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An early start is followed by furious exercise. David Cush, the CEO of Virgin America, is on his exercise bike shortly after getting up at 4.15am. Tim Cook of Apple is in the gym at 5am. However strenuous the workout, it is often combined with other tasks. Mr Cush reads, makes phone calls and listens to a sports-radio station while cycling. Mr Iger once told the New York Times that, while exercising, “I look at e-mail. I surf the web. I watch a little TV, all at the same time.” And all while listening to music.

These guys probably aren't really working all that hard. If you have time to read emails and surf the web then you should exercise harder.

A lot of adventure sports mostly require money eg sky-diving - cost of fuel, mountaineering - paying for the expedition. I know people who mostly spend their money on adventures. Anyone can do this if that's your thing. Otherwise get into some cheaper adventures like rock climbing or canyoning.

The triathlons and mountain-biking might be impressive if we knew their times. Lots of people have jobs and families and commitments and regularly compete in and train for endurance sports or any sport for that matter. Who do you think enters these competitions?
> I believe you missed the statement

I believe you posted a reply while I was still making postscript-editing. A bad habit of mine, I know.
> - It's secure. Again no need for payment information, there's not much ads can do. (Malware is a different problem.)

http://www.wired.com/insights/2014/11/malvertising-is-cyberc...

Advertising is an attack vector. A security risk for the end user.
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>I'm starting to think that it's impossible to get an accurate blood work from a finger prick only.

It is possible, but just for certain test types and error rates. The basic problem is the blood drawn from a finger prick is affected by exactly where it goes in and how much skin tissue is picked up. This variability gets averaged out with a large venous draw and so is not quite as bad - there is still a large variability with even normal blood tests for certain test types.

The tests that work OK are things where you just want a yes/no answer (do you have HSV1) and very poorly for things where you are wanting to measuring exact levels of something.

None of this is new to the industry.
\philosophical: Showing growth requires showing "before" and "after". Yet, if the bulk of a movie is the "before", it can be a way of celebrating that behaviour, and the brief "after" at the end is a way to slip past the censors. [In general - not saying Inside Out would be censored!] The greater screen time and scenes means "before" leaves the greater impression on viewers.

Inside Out's is a dissatisfying explantion for emotion, because each emotion-character themselves exhibited a variety of emotion (e.g. Joy was sad), implying by the conceit of the movie that they each had a set of emotions within their own head... ad infinitum. That's the problem with the homunculi theory of mind: it doesn't explain anything.

Did anger ever make a useful contribution in the movie? IIRC only a source of humour, or a problem to be worked around.

BTW The outtake-like scenes at the end included a bus driver who was all anger.
Not a lawyer but "the study submitted by Theranos last year to win the agency’s approval for a herpes test was tainted by breaches in research protocol" sounds iffy.
If I remember that anecdote correctly, Edison was producing very variable results on diluted venous blood not finger prick.
But I was told herpes is forever?
Non-paywalled link : http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-hoverboards-epitomize-our-br...
This is still direct via donations. Just by a few doing it for the many.

So the question is, who are these special few?

NYT times costs hundreds of millions to run. That's just a single publisher. Most major sites require somewhere in the 8 figures. As theory and data have shown, human behavior is not conducive to paying if you can avoid it. Unless your plan is to turn content publishers into tax-funded state-run companies, I fail to see how this could possibly work.

* Before it's mentioned: Wikipedia is perhaps the only example of donations working at scale. However, it's not really working because Wikipedia doesn't produce any content. It's also not a business. Wikimedia which is an actual business runs the wikia.com network of sites and they're all monetized through ads.
Theranos was offering standard tests at a lower rate. I'm guessing the market price is so high, it's quite easy to generate positive cash flow from it. Could it be the incumbent industry players do not want a new competitor into the market?

Also Martin Shkreli got arrested recently. Who benefits most from arresting Shkreli? The pharmaceutical industry he shone the light on.

Now where can you buy one of those hats?
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Well the first part is very true and the fact that the gov't doesn't really care about quality (just as long as people are working) probably fuels the culture of mediocrity, but this really doesn't apply to the private sector where in a different cultural climate the employers would always demand excellence. I mean at the end of the day it's sorta understandable b/c you just have to not be a ton worse than your competitors - and think of the savings!

I'm sure it's very different from Singapore/Taiwan/HK (though judging by the lack of attention to detail by immigrants in San Francisco I'll wait to see for myself), but this is a country of peasants/farmers run by peasants and farmers. It's going to take a very very long time for the culture to change - I'm talking several generations - b/c it's the culture of the "weakest-link". I guess their only blessing is that they have these other places to learn from.
That's a slightly different kind of noise than this, but still a neat set of videos. Thanks, I hadn't seen those before.
Got it. So with your edit:

> I mean, would you say that dumping a type of toxic waste into a river is an "implementation" problem when there's no law against it?

