skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I don't think they have the data. I'm not saying their product works or that she did the right thing.

I do, however, question what the after-the-fact self-righteousness does for anyone.

Should no one be working on this problem? How do we invest in potentially innovative ideas in more complex fields before they have proven it out?
Microsoft Open Sources Its Artificial Brain to One-Up Google
And you don't know what you're talking about.

1. VMware was giving out a free product too (Player).

2. As chipx86 pointed out on his blog post, VMware Workstation and Fusion were profitable.
She came from an old money family, so she will inherit millions regardless of whether she made (or will make) anything off of Theranos.
Thats why it was posed as a question. It is not my personal hypothesis. I was hoping to hear differing opinions.
6 Ways Hackers Can Monetize Your Life
It's a little unclear how this letter changes any of that. You seem to be jumping on the "attack bandwagon" without actually examining the details of the letter. "Must mean the company is a fraud."
> 1) As defined above, this is horribly inefficient and expensive. I, a software engineer in Silicon Valley, would receive this $10k. How does this benefit society? I already make over $100k; I don't need additional income support.

So give basic income only to people doing less than the basic income, and take it away once you are doing more. That's how it's been implemented in some countries, and I don't see any reason not to follow this scheme.
Thanks, cfcef! Implementation details are in the "Methods" section. Have started experimenting with small GPU ML cloud jobs and the costs do add up. Wanted to get a sense what a large job looked like and indeed, AlphaGo is gargantuan. 50 GPUs approx train time one month for the policy/value network. So, a Google R&D size budget would be a prerequisite ;)
Forgotten/Innovative Designs Before the Great Dark Cloud
I remember a Burt Reynolds interview (with Ruby Wax I think) when he said something like "I've been poor and miserable, and I've been rich and miserable - I'll take being rich and miserable any time". Nothing exactly earth shattering there, it just stuck in my mind for some reason.
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Definitions of "conditional-level deficiency" and "immediate jeopardy" can be found at http://www.hospitalinspections.org/qa-with-cms/#10

I can't say Theranos's comments about the matter even begin to assuage the concerns this brings. Trying to pass off the immediate jeopardy fault in hematology (i.e. blood testing) as "not apply[ing] to the whole lab" is absurd. It's like a restaurant saying that the board of health complaint that shut them down focused too much on the rat feces in the kitchen, and not enough on the well watered house plants in the dining room. It's so tone deaf.
This is an awkward argument. One of my sites documents how to configure servers, for example. What excuse is there that something like that needs to be encrypted?

The most legitimate reason I've heard is for privacy. I don't believe the gov't is going to lock someone up for learning how to serve web pages.
How about instead of using a "basic income" to enable people to pay for living expenses (food, housing), how about cut out the middleman and just pay for food & housing? This could be a system of college dormitories that people can live in free of rent, and includes cafeterias that serve meals free of cost.

Anyone can live there, with some sort of local government oversight. You want to live somewhere nicer? Make money and pay more. You fall on hard times or want to cut costs while working on the next big idea? You don't have to worry about not having food on the table or roof over your head.
For payroll taxes they could also just pay 7.5% less and net take-home pay would be similar for drivers.

The real draw of independent contractors is the reduction in capital expenditures. They don't need to buy and service cars or pay for mileage. Paying for standby time is also probably prohibitively expensive.
Isn't the whole concept of Basic Income that there are no strings attached?
That's exactly what the FDA does for medical devices. They don't test devices, they audit your facilities, processes, and product documentation.
If you have such a good team, which arguably developed many features that also ended up being part of the VMWare Server product, and in fact bootstrapped the company itself, then you pivot your product and keep the team, not the other way around.

Or I may be wrong and established companies should play by different rules than startups regarding their more productive teams, because it's more cost effective.
I guess all this rests on the assumption that Alice did something relevant in all that time she saved. If features A, B, C and D. Basically you seem to assume that each or some of those are relevant software development work and not just more WordPress deployments.

I guess the point is use pre-packaged tools when possible. But somebody has to write new software, so you better get some experience in doing that if you want to be a software developer.
Killing gut microbes considered harmful...
I am working on cognitive behavioral therapy-based software that aims to fix unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is like Joyable, but for more general thought patterns.

I believe this can at least help people with their inner lives -- which can translate into benefits throughout.
What I saw was a lot of tech people and VCs cautioning against a rush to judgment. Which is totally reasonable. I for one will leave this up to the regulators to figure out. The people who invested in the company will lose (some/most/all) of their money. No need for us to get whipped up into outrage.
A bubble company like this is an event of staggering inefficiency, it sends huge amounts of very valuable resources (money, but also things like people's careers, creativity, press attention) into a situation where they are ultimately squandered.

