skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of rapid disruption in the healthcare industry makes me uncomfortable for some reason. I admire Holmes's ambition and in interviews I've watched she seems competent and well guided but something just doesn't seem to add up.

How was a college dropout able to get a break in the healthcare sector? Becoming a doctor requires years of education and training and along comes this young woman who just decides "I'm going to change all of this." What? I don't understand how a person with no experience, no vetting, no medical training, no engineering training, and frankly a product that I find to be of questionable value ends up getting millions in funding and at the head of a multibillion dollar company.

Perhaps I just don't understand the phobia that some people have around blood tests but it is my understanding that you get a blood test as a way to gauge your health, not because it makes you feel nice. The hold up doesn't seem to be that tons of people are afraid of needles otherwise they would be getting tested all the time. The hold up to people getting blood tests all the time is that doctors don't order them, presumably because doctors don't think people need them.
As long as the test isn't extremely uncomfortable for the patient, I would think that accuracy is really the only measure of quality for a test and it seems to me that they are willing to sacrifice accuracy in favor of making people feel comfortable.

Also, why would I ever get a blood test at a grocery store? Why would I ever trust some random employee at a food store to respect my privacy and be medically competent enough to administer a test like that. What exactly do I have to gain by getting one in the first place?

Correct me if I'm wrong on any of this because this is just my viewpoint as an outsider. I would however never get a blood test from Theranos and if I wanted one I would call my practitioner and have them administer one at a doctor's office, not at the local grocery store.
Because they're the only functional pieces of instrumentation to be found within the Theranos building
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This isn't all that different than today's beauty regimes. Talk to teenage girls and models, the toxicity now goes far deeper than makeup.

Acne is caused by bacteria. You would be shocked at how many young celebs basically live on antibiotics year after year. What that does to their immune system isn't good, but the shock it does to their digestive systems probably helps keep the pounds off. Clear skin is also a function of hormones, specifically estrogen. Estrogen is found in birth control pills. Many a young girl is on 'the pill' for that benefit rather than for her reproductive health.

At the truly shocking end are the models that use diabetes and insulin to manipulate weight. The poster girl for this is Halle Berry. She is/was a true diabetic, but it is also clear she used her insulin dependency to keep thin. A former Mr Universe was the male face of this practice.

https://www.diabeteshealth.com/scrawny-boy-with-type-1-diabe...
I think the relevant issue is whether the editor can render the OpenType ligatures (well, contextual alternates) contained in the font.

You _could_ convert to .ttf, changing the curves to TrueType-style quadratics, but they'd still have to have the OpenType substitution tables for the "ligatures" to work, and I don't think that would really improve compatibility much, if at all.
How did they bypass the review process?

You wouldn't have to - you could wait for an opportunity to slip it into a huge, mundane change.

For example, changing the repository from Mercurial to Git. Splitting or combining two repositories. Moving lots of files between directories. Running an autoformatter over the entire codebase. Something like that.

I'd wager there aren't many reviewers with the patience and attentiveness to spot 1 evil change among 1000 trivial changes.
Completely agree! I'm curious if the `query` parameter in the API performs well on long queries (with context) or if it needs to be focused to a single entity's name
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Unfortunately, Kapacitor is script based. I'm looking forward to see the alert system Grafana is designing:
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2209
In order to be free of execution semantics, you'd have to disallow calling side-effectful functions within a query, which would be a major departure from the current behaviour.
Why are all these articles about Holmes' personality?
Who cares? These locks could be cut with tweezers. Manual baggage inspection notices could be faked regardless. Pure noise.
Oh, wow! This looks great! I generally like the GPL (including 3) - but wonder if MIT/BSD moght not have been an even better choice for a text book, where someone might want to build on example code and use it in a different system.

At any rate the PDF version looks (and more importantly reads) great.
Becoming a doctor requires years of education and training and along comes this young woman who just decides "I'm going to change all of this."

You don't need to be a doctor to hire doctors. Aren't startups supposed to be all about this kind of disruption by outsiders? People who come along and decide "I'm going to change all of this"?
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Interesting, I used to give the same kind of coding exercise to candidates but was leaving them alone in the room for 60 minutes and popped-in every 20min to ask them if everything was fine.

I also kindly insisted on the fact that they should feel free to come see me if they had any question. The reason is part of the exercise was to assess their ability to avoid wasting their time by being blocked on something and ask for clarification.

On the one hand I like this pair interview approach because it allows you to check the communication and social skills of a candidate. On the other hand I don't like it because you lose tons of valuable information.

