skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone else find a Chinese business ops/comms platform problematic? While it might be a solid competitor (technically), I have an inherent distrust from a country without freedom of expression and a knack for industrial espionage. I can't imagine non-Chinese firms really seeing this as a legitimate competitor for those reasons alone.
WWDC 2016
Respectfully, that's a nonsense point of view. The investors want to get as much of their investment back as possible, or, if they've given up on that, they at least don't want to be seen as having invested in criminals.
unfortunately it's still around, just not in the wild.
"tough on Unicorns" :) The plight of Theranos has just become much worse as they will probably be made an example of.
I don't have much sympathy - that's a pretty dumb thing to write.

Of course in 99.9999% of cases this is just some dumb joke. But look at it from the FBI's (or whoever's) perspective: if this just happens to be the one time it isn't the press will be all over them saying "My God, how could you not take this seriously?" And the first priority of any bureaucracy is the protection of the bureaucracy.
earlier sub of same article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11523644
> Certificate pinning will be much more important once this becomes mainstream.

On the flip side, certificate pinning prevents an end user from seeing what data an app is transmitting. Standard Man-in-the-Middle solutions like Burp no longer work when an app is cert pinning.

The only way (to my knowledge) to overcome this isto attach a debugger to the app and manually strip the ssl or view the packets prior to being sent.
Game industry vet draws ire from developers for defense of 80-hour workweeks
non-paywall link:

http://on.wsj.com/1VyFPIt
One thing this should remind us all is that there is a finite, very small set, of people who had an inordinate effect on our life, whichever path we happened to take.

For me, it was that teacher who asked me to open a box because we got a "computer" and nobody knew what to do with it, or the teacher who drove me to my town's college when I told him I did not have money to pay for it, and then helped me file financial aid forms, all in the very last day of registration. You have your own.

One day, you won't be able to call them.

Call them.
right!?
It is, but since we all watch, listen to so much media, the meaning of words changes faster than I want to keep up with.

I think hustle is fine, but I wouldn't to use in in a business related field these days.

All those Rap song lyrics come out a weird times? The big rapper, who smokes too much pot, and used to be a correctional officer, while is having anxiety attacks form smoking too much pot, had a big song. All I remember is "I gotta always be hustling". Insinuating this Rapper need to break laws daily in order to survive. I did like the song though. Forget the rapper's name.
Totally agree. That said, WikiLeaks has shown that the US regularly shares global industrial espionage with US companies.

The strong do what they can, the weak what they must.
That's not a pay cut -- it's a loss. You already had those options. When the compensation you receive going forward falls, that's a pay cut.
You are confusing this with the people in non-profits using that as an excuse to be cheap
Here's a television parody I wrote about Theranos that ends right where this story begins... http://pricks.com
C-API compatibility, I'm guessing. I agree it was of a strange choice though.
Investigators are also examining whether Theranos misled government officials, which can be a crime under federal law, some of the people said.

Such subpoenas don’t necessarily mean prosecutors are actively seeking an indictment. People familiar with the matter said the investigation is at an early stage.

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. Theranos was valued at $9 billion in a funding round in 2014 and the majority stake of Elizabeth Holmes, the startup’s founder and chief executive, at more than half that.

Has there been any other examples of such high profile entrepreneurs ending up at the wrong end of a criminal investigation?
My money is still on the CEO and board of investors bailing out on golden parachutes to whatever their next horrendous executive appointment will be.
Much appreciated
The funnier part of that story is that it was based on hardware from allot communications which is an Isreali company, it's the same setup that the Dutch government bought.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/israeli-firm-under-fir...
Yep, I remember having one of those too. Poor DSE, having to be a second-rate consumer electronics store all these years.
that's a more noble use of that domain than anyone could have predicted.
> [...] There are so many alternatives to CloudFlare. [...]

Please list them (especially, those that works for you) so that we can try.
I felt Sporkhack fixed most of the problems I had with vanilla nethack. Wishes are harder to get, Elbereth is nerfed, ESP is nerfed, ascension kits are less binary, Gehennom is less tedious, Vlad is no longer a pushover, etc...
And nearly every comment following it has a tone of "I/we/you shouldn't blindly trust the police, because they break laws too. This is a problem."
Theranos' tragic flaw was not even so much that they were hyped to the moon and back, but that they believed their own hype.
I have no knowledge of what the differences might be. But I read the sentence you're responding to as the opposite of how you seem to.

