange for publicity.
What about when a player gets injured? Isn't that pure chance?
If you don't mind heavy radiation, you could have a pu pile to rapidly heat air and blast it from a nozzle. This sort of thing was how project Pluto (bought to you by coors, of all people) worked. Nuclear powered cruise missile.

Not sure if you could make it quite small enough to stick on your back, and again, heavy radiation.
If you cook in large batches you can also accomplish this.
Thanks, pzone! Yes, that's the idea: affordability, modifiability, etc. Stay tuned to next week's Elections Commission meeting for more on this. ;)

http://sfgov.org/electionscommission

PS - I'm the President of the SF Elections Commission.
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I believe you're fundamentally mistaken about the direction he future is taking: the world is not regressing to things that never change, it is progressing to continuous, perpetual change for most things in active use. There is plenty of evidence for this.

I empathize with a world view that prefers stable, planned, predictable, and long lasting. But I have rarely seen this work in practice.

I work with the banks (including in your state), and as far as I can see their aim is to move towards faster change in their IT systems, and disposability.
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If Theranos is still valued at $9 billion, then it is almost a decacorn. We have to see what happens to its nine unicorn (or cat, pun intended) lives.
>Safeway Inc. spent about $350 million to build clinics in more than 800 of its supermarkets to offer blood tests by startup Theranos Inc.

>The $350 million price tag was equivalent to more than half of Safeway’s net income of $596.5 million in 2012. Safeway had revenue of $44.21 billion. Safeway also invested more than $10 million in Theranos, one former Safeway executive said.

>Two of the former Safeway executives said they told Mr. Burd, Safeway’s chief executive, about the varying employee test results.

>The former executives said Mr. Burd told them he had been reassured by Ms. Holmes. Mr. Burd continued to support the partnership with Theranos, according to the former Safeway executives.

If he hadn't retired already, he should be fired for incompetence.
> The lifetime for a washing machine is 30 years. Your software on that will last 30 years. Using a development method designed to make quickly changing requirements easy is stupid when your code will be "write once, never change".

If the requirements change, you must update your software. How does waterfall handle changing requirements? It doesnt.

To repeat: agile _handles_ changing requirements. It doesnt _provoke_ changing requirements.

As someone who spent the first 6 years of my career doing waterfall, the only way to combat this is by treating the functional requirements as an immutable contract between you and the customer. When the requirements change you blame them, and refuse to change your software. Then your software never gets used.
Wow, short article but full of so much fascinating and somewhat disturbing content!

I found this a particularly uncomfortable thought:

In a troubling discovery, Dunn and his colleagues learned that,
from a microbiological perspective, toilet seats and
pillowcases look strikingly similar.

And unfortunately I don't know how to un-read.

Guess I'll just have to resort to changing my pillow cases a few times a week

grin
> You also seem to have some idealistic idea of what advertising is.

When I mention a "social function", I don't mean a "public service". I mean in the utilitarian sense. Every economic activity has a social function. If you consider yourself to be living in a free society, for every kind of activity you do you are expected to provide some kind of good or service that is of interest of others. If it is considered to be beneficial only to one of the parties, it is not going to happen (unless it is done by force, but then we don't have an actual free society)

From brick layers to gas stations, from restaurant chefs to prostitutes, from Venture Capital Fund Managers to shoe makers to Hollywood. That is the case even to advertising. Advertising's "social function" is to inform the consumer public about what is available in the market at large, and to give to producers a chance to showcase their offerings. This may sound "idealistic", but it shouldn't be.

You seem to be focused on the "business" part of the things. As in "how to make money to keep that activity?" For society, this doesn't matter. If there is any other way to fulfill that need, the business is obsolete and can (should) go extinct or adapt into something else.

You have the arrows reversed: you want society to accept that the business needs to exist, and that it should change to support it. In fact, it is the business that needs to change to always support the needs of society.

Yours is the corporatist view. This view is what brings us the continued influence of RIAA and MPAA and DRM. It's what brings us poor-quality American cars. It is what brings "Food, Inc" thanks to subsidies in the corn industry. It is what brings us a society that is so drowned in "cheap" entertainment that leads to this dystopia we live in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death)

> Destroy brands? Why? What's that do?

