skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like they we're trying to use exception (c) of FAR 61.113[1]

"A private pilot may not pay less than the pro rata share of the operating expenses of a flight with passengers, provided the expenses involve only fuel, oil, airport expenditures, or rental fees."

But anyway, I completely agree with you, any private pilot who took part in this service is asking for their certificate to be suspended. This is definitely outside the scope of that exception and is asking for problems by allowing private pilots to take part.

Edit: Just noticed that their FAQ still claim that this is completely okay for a private pilot to use [2]. This should be removed.

[1] http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=69df887b632147859ca...

[2] https://flytenow.com/faq#pilot
Roli's quirky musical keyboard is now an iPhone app
Still there for me.
Google the article's title, the click through there.
Compared to the other theranos article on top of HN right now, this one is far more damning. The whistle blower is claiming that even the herpes test, the only test the FDA has approved, had its results altered in some way to pass the FDA's requirements. If this is true, what does theranos even have left?
Very surprising that the PDF is not downloadable and the HTML is very hard on the eyes :(
Thank you. I think this challenge will last about 1 1/2 years. I think i can gain experience to take a junior developer after that.
This is a bit of a question from my lack of understanding of disk IO:

But would this in practice play well with the CPU prefetcher? If you're crunching sequential data can you expect the data in the L1 cache after the initial stall?
Still nothing here about how many of these tests were actually reliable. I have a 100 fairies at the bottom of my garden who can tell me the result of any test without even drawing a drop of blood. Profit!
It is. As someone who's been through the pain of this exact lab fuck up (though from traditional, not theranos equipment I would assume) being mis-diagnosed and starting medication for this condition incorrectly can be terrible. The cure for Hyperthyroidism is so easy, and the condition so common, that people forget what the effects of the extremes of the conditions are.

There are lots of industries you can disrupt, or fail fast at, but lab testing isn't one of them.
When do laws actually matter? The commercial requirement to fly people for money doesn’t seem even remotely unreasonable - 250 hrs. [1] That is not a lot of flight time. General aviation is also about 20 times more dangerous than driving a car [2], and I’d argue even more for the pilots with less than 250hrs. Glad to see this ruling. I hope we are beginning to see peak regulatory disruption.

[1] http://www.universalairacademy.com/downloads/COM_Reqirements...
[2] http://www.livescience.com/49701-private-planes-safety.html
This rumor broke a while ago so I don't remember the exact details. But essentially what I found when the rumor did break was that Apple had hired lots of engineers who specialized in the automotive industry. I looked at some of the LinkedIn pages and these engineers specialized in things that had basically nothing to do with Carplay. It was claimed that Apple hired tons of these engineers, too many for Carplay to justify, but I never looked at every single LinkedIn page to confirm. Also, most famously, several vehicles were spotted around the bay area that had license plates connected to Apple. These vehicles were outfitted with arrays of cameras an possibly LIDAR. I assumed that there was no LIDAR to be safe. In my judgement the quantity and positioning of the cameras indicated very strongly that they were a part of an autonomous vehicle system, not a street view program or anything else I could think of at the time. Then there were the anonymous sources. They claimed that Apple was working on an EV and that its development was referred to as Project Titan internally. I guess that should be taken with a grain of salt. The most convincing thing for me is the broader picture. Apple has a lot of experience and expertise in power electronics. It has manufacturing prowess even if it is through 3rd parties. And it has a huge amount of cash that is sitting around waiting to be spent on creating the next big thing. And most importantly Apple recognizes the fact that there is an EV revolution approaching. The motive, means and opportunity all line up for the Apple EV. All of this makes me give some weight to the rumors but no, nothing has really been proven with hard evidence yet.
Some paywalls let their articles be publicly archived.
How a Football Enthusiasts/ Collegiate Sports Big Shot Uses Noteshelf
A simple explanation for products using existing tech is be s full service vendor instead of just a few profitable niches. But that would imply them being a real business too, which doesn't seem to be the case.
Set this as a bookmark:

javascript:location.href='https://www.google.com/webhp?%23q='%20+%20encodeURIComponent(location.href)%20+%20'&btnI=I'

