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I sincerely hope not. Employee stack ranking just hurts a company but, if that mentality is applied to a country, then we're looking at a nightmare of historical proportions. Can you imagine what it would do to this country if 5% of people in a society had to be sent to camps?

The tech oligarchs would be the worst leaders the Western World has seen for decades, if not centuries.
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The most interesting parts of the article to me:

"For a skill as rarified as bonsai, these services can be lucrative. On the teaching front, for example, Neil typically has about 80 students who pay between $1600 and $2400 a year for the privilege of spending several days at Mirai during periods when the trees need a lot of work. Then there are Mirai’s sales, which average 20 to 30 trees a year, with prices ranging from about $1,200 to tens of thousands. On the other side of the ledger, Neil admits, “our overhead is very high. We’ve already spent about $45,000 on pots this year. I think we showed a profit for the first time last year, our fourth year in a business.”"

"Another tree, which some sources have estimated to be up to 800 years old, has reportedly commanded the highest price ever paid for a bonsai: $1.3 million."

All of the photos of those trees? They are art.
>Imagine how much transit $4 billion could buy.

Slightly more than 3.5 miles of light rail if Boston is any comparison.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Line_Extension
Agreed! And confidence in theories is needed to persevere to get true evidence. But if the evidence disproves the theory - adapt.

To ignore this is hubris.
For a spin on the darker side of sensory deprivation, "Simon" was a great comedy film that got little lasting pop-culture traction. Starring Alan Arkin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(1980_film)
Does the composition of Theranos' board strike anyone else as very weird? It seems much more like the board of a foreign policy think thank than a biotech start up. There are three former cabinet secretaries (state and defense), two former very senior military officers, two former senators (one regarded as a foreign policy expert), a bigshot DC lawyer, and the former CEOs of Bechtel and Wells Fargo. The only physicians are former Senator Frist and a very credentialed epidemiologist, but it's not clear to me that either would have much knowledge about laboratory testing.

I'm really curious what the rationale for this board composition is. [Edit: I'm curious if this is connected to Holmes' father's experience in the foreign policy establishment]
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The Citizens United case in brief: The Supreme Court said that the Federal Elections Commission's attempt to censor a documentary about Hillary Clinton as an "electioneering communication" within x days of an election was a violation of the first amendment.

If you don't like the outcome in Citizens United, you've either been lied to about what the decision was or you believe that the first amendment doesn't apply to political speech when people organize together to speak it.
I wrote a parody of Theranos as a TV pilot that is increasingly becoming true: http://www.pricks.com/

(I'm sharing this here because the Hacker News community seemed to enjoy my Season 3 premiere of Silicon Valley [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179894], but apologies if others feel it detracts from the discussion.)
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Yes, operating under the assumption early stage rounds were predicated on the technology existing and being sufficiently robust to carry out a certain percent of tests, that would be fraud.
But a very broad national security power is part of the Constitution, by design. The necessary and proper clause would mean nothing if that doesn't fall within the grant of power to provide for the national defense.
The classic way of mitigating the issue of intent, of course, is capability-based security. Standard ambient authority models basically leave the door wide open by decontextualizing all action, such that merely riding on someone's session from their end is sufficient.
What's worse - the oilco usually operates under a Production Sharing Contract or some kind of resource rent tax/royalty regime. Often, the oilco share of the oil is less than 50% of production. So, unfortunately for BP etc, the revenue will be way less than what the article suggests.
They do, but the OP isn't talking about purging awful Whitney Houston books or old WordPerfect manuals from the '80s. He's talking about the tipping point when libraries decide it isn't worth keeping print copies of valuable works around because they've been digitized. We haven't reached that tipping point yet.
True. But let's play this out. If they can't balance their budgets, their government collapses (like Bankruptcy) and is replaced by a new Government that doesn't offer the same panem et circenses. New Government outsources oil production (like House Saud did some 70 years ago) and then the true marginal becomes the needed cost.
More like thousands of lawsuits a year:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/the-year-in-paten...

Smaller targets often sign NDA's over the terms of the licensing settlement, too. That by itself probably reduces what's in the media.
I'm not an expert, but the method used really depends on the type of tree. I have faster growing tree that I shape by exploiting how it redirects growth when trimmed.
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Submission should probably be changed to that, as it is the primary source.
HFT has clearly lowered spreads. This isn't even in dispute.