Yes. This doesn't mean we stop doing anything that produces toxic waste. Cars are also a vector for criminal activity. Like guns and knives and cellphones. We don't get rid of them either. Instead we use regulation and standards to enforce the safety mechanisms and proper ethical behavior.
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Is it a cargo cult? Or maybe it is keeping up with the Jones?

I wonder though how it compares CEO job vs. business owner CEO. With owning the company I imagine there is less politics and therefore less pressure to appear superhuman and more pressure to achieve genuinely good outcomes for the business.
There are quite a few doctors out there who do nothing but write rx's for stimulants, all day long, and make a killing doing it. A semi-annual blood pressure check and once over to make sure the person doesn't look strung out seems to be all that really needs to be done.

Problem is, the diagnostic criteria are things that everyone has in some degree, and that frankly, for most people stimulants improve function - whether that function was a baseline negative or zero before.
Good thing we have license plate readers. Impound the bike for noise pollution and a bonus felony for running away from cops!
With Firefox tracking protection, I counted 21 trackers being blocked. This my new record for most number of trackers on one page.
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I'll second this about the heated bed. I have the Printrbot Play and I like it but I wish it had a heated bed. I have overcome most adhesion issues by printing larger brims on small prints. Then I have to cut off the brim. This wastes filament and adds another step to the process.
With you all the way brother. Stripped of nostalgia (I also saw the original movies for the first time only this year), It's a fun little space drama with the eternal good vs evil fight... with lasers and death rays.
"Look Who's Back", mentioned in the article, isn't just a book. It's a movie. The trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtW1Lq5c04E

The part where a young Goth woman shows Hitler how to use Google is very funny.
"At a certain point as a parent, it's kind of like, it doesn't really matter what we do."

Congratulations. You've discovered the true essence of parenting ;-)
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If enough people care about an ad-free web, it wouldn't have to be a special few: it could be a relatively large group of passionate people.

But that's just one idea. The point is that it's not a dichotomy of low-friction, indirect ads versus high-friction, direct payment. There may be other options.
Adding to what Terr_ already pointed out:

> It's efficient

Money may not be changing hands, but a lot of information is, which is easily worth more. Leaving out these costs are yet another reason why advertisers have a reputation for dishonesty.

Also, the article specifically discussed the terrible power efficency that is always going to be associated with the extra transfer and processing associated with fetching ads. Or do you think they get to violate conservation on energy to be downloaded? If you are adding ad to a page, you are making the client pay more to see it. Offloading costs like this - while pretending it is efficient - should really be criminal.

> It's passive

Bullshit, and you know it.

The very idea of advertising is to be distracting. The arms-race we've seen over the last few decades where advertising went from simple banners, to popups, to various other dynamic rendering tricks, to the modern modal/click-through video ads - and worse - are all about not being passive. This is suck a basic concept in advertising that I have to conclude you are dissembling deliberately, or are such a "true believer" in advertising you cannot see it any other way.

Also, it takes an incredible amount of energy to ignore ads. Anybody that thinks ads don't cost any mental energy is either lying or addicted. Install an adblocker and use it 100% reliably for several months to break the addiction, and you will be shocked at the energy advertising wastes when you see it again.

> It's accessible

Except if someone is poor, they cannot afford whatever it is you are advertising. I've seen this meme a lot recently, so it's obviously a talking point the advertising indujstry is using to try to justify their drain on society. You're not fooling anybody, and this kind of appeal only makes advertisers look desperate.

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While Terr_ already mentioned this one...

> It's secure.

You don't get to exclude malware, when advertising is the vector.

Even ignoring that, leaking tracking information makes you malware!
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Which part of logins and cookies is RESTful?

Fielding's REST requires that the protocol be "stateless"... not that there be no state, but that the client and the server need not keep track of each other. Cookies, as Fielding explicitly calls out, are in violation of this principle. Every website that uses cookies is not RESTful.

Some people might conclude from this that FB, Amazon, and HN are "not good", because they're not RESTful. I personally conclude something else, but YMMV.
The entire internet is an attack vector. Malware has existed for a long time in numerous forms, ad networks are just another possibility but so are websites themselves, downloadable software, mobile apps, etc.

As mentioned in another comment - We also have cars and cellphones that can be used by criminals. That doesn't mean modern transportation and communication has a problem, it means that criminals will be criminals and we need better ways of dealing with them. As far as I can see, that's an implementation problem.

