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Well, that was a big waste of time. I'm glad I only skimmed it instead of reading it. It also had too many links.
There IS meat here, but it isn't the hematology problem. It's that their medical director is unqualified to direct this lab. CLIA is very stringent about what qualifications are needed for a lab doing high-complexity testing. This is such a huge mistake by Theranos that I have to truly believe they do not know what they are doing, or perhaps felt they were above these laws. CLIA is indeed the law, passed by Congress many years ago. Even Kissinger can't throw his weight around and bypass it. Duh
In short: Why did they have to go with external torturers from sear schools rather than their own professional interrogators?
Why is it so hard to build blog engines that simply write articles to disk/cache and just use the db for content management?
> There's a reason that these alternatives are winning.

Yes, and that reason is that the current crop of up-and-coming developers have the same problem as past generations: They'd prefer to implement their own solutions vs. looking to the past.

Slack just happens to be the current darling in group communication. At some point, someone will make something that will change the fad-diet to The Next Big Thing.
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Our extended family have been using Path for some years (https://path.com). It's private so even young children can post, no ads, very slick app. It doesn't support albums but posting pictures is easy.

Not sure about their business model, I would pay for the privacy and safety angle.
> Slack message history vanishes.

And?
It's their responsibility to make sure that they're selling me what they promised me. If they can't do that, then maybe I shouldn't be purchasing from them.
We're talking about chats for open source programming projects, not the local book club. In that context, setting up an IRC bouncer or running a command line client in tmux on a VPS is not really a high bar.
A hundred years ago it was "obvious" that blacks were inherently less intelligent and more closely related to monkeys. Armchair scientists, who make claims but don't study them, are bad influences on the rest of the world.
Both. But the problem is not the thickness per se, it's that the lede is buried beneath the technical specifications. The "thickness" compounds the problem.

"we stand in jeopardy of losing a flight along with all the launch pad facilities" should be in the first sentence of the whole letter, not the final one.
Agreed. I'd love to get a tool that allowed fakes to be identified and certification be provided by OEMs. Instead, we get a windows update that randomly bricks devices. Not cool.
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Forgive me for my ignorance, but wouldn't adding a few balises to the track (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balise), and the matching receiver in the trains, be enough to limit the train speed to what the track allows? Or would even a simple system with fixed balises need FCC approval?
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But you can safely say "Ladders are PSPACE-complete" about the game of Go which is played on many different sizes, some far larger than the standard 19x19 (e.g. KGS supports 38x38 boards).
They don't have a business, at least not one that can support the number of employees they have. Their business is actually worth negative dollars. The only thing that was keeping their value high was their Alibaba investment.
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Yes. Also, some places prohibit or severely curtail excavation, in part because future generations might be able to do it better.
I don't buy into it either, and spend my days working on proprietary stuff. But I use a ton of open source projects, and pretty much everything I do interacts with open source protocols, like HTTP.
maybe we just need an open data version of this. anyone can upload an image of plate with a gps tag.
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I work from home full-time so you won't see much argument from me :) In an ideal scenario, I would prefer something like 4 days at home, 1 day at the office for face-to-face meetings.

I'm curious, given that you say you're more productive, are there any discussions in your company about expanding remote work to not only be a part-time thing?
The article admits as much but hedges this by saying it may help to counter bad parenting by poor parents --which is dubious, since they offer no evidence. It's more of a feelgood/guilt piece.

