skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In discussion on other HN threads, some commenters suggested that the board was composed that way to grease the wheels of a DoD acquisition of the company's "tech". As OP put it [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11403165]:

John the more I think about Theranos the more I think this “mess” is actually deliberate. Looking at the history of Theranos and the composition of the board it appears Theranos was designed from early on as a vehicle to defrauded the US military.

The plan appeared to be to use their connection and access to some rather “helpful” high brass to offload the technology for billions and then later sweep the fact that it didn’t work under the rug (this tactic has worked fabulously for the last 20 years). Avoid the FDA altogether.

Who would have noticed another $10 billion misspent on some wizz-bang technology given the $100s billions lost in other frauds? When the wheels fell of this plan (some underling didn’t play along) the idea seems to be to blame the scientists and say “we were misled”. They might be evil, but they don’t appear to be stupid.
Dang, last time I worked with one of those agencies, they never got back to me. Still hopeful! ;)
Sounds vaugely similar to speed[1] (okay just in the sense that there's a vehicle that won't stop)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_(1994_film)
Escape from H-1B Hell: How Immigrant Entrepreneurs Can Hack Their Own O-1 Visas
You'll get better results from

sysctl -w net.core.default_qdisc=fq_codel

on as many machines as possible, and use something like OpenWRT's SQM instead of wondershaper on your router.
The Investor Update
Let's give the powers that be a hearty welcome to the Age of Transparency. :)
Buzzfeed always gets the kid gloves treatment in the media and somehow became one of "the cool kids" despite being a website built on dumb viral content like so many others.

No surprise, I guess - big names like Andreessen Horowitz invested so now we all have to pretend like this all means something. Watching something as unimpressive as Buzzfeed get treated this seriously in the press makes me wonder just how little you have to pay a tech journalist to own them.
Not having such expertise on their board doesn't mean they don't have that expertise within their company.
I arrived here from a note here [0] by James Fallows on The Atlantic.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/04/a-2-year-old-articl...
How is the Basic Research Project coming along?
I love the Kindle and ebook readers in general, but my beloved Kindle doesn't like PDFs.

Is there any Kindle that does a proper job displaying PDFs without one having to play all the time with zoom?
Why? Its not like PMC's have ever done anything that is exceptionally more cruel than any state armed force. It's not like they're going to be much worse at preventing civilian casualties.

When the United States left Iraq it left a huge security void which has allowed ISIS to thrive. Why would it be immoral for Baghdad to have hired a PMC to help defend against ISIS? It's not like Iraqi troops were somehow magically killing less civilians. When these cases happen they are written off as casualties and no one is ever punished.

The utter cowardice and incompetence of the Iraqi army has helped for 8 Million to live under the control of ISIS. Do you think these people would care if it was an Iraqi or Syrian who may accidentally kill them instead of a well paid mercenary? Do you think that it is more moral to allow these people to live under the constant threat of rampant murder or rape than it would be to allow for private militarizes to exist?

It seems to me that western soldiers aren't really supposed to die anymore. Every single lost American solider somehow matters 1000x more than some Iraqi, Syrian, or Ukrainian. Despite the US easily having the ability to eliminate the ISIS threat it does not. There just isn't the political will to send Americans into harms way. Meanwhile many security forces lack the capability of actually handling the threats they are encountering.

PMC's could possibly solve this. No one cares if a mercenary dies. I don't see a well paid mercenary abandoning their post, tanks, equipment, along with a city of a million without having fired a shot. You can't say the same about the Iraqi army. Even should PMC's have somehow a double or triple civilian casualty rate it would still be more moral for those civilians to die than allow millions of people to fall into the murderous regime of ISIS. Of course it will always be preferable for state forces to be able to handle the threats they encounter. But given the reality that many cannot and will not receive the boots on the ground assistance to win their respective conflicts and protect their citizenry, would it really be immoral for a private force to pick up the slack?

