skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're at the point where Theranos == failure, then "For every Facebook there are 10-100 Theranos" would be more accurate.
Most likely it triggered the flame war detector. (a good heuristic is # comments > # points)
I have used vim for many years.
I started using Atom and after giving it a couple of days, I have been using Atom exclusively for anything more than the one off script.
Sure, but the vast majority of the population on the US's eastern seaboard is living within a few feet of sea level -- the whole point of those cities being there is there proximity to sea trade routes.
> Thrun, who will remain as president and chairman of Udacity, said that he will continue to work full-time at Udacity, but he will take on a role focused on what he is passionate about—innovation.

Just personal interpretation whenever someone says he or she is focusing on innovation without too much information: "I am not sure what I want to do, I am going to pretend I know what I want to do with the company's money here."

What is innovation these days?
She dropped out of Stanford's chemical engineering program. Surely that should count for something!
That is a bit jarring, while pretty much anyone who practices the art of scientific inquiry could nominally call themselves a scientist (after all there is no explicit requirements) that she dropped out before even getting her BS degree makes it seem a bit more challenging to make that connection.

This is certainly going to be one of those things studied in business school, that is for certain.
One species of dolphin, specifically the long-finned pilot whale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-finned_pilot_whale#Physio...

It adds a wrinkle, but appears to be larger due to brain volume rather than density:

However, as neuron density in long-finned pilot whales is lower than that in humans, their higher cell number appears to be due to their larger brain. .... Our results underscore that correlations between cognitive performance and absolute neocortical neuron numbers across animal orders or classes are of limited value - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244864/

Which I take to mean we shouldn't rely on one indicator to explain the emergence of consciousness. It used to be thought that brain size dictated intelligence. Corvid tool is one challenge to that assumption. We shouldn't replace brain size with neuron size. It looks like evolution fleshed out multiple paths to achieving certain reasoning behaviors.
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I'd like to add Roger Labbe's free book "Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python" to the mix. Along with Thrun (which he cited to point me at), this is the resource that finally drove it home for me.

https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt...

For people wondering about application, one of the popular recent uses is for sensor fusion in virtual reality.
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"Flame war detector". Sounds like such a mechanism, number of comments > number of points, would have the same effect as a groupthink protector.
My wife and I use it as an excuse to clean up. We try to keep an active social life, as-is, so the place is generally clean-ish. But during especially busy weeks (or minor sickness, or random bouts of laziness and existential despair), the place can really fall apart.

So one of us will look around in disgust, invite someone over for dinner or drinks or something, and then politely pop in on the other, like "hey honey... I just invited [so-an-so], and they'll be here in an hour".

Suddenly, within 20-30 minutes, the place is spotless.
I've been working through the paper for almost two hours now. I'm not an expert on static analysis, so I don't know how much of the information in here is novel, but the paper does a great job of concisely conveying a lot of interesting ideas. His model for representing data exposures is beautiful in its simplicity, and I think it could almost trivially be adapted for dynamic analysis too.

Definitely worth a skim in my opinion.
I'm not sure "excited" is the right word. Some technology is going to break through the keyboard/mouse/touch barrier and bring us into more natural contact with all the data and processing power around us. It's almost certainly going to be based on language. What else is there? Gestures have been tried, as have custom "swiping" languages, but the momentum is shifting strongly toward natural language. So maybe not "excited" but definitely "fascinated."
After a 15-year career programming, I'm pretty sure the only sane way to handle timestamps is everything UTC server side, and let the UI convert to localtime on display.
A bit too cynical, I think. This kind of arrangement, where one of the cofounders steps down to let someone else run the company, is very very common. Especially when the person stepping down is more technical/scientific. Remember that Thrun used to be a professor and used to do/lead research at Google.
I disagree, I'd say it means there's too much day to day running of the org that their key people aren't able to focus on the longer term. That's pretty common.
While this is a shitty practice (and to be honest, I don't really expect better from most publishing companies), it does tell you on the second page that the price of 99 cents per week is for 4 weeks only.

I do think it's pretty normal for the consumer to say "okay well, if that's the price for 4 weeks only, what happens after that?". The fact that that is not made clear immediately is shady, but I'm not sure it's a true deception.
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You can keep going on the orders of magnitude. There are only 3 "Facebooks:" Facebook (market cap $318bn), Google ($504bn) and Amazon ($292bn).
Chatbots on irc and things like reddit (e.g. mirroring images or quoting a bible verse from the name, or getting info about a user),or twitter (eg the wolfram tweet a program bot, or the deep forger bot) can be convenient for some things, but I'm not particularly motivated to make any purchases with one, or do anything with one that requires registering, or anything that makes me think it profits by collecting information about me.
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This is weird, because half of the engineers I know with more than 10 years use an IDE with the most popular being IntelliJ.