I don't say in the sense of setting corporate places on fire. I mean in the sense of being able to convince people that most of the time, there is a "brand-free" version of a product that is of equal or superior quality but that costs less.

Think of things like consumer electronics: most of the audio equipment or LCD panels can be virtually the same, yet people are so bombarded by ads from the "reputable brands", they can't even conceive or looking for an OEM factory.

Another example: at least in São Paulo I remember going to the mall and seeing "designer" jeans that would cost $100. Those jeans were produced in many different small shops around the city, spec'd by the "designer". The uncle of a friend of mine ran one of those shops. He would sell the "unbranded" version of the jeans for $15.

Another example: Go to any supermarkets, and you find "white label" products that are sometimes produced by companies that produce the very same "branded" version. The contents can be the same, yet the branded one will cost more.

What is the benefit of "brands" in these examples? How are the advertising companies helping people in making better informed decisions?
No but I heard that computer manufacturing is rated in dust particles per billion air molecules.
I didn't realize they were behind the Navy one too; it would be interesting to hear why they switched from flywheels to capacitors for power delivery.
Is their really that much ice on Greenland to make the ocean rise 16-23 feet?

"...If melted completely, the Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to raise sea level by 5-7 meters (16-23 feet)."

Greenland is smaller than Mexico
The issue is that Agile works far better when you have constantly changing requirements, and when you will constantly work on the code. Agile works best when "development" and "maintenance" are the same. See: Chrome, Android.

Disadvantages: 0 backwards compatibility, annoying for users (I’d love to force the people who made these decisions to try and use a 5 year old Android phone with modern apps, thanks to the constantly breaking APIs that’s not possible), there is no backporting of fixes.

Advantages: Always the newest, shiniest.

When your requirements are stable, and you write
> A lot of vehicles totally botch Bluetooth.

I had no idea, I got a 2011 car recently and it plays bluetooth audio and does calling as a separate functionality. I had issues getting it setup at first, but once I did, I haven't really thought of it sense. My only issue is I think Google should let you pick a default music software somehow, when I first started using it, it would open up the stock music player instead of Google Play Music (which is what I use by default). Now I go into my car and it autoplays, but I have to have the app open. Hopefully there will be progress in future versions of Android.
I have a simpler alternative:

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Mix it all in a blender and enjoy.
that is a huge pet peeve of mine, the whole nickel and diming and paying developers $xxx,xxx a year and expecting them to make do with a single $200 1080p crappy monitor and the cheapest possible pc one can get.

This seems to happen sometimes because of budgeting issues and silos and so on, but it is still penny wise and pound foolish to expect "passionate" folks and not give them the tools to excel, and creates ongoing friction which will definitely not help with attrition/retention.

If I owned my company I would honestly nowadays give every developer an 8-core 128gig workstation or two with 2-3 21:9 35" 1440p screens and 1TB+ of nvme ssd and a $1k+ allowance to get whatever best-of-the-best chair they want to get (say, a steelcase leap or similar)

Even if you spent $10k on each engineer for this (and the above would be less than that) it would be worth it just from the perspective of you want your employees' workspace to get out of the way as much as possible to enable them to be productive and write good quality code.

The output and code quality gains from having a top-of-the-line machine/monitor pay for themselves in spades, but for some reason this never seems to be noticed in any company I have worked for, it can go from "we are a startup, we have no money to waste" all the way to "we are a large company and beholden to our shareholders, we have no money to waste" but the end result is the same, the people who could do with better tools don't get them and gripe (justifiably) about it.
I am using the definition from agilemanifesto.org, which argues that "change" is more important than planning what you actually want to do. Or that "it works" is more important than documenting it.
All smart TVs these days are updatable.

My Nest thermostat is updatable. I don't have to do a thing for it to update. I would bet my Smart washing machine will also be.
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The AG said FD/DK could continue operations. The AG said that they could not accept money from NY residents.

These are two different things, and you're conflating them.

To use your analogy: The manufacture of alcohol is legal in NY, they just cant sell it in NY. Are you avoiding realizing this comparison on purpose?
It's now been two weeks since Theranos said they were going to release clinical data.