You lose information on the autonomy of the candidate, on his creativity, on his coding habits, and more. You create a group effect (we're not the same in groups that when we are alone). And to me, while team work is important, the interview is about gauging the individual contribution that the candidate will make to the team and in an artificial environment it is done more accurately by allowing time to assess his individual work skills.

I also knew that in the particular company I worked for, we didn't do pair programming and we most of the time had to work alone on several mini-projects. So it made even more sense to assess how they would perform under their future work conditions.

I prefer my approach because you can get the same insight into their thinking patterns by reviewing their solution with them point by point afterwards, but you also get plenty of other information by doing so. I never focus on the syntax but ask questions on the strategy and the choices made. The code could even not compile I wouldn't care, the only point of the exercise is to have material for a discussion.

The one important thing to hire good developers is to always have a coding project of 1 hour or so relevant to the role in the interview process. This revealed the bad developers instantly, and the frightening thing is that all of them had otherwise performed very well during interviews.

Thanks for sharing though, I didn't know about this practice and it is always refreshing to know what other people do. While I don't think I will implement this approach for the reasons mentioned above, having a broader perspective can only benefit the mind.
This link was dead but I vouched for it. I know on HN et. al. Feynman is a big hero but Gell-Mann was totally respectful and just gave his view on the person of Feynman, not his image that he apparently spent some effort cultivating.
There is some agriculture in Tibetan Himalayan areas, but you are limited to mostly staples (barley is popular). The areas where animals graze in China are not densely populated, and not much of that meat is exported east to densely populated areas, at least when compared to pork (China's most popular meat) and chicken (China's second most popular meat); grazing animals are mostly limited to Muslim niche foods (well, not niche if you are Muslim!). Grazing animals have not had much effect on China's population density (and if you think about it, the huge amount of land required to graze animals necessarily limits population density).

Jiangsu, a Chinese province of 79 million people, has twice the density of Japan, a country of 125 million. However, Jiangsu is one of those provinces that is completely flat. Much of the densities of China's mountainous provinces (like say Hebei) are quite similar to Japan.
The paper isn't suggesting 'Anonymous et al. (2002, Nature)' style links. In fact, it addressed that concern directly:

> It is suggested that, if using parenthetical referencing, we are not referring to the author(s) any more but to a few title-keywords of the article and do not refer to the journals name. Those title-keywords can replace the authors’ names completely. They can be chosen by the author(s). Taking the APA citation style as an example, citing Nosek and Bar-Anan (2012) could look like this: "...how to change scientific communication (e.g. Opening Scientific Communication, 2012)". The full reference should then be placed in the reference section together with other bibliographies starting with the letter O. The latter can be applied to the Vancouver citation system, too.

I happen to think it's not a useful solution, because 1) 'chosen by the author' is a free-text field open to all sorts of ways to hack the system, 2) names are easier to transliterate than titles are to translate, and 3) citations are often not made because of the main topic of the paper but can include also minor points which are later found to be more important. Using the author's name is a more neutral link in that case.

(For example, I've seen a paper cited because there's a one line comment about the software used to make an image in the publication. That software became popular, but there was no publication about the software itself, so people cited that first paper instead.)
This is super cool. I've played with Bloomberg terminals a few times at hackathons & job fairs, and this has a very similar feel.
Doesn't necessarily require a 'rootkit'. Maybe it's a smaller bit of subtle corruption of a random-number generator. Maybe even it's an unintentional flaw that he learned about during an audit and then decided to exploit rather than fix.
I know, Scala, right?
The assumption of the master key remaining safe is the problem though. If e.g. the government forced a known back door in encryption systems, that master key then becomes the single juciest, most delicious target of every cyber criminal and foreign intelligence agency in the world. It's hard to be able to keep something like that secure while making it accessible enough to actually use for its intended purpose.
Great point! This joins a host of other coding bootcamps springing up in places with small (but increasing) tech sector e.g Code school in Kabul, Code for Pakistan etc.
A very fast, light-weight, isomorphic component building framework
I thought 'strike' was an options thing rather than a short thing?
It's my understanding that Apple has, over the years, gradually supplanted the parts of Mach that really matter.

For example, Apple no longer relies on the Mach port mechanism for IPC, instead mostly relying on their own, better XPC, which forms the foundation for libdispatch (aka Grand Central) and OS X's sandboxing.

Of course, XNU is also a monolithic kernel, not a microkernel.