It's not like this man was trying to see fighter to ISIS or North Korea. He was trying to create services that would assist state actors against terrorists. Given that no one else is wiling to provide assistance with this, I cannot help but feel that the ends justify the means here.
We've been advocating moving our visual implementation (or something similar) to dev tools in both FF and Chrome. Here are some before/after examples to show you how a more abstract input method can really speed up development: http://things-that-web-inspectors-should-have.webflow.io/
People won't be able to override a buggy software: they can't even do that now, just look at the remote Audi and BMW hacks that can brake the car on the highway.
This is brilliant by the way. Definitely show it to more people and get feedback, it is so outside of the norm that it will take time for the idea to spread.
As others have said, the problem is getting the interview, not getting hired.

You'll have to get a recommendation from someone to get an interview, either by doing Open Source or Stack Overflow or attending conferences or something. Once you're in an interview, most companies in the Bay aren't going to care about a degree if you can pass the interview.

The problem is making it through the HR/resume hurdle. (And passing the interview).
Are BGP updates for Google's own router configurations really so frequent that they can't pay an engineer to at least monitor the propagation of configuration changes? In this case, a human would have instantly seen that the update was a) rejected (as explained in the postmortem), and b) holy shit, WHY DID THE ROUTER CHANGE ITS OWN CONFIGURATION TO BLOW AWAY ALL OF THE GCE ROUTES!?!

I'm all for automation, but WTF? Insert even a semi-competent engineer in the loop to monitor the configuration change as it propagates around and the entire problem could have been addressed almost trivially, as the human engineers eventually decided to do.
Thanks for the link. The Wetube project looks promising. Just placing a server at the disposal of that decentralized corporation, one becomes a worker for that corporation. Very interesting.
Yup. A sports team is a great analogy. Someone I know was on the 49ers team plane, and one of the part-owners started throwing a tantrum about Frank Gore's performance that night, and pointing out all the things he did wrong. Of course, I would be $10,000 that that particular owner has never, ever taken even a high-school-level tackle in his life. And to think of him berating Frank Gore and telling him how to run the football is ludicrous.

So yes, complaints from people who aren't in the business are pretty much absolutely irrelevant.
Most IP cameras use a standard defined by ONVIF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONVIF) for all communications. Everything between the camera itself and the local storage/cloud is pretty open and documented.
Microsoft has been shipping static analysis tools with the Windows DDK for a long time (originally PREfast[1], now Static Driver Verifier[2]). I believe the static analysis is even integrated with Visual Studio now.

[1]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/prefast.as...
[2]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...
What is the 'new product'? It certainly seems like a paperwhite 1.1 to me. A cover that is arguably irrelevant, better(?) backlight where the paperwhite is good already.

The big selling point seems to be

- the format/size (grip with one hand)

I can do that with the paperwhite and often read while walking to the station that way.

- auto-rotation for left handed people

(only required because of the special format, see above)

I love my Kindle. I see no point in this iteration and would strongly recommend everyone around me to pick the paperwhite instead.
So eating human is OK? Killing humans in order to eat them is OK?

What some people are asking is if we should extend this to some other species, typically other apes (which share 90% of our genes etc...) and now animals with high intelligence (elephant, dolphin, octopus).
"the law under which you are suing does not exist"

but short of one of these it's pretty easy to make a plausible case. the standard in civil cases is 'preponderance of evidence' rather than 'beyond a reasonable doubt'
Modules are not flat in reality though, any non-trivial sized app likely has multiple versions of the same module being used. I don't see any reason to think that's going to change in the future, extreme modularity is the norm in JavaScript these days.
Pretty quiet here. :) Let us know if you have any questions or comments. This was a pretty big project and I think we're the largest deployment of ProxySQL right now!
Yeah, it'll make sense to do that when you start insuring other power plants for the environmental damage they cause.

