skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From everything I've seen there's very little actual information publicly available either way about what's going on (aside from some weak pop tech journalism).

Not sure why you're being deliberately obtuse about what Theranos' failings are. Their alleged disruptive technology has never been shown to work. Their lab where they use other companies' technologies is in such a state of disarray that Medicare has publicly stated that they may be endangering patients' lives (i.e., through cross-contamination of samples, inaccurate labeling, etc.).

Multiple former employees have talked about Theranos' failings, and multiple government agencies have audited/inspected Theranos and found it severely deficient.

I'd imagine this negative media attention is stressful for them - like it is for any startup.

Good. They should be stressed out. They've taken almost $90 million dollars and all they've accomplished is putting people's lives at risk so they can play startup.

Should minimally wait for something substantial to see if there was any actual wrongdoing - there's not much here so far.

There isn't just actual wrongdoing--some of the allegations rise to the level of criminal wrongdoing. Felonies, not misdemeanors. It's very possible that the founder ends up in jail when all of this is done.
the luxor hotel also isn't submerged in a giant body of electrically conductive liquid!!
University education has become such a bloated juggernaut, I don't feel its sustainable or sensible to continue to feed it growing amounts of free government money. Im hopeful that free/inexpensive/subsidized online education, packaged into degree/certification programs and sanctioned by educational institutions, will be able to take the place of much of what is really being offered at traditional 4-year schools.
Global Illumination Compendium: Concise Guide to Global Illumination Algorithms
Practicality aside,

> £11.83 on a Ryanair flight to Berlin

As someone who's lived only in North America, that is mindblowing.
Somewhat strange to see this getting no response.
> Another bug: it can sometimes lapse into an infinite loop.

That might be a bug that propagated from the politicians themselves...
The Problem with Biofuels
It'd be easier than you think. Much like IQ testing, requiring a college education is already illegal under "disparate impact" arguments (unless it's a bona-fide occupational requirement - eg, an electrical engineering degree for an EE position). The difference is that employers expect to be sued if they give job applicants an IQ test, but they don't expect to be sued if they want a competitive alma mater.

The way to fix this is to sue lots of employers for requiring or discriminating based on college education. Or at least win a few high-profile cases.
I've been very impressed with the WSJ coverage of Theranos. The same reporters broke the CMS Medicaid Fraud in 2014 and won a Pulitzer Prize. http://www.wsjplus.com/invites/medicare
The entire event will be recorded for later viewing, as with previous LibrePlanets. I'll check with Georgia from FSF whether this event will be live streamed and update here later. Snowden will be streamed _within_ the event (he's not onsite) so you may want to actually go to Boston, as a recording of him being streamed will just not be the same :-)
Because mobile carriers are given broad discretion to do whatever they want to do to your traffic.

They cheerfully modify content, and have built infrastructure to do it even more.
There's typically an extra layer (or more) with humans. "Because this puts your Bishop in wasabi which makes it harder for your opponent to extract his Kinglet, making it more likely to win."
I go to work to eat the free food. THEY SMOKE THEIR OWN BACON.
I think companies try to be competitive with the perks (eg google - massages, food within a few steps, a nice space to be.) There is definitely a benefit in that and the social interactions for a young professional to work in a team with smart people can be pretty rewarding too. With modern tooling you can still do that remote - I've seen code review processes work very will with teams that aren't co-located and that has been very rewarding and brought a lot of growth for me personally.

But I understand as a family man what you're saying. If I could do remote work I'd probably be in Tamarindo or similar (which I'd like to do one day.) Until then, bacon is pretty awesome.
Regardless whether or not it works out in this case, from working traveling around Europe for the last 8 months and always hoping to use the train, I've found it is crazy how much cheaper flights are.

I just flew from Berlin to Brussels, these are €10 flights one-way. The cheapest train tickets I can see for this start at €89 (from DB). That's a 1h30 flight, or 7 hour train ride.
Sections 1215 and 1250 say that they don't follow manual procedure requirements. Not surprising, given that the focus of the enterprise is automating laboratory procedures.

The remaining sections cited are requirements on the staff operating the lab. The letter infers that the staff do not conform to regulatory requirements. Again, this is not surprising given that the function of the enterprise is to remove humans from the process.

I find the outrage a bit outrageous.
Good for them. Terrible for society. What if Pasteur had this "can't be bothered, let's go fishing" attitude?
100+ miles? Cheaper perhaps but unless he's one hell of a cyclist not faster..
That's not a basic income, that's just a government job. The point of a basic income is that it is not contingent on services rendered.
Buried at the bottom:

"Cox says Reactions’ biggest test so far was during the November terrorist attacks in Paris. Users in the test countries had options other than like, and they used them. “It just felt different to use Facebook that day,” he says."