Asset bubbles can be like wars, they can waste the promise of an entire generation, never to be recovered.
Nobody wants to see a collapse for collapse's sake, but there is quite a bit of social good in avoiding or deflating an asset bubble, be it in residential mortgages, late stage technology companies, or a 20 year old college student who was allowed to lose tens of millions of dollars of people's pension money just because she happened to be born in the right neighborhood.
>At this point, we (HN community) are just treating this like a season of Jersey Shore.

well, cabin fever until the 3rd season of "SV" is out. In the meantime have to survive on daily ration of reality show like "guess whose horn is just a plastic cone", with today episode featuring Theranos.
Great initiative! I'm really interested in how this would turn out in the US.
In Norway, it's been somewhat of a success, hopefully in the US as well!
How do you then explain Denmark, which has had their currency locked to the Euro (and before that; DM)?
After 10 years a company should have data ...

It's very difficult to take them seriously as a diagnostics company.
Sinus infections are pretty hard to treat with antibiotics.
Maybe completely off-topic: I've not yet looked really into React and I'm still hesitating as I've seen this mixture of logic (JavaScript) and presentation (HTML) before e.g. via JSP stuff. Or am I misunderstanding something?

Why not create components that do still separate logic and view like Apache Wicket does/did?
Financial desperation squeezes the cognitive juice right out of you.

In 2013, Harvard researchers did a study of how financial stress affects decision making. Denise Cummins, Ph.D. explains their findings in Psychology Today:

"When the cost of [a car] repair was increased to $3,000, a very different picture emerged: The cognitive performance of those at the upper end of the income distribution was unaffected by the increase. But those at the lower end suffered a 40% decline! The authors interpreted this to mean that scarcity impaired people’s ability to think clearly. The threat—even an imagined threat—of a large bill made it difficult for poor people to focus on the cognitive tasks at hand."

Financial stress impedes human thinking / problem solving. People get consumed by the short term challenges in front of them, and can’t see the big picture.

Sources:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/good-thinking/201309/why...
Seems like a pretty thin line between these conceptions of "understanding". If the AI is programmed to "understand" the rules and ojectives of the game, and it uses that information to assess the best moves for various scenarios, then how does that materially differ from human understanding?
How can a human ever get better than their teacher?

In this case though they play and optimize against themselves
There are a long list of reasons I do not want Basic Income. I really don't feel like writing an opus in comments here today. I think my last three blog posts have been about my objections to Basic Income. You are welcome to read those if you wish to get an inkling of my opinion on the subject.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-conversa...

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/01/ubi-we-tried...

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-dubious-...
Every time there's a "breakthrough" in AI, this question crops up. Consciousness is poorly understood and there's no good reason to think it's a product of intelligence.

In this case, all that's happened is that a game played by people can now be played well by a computer program which is designed specifically to recognize patterns. (A go position is just a 19x19 array of trits.) Computer programs reached human-level performance decades ago at chequers/draughts, and later at chess and backgammon. Those programs did not lead to a general AI.
eugenics?
Read the letter. The conditions at the lab pose "immediate jeopardy" to health and safety. They go on to define immediate jeopardy as conditions that have caused, or are likely to soon cause, injury or death.

It's not just a paperwork issue.
I'm aware, but I don't think we've seen the kind of machine learning techniques Google is using here applied to the BW AI competitions.
> Commissioned by the International Olive Council

Okay, now I'm convinced you really are kidding.
Sorry but I actualy can't load the website because of an HTTPS error (Firefox 43/Linux) (Error code : sec_error_ocsp_old_response).
In Spain the first time you take a subject the University is almost free. The second time (if you fail) you have to pay 40% of the price and the 3rd+ times you pay 100%.

Note: in Spain it is expected to fail some subjects in Engineering
Reductionist science or reductionist science reporting?
Some commodities and options exchanges already have fee ranges of that order of magnitude. They can get away with it because the leverage of the derivatives means the spread is bigger than that.

On the equities side, if you went to a dollar per trade it would be priced into the spread one way or the other. My suspicion would be with decreased liquidity due to participants moving to derivatives that allow for ownership in fractional components of large transactions that make the tax more bearable.

Either that, or you wouldn't have market makers and the equities market would grind to a halt and things like index funds, etfs, etc would no longer be economically viable.
It's only "sensationalist" if you cherry-pick the most bureaucratic-sounding requirement, and ignore the first one in the list, which is a lot more fundamental to what a diagnostic lab does -- they're violating some unspecified part(s) of the quality system requirements for labs:

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2011-title42-vol5/pdf/CFR-...

These are horribly oppressive, bureaucratic, unnecessary requirements like "maintain basic scientific controls":

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/493.1256

This also is a section, it's worth nothing, that consists mainly of references to lots of other, more specific, requirements. There's really no way of knowing what the violations are, other than to take the letter at its word that the violations are serious.