We're not charging a carbon tax on coal plants. We're not charging drivers for the air pollution they cause in cities. If you believe the WHO when they say 7 million people die prematurely from air pollution, are you going to start making air-polluters pay for that? (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/air-pollut...)
Are you insuring dams against the floods they would cause if they break?

It'd be great to do those things, but it's unreasonable to unfairly punish nuclear when you're not willing to charge other power plant technology for their expected negative externalities.

If you're going to start enacting "reasonable taxes" on negative externalities, start by getting us off of dirty energy, not by preventing us from using reusable energy.
This comment is gonna be bikeshedding, and definitely not a popular opinion in today's "modern" JS community, but here it goes anyways...

I don't understand why TC39 had to define a new syntax, new semantics, and new restrictions for modules in JS land when the JS community had already created solutions for modules in JS. People were using modules in JS before they knew that "loader" or "static import/exports" were a thing to be landed in ES6 in future. And frankly, what the JS community made for themselves was a lot more saner than what is coming natively to JS, and even more so compared to the native solutions for module loading in some other languages (compare to Python for example). I don't think any JS programmer wanted modules natively in JS. And with HTTP2, they would have just stopped bundling and a newer async implementation of `require` would have been conjured.

And all this "tree-shaking" etc. that is claimed to be possible only with the static syntax is blatantly incorrect. It is entirely possible to eliminate unused code with the commonjs/amd/umd way with a slightly more intelligent bundler. And the new "syntax" that they created is just a variant of destructuring. You can achieve nearly the same with ES6 destructuring and `require`.

sigh
Chrome 50 arrives with push notification improvements and declarative preload
Criticisms where all they do is rant and file bugs are 100% useless. How about proposals on how to fix the issues? Or is that only reserved for the people who work on the actual product?
An option is to try and make them a not-so-psuedo ex-cofounder. An amicable way to do this is to 'simply' try to buy them out - make an offer.

Their actions show they're either unwilling or unable (due to other commitments?) to keep doing the hard work of being a founder, no matter how much they might still like the idea of being a founder.

If you're lucky, they're aware of this, or can be made aware of this. Maybe they've only been sticking around out of a conflicted sense of obligation. "I can't just leave them in the lurch!" (nevermind that's exactly what they're doing by their actions, good intentions be damned.)

A buyout offers them an out.

If you're unlucky, at worst they'll probably want more money.

Best of luck!
> I don't really understand the culture of all the
> customisation/plugins/etc. around text editors

1) small, basic install of (neo)vim for most users
2) totally separate extensions for those who need them without making the core app harder to test

> it's small and simple

Allowing plugins doesn't make the app any more difficult to use. And, of course, one thing some plugins do is make stuff easier than stock vim. IE rather than going:

:e ../../src/java/blah.java
you could use one of the many fuzzy searc plugins and do something like:
<C-p> sjablja
(ie just typing some of the letters from any part of the path and file name as long as it's in the correct order).

> I don't expect or need much from a text editor in the
> first place

It's primarily a programmers editor, replacing for many people any IDE at all, so it's nice to be able to select a word and press a key and have that file open; jump between viewports on multiple files on multiple tabs; have word completion.

None of what I've described is some rare edge case.

One thing I use vim for is to get the results of grepping thousands of source code files, then trimming down the results using "remove lines matching this", "remove lines not matching this", or turning lists of filenames into dos or bash commands. Sure, you can do all this with bash but I don't know all the commands anything like as well as I know how to do this sort of stuff with recordings or regex within vim.
What Facebook Is/Isn't
Yeah, basically, if the shift founders had signed a 1 page non tremendously complex statement saying that there is a 1 year cliff and this is what happens if someone isn't there (An advisor share for example) there wouldn't be a lawsuit at the moment.
The artist (or the article) suggests that the pictures he took on the metro are the 'real' person, whereas the pictures on the social site are the 'ideal' person.

I'm not so sure. I think its very possible that the person in the social network photographs is actually far closer to the person they really are than the photo of them riding alone on the subway.
Lots of great and thorough content here, and I'm really happy that it uses Parse Server! https://github.com/parseplatform/parse-server
I got a pretty good one too: "I am not really confident, but I think it's a close up of a man with a cow."

http://imgur.com/DmQHP7W
I built a classified ad site once. I pre-seeded it with some of my own classifieds and then advertised it on google. I got people to fill out classifieds but it just wasn't enough to get a marketplace off the ground.
I keep trying to figure out why this feels so wrong and creepy. You're in public, you can't avoid some random person from taking your picture. You have a public profile, you post pictures of yourself there, in public. But some how this feels... wrong, why is that?

Something about the surprise of it? It feels like a surprise, it feels like something that shouldn't be so easy.
Sounds like current hardware defects and recalls for vehicles, with the difference being it's easier to fix.
> impressing other musicians is a very limited market

Bingo. It's not so much that "the music goes over their head", it's that the musicians are entertaining themselves.

Audience feels surplus.
It has a C API, but everything under the hood is C++. The source is actually public now: https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-Driver-Frameworks
Everyone should have a cliff, even founders (generally 4-yrs total. 1-yr cliff, then vest every month thereafter).

If I recall correctly, every company that goes through YC have cliffs built into their legal documents - or must have them built in when the program commences - for both founders and employees.
One of my favourites, the sequels where similarly as good.
This isn't an easy to answer question - I'd answer differently depending on if you want cameras from home vs. business purposes and differently if you want local vs. cloud storage.
Thank you. I've been wondering if something like this would become viable before 3d printing meat. I didn't know it was already a thing.
DMCA Section 512: A battleground for rights holders vs. tech sector
Regulators plan to revoke Theranos’ federal license and ban founder
Umm, the good doctor's wealth comes from HCA, a chain of for-profit hospitals that once held the record for the largest fraud settlement in US history. Frist clearly has excellent PR, because very few people ever mention this.

http://www.forbes.com/2000/12/15/1215disaster.html
It's not possible to split off all 50hrs and I just sit back and collect cheques, because I've been working with these companies for years now and I understand their business and what they want.

I would be subcontracting out small tasks, like various bug fixes I'm stuck on, refactoring, changes to external libraries we use etc. The core of the work I would be doing myself.

In terms of pay, he's working elance type sites for minimal pay, so I'd be doing him a favor.
Know your strengts. If that's what your skillset is right now, and you need it sooner rather than later, sysadmining it is!

You may want to extend your skillset to other (non-tech) areas, as long as it makes you happy. But use what you already have in order to pull yourself up.
Buzzfeed is junk food
What does post-mortem mean in this context? The software one (after an accident) or the human one (after death)? I think It's crazy that the word gets back the original meaning..
It says in the article that she has >50% equity.
> Some ethicist should come up with an electronic controller that keeps the chickens or whatever alive by stimulating neurons like the brain would, but which clearly has no consciousness attached.

We could call it a "brain".
>> whereas the pictures on the social site are the 'ideal' person.

Maybe it's that the picture on the web was chosen. Someone put thought into that, they said "oh hey I look good here", it's kinda like an ideal, or at least an above average view of themselves.
I'm a little confused, does the military acquire companies wholesale? I've never heard of that happening, that's not to say it can't but what are some examples of this kind of scheme?

Instead was the plan to milk the military for a long time on R&D expenses and just pocket the cash as one goes along? If so how does that work for the VC-backed structure of the company?
Rehosted for 24 hours without the paywall: http://pastebin.com/RwipXxds
WayCap – Refillable Coffee Capsule for Nespresso
Don't feel to bad for buying the voyage. the paperwhite is heavier than even the older Kindle version that I own (no touchscreen with page turn buttons).

I read a lot with one hand and I couldn't make the switch to the paperwhite because of its weight (I read quite a bit with my brother's one, you can definitely feel the difference).

