skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fun blog post that leaves out many other fun connections to today. Even the word we use, "Egypt" is the Greek name (Aígyptos) for the place known as al Misr. And the demotic language was just that: demotic is a Greek adjective that just means the colloquial language of the people (demos) as opposed to the hieratic (priestly) speech or Received English. Saying it is called demotic as if he'd written "those smalltalk programs were written in a language known as object-oriented"

It's really fascinating how much opression/occupation literature there apparently was, given that in western literature they are often the conquerors (before the 1940s, Godwin's law would have referenced Napoleon; before him it would have been -- Pharaoh). I hadn't realized how much turnover there was, but I suppose in 3000 years there's time for a lot to happen.

Another fascinating connection is between Egypt/Ur/Babylon et al and the pre-Aryan Indus culture. It appears likely that writing spread from the fertile crescent to India via trade, as it did to the Phoenicians and thence to Greece and to us.
I'm not sure why the focus is on the motors. They can be tiny and well hidden, but what about the batteries ? They are bound to be hidden in the hollow tubing. Why don't they just require a small hole where they can poke in a stick to verify the tubes are hollow ? A simple weight check would also suffice. The bike has a known legal weight, oh, suddenly its 3 kilos heavier...
I think the working assumption of the investors was that she would be sacrificed, but Theranos would continue. But because of this, it may not happen.
If I only wanted to buy a Macbook Air, which product would I buy instead once they discontinue that model?
Feels to me like you could improve a lot of the noisiness by adding || (or) to the end of each line. So the script would stop trying things once it found something that worked. Then maybe you could reintroduce the git clone command -- coming near the end, it would rarely cause problems.
Basically, it looks like one reporter starting pulling at the thread, and the whole sweater fell apart. I wouldn't really say they went after Theranos aggressively until they realized there was a much bigger story.
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Because it's good journalism?
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> and the gameplay is brutally difficult.

Dwarf Fortress is not particularly difficult once you figure out the obtuse interface. It's only a little bit more difficult than Minecraft without the boss fights. I got bored in a few months. Admittedly, much of this was the tendency of the game to slow my machine to a dead crawl. Once you're proficient at avoiding the pitfalls, the only really interesting thing to do is to keep growing the fortress. Sadly, the performance cliff is steep.
A lot of those molecules are bound up in cells, they are not freely diffusing in blood. Even those diffusing in blood are not uniformly distributed, blood is highly dishomogeneous.
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A combination of FLIR and homologation could go a long way to solve this problem. FLIR seems like an excellent start.
No. I multiplied 1 nM by Avogadro's number. Do you have any reason to believe that free IgG is not uniformly distributed at steady-state in circulation? ... Because that's what they're testing for.
I'm curious: What kind of $ amounts are we talking about here?
If these bikers lost these races, and i am left to assume they did since the scandal hasn't boiled over yet, i think they can safely pack it in. Losing a race you cheated in is about as low as i can imagine this getting.
"I had just made the last full payroll that I could make. Nobody knew this but me."

Ugh. I'm glad this person isn't leading me because they clearly don't care about their employees.
In related news Hebrew University researchers unveil a sarcasm detector [2010]

http://m.jpost.com/Health-and-Sci-Tech/Internet-And-Technolo...
To automate this process, check out Frink[0], which takes unit calculations to the obsessive limit.

[0] https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/
A couple more articles about suboxone. First, a doctor speaking about making medical therapy more available:

http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/articles/16jan/greenagel-su...

A writer who became addicted to suboxone without having used other opiods:

https://www.thefix.com/content/suboxone-addict-you-never-kne...

And an article that discusses prescriptions being diverted to street use:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/is-suboxone-a-wonder-drug-t...
I'm really surprised that the author didn't get into one of the main ways a fortress fails. It's humming along smoothly and then suddenly the population doubles in size when a group of settlers (VC cash) arrives and the whole place goes to hell from disorganization and growing pains.
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Maybe for the board, but not the CEO -- she's not a hired gun, she was the founder.
My middle school physics teacher taught us to build those formulas by reverse-engineering the units. This was before we had done enough algebra to know what we're doing so we used triangle diagrams, but boy was it the best thing I ever learned.