This isn't taxi medallions -- mess this basic stuff up, and you're putting people's lives directly at risk.
Now on https://github.com/glandium/himawari-wallpaper (I'm not actually sure the eclipse will be visible on the cut I'm using)
In competitive markets - short term you'll see inflation, long term prices come close to production costs(which are unaffected by inflation).

But it may different for housing and uncomeptitive markets.
Docker Announces Universal Control Plane, First Hardware Signing System
I've been using https://calltospeakers.com/ to find conferences that are looking for talk submissions.
An update on default_password_lifetime
The problem is that the finger prick actually hurts a lot more than a traditional venous draw. There aren't any real benefits to a "finger prick" other than marketing spin that it's so easy breezy and good for people who can't stand needles.

imo if Theranos had stayed out of microfluidics and stuck with fundamentals of testing but done it well- regular draws but used the best trained phlebotomists who can find the vein on the first stick, do a painless draw and really improved their model of "easy access" walk in Walgreens testing, immediate/fast under 24 hour results, pay up front and low cost, they could have overtaken Quest and Labcorp just by exploiting inefficiencies in that market. Instead they got too sidetracked focusing on razzle dazzle nanotainer microfluidic science that doesn't even work.
True, but as it stands, current non-cheating AIs in Starcraft 2 and Brood War still stand little chance against experienced players.
It dawned on me recently that Apple is not a good hardware company anymore. They're good, but gone are the days where you were happy shelling out because you knew you would get the good stuff. Now it's all non-upgradables, underpowered thin/elegant designs, overcomplicated lineups, less and less ports on the computers because adapters are cash cows, it's all very disappointing.
so, wracking our collective brains to address the problem of superfluous and unequal forms of humanity?

Cutting that Gordian Knot will not be pretty.
I was thinking about that, and about the story of Ferguson Missouri, where some huge portion of the (largely African American) population had arrest warrants over petty fines that had blossomed through late fees and default judgements into financial catastrophes levied by the (largely middle class white) municipal government, with the last few suggestions.
The restaurant analogy
Does key auth protect you from a MITM on the first connection?

That is, key auth as reasonable people use it, as you said.

And this:

> but it's really only useful for people that ignore basic security features anyway. (Key auth)

is precisely the point: that's a lot of people. SSH doesn't work for those people. We can play the blame game, but at the end of the day, clearly something is "not right".

And these are people who use SSH to begin with. Not typically technologically illiterate, I would guess. If they can't even be arsed to use "basic security features", what good is this system, then?

Again: there is a way to use SSH properly, yes. But rare is the person who does this.

(But key auth is orthogonal to host fingerprinting anyway, this is kind of a red herring)
I wrote a MCTS Ultimate tic-tac-toe engine[0] over the last little while, and likewise don't know how to play the game well. Once thing I have been mulling over in my mind but haven't really explored is training an NN on the game tree produced by long searches and somehow extracting strategies a la DeepDream. I don't have much experience with NNs though so no idea if it even possible or what the extracts would look like.

If anyone would find this interesting work to collaborate on feel free to contact me. The MCTS part is done.

0. https://github.com/putterson/uxobot
A quick google search suggests around 500.
Also funny, because for many sites that run DFP or Adsense...that's their biggest source of income.

So, G is rationalizing their slow pace with the same reason that's not good enough for others :)
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in real terms (inflation adjusted?) The change from 2014 to 2015 was 11670 -> 11770 so actually below inflation
That's what CDNs are for. If you control your proxy, nothing prevents you from giving it access to your https by setting up your private key on it. Https is also tapable, but only by servers you trust.
1. Ouch.

2. What others who know more have stated is that for many tests, there's a fundamental difference between venous blood (taken from a high-volume vessel) and capillary blood taken from a tiny blood vessel in an extremity. It seems that it's not all about volume.
Good - it's one of few jobs where humans are needed and robots aren't a good enough substitute. Maybe we can soak up some unemployment that way.
The more privacy-conscious amongst us probably consider that a positive reason not a negative one...
> First results for searching 'calendar': http://i.imgur.com/l3A5Wlh.png

Well in your screenshot it seems like you scrolled down on the "calendar" search results. I get some other random thing ahead of Google Calendar, in incognito or not.

It is really annoying (I too hate those things, I would have installed the app if I wanted the app), but the click through thing only happens once in my testing. Are you clearing your cookies regularly?
I agree. It's terrible to choose a gender binary-reinforcing adjective for the supposedly-neutral meaning of the term. Shame on NY Times.
Neither of those definitions disagree with me. I mean, if you read it with your apparently biblical bent, then "treating people equally" probably means the rapist should be raped and killed. But no sane society thinks that's a good idea.