Here's the truth: I've been in the ad industry for a long time and there is literally 0 enforcement of anything. Lots of fraud and shady practices but no regulation and nobody to answer to. If you do get caught, change the name of the company and try again. I can guarantee that if we actually send people to jail for not vetting malware or running illegal or shady ads, this problem will pretty much go away immediately.
Oh yeah, tracking down video of Samurai Pizza Cats wasted many hours of my 20s, nothing like trying to rewatch the cartoons of your youth.

As for comercialised, TMNT was hardly pure on this front, in fact they helped pioneer it in western cartoons. Nothing blatantly commercial in the the 94 strong cast of the original 1988-1997 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures line. http://turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Teenage_Mutant_Nin...

Farmer Don and his Modern Mutant Tractor are totally not trying to fleece your parents hard earned money.

But seriously, at least they started out making awesome toys like the Turtle Blimp -http://turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Turtle_Blimp_(1988_toy)
I have Ghostery and UBlock origin turned on. Page loads in less than a second for me.
Yes, delete your browser cookies for the economist. I just did that and it worked.
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A quick data point I have a close relative who is a primary care doctor and they've said that many many patients come in to the office and claim to have adhd sometimes they're regular patients other times they're first timers. At first the doctor would spend an hour explaining why they didn't really have adhd and they'd be okay - that never worked the patient would never return, they'd just find another doctor who was a little less tightfisted. So this doctor has given they just prescribe whenever the patient asks for it. Why should they lose a patient?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763151
A friend and his wife joked once that they were disappointed when they finished grad school that their diplomas didn't have the line, 'accomplished without the use of psychotropic drugs.'
I agree, they're very tough problems. My summary was reductionist, and though I offered some examples (since that's what was asked for) I didn't mean to claim visual programming is always compelling and/or generally useful for the masses. I've been down that road before and reached other conclusions, though I'm happy other people are still trying to push the idea further.
The site loads about ~30 scripts in the HEAD tag before it's allowed to render the body, its disgusting.
This is a terrible comment. You've completely missed the point of the article, and chosen to dwell on one detail, turning it into a straw man.
When I was at uni a pill was only $1-$2. Less than a cup of coffee and much more effective if you have a long night ahead of you.
I don't doubt that exercise promotes a healthy brain, but I sometimes wonder whether the endorphin high of exercise is really the best preparation for the day at hand. Sure, you feel great, but are you thinking great? Or do you just think you're thinking great?

In some of the cases described in this article, it sounds like these execs are addicted to the exercise that they wake up so early for (granted not a bad habit). But addiction by its nature tends to invent a narrative for its existence and the promise of greater productivity is gold.
> NYT times costs hundreds of millions to run.

Maybe their product isn't worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

As for willingness to pay, you seem to be projecting your own selfish behavior onto others. I know quite a few counter-examples that prove people are willing to pay for content they actually value. They have embraced technology to lower costs, and have cultivated very generous audiences using places like Patron.

> only example of donations working at scale

LOL. Only if you don't look. Also, why do you think everything has to work "at scale"? Small-but-loyal audiences are fine.
Looks like no more Donald Trump speeches, then. One less platform for fascists is fine by me.
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Actually psychologists have identified seven basic emotions: fear, anger, joy, sadness, surprise, contempt, and disgust. "Surprise" was considered similar enough to "fear" that Pixar made one character out of them; the same goes for "contempt" and "disgust". Complexity in emotions arises from their interactions, much like how we perceive a spectrum of colors as a mixture of three primaries.

Most of the professionals in the field who saw Inside Out have praised it for getting the basics of emotion and memory right, even if it isn't super accurate. It is after all a cartoon.
> Ads are definitely more anonymous than payments. Payments = credit cards or bank accounts. Guess what that means? Your name, address, age, credit history, employment, etc all perfectly accessible and tied to your identity.

So what does 15n1xkeDCGJJQAcYv17M4bPVfGqnksihLG tell you about me?
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My thoughts exactly, they claim to have "over 250 experts worldwide". It seems to me this partner network might be a very large part of their success.

http://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts/
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reddit was not providing the answers so I decided to come to good ol' hacker news

anyways,
For a school tech project im trying to make a portable n64. 2 problems: 1. Im really bad at this kind of stuff and if someone has a page they could direct me to please link it. Also if you can give me a list of parts and where to find them, it would be very very helpful!
I dont have any of my old n64 games and dont want to buy any as a few of them are very expensive. Is there a way to make it so that I can download the games onto the portable n64?
1) We didn't "forget". It's a bad idea to pretending people that disagree with you are uninformed or stupid.