Don't understand what something is? Just look at the unit. It tells you!
That's not the table of contents, that's the whole book.
Maybe you were downvoted because that is K&R style, not ANSI style. ANSI requires the type declaration next to the name in the parameter list.
OT, but for those of use who know kids into Minecraft, is DF a good thing for them to graduate to? KSP maybe better? Seems like there's a family of games here that have a progression of sophistication.
What are the rates and how are the rates negotiated? Is it between the startups or the co-working spaces?
Medical care and health care aren't actually the same thing. And the problem is that actually improving health for humans tends to be relatively cheap and culturally based. It is pretty much not a big money space. It involves things like inventing soap and getting people to wash their hands. And this is a thing most people do not want to hear.

Better drugs and better surgeries are all ooh, shiny! but they really are not optimal. The optimal approach is boring and hard to even see. People who fail to get sick are incredibly hard to measure. Heroic interventions after the fact are far easier to measure and make for more interesting press. They also can be charged big bucks.

The whole thing kind of sucks, frankly.
PyPy also has higher memory usage.
I would prefer they instead make "deep press" do the same thing as "long press", for devices that support it. That seems far more useful than the "peek and pop" thing 3D touch currently does.
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Isn't "stone soup" a synonym for "everything but the kitchen sink?" Part of what gives Nethack its enduring charm is, for lack of a better work, ambiance. DCSS is fun but it is sort of a disjointed mess of stuff that doesn't always fit together very well.
I, for one, would mourn the death of Theranos. I live in Phoenix and used their lab service before all the negative press came out. They did the micro-vial testing on me so the blood draw was totally painless, quick, and just a few bucks per test.

The big issue of course, is maybe the results I got can't be trusted, and sadly I think for my next blood draw I'll use a traditional lab so I don't worry about accuracy (even though traditional labs apparently make mistakes all the time[1]).

Theranos does get an F for public relations. I'd love to read an interview with Elizabeth Holmes on her take on all the negative press. Did they really screw up this badly? Are there fundamental limitations in their technology, or did they just bungle execution? Do they feel they are misrepresented in any way by these articles?

The real point is that they were at least trying to do something revolutionary and we only hear the WSJ side of the story and can't know what legal restrictions (or internal bungling) prevent them from sharing another perspective. If somehow they can navigate their way out of the swamp, it'd be a great win to have cheaper/faster/less painful labs available for the masses.

[1] http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/weak-oversi...
It's seems worth pointing out that 360° videos seem clearly designed to be watched on your phone with Cardboard, not on your desktop.
Depends if they like starting at ASCII. KSP has a much more familiar interface and would probably be the better route to go.
My biggest concern with solar power (which, by the way, may be based on outdated information) is that the production of photovoltaic cells produce more greenhouse gasses than will be spared in the cell's operational lifetime.

To ask an actual question: is this still the case? (Was it ever?)
TempleOS is a masterpiece. I wouldn't use it for anything, but many of the ideas in it are really interesting.
Heh - I remember back in '01 or '02, being let into the PAIX DC and left alone for around 90mins with a backpack full of hard drives and a toolkit.

It was the cheapest/fastest way for us to get our "big" database from Sydney to the US - hop on a plane with about 9kg of hard drives as carry-on. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 full of 340 Megabyte hard disks ;-)
The GIL is an issue when you want parallelism. It is not relevant when talking about single thread performance.
the thing with mechanical doping is that if you aren't caught red-handed, you are free, with doping some races/competitions will freeze your samples and they can be tested years later to find out if you were using something that wasn't testable yet, but with mechanical doping, once you're done the race you're safe.

And over a course of a grand tour stage, even if the boost is only 25W, it can easily make the difference between winning and being maybe in the top 10, ask any cyclist how much a 25W higher FTP would be worth in a mountain stage...
>It's a massive distinction.

I'm sure that is your wish, but we can all read.
>Accountability isn't free, but it's worth the cost.

actually there is a lot of system-wide cost saving that comes from such accountability - how much would be saved if all those internal investigations and prolonged court testimonies with cross examinations can be cut short just by watching the video? Non-guilty people not being put in jail has also enormous economical, beside all others, benefit to society.
I just finished reading Ben's book "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" and his admiration for Bill was immense in the book. I was thinking as I was reading the book that it is hard to find someone like Bill to confide in. shocked to read this. RIP Bill.
Isn't this chromecast?
I think the reason we (maybe secretly) take so much satisfaction / schadenfreude at this story is that someone who was so hyped and the darling of Silicon Valley got so much funding and attention. While others who toil away on good ideas, without nearly so many connections and silver spoons, struggle to even get 1 minute of air time with the kind of funders and backers that she got.

