skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About this:

"Taylor is a 21st-century digital dissenter. She’s one of the many technophiles unhappy about the way the tech revolution has played out. Political progressives once embraced the utopian promise of the Internet as a democratizing force, but they’ve been dismayed by the rise of the “surveillance state,” and the near-monopolization of digital platforms by huge corporations."

I recall many years ago I would sometimes write comments at places like Slashdot. And I recall pointing out that so long as governments have armies that can find ways to be repressive. I recall being down modded as if I was some kind of irrational troll. At that time, and in those forums, the people who got upvoted were the ones who made the argument that the Internet could never be censored, because the Internet would route around censorship as if censorship was a form of network failure. During that era, a lot of people made some fairly naive libertarian/utopian arguments about the Internet was changing the world. Some people still make these arguments even now. There were some places (I'm thinking of places such as BoingBoing) where the utopian editorial tone was the only tone that was allowed. Places like BoingBoing have gotten much better at documenting the ways that governments are undermining the Internet, but many of these places started off denying that such undermining could ever happen. I am happy that these people finally revised their view of the world, though I wish the dangers had been more widely appreciated at an earlier date.

The reality we face is now much as it has always been: there is no technological solution for repression. The only way to establish a free society is to mobilize and fight for it. That was true 2,500 years ago, when the Plebians were demanding fair treatment from the Roman upper classes, and it remains true today, and it will probably remain true for as long there is a species that you can recognize as homo sapien.
That's a bit like criticizing the potential for computers in 1959 because that newly deployed integrated circuit only does very simple logic gates. Cognitive architectures will improve with time.
Why would you have to license a processor? Just get an off- the-shelf board with each processor.
Yes, the customer-friendly blood testing in India would be incredibly "disruptive" to American lab tests. Not only does the US have different costs and regulations but the medical industry is based on extracting money from insurance companies so every process is a bit occluded.

That said, Theranos is still on the hook because a business model innovation would probably not justify their valuation and PR compared to a tech innovation.
I will try out three space on my next project.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
False. Most AWS services are implementations of open source solutions. Once you implement it yourself on Linux, the ongoing cost drops. With AWS you pay more the larger you get.
> 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.

Theranos has nothing to do with the tech industry. Recent concerns in the tech industry regarding valuations have to do with the viability of business models, not the viability of technology. No one's questioning whether Uber's technology is feasible - they're interested in things like the unit economics and other factors that impact long-term profitability.

> It would not be good for Silicon Valley if Theranos turns out to be anything close to a Ponzi scheme.

Ponzi schemes are a specific type of fraud involving unsustainable recursive financing. If there's any impropriety at Theranos, that would probably be (another type of) fraud.
Found it:

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/ycnews/nonsense.png

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/ycnews/nonsense2.png

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/ycnews/nonsense3.png

Also, past discussions of this same example (apparently at different sites?):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156683

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=618881 (this one includes discussion context for the images linked above)
There are some options, but the point is, what you're trading for simpler UX is a simpler overall product with less flexibility.
We like Seene but unlike only creating 2.5D pictures we aim for full 3D models one can further use for any purpose (such as 3D printing or creating digital content).
> They dream of a co-op model: people dealing directly with one another without having to go through a data-sucking corporate hub.

We used to have this. Then GMail took over email, Facebook took over most people's communication, reddit replaced usenet and so on. We let the general masses sleepwalk into corporate data silos.
It doesn't look like they're "acting shady," but that Walgreens + Theranos hasn't streamlined their bureaucracy and user experience which promotes the value-add of change instead of offering a lesser experience (like the much touted credit card chip, which takes longer and not as forgiving to user interaction as the ol' magstripe).

Most of the time, the only lab work I trust Walgreens with is a cholesterol test and a flu shot... If they can actually deliver the former without some complicated extra option or cost, then it's a no-brainer that it should be the default, not some hidden option that almost no one knows about.

Definitely an advertising / customer education epic fail.
I realized that I have to make my own happiness. I shouldn't wait for something to change by itself or for opportunities to show up, because it won't happen.

I worked a lot on myself this year and I have achieved far more than I would ever hope for. I am now transitioning. I also found a job that I love, that is well paid, have growth opportunities and where everyone knows and accepts that I am transgender. All those 2 things required a lot of work (and really a lot of work) but damn was it worth it.

I am now happier than I have ever been and looking forward to 2016!
And people still fight "HTTPS everywhere"...

Secure should be the default with insecure being left for special cases that need it.
Robert Nozick: Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism? (1998) [pdf]
You're not missing anything, but I'd say you're not clearing your mind of all the stuff you already know about light either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_%28graphics%29

It would be essentially ray tracing. "Light", from our eye, travels though stuff and ends up colliding with an object. We are informed of how the ray was affected and how it collided, perhaps because the ray is an extension of our perception (like a limb of sorts), or perhaps because the final collision always causes it to go back exactly the way it came.

