skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Agreed with everything up until your last sentiment. I assume it was hyperbole, but it's still a ridiculous notion that without this specific food item (that currently requires harming other sentient, intelligent individuals), that life would not be worth living.

I didn't say it wouldn't be worth living. I said that, given the choice, I'd rather live in a world with ham, bacon, and baby back ribs.
She had an inside track to a lot of investors (and big name board members) which helped her immensely. Add on a nice demo and it's not hard to imagine.

According to the WSJ she was childhood friends with Tim Draper's daughter and that's where she got her first round.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-theranos-many-strategies-and-...

> The first $1 million came from Tim Draper, a founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, through two of his funds. Ms. Holmes was a childhood friend of his daughter and came to him “with extraordinary energy and brilliance,” he says.

At that point you have a very bright founder who interviews well and is backed by Draper. Everyone else assumes everyone else did their research.
Deduplication/memoization is built in to the spec, if that helps: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#fetch... steps 2 and 3.
As someone who used to build the kind of R&D technology that you pointed to at CMU, it is VASTLY different from what Cruise is doing, being so close to customer deployments. In fact, this was brilliant on GM's part, they short-circuited a lot of work trying to convert their fractured list of R&D projects into actual products.

P.S: I'd be worried if there WEREN'T crashes on your record if you're building an autonomous car for me. How much testing did you do?
As a former practitioner who worked to unite disparate silos of clinical data I can certainly get behind a spec that has industry support. The degree of support is yet to be determined but something is better than nothing. As I see it, HL7's FHIR is the only game in town. It's incumbent upon vendors to participate in the spirit of integration and openness. Further, it's incumbent upon Providers to not block innovation within their environments as data protectors, aka gatekeepers, are oft want to do.
A perfect storm of broken business and busted FLOSS backdoors everything
Car manufacturers conduct recalls all the time. There might be the possibility that a million self-driving cars will be held hostage from a remote control tower simultaneously leading to injury or death to millions. However, in practice, as soon as an issue is discovered, there will be the equivalent of recalls (remote updates) and things like this will be fixed. People who are uncomfortable with self driving cars will always be able to drive manually or override the automated controls. At some point, technology will progress enough that the benefits will outweigh the risks and people will adopt.
I'm less impressed by what it made of this:

http://imgur.com/KAmCF2m
^ Agree. Not so into the meme factory, but I think their actual news is solid, and built for the under 40 crowd. I subscribe to their daily newsletter of actual news, and it is by far and away the best explainer on what's happening in the world.
I'm not sure I'm understanding your setup correctly, but is this what you mean http://i.imgur.com/dlheReA.png ?

The browser area is tabbed, and only shows one page at a time, the terminals tile.

Since my i3 isn't configured for this setup it took some finessing to get things into position, but it was intuitive, at least for someone that's been using these keybindings for some months. If I used this layout often I could save the layout and make a keybinding to automatically put windows in position.

I don't know how Xmonad handles tabs, it seems more focused on a pure-tiling experience.
http://imgur.com/JwidrUy

I get the same "about as smart as a very young child" vibe from CaptionBot; the intersection of pleasantly silly and rather impressive.

(Photo: Rover P6 on the start line with a Nissan R35 GTR, guessed as "I think it's a police car parked in front of a truck.")
Here's a start without telling you anything that's really special about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Court_of_Chancery See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_General_Corporation_L... for some meat on the subject.

In general, providing sane corporate governance is Deleware's unique selling proposition, and it's a big business for a very small state. I once worked for a company that in the early '90s sold that part of its government a monster Kodak ImageLink scanner (600 lb, peak scanning rate 18 inches per second at 200dpi, realistic rate 3,000 pages per hour), and the people involved in that sale said they really needed it.
And all these tools (FireHOL, FireQOS, link-balancer) are just BASH scripts themselves (big ones of course).

FireHOL: https://github.com/firehol/firehol/blob/master/sbin/firehol....

FireQOS: https://github.com/firehol/firehol/blob/master/sbin/fireqos....

Link-Balancer: https://github.com/firehol/firehol/blob/master/sbin/link-bal...
I think that it meets the guidelines. It is a matter of reposting it with the prefix "Show HN"?
What are some examples of well maintaned/upgraded software, if any, that you know of?
Although not the OP, I have a fairly strong opinion on this. In order of importance everyone should

* Make their own decisions on what to eat.

* Understand the externalities, exogenous, and endogenous process and consequences of their decisions.

* Take full personal, civic, and environmental responsibility for those decisions.

