skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I was responding to your post in the context of logician's "an important concern" assertion. You and jabl are correct technically of course.

Within the context of "an important concern" though; the difference in RES and SHR between the two is about ~330kb. I suspect most people wouldn't find that significant particularly given memcached's common use cases.
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Awesome read, thanks so much for posting.

Have you ever hired developers to work for you? How did that go if you did?
100mbps is really slow for a server. The colocation providers I'm looking at are offering 10G network connections for around $500/month.

The server I'm using has Intel SSDs, capable of 400,000 read IOPS per drive. Redis caching can be used to reduce database accesses as well.
Funny enough, this concept was on the Comedy Central show "Nathan For You" -- pizza delivery guaranteed in 7 minutes or you get a free pizza. The delivery was always late.

(The free pizza was a 1" mini pizza and the rest of the order was still full price)
"actual obsolescence" The iPad? Really? I'm typing this on a netbook that cost 280 dollars five years ago. Everything sill works. It does all the same jobs it did years ago. There is absolutely no reason a device as expensive as an iPad shouldn't work for a decade or more.

PO can include external factors. Does apple continue to manufacture spare parts? If no, have they released the designs so that others can produce them? If not, then this is a case of PO even if the devices themselves have not been built to fail.
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Is there ANYTHING like this? Been searching casually for it but no luck. Would love any leads on this.
I was told that we had developed most of the software in conjunction with the group that gave out IP addresses - but that we ended up doing almost all the work ourselves and setting up their machines at their site. (They were skeptical about the whole project, and not enthusiastic about the automatic registration of new IPs. When I spoke to them it was obvious that they wanted to ignore the whole project.) My impression was that our engineers who had done the work weren't around Redwood City (or perhaps they had quit - we weren't doing well and lots of people were leaving at the time.) So I was figuring out the code on my own and doing the debugging - nobody was taking ownership of the code. It was an overly complex mess since it both registered for an IP and then did billing. Very fragile.
Sorry, let me clarify.

I'm not saying they were automatically relaying name/job/tests-requested of everyone coming in. I was just bringing that up as the level of "need to know" that the hierarchy would need to have in order to automatically have access to the key details in the story.

Second, I agree that the conversation with the manager is fair game (or at least, not a HIPAA violation) to relay to the head of communications.

Nevertheless, look what happened: the HoC (Buchanan) was pre-emptively given at least the information that Buhr went to the clinic (not simply that she spoke to a manager). That is itself borderline.

But Buchanan was probably also informed that she asked about the specific test in question. That sounds very much like a HIPAA violation, just as it would be if you released to the Quest Labs head of PR that so-and-so asked for an HIV test.
How, and to whom did Theranos over-promise?
Yes I get this. I am wondering how Theranos is failing to take advantage of other technologies, despite using existing ones, just like Uber did. What exactly has Theranos failed to deliver?
Every one of my electronics catalogs calls them coin-cells.
Hi, first of all, thanks for your comment, and your full-disclosure. I am a happy Linode customer, and I have been using your service since 2010-09-02 (that is the date of the first invoice), but I have a few issues with your product that you might be able to look at.

- It is too hard to figure out that you offer hourly billing, I found it by accident, and a year too late.

- I tried out your Nodebalancers, as I thought they would be a nice help for my stack, but I ended up building my own Haproxy solution since the performance wasn't good. When I pay for a dedicated loadbalancers, I would expect it to be top-tuned from your side.

- Your API is a mess, and so is your documentation. Everything is GET-requests. And creating a new instance, shouldn't take 11 requests, and a dance to set every little detail correctly. And to be fair, your documentation doesn't even document that, this is a subset of what I use: https://gist.github.com/kaspergrubbe/756f0a227db8aeb92818 I even managed to find some errors in the documentation when I went through it, so it didn't feel very polished or tested, but maybe it isn't used a lot. It also seems strange that to emulate one or two clicks in the interface, needs 11 requests through the API.

- Your advanced settings are extremely hard to find, especially "Edit Configuration Profile" and the "Auto-configure Networking"

- Elastic IPs. I feel like it should be easier to swap IPs around Linodes, without me using heartbeatd, and some strange configs. This is much easier with Amazon, and one of the reason why I prefer them.

- Anycast routing. Linode has several datacenters, it would be awesome if my setup in the US could have the same IP as my setup in the UK, because right now I am doing ugly DNS hacks to send my customers to the closest datacenter. Is this planned?

- Lack of an object store, even though I use Linode, I am still using AWS S3, which means added latency, and I have to pay Amazon for outside traffic, you can't even compare with AWS on these things without starting to have these things.