Bootcamp people seem to mostly use Atom - which isn't really an IDE in my mind. In my opinion, a core feature of an IDE is static analysis.
I wonder what is hidden behind the phrase "the college partnerships failed".

I took some great courses on Udacity, Coursera, and edX back in the days when they regularly offered amazing comprehensive college courses for free.

They do still offer free courses. However, it seems that the atmosphere of free accessible education is somehow lost, with the advent of the "specializations" and "nanodegrees" and the like. Or maybe I just got older and more cynical, I'm not sure.
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Professor Thrun changed my life, I and many tens of thousands around the world graduated from his classes, gaining an education that would have been impossible for many of us.

I am forever in his debt for his tireless work as an educator and his work on SLAM & Self Driving Cars.

Being taught by practitioners at the cutting edge of research like Thrun, Norvig, Ng, & Hinton is the education I dreamed of. I hope that Udacity develops into a full research vehicle and offers its own qualifications, the UKs Open University is a good model for this.

His 2015 talk on democratising education is visionary, practical and disruptive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=898S7o9UnPA
If you got a free 32-bit version while while the terms were "shockingly liberal" then maybe those are the terms that govern the use of that binary? I don't know for sure.

I do know in addition to changing the license they have made changes to the software since that time. The size of the binary has increased.

I worry more about Kx being acquired by some large company, maybe a competing database vendor, that cares little about software quality.
Takeaway for future founders incorporating:

- Own a majority interest in your company.

- Be the company's chairman/woman and CEO.

- Issue dual-class shares ("supervoting shares") where class B shares carry many more votes than ordinary class A shares so the board can't pull a Steve Jobs on you.
"Flame war" detector does not imply "general disagreement" detector.
I like how Milligram operates... very 'clean'. Link for everyone else: https://milligram.github.io/
This exact data though?
They need to make money? We should be thankful they haven't resorted to advertising or selling our information.
> Did they find 23 flaws in popular and important Rails apps? Those applications have probably been tested extensively already, and new results are interesting. Random e-commerce applications buried in Github, less so.

Based on the paper, he performed two separate experiments.

For one of them, he chose the 50 most popular Rails projects on Github. Of these, 30 of them used a permission model that could be handled by his tools. The 23 flaws reported were among these 30 apps, with Diaspora being notable among those.

He also worked with a professor to test student submissions for an access-control assignment in a web development course at MIT. He uncovered security vulnerabilities in "over half of these projects" and "about half of those bugs were missed during manual grading."
Not sure about the source, but I would believe it. I wonder what the statistic is for all startup companies combined
I read through the comments on that story and I see a healthy and vibrant discussion, not a flame war that needs to be buried.
Have there been any new reports of kOS? It was supposed to be "impending" in 2014...

http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320
Do you think crime would not increase if punishment were reduced?

Fundamentally I think law enforcement is just one piece of the puzzle. Intrinsic factors (culture, biology, economics, psychology) also play a major role - all else held equal, the US is likely to be more violent than India (important exception being sexual violence). But law enforcement does matter - how else to explain how clean little India is in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur?

I'll certainly look at your studies.
$24mm annual run rate and 30% m/m revenue growth (2015) with a $1B valuation (2015)

Per the article...
I feel somewhat the same. I took a couple Udacity courses that were great and quite a few from Coursera. Coursera's free offerings are now partially gutted by restricting non-paying students from taking tests and submitting assignments.
Good luck with that :-) Is 20% time still a thing? There are mixed messages coming out of exit polls. The Reynolds company did this pretty well, they actually funded their smart execs and had them run the new business, and if it was successful the company had first right of refusal on purchasing it outright. That meant a payday for the employees who had just spent all their time nurturing their idea into a successful company. Sun on the other hand kind of tried to do this and if you were "successful" your idea became an official project and maybe you got a promotion maybe you just got to keep working on it. Very low risk (you wouldn't be burning your personal credit history to get the idea flying) but also very low reward if it became a thing. Needless to say that version didn't actually get much participation.
That's just sad. I guess I can understand the motivation, though that doesn't justify anything. It's becoming very difficult to monetize online newspapers, and they are forced to resort to such unethical practices to make ends meet.

Newspapers really have missed a trick or two in the transition to the internet.
100% shit-post. Move along, hackers. There's better shit-posts to read on this site.
Not particularly sure how that's particularly relevant here. This is an issue with Clang, AFAIUI.
Tl;dr: The Boston Globe website tries to get people to subscribe.