Gets past most paywalls. The morality of using it is up to you.
Considering FBI is investigating, other one hand doesn't know what the other is doing, or at least if not more likely the other handticles of the U.S. (and other governments) have been depending on some versions of affected hardware for some time.
Sorry, you don't understand what I'm talking about. But please don't try to tell me what I'm saying, either.
How could you shore up human weakness, instead of exploiting it? A question I've been asking myself...
SpaceX Mission Moved to Monday 5:30PST – 8:30EST
Hillary Clinton on encryption: 'maybe the back door isn't the right door'
Cult does not necessarily means you need to associate with people in the same place. "cult movies" are not "cult" because people get together to talk about them or something. Cult has several meanings.
Sharing operating expenses is not the same thing as compensation which connotes services rendered.
The interesting thing about this launch is the proposal to land the first stage back at Cape Canveral. Could be very exciting. http://www.spacex.com/webcast for the live coverage on Monday.
Fundamentally their films are there to make money in a global economy and to ensure the artists stay hired there. And their art is shit, repetitive, and horrifically ethnocentric, they draw all their eyes the same, big, colorful, inviting, with nice clear whites; their bodies are soft, squeezable, like big babies, with fuzzy or gleaming hair, to exploit humanistic reactions.
You can use the web link under the URL.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were mostly due to journalists exaggerating these stories, I'm always amazed by what gets written after I talk to a journalist ;)

It would make sense that a "day in the life" story would be assembled from activities actually occurring over the span of a week.
This is pretty much a nail-on-the-head piece about information security and its role within society and business.
My Personal Entrepreneurial Experiences – Hugo Messer
That's a system that would still be entirely vulnerable to collision attacks, though, right?
Wolff: The End of Yahoo
I do think readability is key, and found the article intriguing so I took a very brief look at some colorForth sample code: http://colorforth.com/ide.html . It may be that I'm just extremely new to a very foreign programming language, but I did not understand it at all.
I think Mario has more inertia here than in the actual Mario games, he seems to slide forwards rather than stop as quickly as I would expect.
The linked paper of Gelman is a really good read on Bayesian thinking in philosophy of science:

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/phil...
Saying "it's just an implementation problem" understates the severity of that problem, and I think it's a little deceptive to claim that laws, regulations, and economic models are all "implementation" just as much as the raw code.

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

> It's fast.

Except when ad-frameworks slow down browsing to a crawl because they heap innumerable delays on the page-load in order to "auction" the spot and maximize revenue.

> It's anonymous

Except for our big ad-networks that incorporated quita lot of fingerprinting, profiling, and even surveillance.

> It's secure

Except for how ad-networks are a vector for malware, since there's no incentive to vet content beyond maintaining their own throughput.
That URL rings a bell. I think you're right.
Would you spend a few hundred on an oculus rift and a nice pair of headphones?

https://share.oculus.com/app/vr-cinema
Warning to anyone following links to articles written, there is no sanitation of any of the content so javascript is freely executed. Warning against going to any of the articles created.
If I had to bet I would say Elizabeth had something promising at the beginning, but it just didn’t pan out and she got herself in very tight bind. It is fundamentally impossible to get results to the level of accuracy the FDA requires from a single fingerpick for most assays. It is not an issue of sensitivity, but that there is too much variability due tissue and capillary effects.

The one thing we can all agree on is it should make a good movie when the dust finally settles - the supporting cast Elizabeth has will make the film a must see alone.
I don't get your point here. Nothing has taken away your choice on what to read. If you don't find it interesting, just move on. Value is inherently subjective - so a statement that "nothing of value is lost" does not mean much.

I certainly don't find celebrity gossip very valuable but the vast amount of people who read and consume that content shows that it is valuable to them. Who am I to judge that? There's nothing good to come of vastly reducing the amount of content out there. More choice and options are always a good thing.
I found it interesting how Maleficent trailers all somehow use the movie footage to make her seem evil, where as the movie is actually about her NOT being evil. So the in that pre-release material didn't spoil anything at all.
wiki, books, interviews of IBM employees
That assumes the original requirements were correct. This is often not the case.
William Fink died due to unhandled exception in his core operating system
Indeed, the link only confirms that he allegation had been made; whether it has ever occurred is rather harder to confirm, of course.
Not to bag on you, but this is exactly how apple comes out with a product that blows people away and reinvents itself. All the stuff you're thinking of is exactly the shit people said about the ipod and the iphone. Just because you can't imagine what they might do doesn't mean much. You're one person and they're a large number of people thinking much harder about it than you have any incentive to.
Hi!

1) I see. Why didn't you just say that more clearly in your article then? The Japanese press runs some zingers sometimes (all the boasting about The Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower* comes to mind).

2) That's why I think not building any more lines could be a good idea. I guess we agree on that.

3) I would like to read more about that (seriously). Could you please give some sources? Japanese language is fine.
If there is one thing I really hate it's deploying new code that has cruft/legacy shit already baked in. It just makes me feel awful. But sometimes, after so many months (or years, in at least one of my cases) on a project, I just say fuck it, and ship it (be it my code or a team member's).

I definitely agree with your ethos though. I think there's a lot to be said for having some buffer between functionally complete code and a hard ship date so that you can leave things in a state that don't make you or someone else feel bad about things later.
The bigger problem is that the amount of information you can consume using RSS feeds is declining. Most sites don't publish RSS feeds of their content any more.