Essentially, as long as people are forthright, honest, and accountable about what they eat, where it comes from, and the ecological footprints their choices implicate, then have at it, eat whatever.
What kind of questions exactly? It seems to me that having such powerful, influential, former members of government on your board would be highly valuable in navigating the difficult regulatory environment companies in this industry face.
Try Bartab Plus - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/

Bartab Plus can actually completely unload a tab after X amount of minutes / hours. The tab is dimmed and comes back / reloads automatically when you click on it.

This along with tab groups - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa... allows you to have hundreds of tabs at your fingertips across any number of groups, without paying the performance impact of having them all actually loaded at once.
As IoT 'Goes Mainstream,' How Should Developers Prepare?
I like it. https://i.imgur.com/5HPdbSa.png
Show HN: Generic_oauth – Synchronous OAuth authentication for python programs
Taxi drivers block streets in Buenos Aires after Uber launch
Current generation of autopilots doesn't handle traffic avoidance or make any routing decisions - they just follow pre-programmed routes at pre-programmed speed and altitude (or climb/descent profile).

But even this relatively simple level of automation causes problems - pilots start to rely on automation too much, and when things go south they are not capable to deal with it.

Airlines recognize it, and put more emphasis on hand-flying during training and routine operations, so pilots don't lose their basic piloting skills.

It's not a new problem - there is an excellent training video from 1997 - "Children of the Magenta": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
Didn't Google recently start making hangouts calls use peer to peer connections?http://9to5google.com/2016/02/04/hangouts-improved-peer-to-p... What do they do differently from what Apple did initially?
Haha yeah. Seems to be a pretty effective technique!
No, I've plugged in custom allocators into codebases that had millions of lines of C (and even C++). Very few functions in the C stdlib allocate memory. Most that do (like strdup) are convenience wrappers.

Most decent 3rd party libraries will allow you to plug in your own allocators, and if they don't, they should. Typically you do something like #define LIBFOO_ALLOC my_alloc before including things, or they have some kind of function like setAllocator().. For example, here's how to do it for Freetype (a pretty large 3rd party library).
http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/design/design-4.html

If a 3rd party library didn't let me do this, I would probably refuse to use it (or patch it). And you can always search/replace malloc and free if you're using some 3rd party code that doesn't do that. It really doesn't take that long.

Also, malloc and free are specified to be weakly linked, so you can implement your own and replace the cstdlib ones even if you don't have the source available. This isn't a great option, but it works, especially if you're just using it for a diagnostic build.

If you're talking about C++, that's yet another thing the STL screwed up. You can usually find ways to work around it but yeah, it's a bigger problem.
But compared to SF or NYC, it's significantly cheaper, and you can receive a salary close to what is expected in SF or NYC.
People only have the illusion of safety when in control, and are also demonstrably incapable of judging their own ability to perform tasks. Your criterion won't be taken seriously by anyone involved in policy, because this is already well understood.
Awesome picture, we love it!
-CaptionBot team
In light of all the negativity about this company, I would like to note that I have a friend who regularly uses their services in Arizona and is delighted by them.
Last year, I turned down an opportunity to co-found a startup where I had been promised >$1 million a year in compensation (many times more than I make), but I would not have been spending my time at work on OSS. I declined because getting things done for the greater good is worth more to me than any sum of money.

The Nash equilibrium suggests that focusing on the greater good is the best for everyone. Not to mention, I find focusing on the greater good to be more rewarding than the blind pursuit of wealth.
You can try Overtone and Leipzig (https://github.com/ctford/leipzig). I don't know if it supports writing .midi files, but it can output MIDI events in real-time (https://github.com/overtone/overtone/wiki/MIDI), maybe it's possible to stream MIDI to DAW.
tl;dr:

"An advertising company."
> the course of dimensionality

dimensionality is surely a curse :)
Are there any cameras I can buy that aren't garbage in some way?
I don't like this attitude at all. Euclid, Archimedes, Newton, Leibniz, Riemann, and many others did a fine job correctly calculating areas, volumes, and so on without need of measure theory.

Why is it so important to avoid the problem laid out by Banach-Tarski on the first go through the concept? We, as a species, did not even realize such a problem existed until about 1920, and yet we still managed to build stuff based on what we knew.
The bottom button still seems to have the problem.
Why you should be thinking to move your startup to Mexico – Ilse Ornelas
Splitting money between probabilistic boxes
> However, I believe she's the majority shareholder so the usual remedy of removing her from the company altogether might not work so well.

She could step down voluntarily if she believes that someone else could turn the company around. That would be better than going bankrupt and losing her entire fortune in Theranos stock.
I think saying its a precondition would be "good" however thats unlikely to be true everywhere. Currently a lot of IoT stacks aren't doing IPv6 because of space concerns and lack of HW support, but at some point all vendors will support v6.
I have a "framework" (really just a build tool and some examples) for bare-bones Win32 support for D[1]. I haven't tried writing kernel drivers with it though.

I used it to create a few Fallout 4 mods[2]. Avoiding the stdlib was not necessary there, but I didn't want the bloat. One interesting application of D's metaprogramming has been automatically recursively instrumenting the DirectX COM API just from the D interface definitions[3] (not IDLs).

[1]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/SlimD
[2]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/csfo4
[3]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/csfo4/blob/master/dxlog/d3d11.d
Digital Marketing Should Focus on Trust Over Traffic
You are doing the lord's work. Carry on.
> and surprised to see that they were asking $300 for an incremental improvement

They're asking $300 for a new product. If you want an "incremental improvement" on your ancient paperwhite, then you can get the newest generation for $119.
Regulators Propose Banning Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes
Yes, founded in 2006.
Except WDF is a C++ API.
Pretty impressive - gave it a few profile photos and it did suprisingly well, correctly identifying "A couple walking on a beach at sunset," "a man looking out a window", etc.

It struggled with wildlife photos - a pack of arctic wolves was "a sheep standing in the snow", and penguins swimming was "a bird flying over a body of water" (close but no cigar).
OR you group a set of changes into say... a numbered RELEASE and THEN integration/user acceptance test it.

I thought programmers were on here :-)
The Three Indistinguishable Dice Puzzle
It was a harsh way to put it. I just think it's dangerous to talk about businesses like this without mentioning that it's likely she's never planning to recoup her investment.

I don't want to disparage her shop but people read these articles and think they can move to NYC and make artisan hot sauce. People doing that aren't making enough to pay for their rent or lifestyle. They just have money from another source.
I guess it depends what your definition of "serious" is. This doesn't sound like it would ever affect me.

As far as I can tell, it will only cause problems if you don't delete entries from other tables that have a foreign key pointing to that row. There may be some cases where you need to do that, but generally isn't it better to properly delete all the rows from other tables that use that foreign key when you delete the primary key?
Bill Frist is a medical doctor and has focused on healthcare policy throughout his career, for whatever that's worth.
You think there's not a glass of water in that picture?
It depends on the type of white collar job. Collective bargaining, in general, assumes a degree of fungibility that doesn't exist with all white collar positions. Two different managers, for instance, can have profoundly different consequences on a company's bottom line. Treating them as equal in that situation is hard to justify, to the company and the workers alike. That's one of the reasons private-sector unions have had so much trouble trying to unionize professionals even though they've been playing up their efforts for years now.
Ask HN: How do you teach problem solving skills to software engineers?
More often than not, I get people who have decent work experience and seem suited for a role but fail to unlearn and re-learn new ways of doing things. A lot of these people tend to come from a service company background where they do not dive deep into solving problems with code and instead try to cut-paste from across the internet which is good enough for projects that might not ever get completed or used only internally.

How does one re-train people who might have learnt computer science fundamentals at some point but have lost track of how to solve problems over the course of their earlier work experience?
Wow, while I'm still disappointed that this doesn't support EPUB, I'm impressed by the feature set. It's clear that the team that did product design is really starting to understand book readers and their needs. The price-point seems to be targeting more dedicated readers it seems, especially with "luxury" offerings like leather covers. My only gripe is that a lot of the touted features will probably only be available for a select few books. It's good to see that even though the e-ink technology isn't maturing that much, the software integrations are increasing. Though personally I'd still go for a Kobo because of size and compatibility issues. Fingers crossed for that experimental color e-ink to ever make a debut...
But _should_ he be delighted. As far as we know, the results of tests are totally unreliable.

Astrologers also have happy customers, that doesn't mean their money is well spend.
Uber skirts city/state regs; you can't mess with the FDA, among other federal agencies (such as FAA).
I did. He was involved in the company prior to YC, and initially applied as a cofounder.
This whole example represents a common workflow in fraud detection (alerts on data that hits a certain pattern). However, when I worked at Braintree, doing this real-time was tough and we'd analyze stuff retrospectively.
Why Kids Should Use Their Fingers in Math Class
Why do you have Henry Kissinger on your board and not a veteran medical device or medical test industry expert. Henry Kissinger might have tons of foreign policy experience but this is a completely different field.
First, I'll start by saying that, personally, I'd rather run a ViralNova than a Buzzfeed. However, to answer your question, the reason that a company like Buzzfeed would add that many more employees is because of the idea that the economies of scale would work in its favor. Let's make up some numbers and say with two employees, Viral Nova was doing $20MM. The idea is that with 100 employees, they could potentially grow to $100MM and the incremental cost of those employees at say a $50K average salary would only be an additional $5MM. And then you add another 200 employees and add another $100MM in revenue for only another $5MM in salaries. Add 500 more employees and you get to $500MM in revenue, etc. Of course there's other overhead costs like office space, etc. but the incremental cost of growing those aspects of the business become less and less compared to the revenue growth. Obviously in this case, the revenue growth didn't scale to the level that they hoped for, but that's the principle behind the growth in employees. There's also many other social and cultural factors as to why you would want to build a Buzzfeed versus ViralNova that could be a full essay of its own.
Had never heard of Haystack before. A few relevant links in case anyone is interested (It is the system powering facebook's photo storage infra):