It's simpler and more obvious than the idea that there exists a truly massive amount of light emitted though various processes in nature, most of it never perceived by any eye, and the minuscule sample caught by our pupil is still large enough to provide us with so much detail. In the absence of further knowledge on the subject you're studying, Occam's razor can easily mislead.
In the context of HN: a huge upside of freelancing is that it puts you into direct contact with the types of problems that would make great B2B and bootstrapped startups.

I know a number of developers that were able to shift themselves from freelancing to running a SAAS via productizing their consulting work.
Their open source alternatives running on Linux?
Shame on you for one-sidedly assassinating the character of a woman that was murdered for her cause 30 years ago.

Your first two links do not paint Fossey in a bad light, you are very selectively quoting. The last link is an op-ed from a political hack.

She was a radical conservationist of mountain gorillas and a complicated person. I have no doubt whatsoever that her overall impact on the visibility of the plight of mountain gorillas was a positive one.

Got any citations for your claims about the WWF?
Whoa. Take A Deep breath.

Speaking as a director-level leader of a shadow IT group who has (pardon my French) been through some shit, the situation isn't as bad as it looks on the surface....

Some key points:

- yes. You've got a cluster fuck in progress; K seems to be lacking in IT mgmt skills.

- regarding reviews, raises, and promotions they can do more or less whatever they want with those and nothing counts until the ink is dry. Nor will anyone who matters give two shits about them 90 days later. None of my big $ moves ever lined up with any review (actually, most of the time it was exactly opposite).

- The more pertinent question is "will I be fired" over this? Which would be silly if the facts are as you say. You are one of the remaining few who understands how the app is supposed to work.

In the long run, you know how the system works and she does not. I've played this game before several times and wind up walking my tormentor out the door.

Suggestion: mentally write off the promotion and ignore your review, dismiss all short term noise; focus on things which drive where you will be 12M-24M out. (This is also why I have never protested a review in the past 15 years; nobody gives a shit if you survive).

Fun games to play:

1) Inform C that you don't have enough access to what is going on in K's process, due to being excluded from the team lead meetings. Point to this as a source of delays and "confusion". Do so in writing.

2) Get K to put down specs; go ask clarifying questions with appropriate next level mgmt on copy. Gently highlight gaps.

3) Ideal time to get creative in how you develop / document solutions on the front end; I would give as little detail as possible to make it harder to fire me.

4) Call a meeting of your own, that overlaps the purpose of the meeting she excluded you from. It's agenda should be something like requirements validation or solution design. Be nice but indicate you need it to accomplish your goals.

What you're setting up here is a slow boiling cauldron of incompetence charges again K and yourself as a trusted "competent" source in the app and underlying technology.

Move SLOWLY and GENTLY in laying this groundwork; soft innocent questions are best. Be like water...drip drip drip. Slowly wearing away at her credibility and building your own. Maintain emotional control and calm when she lashes out (she will).

Look for a new job, of course. This crap may be more than you want to deal with and that's ok. But there are ways of fighting back against bullies like this....
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I agree with the GP on this one that most of those points are not shady. Point #1 is bogus: if you're already doing a venous draw then why do another separate test as well? That's just good sense.

The other points don't especially surprise me either. They seem mostly like either just a cautious response to learning she's a reporter or even standard practice. Many above-board companies who are cautious about their press presence train their employees not to talk to reporters, or to be careful around them, and to report them to the company's PR team.

Reporters don't get everything right, and some have an axe to grind and will twist details to suit their narrative. It's normal for companies to attempt to control their interaction with them.

This strikes me as a cautious response and doesn't even seem especially paranoid to me, or only a little. They have taken really bad press recently and it's not unusual for their employees to have been told by this point to be careful around reporters and to notify headquarters.

Unfortunately the piece does not include a detail that it would have been really useful to know, which is what happens if you walk in and order the one test that can be conducted with a finger prick - would they use their test or not? The difficulty ordering the test that occurred when she asked could have been affected by the fact that she had told him she was a reporter, and the employees freaked out a bit. Those were low level employees who had presumably not been trained on how to interact with the press, but knew about their company's bad situation. I would not recommend reading too much into it.

Plus the reporter almost certainly got Theranos' hackles up by communicating with them and receiving an invitation to have a test done, and then going behind their back to do it anonymously at another center. I won't say that it's unethical for him to have done that, but it's definitely an aggressive action or will seem so to Theranos.
That's the only thing stopping me from running OpenBSD 24/7/365 on my workstation. It's getting marginally better with each release, but even on a system that screams under any other OS, OpenBSD just lags and lags, even with tweaks.