Does this disturb anyone else?
The lesson here, I think, is that security intuitions developed in an IPv4 world with NAT everywhere may need re-examining in an IPv6 world.

If your device has a publicly routable IP address, it should probably be behind a firewall. If it's not behind a firewall, it's going to get scanned. Relying on security through address space size is stupid.

> What was most puzzling was the fact that the devices that were targeted had randomized IPv6 addresses and were not published in DNS or any public record. For all intents and purposes they were hidden safely within my lab network.

That is just wrong, and it's wrong in a very glaring, obvious way: The devices were not "hidden safely within [his] lab network", because he was not using NAT. They were connected to the internet with publicly routable IP addresses, which they were using to communicate with other hosts on the internet.

Edit: That being said, it's a great writeup, and some good technical work was done to figure out what was going on, and I enjoyed reading it. But the starting premise seemed to be "how could this be happening, my devices are hidden!" and I feel like it should have been "oh, it makes sense that someone would do this since my devices are no longer hidden".
I think it's far more than "the size of the lookup table" because that implies that each emoji has one purpose (like the Facebook 5 have one purpose).

Facebook's five choices are clear and universal human emotions that leave very little room for subjectivity.

Emoji, on the other hand, are used as a famously arcane new language where each symbol has many potential uses, as a pictogram in conjunction with others, or as multiple uses per emoji, as viral "inside" jokes meaning completely different things than depicted (tree, fire, or pineapple are often used to mean a drug, but how do you know when a tree symbol means a drug and when it means a pine tree?) "X_X face" is often used to mean sexytimes, but the X_X emoji is also used to mean exasperation.

Sad, happy, angry, these are simple to work with.

But how do you classify Back-Button? What does a user think of a post when they rate it "Alien-Face". When they use "Skull/Crossbone" are they saying danger/poison, or death, or Halloween, costumes, a movie?

I'm not sure you could ever get to an adequate level of programmatically understanding the intent behind emoji, but I think that it's not too difficult with 5 universal emotions.
Oculus’ New Tool Lets You Animate Films Inside of VR
Can you provide some links to where Ken Regan describes how to do it?
No, they're the same thing. Feynman: "Now we would like to discuss the idea of angular momentum in quantum mechanics—or rather, the characteristics of what, in quantum mechanics, is called angular momentum. You see, when you go to new kinds of laws, you can’t just assume that each word is going to mean exactly the same thing. You may think, say, “Oh, I know what angular momentum is. It’s that thing that is changed by a torque.” But what’s a torque? In quantum mechanics we have to have new definitions of old quantities. It would, therefore, be legally best to call it by some other name such as “quantangular momentum,” or something like that, because it is the angular momentum as defined in quantum mechanics. But if we can find a quantity in quantum mechanics which is identical to our old idea of angular momentum when the system becomes large enough, there is no use in inventing an extra word. We might as well just call it angular momentum. With that understanding, this odd thing that we are about to describe is angular momentum. It is the thing which in a large system we recognize as angular momentum in classical mechanics."[1]

Yes, it's weird. Yes, it's not intuitive. But it's very real. Many experiments, such as the classic two-slit experiment, have confirmed the stranger predictions of quantum mechanics.

[1] http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_34.html
Thanks! Is there a press release for a website that doesn't discriminate against AdBlock users?
I think your understanding of evolution is a bit off, since there are other creatures with common ancestor (birds) that can see into long UV.
I don't doubt that there are good reasons to work from a central location - I do a lot of pre-sales work so I understand the importance of face to face - however, if I weigh up the cost of commuting (as a whole for society) then we just cannot justify having all office workers commuting 5 days per week.

We can still make face to face work, I just don't believe everybody has to commute everyday - it's all about balance - we just need a culture shift.
haha exactly

in case anyone is interested in doing just that, http://www.amazon.com/The-Charisma-Myth-Personal-Magnetism/d...
Pre Snowden, I didn't believe in the conspiracy theories. However, it is by now apparent that not only were the conspiracy theorists right, but it was worse than anyone believed.

When you combine the Suite B announcement with the fact that the Director of the NSA (Mike Rogers) - as well as the former Director (Michael Hayden) - have both publicly taken a pro-encryption stance (1) in opposition of nearly every other three-letter agency in existence, you have to wonder what they are and aren't scared of.

a) They clearly have very little concern with today's conventional encryption.

b) They clearly are very concerned about upcoming developments, to the point that they are publicly asking the industry to skip Suite B entirely in favor of spending their R&D on implementing post-quantum algorithms.

I, really, -really- hate to be that guy, but these guys are in the know, and it doesn't seem like much of a stretch that we either have functional quantum computers running shor right now today, or the R&D is basically done, and we're a few months-years away from being able to.

