skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Reddit thread has some interesting perspectives on this:

User /u/CatsandCrows:

> Yeah, it's great and it makes me happy that in this sense we are eco-friendly, however this comes a great costs. Our electricity rates are one of the highest in the region (central america) and a sht-load higher than the states, this costs summed to other issues scare industrial investment over here. Depending on your area you will have power failures anywhere from 0- 24 times a day, whenever there is a drought we have power shutdowns (as it ocurred some years ago when the country had to shut down residential electricity from 5pm-11pm, eventually "fixed" by adding another hydroelectric plant). It is never as simple as headlines makes it seem... just remember that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3xhedt/99_of_cos...
The keyword there being "seems". Most of the firms that I've worked with are actively automating or offshoring repetitive tasks. Much of the work that is being done requires meaningful critical thinking.
Hmmm....you may have been compiling Scala.
Take a look at the eZ80 from Zilog. 50mhz (equiv of a 200mhz 80s-era Z80 apparently) with 256KB onboard flash, and can address 16MB (24-bits) of RAM, as well as full of onboard peripherals and GPIO.

Too bad only available in surface mount, not really hobbyist friendly.
The costs have remained largely static or even growing slightly because the volume of documents is increasing faster than automation is driving down costs.
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Yes, this is what happens. Also it seems to me that many women have have the habit of interpreting a larger than realistic percentage of interactions as 'flirtatious'.

In other words some of the interactions that were deemed as 'flirty' or even 'creepy-flirty' would be seen as perfectly normal and gender neutral if they were presented as IRC transcripts in a scientific study.. I suspect they would not be picked out as 'flirty' by the study group who was tailing the logs.
So their electric costs are higher, but they also don't burn any coal or natural gas (which doesn't price in the negative environmental effects those generation types incur).

Also, intermittent power can be a function of transmission network quality, not just generation type.

Renewables don't do anything but help. Generating too much? Curtail your production until you can store it in a cost efficient manner. Generating too little? Add more capacity.
Perhaps I just don't understand the phobia that some people have around blood tests but it is my understanding that you get a blood test as a way to gauge your health, not because it makes you feel nice. The hold up doesn't seem to be that tons of people are afraid of needles otherwise they would be getting tested all the time. The hold up to people getting blood tests all the time is that doctors don't order them, presumably because doctors don't think people need them. As long as the test isn't extremely uncomfortable for the patient, I would think that accuracy is really the only measure of quality for a test and it seems to me that they are willing to sacrifice accuracy in favor of making people feel comfortable.

Couple of potential issues: one is that blood tests can be extremely expensive. They are run by delicate, temperamental, and pricy analyzers that have to be babysat by reasonably well-trained personnel. Some tests need costly reagents. Still others aren't readily automated at all and require a lot of manual inspection and interpretation, again by people who don't work for free. Meanwhile, doctors are under external pressure to keep costs down, sometimes to a fault. I think these are the pain points that Theranos is trying to address.

The second issue is the real elephant in the room: statistics. Accuracy is not a simple concept in this business. If Theranos succeeds in commoditizing a large number of blood tests and making them available to people without medical supervision, there will be some unintended consequences. I think these are positive goals -- don't get me wrong -- but the fact is that the traditional medical priesthood is still going to be needed to follow up on the tests. If you run enough lab tests on a sample of your own blood, you will get some positive results for diseases you don't have. A test that's 99.9% accurate for say, HIV, is going to report a lot of false positives if you give the test to people who were never in a high-risk demographic to begin with.

So when a physician decides which tests should be ordered and which ones should be skipped, they aren't just being financially stingy. They're also trying to get at the most likely diagnosis without wasting time on laboratory snipe hunts. I don't think anyone including Theranos can do much about this problem. It's just too hard to come up with a perfect medical test, let alone a perfect machine to execute it.
I agree that people will eventually change, but the timeline is more than 15 years.

Especially when you consider that the vast majority of legal customers are themselves more traditional. Comfort with pure AI for legal analysis will likely only come with the next generation of business managers.
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> Would you ever rent services from someone saying: "I'll do the work in your house, but you can't look"?

For a second there, I thought I was in another proprietary software vs. free software thread...
It's UK slang for girl.
It'll be interesting if there's any guarantees. UPS and Fedex use the USPS for last mile, and all guarantees go out the window.
Yes, I'm familiar with Kira (they're in a similar space to us). The technology isn't really doing summarization yet though, it's more like extraction/TOC building.