I've found a great use case for it though; older, slower hardware (think P4 and older) actually benefits from running OpenBSD versus most modern Linux distros. For example, I have an ancient PIII laptop that refuses to run anything other than OpenBSD, Slackware, and Haiku OS. Out of those, OpenBSD is the fastest and least buggy. Granted, it's just a toy/hobby device, but I found it intriguing nonetheless.
# sdate - Eternal September Date
#
# date -d '1993-09-01 UTC 8130 days'
#
# ce: .mshell;
#
s=`date --date="1993-09-01 UTC" +%s`
if [ -z $1 ]; then
n=`date +%s`
else
n=`date --date="$1" +%s`
fi
d=`expr \( $n - $s \) / 86400 + 1`
if [ $d -ge 1 ]; then
echo September $d, 1993
else
echo Error: date not in Eternal September epoch
fi

And today is:

September 8153, 1993

Yes, I mourn the internet.
The UN can complain about US equal rights AFTER they have gotten equal rights in Middle Eastern countries.
This is a routine high school physics experiment.

I did a speed of light measurement in high school physics. We had a prism mirror on a 30,000 RPM motor, a slit lamp (not a laser) and some mirrors. The narrow bar of light from the slit lamp was aimed at the prism, which reflected the light to a distant mirror, then back to the prism, then onto a target. The idea is that as the motor RPM increases, the line of light projected onto the target will move slightly, and you can calculate the speed of light from this.

We didn't have a dark enough or long enough room, and aligning all the mirrors was a huge pain. We could see the line of light move slightly as the motor speed increased, but our baseline was too short to get enough movement to measure accurately.
What about What about the What about the ex CEO of Union Carbide who still has a warrant out for his arrest in India for the Bhopal incident. Basically this is a power game. If your little the US system screws you. If your big like China and ripping off Nike sneakers you can thumb your nose at the US legal system.
Haha, these people again? The members of the UN Human Rights Council are like a who's who of oppressive or failed states.

Members include: China, Russia, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bolivia, the Congo, Venezuela, Ecuador, the UAE, and Kyrgyzstan.

When they're not attacking Israel (which is a permanent agenda item at every single meeting) or hosting Hamas politicians, they're advocating for the prohibition of "defamation of religion", which is code for prohibiting criticism of Islam.
> how might you translate or rewrite this report in other languages or other English registers ...

I think most languages have the concept of the world and it changing? I think you might be over thinking things...
IIRC, the only observable difference are nonlocal effects. Keep in mind that all of your measurements are subject to this anisotropy.
And yet they say this:

>> United Nations experts warned today that the extreme polarization of US politics is “profoundly” affecting

Which people like you should probably pay attention to.
And, it is not a convincing one. Being old does not make it competitive.
If she is special than nothing is more important than the her, fix the underlying issues - find a new job, remove the stress, etc - should have done this previously.

Having been through a divorce and remarried, I hate to say this but a real partner does not leave, they stay by your side and help you through the tough times. It hurts but you may be better off by fixing the stresses and finding another mate.
What do you mean when you say 'the concept of the world'? (honestly asking)

Edit: Downvoting this question? Hmm.. I'll clarify why I asked. Wikipedia: "The concept of possible worlds is common in contemporary philosophical discourse but has been disputed." (Emphasis mine) It seems dialogue to clarify this concept would have worthwhile meaning for philosophy..
using minecraft as an example...

http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/fujitsu-lifebook-s7...

The above ~5yr old laptop will give 60fps running minecraft with no hiccups / glitches. Installed an SSD and frankly its a perfect workstation for anything I would use and I see no lag.
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/08/22/fnac-feature-n...
One thing I like about the "World Happiness Report" type of thinking is it gives a potential better way to run countries where an engineering approach is used to optimise human well being (or something like that. 'How is life out of 10?' is a reasonable proxy perhaps) as opposed to the traditional set up of a right wing party and left wing party shouting 'they suck, vote for us' which probably leads to suboptimal outcomes.
notice how all of those ran over their own protocols and needed their own software. now its all http(s) and HTML/CSS/js inside a web browser. you may say the net not webbed. or maybe the cat that got out with the introduction of the micro/personal computer was stuffed back into the mainframe bag with the introduction of ajax.
Tragic life change for my family at airbnb rental
my husband was attacked and left for dead at an airbnb rental in los angeles. we rented a "charming cottage" to attend our daughter;s graduation from USC. early one morning the door was kicked in and my husband brutally attacked was left for dead. i have pictures and full documentation. airbnb response? barely any concern. now my husband is brain damaged rom attack and not able to work. it has changed our whole lives. renter beware!! i want to warn other renters about this so that it does not happen to anyone else. i wish someone had warned me of the severe safety issues. i do not know where else to turn, so i am finally writing my comment about my experience.
Oh, the ray-tracing-as-reality rabbit hole goes a lot deeper than that. Google "potentially visible set" and suddenly quantum mechanics will make a lot more sense. (In a pass-the-bong kind of way, anyway.)

