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The author may call it thought provoking but i feel there are some quite dangerous ideas in his mind and a severe lack of perspective.

While saying he hates wage-slaves, he seems to treat everyone under him like a slave.

This pdf on the website is kinda scary, i couldn't help but to feel offended:
http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/download/Recruiting%20Giants.pd...

Also, using the word millennial just tells me you are a grumpy old guy yelling at kids to get off your lawn.
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Could you explain why GIL wouldn't make it CPU bound, rather than memory bound?
Haha, I might have had the same kit as you. Mine from radio shack, and had besides the usual resistors and capacitors and BJT's also a JK flip flop and quad nand gate.

I used to like wiring the IC's backwards briefly to make them get really hot. Though one day I left it too long and burnt one of them out. Alas no brilliant blue glow though.
Well, her father did work there.

(Though, in his defense, not in a business unit related to their fraud)
Good that the feds are doing their due diligence.
Introducing the Swift Summary Book
As a proportion of taxpayers, how many would have that pattern? Should the tax system be optimised for that proportion?

And it's a no-win situation - how do you prove how long you've been working on a project? How outraged would people be to be back-taxed? After all, if you want to spread your taxes over previous years, you now need to pay more taxes for those previous years. And how do you differentiate between a 'lucky windfall' earner, and someone who has simply engaged in a lucrative new career (such as students moving into professional careers)?

The difference in marginal rates is noticeable, but not crippling, and this 'lucky windfall' pattern of earning is not very common.
That, and he had a fantastic eye for taste, he knew how things should look and behave: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Calculator_Constr...
I do see your point. But I think you are being too pedantic... By saying it's incompetence and "bad", the poster probably meant that the people at Amazon aren't doing a great job (in achieving whatever goals they want to achieve or we customers want them to achieve, in this case keeping the scammers out). Maybe the poster is just frustrated with Amazon not doing its job. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with egos in the sense that the people at Amazon are pathetic idiots that that we should scoff at or that we can indulge in a sense of superiority. It's simply about solving a problem.

Also, I don't think you were fully correct in saying that surprising is usually in reference to the ego. I think it's simply in reference to what you've seen before, what you are used to seeing, what you expect to see or would like to see. It's not necessarily ego-related. But yeah, having an open mind and not being limited by what you've seen is important. But I digress.
A summary of Apple's Swift language written on Playgrounds.

Apple's documentation is great for learning Swift, but who's got the time to read all that?

This summary cuts to the chase. It is directly written on the Playgrounds platform, which makes it very interactive. You can tinker around with it as much as you like!

Help this open-source project grow!
- Give a star on GitHub.
- Fork the Project
- Share it with the community

Thanks!
So if it doesn't work at one drop, if the Theranos sensing/sampling hardware is still good, then the fix would be to mix a large enough sample to present to the sensing system...
Then again, so do many suicide stories. Sometimes accepting failure is ok.
What if the thieves remove the battery because they're parting out the car?
Why stop there? Why not rate taxes against lifetime earnings? That'd be great for me - I was paid below average wage for most of my working life.
From an instinct perspective I definitely agree with you. Apple shouldn't be selling any computers that aren't retina, they're taking too long to get rid of the MacBook Air, the iPad line is too crowded, etc.

However, Apple isn't the same company that Steve Jobs returned to. Apple sells an astounding amount of devices today so it's only natural that their products vary more to address more of the market.
Discussion of the article earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514717
This makes italian cold fusion research doubly suspicious
you encode it back-to-front

i don't even

care

anymore.
i often wonder why "free downloads" often mean "PDF" while ePUB needs to be paid for... in my case, it is certainly less convenient to have a PDF because i use an e-reader, but everyone has tablets these days that read PDFs fine...
> And a since it's clear that people in this thread use the word in a way they believe to be benign, I think it's fairly accusatory.

Your either willfully rewriting history or deliberately unaware of the context of this thread.

This thread started because the author was referring to people harassing him as "crazies". It's not a benign usage.

It really sucks that people will go to such lengths to defend hatred.
Well you also seem to have skipped what that paper is taking about. For cell counts, yes, the stochasticity claim would be true for microliter scale volumes. For molecular constituents of blood, the claim cannot be true until you drop to the femtoliter range. I don't think the company was ever approved for cell counts, but I could be wrong.
The one drop tech is the only reason Theranos was ever talked about. We already have equipment that works very well with larger samples.
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I sense a voting ring...
If you don't want downvotes, put some text in your comment that is not nonsense-for-the-sake-of-nonsense.
print("Hello, WWDC!")
How is it at all related?
2025, a long way away? Are you fucking 10?
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It's interesting you say that (Adult in the Room), since my interactions with him were kind of the opposite. I don't mean that he was childish, but that saying evokes a feeling of tempering one's impulses in a way that he didn't seem interested in doing.