Sadly RSS is left over from a time when things were more open. Now everything is an app and everyone wants you to stay in their walled garden.
You are right. You receive one image containing a inspirational message for your family and decide to send to your family members. Then it changes to a image asking for money to be sent to an account because you are in need.
I could see this working.
snyder is a revisionist
> Results don't matter, it's how much effort you appear to be putting in. This is what is valued. CEOs need to appear like they are valuable.

This is truly sagacious statement. Modern CEOs represent almost none of the value generation for the companies described except for the part where things are sold or money is solicited. Perhaps that is a cruel and thoughtless quantification of corporate leadership, but I've worked for some truly bad and even gross leaders. People who offered me hard drugs for performance. People who revealed company secrets to sound good in interviews. People who proudly posted about their underage sex tourism on facebook. Bad people. So I don't put much stock in it.

So, I suspect that this is a compensation for the other fact: CEOs are hiring and then selling that team. CEOs claim to recruit, lead and inspire their talent. They're all too aware of what's actually critical to the functioning of a company. They're all too aware of who they can't lose.

So maybe they're actually doing this for themselves? To say, "See? Maybe I am not as smart or creative or talented in a way that directly benefits our business, but I work as hard as everyone else put together because I care more."

But all the same I should start trying to wake up early to exercise. It's not like there is any other time I could do it. ;)
> >and doing the same with aircraft... makes you an airline

It actually makes you an air taxi; FAA Part 135 operator. Still requires a commercial pilot's license though.
Some of the books that made me think and look at things differently (from 2015 readings only):

- In the Light of What We Know

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

- Bathing the Lion

- The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

- The Tears of Dark Water

- God Is Dead

- A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

- The Water Knife
Possibly because people who bought into the hype are now feeling a little pissed at getting snookered. My initial reaction after reading the title of this article was little sympathy for the author; a journalist's job is to be skeptical and not just be a PR rep for a company. To his credit, the author takes full responsibility for his actions (I've rarely read the words "I blew it" from any journalist), and I found the article to be a very enlightening and interesting read.
Maybe you're right, but I know a couple of people irl who get so much done, it's like they have more than 24 hours in a day. I asked one of them where he gets the time (despite having 4 kids), and it mainly just seems he sleeps less. Some people really manage to get by on 5 or 6 hours of sleep.
You could do indirect payments without ads. For example, say an organization gave grants to ad-free websites based on certain criteria. Some of these criteria could be how much people visit the site or how highly they rank it. Funding could come from people interested in keeping the web ad-free.
Off-topic (but not really): This article/site takes almost ~8 seconds to load, then another 7+ seconds for the page to calm down (tracker loading etc). Then there are nearly 40 trackers trying to figure out what you're doing.

Dear Economist, I am closing the window.
They have a final season 5 scheduled for some time in the next few months.

I'm very excited myself. It's the only show, other than Mr. Robot, that has plausible tech scenes and often drops real bits of hacky trivia, remaining very enjoyable for a techie despite the premise itself being far-fetched. And their political commentary on mass surveillance is beautiful.

And the way it transitions from criminal procedural to scifi ... beautiful.
The grandparent post refers to "not using any juniper gear" at all - which brings the performance requirements for a replacement to much higher than just the Netscreen products (which as far as I know represent an old product series that has been end of lifed ).

Modern Juniper JUNOS products like the EX switch series contain 1GbE, 10GbE, and 40GbE wire ports and I think push the upper limits of standard linux / freebsd on plain x86.

Note that JUNOS is actualy based on freebsd (Juniper forked freebsd a while ago into JUNOS) - but they do it on custom asics.
I referred to the OP with a gendered pronoun because he misnamed Caitlyn and it is well known that men are more likely to mislabel trans women, as well as more likely to be trolls online - as you are being now, so I assume that you are male too. I will leave you to it now, well done for your little essay.
Has Theranos broken the law?
This is a terrible article, and I have to say that I'm not enjoying the reaction here either.

Take out the alarmist language, the "SuperBoss" title and the fact that this article talks about CEOs, and what this article is saying is that some people get up early and exercise. Is that so horrible and unhealthy? Exercising in the morning sounds like a good thing, even something most doctors would recommend!

But the article phrases everything to sound so ominous:

- CEOs don't get up early to exercise, they get up early to "exercise furiously". Every day that the gym I see dozens of people with me, are they all exercising "furiously"?

- They mention a CEO who, while exercising, "looks at e-mail, surfs the web, watches tv" [paraphrase, not direct quote]. No kidding, everyone does that! There's music playing in the gym, there are TVs in the gym, and who the hell doesn't glance at their phones to check emails once in a while? This literally describes the behavior of 90% of the people at the gym.

