skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your point. However, this is the modern way of physically handing $10 bucks you owe to your friend. Similarly, a private e-mail, which is now scanned and indexed by the government along with everyone else's e-mail, is the modern equivalent of sending snail mail 50 years ago, in which there was 0% chance any higher power would have read and catalogued your letter.

We shouldn't have to live in the past because the government takes advantage of technological progress with massive power grabs. The potential for devastating abuse is so great. Imagine how this power would have been abused over the past century, if it existed then.
And to be clear I love cython, it's very useful as-is -- there's a large community of people for whom C & python expertise have gone hand in hand for years, and cython is the tool they end up using to max productivity and minimize surprises.
Boy, has HN grown. I would have never imagined seeing another Clayton native here!
Is NYC's most iconic sandwich dying?
> Creativity is spontaneous, playful, imaginative - and none of those things come from grinding.

Research shows that people who simply produce wind up producing better. So, the research disagrees with you at least somewhat.

There is no creativity without production. Production, however, does not guarantee creativity.
CI isn’t a solved problem
You told @ecolak chatbot is an ambiguous term, but the defintions offered online don't seem very ambiguous:

chat·bot

a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users, especially over the Internet.
> the system needs to work all the time

Why?
"The problem is not doing anything stupid."

Lest you find yourself reporting YASD after you choke on that corpse.
This text messaging app is Bernie Sanders' Secret Weapon
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Interesting article since the deli is facing the same thing today's startup are "society changes, can you adapt to stay in business". Two good examples of how deli's are doing exactly that.
If you're using NoScript in the fine-grained manner you describe, and for privacy reasons (not just security), I wonder have you ever looked at uMatrix[0]. Same deal but a bit more performant, and also covers the whitelisting of other privacy-leaking aspects such as cookies, CSS, tracking pixels, iframes, etc.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/FAQ
Yes, word on the street is that they are being investigated by the SEC for misleading their investors.

This very sparse report leads with the same text and twitter is full of news sources "reporting" the same thing.

I have a feeling that it's going to be a bad time for Theranos employee's and investors over the next few months. It's going to be much worse for a few of their executives.
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If you only removed the write and not the reads from the timing, I would guess the reads (even with warm caches) still dominate the time.

And you would want to do it in pure Python if you want to answer the question "how fast can we make interpreted Python?". Using C extensions for that is cheating, as it isn't Python and it isn't interpreted. You don't answer the question "how fast can you run?" With "30 km an hour, using a bicycle", either.

If you make those images large enough (and I guess 2k x 2k is large enough), any language that uses OpenCV to do the job will give results in the same ballpark. For example, you can make the difference between Python implementations that can call OpenCV as small as you want it.
I mean, yes: Creativity is much, much more than some over-simplified canard presented in some Malcolm Gladwell book.
This is one of those times when Silicon Valley needs to step aside its rhetoric. In this case, Bill wasn't a mentor or a VC - he was a friend and confidant. And Ben's pain isn't from losing a mentor or a business parent - it's from losing a friend. This isn't a conversation about valuations, board positions, or startup tactics. It's a conversation about the loss of a great man.

My warmest wishes go out to the Horiwitz and the Campbell families.
When I first read this headline I was thinking "Uh oh, Theranos must have very badly handled its interactions with FDA". But this is apparently the SEC investigating the company.

Does anyone know how often the SEC investigates a private company with a product that's still essentially in beta testing?
It's the same problem. Assume my GPS clock is synced to actual GPS. You turn on your spoofer and now my clock sees that the GPS source is running faster or slower than it should be so it falls back to the internal oscillator.
You can get around that, you just need the right cursed potion - or does that not work if you have the Amulet?
Of course, NetHack literally added kitchen sinks as a game element (I think in the early 1990s) as a response to being accused of containing everything plus the kitchen sink.
An advance doesn't have to be sexual or flirtatious in nature. It could be as simple as striking up a conversation with someone you've never talked to before or inviting someone out to a group activity.
This comment is spot-on.
First Thoughts on Room-Scale VR
Net good?
Tried the query "green room preview" (expecting articles about the new movie 'Green Room') - got a whole bunch of unrelated stuff.

https://api.newsapi.aylien.com/api/v1/stories?text=green+roo...
All else being equal, adding new roads with a lower death rate per mile than existing roads is not exactly an improvement to road safety.
Cloudflare has interconnect with google:

https://www.cloudflare.com/google/
I own alhur.es, don't use it commercially, but haven't seen any difference.
The Conquest of Mexico and New Spain, by Bernal Diaz del Castillo:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32474/32474-h/32474-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32475/32475-h/32475-h.htm

That's the bees knees and the cat's pajamas when it comes to the downfall of the Aztec Empire at the hands of Cortes' small band of conquistadores (plus a few thousand Tlascalans and other enemies of the Empire), a first-hand account from one of the conquistadores.

It's all in there: the pious, self-mutilating Aztec priests who practiced human sacrifice, the strange way the Mexicans did warfare and their reaction to muskets and horses, La Noche Triste and Alvarado's Leap, Moctezuma's death at the hands of his captors, Dona Marina, and of course, the deadliest part of it all, the decimation of the Mexican population by smallpox carried by the Europeans.

It's been called the most beautiful story ever told (no link, sorry) and it is. Beautiful, but also tragic, brutal, horrifying, bloody and full of senseless killing and pointless death and destruction.

You might want to read it if you enjoyed New Revelations...
It would be extremely difficult for me to imagine that not being the case.
> Does anyone know how often the SEC investigates a private company with a product that's still essentially in beta testing?

Apparently at some point before a company takes $400m in investment on a fraudulent basis.
You may be right, but I don't think they will be using desktops either. Perhaps some kind of virtual desktop enabled by VR/AR.

I work on a college campus, and a significant and increasing number of kids have no laptop or desktop at all.
> I remember Qt had a similar thing with QThread. They published a popular article called QThread you're doing it wrong, and it turns out their own documentation was doing it wrong.

The main thrust of that article [1] was suggesting a new way to use the existing class and pointing out common mistakes he'd seen. Yeah, the docs were slightly outdated and needed a little TLC. They didn't mention the alternatives that had recently been made possible, but that's hardly an earth-shattering mistake.

[1] http://blog.qt.io/blog/2010/06/17/youre-doing-it-wrong/
nope, nowhere close to too old. if anything, there's not much to worry about considering you already taught yourself some basics.
That was a joke. Sorry, more than one person thought it was serious.
If there is one thing I've learned from university, it's this. Keeping units makes your writing messier and longer, but when it comes to checking they are absolutely invaluable.
Your equation to give you volumetric flow gave you (kg/s)? Well density is (kg/m^3) so just divide your answer by density! (this is a problem my friend was having just yesterday)
They will see if there is something like a material misrepresentation.
I think the author of the article is describing a false dichotomy. The purpose of deliberate practice is to build the underlying knowledge that leads to the creativity and also unlock the intuitive sense that comes from mastery.
Only one I've come across is Dead Code Detector plugin for Netbeans, which worked really well for me when looking for unused anything anywhere.
Should We Feed the Trolls?
(Off-topic) what do you think about marshalling for continuations from await? So the issue where on one hand it's confusing/surprising if you don't default to marshalling the continuation back to the thread (etc.) that created the continuation (e.g. the UI thread) but if you do then mixed blocking and async this can result in deadlocks (contention on the thread/etc.)

.NET defaults to this, you can opt out (which you usually want to do, at least for correctness) by doing await Foo().ConfigureAwait( continueOnCapturedContext: false )

EDIT: my etc.'s are weaseling around the word thread... more details about .NET here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2012/04/12/async-awa...
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The cynical point of view is that some wealthy investors feel like they were mislead and that is the only reason the SEC gives a hoot.
Yeah. I made a mod many years ago (it made you the "drunken master" if you were master level in unarmed combat and drank potions of booze). It was really, really easy. I have rarely worked on a code base of that size that was so easy to understand and modify.
I agree whole-heartedly.
http://millamok.millyclub.cpa.clicksure.com
Json Management Patterns in Go
Well, if it can be shown that they lied or omitted material information in the course of soliciting equity investments, that's a Rule 10b-5 violation, the SEC's big club. The fact that Theranos is a private company is immaterial, as is the possibility that none of its investors may have complained.
If you have an automated build system (like OBS -- the Open Build System used by openSUSE) where dependencies are rebuilt automatically and security fixes can be pushed to maintainence automatically.
Sounds like playing Spelunky. "Of course throwing the rock upwards is a risky and stupid idea, why did I try to do it again?" But there, the time is working against you so no breaks... One day I'll stop throwing stuff, running near spikes, angering shop keepers, running into bones, and all the other stupid stuff and maybe finally win!
Scatological and Cruel Nursery Rhymes, from the Oldest Surviving Book of Them
Any idea why they decided to write their own JITed python implementation rather than putting in additional support for PyPy ?
One is about people and organizations, and the other is about hedging for long term interests of the company's prospects.

The details of the second could be sinister or evil from a macro, national context, but if you narrow down your scope to just Intuit the organization and its people, its lobbying efforts can be seen as doing the right thing for its workforce and their well being.
Though the latency is incredible, they are getting tons of bandwidth.
Man, the shoe fell really, really quickly. Also - huge congratulations to the reporting team of the WSJ, that did an incredible job of unconvering this story back when Theranos was still considered a golden goose. John Carreyrou in particular did some exceptional reporting.
I don't say this often, but fuck Theranos.
Like I've mentioned before, Theranos needs to shut down. The technology doesn't work (and likely it never will since blood constituents are not evenly distributed at small volumes) and its investors and executives are complicit in fraud. While half-completed/non-working solutions are fine in software world and with consumer electronics, a misreading or missed reading of blood parts can easily cost the health or life of a person. I'll be glad to see the SEC/FDA put an end to this.
Eric Schmidt is quoted as saying that the totality of Google's organizational structure owes itself to Bill Campbell.

That's a pretty substantial fraction of the company's valuation.
Very interesting and outside the box!!!!
The article mentions the iPhone SE and how its expected sales are not expected to offset the slowdown of the iPhone 6s and 6s+ sales. I realized I had forgotten the SE even existed (even though it was just been announced a few weeks ago) until this article reminded me of it.

To me, this is just further confirmation that Apple's product line is a complete mess. Just go to (apple.com/iphone/compare) or (apple.com/ipad/compare) and look at how ridiculous it is. Can anyone really tell me which one of those models is "best"? There is no clear winner -- the ones with the bigger screen sizes and storage capacity don't have the latest CPUs or other features. Anyone remember the simple "Good, Better, Best" models of Powerbooks?

It is starting to feel like Apple is overdue for a product line simplification, like when the four quadrant product grid was first introduced:

https://youtu.be/VkVs4ZqWgN8
The Sawfish manager is another one in Lisp, but not Common Lisp. Rather, a dialect called rep, which is packaged as a lshared library ("librep"): http://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/

Being in Common Lisp, StumpWM is portable, "designed to run on many lisp systems" (quote straight from documentation).
> lately I've been changing my view on this and looking at everything outside of my home directory as the realm of my OS maintainer

As an ordinary user, this can be perfectly reasonable. I specifically said "as a developer" to make clear that my requirements in this respect are not necessarily the same as those of an ordinary user. Developers need a level of control over their machines and configurations that ordinary users, as a rule, don't.
Video Conferencing in a Way You Never Knew Existed
That's not what he suggested:

> the amount of money that the people who learned from Campbell control can be measure in TRILLIONS
> the techniques of deliberate practice are most applicable to "highly developed fields" such as chess, sports, and musical performance in which the rules of the domain are well established and passed on from generation to generation

Bummer. I was hoping to find some shortcuts to learning how to play the guitar. I've had one for 20 years now and still can't play it.
Pump and dump couldn't dump!
How Elon Musk Built His Empire – Infographic
This is completely nonsensical.
I remember there was some text on the goatse.cx website that used to read "if the image above offends you, simply don't look at it." Below the... shock image. Yeah.
And also reaching out proactively as a potential mentor, since people younger than us often are sheepish about reaching out to us.
Your government can either provide you with freedom or it can provide you with security.

I see no reason to believe government can provide either. And in fact, I'd say government is always, by definition, an assault on the former of the two.
Airbnb negotiating with SEIU to offer unionized cleaning services
Thanks for the word of caution!

I've been using the remotecall functions rather than MPI (bunged my code into ClusterUtils.jl). Don't know how I'd use GPUDirect with this strategy.

The packages based on CUDArt.jl all seem to work with remotes. So long as you don't fetch a pointer to memory on a remote device.
>the achievement which impressed Ben most was one Bill's companies that by most definitions "failed" yet every employee spoke of it as one of the greatest places to have worked in their lives.

For those who are curious, the name of the company was Go.
Steve Jobs' lack of technical skills drove Apple's success
IT employees at EmblemHealth fight to save jobs
The criminal probe is separate from the SEC actions -- The SEC can only refer criminal cases to the DOJ, they have no criminal enforcement arm themselves.[1]

In addition to the criminal probe, the Securities and Exchange Commission is examining whether Theranos made deceptive statements to investors when it solicited funding, according to people familiar with the matter.

So in addition to the criminal probe instigated by the DOJ, the SEC is investigating for securities issues.

[1] - https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/oia/oia_enforce/overviewen...
The SEC is getting more aggressive about regulating large pseudo-public companies that haven't had a formal IPO, but which have many "qualified" investors.[1] Mutual funds now invest in these companies, which means ordinary investors are at risk.

The SEC chair on "unicorns": "It is axiomatic that all private and public securities transactions, no matter the sophistication of the parties, must be free from fraud. Exchange Act Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 apply to all companies and we must be vigorous in ferreting out and punishing wrongdoers wherever they operate. In the unicorn context, there is a worry that the tail may wag the horn, so to speak, on valuation disclosures. The concern is whether the prestige associated with reaching a sky high valuation fast drives companies to try to appear more valuable than they actually are."