(1) https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/nsa-chief-stakes-out-pro...
I've seen her driving around town, she has some insane sports car that looks like a rocket ship. I couldn't even recognize what it was (Ferrari? Lamborghini?) it was so unusual looking.
Hi, I think the IIS support effort that's furthest along is described at https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/how-letsencrypt-work-for... ; maybe that will be useful for you if you want to try Let's Encrypt on your IIS system.

We've had hundreds of people remark that they found Let's Encrypt faster and easier to use than other CA offerings (though most of those people were using Apache on Debian-based systems), so I think we are getting somewhere. But we definitely hope that upstream web server projects and hosting environments will integrate ACME clients of their own, like Caddy has done, so that eventually most people won't need to run an external client at all and won't have to worry about compatibility or integration problems.
This is an impressive achievement. However there are many subtleties involved when humans play against computers. I think only time can tell how big a breakthrough this really is.

It is telling that AlphaGo only won 3:2 for the informal games. As a computer doesn't know the difference between formal and informal this seems to indicate that Alpha isn't truly above Fan Hui in strength. Also the formal games were played with fast game rules, which may be particularly advantageous to computers. Unlike chess go accumulates pieces on board throughout the game. Towards the end there are many stones on board and it is easy for human to err while the search space (possible moves) actually gets smaller for the computer and there is no doubt that computer has stronger book keeping capabilities. So to fairly evaluate human vs computer we may need new time rules different from human vs human games.

The paper does not disclose whether the trained program displays true understanding of game rules. Humans don't just use pattern recognition, they also use logic to evaluate game state. While this could be addressed by the search part of the algorithm the paper doesn't appear to give any indication on whether this was studied. For example, the board position strictly speaking does not determine the game state due to ko rules (so the premise of the paper that there is a valuation function v(s), where s is the board position, that determines game outcome is incorrect). It would be particularly interesting to see how the algorithm fares when there are multiple kos going on at the same time. Also it would be interesting to see how well the algorithm understands long range phenomenons such as ladder and liveness. With a million dollar challenge in the plan it is understandable the Google team may not want to disclose weaknesses of the algorithm but in the long run we will get to know how robust it really is.

From my experience playing against conv nets I would say if you treat your computer opponent as a human it would be like playing against the hive mind of a group of experts with infallible memory and it is not to your advantage. So one would be better off trying "cheat" moves that human experts do not use on each other and see how well the computer generalizes. Without search and with neural nets alone it is clear that computers do not generalize that well. So it would be interesting to see how well search and neural nets work together and if someone could find the algorithm's weak spots.
We, rightly, have a concept of "fiduciary duty" deeply embedded in our common law and in the practice of investing. That applies to all the people entrusted with the assets in question, from the pension fund manager to the VC firm to the firm receiving the investment. There's a difference between a bad or risky bet that doesn't pan out and violations of that duty like misrepresentation and self-dealing.

The blame should go to those who breached that duty. It seems that at minimum they engaged in misleading statements about the degree of progress they had made with their technology. That's certainly unethical and possibly fraudulent.
That's true, but I think at some point HTTP should go away. The deprecation should happen. I think we need to get to state where HTTPS is HTTP and there is no "HTTPS" at all. Everyone can easily get a free certificate, and for commercial they can spend hundreds if they want to "prove" more. Like I said in another comment, I don't see a problem with sharing cat photos over HTTP. But if possible, https is definitely not going to hurt. But given most sites are HTTP, yes, probably going to hurt ranking. Old websites running on old CMS won't be able upgrade much. Simiarily, no one should be running FTP. It should SFTP, but setting up SFTP is pain in the ass with chroot and all that. Technology really need to made simpler. Speaking from an ops standpoint.
The movie, Colossus: The Forbin Project comes to my mind :)
Soviet Union: 7-20 million deliberately starved to death. [1] 1.5 million people executed during The Great Purge. [2] "Did pretty well".

Cuba: thousands executed for the ideas they held; forced labor camps; and more than 1.2m fled 1959-1993 (about 10% of the current population). "Doing pretty well". Cuba was one of the wealthiest countries in the Americas, before Marxists took over.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
I picked up a lenovo knock-off with the aforementioned chip and 4GB of RAM on-board for $120CAD over a year ago on aliexpress. Chinese knock-offs add an extra layer of security-by-obscurity that government actors would have difficulty with.
> Rupert Murdoch is also very powerful, and he's no doubt personally OK'd this WSJ-led takedown of Theranos

You're aware that you're accusing the editors and reporters at the WSJ with a massive violation of professional ethics right? Is that your intent?
Graphene-based enable heat-resistant for lightweight planes
Did you mean everyone or US-everyone? There's a subtle difference there. Most comments here are so US-specific.
There's a difference between shifting labor around between sectors (e.g. moving agriculture jobs into manufacturing or new industries) and a situation in which, almost instantaneously, every job that a human can do can be outdone by an AI. I think it would be naive to think the advent of superintelligent AI is comparable to relatively incremental advances of the industrial era.
I think it's smart. You can break down this feature into two types of users:

- A user that has friends on snapchat. For them, just sign up and snap a picture. You're off to the races. IMO, there's no reason to pick who I want to send it to until I take the picture.