I met him at one company mixer and he was regaling us with many stories from Intuit's past. Someone asked him if he'd like another beer (he'd had a few already) and his response was, "I can't drink from an empty bottle." I also saw him do tequila shots with the head of our business unit on stage at a fireside chat they had. I don't mean to paint him as a lush, because that didn't seem like the case, but more to point out how genuine he was. With him, there was no concession to propriety. He did and said whatever he felt like doing or saying.

I can see why the companies he lead and advised tended to have great culture because I think the first step is for the leaders to be as warm/friendly and genuine as possible and Bill had those qualities in spades.
You're wrong; a single red blood cell is several femtoliters. To get a good statistical count of much more rare (yet important) features one can sample much, much more than this and still get anomalies from having too small a sample.

Here's [1] a cool graphic showing the tip of the iceberg.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reference_ranges_for_bloo...
The North Coast (San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino) is one of the most beautiful coastlines on the earth. In the coastal waters grows a forest of giant kelp--a necessary component of the rich and diverse ecosystem. Over the last couple of years, the ecosystem has reached some tipping point and the kelp forests are dying or dead. Something needs to be done!
I haven't played nethack 3.6, but you can beat nethack 3.4 routinely if you play it a lot. Yes, a standard run becomes easy when you know how to do it, and you seek greater challenges (conducts).
> That's what's happening now - you've got low quality viewing clubs scamming from everyone else.

I'm not referring to that. That's fraud, and it's entirely negative. I'm referring to subsidizing niche content. For example, niche channels[1] and the leeway for more esoteric work to attempt to define a new market. If you believe people always know exactly what they want, then this isn't needed. If you believe people sometimes don't know they like something until they've been exposed to it (and it may not exist without the ability for niche markets to form), then this subsidization of niche content may been a good thing.

Like most things, it's probably somewhere in the middle. Allowing for niche content is how we experiment, but subsidizing too much means that we have a very inefficient market. Put another way, sometimes it may worth it to decrease market efficiency for current options slightly to incentivize the creation of new options in the market.

1: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/23/471633490/episo...
For sure, everything he says should be taken with a grain of salt. I was just giving an example of a specific Greek who had some of the ideas the OP was requesting.
And that gehennom was boring. For two reasons, it was repetitive, and for the reason that you had already secured the win when you got there.
Duuuudes, chill out! I just rebuilt my bottom bracket the other day and forgot to grease it.
There's great creative power in not knowing what you don't know and trying out random things because you have yet to acquire the knowledge of how things are 'supposed' to be done. Knowledge is valuable but at the same time I am so over the mastery movement, which is as much about excluding people from the club by making them think they're never ready enough as it is about giving them to tools to succeed.

I started painting 3 months ago at age 45 while in the throes of a massive personal crisis, out of a purely selfish need to express myself emotionally rather than accommodate other people. Turns out that I'm good at it, have original ideas, and am already getting unlooked-for interest from other people in loaning or purchasing my artwork. It's not that I have some tremendous natural talent; I work hard at it and when I can't paint I study, plus I had years of self-development in other parts of the arts that allowed me to develop my own aesthetic philosophy. But frankly the most valuable factor underlying this unexpected productivity is an uncharacteristic Not Giving A Shit about other peoples' feelings. Giving myself permission to be a less nice person has been an enormous boon to creativity.
>The entire premise of the article, as far as I can tell

The premise of the article is that choice is good for workers, and urbanity fosters choice. Corporations creating isolated campuses removes choice and reduces quality of life.

>A building designed to keep everyone looking inward is better suited to a religious cult than to a creative organization.

That's not the intent of the design and the view is pretty much identical for both sides: trees. The point of the shape is to connect as much as possible while creating a secure courtyard. The closest path from one side of the building to another is outside.
By now I haven't heard anything of how they make or will make money. It's like nobody addresses that. I know a messaging app is not exceptionally expensive to run but still. Anybody has any hints?
> Someone out there needs to attack healthcare.

All the attacking that needs to be done is political/social, not technical. Want to attack healthcare? Strip middlemen out so that the money flows to providers and researchers (Single payer + pouring additional money into the NIH/NSF, with the results being public domain).

All of these YC startups I see "hacking" healthcare (Dr Chrono, HealthSherpa, etc) are just bandaids on a patient bleeding out from the jugular.

EDIT: Before you chime in to state that single payer can't be done, 58 countries [1] enable it just fine. Governments can be even more accountable than the current breed of private health insurance providers (I cannot replace the board at my insurance carrier, nor can I FOIA them).

If you want to "hack" healthcare and fix the problem, get involved in government and get single payer done.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_coverage_by_c...
> I've seen folks suggesting NetHack is not a good game, because it requires so much spoiling in order to be winnable.

In fact, there is one such person commenting here! To them, learning what can happen in the game is cheating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11523094

This makes all the sense, to me, of excoriating people who want to know the rules of chess before starting to play as "cheaters".
One metagame I enjoyed a lot was to puzzle out scrolls and potions. It requires a lot of spoiler knowledge, but it's still a puzzle.
No, I'm not wrong. You're talking about testing for cell counts, which is not -- as I understand it -- what this company was approved to do. For molecular and protein components of blood on the nanomolar range, you would not encounter this problem until you were sampling in the femtoliter regime. Just use Avogadro's number, and you'll get it.
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Suddenly, steroids don't seem so bad.
Geek utopia version: tech-savvy crims install a hidden faraday cage into the back of a nondescript vehicle transportation semi trailer. After observing the target for days, they cease the perfect opportunity to house the car onto 4 wheel dollies, load it into the trailer, and drive off with their ill-gotten booty, laughing maniacally. The poor owner is none the wiser until coming out from a fancy dinner with his trophy wife to find his treasured luxury vehicle missing.

Real life: dude in a hoodie presses a fake gun into the back of the owner, instructs him to not turn around or call the cops, takes his phone, wallet, and keys, drives off in car with real key. Has a buyer lined up already. Drives car to location and it's promptly put inside a shipping container, which blocks the cell / gps signals by virtue of being made out of steel.
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> shoveling dirt in a boiler room

> $18 an hour

born with a silver spoon in yer mouth, eh?
Are you trying to model metabolites as perfectly diffusing molecules with D^2 proportional to an idealized Stokes radius?
Can you add more to this?
The Theranos story is unfortunate due to the likelihood of fraud because the healthcare industry is in desperate need of disruption. Even if just from the periphery, which is how I would characterize Theranos' role, I think that could enable a change in how health care is done and delivered in the US.
I use StumpWM on all of my Linux machines and love it, but my opinion may be skewed because I switched to StumpWM after already using Emacs for a long time (over 10 years), and while starting to use Common Lisp for more and more of my personal projects. Before StumpWM I used FluxBox for a very long time.

I like that out of the box it's light weight and fast, and I keep mine that way.

The keyboard shortcuts are pretty easy to pick up, but I think being used to Emacs' C-x-... convention helps here because StumpWM works basically the same way but uses C-t-... instead. I personally use tmux (C-b-...), Emacs (C-x-...), and StumpWM (C-t-...) and occasionally use the wrong control sequence in the wrong window, but you get used to it after a while.

I like having the config files in Lisp, and it's nice to connect to StumpWM's REPL to execute configuration changes and have them take effect immediately. Other than that, I like the idea of being able to script it using Common Lisp, but TBH I have not taken advantage of that ability to any appreciable extent.

I've had a few annoyances due to (what I suspect) are general tiling WM issues. Popup and modal windows can be more annoying than usual, as can windows that expect to be exactly a certain size or layout. I think those issues can be worked around using various options and customization, but it hasn't bothered me enough to look into it.

Overall I've been very happy with it and recommend it to anybody who wants a lightweight, alternative WM.
I remember those books from my childhood too. Definitely helped foster my interest in electronics and programming, it's a shame that they are less common now than they used to be.

It was also great for father-son bonding, having him help my with the projects and teaching me how to solder.
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Personally, I don't really use StumpWM itself, I just use a window manager written in the programming language I know best -- and that just happens to be StumpWM. If my favourite language was Lua, I'd use AwesomeWM. If I could tolerate C for such a high-level application, I'd use dwm.
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I don't know about that. One is ruining your body to win and the other is just cheating.
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Anyone bought this?
Slightly off-topic tangent:

>I think knowing what the ascension kit contains doesn't necessarily break the fun or the challenge of the game. It just makes it possible to win (whereas, while flying blind, you probably won't win the game given a normal human life span and a normal working adult's amount of available free time and willingness to keep playing and experiencing YASD after YASD).

I didn't know what "YASD" meant so had to search it. Neat! I learned something new.

And on that same note, there is an entire game based entirely around YASD/YAAD! "I Wanna Be The Guy" a game about dying in a million different unpredictable and stupid ways combined with many ways to kill yourself through user error or forgetfulness.

I'm not sure if the completion of IWBTG is at all comparable with NetHack as I'm not too familiar with NetHack.
That van has been in production for the past twenty years, with few, if any, modifications to the internals. So nearly everything in that van would be very liquid to a chop shop. It may be a shitbox, but it's a long-lived shitbox, which makes it rather enticing.
A note to people who steal vechicles in San Francisco, and even the ones who break into vechicles.

I'm poor, and it seems like I have gotten my vechicle broken into too many times while parked in San Francisco. You broke a widow to steal a $20 radio. I now just keep my vechicle unlocked when I need to park in that city. Good luck finding the kill switch.

Now--my motorcycle is a bit of a problem. I can put a kill switch on it, but you guys are just lifting the bikes into big vans, and trucks. I've given up on motorcycle theft.

My main point is I don't care why you steal. I've done some things in like I'm not proud of. Have a little morality in your life of crime? Do you really need to break into poor people vechicles? Wouldn't you feel better if you thought more like Robin Hood?
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Lua ... AwesomeWM right?
For those who haven't picked up Art of Insight in Science and Engineering, table of contents here:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/free_dow...

"This book shows you how to build insight and understanding first, so that you do not drown in complexity. Therefore, our approach will not be rigorous -- for rigor easily becomes rigor mortis or paralysis by analysis"
That's... Amazing. Is the tool that was done in available?
This is the most mind-boggling cheating scandal ever. It jiggles my engineering nerves in place I didn't know was possible.
Project Wing
pypy only does python 2. Some people want to use the new features of python.
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>If I could tolerate C for such a high-level application, I'd use dwm.

I don't use dwm, but it sure is neat to have your config rolled into the executable itself.
Healthcare like almost every major enterprise vertical is a wicked problem[1] and these problems are pretty much rife with far more than just technical problems. Most of the VC founded ventures are honestly quite terrible at attacking the Fortune 100 that dominates these verticals including reasons like collusion as well as regulatory capture. A $10M+ series A seems like big money to a lot of the people in tech, in the enterprise space of the Fortune 100, that's a rounding error resolved by just firing one or two middle managers. I can hardly afford good sales guys covering all the regions for long enough of a sales cycle that I could confidently ever make a single deal on that alone - the enterprise approach to relationship-focused sales and procurement cycles forces the necessity of well-networked, very expensive sales people, unfortunately. That's the kind of slow-moving, massive capital flows that are at play, and there won't be any company that can attack that problem head on because it's not a technical problem whatsoever. Even worse, because these industries are capitalized heavily as public companies, their board of directors appoint super risk averse leaders culturally and will not move forward without finding a business model that will not cannibalize existing sales. Even still, if such a technology and business model existed, it is simply very, very easy to torpedo these efforts politically within these companies because these companies are already so profitable (think Hollywood-style accounting for a second, not tech company or even i-bank style simplistic accounting) they'd rather get rid of emerging competitors than to actually innovate. After all, in the health insurance space, as long as people (and, more importantly, companies) are paying premiums and subsidizing a sufficient number of costly patients that need care, there's little reason to really try to innovate in terms of technology there. That becomes something up to healthcare providers to try to work at, but they're typically courted by a very, very well capitalized and networked cartel of healthcare companies typically founded by doctors first, not technology people. Doctors may be smart oftentimes, but they're just not technology people fundamentally after decades of practicing medicine.

I agree that the problem must be attacked, but I have my doubts that it would come from a VC funded company in the same vein as most SV companies that have done so well. And as Theranos shows, I have my doubts that the highly kleptocratic cronyism driven private government contracting space will do it either. It may very well require a completely new model that incorporates the best ideas of both funding vehicles to avoid the common pitfalls of enterprise b2b companies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
> Gets $28000 from father to start with

Not a silver spoon perhaps, but not nothing.
Contacting servers is one thing, logging in is another. No authentication conversation needs to occur if the auth model is based on access tokens like generic OAuth flow.
I saw these guys demo the project at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, it was awesome.
Nth-ing pfSense. Straight-forward to configure, dead stable. Near-enterprise class features.
I wonder why WSJ went so aggressively against Theranos. (Not that I'm complaining.) Does anyone know the backstory there?
The point, though, is that things like proteins ARE bound up in individual cells, so there are a whole host of tests that will vary based on number of constituent cells. Hemoglobin is one of the examples in the paper.

When you say "I don't think the company was ever approved for cell counts" - well, the company wasn't ever really approved for anything besides a herpes test, that's the issue.
What makes cycling so particularly attractive to cheating? Or is cheating in cycling just getting more publicity than in other sports?
No, I'm talking quarter notes in 4/4 time here. Bass drum on one, snare drum on 3 and timekeeping hand playing on all four quarter notes.

In your "boom...bap...boom...bap", the ellipses are quarter-note rests. Listen to any simple rock tune, say, AC/DC's Back in Black. With BD == Bass Drum, SD == Snare Drum, HH == High Hat, what you get is:

Note | 1 2 3 4
-----|-----------------
HH | x x x x
BD | x
SD | x