skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that any automated lab today still requires many manual procedures, and the staff have to conform. It's totally inexcusable, within the current legal environment, to not satisfy those conditions. Their lab isn't some gleaming, hermetically sealed iLab with only mechanics and computers inside.

I will note that I placed a caveat that I didn't know the magnitude of the violations, but be aware, this is an extremely serious problem for Theranos, they have no excuses, they would have known what to do ahead of time, and they certainly wouldn't use the reasoning that their lab is partially automated so they don't need to comply with manual procedure requirements.
A cursory search leads me to believe this may actually be happening:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-09/why-is-col...

http://www.businessadministrationinformation.com/news/study-...
Yep, I'm not ignorant of those kinds of stats, I just dispute the interpretation. Patriarchy is ideology not fact, and a divisive one at that. Its a narrow combative view of gender interaction that does more harm than good.
HN could do its part: for example, start marking all http:// links red. For our content sites, we can also announce to users this change and roll something out.
Have you honestly been told that if you were really hard right now, you'll be able to retire soon? What was the context? A manager trying to sell you on putting in extra hours, because the IPO is going to make you rich?

I nodded to a lot of your points (although I have personally done well by 1 of the 3 companies to offer me options), but I've never had a boss actively try to push me like that. It's always been encouragement or constructive criticism, but never (potentially) false promises. That just strikes me as so wrong.
That is a very odd whitewashing. Even if its all automated, you still need a lab director with qualifications to run the lab. And somebody has to fill reagent bottles. People are involved. That they fail when so few people are involved is a lot worse.
According to a study be the federal reserve, it actually is happening right now. Education isn't a commodity product so this kind of pricing doesn't require collusion between different schools.
Maybe raw productivity is not increased, but all of these reasons have the effect of increasing morale and thus productivity.
So does that mean now companies can have their AI programs compete against each other in a Go match for the "title."
> "Marxism has been tried, and has failed, in so many places with such bloody results."

This isn't Marxism, that's a lazy comparison. At its core, Marxism is about shared access to the means of production. Basic income has nothing to do with changing who owns the means of production (or at least, it could mean that, but it doesn't have to mean that).

Furthermore, whilst Marx had some interesting ideas, he also had at least one dangerously bad one. I'm referring to the dictatorship of the proletariat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletaria...

... I'd argue that no attempt to achieve communism at a state level has ever got past that stage, because the path from a society controlled by power to a true communist society is beyond the imagination of many.

That said, forms of socialism that don't rely on a dictatorial intermediary stage do exist, and just because one form of socialism is misguided doesn't mean they are all misguided.
>I'm also taking the view that raising the prosperity for the lowest individuals will in turn increase the prosperity for everyone else.

This is an aside, and I don't particularly want to evaluate it as good or bad, but this statement is striking compared to the neoliberal idea of 'a rising tide lifts all boats' - i.e. increasing general prosperty raises prosperity for the lowest individuals.
"mark non-secure origins as non-secure." The name of that option seems to be chosen to apply a bit of pressure to anyone who sees it. Nothing wrong with that of course - it's our existing habits of trusting HTTP that are strange.
Tired of America bullying?

One of the reasons we probably didn't sign on to the treaty is because anything that sounds like UN or international agreement is toxic for roughly half of our voters.

And the primary reason for that (not completely unjustly) is the feeling that no one else will do the work if we don't. Stuff like [1] and [2] make it kind of hard to argue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations#Funding

[2] http://sites.uci.edu/energyobserver/2014/03/17/comparison-of...
Speaking from personal experience, not having to work 9-5 at a dead end job has astronomically increased my personal well being, productivity, and contribution to society (ed-tech startup). If I had been born in the lower class and never had any capital/runway, I would never have been able to do my startup -- or at least not yet, and not with this much impact.

9-5 service jobs so that people can pay rent needs to become a thing of the past, so many lives and talent gone to waste.
I've travelled a hundred times with Ryanair and never had any problems or paid a single euro more than the ticket itself (apart for the traditional coffee on board: 3 euro). One of my recent trips was to Canary Islands: 8 hours of flight (in total, counting the return) for 100 euro.
I find tipping frequently awkward but never so in a Lyft. I get a company Lyft credit for trips to/from office so almost always tip on those. For personal trips, I feel no pressure to tip but appreciate the opportunity to do so. I recall a trip to the hotel from Disneyland with 2 toddlers in pouring rain that took 40 minutes to go 3 miles with a total fare of something like $8. That's an easy tip situation.
This is stupid. Making https a requirement will break most web pages on hardware older than 2005 or so. This sucks for anyone without money.
Nothings wrong with it (except the obvious things that are, but that's another discussion). You can support 2 and 3 in the same codebase.
> The planet, known as 2MASS J2126-8140, is between 12 and 15 times the mass of Jupiter.