> compared to the UK[,] tax treatment of stock options for employees is brutal

To me that sounds like the US is strict and England is lenient. Your way would need wording like "compared to the UK tax treatment of stock options for employees[, which] is brutal".
Always fun to go back in time and look at what people were saying about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, like 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019

or

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181339

I find it insightful to see who was "right" and who was "wrong". There were a surprising number of people from the medical field expressing doubts about the technology.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11500471

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11501491
What happens if the investors were not mislead? Is this probe a move by the big investors to cover their ass in the case that Theranos is found to have defrauded customers?
What is the polarity of ipad antenna on your lap? :) Then you have multipath (reflections). This is why wifi cards had diversity switch and two antennas even before MIMO, and with 11n gained spatial diversity and beamforming.

random google result: http://www.theruckusroom.net/2011/06/a-polarizing-problem.ht...
WWDC 2016 – Registration link
Theranos isn't even at the leading edge of blood testing. There are now hand-held FDA-approved immediate blood testing devices.[1][2][3] Most of these require smaller amounts of blood than a remote lab, although more than a drop. Theranos is still in the send-it-to-the-lab-and-wait era. Even if Theranos' technology eventually works, it may be obsolete before it ships.

[1] https://www.abbottpointofcare.com/products-services/istat-ha...
[2] http://www.epocal.com/system.html
[3] http://www.pixcell-medical.com/products/in-the-pipeline
This link has been posted to HN before so it is registering as a dupe. But the same URL now works for 2016:

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/register/
I always wanted to ask the executives how they reconciled the "Integrity Without Compromise" corporate value with the lobbying against return-free filing. But I'm almost sure the answer I'd have gotten is the same one that most of the people working on TurboTax gave me...that taxpayers need an advocate to ensure that they're not overpaying the government. If the government prepared people's returns, even if people had the option to amend them, most wouldn't go through the hassle, so the government would have an incentive to not optimize returns so that people were paying the least they were legally allowed to.

It's possible that this was just the party line that they were all told to parrot, but if felt like they had more integrity than that, so I'm choosing to believe that they've all internalized that logic and truly believe it. For my part, when I worked at Intuit, I chose to rationalize it by telling myself that I worked on an unrelated product and that I was not involved in that "shadiness." Still, whenever we'd release rosy TurboTax numbers to investors and the stock would pop, I felt a little guilty profiting from that.
Can mio be pulled into the stdlib, then?

I fear a world of gevent/Twisted, EventMachine/Celluloid/base Ruby, Boost/a litany of other options.
This eerily reminds me of Enron.
Puts work well if you can acquire the options at a reasonable price (they're often quite expensive though).

Mark Cuban did this when Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo!

However, the contracts may be illiquid / not available for smaller market cap companies.
Perhaps should have been titled "30 year old vaporware sector billionaire"
> At the "startup" I used to work for, I got stonewalled every time I asked for the valuation (whether current or near-to-medium-term expected) of the stock options I had been offered. Friends at other startups report similar stories.

OMG same here! Shit like this had me considering if any engineers would bite in joining a union-like entity.

But life is all around still too decent for that.
OK great. So now the question is why? I've seen this "multiplexed binary" scheme implemented elsewhere in more constrained circumstances but it doesn't really make sense to me for a desktop OS to be doing it.
Agreed. Ten years ago what could we achieve at say, a hackathon? What could we achieve in the same amount of time today? I don't think our creativity has increased, but our ability to express it probably has, and that's why deliberate practice is a component that expands the whole process.
What "deep understanding" when it works with VMs within GCE only?! This is a marketing description, not a technical one. The features I mentioned are not "niche", they are basic among CDNs and both Google and AWS seem to offer the worse and totally impractical CDNs. Honestly, if Google Cloud offers a CDN comparable with Fastly, I may consider a move, but for a CloudFront copycat (well, a copycat of Gen. 1) - thanks, but no thanks! In general, this once again proves that Google Cloud is not a viable alternative, it's only been playing a catch-up game, it doesn't deliver pleasant surprises, and that AWS is the way to go. Okay, true, HTTP/2 is the only missing feature, but I'm sure Amazon is gonna deliver this anytime.
I could be wrong, but I think most companies prohibit their employees from short exposure (shorting equity, being long equity puts, or short equity calls) to the company, even if they're still net long the company.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that in this kind of situation, unless said investors have a seat on the board of directors -- and none at Theranos did -- they're almost certainly not in trouble with the SEC.

Theranos is a private company so the SEC rules around MNPI are not relevant here. However, if (IF) any of the earlier investors told later investors things about Theranos that they had reason to doubt in an effort to up the valuation of the next round, then I suppose that might be lawsuit fodder.

How you would prove that? Dunno.
Ah thanks, that makes more sense.
My apologies - I think I accidentally downvoted you. Just to make up I upvoted two of your other comments. I am sorry
Make the Most of the App Store
I believe this is the one you're looking for: https://xkcd.com/915/
To be fair the entire industry is cheating and will continue to cheat.

People want cheap and fast cars which directly conflicts with the regulations.