"Just or appropriate" doesn't actually say anything about what should be done in a case of rape+murder. Who's to say life in prison is appropriate? I don't think it is. It's a waste. The young lady wasn't put in a hellish environment for a lifetime. And what do we as a society gain by wasting money on prisoners for exactly zero return on investment? We're basically punishing ourselves to spend that money. Better to wait until the problem is solved (i.e. we don't think they'll do it again) and let them out where they can do something useful.
This already happens in lots of setups: social security, pensions, allowances, annuities. So there's lots to look at without setting up some stilted experiments?
> Should no one be working on this problem?

You have to understand that's a ludicrous fallacy of the excluded middle argument you're making.

There is a long way between wanting nobody to work on this problem, and thinking it's a good idea to give tens of millions of dollars to a bright but utterly inexperienced college student to work on this problem because she happened to be school friends with some VC's daughters.

[0] https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-k...
Using HTTP instead of HTTPS allows an evil ISP injecting, for example, ads into your website or modifing its content in any way while serving it.
> "...persistent marketing and sales efforts..."
..."This just became a job"
>I don't believe the gov't is going to lock someone up for learning how to serve web pages.

That's essentially the same as not locking your car doors because you feel your car isn't worth breaking into.
Teen flew from Sheffield to Essex via Berlin because it was cheaper than train
> - a simple tally of reactions. With an open-ended set of emoji, it's a bit silly to tally emoji responses. With 6 options, the tallies are interesting.

Slack's implementation is worth using to question whether of your speculated problems would actually be significant. It updates the tallies in real-time and requires only a single click to increment the count. Although people could use any emoji, in practice there are only a small percentage which are relevant and people tend to add to previous ones rather than add a random new one.

> - advertising. These six actions are a known quantity and can be baked into their advertising and display algorithms at every level. Using emoji, you'd have to build some kind of emoji-emotion-algorithm which classifies the use of all emoji in real time to a small set of factors for use in the algorithm

If an advertiser was trying to do this, they'd have to do all of that work either way – the only difference is the size of the lookup table. I think they'd be more worried about trying to gauge the target of the reaction – e.g. if I post something about politics and you use the angry reaction, it's much harder for a machine to tell whether you disagreed with me or were directing some righteous indignation at the subject of the story and that's the most valuable bit of info to know for deciding which candidate or party's ad to show.
Except the "diagnostic gadget" is the part that is not working here. Attaching a cellphone won't make things any better.
Thanks for all your comments!

I wonder about metadata, though. While Mozilla doesn't know the contents of messages, it's still generally well aware of who (sender IP) is sending messages to whom (receiver IP) - is that correct?

(I suppose this can be somewhat mitigated by running private self-hosted autopush instance and replacing dom.push.serverURL)
Well, if someone can manipulate your DNS, you have other issues than your SSL certificate anyway.

Ideally, DNS should be signed by your registrar.
Ethics.

When people deal with live samples more ethic and certifications than for IT scaming techs is expected by the stake holders .

And the cohorts of bad news on theranos, the misdoings and also the handling of PR with spin doctors does not inspire "an ethical empathy" with theranos.

VC funded startups really don't seem to be able to have any ethic. They look like psychopaths right now that use their so called hard work as an excuse for their lack in the fundamental of trustable business and respect of consumers.

Vae Victis.

Theranos may pay for a little more than their own share of wrongdoings. They may pay a tad for a broader distrust of so called "new tech" scams also known as unicorns.

The bigger you try to manipulate opinions, the more the opinion may resent you.

For now I have a solid hammer against them, I am waiting for sharp factual nails to seal their coffin.

Why hurry? It is clear they cheated the wrong people (investors) and investors are gonna provide us the nails. Polished, sharp, hurtful provided by audits and leaks.

Let's get some popcorn and tomatoes and watch the world of some selfish aristocrats burn.
I scrolled down because the top of the page was a Google Ad for Google Calendar. I chose to show the first organic result. Here's the top of the page: http://imgur.com/cO84ogZ.png
Is it fully accurate (or helpful) to think of Google only as an advertising company? Movie theaters and gas stations earn most of their profit on concessions and ancillary stuff that isn't the central product or service, yet we don't think of either as strictly a "concession" or food service business.
Your last quote captures the point of the age-old phrase.

The point of "Money can't buy happiness" is that happiness doesn't have a UPC. The connection between money and happiness has tangible intermediaries. You have to spend the money in order to be happy.

The wisdom of it is putting the ball in the hands of the listener.

A lot of times people can get excited just about making money. That's fine because there are so many wonderful things you can buy. On the other hand, I'm sure there is at least an inkling of a further goal behind the idea of making money. No one is trying to be the guy from the parable who dies with a ton of money in the bank (guy has no descendents/will either). Money can be a trap if it is used as a proxy for future desires that are never realized.

"Money can't buy happiness" leads to the question: What is it that you do want?