Transitioning to a different kernel would probably be a costly mostly-zero-velocity project for Apple, especially now that they are no longer in the server OS space. A different kernel might require replacing IOKit, unless one could write a compatibility layer for it.
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Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday. It's Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" for the social media age.
She comes from a very, very privileged family with the kind of connections most of us can only dream about. Alas that still counts for a lot, even amongst the VCs (especially amongst?) in PAMPA.
Poignant? I half-suspect you're trolling. It's ironic because one might assume that a paper that argues for anonymity to itself be anonymous, but it's not. Irony: when things are the opposite of what's expected.
The Knowledge "Graph"[1]offers an optional disambiguation parameter you can query with[2]. DuckDuckGo (I swear I'm not a shill or associated with them!) offers a disambiguation API out-of-the-box and integrates some of the RDF material I mentioned below. Here's your "Apple" example[3].

Though, based on the amount of data Google has on the average user, and the fact that you have to sign-up to get an API key which is presumably associated with your search history, Gmail history (either any conversations sent from your Gmail account, or any mail you received dispatched from a Gmail account directed at you), they could easily determine if you meant Apple the fruit [you work for the USDA], Apple the company [you're an engineer in SF with a User-Agent history that's very heavily skewed towards Safari], or etymological basis of Apple, the word [you're a linguist], and disambiguate based on aggregate information. I'd imagine it'd be pretty trivial to do with their existing advertising profile + visit history of any site that either has Google Analytics or a Doubleclick ad.

[1] Again, I struggle to call it a graph, even if it's implemented as a GDB on Google's end, until the end-user traverses it, it's just a Knowledge API.

[2] https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/reference/rest... See: `types'.

[3] http://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=apple&format=json&pretty=1
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Psychic powers?
Perhaps not, and perhaps she has a gifted eye for talented medical professionals/chemists and/or is able to put people in place who do but it's still a company being built by someone who doesn't really have the deep domain specific knowledge that would be required to make truly informed decisions. How many tech companies were founded by people with literally zero experience in tech? probably not many except medicine is even harder to learn. While you can spend all day reading Stack Overflow and writing apps to become a reasonable programmer it isn't like you can do the same thing with Web Md and become a reasonable doctor.
In part2/3 or wherever you discuss hidden services, can you please not call them the "dark web"? That term is being thrown around so much lately that it has lost all useful meaning.

Imho the "dark web" means those parts of the web not publicly visible, ie not indexed by search engines and/or places not accessible to the public. Most hidden services are indexed and are publicly accessible ... so they are not by definition dark.
> Dr. Bill Frist, the former Senate majority leader from Tennessee who joined Theranos as a director last year, supports Ms. Holmes and asserts that “the data I have seen speaks.” But he also points out that the Theranos story has taken on the cast of a vicious political campaign and there’s nothing more appealing than watching a front-runner fall from grace.

This is ridiculous. A lifetime politician accuses other clinical scientists and medical practitioners questioning Theranos' basic technology and its secrecy as political campaign? That's not how Science and Medicine work. Even that "a front-runner" statement is questionable. Theranos can not even releases its revenue number to be compared to LabCorp or Quest Dx.

> In the early 1990s, Mr. Holmes moved the family to Texas where he worked for energy companies, including Tenneco and Enron. (Mr. Holmes has since returned to public service and now works at the United States Agency for International Development.)

NOW that gets very interesting! Mr. Holmes [1] was found to be listed as officers in at least four Enron subsidiaries[2,3]. Guess that would be great lessons for some future entrepreneur. Conveniently such Enron experiences are not listed on USAID website [4].

[1] http://individual-contributors.insidegov.com/d/c/Christian-H...

[2] http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Houston/christian-r-hol...

[3] http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eesi/scs/Holmes.htm

[4] https://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/organization/christian-holm...
One reason is perhaps to do with what really happens when someone is trying to win a project. Given that winning involves beating others in the fray, all including the winner would end up making commitments which are higher than the capabilities and competencies available with them at that point in time. This initial gap creates risk right at the beginning and if it is not mitigated in time, would amplify to bigger proportions. This mismatch eventually results in projects running behind schedule which in turn becomes a self-feeding vicious cycle with short-cuts being taken to cover up. That then leads to a compounding effect on schedule slippage.
This is a true point. When you have a lot of money available to invest and you already have a diverse portfolio of high risk-reward investments I suppose it isn't such a big deal to spend 1m on an intelligent family friend. Still... they didn't get to be that wealthy by being careless with their money so I suppose we/I just don't know the full story.
Can't site operators also receive gag orders that forbid them from disclosing that they are being censored, in which case they aren't even allowed to use the 451 code, which defeats the purpose of the code?
Scientists compete for scarce resources: funding and great students. How do we allocate money and students to the people who will use them most effectively if we can't measure their effectiveness?

It's not just prestige. Some scientists really are better and more productive than others. They should get the resources first.
Excellent sources, thanks!
I doubt it's explitly up to Dang, I remember seeing this same sort of thing back when PG was running the show too. And even if it is up to Dang's discretion..

