skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no actual Muller formula though. Though, I can see how you would build a color scale creator using the idea. I will see how it works with our data visualizations, and if so, d3 now has modules, I can build something for that.

Currently we use I Want Hue (http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/iwanthue/) which works far better then it should :).
I believe you can hack an if statement by doing a length, substring and equality comparison to make it equivalent.
I have personally programmed my toe into my iPhone last year sometime. Purely for testing. It does work.
Nope. It's definitely what's going on here. Sorry I'm not very good at enunciating that. It sounds like Theranos is providing a really useful service but there are a lot of hurdles and they are either not doing anything new, or they are and it's not better than what already exists, but it is hard for a casual observer which is all I am to know which it is.
"Button battery" summons up a fairly familiar image for most US-based readers. Here's a picture for you:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Coin-cel...
AKA what happens when you take a bunch of God complex programmers and set them loose operating production infrastructure on the Internet?
So eventually Convox will have to make money, but I'm not sure I see the path... given that I have free access to the software and the infra is provided by AWS.

Do you plan to eventually charge a monthly fee for using the command-line tool?
This is a great point. Thanks for pointing it out.
Playing the devil's advocate a bit and getting into K's shoes, I could argue that:

"those front-end devs that were 'forcefully' assigned to me didn't climb the learning curve fast enough and have wasted a lot of time getting up to speed on the backend technology, while pushing bad commits that initial backend team had to fix. You know, as I already stated and as I know from experience, and you should have listened to me, throwing more people in on a late software project only adds delay.

So, in fact, it wasn't a selfless act, front-end lacked work to do and just pushed their devs onto us to swallow our billable hours without touching theirs, that was sabotage, if not just incompetence." etc.

Note, that's not at all what I think, but if I was playing a politics game, and if I was a malicious recognized team lead with several successes in my track record, that's what (or some variation) I could tell management to get out and put the blame on OP, the young team lead which has everything to prove.

Sure, an org with clueless management unable to assess the situation may not be worth staying in, but things must be kept in perspective, and here we have only one narrative to get an idea of what really happened.
I suppose not; it's not as if they copied and pasted the jail code, merely cited it as prior art in describing their own implementation.

Nevertheless, jails have been the BSD "container story" for over fifteen years.
What does this have to do with the photogenicness of the founder? What exactly did Theranos do wrong here as a company? How does she dress? It didn't even seem like a favor. Does she wear black turtlenecks and jeans? I'm really confused about your comment. Does it address what I asked at all? Can you elaborate?
I don't know.. this presentation is pretty discouraging: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6243_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412292...

The track record for PHP in recent years has been pretty good.
If you're willing to pay, then you can avoid the noisy neighbor problem almost completely by using c3.8xlarge or c4.10xlarge instances. Those instances get their own dedicated 10G NIC. You can use reserved instances to reduce the cost.

But even with smaller instances, AWS network performance is going to be about the same as any VPS provider. The only way to get guaranteed performance is to do Colo, which is expensive.
Constraint-based things to check out:

1. Sussman's talk "We Really Don't Know How to Compute" (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T...) and his work on the Propagator (https://github.com/ProjectMAC/propagators).

2. Gremlin Graph Traversal Machine (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.03843v1.pdf, http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/the-benefits-of-the-gremlin...)

3. Clojure core.logic (https://github.com/clojure/core.logic) and core.match (https://github.com/clojure/core.match)

4. Yedalog: Exploring Knowledge at Scale (http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43462.html, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP9zS43FRzQ)

5. Datomic Datalog (http://docs.datomic.com/query.html)
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Correct. Lock-in is a key part of their strategy.
It's a company with a high valuation, that's raised a lot of money and has been in the industry for 11 years (if I recall correctly) by now. Investigative journalism raised concerns that the company is a sham, which the company exacerbated by reacting in a secretive and defensive way - unorthodox approach for a company working in a field where scientific testing and results are the norm, and where breakthroughs are patented and (eventually) shared somewhat openly.

Imagine if a search company like Google had been founded 11 years ago, and claims to have revolutionized web search, but then a reporter exposed that they don't actually use any of their own search technology at all (!), and instead they pay to license Microsoft's search technology Bing instead (!). And a major industry regulator has claimed they're operating outside regulation (FDA in this case for Theranos). When challenged about whether their technology works, they respond with what amounts to hot air and empty claims. That's where Theranos is right now.

I was inclined to side with Theranos initially, since I've seen my own share of reporting hit-pieces where my insider knowledge made it clear the reporting was highly biased and essentially nothing but an all-out attack on the company. However, my opinion of them has been turning toward skepticism since I've seen them respond to criticism in a secretive way and by failing to substantiate their claims about their product. The cynical part of me is beginning to believe that Theranos is refusing to share real details because the data doesn't look good for them.