Wouldn't object on the higher end of this range be regarded as a brown dwarf, making this system a binary star rather than a planet system?
Individuals Are Everything
> where objectification of men is not even an issue

What about the objectification of men that calls them "warriors" and sends them off to serve their country as tools of the state? To get killed doing that? That sort of objectification isn't an issue? Or we only worry about the case where women have the freedom to pose in front of a camera and get paid for it if they want to?
Like a shipment of weapons sent to a castle to help defend it from outside forces. Makes sense when the castle is occupied by the good guys, but when occupied by the bad guys (cancer) it only strengthens them.
Wow what was the reason that moving the TV meant you needed to degauss? Obv. has to do with magnetic field but I always thought it simply had to do with power being turned on (and only because that is when it seemed to degauss).
I love venmo and use it almost daily.I just wish they allowed me to transfer more than $3,000 in one week.
Nope. All I remember was hit after hit. So many, I actually started to feel sorry for Theranos. Despite that it's looking more and more like it doesn't have the goods and may not get there. And has operated very oddly.
Why this forced line between work and non-work?

Haven't you ever had a moment that your work was so interesting that you wanted to share it with someone else in your 'non-work' time?

I would say: talk about what interests you. Don't focus too much on 'appropriate' timing.
> What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?

I agree with the fundamental dogma that startups are the best way we know to create good technology, which in turn benefits everyone. ie. the big wealth creators are discovering new resources and creating better technology. ( The big new resources are in space, or perhaps deep sea, so your back to startups to get there.)

Extrapolating, it seems reasonable that within 15 years the cost of many manufactured items will fall dramatically and quality will go up - when 3D printing can print electronics and plastics intermingled together at good resolution, that will mean all our vacuum cleaners / iphones / laptops / TVs / cars / bikes / shoes are printed whole instead of assembling them from parts.

Aside from consumer goods, we still all need high quality and cheap solutions for : education, energy, transport and housing.

Cheap, high quality [customisable!] housing might actually be solved by 3D printing also [ but maybe you'll just end up paying more for rights to the land plot or sky space to host your dream pad ? ]

Its worth mentioning the obvious, that Startups don't exist in a vacuum, they need the backdrop of founders and staff who are highly educated [ not to mention a functioning economy with capital, infrastructure, internet ]

Personally, if someone gave me a basic income and a project budget, I would spend it on establishing Math Circles for students aged 10 to 15. ( My ideal version of math circles involves some hands-on programming in javascript, coupled with the typical tricky math problems to solve - https://quantblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/mathcircle-with-c... ). Id also like to see how we could scale out Math Circles by delivering them online.

Education via this Math Circle format is a very long term technology investment, but has a high bang for buck in terms of upside for the planet and our species. As a parent it seems clear to me, we cant wait around for the government or established institutions to innovate in education - it has to be done in parallel and outside of the constraints of a formal bureaucracy.

Think of each student as a startup you're funding - in that long tail there might be one or two Adas, Edisons, Einsteins or Mirzakhanis wherein almost all future 'value' lies.. but we're also making a wider pyramid of culture, diffusing out into the general milieu of artists, nurses, marketers, designers a slightly higher level of facility and intuition in math and science.
The Landscape of Parallelism in C++ [video]
Parent poster might not be from an English-speaking background.
You guys should get in touch with Randall Wray from the Levy Institute
Most of the discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983747
Ray Tracing in One Weekend
That is an oversimplification that assumes that markets are efficient and there is no information asymmetry and evrryone operates on a long investment time horizon. If Warren Buffett and I both invested in Goldman Sachs in 2008, I would have to base my decision based on quarterly earnings reports and my guesses on the direction of Fed's monetary policy. Buffett on the other hand would be invited inside the Goldman boardroom and likely told of the company's situation without the sort of CFO doublespeak that occurs during an earnings call.
To be fair, if I were a wealthy Chinese national, I'd sure as hell be parking cash in diversified assets abroad.
CMS surveys, deficiencies, and plans of correction are to some extent business as usual for large health care providers. The article doesn't mention what they got hit with so it could be a big deal, or just an isolated incident that a surveyor happened to observe.

Correcting the problem tends to be easy, but measuring and reporting back your progress creates administrative expense. An example is paying for someone to train your employees on something related to the deficiency and then doing a random audit of their records at regular intervals for a few months afterwards.

Technically you can get shut down, but it isn't common.
Who are you using?
I imagine that for many people, having a detour via another European city would be a big plus, rather than a minus. Going to paris, even just to have coffee, when they're leaving London for the weekend would appeal to many people I imagine.