I'm definitely biased, but I do think that's the direction that legal technology is going. Right now it's about making it easier and faster for lawyers to review documents: eventually it will be about them not even having to review documents at all.
It would be inefficient to share data structures or interpreter internal state across threads. This would lead to the poor performance you described with mutex contention.

It is better to have an interpreter instance per thread, each having their own separate variable pool, and pass messages between the different interpreter instances. This model scales well with multicore systems and is faster than the multi-process equivalent.

It's also a simpler model to implement and maintain. Python's current multithreading model is too complicated from an implementation point of view.
The images in this article are awful: generic shots and captions of a machine shop; a (possibly empty) black box that's supposed to be a testing machine. Where are the actual machines doing the tests? Where's the science?
Not voting for the bill is effectively a "no" vote.
"Unfortunately, at Gravity we didn’t have required code reviews in place."

If you are trying to scale past 50 devs without code reviews, there is a MUCH easier improvement you can do rather than to switching to a new language and tech stack.
which may serve more big investors building yet more sprawling suburbs than regular people
I've found that surface mount is more bark than bite, to be honest. Boards that'll make it a pth device aren't terribly much, and I've done tons of surface mount chips using the toaster oven technique. Even there, you can get a low end smd oven off ebay for not a terrible amount of money if/when you want to do any sort of volume work. Hell, with my crappy fine motor skills, I've nuked more stuff with the soldering iron than I have with smd, so things definitely have changed on that front.
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Why do you think earning a wage is dehumanizing? Not only are you insulting them but then you accuse them off most likely being theives.
Yup, exactly this.
I'm not really sure what you mean. If you naked short without covering with options then the price can pretty much go up forever and you cover the difference. I don't understand where zero comes into play.
Regarding 403 instead of 404: I'd suggest rather that 403 doesn't reveal information on whether the page exists (for those who may not have permission to access).
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In my opinion, Holmes is a fanatic. This is subtly different from being fanatical or obsessive about certain things, which is probably a good or even necessary characteristic for a founder.
She seem to just be a fanatic. She has found a mission, and is pursuing it without any second thoughts. Never mind whether anybody else thinks that the mission is actually that important... Fanatics have the ability to impress those close to them, because of their overriding zeal. From a distance though, they seem crazy and somewhat deficient human beings.

I'm not sure that fanatics do science well, or handle other people's money that well either....
Sounds like something a cocktail can solve.
Your original argument was about building "PCs at great expense (time and money)". I might agree with the time argument if you get some faulty hardware, but if anything its more down to software than hardware costing time. The TCO argument is fine if you have a perfectly working Mac after X years and sell it, but i usually pass them on to family members for little/no money so that does not apply to everybody. TCO depends on a lot of individual factors and luck (no repairs after warranty), price does not.
Looks like a QFP not a BGA so you could get away with a home-etched board.
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"SBT is also a real sore spot. There’s always that one person who actually knows what the heck SBT is doing and can debug everyone’s issues."

SBT is an order of magnitude easier to debug then Make or (heaven help you) Maven. I'm not saying it's the best or simplest build tool ever made, but it has nice debugging. `inspect` and `show` are invaluable.
The main topic of the article is about how Theranos won't share any info about the science or about the machines. So that's probably all the NYT has to work with.
Also, have you looked at Theranos website? She is just.. everywhere.
> Other than the words he's using he's basically correct.

Other than your words, you're basically correct.
You're just pissed because they're businessmen selling you superiority, NOT CHOCOLATE.
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This misses that:

(1) Though the work in aggregate may be highly complex, it is disaggregatable. A very significant portion of the overall cost of these bespoke matters is composed of automable work (e.g., diligence, preparing closing documents). Humans may guide and monitor, but that could exist with significant changes to how legal work gets done.

(2) While "the cost of elite lawyers is less than a rounding error on the balance sheet”, most serious companies (e.g., GE) take efficiency very seriously in their businesses overall. Why would they not expect and push for it with their outside lawyers?
The 8.5 and 8.6 branches of Mac OS were great, I feel. I hosted lots of servers on them, especially 8.6.2. However, every single other version of the OS was a buggy, crashing nightmare if you were looking for extended uptime. 7.6.1 was halfway OK, but man, I never kept a Mac OS running as long as in 8.6.2. I had months of up time, I'm telling you. Months!
And then the competition of AIs begins. Want a better AI? Pay more. Want the best AI? Get one that trumps all others. The principles are great, but in implementation, all is unknown, and I suspect more, not less, likely for manipulation.
Mass murderers in the U.S. are typically the mentally ill. There are many markers: isolated, anti-social, history of mental illness, "neighbors considered him a little strange", family who are fully aware ("we always feared this would happen" or "he scared us").