If Theranos has not developed any commercially viable breakthrough technology for fingertip blood draws, and will continue to operate indefinitely by conducting regular venous draws using other firms' equipment, then their investment value cannot be sustained, because that's a substantially weaker business model, and different than what was claimed. Selling fingertip testing on breakthrough technology would make them highly differentiated (unique, only ones to do it), whereas reselling other firms' venous draw technology is minimally differentiated (they'd just be a lab, same as any other).

Hacker News is a forum of entrepreneurial and hacker-minded folks, and I think we're all worried about what it means for that sector of the industry, or the tech industry as a whole, if the company turns out to have been a sham. It would not be good for Silicon Valley if Theranos turns out to be anything close to a Ponzi scheme. If in the end it's discovered that Theranos' technology does not work, that's how they may be viewed. It's an interesting story that concerns people.
Can you enlighten us?
Like, all of them?
Another angle is to progressively fire your smallest clients and get referrals from your larger ones.

You can scale to 880$ per hour or whatever it was using this strategy.

It could be hard emotionally to fire nice clients, so keep a good list of devs handy who you can send your undesirable work.

Last thing is to read patio11's guide about freelancing -- its a very relevant read.
interesting. i was under the impression you could just create a snapshot (before destroying the environment) and then restore as needed. am i missing something?

Edit: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_R...
Fair assessment. Thanks this is what I'm looking to hear, it really helps.
1. Multi billion dollar valuation.

2. In the health space, being trustworthy is kinda important.
As a Lutheran, my advice would be to never trust a historical account that claims Luther nailed his 95 thesis to a church door - there's no historical record of him doing that.

As such, I would be very cautious in trusting the research of any author that made a claim they may be prone to not using first sources.

As an aside, Luther did something much more dangerous than nailing paper to a church door: He sent the thesis to his Archbishop.
Yeah, I just re-read your original post and realized you're probably not a native speaker of english (or were writing in a hurry on a phone), my apologies!

Theranos is catching a lot of flak right now because they claim to be a company founded on this awesome new technology, but they seem to be use existing technologies for all the services they currently offer, they won't show people their wonder-device, and the story of the way the company was initially funded and valued keeps getting sketchier.
Yes, she wore black turtlenecks...according to reports, every day since the company was started. Why does being photogenic matter? Because you're more likely to have a massive photo spread/cover devoted to you. Steve Jobs himself was very photogenic. But Theranos is much more affected by Holmes as the face of the company. Because the company never talked about its tech in detail, there wasn't much else to focus on except the youth and passion of its founder.
My 2016 JavaScript predictions:

1) React.js starts to lose popularity due to it's ultra complex tooling ecosystem. People want to feel like what they learn will be still be useful at their next job. The React ecosystem doesn't provide that; the React ecosystem tends to burn people out.

2) Smaller frameworks like Vue or Riot takes the spotlight.

3) Angular 2 is a hit thanks to its "batteries included" design, which will appeal to React burnouts.

4) A new JavaScript rendering-based framework will come out and become a hit. Something like Turbolinks or Glimmer, except it doesn't break jQuery or sandboxes you to an ecosystem.
Are the incumbents really trustworthy? I don't think so, but I guess it's becaus the entire industry is so nebulous.
Writing in a hurry on a phone after a few beers and a hockey game. :)
Yes, and maybe, just maybe a few years down the line, who knows? Your startup, or your boss, or even a friend tells you "Hey, we're looking to subscribe to an inbound marketing platform. Got any suggestions. We're down to Moz vs Hubspot vs Marketo." You'll say... "Hmm I haven't heard of the last 2, but heard a lot about Moz."
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I actually wonder how many people use online dating sites, and even then this is quite natural.
You are most likely to find a compatible partner from a group of people similar to you, having a partner with a similar level of intelligence, interests, and world views is quite important as marriage is no longer seen as some right of passage and a baby factory.

Yes if you use some specific dating site for ivy league alumni you are lowering your selection pool but it's not that different from that service that matches 11 out of 10 on the hotness scale super models with rich men.

If you use a normal dating site the overall selection you'll get will be quite more substantial than 20 even if you filter the heck out of it I'll assume, but still It will most likely not match a maid with a banker.
But there is nothing that stops it from matching a school teacher, a doctor that spent his or her life volunteering in Africa instead of getting rich in an LA private practice or a summa cum laude lawyer that decided to become a public defender instead of getting the likes of BP out of trouble.

Rich people tend to marry other rich people, attractive people tend to marry other attractive people, people in general tend to marry people who resemble them.
Should we also run a piece about how attractive successful men marrying attractive successful women is now considered sexist?
>You even have a co-inventor who committed suicide

I had to look this up -- I guess you're referring to Ian Gibbons?

>>In 2005, Ms. Holmes hired Ian Gibbons, a British biochemist who had researched systems to handle and process tiny quantities of fluids. His collaboration with other Theranos scientists produced 23 patents, according to records filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Holmes is listed as a co-inventor on 19 of the patents.

>>The patents show how Ms. Holmes’s original idea morphed into the company’s business model. But progress was slow. Dr. Gibbons “told me nothing was working,” says his widow, Rochelle.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-has-struggled-with-bloo...
could kill? This problem has been known since 2013 in Aus ~ http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3798752.htm

"Around 20 children a week are presenting to emergency departments around the country after ingesting batteries." [0]

[0] In November 2015 the message is being escalated ~ http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2015/s4357330.htm
Hmm. Well, somehow these heavy-hitters have presumably done their research and then chose AWS:

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/

I see your characterization of AWS above as "terrible", but I'm curious how that squares with the (probably very well-informed) decisions these people made to use AWS.
The use of existing technologies seems like an unimportant factor. Uber uses cars, more to the point they started using private limo contractors and still do. They nonetheless provided a service above and beyond what you could get before.

Is Theranos using existing technologies and still not providing value above the incumbents? This is what I really want to know. I just don't know.
> Geeks are not entirely a bunch of narcissists who want to belong and be creative. Sometimes, and I would say most times, the underlying motive is knowledge acquisition.

Underlying? Nope. Selfism, belonging and the like are way more deeper/pervasive (human/animal) attributes than any such superficial (human) motive of knowledge acquisition.

Everyone -- be they a 'normal' or a 'geek' -- seeks to belong. And belonging drives much of human activity, be they 'normal' social activities or 'fringe' geek activities.
> Whilst this comment might sound facetious, it isn't intended to be.

Yep, it's dizzying how fast the JS ecosystem is changing; hell, even just the React ecosystem on its own. I went back to a React-based side project I had been working on at the beginning of this year to try to get it up to date with current best practices and tooling, and SO much has changed (Babel/ES6, Webpack, the maturation of the Flux pattern, the React/React DOM split, etc) that I've decided to rewrite it more or less from scratch.

I don't even need a lot of the stuff this particular boilerplate kit has, as my app is designed to run as a static site on Github pages, but having one place to go just to find out what libraries and practices are currently considered the state of the art (or flavor of the month, depending on your level of cynicism) would be wonderful.

Them's the breaks, I guess.
One thing that kept coming to my mind while watching the video: "Why the hell does this guy try so hard to balance himself on that huge thing?" Hoverboards in back to the future are are small like skateboards so that's why they have to stand on it, but this one is more like a magic carpet than a hoverboard, and if you watch Aladdin, this is how they ride a magic carpet: http://www.animationsensations.com/media/catalog/product/cac... Instead of half-assing the skateboard metaphor they should just own that magic carpet direction and go all out.
Those were reasons why the media and public are interested in it. Yes she does wear black turtlenecks. I'm sure the way she dresses is part of why people are so interested in the stories. It's probably largely schadenfreude, the kind the celebrities are usually subject to when they put on weight or get arrested.
I remember when my sister brought home "Honky Chateau" when I was a kid.

The first song on the album is "Honky Cat".

So, in my kid mind, I concluded that "chateau" must therefore be French for "cat".
What is FNAC, other than a French department store?
Great, the blog post is not served over https.

Do we actually want to fix the problem?
I think you're being a bit too harsh.. or at least your getting distracted by all the wrong stuff.

None of this interaction really screams shady to me, just defensive actions by a company facing shitty PR. Some crap went down, and they're pulling back all their feelers and trying to maintain some degree of control.

The REAL shady parts of Theranos is all their other shit with their dealings with the FDA, the questionable effectiveness of their testing, their insane board of directors, and the what not.

All this piece shows is the Theranos is panicking (and panicking has nothing to do with how above board you are).
Ask HN: What are some good web frameworks for Windows?
I am teaching someone web development, but this person has a Windows machine, which I am unfamiliar with. I think RoR is the easiest framework to teach, but it's pretty Windows-unfriendly. What are some windows friendly frameworks out there? Something that is ultra easy to install and start a project?
Interestingly, swallowing separately two magnets can also be lethal. If they end up attracting each other, they can approximate two different regions of intestinal tract and cause ischemia.
Related to this, how would someone who has existing websites built with various other libraries start a migration to React?

I have a lot of legacy YUI code in a Rails app (using Rails' asset pipeline) that I want to rewrite. Anyone have resources on how to get setup and refactor in pieces?
But technically no. Virtualenv is quite different, both in scope and approach. https://github.com/Deepwalker/pundler is more similar to bundler
er, the web was invented there...
Thanks for your question. A much more thorough pricing page is in the works.

The most straightforward model, and where we are already making some money, is running a Convox as a managed service.

In this setup you and your team get Convox API keys. Convox installs, runs and updates everything for you in our accounts. You get a monthly bill that's your AWS resource costs plus a percentage to Convox for management.

We will be tweaking this model to sell packages so bills are really easy to understand.

Some other experiments we're doing...

We sell support packages and professional services for app setup, migration and custom feature development.

We have a per-seat model for productivity features. Private GitHub repos and Slack integrations are $19 / user / month. There are more closed SaaS tools like this coming.

Infra is trending to commodity prices industry wide.

We'll be selling SLAs, support, productivity tools on top of that infra.

You'll get a cutting edge private platform without hiring and managing your own devops team to build and maintain it.

Open source users will help grow the user base and make the platform better without us running a freemium platform.
My thoughts as well... don't really think wearing my $400 dollar non-waterproof device in the shower is the best idea
Do you do web development professionally every day? If so, how long would you estimate you spend on making sure HTML-only pages render correctly?

Do you ever do advanced sites where multiple actions exist on one page that can't be easily encapsulated in HTML?

I ask because calling devs lazy for not backwards-checking their JS scripts is a bit much. So you want them to solve the problem they just solved, except this time, do it without some code assistance? That seems a bit unreasonable.

For many sites these days it is acceptable and justifiable to run Javascript. That was not true in the early 2000's, but we are a long way from there.
I cut my teeth on Sun SPARCstations. They were my first serious computer love, introduced to me at Rutgers University a good *%#+ years ago. All I had owned at home was a couple Commodore 64s and a 286 my dad had for work.

Buried in the basement of a building on campus, with huge black and white CRTs (21" or bigger), and laser mice that required a mirror-polished mouse pad, a nice upper-class student took pity on me and introduced me to UNIX when I started bothering him to share his .xinitrc file with me (his prompt was decidedly cooler than mine, and back then, Pine was how we got email, so everyone got to use a terminal a little bit, on Mac, Windows, or UNIX. That was neat, because even the least-interested students were semi-comfortable sitting down at one of the UNIX machines).

Sorry, not a thing to do with the article, it just sparked a warm memory. They're why I use a Mac now - it's the prettiest UNIX (IMHO).

Every now and again I'll open Pine just for the nostalgia of it.
In practice, "teen" pregnancy refers to "women without stable economic or family situation that makes them likely to be able to raise a healthy baby"
There has to be some middle ground between AWS and Heroku though.
Is there posting guidelines that prohibit posting things like this?

Otherwise, enough people voted for this submission to be relevant.
Twilio runs on AWS.
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Indeed, perl people were and still are fanatical about easy text (i.e. richer than cstring) manipulation, and those other two languages fell short back then and even today you still have to do gymnastics for things perl does easy and well out of the box. Text is something that a majority of applications need to deal with at some point, and a source of hard bugs and security issues when done wrong. I am thankful for perl's influence, but I disregard it as a serious language outside of some niches like ETL and log processing. I'm skeptic that perl6 will change that, and there's been so much progress elsewhere that failure doesn't matter much, but I will wait a couple more years to see how the community responds and take a look at it myself if it pans out.
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> Hmm I haven't heard of the last 2, but heard a lot about Moz...

..And how their founder became the champion of Feminism simply by updating his twitter bio.
yes, by and large the incumbents comply with regulations, use industry standard equipment that has been tested and approved as being accurate for its intended use, etc.
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I would not "do my research" on the sales site of one of the vendors, if that's what you're suggesting.
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I totally agree with the sentiments here. Though I really wish there were better partial rendering support than mustache.
To me, one of the sad things about the Theranos debacle is that even if they DON'T have super whiz-bang nanotainer technology, the general model of having affordable, transparently priced tests where you can just walk into a Walgreen's and order them is pretty awesome in my opinion.

There are other companies that offer something somewhat similar (e.g. AnyLabTestNow), but the experience still sucks - locations/times are nowhere near as convenient as your local drug store, and the tests are expensive. I don't know how much Theranos' price reduction is dependent on its nanotainer tech, but if someone came in and offered an affordable service like CVS's minute clinics, but for tests, I'd use it, even if they had to do normal draws.
What do you find confusing? It's owned by Wordpress guys, and people integrate it into their website. The backend stores a picture you set on the site, or one on other people's sites integrated with it. It then also keeps track of all your different accounts.
Here's a picture of what happens if a button battery is left for a couple of hours in a sausage: http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/family/543180/kylie-andrews-face...
Not exactly my cup of tea, either, but there's an argument to be made that these things do help make the subject more accessible, which is probably a good thing.