Also, the locution "dark patterns" in the headline is a weird term that is, frankly, more deceptive than anything the writer purports to reveal the Globe does.
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I should read the book.

That's fine, listen to Maria, but don't criticize me for asking valid questions, albeit somewhat bias.

It does not cost a minimum of 1 billion and 10 years of approval. The cost deconstruction of pharma trials is complicated.

As well, there's more to the dark/light side of pharma industry than generics companies. If you'd like to talk shop about it, email me.

I can share deep insights after talking to over 100+ people in the pharma industry, visiting labs, and much more.
They are not forced. It is a choice.
All that says is she was admitted to Stanford as an undergrad, and lasted there till she was 19. That alone doesn't make someone a scientist.
That's a really interesting point. And it certainly would be phenomenal if we could interact with computers using natural language.

At the same time, fascination doesn't necessarily make a person an active user of any particular product.
I've been here and on Reddit (I remember that exact post of yours on Reddit) for years and I've had the same realization after going over old threads. I think that while the quality and meanness haven't changed much here on HN, there has been a marked shift away from "hard tech" content. For example, the article posted the other day about suicide in Greenland wouldn't have been posted here years ago. It was an interesting read and a thought provoking discussion but it doesn't fall in the realm of hacker news.
Who would have guessed that the new online education revolution™, where effectiveness is measured in similar status/signaling games, would pander to the status quo?

That being said, there's an amazing wealth of knowledge on the internet completely free to consume not locked behind any particular walled garden awaiting those who dare step out of their comfort zones of consumption/absorption, but its not nicely packaged in the latest fad de jour… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This article makes the case Apple should have a dedicated Services division.

Pretty sure Eddy Cue runs a division called "Internet Software and Services" which is iCloud/Maps/Siri etc: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/eddy-cue.html

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I'm a rubyist.

I really think that we (rubyists) go for style points way too much. Side-effect of metaprogramming, and a younger-ish audience? Maybe.
>Ms. Holmes, a 32-year-old Stanford University dropout, owns a majority interest in Theranos, a privately held company she founded in 2003.

So she was 19 years old when she founded the company? What was the product back then?
i would argue that even by removing EH from the CEO role of T would not save T as:

1) its core technology is basically non-existed, non-proven, non-peer-reviewed and was never fully covered by its 20 or 30 something non-core patents. it seems its core tech is all inside EH's head.

2) their company machinery is not healthy enough that "could be run by a monkey" (quoting warren buffett, no offense to any one). even some guy hired by EH for their biochem had to killed himself.

3) EH is the only hub node for the vast politicians on its board and its political network.
What? Trucks do have a bounded capacity. A truck cannot carry more than x kgs of packages or y liters of volume. Are you arguing against that?

If Amazon had asked for a single truck from UPS at 5 PM from warehouse A (the number of trucks ordered is a business decision), it can only allocate x kgs of packages or y liters of volume to that resource.

Edit: Just to clarify, the number of trucks may often be decided waaay in advance.
Could anything she's done in the last 13 years qualify her as a scientist? What does it take to be one?
I use IntelliJ. The biggest reason is because static analysis is a core feature. This core feature is a huge time saver when dealing with a large codebase.

* Visual highlighting for mistyping an import statement

* Code hints

* One-click navigation to where a method is defined

* Easy refactor

To illustrate what a time saver this is, it seems weekly some other engineer ask me to help them troubleshoot code that just isn't working. They've spent hours trying to troubleshoot it. I've not worked on this particularly code, in fact they have been working in the codebase twice as long as I have so they should know more than I.

We have the meeting where for the first few minutes I look at the code on their computer in VIM. I then load up their branch in IntelliJ. Quarter of the time we see a red squiggly line indicating a typo of some sort. Then the rest of the time, I'm able to navigate through several layers of code to find what is going on underneath in a matter of minutes.
> So she was 19 years old when she founded the company? What was the product back then?

What the product is now.

I don't know her personally, but from what I've gathered she's always had a very well-to-do network via her Father (?). Probably helped a bit.
More on application: Historically, KFs are used extensively for sensor fusion in the aviation industry. Aircraft (and missiles) use internal gyroscopes(INUs) for navigation in association with GPS. The INUs are prone to drifting and corrected with Kalman Filter estimated real time drift errors. These error rates are computed while GPS information is available and continue to be corrected in the case of GPS loss.
I recently used Milligram for the first time and was very disappointed that the grids were not responsive. Seems like a real miss in an otherwise completely solid framework.
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I think the point is that it should behave predictably (but of course give you random data). Behavior is a "larger" concept than just what kind of data you get from a thing.
WSJ only allows cancellation by phone as well
This one is a little harder for me to believe, since wonderbread has some pretty dramatic quality differences from local bread. They compete, but they don't compete directly and there's a significant chunk of people who would never buy wonderbread even if it was free.
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"Non-peer-reviewed"? This is a private company with proprietary technology, not the New England Journal of Medicine. Proprietary and peer-reviewed are oxymoronic in this context.
The fact a board of politicians shows "complete confidence" of EH as a founder, scientist and administrator means one thing. And that one thing isn't good, unless you're on that board.