But certainly there was no reason for any serious historical thinkers to speculate along such lines.
Um what, you can have an iphone and laptop but you are a
"digital dissenter" because you haven't upgraded the iphone recently?
nonsense. all countries should be encouraged to move in a progressive direction.
As an AMZN shareholder, I encourage you to please use AWS. That is all.
I strongly disagree. We don't know the answer to everything, but we have solved this question - in terms of other, more fundamental things that we haven't fully explained yet. It would be disingenuous to pretend that because we have solved the deeper layer, we can't give an answer at the shallower one.
Because 1993 was also the year that advertising on the internet was born.

Before 1993, it was considered ill-mannered to promote commercial products on the internet. We didn't mind commercial transactions, but certainly frowned on promotions. After all, they were (and are) delivered on the end-users dime.
Very nice example contains only the code it needs to explain the concept.

Are there any languages that gc every tick?
What? Implement RDS/SQS/Redshift myself? That is not easy, believe me.
And why do the kids not vomit up these things? The OP states "here are as many as 6,000 button battery swallowings". That number seems low given the prevalence of batteries. Batteries are batteries and kids are kids. These chemical reactions seem inevitable once a battery is swallowed. So why are so many kids getting off without injury?

I assume that when the nasty chemistry gets going, the body tried to expel everything. Our stomaches are very good at reacting that way when things get weird. I wonder if the minority of kids who suffer horribly injuries are a subset, perhaps those who had been given anti-nausea medication for some other reason.
"Scouts that are instructed to alert central command whenever people start asking questions, especially when that was during a patient consultation."

That's a HIPPA violation.[1]

The article author asks others to write to her about their experiences with Theranos "nanotainer" tests.

[1] https://www.hipaa.com/the-reality-of-hipaa-violations-and-en...
What about as a kind of Redis stand-in? I'm curious about the DynamoDB PHP session driver.

It sounds like you have a lot of experience with Dynamo. All the use-cases I seem to keep coming up with are more for storing global environment keys outside of the environment itself and using a large number of IAM roles to access individual keys, and as a kind of throwaway 'I need to store this somewhere, but it doesn't really fit in the main DB, and I still need it to persist for at least awhile' case.
This definitely reads like an ad for Linode to me and it really is turning me off from your company. Does the company know you are posting these comments on HN?

Really? I didn't get that at all.

What I saw was a post giving negative opinions on various aspects of AWS, and stating that AWS' offerings are available elsewhere. There was an example given, of a previous project where he'd switched away from AWS to dedicated physical servers (at an unnamed provider). There was no suspicious boosterism/puffery in the direction of his own employer, like you generally see when a shill is trying to get away with something.

In fact, it seems like the only real mention he made of linode was in the disclosure that he kindly added, pointing out that he worked there and was therefore biased. Most ads don't bother to do that.

If this counts as an ad, then by those standards nobody could ever post in any thread covering the industry in which they work.
Yes, but so far I haven't seen how it's sufficiently differentiated from Google Docs. There's a well-funded startup, Quip, in this space as well.
This is a fairly naive way of looking at it. Often it's easier to deal with an external organization than to fix your own organization's behaviour.

In a lot of pathologically-managed companies or divisions, there is effectively zero chance of an employee being able changing the pathology.
To be fair, OHCHR has a lot to say about those nations as well (including, showing a markedly professional lack of favoritism, Jordan), but their well-intentioned "guidances" are diplomatic damp squibs. But while I generally deplore appeals to tu quoque, the U.S. doesn't deserve -- while not ignoring the retrograde policies towards women and families characterizing current politics -- this kind of grandstanding.
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I'm going to hold out for the Surgeon General's advice before giving up my button battery habit.

It's not clear that it's worth quitting just based on what any old surgeon says!
I simply don't believe the $250 - $20,000 month comparison. Could you please provide some real-world numbers/hardware/stack information?

I just did this migration (non-AWS -> AWS), and we saw a ~20% reduction in monthly prices with 1-year contract at AWS vs. physical hosting (admittedly we were getting terrible pricing with our physical hosts, but still). This will be reduced with the addition of t2.nano servers as we run enough t2.micro instances for little odds and ends that it will put a dent in the bill.
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