Can I setup a Linode through the API with private networking enabled?

I am a happy customer, and I loved your KVM upgrade, I love your prices, and I love your service. But it would be nice to see more innovations happening.
So he has someone to book all his needless frivilous travel...
Softening of the search advertising margins without a new business picking up the revenue slack will put pressure on growth.
I don;t think anyone really wants a rugged iphone. The latest models are like delicate jewels, too thin and wide to be believed. Ruggedizing an iphone would be like ruggedizing a teacup poodle: it wouldn't be a teacup poodle anymore.
Was hoping this was a new road side eatery. Getting a little tired of the cracker barrel.
His whole blog reads as: Ineffective Hipster CEO Ousted, Has Sour Grapes
Who must they be forthright to? I mean, I agree, obviously, but if they aren't forthright and their investors are still paying, the investors suffer, how is the consumer suffering here?

Are they promising a product that they aren't delivering?

Sorry, I know I'm being difficult here, I would really love to chat with someone who is very invested either for or against, or both, this approach, so that I can understand better.

Seriously, if you, or you know anyone who has time to chat about this, send me an email. I don't intend to be as contrarian as I know I appear to be (and probably am being) here.

I really care, and just for purely reasons of curiosity. Anyways, ping me if we can chat.
You should check out troposphere (https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere/) and stacker (https://github.com/remind101/stacker/). I'm a maintainer of both - we try to make CF easier by catching errors earlier, and allowing you to do things like write for loops, in troposphere. stacker tries to take your troposphere templates and tie them together as totally separate stacks.
For it to taste bad quickly enough such a coating would have to be water soluble. Something like that, on a battery, is asking for trouble. No battery company wants a reputation for destroying electronics. And heaven help those with in-ear hearing aids once that noxious coating gets a little wet and drips into their ear canal.
At one time Domino's offered a similar guarantee: "30 minutes or it's free", but canceled it due to increased driver accidents.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-12-22/news/931222003...
Oh I almost forgot, you might like my preferred way of dismissing Apple Watch / Android Wear: I call it the "Karate Chop". The surface area of the outer edge of your hand is enough to cover the screen :)
He seems like such a whiner. In the article he talks about how his dad always told him he had "high potential, low achievement." This whole blog post comes off as sour grapes. Also, how exactly are we supposed to feel bad for him? Poor Rand, he was ousted and now he has to travel the world with his wife going to cushy speaking gigs while doing no real work.
This interview seems to be full of anti-feminist dog whistles and mainly purposed to shore the base/get views on a platform that doesn't reach a mainstream audience. Paglia herself is a bit of a fringe author, certainly not an authority on feminism (as if anyone could be considered and authority on such a broad movement). Tread carefully here - this article is not written in good faith.
It wouldn't be slow if you rode it going down a hill ;)
The mistake Harper, Richards, Kane and many others make is failing to distinguish being disliked because of their gender, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other minority status and being disliked because they are assholes.
Their "nanotainer". Theranos claimed they could do all sorts of blood tests with just a finger prick and a few drops of blood. The original WSJ article found they were doing normal venous draws, performing the tests on other companies' machines.
As neither a AWS or Linode customer (but might become one) I have a couple questions:

- Can Linode offer short-term compute or memory intensive service? e.g., If I want to consume 100 teraflops 24x7 for about a couple weeks, or maybe 10 teraflops but a terabyte of memory. (Pay-as-you-go, not monthly/yearly subscription)

- On top of that, Can I do above with my IPython notebook code, which is already setup (it uses numpy at the backend so python slowdown is not a problem), with a step-by-step process of how to make it run on Linode (without having to install python scientific stack)?

These are some of the use cases that I think are getting popular these days, and for which AWS is known for, e.g., in the areas of machine learning, 3D rendering, etc.
Good job to your coworkers with Mementify! There is a number of apps nowadays which work in a similar way (user takes pictures which are then uploaded and processed in the cloud). Our aim is to provide a live-feedback while scanning which is possible only with on-device processing. Without it one simply never knows whether all parts of the model are captured while taking the photos. Moreover, the processing in the cloud usually takes several hours and therefore if the results are not satisfying it might be even impossible to re-take the pictures again.

The advantage of offline methods is though somewhat higher quality. We can add cloud post-processing later to refine final models - especially for the purposes of 3D printing.
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I agree.