- Another type of user would be someone who does not have any friends using SnapChat. For those people - you don't want to just say, "Sorry, you don't have any people to talk to - but feel free to play around with the camera." That probably won't encourage them to do much more with the app. Instead, you get them to create something first. When it's time to send their creation, they don't have anyone to send it to, but they are way more likely to say, "Hey <other person in the room>, download SnapChat so I can send you this hilarious thing I just made." Both of those people are way more likely to download and use the app - but the chance of them doing so goes way down if they never invest any time and creativity into the app.

Just my two cents, but I think it makes perfect sense.
If you don't have a way to confirm that the key you're seeing from the other site is right, you're inherently vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack which removes the benefits of the encryption against the attacker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack

httpS://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko's_triangle

It's not clear that the certificate authority system was or is the best solution to this problem, but it is a problem that calls for some solution. In the case of Domain Validation, we only try to confirm that the key is appropriate to use with the domain name, which is the smallest possible kind of confirmation that can be done to address the crypto problem. There's no attempt to validate or verify anything else about the site.
A Modest Proposal Concerning the Black Bar on Hacker News
It might be helpful to be able to hover over the black bar at the top of Hacker News (when it is present) to get a simple tooltip explaining why it is there. This should reduce the number of questions on AskHN related to wondering why it is there. My 2 cents. :)
Not only that, but the degree to which you have nothing directly affects the amount of aid (loans) they are willing to provide.

I have a twin sister whom was better at saving than I. When it came time to apply for FAFSA loans, she had $2k in the bank and I didn't. She qualified for exactly $2k less in loans than I did.
It's funny, I've seen this before and my experience is the exact opposite. I've got 2 kids that were on what feels like a million antibiotics when they were young, one's thin, one's average. I've got a 3rd kid was NEVER on them at all, he's obese. I know this and other studies are population averages and all that, but it always surprises me when my experience is the exact opposite. Something to do with what gut microbes were killed or something?
Companies are much more comfortable paying for a product then using the free alternative. Especially as the paid for product has support and a smoother experience.

Free is great for people like you, for others it is also regarded as the value they pay for it.
You probably won’t pay with Venmo any time soon
> So, since I’ve been living in England in yonks now

Apparently not that long.
Air Head: How Aviation Made the Modern Mind
> by "raising the bar"

Don't worry. Theranos failed even some of the simplest tests so how is that going to raise the bar at all? Work safety should not be a casual business gesture. It is as if you expect you raise money and you don't provide some insurance for your startup hires. No way. Anyone doing laboratory work should be careful with regulations. Wearing goggles and no smoking in the lab should be really basic. I don't expect anyone following the whole manual, but common sense yes. Simple tests, yes. Standard procedures should still be practiced.
You can already send unecrypted authenticated data with HTTPS.
"All that would do is keep the vessel from affecting nearby compasses."

"It still distorts the local geomagnetic field."

These two statements are trivially identical.
Not just that, but he also attended Queens University, one of the best public universities in Canada at a total cost of almost zero due to his ctizenship. I believe he completed his undergrad studies at Amherst College, however.
I don't know whether basic income will be effective, but I hypothesize that its changes in incentives will reduce productivity and happiness for the majority of people.

Personally, I’m more interested in a system where costs of living are drastically lowered. Subsidies could work, but I think technology could play a large role. Imagine a clothing factory where everything is automated. Raw fabric comes in and finished clothing comes out. With minimal human interaction, variable costs should be much lower. Customers might even be able to design custom clothes with software.

Nonprofit organizations could be established to maintain the factories and equipment. Their primary goals would be to minimize cost, ensure quality, and maximize customer satisfaction.

Obviously, such a system would require a lot of capital and technological advances, but I believe it is feasible. This idea could also be applied to other areas like farming, electricity, ISPs, etc.
The point is precisely that nobody "needs" millions of dollars. That kind of money is well beyond the point of having the peace of mind you'll never go hungry or stop having a comfortable standard of living.
Yes and no. Factor in getting to the airport, having to be there some hours before your flight, the level of security screening, the unpleasantness of the space you get to sit in on the plane, the inability to work sensibly on a reasonable sized laptop, the spotty wifi, and then being landed miles away from the city centre, I've generally found that train travel compares reasonably well.

Yes, individual journeys need to be assessed on their merits, but once you consider factors other than the list price of the fare, the economics are often not so clear.