That last sentence sounds a lot like Theranos.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/chair-white-silicon-valley-i...
I was greeted with the same idiotic message. Best I could do for now without linking to a potentially malicious or ad ridden free web proxy:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...
That's output vs intent, however - you can be creative but not necessarily create physical things. Most artists create nothing themselves - they leave that to their artisans. Are they uncreative because they instruct rather than construct?
The reddit comment system is not that good and has been duplicated many times. Almost every comment system is comprised of multiple recognizable elements.

1. The presentation (this is probably what you meant). Reddit's comment threading and hiding is excellent. /. does something very similar, but with more decoration.

2. The voting system. Reddit's comment system is for rewarding comments that contribute to the discussion for some value of "contribute". Instead it's used as a popularity score, which has resulted in the same problems you see in Stack Overflow where accuracy falls prey to enthusiasm (for good or ill). The systems that do not have a "downvote", instead starting at an anonymous (or some incremental) threshold. I thought maybe a floating filter based on the average or some group-specific setting or a manual setting (e.g. /.) would be optimal, but there are some readability problems that can only be solved with good presentation. I have not seen many that have good presentation AND technical sophistication because the last item is a deal-breaker.

3. Automation/tooling. Manual and/or automated moderation + bot mitigation is a fairly complex issue. Thread locking, deletion, account banning, anti-spam measures are not things that traditional media are prepared to deal with. You find they sometimes just abandon or delete articles that have been bot-slimed. Reddit's tools are a combination of watchful (time-investment) community leaders, automation, and network level blocking.

4... there's probably more, but those are what comes to mind.
This puts me in mind of what life is like here in Ontario, Canada. To travel by rail or bus between Waterloo and Niagara Falls requires a stop in Toronto and a layover. It's ~1.5 hours by car or ~7 by bus (and more expensive).
Irony = their site is on CF.

$ whois speedchecker.xyz
Domain Name: SPEEDCHECKER.XYZ
Name Server: LEE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: PAM.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
It maybe be possible to file a freedom of information act request with OFAC, for the number and amounts of seizures in the past several years?
"Most mobile apps before the current smartphone era were Java based using j2me"

Which was routinely criticized for being absolutely terrible, second only to BREW.
The news release issued when the Walgreens deal was announced said consumers “will be able to access less invasive and more affordable clinician-directed lab testing, from a blood sample as small as a few drops, or 1/1,000 the size of a typical blood draw.”

As part of the deal, Walgreens has invested at least $50 million into Theranos, according to people familiar with the matter.

It really blows my mind that Theranos was able to get this far with what sounds like technology that simply didn't work. Did any investors simply try the test(s) before investing vast sums of money?
Most CDN have a pile of patents that show how they do their cache hierarchy.

-Ex CDN worker
I make a youtube video every day as part of a do-a-thing-for-100-days project. I've learned a lot from it but one of the key takeaways was that I have much, much more creative energy than I thought (I was really worried I would run out of stories to tell at day 20 or something). The 12 points the author listed seemed accurate but they never really reached a meaningful conclusion. My advice for anyone considering undertaking a creative project: just do it.

My videos are here if you're curious: http://youtube.com/krisshamloo
Not the parent, but I think the point is that, in the real world, the vast majority of use cases for which Python is slow are ones where you would use an existing library written in a lower-level language. So questions like "How fast can we make matrix multiplication in Python?" are irrelevant for the vast majority of Python developers because NumPy exists, and it's always going to be faster than anything you can write in pure Python.
healthcare is a very hard problem.

While we in the tech community may find it morbidly entertaining to watch Theranos burn to the ground. Someone out there needs to attack healthcare. The not dying motivation is fairly important.
> code execution

Code execution how? How are you going to execute code on my machine if you don't have physical access to it? That's why the RCE makes a difference.

> it would be rather redundant to use code execution as a local user to obtain code execution as a local user, no?

As I understood the comment that started this subthread, it was talking about using a remote code execution vulnerability to modify .bashrc. Nobody, as far as I can tell, in this discussion is talking about having local (i.e., physical) access to the machine.
Microscaling containers to maintain queue length using control theory
There are other nonprofits that do similar. The XPrize, for example, has similar contests for space travel. Contests like this encourage groups that may be happily in the shadows to come forward and be bold, and show off what they've been working on. The money definitely will help, but creating names can be more worthwhile.
> And in fact, I'd say government is always, by definition, an assault on the former of the two.

Found the anarchist.
And in Spain too.
One thing I'd love to know, and that might come out in court eventually, is which early investors exited in the huge dumb-money round in 2014. What did they know and when did they know it, and all that.
This is an awesome story and I am glad it worked out well for AirBNB. I have used their service a number of times and have only positive things to say. With that said, i think it is a bit crazy to go 30K in CC debt to get a company off the ground, given the chances of a startup succeeding being so low.

If things didnt work out for AirBNB, unless someone helped pay of that debt they would be in a pretty shitty situation given the way credit scores can affect your life in the USA.
Companies may explicitly bar these.