What we should do is have programs to make better parents. If they have children, make them take nurture programs, etc. I know, they don't have time... But they have time to want to raise children. When pregnancy and parenting is by and large by choice, given they are talking about "families" we should come to expect more from parents in rearing their children, poor or wealthy.
Very clever. I didn't know you could reference attributes in css.
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The membership fee seems really high for a slack channel... gives it more of a job board vibe than the work-trade club vibe that's implied by the domain. Sure, it's maybe worth it if you don't have a job and this will get you jobs (but I'd be skeptical that a jobless creative would sign up for a $30 monthly fee job board). Seems like the fee would filter out applications from more talented people who have a lot of incoming work requests already but would be curious about a more curated channel. Idea: only charge for posting $$$ jobs (like craigslist) and focus on getting a roster of super talented members.
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If GPS gets shut off there will be such disruption that we can just stop all the trains.
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Anything can be built but irc has huge fragmentation of clients, so dev focus is thinly spread, developers have not apparently been interested in changing the ux for decades, and most of the (small number, despite what this article says) users like it how it is.
finance.yahoo.com is pretty decent, too.
Based on ghostery blinken, they're not as pathological in their tracking as some other major sites.
I was on a Northeast Corridor trip once when the train was struck from the side by a rock. It sounded like a gunshot went off inside the car-- everyone jumped and there were more than a few shouts. I can imagine being hit head-on by a rock at night would be enough to distract an engineer for a few critical minutes. What a shame.
What are your thoughts on this book? I'm always intrigued by it but end up passing each time I consider giving it a go.
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Which requires the language to perform some kind of synchronization around the data access or you will have races between threads.

Just because you don't have to be explicit about it doesn't mean you don't need to have some mechanism to handle it somewhere, its just automatic instead.
Slashdot was/is a community of open source nerds.

HN was a community of Silicon Valley startup founders. Though because of its title, more and more nerds switched over from Reddit/Slashdot/Digg. Until early 2015 HN was mainly inhabited from Linux and MacOS people. But Microsoft invaded HN around their Build 2015 conference in May 2015. Nowadays a lot of sock puppets and fanboys with MSFT background are on HN and try to downvote everything slightly not so pretty. Nowadays "Show HN" is already a bit off-putting with cynical comments and harsh critics. HN certainly needs better voting-ring and paid sock puppet detection - hint: they are only active in certain timezones and mainly on a weekdays.

The question is what HN want to be. I visit HN for startup news and occasionally open source news. Who in the right mind would use vendor lock-in mediocre expensive licensed software for a startup? Although, I am okay with Windows 7, I hate Win8/10 with a passion because MSFT turned to a mean company again (bad ModernUI, don't care about consumer anymore at all, privacy debacle of Win10, turns everything to SaaS, evil license changes). And therefore would welcome to see less MSFT sock puppets and less FUD on HN. Remember HN used to be a group of very intelligent people, burn them once and we will remember that forever, burn them twice... you know, better stop that right now.
But I like writing code, a lot. I like biking and trains and taking pictures and fashion and working out, but why does it always feel like those are given more social credence as a use of time?

TBH I'd really like to write a lot of code and then die, that seems so much more satisfying than a ton of other jobs I've done...
I don't know. like i mention in the link of the previous discussion - At least for this goal - Tribler seems to be mostly there including being part of the huge torrent community, it's written in python - so it's seem like it could easily do the job - so why complicate things at this stage which should be about and MVP and building a community ?
I think this would be a means of positive train control, which, the article claims, hadn't been rolled out yet for regulatory and cost reasons. It seems reasonably cheap to me, too, but I guess the scale is enormous.
I'm curious as well. I've noticed that one of the things that seems like a big predictor of the success of gadgets that we use in public is whether or not they force users to break etiquette, or if they can be 'grandfathered' into existing social norms. I'm curious about smart watches during one on one interactions in particular because the 'checking your watch' gesture is considered to be pretty blatantly rude in a lot of places.
Years back, there was a cremation place in Georgia that had its cremation machine break. It was too expensive to fix so the guy just kept accepting bodies. He would drive them to his property and just dump them. It was a pretty huge case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Crematory
(Note that your comment is a bit difficult to read because Hacker News turns asterisks into italics.)

Putting the type name before the variable name can grossly complicate your tooling (the aforementioned lexer hack, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lexer_hack ), which is part of the reason why tooling for C and C++ is so relatively rudimentary despite thirty years of time to address it.

There are also semantic difficulties that can arise from putting the type name before the variable name. For example, C++ recently added a return-type syntax that resembles what you see in Rust:

auto multiply (int x, int y) -> int; // this is valid C++

The reason why this syntax exists is because, well... it's a bit complicated to explain here, read http://www.cprogramming.com/c++11/c++11-auto-decltype-return... instead. :)

Furthermore, the `name: type` syntax is simplest solution when your language supports both patterns and type inference, as Rust does. IMO it also reads more nicely because when scanning code I care more about what a value's name is than its type (which may only be because Rust's type system is relatively strong, and I count on it to catch me if any types are out of place).