When all things are equal people will buy the faster car and the car that dose 0 to 60 quicker.
And many people even prefer those stats when choosing a family car often over safety and pretty much all the time when it comes to how green the car is unless there is a harsh progressive tax based on car emissions.
Introducing Ai – Your Recruiting Agent
This should remind everyone to thank those that have helped you throughout your life...because too late comes too fast.

By coincidence I had a similar thing happen just this last week. I spoke with a business friend who has always helped me along...not with money directly...but with advice and connections. I called him up after not talking for a few months to find out he had a stroke and nearly died. He is doing surprisingly well given the circumstances but it got me to thinking. The next day I called him up for no other reason but to let him know how much I appreciated the support and kind gestures...he was one of the first to see the drive and motivation I have and he has done everything he could to introduce me to the right people.

In this life you don't always get a chance to say thanks in a true, heartfelt way. I made sure to do that. If you have someone like this in your life...please call them today and let them know how they helped you.

In this world haters are everywhere...but it is truly rare to find someone who is selfless and motivational.

Here is a song to listen to while you think about it https://youtu.be/PdZb2inh4YM
Typically the app that uses certificate pinning will just cease to use data during a typical mitm attack. Kind of like going into airplane mode.
I wonder what they'd say if said tech companies opted to increase salaries in lieu of stock based compensation. After all, they complain at Costco for compensating their workers too well and giving them benefits that are too good.

Then you look at Wall Street and realize that the companies have some of the highest worker compensation expense ratios around (though I think this is a model to emulate for tech companies rather than shun. Say what you will about WS, but despite their outsized pay for directors at the top, they do compensate the average worker better than other industries)
Also consider minecraft: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-minecraft-gen...

And today's front page article on "how a diode changed my life" could be interesting
mismatched polarisation can lead to over 20db of attenuation
How the results of NY Democratic primaries could determine Greece's fate
I help out with the online chat for my wife’s business sometimes and it is amazing how many different types of questions you get asked. Sure around 50% are one click away in the FAQ, but around 50% are unique in some aspect.

The key to making this work will be the quality of the data behind the bot and the quality of the AI. These are hard problems, but if you can make them work then you will have a very impressive product.
> blood constituents are not evenly distributed at small volumes

You're saying they're running into statistical stochasticity? Are you claiming they were sampling femtoliter volumes? That's the how small you'd have to get for your claim to be true.
> It’s a raw deal for most authors, the exception being prolific/well-known authors

I've been reading almost exclusively authors I've never heard of before (but they are rated fairly high). In that respect, you may be right and they may have been known, but they were unknown to me. Usually I would stick to my own short list of who I think are the best in a genre, occasionally venturing outside of that to see who's getting accolades recently. I imagine if you put some effort into it and got a push from some fans you could break into a wider audience on KU without too much work.
Out of interest, does any one know what liabilities such investors might have? If the outside investors had knowledge of the problems we are now seeing and sold off without disclosing the issues, are they somewhat accountable?
Well imagine I could address memory on the CPU die like a register but say 1MB of memory, located right next to the normal place you put a cache.

It does not have to be coherent I think. Process thrashing sounds like an issue though. I imagine if the address space is across all CPU cores then the software can pin to a core so that the access is local. Remote access to another CPU will be slow, but I'm not sure how great it is with caches anyway.
Man Sues Kanye West, Tidal, Over New Album
Thanks! How long did the game take to make?
are you sure? everyone has customers in China.
I'll take the opposite side of this. What are the terms?
Collapse of kelp forest imperils North Coast ocean ecosystem
>> end up paying for things they don't like.

That's what's happening now - you've got low quality viewing clubs scamming from everyone else. And that's a certainty. Remember in information one false bit can introduce a lot of havoc.

You've got a lot of maybes - and I'm unconvinced. But I don't work in Amazon.

I do know if I got an unlimited membership I will not be happy my dollars are worth less because I take my time to enjoy my material - pausing and contemplating about it deeply. ( think poems ).
Do you realise just how much better a deal 30% is compared to buying a CD from a record store? For any muso who hasn't already sold their soul/rights to a major label (and who's not in Bono's infinitely privileged and connected kind of position), iTunes sales are a fabulous deal.

You're still right though, KU is more comparable to Spotify, where songs are effectively "worthless", but artists consider it worthwhile to give away their music there for discoverability - Zöe Keating used to publish year;y blog posts as raw data as spreadsheets showing how (litte) the variou streaming services (who didn't prohibit her contractually from doing so) paid.
Enron was much more of a real company. It collapsed due to poor investments and cooking the books, but Enron really did own a lot of assets. It would be more akin to Enron if Theranos' tech actually worked, but they were reporting much more profit than they were really getting.
Right, I'd like to avoid that complexity entirely, just get direct access to things rather than hinting what I want.
But none of that matters if the publishers can't make money off the distribution -- and most of these deals simply don't allow for that. Apple made some changes recently but it's still not enough, and considering that many B2B sites still can make very good money with direct sales, there's very little incentive to participate.

