skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No matter how this story ends (whether they eventually ends up with having a fully functioning product or not) this should be a cautionary tale to anyone wanting to actually change the world in healthcare.

Science speaks for itself and does not care how much you raised at what valuation. It requires a rigorous approach to testings and facts and data or it will be merciless if you aren't living up to your own claims.

So hopefully next time someone has a great disruptive idea in healthcare, they will spend a little more time getting the science and tech right before they start worrying about becoming a unicorn.
The comment you're replying to is asking how that is not siezing property without due process. Repeating what they're doing doesn't answer the question of where due process occurs before the person is deprived of their property.
The comment you're replying to is asking how that is not siezing property without due process. Reiterating that the government treats the property as its own doesn't answer the question of where due process occurs before the person is deprived of their property.
Oh, it's quite possible for a troll to believe what he says. The essence of trolling isn't bullshitting; it's knowing how to get a rise out of people.

To answer your question as best I can, I really can't answer your question very well, because I'm not a parent and never will be, and thus have only a peripheral knowledge of the detailed mechanics of parenting. Based on what little I know, the first place I'd suggest looking would be the homeschooling movement, which seems to be gaining secular adherents quite rapidly of late for reasons appearing not much different from those I suggested in my earlier comment.
Air has very little value due to excessive supply. If I charged you 50 dollars for a bottle of air would you buy it? No you wouldn't.

What if I restricted the supply of air by choking you? Give me $100 dollars and I'll let you breath for ten seconds. Suddenly 10 seconds of air is worth more than $50 dollars.

You demand air to survive but how much you pay for air (aka the value of air) depends on me controlling the supply.
Former Columbia House insiders explain the shady math behind “8 CDs for a penny”
Yep, given the context of something absurd that you just made up, the mildest thing on his list, edited by you to nothing at all, is asinine. Well argued.
Without data to support the claim, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that half the time it's a cop taking money from some random person on a highway.
That is pretty much how I would envision it. Once you build that, suddenly another level of things that we can't even imagine today are becoming available.

Plus ecologically would probably be very good and less trucks on the roads.
I've used this behaviour --- non-maliciously --- multiple times in the past to override APIs for logging/tracing/debugging purposes. For example, I have a set of DLLs[1] that you can put in the same directory as the .exe of an application and it will log all network traffic that it generates. Very useful and convenient compared to the alternatives. Another use is to workaround compatibility problems.

What I find more saddening is the trend to view any behaviour that could potentially be exploited as a vulnerability, regardless of how useful it could be, which just leads to locked-down user-hostile systems where nothing is possible without going through some sort of ridiculously bureaucratic excess of process.

Thus, I think the root cause of this problem is not with the DLL loading behaviour, but with this...

The bad guy just navigates a frame of your browser to the DLL of his choice and, if you’re on Chrome or Microsoft Edge, the DLL is dropped in the Downloads folder without even asking

...entirely unconsented file download. The design of putting all downloads in one place is a small contributing factor.

[1] http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2011-01&post=Proxoc...

Edit: we can also exploit this behaviour benevolently by putting a set of DLLs in the Downloads folder that would be loaded by any installers being run from there, which could do things like sandboxing/install logging. (Presumably browsers would be not so brash as to overwrite an existing file of the same name in there!?) It's not so bad after all...
I don't see it as "fatalist," at least not in a negative sense. It's quite possible that the average person does have effectively no control over policy, and that one's time is better spent directly making one's life as best as possible by fostering relationships, furthering one's career, enjoying hobbies and entertainment, etc.

And of course I don't think it's now harder than ever. I'm not sure where that notion came from.
There was a recent publication on this subject in the American Journal of Clinical Pathology (http://news.rice.edu/2015/11/17/blood-test-results-vary-from...):

> Bond and Richards-Kortum found that averaging the results of the droplet tests could produce results that were on par with venous blood tests, but tests on six to nine drops blood were needed to achieve consistent results.
And the file is worth significantly less because of said distribution. Copyright law and the general inaccessibility to these networks is what contributes to limited supply. To a person who is not afraid of the law, is morally ambiguous, and has the technical ability to access said networks, the file is worthless.
GOLD+Eyes+More+Strength+On+Recovery
I like how Holmes' recollection of meetings is always different than the other attendees. Only one machine had an error message, not all three. She didn't abruptly walk out of the meeting. She didn't refuse to answer a question due to "trade secrets". And so on.
Aww and digital ocean customer here(as well internally hosted).

Main advantages I see is
Security - aws has security zones, FW ETC FOR FREE
Momentum - constant new features(apache spark, lambda, sqs)
Stop Patents. Period.