I feel bad for anyone that got roped into this mess and tried to do right by it. That person(s) exist, and when this sideshow completes itself, they're looking at a sweet 60 Minutes segment that I'll gladly make some popcorn for.
A couple things:

1) This is a two-sided market problem. In order for a two-sided market to succeed, you need to jump-start it with either a bunch of chickens or a bunch of eggs. See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html

2) It takes time and effort for someone to package up a task such that a total novice to the project can pick it up and work on it.
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I think the descriptor is fairly accurate these are Dark, but not really outright dishonest. They do a lot to funnel you in, which I think is understandable but it was tougher to get past the huge red price that did say billed today, but not what the increased price would be. That and the cancellation.

When I was in my first year Econ 101 class I remember the professor telling a story which IIRC was about SF Bus Companies. We were talking about price elasticity and general market pricing mechanisms and doing price curves. The story was essentially that the bus company brought in consultants who evaluated why the company was losing money after it had raised rates. It was a no-brainer of course, that if you sell 5,000 rides a day (made up number) that if you raised prices from 1.00 to 1.10 you would make 10% more.

It turned out, that the company was doing rather poorly after raising rates but critically, they were even priced too high at 1.00. 20,000 people would ride the bus for $0.75 and have less impact on the marginal price as the busses were heavily underused.

The point is that it is possible, I would say likely but I have no data, that a subscription for the Boston Globe might attract 5,000 people at current price(made up number), but like above if they charged $0.99 a month, they could feasibly have 20000-200,000 customers in a biz with virtually 0 marginal cost, and profit tied directly to subscriber size(ads which I assume they show to even paying subscribers after reading the article).

Newspapers are super elastic, and that price curve probably falls steeply after $1.00 a month.
She really likes chemicals!
That site is bollocks. "But it's slow and blocks!" is not a reason to use a real entropy source.
The issue here is that going through a professional institution is the difference between being a 'self taught amateur' and a 'well studied professional'. Even if both people are equally capable, the one with the paperwork is going to have a far easier time getting a job through traditional channels.

Even if you plan on being an entrepreneur, your first media coverage is either going to say 'the Harvard graduate' or 'the self taught .. '. So it's an indicator even then. For Apple and Microsoft, 'college dropout' featured in nearly every early article. It became something of a compliment after a bit though and helped them stand out somehow. Nothing is ever simple, but just being accepted is probably enough even if you don't finish.
I, for one, won't be mourning their disappearance from the face of this planet. It's long overdue in my opinion.
Most Slack integrations are essentially first-generation chatbots (parsed and tokenised text input linked to a finite state machine to actually do things), and they're hugely popular among users. I see Microsoft and Facebook's moves as bringing those things to a wider audience - instead of telling Hubot to deploy some code using Slack we'll tell a brand we've bought something from that an order has been delayed using Facebook.

People already seem to prefer to interact with a brand using Twitter than the phone. There's no reason why many Twitter interactions need a human being behind them.

Chatbots are essentially Blade Runner for customer relations. Sort of.
If the machine truly has little entropy to start, it might have trouble establishing a secure TLS connection to the remote source.

That said, here is my little "wwwrand" script, that assumes Google News will return unpredictable and unrepeatable content. You could also throttle curl using --limit-rate to generate more interrupts for strace to log.

nice -n 19 strace -CTiv -ttt curl -LNv https://news.google.com 2>&1 | shasum -a 512
Whenever I get web overlay spam trying to get me to sign up for even more spam, I run whois and enter their domain contact address.
Here's the really big kicker that hits me in the face as I look at the leadership team of Theranos.

It's a descriptive statement about the company:

Nobody on Theranos's board has a pharma, hematology, research, or diagnostics background related to the line of business of Theranos.

This makes it that much more difficult to get the bottom of what they've innovated, if anything at all.
Yeah running a business is a complete different story.
Only "official" per MW, but,

> a person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.

Would she be able to test out of all her BA requirements from Stanford with what she's learned?
If you, as a kid, broke a window in your school, and the principal is, like, "Look, we've seen the surveillance video and we know who did it, but we ain't saying anything until next friday", you'll know for sure you have until friday to lawyer up or skip town or whatever kids do.