There's also the emerging historical trend: AFAICT, every language designed in the past ten years has put the type after the variable name. Rust, Go, Swift, TypeScript, Nim, Crystal, Pony... even Python 3 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/). All the proposals that I've seen for optional types in Ruby and Javascript put the type after the name as well. And this syntax has roots in a much older language, ML, and is generally shared by ML's descendants (such as OCaml, and also possibly Rust).
Considering we're in healthcare business... I can see problems. We are working towards implementing a badge-in option but wont begin testing until this summer.
No, having a cheap VPS handle automatable tasks isn't ubergeek.

Setting up Node-red on a VPS, and logging a dozen IRC rooms you're interested in, storing in a MongoDB, and creating a search DB... over TOR is being an "uber-geek".

And it took me 10 minutes to set up. No programming required, interestingly enough.
The guy left at 9:00, 15 minutes after they started the event. Doesn't sound like he even tried to see it.
The statement that the cheating was to reduce AdBlue usage is not the complete answer to "why", as many of the affected cars in the US didn't use after-treatment at all.
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So what you're saying is, Slack works great as long as you're willing to perform some 'uber geekery'? ;)
If I were designing language for the blind I wouldn't end the nested block with "end" but rather "end action withdraw" "end class BankAccount" ... this could be auto-suggested for non-blind, it could help them too.
>The natural way to use Slack is to use it in a web browser, which could easily be an open source web browser.

The web browser may be free, but all of the JavaScript you are running is proprietary.

>And there are many closed-source IRC clients.

But there are many free ones, and there isn't an official client that is proprietary. It's possible to use Slack, more or less, over IRC or XMPP, but they are second-class citizens. The recommended way to use Slack is via their proprietary web interface.
Are you advertising in the app? if so do you have any revenue numbers for it?
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It depends how you define effectiveness. Academic is just one. I think it's equally important to consider that daycare/preschool allow two income households that might not be possible otherwise. That also ends up leading to increased parent involvement, which leads to increased academic success.
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I was signing up and had some questions right off the start. What is included in standard support and how is it different from 9-5 support? You have DDoS protection for $10 extra. If I buy the DDoS protection but others on your network do not, am I still protected from their potential DDoS attacks?
Agreed. It's a pity that posts like this are any more interesting or notable than a posts explaining why it's important to maintain basic hygiene and eat well. This should be something that'd only be news to e.g. second graders. Ideally a (minimum) half-semester survey of the problem(s) of and major thoughts on "the good life" would find its way into most people's formal education.
Yeah, people were confused by links like this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Dropping-Acid-Reflux-Diet-Cookbook/dp/...

Which has some traces of how you navigated through amazon to get to the page (the ref= and such). That's according to reddit anyway: https://www.reddit.com/r/amazon/comments/qim88/referral_code... . An associate referral would apparently be tag=.

I guess if you want to put the links back in, links like:

http://www.amazon.com/Dropping-Acid-Reflux-Diet-Cookbook/dp/...

will incite less whinging.
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The problem with such programs is that they are also discriminatory in some ways. Set aside the differences in culture, just the amount of time and logistics that some lower-income people spend just to live their lives. Add to that the requirement to go to some kind of classes (or suffer some kind of unspecified consequences if I read "make them" as having some kind of teeth) and you can get to an unsolvable situation for some.

I volunteer occasionally at my young kids' public school and I'm saddened to see the differences in time that parents [/guardians] spend with their kids. It's readily apparent in the kids' behavior, even in pre-K and first grade.
There are many campuses at UC and each has it's own IT department, under that campus's governance. Berkeley's IT is very strong, as it said in the article, and reports up through that campus. As it also said, UCOP circumvented that policy framework by installing the box, then declaring that action was in their purview. UCOP administration is not the same as Berkeley admin. So who gets to do what is now in the hands of UCB faculty (but privacy/security is definitely a societal issue and needs everyone's attention.)
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well, obviously they have to be well planned and wise