Of course, you can't just go pick up every strange person and lock them away, or 20% of us might be incarcerated. But we can definitely have better scrutiny of sociopathic children in junior high and high school, and steer them into treatment that might help protect them from hurting themselves and others. We've gone from excessive incarceration back in the 1950s to inadequate attention to the mentally ill since the 1970s, when the flawed policy of mainstreaming became popular.

The Columbine massacre was perpetrated by two disturbed boys whose families suspected something. Afterwards one of their dads said "That sounds like him." Well, if you suspected violence, why didn't you do something about it sooner?

The other kind of mass murderers today are ideology-driven Muslims. 3,000 on 9/11. Dozens at a Texas base. 14 in San Bernardino. I suspect there will be many more coming. These people are quite possibly mentally ill, sociopathic, something wrong upstairs. The ideology gives them a focus for their delusions. We don't need to go after Muslims in general; we need to focus on the unstable ones who are headed for trouble.

It's going to take clear heads and a lot of work, and in my opinion the very worst approach is to sweep all these problems under the carpet and simply tap everyone's phone and email. That's just an evasion and confers a dangerous sense of complacence.
What's the data source for the fundamental data and how reliable is it (considering it is free)?
What about gVim?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752510
Why can't you earnestly answer a single one of my questions?
3. They aren't required to share any data, and can keep it to themselves.
I wasn't saying it's a bad thing. It just seems like a job that should be fairly simple to replace once AI reached certain level. A lot of lawyers seem to be dealing with very few types of standard cases for which they repeat the same routine and there is no any 'problem solving' involved when you really need a high level of expertise.

That's like if you were a programmer and you had to develop the same kind of applications over and over again and when you could basically copy/paste most of your code from the previous projects.
The I/O address space provided another feature on Z80 (and 8080) machines, which was "shadow rom". Basically you booted with some "massive 8K" ROM and then you could write out a byte which would swap it in memory space for a 1/2K very simple jump table/switcher.

The 6502 had a similar feature, that let you turn off the ROM mapping into the 64k of address space so you could access the RAM "underneath" for storage of your own programs. Especially useful for programs that didn't need the BASIC interpreter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe1-VVXIEh4#t=26m41s
But groupwise maximum by some expression is exactly SELECT MAX(expression) GROUP BY (criteria).

You could do details and groupwise maximums together with ROLLUP and some grouping-based conditional expressions in the SELECT clause, or just by UNIONing a detail query with the groupies maximums.
GPL uses the term "Free" in a twisted, marxist way.

How, pray tell, is it Marxist?
Very true. I drop all connections, drop the db with all the schemas and force all clients to reconnect. Should eliminate any transient issues.
As a med student, Bill Frist adopted cats from animal shelters under false pretenses so he could experiment on them, sometimes fatally. Definitely a good fit!
The most hated startup up in the world:
"We disrupted the internet's privacy"
This company exists because she is a she. A man of similar privileged upbringing starting a company based on vaporware would not be nearly as interesting as an apparently unemotional woman seems to be to the industry. She's so mysterious, doesn't have a boyfriend! So dedicated, must be right!

Just proof that gender bias exists from the bottom to the top, and our media hype machine plays on it just as well as those evil white men with the money do.
Obviously because her poppy was best pals with perhaps the biggest VC in the world. Take that away from her and she is serving Latte's at Starbucks. Connections MATTER.
A good friend of mine, Vincent from Sharadar sources the data. It is not free for me-

I'm a huge data integrity nut, a spillover from when I used to trade quantitatively. I run my own data cleaning algos and I've found Sharadar's data to be far cleaner than sources like bloomberg.

A lot of people assume BBG's (bloomberg) data is impeccable, but I had an entire database of mistakes I found in Bloomberg that I had to correct. Any quant trader will tell you this. In the middle of the day, Bloomberg would swap the 2nd and 3rd continuous futures contract. It drove me nuts when it happened and was a motivation behind Tiingo.

There is this false sense that financial data needs to be expensive. No - to me the public data is a commodity and that's the way the world of financial data is moving. Vince shares this idea with me and encourages me to be more open with my data. I will be offering an API pilot program in the coming week as I develop my own API for the data I source myself.

Vince's company is: http://sharadar.com/

And is available via the Quandl API http://www.quandl.com

Also, not only does Tiingo source its own dividend data, but it shows its work. if you go to https://www.tiingo.com/d/t and hover over the binoculars you will see the values highlighted.