I don't upgrade my phone because the one I have is fine. It isn't a political statement, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_precedes_essence

The quote actually has the opposite point: you are what you do, you aren't something due to being born that way.
Totally agree, they are extremely shady. Especially when they started actively cultivating press this past spring, and a few months ago and suddenly they're shocked and pissed off that not all their press is glowing.
The customary warning, "Keep out of children", is very appropriate here.
I wonder what platform these kids organize on?
The Muji store locator amusingly lists the two Toronto locations as being in the US: http://www.muji.com/storelocator/?c=us&lang=EN&header=gl
Since you seem to want to continue this unproductive line of commenting: Here, you can enjoy the report in French [0], German [1], Italian [2], Portuguese [3], and Spanish [4].

>I see each of us, and in turn our communities, living in parts of planet Earth

Lucky for us the researchers organized their data by geographic bounds and we don't have to guess how they see it. "World" means "aggregate data from all respondents regardless of geographic location." How incredibly straightforward!

Now, would you say that @mitchbaum often asks questions that do not contribute to the discussion [6] (modal logic, para/transconsistent, inclusive logic), or that @mitchbaum asks questions that do not contribute to the discussion [7] (Newtonian exclusive logic) [5]?

[0] http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015...

[1] http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015...

[2] http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015...

[3] http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015...

[4] http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible_world

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10796341

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10796257
It's absolutely schadenfreude! Company appears to have led VCs, investors, and the public, and is actually getting called out for it. Lots of people (myself included) thought the whole thing smelled funny a while back.
If it were just a business model innovation, Theranos would rightly be worth nothing, because they wouldn't bring anything to the table. CVS or Walgreen's have all the assets that would be worth anything in this situation.
OK, did they deliver the results that were expected of the tests? Is the main issue that they said, finger prick, but, it didn't take a finger prick? That's a serious main issue, but I'm just trying to determine if that is the main point of contention. Also, that doing such a draw is exactly what incumbents do. Thanks for clearing this up.
> comparing RISC embedded on advanced node to SPARC servers on old nodes.

Correct. That's the point of the article, to see how things have changed in the past 20 years.
I've worn mine in the shower every day for almost 6 months. Why bother to take it off?
I agree that a lot more AWS tutorials and cookbooks would be helpful- but one reason I find so many developers having issues wrapping their head around AWS concepts is that most developers don't have the basic understanding of what they're doing with AWS. Programmers that just write code don't really need to know ANYTHING about AWS because someone else should be setting it up for them. I see so many people doing the most ridiculous things or leaving things completely wide open because they have no concept of network topology, firewalls, segments, VPCs, security groups, deployment templates, etc. I would not trust the vast majority of developers I've ever met to properly setup a simple architecture in AWS because the things you NEED to know aren't covered in the things they've been focusing on for most of their lives. It was predominantly in the domain of the operations/networking/system admin side of things.

I think there's a big need for a crash course for devs that starts with all the crap they previously ignored or had someone else do for them and I say this as someone who has always written code first and done sysadmin second.
Of course proof of work has always been used to decide consensus parameters. It's just tuat no controversial changes / failures to change have ever been put to the vote.

As long as the changes are non controversial then miners and nodes simply act at a rubber stamp. But it's unrealistic to think no important issues will be controversial.

If consensus changes arent up for CPU vote, then you tell me what happens if a supermajority of miners and nodes decide to run software with different consensus rule from Core? Sounds like a CPU vote too me.
That seems so counterintuitive. I've always thought life was a game and there was a very very clear score kept as your bank account statement.

The more money you have, the more successful you are.
No personal experience but I've seen some things online: wellnessfx.com and directlabs.com
It's already got a SN, when it's feasible $'s will have a chip too. Having the parties to the transaction decide what money is trivially fixes this, but the money changers fight to keep their monopoly.
The iphone 4s is 5 years old and runs the latest OS and takes a few seconds and $40 to replace the battery. My ipad2 is still working perfectly. Battery lasts days and runs all the things it used to and then some. Fragility is not the same as planned obsolescence.
https://www.anylabtestnow.com. Unfortunately, the tests are quite expensive. I believe they need to basically get a BS prescription for the tests, which adds to the expense. Theranos specifically lobbied Arizona to get the law changed so that consumers could order their own tests. I hope other states follow suit, and I hope the Theranos drama doesn't make other states think this is a bad idea.
the fact that the control interface only exist as 3d renders raises a red flag
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You have to license it to make the SOC. They only get those cheap in huge volumes. So, what people are actually saying is a huge-volume, low-margin ARM has better price-per-unit than a low-volume, premium-market alternative. No kidding lol. Even similar markets, the low licensing are why MIPS and PPC chips continue to sell at low prices even with lower volume. And SPARC has no such licensing if you do the core yourself given it's a mostly-open ISA.