That would definitely be a cause to support.
So what you are saying, there are no serious technical challenges (I think there are few challenges to be solved), just bureaucratic ones. That one are always solved with money, something Amazon clearly has.

Again, this is just an idea to show how this can be much more than it is today.
Don't need the extra move step. Just put every download in its own directory. Or give every source (domain? something else?) its own directory. There's something in here that feels like cookies and cross-site conventions.
Why do you suppose that a constitutional court would rule with an interpretation of constitutionality similar to your own? Heck, I don't even see a good way to incentivize constitutional courts to rule honestly, even if the judges own beliefs about the constitution did match mine. Apart from individuals' own desires for power, there's really very little reason for branches of government to do anything other than collude.
I have no idea how TREZOR is actually designed, but I would assume they could avoid this kind of security issue by using a secure element/smart card to perform the cryptographic operations.
A media interview is not a police room interrogation, nor a courtroom cross-examination. The interviewer (most probably) realises the question has not been properly answered but understands that they have to keep the interview moving. Also, if they go in too hard, it can have a backfiring effect of causing the audience to start sympathising with the person being interviewed (even though that person is clearly waffling and dissembling).

The interview is still effective in that hard-headed people watching the interview who need concrete answers and actual information will still draw their own (likely negative) conclusions.
Any company which is OK with manager-subordinate romance is not worth working for, IMO.
> It makes writing software more expensive, and decreases the supply of people who can do it.

That sucks for business types, but this has a real upside for professional programmers. Despite propaganda, salaries are based on supply/demand, not impact.
>prick-sized droplet may simply not be a large enough sample size for the tests they want to run

This was always the main criticism of Theranos. Finger-stick blood tests have never been considered reliable for clinical diagnostic tests because you don't get enough blood and the blood you do get can be contaminated.
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China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryption keys
The area beneath the viaduct would make a horrible freeway. It is, and should be turned into a park with limited vehicle access. There is to much foot traffic in that area. There are better ways to redirect traffic around downtown Seattle without going directly beneath the viaduct
What do you mean? They run Linux. How much more software could you possibly want? And, how could it be healthier? It is the largest free software ecosystem that has ever existed.

I'm not trying to be ornery, I just don't understand what is ugly about Linux, or what is specifically ugly about using Linux on these systems?
It's a little weird nesting doll of sorts.

He built a command block that generates:

A command block machine that generates:

Magical Items, given to the player that when broken generates:

Bats that ride on command blocks that have particle effects that fill its path with leaves.

In short, he uses bats as pencils that trace its path with leaves.
They are the most publicly visible electronic rights organization. It would make sense that they'd been compromised a long time ago.
How is profit recovery from dispensaries different from any other business with respect to racketeering? As far as I know racketeering is not a major threat to US businesses in general, what makes legal dispensaries different? Are you implying that the feds won't prosecute rackets against dispensaries, and state agencies are inadequate?
The current market situation with oil is very strange. My guess is OPEC sees the writing on the wall regarding climate change, i.e. that not all of the reserves in the ground can be used, and have decided that they're going to pump as much of theirs as they can before some law is passed that will turn what's left in the ground into a pumpkin.

So now what we need is that law. A cross-subsidy would be perfect: Tax fossil fuels and use the money to subsidize fossil alternatives.

Oil is cheap now, so the tax wouldn't pinch much, but it would make alternatives more attractive for anyone in a position to make that choice (e.g. buy an electric car). Which would then correspondingly reduce demand for oil, which would reduce the price of oil. Then we can keep oil prices from crashing by increasing the tax, which provides more money for the subsidy, which makes oil comparatively even less attractive, which reduces demand for oil, and so on until we're off of oil. But the price of gas never needs to go back above ~$3/gallon -- it's just that by the end the $3/gallon you're paying is $2.50 of tax and the tax is paying for everybody to get an electric car.
Cargo cult. Especially these ridiculous beards..

BTW, hipsterism per se is a role-playing, role-governed behavior. Cosplay if you wish.

It is a way of looking "smart and nonconforming" instead of actually being, because being is much more difficult that following some style.

The difference is like between guys like Alan Kay, Marvin Minsky, Peter Norvig, David Moon, to name a few, versus hipster blogrammers.
I was talking only about blatant misuses of civil asset forfeiture, and the "half" figure wasn't meant to be taken literally. All I meant is that there are plenty of instances of civil asset forfeiture where there is not even the pretense of criminal involvement, where a police officer simply takes property from someone and it's up to them to fight to get it back.
Glassdoor actually removed a few of the more scathing negative reviews about working there. I think Theranos advertised on Glassdoor so they removed some of the even worse reviews... there used to be some even more negative ones.
How does the blood become contaminated?
The whole reason to build a bypass is to by pass an area. In this case 99 is supposed to bypass downtown. If you want to get downtown use other methods, if you want to quickly go around downtown user 5 or 99
People have been posting these stories here for a while, here's a couple of examples:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/21/us/asset-seizures/
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Well, the TREZOR is already a dedicated "smart card". If you ran the same code on a smart card, you'd have the same side channel attacks.
This Supreme Court has. Look at Citizens United.

This, and other decisions, is why this Supreme Court has done more damage to the US than ISIS could ever hope to do.
An honest debater attacks the strongest points, not the weakest ones. All you've done is given the parent comment the experience to make all examples in a list roughly equally bad.
The software I work on has plenty of bugs (as it was made by humans) but it's still pretty useful. I think to have any real discussion here we need some sort of data on error rates. Sure, it's sucks for the guy that gets his rightful property taken from him. But is that happening 10% of the time? 1% of the time? .01% of the time?

My opinion on the matter would change drastically depending on which one of those numbers reflects reality.
Why does one have 5 kids if there's little intention* to spend time with them? Surely he's bright enough to grok birth control?

*I'm not a believer in "doesn't get", rather it's "doesn't want".
Yeah, i understand that interviewing follows specific rules, since it's a realtime setting. However, what i failed to make clear in my original post: The mentioned exchange is not addressed seriously in the article either.
You have a typo: "mozilla developer netowrk"
There is little evidence of that. The EFF is still very valuable to electronic freedom. This bill simply used to be much better in earlier versions.
Can you name one? For ~$55k, it's tempting to go gas-free even on my 75mi roundtrip commute as opposed to my 50mpg (10yo) Prius. Other options are non-viable at that range.
One key point, the original completion date was dec 2015, as of today the drilled about 10% and had had several breakdowns.
> Commands need not be on different lines; instead
they may be separated by semicolons.

Is that a joke?
I noticed that and a broken link too.. sent a PR on Github
Many in SV find it hard to grapple with traditional startups not penetrating health care to a greater degree; in Rise of the Robots (one of the Financial Times and The Economist books of the year) it's lamented for an entire chapter.

Traditionally the level of fundamental research and development displayed by Theranos - in areas of health or national defence - are done for years behind closed doors and then slowly rolled out to the public to mitigate any questioning of the underlying tech since the standards are understandably higher (i.e - it has to work from the start). This stands in contrast to the "move fast, break things" attitude pervasive in start-up culture.

I don't think there's anything necessarily fraudulent about Theranos, from what I've read, which seems to be the not-so-subtle undercurrent in much of the commentary. Rather they flipped the model startups should use in health, which is establish a business model that works and then work on preparatory tech in the background until it's ready to be rolled out. This seems to be largely what Theranos has done, but not what it's purposely chosen to articulate to the public and investors as it surely would have garnered less attention/funding. At this point Theranos seems to be playing the waiting game; waiting for their technology to reach a point where they can make a more transparent case for their business model and change the narrative once they've reached a point that's more aligned with the aspirations that have been articulated by Holmes for the past decade.

Once again, Peter Thiel's approach with Palantir looks to be extremely well executed and one that perhaps Theranos should have emulated.
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Tuple support, which in essence are anonymous structs, would have been very nice in C, too.
Touché!

Or maybe that should be "tousché"!
That first one was ok.

In general though I wish articles like this relied less on anecdote and more on data. I'm way more convinced by evidence of large scale issues than I am by a single story no matter how egregious.
Because that is what it is. There's nothing wrong with calling a duck a duck.
It doesn't need to be the default/transparent behavior, isn't it? Mechanisms like LD_PRELOAD can be used for the same purpose in more controlled way.

Not having the current directory in PATH / LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a well-known wisdom now to avoid inadvertent interference. I suspect Windows behavior is more like an overlook, designed when environment was less hostile, but now they can't change because of the backward compatibility. It's not a vulnerability per se, but a bad choice in retrospect, imho.
This is correct, but ambiguous. What, exactly, was the reason?

The 90's client-server model involved fragile, proprietary stacks of non-portable client software and proprietary protocols. That model would have you "install" Google, Facebook and Amazon as separate applications. Ironically this has reappeared as "apps" on portable systems; it seems we've figured out how to make this work in constrained environments.

I have been solving some internal admin problems with a "two-tier" framework; ng-admin + postgrest. The business logic lives in PostgreSQL stored procedures and triggers. Effectively the middle tier has merged with the database so a big moving part has been elided from the stack. One nice benefit is that the cost paid to implement business logic produces a database model, not an arbitrary accumulation of inscrutable middle tier `behavior.' The REST API simply reflects -- and is always in perfect alignment with -- the database model.
I agree that electric cars have some way to go.