I do this to fight the idea of perceived value when it comes to financial data. Nobody else will give you this level of detail for dividend data. I started doing this because I found my existing dividend vendor data riddled with errors. That's how nutty I am about data.
Not sure why this got downvoted. Gender inequality goes both ways.

Maybe by many standards 1:5 ratio sounds great and all, but such a huge difference is a problem and university should research why males are not going towards those jobs/professions.
Projects end late whenever they are started late.

If a project is a month past its deadline, that means it should have begun a month sooner (in order to meet the deadline).

It's surprising how little attention is paid to this fact in the professional world. So many teams and managers focus on the end date, and ignore the start date. In truth, the start and end dates are precisely equal in importance.
Using Mongo certainly didn't help, we're in the same situation ourselves and having various regrets over different aspects of it...

What do you use to interface with SQL on the Scala side? Squeryl?
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May have turned me into a workaholic though...
>A man of similar privileged upbringing starting a company based on vaporware

Bill Gates had a privileged upbringing...
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They probably thought that porting Linux to run on Mach and porting Mach to PowerPC was less work than porting Linux to PowerPC. In retrospect, this was not true.
I agree with your sentiment - why bother testing something that we can get the compiler to prove, once and for all? However, in Java, a typeful model of a program's specification is bound to be:

(0) Imprecise, because of the holes in Java's static safety. You can establish a convention that statically unsafe features are verboten, but it will remain just that - a convention.

(1) Verbose, because Java can't express even the simplest ideas without using at least 5 classes: Finite case analysis? Visitors. Higher-order functions? Strategies. Persistent data structures? Memento. Things don't get better if we move to a higher architectural level: Embedded DSLs? You need a separate class for each production rule in your abstract syntax. Type-safe database queries? Java has no structurally typed records, so you need to make a custom POJO class for every query that returns different columns.

These things are incredibly unpleasant to deal with, and while it might be true that "unpleasant work builds character", I don't think it should come as a surprise that some people say "enough is enough", and seek alternatives that minimize or at least reduce their pain (like dynamically checked conformance to a schema), even at the cost of sacrificing some type safety (dynamic checks can't enforce higher-order invariants).
Seems to me that you are ignoring the importance of academic integrity in the context of a mathematical discussion.

Shame on you for sympathizing with the Wehrmacht!
Similarly to how the industrial revolution 'disrupted' manual labor/blue collar jobs.
I actually wonder if this is an early signal that there maybe corruption inside the FDA. The goal of recruiting a BoD of this level of influence but of irrelevant skills was an attempt to control the outcome of the FDA approval process, regardless of whether the tests actually work or not.

The purpose of NYT article seems to be to message that while Holmes may get removed from the CEO, the shareholders are still hoping to retain the value.
That's really a feature of the 6502-based computers, not of the CPU itself, though.
Have you tried dSub? It's a subsonic client but it works when you enable the subsonic api in Ampache.

Tomahawk is an interesting one, but is missing a little for me.

Honestly, I use foldersync to just d/l newly added music from my server on a routine basis and rely on dSub for when I've added something that hasn't synced.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=github.daneren...
Huh... a man who is born with a silver spoon in their mouth would not be able to achieve something similar?

He may not be able to get the press she gets, but with his parents' and their networks' money he would be able to do a great deal.

Im not sure why she is so highlighted .. she grew up wealthy and getting investment from her parents' network Im sure wasn't a hard thing to do vs. the majority of us who have no such luck, rather we work hard/harder to make it.
I'm pretty sure you can use cloudflare's free ssl with heroku at this point.
Is it easy to audit ping pong balls? Seems you can weight them just as easily as you can do a root kit.
Thanks for the data source, I came here to ask that same question. The site look nice.

Very impressive bio btw.
You should ignore people enough to try and prove it to yourself, build a proof of concept and the compare it to what you see out there.

If you've been on hacker news one thing is certain most folk will more readily shoot down new or refactored ideas, especially if that's all they are, ideas.
The sound of that is almost hilarious so I took a look. There are two pictures of her in the rotating highlights things and one on the company page. I clicked around on at least 10 other pages or so and didn't find any more pictures. Didn't seem like "everywhere" to me unless I happened to visit the few pages without her photo.
Thanks for taking care of this so quickly!
I still don't feel like I have a complete solution for this. You can use Plex or any subsonic client with Ampache as the backend but it doesn't seem perfect, or near-perfect, to me.
"Your eye spends non-zero amount of energy to scan, parse and join multiple characters into a single logical one."

citation needed