The issue of market makers pulling out during a crisis is a regulatory issue; an market maker might do the right thing and push the market back towards where it should be and then be punished by a regulator who breaks the buy trade. If this behavior is undesirable then eliminate the "clearly erroneous trade" rules.

Your citation also doesn't address any specific mechanism by which a delay would improve things. All it does is speculate that speed might be bad due to fat tails and handwaving.
Should Bill Gates have spent a little more time actually writing an operating system before selling one to IBM?

Fake it 'till you make it is often an important part of success.
There's a difference between Seattle and Olympia.
You mean, when capitalism isn't bringing unprecedented amounts of people out of abject poverty? (eg, cutting world poverty in half in the past 20 years)

Socialism is great, until you read a history book or look at its actual implementation. And no, don't bring up northern EU states that actually depend on quite free market capitalism to finance it (as well as unrealistic monocultures that are unrealistic for the USA, and lead to morally reprehensible immigration restrictions to keep the systems from being overwhelmed)
If you were trying to get military contracts that might be pretty helpful. The military has a huge healthcare system. So does the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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certainly they are art.

it's interesting to me that you mention photos of the trees, it seems like an easy and effective source of revenue to sell prints/photos of the trees (for those who appreciate them but can't handle or afford the upkeep on an actual bonsai), but there's none on his website.
The only thing that would do is add the insignificant cost of forming an LLC to the cost of filing a patent. Also patent profiteering is typically based around licensing, not ownership.
Let's put your idea to the test. There's allegedly around 200,000 patents that can cover smartphones. Everything from how they look to how they can connect to putting voice over a data line. Try to design a standards-compliant smartphone that runs common apps with understandable interface that doesn't infringe on patents. You will have to read and consult hundreds of thousands of claims regularly as you make every detail.

Realistically, you'll just (a) not get into that market at all or (b) ignore the patents then fight with or pay whoever comes after you. Apple vs Samsung is a nice example of where (b) can go but most choose (a).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou
I know someone convinced that the Milky Way is a hoax and that there are only 50 or so stars in the sky--basically the ones he can see from his house.
It was a design decision from a time when software management was non-existent. "Installing" meant creating a directory in the root of the hard drive and copying all your files there. Shared libraries didn't exist.

But this type of exploit still existed even under MS-DOS in the form of BBS door hacks. Remote access systems would let you run external programs connected to the serial line. But some would leave the CWD in the download directory after an upload thus allowing you to send a file with the name of an external program then when you activate that program you have a shell.

The solution then still applies today: Don't run external programs without sanitizing your environment. Quarantine all uploads. Don't allow the remote client to control the filename of uploads.

And it's not like Windows doesn't have an executable bit on files. The shell already prompts you for permission to run downloaded programs. Why is it not clearing execute permission by default then adding it when the file is confirmed safe? (I know from experience that a non-executable ACL will prevent a DLL from loading.)
This made me do my own investigating. The `csh` manual in 2BSD said "catenate" earlier in '79. Even before that, a comment in the ex (vi) 1.1 source code in 1BSD (1978) says "catenate".

So it looks like Bill Joy made the mistake! (and the Bell Labs people thought it funny?)
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You're making a tough claim here.

You're not just saying that the system can be improved (which is kind of self evident and applicable to pretty much everything) but you're saying that software patents are holding back innovation.

How would you go about proving that?

I prefer to stick to a more reasonable claim: the system is not broken, it has a few flaws, such as those that enable the existence of non-practicing entities. Fix that flaw and everyone will finally realize that the concept of software patents is sound. We just need to improve its current implementation.
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Well, if nothing else, congrats on acquiring that domain name.
What an excellent article. I've understood how side-channel attacks could occur, but this is the first thing that I've read that makes the link to how they actually are performed. Thank you.
>We rent our devices from Apple and Google, and they exercise control over what apps you run on it,

From my understanding, Apple is a little different in that as far as I can tell, they make money off of, you know, you - selling you things directly, not off of selling your information to third parties. I mean, they do control what you can and can't install on your device, but they do so not in service of collecting more data on you, but in service of getting you to buy more stuff from them. Because their money ultimately comes from you rather than from advertisers, they ultimately have different aims.

(if this is wrong, please correct me.)

This is relevant because Your whole thesis rests on the idea that the currently-popular business model of "give consumers free stuff in exchange for personal data" will remain stable, that the "advertising based" model will win over the apple model.

And maybe it will. I don't know. But right now? it looks like the apple model has won the high end, while the "give you stuff in exchange for your personal information" dominates the low end. Now, personally, I wouldn't bet money that the current situation is stable; in part because of this huge economic inequality, and because the people you really want as customers are paying for the services with money rather than with personal information. There is an argument to be made that a lot of this personal data collected by the cellphone companies who make their money through collecting data is mostly personal data of the poor, because wealthier people use the cellphone company who charges you money.

I mean, you could be right, certainly, but my point is just that things haven't settled out yet. We're still in the part of the economic cycle where we simply don't know what will stick after the "dumb money" leaves the system.
> Let's put your idea to the test.

My idea has already been put to the test and proven correct: the US is the most innovative country in the software area. And has been for decades.

The scenario you are proposing is unrealistic because that's not how the system works. Otherwise, we would never have had the iPhone, Android nor the BlackBerry.

Now try to understand why the system works despite your understanding of it.
Science and results don't care about secrecy and PR either. As far as I can tell, the only purpose of this company is to provide the media with a steady stream of glamour shots of the CEO so they can fawn over her and promote the never ending "pretty Stanford dropout founds a company and is like Steve Jobs" narrative.
I'm an addict in long term recovery, and I hang out with lots of addicts trying to get or stay clean. Obviously this crowd has problems!

But what's interesting is that as I've been making friends who aren't addicts, they have problems that are every bit as messed up as the recovery crowd. There are two main differences, though: "normal" people are much more committed to hiding their problems (I feel as though I only learn about them because people assume I won't judge them), and normal people don't recognize that their unhappiness is a solvable problem.

Furthermore, most of them aren't really into the solutions: a leveling of ego and pride, humility, rejection of desire and attachment, and living for something greater than themselves. Addicts, of course, have no choice -- we either develop the skills and tools needed to be happy enough to stay clean, or wallow on in the misery of drug addiction, often to an untimely death.

It's kind of sad, but I have no idea how to convince normal people that they can be happier by changing themselves instead of acquiring things or relationships or any other external thing they think will finally make them happy.

I feel as though erikpukinskis' comment about capitalism is a big part of the problem, but I'm not sure how to use that observation to help more people be happy.

Edit: C'mon HN, we're smart -- ideas on solutions to these problems are better than upvotes :-)
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I suspect that Holmes is the "front" for someone connected to her father (who is a "civil servant" -- dunno why the article isn't more specific). Probably someone connected to military, government, etc.
The Federal Reserve is a bank; in fact it's the central bank of the United States. Removing banking professionals from its governing board sounds a bit foolhardy.

Whom would he replace them with--political cronies? social justice activists? people with degrees in finance but no banking experience?

Sanders is great at these populist sound bites, but I don't see a lot of substance behind what he is saying. Like sort of a left wing Trump.
Maybe he was more interested in spending time with their mothers than with the kids... Very few parents prioritize their kids before themselves even if many feel that is what they one is supposed to do.
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The needle breaks the skin and moves through any contaminants that were on the skin's surface--potentially mixing the contaminants with the sample regardless of whether the blood sits on the surface of the skin or not.
what struck me is how beautiful most of the experiments are, surprised you found the time to dedicate to great design as well as coding.

Do you find you have a vision of what the final product will be before you start? Or do you tweak it as you go?
You're saying that a fundamental property of prosperity is a tendency for underconsumption? That capitalism therefore must mitigate it? So then, all your grievances are related to alleged cases of conspicuous consumption that are contrived by companies in response to a satiated, underconsuming populace.

I'm unsure of what "privatizing public spaces for socialization" is supposed to mean, or why it would be bad. After all, a private property owner may extend nonpossessory or usufructory rights to usage of their land, which would make it perfectly viable for social gatherings without being necessarily more exclusionary than a commons or public ownership. The promotion of the nuclear family model is an organic result of prosperity, which enables its existence to thrive. Thus, it's a social tendency first and then absorbed by industry. Same with beauty standards. I also fail to see how "promoting exotic vacations and recreational activities" is bad.

Your last sentence is confusing. Money is special because it is a good that, particularly fiat money, is almost entirely defined by exchange value over use value, and is the unit at which all other goods are priced relative to. Where are you drawing the association with "perfect markets," or whether markets would even need to be perfect?
AFAIK Trezor implements crypto in software running on a general-purpose ARM microcontroller. I don't know if there are any secure chips that support Bitcoin-compatible ECC.
Why aren't we teaching our children the responsibilities of freedom instead of attempting to take freedom away?
Can India modernize without relying heavily on coal?
I'm not sure what your point is. It's clear that WSJ has a readership in the millions, even if you dispute the precise circulation numbers. And that's what my response to the parent was about. It won't do to suggest that only CEOs and their staff read it.
Where "idolators" = millions of people independent of CEOs and their staff.
5.8 was what I tried and the new acpi did not help.