That, plus seeing the cluelessness and herd mentality of the people who are supposedly the experts at judging tech potential in this area.
Great question!

Amazon Vine is an invite-only program that rewards Amazon reviewers through giving them access to review free pre-release and new products. From my understanding, it works similarly to the Yelp Elite program.

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I hope I answered your question!
Is there any evidence of Elizabeth Holmes' scientific research abilities? Besides the 100 or so patents that she's on (none of which she's on alone)?

E.g., is there anything in her high-school yearbook about her winning science contests, etc.?
10k hours has a lot more to due with human lifespans than it does anything else. 4h a day 5 days a week 48 weeks a year for 60 years is only 57,600 hours. Sure, after someone has been doing something for 10 years they hit diminishing returns. But that's in context of a relatively low lifetime limit.

If people lived 1,000+ years people would be talking about 100,000 hours.
It is and so it's kind of absurd that someone would create so much hype around their company before they even had something working.

I would in fact call it irresponsible.
Only publicly traded tech companies give that.

For the others (especially growth startups that aspire to exit) it is just salary + pitiful options.

There isn't anywhere near parity to make up for the lack of comparable bonus or liquidity of RSUs.
This reminds me of AWK Music http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/
I learned a ton from one of these myself back in the days when Radio Shack sold actual electrical components.
Having played both Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft, I think that there are a lot of different people who enjoy many different things about Minecraft. Dwarf Fortress doesn't fulfill all the same roles, so depending on your preferences, you might like it more or less. I don't really see it as progression personally, although they do share a subset of their audiences.
This is more evidence of Silicon Valley's anti-woman culture. /sarcasm
> The bike has a known legal weight, oh, suddenly its 3 kilos heavier...

Part of the issue is that bikes have a minimum weight, but with modern materials it's quite easy to go below that minimum. So they can cover the added weight of the motor and batteries by cutting elsewhere.
Not YC-specific, but this sounds a fair bit like OfferBoard:
http://www.offerboard.com/
There are actually a surprising number of detailed graphics mods you can get for Dwarf Fortress (although not wanting to fiddle with modding the game is entirely understandable).
I just read a 32 page script and now I want you to write major television shows. Is that your actual job? This is really good.
This is great. I see/hear too much of this:

"Well, you can run some kind of little site/app for free or around $5-10 month. So, I imagine a much larger and more serious app would be like... $50/month? At most?"

It seems right. I don't blame them. We know it's not true.
Wall Street is wrong about this. Tech employees are still undervalued.

Feel free to bid the share price downwards. That would be a good thing.

Regarding the conflict of interest for management to do things that get the share price up... what? How hard are we going to manufacture controversy here? If there is a real optimization then reveal it.
Based on http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/04/14/march-air I'd say it will be replaced by a similar model, just without the 'Air' branding.
Or maybe some folks feel relieved to have their mental models for actual reality validated. Folks who thought it smelled like vaporware at best, or BS at worst, may not be engaging in schadenfreude so much as "Ha! I knew it! I'm not crazy!"

It is possible to have not ugly reasons for finding satisfaction in seeing how this is turning out.
How long do they typically use a bike?

For big races, it might not be entirely absurd to cut up the frame after the race, just to be sure.
The author seems to be conflating success with creativity. Of course the things that catch on are stochastic, but this doesn't negate the need to practice, nor does it imply that the chances of a creators work do not increase with practice.
The site is a marketing tool for their other projects; they talk about it here: http://qz.com/281725/how-side-projects-saved-our-startup/
It's not just cycling. Boxing, baseball, tennis they are all cheating, theres million dollar incentives for these athletes too
Seems trivial to detect now though. It's no problem to just tear down the bikes of the first X finishers to look for mechanical aids. Detecting doping reliably is much trickier.