I still agree that the Oasis is really expensive. It's really a shame because it's designed for my favorite use case.
Depends on why the case is baseless. There are three inflection points in a civil suit: motion to dismiss, summary judgment, and trial. Motion to dismiss is relatively quick and considers only a limited universe of evidence: basically, just the allegations in the complaint, answer, and certain attachments. You may win on a motion to dismiss based on a legal issue (i.e. "you can't sue for that" or "the law doesn't make that illegal") or when the plaintiff can't even make credible allegations that would give rise to liability if they were true. Summary judgment is where you can get claims where the allegations can't be substantiated with enough evidence for a jury to reasonably find them credible. Trial is where evidence is weighed to find what is more likely than not to be true.

Getting to summary judgment is usually pretty expensive because it usually comes after discovery (reviewing peoples' emails, deposing witnesses, etc). It would be very difficult to dispose of a case like this before summary judgment, because the issues are all factual: what was the nature of the agreement between these co-founders?

Which is another reason to paper these things up from the beginning. It's very expensive to figure out after the fact what two people thought the arrangement between them was. When you have an agreement in writing, you can: 1) put in an arbitration clause which might let you get you the benefit of resolving the dispute in the more loosey-goosey world of arbitration; and 2) might give you hope of getting rid of a case on a motion to dismiss on the basis of the terms of the contract.
It also will have both a medical and commercial high ground.

If you don't have all of the nasty digestion bits of a bird, you lost a lot of the nasty disease bits.

If you only have the meat parts of the bird, you don't waste any growth resources on non-saleable parts of the bird.
> newly minted billionaire cofounder

Keep in mind you're talking about Kyle Vogt, cofounder of Justin.tv and Twitch.tv, acquired by Amazon for $1B, and Socialcam, acquired by Autodesk for $60M.

I guess he probably isn't a billionaire if he only got a percentage of those acquisitions but he isn't some poor college kid hacking away in a garage either.

Note that I am not saying anything about the merits of this case one way or the other, just pointing out who we're talking about.
Part of the reason I like my kindle -- easier to read in bed or lying down.
RFC1883 IPv6 was written in 1995.

I have services where >30% of my users access the service over IPv6.
Not a great analogy. The designed use-case for a book is to be held in your hands and read. Whereas burning is almost never desired, generally only happens if something goes awry.

Given that two-hand holding is the norm for paper books I would say single-hand holding isn't a terribly important spec for an e-reader. Maybe it's desirable for some, maybe not. I would definitely give up a little bit of single-hand holdability for a larger screen, someone in thread above pointed out the 8" Bookeen Cybook Ocean, which at $180 looks like a good Kindle alternative:
http://www.bookeen.com/en/cybook-ocean
To paraphrase some other site on the interwebs: narcissism is the cancer that's eating Medium
I haven't seen the application, so I can only speculate that it may contain language that acknowledges Jeremy as an owner of the company. The shares wouldn't vest as a result of acceptance into YC, but would have already been Jeremy's by right of his prior founding of the company that applied to YC. Acceptance into YC would have nothing to do with Jeremy owning shares in Cruise.

It may very well be a shakedown, but the blog post admits that there was a prior Cruise relationship with Jeremy and that he performed actual work; the article stops short of claiming that Jeremy contributed no funds to the company -- which you'd think would be a point that would be harped upon, especially given the bombastic language used in the preemptive legal filing being discussed. I don't know all of the facts in this case, so, it will be interesting to see what Jeremy says, if he responds.
This may not be the ATS you are looking for, but

http://www.ats-lang.org/

...is fairly performant:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121218042116/http://shootout.a...

It might help to narrow down which ATS you are thinking of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS
The Chernobyl exclusion zone is 30km radius. That's the exclusion zone for the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history.

Indian Point is >60km away. This is needless fear-mongering.