Obviously I reported it.
I think the point is you can't fake it till you make it in medical science, and if you can, the outcomes usually aren't great.
But he did license them an OS that like worked, not a promissory note that may be like near Star Trek technology.
Yeah, that's the biggest problem here. Taking down a lecture from a Muslim extremist isn't going to somehow dissuade a young, easily-influenced person from looking for it. They're going to want to learn what "the government doesn't want you to see!", and will find the video through different means.

Maybe Youtube should instead modify those videos to still show them, but also provide some kind of pop-up or page inject with links to counter-arguments. This is still invasive, but a lot more reasonable, I think. When something has strong potential to turn some people into mass murderers, I think it's okay to be a little invasive.
How can I short Theranos?
Her father has a high-level job at USAID. https://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/organization/christian-holm...
Nuclear powered civilian ships are not going to be generally viable in our lifetimes due to real safety and security concerns that go beyond mere politics. Operating a nuclear reactor requires more, and more highly trained, crew members. Plus you need constant armed security on par with what land-based nuclear power plants have. Those additional costs outweigh any possible savings on fuel. Russia operates only a few of them on limited service in areas where security isn't a major concern, and they don't really try to make a profit.

The long-term future of merchant shipping will probably be larger, more efficient ships running on liquid fuels (biofuels or direct chemical synthesis), plus automated auxiliary sails.
There's still a huge difference between a proposal to ban racist speech, and a proposal to ban videos preaching Islamic extremism. The latter is a lot more likely to lead to physical harm and death.
Interesting, Theranos' funder's behavior is what you would expect from someone who knows nothing about Science:

- make bold claims

- avoid going into details ("trade secrets", sheesh)

- make investors believe in your "vision"

- give talks about successful entrepreneurship to polish one's image

And still nothing reliably demonstrated.

What amazes me the most is how clueless investors are. If they don't care about Science, what do they care about when it comes to providing new Healthcare solutions? What's next, a new take on homeopathy ?
Great stuff Blake.

I can imagine an entire episode dedicated to trying to get Pricks onto Product Hunt. The double entendre's and puns write themselves.
Doesn't Diffe-Hellman allow to generate a key pair without manual intervention?
Also I'm not sure the logic is totally sound. Is it really the propaganda and spreading of ideas that lead to terrorists attacks, or the other way around?
It was just posted an hour earlier with its original title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10797927
Since 2001 more more people have died on US soil from toppling vending machines than from terrorist attacks.. Yet we are constantly told we need to scrap the entire bill of rights to stay safe. It's ridiculous. Who does this serve?
Youtube already shows you related videos, and on the home page suggests videos based on your viewing history. It would not be difficult to modify those algorithms to attempt to suggest videos with the intent of influences the viewers belief (as opposed to maximizing their time on the site). Similarly, Google can do this with their main search engine as well. Of course, when thought about in the abstract, this seems highly distopian, but the time maximizing goal also has political effects (namely, the "search bubble" and radicalization).
Conventional rockets take many orders of magnitude more than that. Calculate e=mc^2 for the mass of propellant they expel. :)
It's a long shot gamble funded by some people who maybe should and maybe shouldn't know better - I don't pretend to be in a position to judge the science in this case. So, who cares? I don't mean that in a derogatory sense, I mean it in the sense that you might set yourself a limit of a few hundred pounds for a game of poker one night. If it pays off, great. If it doesn't, no biggy. If they're committing fraud, then there are regulatory mechanisms in place around that - how far you trust those is an issue, but it's a much larger issue than one company.

The big sin that you mustn't commit, and that many do anyway, is to trust a private company's data where a potential conflict of interest like this exists. Run your own trials.
That's what I thought at first, but $400M and 12 years should have been enough to put together a pretty solid uTAS seeing as microfluidic integration wasn't exactly bleeding edge back then either. But they seem to have drunk their own kool-aid and created a working environment so toxic that they sabotaged their own chances to fake it till they made it. They might still get there, but even if they do there's a lesson to be had about expectation management.

EDIT: to clarify, I'm not the source of downvotes. Before the recent media explosion I believed exactly as you did.
proxocket is cool. Could it decrypt schannel read/writes?
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