- https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20140906020211/https://www.faceb... (The note is not up anymore)

- http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2009/04/facebook-haystack.h...
It is undoubtedly helpful to have people on your board who understand the regulatory mechanisms and industry (leaving aside how well the Theranos board actually does this)

Composition of a board is tricky though. In a case like this you would hope to have equal, if not dominant, representation of people who are strong on the science. Anything else is a bit of a red flag.
That's what I would have said and my AI is reported to be pretty good.
So, I can build the repo with community?
Because I found this statement "Assuming you have Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise installed" at https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native/tree/ReactWindo...
In addition to the free extension for VS Code (which is free and open source, and available on Mac, Linux, and Windows), we have a free and open source service called CodePush (https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/) for instantly pushing React Native apps to devices.
To be fair though the "science" of anything social always seems like fluffy nonsense made to make spaghetti throwing on the wall seem like methodical, analytical research.
Nice! Thanks for adding the math to my joke. :)
Ok, I tried to answer questions here for awhile. I've got to head into other meetings for the rest of the afternoon.

BTW, my working assumption here is that Jeremy is a good person getting bad advice. I'm certainly not out to destroy his career, and I would talk to him about his next thing. We tried hard to keep this from being a public matter, but one things about YC good or bad is that we will do everything in our power to defend the people we fund if we think they're in the right. Since this was going to become public anyway, and Kyle can't say much, I wanted to clarify how hard Kyle worked to solve this privately.

And as a takeaway--put stuff in writing!!
I thought anyone with a license from the state to practice real estate is a realtor. I could check with my father who has been doing real estate since he was laid off from an engineering position >20 years ago, but I am fairly certain that is how it works in New York. Maybe other states are different.
Working under the assumption the FBI works for us, the people, I would hope two things:

1) They disclose the vulnerability to Apple and make us all safer

2) Having now unlocked the phone, disclose if there was additional information that materially helped the case.

I'm cynical about them doing either, but I think they're both reasonable requests from the population.
I fully agree that, that would be the best remedy.

But how many CEO's have you talked with in your lifetime?

Every CEO I've ever talked with that has started a company or been there long enough to think of it as their "baby" have all had tough times letting go.
i think what actually happened is the people who run the place realized it's better to pay the very exceptional few $200k+ so that the rest of the peons getting paid 80k have something to hope for.
God only knows. I guess if he shows up at school and people say, "hey, you look just like that Microsoft kid!", I'd feel slightly guilty. Seems unlikely, and I'd have reasonable grounds for a C&D.
People at Google use multiple replicas to train RNNs and LSTMs to very good effect.

At heart, the most common distributed training mechanism creates multiple "replias" of the model -- each replica has a full copy. It splits the training data among the replias, and then at the end of every batch, synchronizes the updates to the model weights between the replicas. (A simple way would be to think of taking the average of the gradients produced at each replica, and having all replicas apply the average gradient. Equivalently, just reduce the per-replica learning rate and apply all of the gradients, then propagate back the new state to everyone.)
Reminder: WebRTC data channels can silently leak your internal and (if behind a VPN) real IP address.

I have been writing an MMO server, and I would be glad to use WebRTC datachannels, but only for client-server communications. I am far more interested in UDP-like semantics than peer to peer.
This 25-Year-Old Is Turning a Profit Selling Pencils
Honestly I have very little sympathy for them. They did this in 2012 of the same issues, and they're doing it again. I think they've got a really good job and a great compensation package. There are many others in the technology industry that can't even get a fraction of that.
I would fear a global authority with real teeth. If it becomes corrupt, where would you run to? A plurality of powers allows for escape from a bad regime to another, hopefully better regime.
Smart people don't settle if a claim is baseless. Baseless claims get thrown out quickly and easily.

This is categorically false. Equity disputes kill deals. Even if you're right, it can take upwards of a year to resolve a claim, especially without documentation. Offering a settlement is usually the rational response.
Even founders have a cliff?
Very cool, though I'd love to have an option to reset if possible
Texas Prison System Unveils New Inmate Censorship Policy
At Google, they do these really awesome post-mortems when there's a major failure. It provides a point of reflection, and are usually well written entertaining reads. Didn't know they made (some?) public.

They're a good learning exercise writing one, and is more of a learning exercise than a punishment.