Besides, it's amazing how expensive railways are even if they are slightly more expensive. We're talking 500+ km travel vs 100 km. One would expect a large difference.
Active discussion of the letter here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983747

Another article about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983692
You have a ";" at the end of your URL which breaks it.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/how-letsencrypt-work-for...
No offense intended with this, but, as a web developer, what the heck are you doing creating your site on SquareSpace? Shouldn't you...I dunno...develop your own web site?
That's more interesting than great. But:

SpaceX DSCOVR Launch – The Decision to Embrace Dinkiness

is gold.
nope. when things are in an inactive tab...browsers slow down the JS and it crawls to a halt. So I just decided to stop it all together. You could have it in another window in the background though!
Basically efficient, low-latency caching for html and css content is over unless there's SRI for them. It makes sense to have a mini webpage delivered securely that lists hashes for all static assets, and then serve some static assets insecurely to take advantage of CDNs as long as they don't disclose individual app actions (assets everyone sees on many pages). The downside is the balancing of risk for activity leakage based on insecure assets. Of course, some dynamic content and sensitive state needs to remain secure. The issue is that securing everything depends on whether you're willing to trust your CDNs and caches with your certs and private keys (granted, you already trust them to display the correct content.). That sort of technical risk management needs to be considered carefully if insecure assets can dramatically speed up UX (because TLS sessions take some or a lot more work... since how would the browser and backends do session caching or pipelining across infrastructures and providers that likely have multiple IPs? One connection per provider, each keeping their own cache for their HA boxes?)

Maybe there needs to be an insecure HEAD or CACHE open standard to check content freshness of a secure page via crypto hash (say canonical uri, etag and last modified) to avoid building up a full TLS session to see nothing's changed?
How does LVT achieve your goals while property tax, which we already have, does not?
And that's where two parents are involved! Since I became a parent (luckily with a very capable spouse) I've been amazed at the tenacity it takes for the single parents I've met to juggle child care and jobs. Good, inexpensive care would make a huge difference for parents with precarious finances and living situations. The USA's patchwork of county welfare programs is hard to navigate and offers limited alternatives in many regions.
[(Somewhat) Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1626/).
Great news!

Off topic: Anyone else think the Oracle blog is overdue for a re-design? Its aesthetics are as outdated as Java Applets.
I agree, otherwise the proles might become too uppity.
It's downvoted because the Fergusun protests were not "because people didn't pay their bills", and it's clear the poster simply has no understanding of what life is like when you're forced to chose between paying a bill and feeding your kids.

You feel bad writing what you wrote, because you likely have a bit more awareness of how badly everything is stacked against the poor from the moment they're born, but you prefer to focus on pointless semantic debates along the lines of "color blind" and decrying "political correctness" that are old and tiresome.
Regarding #1 What about The Interrotron?

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663105/errol-morriss-secret-wea...

That could be a major improvement for video conferencing.

#2 is solved by Slack for us... but still,

#3 and #4 is why I don't work at home. :)
It's true that you can get a cheaper (but still very expensive by the standards of anywhere else) ticket by booking for the middle of the day and weeks on advance, but if you need to travel at short notice or for a fixture during the day, you can expect daylight robbery for standing room in someone's armpit in a vestibule for 90 minutes.
Do airports in Europe not charge landing fees? In the US thats the big source of revenue for an airport.
Oh yes. This company exists in a vacuum, just like all the private capital that's propping up your local economy. I can't possibly imagine the mechanism by which the perception of failure might cause private investors to stop investing in things. Certainly, most investors don't read the news or sites like this one, so there's no way they might know that the unbridled optimism that fuels growth of unproductive companies could be approaching a precipice. Investors will obviously stay the course, continue dumping ever more capital into pointless apps and SaaSy startups, not to mention mysterious vaporware technologies like the one in question. It's nothing like that shameful bubble from the late 1990's when more public investment was involved, since everyone knows that perception requires a public market.
+1, and it might be cool if it was defined under which circumstances the black bar will be applied. Just think of Ian Murdock (RIP).

Or, maybe, allow community votes on this??
> "It is very much a "I got mine, FUCK YOU." position."

Can you explain what you mean by this?

I think it's worth pointing out that implementing a basic income does not diminish the available work in an economy. If you want to earn more than your basic income, you're still free to do so.
> might guarantee a minimum severance package that is not contingent upon the employees symbolically cutting their own throats

Also known as unemployment benefits?
Is anyone else seeing a bunch of missing letters in the linked pdf? I know it's a side issue but it really makes the letter hard to read.
It's about time, they should also get rid of Web Start support. I would imagine those 2 account for a good chunk of the security alerts/updates over the years.
SUICIDE BOMB BLASTS KILLED 11, LEFT 35 PEOPLE INJURED IN CHIBOK
> Steve Wozniak

Stepped on by the quite charismatic Steve Jobs

> Evan Williams

Stepped on by the quite charismatic Jack Dorsey
can't wait for servo "strict mode" css!!
Kickass Torrents is down (Update: It&#8217;s back)
That's not how language works. Words have implications and subtleties that go beyond a straightforward reading of a dictionary definition.