edit: I think most high level bikes use carbon fibre frames? You could probably just use x-ray or ultrasound imaging to look for anything suspicious in the frame.
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This is probably a fantastic example of the ability to solve a problem without implementing huge Silicon Valley style privacy issues. Sadly, most startups today immediately think the best solution to the problem is to transmit data to the Internet.
There is of course a certain extent to which you can adjust how difficult the game will be for you, such as where you embark or just restricting your playstyle, but ultimately coming up with goals is necessary to keep enjoying the game. I never last very long myself...
They've written previously about how they consider Unsplash a valuable side project: http://blog.crew.co/how-side-projects-saved-our-startup/ From the wording in that blogpost, I would guess that they consider it part of their marketing spend.
For all the EPA fights that plague larger older companies (and many new ones, too), industrial safety and adherence to regulations is very deeply ingrained in their cultures. Heads roll pretty quickly for violations at lower levels. Even higher level executives are often quite responsible about staying within the bounds of laws and regulations (though they are less so in doing layoffs and such). This obviously leads to slower innovation and more red-tape, but I have come to believe that slower innovation is an acceptable price to pay for the rest of the stuff being legit.

If you are challenging the old order in old industries, and have to move fast and break (the right) things, do it like Tesla and Space X, not Theranos.
This is great, it couldn't have happened to nicer people. However, I'm willing to bet no charges will come out of it.
I thought the same until I watched a 360 4k music video on my iPhone in the YouTube app and realized the desktop/laptop browser experience is irrelevant for this application.
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Some promises, ex "Bring in 25K Syrian refugees by end of 2015" is considered "Broken" for the purposes of the "Promise Tracker" but the government actually did bring in 25K refugees and counting, they didnt hit the 25K mark until sometime in 2016-02.

So, keep in mind that while that promise may be 'technically broken', they pretty much did what they said they were going to do.
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Read this in Master Pos' voice.
> Is your second sentence actually a question?

Basically, yes. It was a rhetorical question in the sense that the reader now gets to ask that question as I had to to myself at the time. And, of course, the answer is, "Yes, she was she was asking me to have sexual intercourse with her". So, one could say that I, in this case a man, in a professional, office setting, actually also an academic one, was being asked for sexual intercourse so was being 'sexually harassed'. So, as in the OP, I should have "nightmares"? Well, I didn't. So, I was sexually harassed in a professional, office, academic, employment setting and had no nightmares. So, by implication, we have: "Women, note that, in public, office, professional, academic, employment settings, men get 'sexually harassed', too".

> Your third sentence doesn't make sense. Who said anything about nightmares? And why is "nightmares" in quotation marks? Is it supposed to be a euphemism for something else?

The third sentence makes perfect sense: I was being sexually harassed, by a woman, but didn't have "nightmares". And the word 'nightmares' was in full, double quotes because it was being quoted from the OP, which was about having nightmares from sexual harassment.

> Try tightening it up

It sounds like the jump from my second to my third sentence was already to large, that is, my writing was already too 'tight'.
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Stating the obvious here but the difference from monetising music streaming services is that you don't consume the content over a live connection hence the current Amazon model is just plain flawed.

I personally would adapt to something much much simpler than guessing thousands of page views sharing thousandths of pennies.

KU subscribers pay £10 pm for up to 10 books at a time. After the commission just share the remaining £7 amongst the other books held during the month. None of this funky pageview stuff.

That way the scammers would only be taking from their own subscription fees.
Wow, that's crazy and ambiguous. I've never heard of "I'd" as a contraction for "I should", how do you tell whether to expand it as that or "I would"?
I think it's the nature of the cheating her that is getting a lot of attention. From TFA "Despite more suspicious evidence occasionally floating to the surface, moto-doping seemed like a fairly improbable boogeyman, something that was too outrageous and silly for anyone to actually try. "
I wouldn't mind pulling it into the standard library if we're sure it's mature enough to be ready. In the meantime, though, it's the de facto standard async I/O framework, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
differences I've noticed:

1) some email validaters don't accept the domain as a valid email
2) it's more expensive that a normal .com
3) there's less of a need for www. infront of a non-.com (IMO)
4) sometimes when typing out the domain it'll turn hot and clickable, sometimes not
5) you are super hipster and cool with a non-dot-com
Similar programatic abilities can be found in the following window managers:

- wmii - via the 9fs interface - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wmii

- ion3 / notion - via lua bindings - http://notion.sourceforge.net/

- guile-wm - similar goals as stumpwm, with scheme - https://github.com/mwitmer/guile-wm

Of all of these notion is the most "out of the box" complete WM, whereas guile-wm is the most immature.