2) Ads only created part of the internet. Insisting otherwise only makes you willfully ignorant.

3) Welcome to capitalism. Websites will get to find out their true value. I look forward to a lot of worthless junk going away.
what are you talking about?

I understood Rand as if each of us truly focus on our individual needs then the world will be a better place.

The world is lot shittier because there are lots of people who seem to think they know what someone else wants.
> The material costs of a physical book are probably well under $0.50

It's low, but not that low. More like $4 to $5. More if printed in full color.
Scientists are seen by lots of people as secular priests or shamans. In this respect science is a victim of its own success. It now commands the attention of a lot of people who expect it to perform some of the social functions that religion used to play. "Science" is more likely to be hijacked by charlatans because of this totemic value.
I did not know much about Theranos before the recent skeptical articles started to appear on newspapers regarding the falseness of their claims.

The larger question is, how do you get to a $9B valuation without having rock solid technology or evidence to prove the effectiveness of their technology?

I would assume that the VCs in SV are a pretty smart bunch. How on earth did this happen in the first place? If Theranos really did not have the kind of earth shattering technology that they claim to have, how did they get so much money?

If you take a look at their angellist page, then you'll see that they did not even need to raise the money in stages, no seed or series stuff. If you take a look at one of their investors, DFJ, has invested in a lot of successful companies like skype and tesla. Also other investors have invested in companies like Uber and Lyft.

I don't know too much about medicine or tests for that matter. But what I do know is that people don't invest their money without good reason to do so.

What is confounding is that $45M is not chunk change, and yet they managed to raise this much cash in an unconventional way.
>>> Also, the article specifically discussed the terrible power efficency that is always going to be associated with the extra transfer and processing associated with fetching ads. Or do you think they get to violate conservation on energy to be downloaded? If you are adding ad to a page, you are making the client pay more to see it. Offloading costs like this - while pretending it is efficient - should really be criminal.

These are externalities. Do you get upset that articles have images in them? What about products coming in packaging that you just throw away? Isn't that gas and energy you are wasting on something you don't want?

Power efficiency of ads is really not that big of a deal.

>>> Bullshit, and you know it.

I was talking about the effort involved in choosing to pay for each pageview. Not ad formats. I believe you're conflating the two together.

>>> The very idea of advertising is to be distracting.

Actually the idea is to gain your attention. And yes, we already know this because it's quite literally what advertisers are paying for. Your attention.

>>> advertising went from simple banners, to popups, to various other dynamic rendering tricks

Yes, this is an implementation issue where ads have gotten out of hand. I agree with you that we need to return to better standards. However this doesn't mean the advertising model is broken. It's still magnitudes less effort required than having to decide to pay everytime you load a new page.

>>> to ignore ads

The point isn't to ignore ads. Advertisers are paying for your attention which pays for the content. It obviously wouldn't be a very good model if they never got the attention that they paid for. Yes it takes energy to ignore, also takes energy to choose to pay. Ads are generally easier to deal with.

>>> when advertising is the vector

Everything is a vector. Pick any object in the world. It's a vector for use by a criminal. We should focus on stopping the criminals, not banning everything.

>>> leaking tracking information makes you malware

Genuinely don't understand this. What tracking information and what is harming you?
Falsifying data to obtain regulatory approval is definitely illegal, and federal regulations allow the government to hold corporate officers personally liable.

It has yet to be proven that Theranos did in fact falsify data, though.
I don't have a problem with that, either. Uber drivers put a lot more stress on their cars than ordinary drivers do, but ordinarily the worst consequence of that is that someone gets stuck at the side of the road waiting for a tow truck. If the same holds true for Uber-but-for-planes, the consequences of that are potentially a lot more severe. Requiring that commercial flights are held to a different standard as far as aircraft maintenance and such, not just pilot licensing, makes a lot of sense to me.
> derivatives of Kant are the dead-end of a false metaphysics and epistemology

Sounds like you've been reading too much Ayn Rand. Nobody else places as much irrational blame on a single philosopher. Even if you think his philosophy is wrong, its much less wrong than things that came before it, and is certainly less wrong than claiming you can found a philosophy on 'A is A'.
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Yes and no. What I envision is a more collaborative process where the faulty data (and your calibration concerns) could be available for scrutiny before your work was officially finished.

I feel like if we did it right, it would be possible to define "units of scientific work" to be something other than "finished publications." An incentive structure designed to maximize the new units would place more value on verification, collaboration, and negative results.
What I meant about TMNT is that back then the cartoons were fully animated, not showing 0.5 FPS with action lines. Japanese Anime got away with it by having deep story lines and funky stuff. US knockoffs in the 2000s had the worst of both.