It's kind of like those sites who want journalists to write for them for "exposure" (or ask photogs to use their photos, or artists to use their art, etc. without paying)-- sure, maybe millions more eyeballs see your writing, but you're making nothing off of it and just hoping you'll get something down the road. Meanwhile, the smart writers are taking gigs that maybe only a few thousand will read but they will get paid reasonable rates (and sometimes very good money) every time.

Not to say that many B2B publishers won't participate, but it'll be at a smaller scale and, I think, always with an eye on the trade-offs, which, again, aren't so great right now.
Those GPS driven clocks would be marked as falsetickers and thrown out during the pruning process. I would hate to have my plan to create financial chaos blocked by the presence of one Symetricom box with a CDMA card and or off site clock associations.
The specs read a little oddly: "... operating voltage of 1.44 V, a capacity of 285 mAh g−1 (MnO2), and capacity retention of 92% over 5,000 cycles"

That looks like it is (410Wh/kg) roughly 3x the capacity by weight of the best available currently lipos. Am I reading that correctly?
Nice! This is exactly what I was thinking of, thanks for the link.
i remember that one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8182026

That day I just basically learned about Theranos existence from the posted article, and that comments post explained to me what it is about :)
Anyone want to explain what might be better about stumpwm than awesomewm?
It's better to make photo-sharing apps and sell iphones. While healthcare is very hard, also needs alot of money. My idea would be: create photo-sharing app/telegram/iphones etc to make alot of cash and THEN try real-science-shit (like Elon Musk / ~Paypal Mafia).
I haven't used control theory to scale services up & down, but I have used it to regulate requests from a batch process to a production service, scaling the request rate up and down in order to avoid overloading the service.

Philip Janert's book "Feedback Control for Computer Systems" had everything I needed to know to understand control theory & implement it for my particular scenario. Great book.
The attacking part is great. It's the "fail fast" part that they messed up on. If the machines worked, would we be having this conversation about a company accused of lying to regulators and defrauding investors?

Maybe it's a problem of Theranos setting investor expectations poorly, maybe the regulators are looking to make an example of someone for playing fast and loose in the traditionally tightly regulated healthcare industry, maybe both. Hopefully it's growing pains for a burgeoning biotech market and not actually fraud from the top.
This is a very scary vision. And I can't think of a single thing that could prevent this bot uprising.
The speed from the airport down to the depot is pretty shocking, mostly because it takes a whole bunch of ridiculously tight turns. Once it's through that it picks up quite a lot. Never seems to zoom along, although as much as anything else I think that's because it's a much smoother ride than the bus.
The author's obvious disdain for rural Americans makes it hard to see through to his main point, that urban centers' power should not be inhibited by state governments.

I don't think that point stands up to scrutiny. Are state governments really hindering cities? Then why are cities growing ever more powerful, economically and culturally? And since cities contain such a large proportion of the population, they already wield proportionate power in state capitols.

The notion that urban centers are superior to rural areas is ridiculous given cities' dependence on rural agriculture, natural resource extraction, etc.

Could it be that urbanists simply don't want to be forced to confront in state legislatures the potential negative impacts their sprawling cities impose upon rural neighbors? That's the impression this article gives me.
The problem here is the assumption that one account pulls down tens of thousands of dollars. There's nothing keeping the scammers from spreading the ebooks across multiple accounts, and getting $1000 an account across 70 accounts. That's much harder to track by the method suggested due to both the sheer number or accounts and the much smaller payout per account.
That game was amazing. I wish I'd gotten good enough at it to ever get past the first few levels.
Actually, yeah. The variance in the amount of quantities present in the blood draws by Theranos is too high to get useful measurements (without very many replicates, defeating its purpose) according to published research: http://ajcp.oxfordjournals.org/content/144/6/885.abstract

I was also utterly astonished when I read this. Even if the experimental error of the instrument was zero, you cannot reduce the biological variance short of drawing more blood or doing multiple measurements. However, this is such a no brainer that the idea that Theranos skipped this step seemed too crazy to contemplate - apparently not though.
Dimensional drawings for all Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods [pdf]
Agreed. They need to ditch 3D Touch (the sticking point for cramming a full 6S into a 5S case, afaik) and have three otherwise identical iPhones with different screens, ditto for iPads.
These 360 videos need better view angle controls. Rather than just replicating the arrow keys, the "D-pad" in the upper left corner should be replaced with an "analog stick". That is, the rotational velocity should be proportional to the distance from the center of the stick to where I click (and hold), with a continuous choice of angle.

Is there a reason this isn't done? Seems obvious.