Especially with that definition, you really can't escape the roots. It's just a metaphorical twist on the word.
Link to the paper mentioned in the article: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-data/assets/papers/d...
Need to check in at a kiosk because the site is down for overnight maintenance? ding

On the plus side, so long as you don't mind travelling on a bus with wings, laden with boozy nuptial parties, you can get around Europe on a shoestring.
One of the big advantages of air travel is that it is much more competitive than train systems. This is due to the high costs of train tracks resulting in a natural monopoly.

Without even the threat of competition there is little incentive to control costs. This often gets magnified by union and government involvement. So despite the theoretical efficiency advantage of trains they are often more expensive than other forms of transport which is a real shame.
Still, there's a difference between being less than 100% secure and being a totally useless feature.

Being able to make the statement "Either you've been consistently MitM'ed by the same entity for the past three years, or the your little cloud-based debian box is actually secure" is a lot more useful than not tracking SSH fingerprints at all. I certainly wish my browser would track my self-signed certs in this way.
the expert human games are used just to predict future moves
probably too late for a meaningful comment -

any screening you do on basic income recipients totally invalidates the point of studying basic income (and basic income itself), beyond some really basic stuff. my suggestion : pick a town / neighborhood / whatever at random (preferably relatively poor with a population between 500-1000) and give everyone living in it at the time $1k/month over the next 5 years (even if they move). i think it's safe / wise to exclude anyone who's retired or on disability since that defeats the purpose of the experiment as they already receive entitlement funds. how you handle children i have no idea. maybe parents should get a reduced amount per child?

in other words, if you have qualifications like "poor and motivated", or even just "poor", then the basic income experiment is really a grant program. it's really important philosophically that you DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING to get basic income. most work is NOT VALUABLE. society is better off with more people being "lazy" and doing whatever they feel like, especially as automation increases in prevalence and importance. if 50% of people on basic income decide not to work, that's fine because the other 50% will be perfectly capable of doing everything that actually needs to get done, particularly with the safety net of not having to worry about failure quite so much.
52! is the number of different ways you can arrange a single deck of cards. Let's try to wrap our puny human brains around the magnitude of this number with a fun little theoretical exercise. Start a timer that will count down the number of seconds from 52! to 0. We're going to see how much fun we can have before the timer counts down all the way.

Start by picking your favorite spot on the equator. You're going to walk around the world along the equator, but take a very leisurely pace of one step every billion years. Make sure to pack a deck of playing cards, so you can get in a few trillion hands of solitaire between steps.

After you complete your round the world trip, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Now do the same thing again: walk around the world at one billion years per step, removing one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean each time you circle the globe. Continue until the ocean is empty.

When it is, take one sheet of paper and place it flat on the ground. Now, fill the ocean back up and start the entire process all over again, adding a sheet of paper to the stack each time you’ve emptied the ocean. Do this until the stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun.

Take a glance at the timer, you will see that the three left-most digits haven’t even changed. You still have 8.063 × 10⁶⁷ more seconds to go. So, take the stack of papers down and do it all over again. One thousand times more. Unfortunately, that still won’t do it. There are still more than 5.385 × 10⁶⁷ seconds remaining. You’re just about a third of the way done. [1]

Well, the volume of the visible universe is 3.4 × 10⁸⁰ m³ and therefore another factor of 4.2 trillion larger than 52!. And then the entire universe is estimated to be at least another 150 or 250 times larger than the visible universe. In diameter, not volume.

[1] http://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
> Payday loan companies are the worst offenders in this category, I'd love to see an "uber" for that.

Me too, but it's very unlikely to happen. Payday loans (according to http://thehill.com/regulation/237538-borrowers-default-on-ne... and the study linked there) have a default rate of about 46% in the first two years, making them risky plays; to compensate for that, they have to increase interest rates and fees, which is a huge part of what makes them evil in the first place. Of course, the fact that 80% of payday loans are due to loan churn itself (paying off a payday loan with another) contributes to that in a big way, so maybe it could be done somehow.

I'd be interested in seeing a saner way of handling payday loans than exists right now, but I'm skeptical that it could be done in a way that isn't -- in some way -- predatory.
Part of the excitement around Theranos was that their finger prick approach opened up blood diagnostic technologies to situations (e.g., combat) and countries where it is difficult to get access to trained phlebotomists.