Why would YC want to propagate negative content corresponding to their ventures?

As far as I'm aware, HN never promised to let us (the users) rule the roost this way. And they've never promised freedom from censorship.

To be clear, I don't mean any of this in a critical way. It simply is what it is.
No client for Android TV as far as I can tell
The current service returns a ranked (with scores) list of up to 200 entities. You can specify a type in your query or filter the results to select types of interest (e.g., Person, Place or Organization). The top result for 'apple' is the Corporation 'Apple, Inc.' and #2 is Thing 'apple' (a fruit). The score is probably based on a graph popularity metric (e.g., number of inlinks) possibly augmented by pagerank. Interestingly, the knowledge graph ID is the same as the Freebase MID and the results for the KG search for 'apple' appear to be a subset of a similar Freebase search and also in the same order.
I don't think so, the whole point is that Clojure will select the correct function dynamically (that's what multiple dispatch is about). In all cases you need 4 different functions (for each type/format combinations).
Traveling with unloaded firearms through states is federally protected.

A few years ago, Greg Revell had a layover in New Jersey and bad weather caused his flight to be delayed. He stayed in a hotel, and New Jersey wound up arresting him and confiscating his firearm which was illegal in the state.

He argued that he was still traveling; New Jersey said he wasn't. He took it to court and won.

tl;dr Traveling through a state with a firearm is legal, but law enforcement can (apparently) still harress you even if you are obeying the law.
I'm assuming commenter meant it'll crash at runtime if there's typos in a keyword used for dispatching a multi method.
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FWIW when I saw Safeway was giving flu shots (which apparently is because of an aborted partnership with Theranos), I thought "WTF would I get a shot at the grocery store?" But then my doctor recommended that I get routine vaccinations there because it's apparently about 1/2 the price of getting them at the clinic. And I tried it, and it's actually a lot more convenient than going to the clinic. The shots are given in a private room by a licensed pharmacist who's trained to know about any possible adverse reactions, and there's usually no lines and little waiting.

I was a skeptic, but a doctor's suggestion turned me into a believer. It's just that Safeway's the beneficiary of this rather than Theranos now.

Workplaces have also given flu shots for a while now - they had a yearly flu clinic at Google the years I was there, but I always found it more convenient to go into Safeway at my leisure than drop my work during the day and get stuck with a needle in front of my coworkers.
Didn't "The Terminator" use 6502?

Case closed :)
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It's not clear that they intended judicial review at all.

Keep in mind that the framers didn't assume permanent political parties, without which Congress and the president would be better able to check each other. And the system lacked any real federal law enforcement, leaving state nullification of federal law a practical possibility even if legally controversial.

Judicial review is more important for us than it was for them because we lack so many of those counterweights. But a powerful judiciary introduces its own set of problems.
If you REALLY, REEEALLLY need the things with you, you could always do something like UPS with signature and insurance. Make the insurance level something like 3x the value of our items and you should be good.
Yep, you're right. An 802.11 client broadcasts the MAC address in every frame in plaintext, so a more straightforward approach would be to use `airodump-ng` to list the cams. The innocent bystander practical & legal concerns were probably the reason author did it this way.
It's not tech. It's a rental property.
I don't know, it seems like many people with a lot of money can afford to be frivolous and end up bailed-out by the government.

See the Wall Street melt-down in 2009. These are supposedly finance professionals who "lent to the wrong sorts" but that's their only job, determining who and who not to lend to, right?

There's a lot of "boys will be boys" among the upper-middle class and wealthy, whether those "boys" are boys or girls of these families.
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Their SSL endpoint, I plan on just moving to an ec2 instance
Right about time. I had to deal with several immigration lawyers and it struck my mind how simple and small their decision tree is. A simple deviation from a standard case makes them want to "check and get back" which they probably do mostly by asking their colleagues.
Just because one hasn't been taken away yet doesn't mean it won't happen. Obviously Google has a bad track record regarding product lifetime and it's going to take some extra special care to win many people back.
If you look at CEO's and other higher ups of healthcare companies, a significant number have absolutely no science training.
Terminator? Bah.

Bender used... err will use a 6502.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/the-truth...
It's present in ScreenOS 6.2, released in 2008 - and probably in even earlier versions too.
What else does a chief-executive have? Number crunching is left to the CFO. Engineering strategy to the CFO. Domain knowledge to the CMO. Operating strategy to the COO.

Did I leave anyone out?
2030? I would say 2025 or even earlier, and not just Law Firms. If you have a white color job, AI is coming for it, and fast!