- The article keeps harping about the time CEOs get up, but they never even mention when they go to sleep. What if all these crazy CEOs that get up at 5am, also go to sleep at 10pm? Changes the picture somewhat, no? You'd expect a decent article to at least mention this.

Seriously, most of the behaviors in the article describe me and half the people I know who try to live a healthy lifestyle by exercising in the morning, and all these prescriptions at the end of the article of how business will fail if the CEOs are always exhausted are just flat out ridiculous. Getting up early to exercise gives me and most people an energy boost, and we're definitely healthier for it.
Goldman Sachs: 21 of the World's Most Interesting Charts
And it also shows "rolex values your time" oh the irony
"Revisionist" covers a lot of ground. Which of his claims do you take issue with?
Well, Hitler himself said: "You will not get one true word out of me". I don't think there's much more to see than a useful (for some) narcissist.
Probably, "we" should take a reductionist approach and stop piling up nonsense upon nonsense, mis-using math, statistics, probability and publishing more compilations of unjustifiable and unverifiable references to another products of unconstrained imagination, ambitions and self-praise.

Ironically, since Upanishads, there is a maxim, popularized by Buddha, that we should strive to "see things as they are" instead of worship nonsense produced by society of mediocrity.

No better advice, probably, could be given. We are in the situation quite similar to that one of 6th-7th century AD, where almost every person who could barely write produce volumes of "religious" and "philosophical" doctrines, commentaries, commentaries to commentaries and similar crap (so called Tantric Buddhism texts, which are available in museums).

Nowadays, people who were barely graduated and had, lets say, not quite developed, highly constrained, too specialized and excessively brainwashed minds are doing "research", that egotistic pompous meme-joggling we could read in any so-called academic journals.

So, let's try to see things as they are, not misuse math to produce modern hymeras and mumbo-jumbos.
Good luck buying from a company that's gone out of business.
The CEOs are following a "cargo cult" if they falsely come to believe "X means that Y will happen" without understanding the deeper system.

Anyone following those CEOs would probably be in a cult, though :P
Incognito mode
I believe you missed the statement where I said this is an implementation problem. I recently founded an adtech company to show how these issues can be fixed.

Ads are fast. Ad networks however are slow. Bad tech with old vendors is most of the problem. Our ads load faster than the content half the time. Sites like Washington Post, The Guardian, Ars Technica show how you can have a fast site with ads. Very solvable through technology.

Ads are definitely more anonymous than payments. Payments = credit cards or bank accounts. Guess what that means? Your name, address, age, credit history, employment, etc all perfectly accessible and tied to your identity. Profiling is used to give you more relevant ads. Someone who doesn't have children doesn't need to see diaper ads so it's a perfectly reasonable thing. I agree that sometimes it's taken too far with retargeting where you see the same ads constantly but this is a different matter. Our network focuses mostly on context of the page (tech site = tech ads) and performs just as well without any tracking (other than history of ads seen to avoid showing same ads).

The internet is a vector for malware. There absolutely is a way to vet content, but standards and enforcement is just not there right now. Ad networks dont really suffer anything when bad stuff happens so they have no incentive to do much about it. We don't even accept any 3rd party content on our network so we're far more secure than even the sites we run on.

Again, all of this is down to implementation - nothing wrong with the ad model itself.
You should try it sometime. I find that somewhere between 5 1/2 and 6 hours of sleep keeps me at peak performance, but 8 or 9 hours of sleep leaves my groggy and tired throughout the day. Paradoxical? Maybe, but our bodies are complicated machines.
It'll be interesting to see a more in-depth look at the code surrounding this and some theories on how it could have been implemented in a way that avoided obvious detection. The naive assumption is that someone just added to the code:

if(!strcmp(password, "<<< %s(un='%s') = %u")) return true;

which is certainly possible, but seems too easily detectable and risky for someone on the inside, and too lazy for someone on the outside that had already gone through the trouble to get write access to the source.

The string itself looks like it's part of some logging system, so my guess is that it already existed and was opportunistically chosen rather than created. If this was passed through a macro, then it's possible that the attacker didn't have to touch the auth code at all and may have been able to implement this by changing only a handful of characters in an area of code that was more amenable to obfuscation.
You can exploit the weakness to help people in another way. How many of us grew up and mastered arithmetic with Math Blaster or similar?

Gasification works and exploits a human weakness. Incorporating it into a game like many mobile games (FarmVille) just wastes people's time and encourages them to spend money on meaningless tokens and trinkets that will literally disappear at some point (as opposed to the still silly and useless trinkets you might get from an arcade prize shop, but at least those you can keep). Incorporating it into something more useful (or at least with a more valuable output) is a good start.