Automakers have to put smaller and more efficient internal combustion engines to meet fuel economy and emission standards. You can put very powerful electric motors in cars without increasing CO2 emissions significantly.

I do worry that low fuel prices are doing strange and bad things to the market. I think if there were a republican president in power now, (s)he could raise taxes on fuel to help normalize the market, but there's no way Obama could do that at this point in time.
Oh interesting... so by removing the walls and connectors, they could be net-neutral in mass. Makes sense.
That's same range as eBay. Many of the old, RISC machines hold their value well. The SunBlade workstations still go for around $1000 if loaded. The AlphaServers are holding out well across the board:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=Sunblade+workstation&_o...
i wonder if we can find them? or an archive of them?
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10799262
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Of course, that's terrible UX

I find the "put everything that gets downloaded in one folder" to be worse UX than being able to choose where each download goes as it means having to move things back out of the downloads folder instead of them being downloaded to where I want them; especially when they're large files I wanted to put on a different drive, so the move turns into a lengthy copy operation.
Most of these make plenty of sense, but where does this come from?

>> Archaeological evidence of human life found on Mars/Moon from some time > 12K years ago.
The attacker could just put the probe closer to the CPU.
For evidence look no further than any popular subreddit on reddit.
Animals think, therefore...
You need to make sure the people in charge won't do that indefinitely. Even one particularly bad politician can cause some serious harm. If you limit their ability to monitor everyone, it limits their ability to round up dissenters. Given that surveillance doesn't seem to have much other use, it's reasonable to oppose it.
Precision spinning tops
It's more complicated. A house is treated differently (I linked some resources on why elsewhere in this thread), and going in requires a warrent.
actually, it is the other way around. first, you must build the surveillance capabilities and make people accept it as inevitable. you also maintain certain level of paranoia in population to keep that fear simmering. the last piece, "criticism of supreme leader is punishable by death" can be quickly added at any time. in the meanwhile we have to live with second best thing: "telling the truth about government affairs, be it surveillance programs or shooting unarmed iraqis from apache helicopters, is punishable by life in prison or exile".
The problem is that the State doesn't respect the rule of law and basic human rights. The war on drugs, spying on citizens, habeas corpus, the Patriot Act, illegal wars, torture and so on are just a few examples that come to mind.
Any tutorial on that? Because I don't have find a resource that show me how do this.
The principle of charity has nothing to do with honesty. I agree that it's generally a good idea, but it is unrelated to being "an honest debater."

Maybe you should apply it yourself and respond to my strongest points instead of my weakest ones.
The person is not deprived of "their" property. They may be deprived of property that they have no way to show is, in fact, theirs.
By learning Swift, do you mean the grammar? If so, the apple documentation is a great resource [0]

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...
As another person of Indian origin, I'd have to say that unfortunately this is true of the vast majority of Indians and not just Gujaratis.
Stuff on your fingertips.
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Did Weimar Germany have a surveillance state and concentration camps and secret police? I don't think so. All of that can be built on more or less a moment's notice once you get the "right" leadership, though.
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Any particular nitpick you have?
Gonorrhoea 'could become untreatable'
For one thing, it's almost impossible to get your skin perfectly clean. Any test that uses a single drop of blood will be very sensitive to even the slightest amount of soil or contamination on the fingertip where the drop is extracted.
This trick is used by a number of game mods, by way of providing a fake DirectX dll that monkeys with the internal game code and then calls the actual DirectX library.

ENBoost is probably the most prominent at the moment, and is considered nigh mandatory by modders for Skyrim, the Fallout series, etc, because it lets you override the game engine and use free RAM (beyond the game engine's 2GB or 4GB limit) as an extended cache for your video card.
How can you limit their ability to monitor everyone, but not be able to limit their ability to round up dissenters?
What's the reason for having such a harsh tone towards a preferred personal styling?
Let India bashing and stereotyping begin .........
As with just about everything, the original hipsters of the trucker hats were non-conformist. There was a certain risk of ridicule they were taking for being hipsters in, what, 1998? Now, however, there's absolutely no risk to being a hipster. It's not a counter cultural movement, they're not objecting to anything worth objecting to, and they're not going out on any kind of limb. At this point it's just a kind of lame, conformism wishing that it weren't.
I'm not sure I agree that there needs to be symmetry between compliments and insults.

I think the right approach is to compliment specific groups and people and behaviors; and criticize only behaviors. The specific people/groups who are behaving well will value the personal credit and build on it; the specific people behaving badly can take impersonal criticism without feeling the need to be defensive.

Occasionally naming names is warranted in criticism, but that's the exception.