So, the comparison is apples to oranges in many ways. It would have to be on same process node, same clock, feature power management, high volume, and embedded board. Who knows what that comparison would be. This one is meaningless because, outside Leon's, SPARC development focuses on servers with high performance for threaded and mainframe loads with inflated prices. Case in point:

https://blogs.oracle.com/rajadurai/entry/sparc_m7_chip_32_co...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/29/fujitsu_sparc64_x_pl...
It's because Theranos with it's pretty blonde Stanford dropout founder was an absolute media darling for 7 months to a year, could do no wrong, had heaps of fawning puff piece press. Now that their questionable tech has come to light, the press feels burned and is vengeful of being caught giving them a blowjob without due diligence. So now the media swings the opposite way and lashes out at Theranos to overcompensate.
again, why does the attractiveness and hair color of the founder have anything to do with this discussion?
It sort of does that. I'd compare the early Acorn's to ARM's on Raspberry PI's. That would tell me how ARM has changed over 20 years. Optionally comparisons to older RISC and CISC architectures, esp i386.
In that case, you're lucky. It varies a lot.

While there's no extensive data source with that info for every city, we called each pizza place around downtown Cincinnati in the evenings while we worked. We were quoted 30-90 minutes with an average wait of 43-49 minutes and a median wait of 45 minutes. Some of these were even ≤ 10-minute walk from our coworking space. One interesting observation is that chains often beat indie place quoted times by 5 minutes.

We also collected more anecdotal non-pizza data from my personal experience in the bay in 2014: I was so excited to try Caviar for the first time... and every restaurant I attempted gave a wait of 60-120 minutes or more until eventually I gave up and just walked to food.
I've actually known some stereotypical sorority-ish girls who use "sis" / "sister" in a very parallel way (shallow, narcissistic, petty, immoral). Doesn't somehow invalidate all use of the word. (And obviously not all sororities are like that, hence "stereotypical". Nor are all fraternities.)
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Except that people already buy iPhones just to stuff them into rugged cases (often sporting a window just for the logo).
The big problem with ScopedTypeVariables is that it changes the meaning of existing code by unifying type variables that are not unified today in standardized Haskell.

It's one of those things that you'd probably do if you were starting with a blank slate, but it's not worth breaking existing code for when you can instead get the functionality through an opt-in extension. GHC Haskell's language extensions are pretty nice that way, but it would be nice to standardize the extensions to open the (extended) language back up to alternative implementations.
They should focus their limited time and resources on the real problems of the world and not on the alleged wage gap and "reproductive rights" in the U.S.

Women in many parts of the world are dealing with war, kidnapping, sexual slavery and rape, total lack of rights, genital mutilation, lack of birth control, lack of medical care, lack of adequate food on the dinner table. Surely these are far more pressing issues than the First World problems that Americans are dealing with.
As of 2 months ago Bell Canada has begun intercepting and modifying web traffic as well.

Back in October, I started receiving notifications that said, “You've reached 50% of your Internet usage”. In the past these notifications would arrive by email or I could check my usage by logging into the Bell site, either of which is entirely acceptable. However, in October, these notifications began to appear embedded into web pages that I was browsing, specifically in web pages that don't belong to Bell and have nothing to do with Bell.

I don't care that they provide a way to disable this, or that somewhere in Bell’s terms and conditions I may have ostensibly agreed to this action. They shouldn't be doing this any more than the post office should be tearing open my letters to insert notices that they want me to see.

I wrote a complaint to Bell (and canceled my phone and Internet with them!) but they didn't reply. I also wrote to the CRTC and the Privacy Commissioner. The Privacy Commissioner said it's not in their jurisdiction. I'm still waiting to hear from the CRTC.
English is the preferred language on HN.
Not really sure if people concerned about government / corporate spying are in the same category as those concerned about machines replacing people. I felt like the article jumped around a bit too much. Wanted it to go deeper rather than simply assume that the reader was already familiar with all the ideas present.
Well X11 in general was memory bandwidth hungry, but you drop down to 720p (closer to the 1154 x 900 size) and you get a bit better. Also if you could get the Pi to run with a black and white frame buffer it might help.
> For it to taste bad quickly enough such a coating would have to be water soluble.

I question that.. There are some pretty powerful bitterants available for this sort of thing. You don't need much denatonium benzoate to make something unpleasant to taste, for example: "Dilutions of as little as 10 ppm are unbearably bitter to most humans." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium