skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how does that logic follow

i feel fairly confident that anything you do on a chalk board i can do on a computer, unless you can offer an example of what you mean by 'cannot be visualized with modern technology '

also, my comment spoke directly of what i think you are referring to in using the word 'exposition'.. perhaps you meant 'extempore'?

why does the academic system think, assume, require andor expect their professors to be good public communicators?
> Positional tracking is a really challenging problem with a lot of limitations. If they were using computer vision to track the controller it would need to be held within the device's FOV ...

First, I think positional tracking of the person within his/her environment is one of the main things that makes the difference between VR and AR. So there's value in that. If you can do it with computer vision maybe it can work in almost any environment.

Second, there are RF based positional tracking systems. They're more expensive, true (not if you can design chips yourself, so might even be cheaper for google), but you don't need the controller to have visible elements.

Third, hand tracking like this should be able to work usefully, shouldn't it ? I know it doesn't do distance, but ... Just hang it off the viewer pointing downwards with a large volume immediately in front of the user. Not great for gaming probably, but for a virtual keyboard it should work, no ? http://www.ctxtechnologies.com/products/vk-200-keyfob-virtua...
Can someone put this into perspective...how often are there major recalls or calibration issues at other, more established labs and testing companies?

Certainly, not trying to defend Theranos, just trying to understand how bad this really is. Because it sounds pretty horrible...
I still believe in the idea of Theranos and while I think it is great the Ev Williams was able to secure funding 2 more times to keep rebuilding different versions of blogger[0], I want to live in a world where we also take huge gambles on hard problems. If we adhere to VC math (we should as this hypothetical is for VC investing) one of these payouts will be well worth it, e.g. Tesla/SpaceX. So yeah, I'd write down uBeam & Theranos, but you can fuck off if you want the world to stop investing in big ideas.

[0]twitter.com, medium.com

edit: Also, we can assume it isn't physically impossible to use smaller amounts of blood to perform tests. So yeah, it was super obvious from the beginning some immigrant who happened to be in the right place at the right time and make some money at the height of the DOTCOM era working in software couldn't build a sustainable rocket program that rivals that of 1st world nations. So it wasn't obvious, and the next big innovation won't be obvious, and if you think it is you are either building it or just straight up wrong.
is there an easy-to-look-at link to the code?
It turns out that there's a long-established financial mechanism for paying upfront for something when you'll get the income to pay for it later--bonds. Major capital projects (such as building new schools) are usually financed via bonds, so timelines aren't that much of an issue.
A lot of people who isolate themselves can be perfectly normal and it can be a valid solution to the source of their stress. Deep thinking, introspection and creativity thrives without interruption.

It depends on the individual.
counterpoint: I haven't really heard of any "javascript escaping the container" bugs in a really long time (excepting node.js-related issues)
That's an interesting question and something I hadn't thought about. I think the biggest motivation for going off-grid is the relatively cleaner outcome. I.e. the control over the source/production (e.g. solar vs coal). So overall my guess is that the intent isn't to operate independent nodes but moreover to have control over the way the electricity is produced.
This is what happens when you try a Minimum Viable Product in healthcare and aren't up-front about slower than expected R&D progress.
The way you put it, it sounds like you can do what ever you'd like so long as you come up with something a little extra.

Are there sample "this is what a thesis for a PhD should look like" papers? Where is the standardization?
They could have just failed. Never produced a technology. Wasted a bunch of money and all would be fine. But messing up medical tests while you are "figuring it out" is unacceptable.
She has certainly already been able to divert to herself a good chunk of her investors' money. And it's unlikely that she will ever have to face personal consequences for her decisions.

Maybe she will run for president in a few years. She certainly has what it takes for a successful political career.
What about big ideas that hurt people?
Mounting sockets as volumes no longer works. This broke a few things I was doing with sibling builds (-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock)
So... Taiwan?
To the advantage of society, Google's value also lies in not alienating people to the point that they shun its products and services.

Google cannot sell advertising based on my eyeballs if I won't use Google Search, block ads, avoid Google Maps, and download video via yt-download vs. watching it on the far-less-convenient YouTube website or application.

Google have lost me to search, and several other products, for precisely this reason. I don't know the segment of the population I represent, but it is a segment.

A US Department of Commerce survey release this past week reveals that 20% of the population consciously avoids online activities already due to privacy and surveillance concerns. This isn't fully attributable to concerns over Google (and that almost certainly poses a subset of those dissuaded), but it is a surprisingly large effect of privacy concerns.

The trust factor you mention is a huge one. Cognizability is a wonderful word I've run across recently (from William Stanley Jevons' discussion of money). It refers to the ability to instantly and unambiguously recognise a characteristic or trait. Electronic devices lack cognizability of privacy.

Glass didn't do so well as I recall.
Yeah, I didn't see anything about SEC in there.

That page also quotes a California Superior Court opinion that found the term was a "piece of legal flotsam which should be emphatically abandoned". The same opinion also found:

> The origin of the use of "Chinese Wall" in the context of confidentiality is unclear. Evidently, the term was casually coined in some appellate opinion, then picked up and used without question or explanation by courts and commentators.

Can you point to an SEC regulation, or other law, that refers to a Chinese Wall? Like, is there a more specific, technical definition? Wikipedia refers to Chinese wall departments in companies; do you know where to find more information about them? Perhaps links to their enforcement and compliance documents?
For wider browser support I've always relied on LABjs. It's been around for ages and has to be among the most stable JS libraries out there despite having to deal with all those browser quirks.

http://labjs.com/
Woah. That's an awesome problem you've chosen to tackle. Can't wait to check this out properly.
Yes, absolutely, nodes set their own rates. I've tried my best to keep economic decisions local. Nodes that steal the credit payment can be detected: And an algorithm can and will be built that detects it, and subsequently sends it's business elsewhere.
It's interesting that the article says the biggest foreign buyers of US real estate used to be Canadians. I bet a sizable portion of the Canadian buyers are in fact Canadian Chinese (also HK and Taiwan) who immigrated there in the late 1990s. Having lived in Vancouver, I've seen my family's house quadruple in price from 2005 to 2010. Now that Canadian immigration laws have become more restrictive, Chinese immigrants are using EB-5 to come to the US and settle in places like the Bay Area and LA. This is why I think the Bay Area real estate market still has room to grow and the entire US real estate market will experience a sustained recovery in the next 5-10 years.
It needs to be more than 'a little extra'. It needs to advance the state of the art. It needs to have a new idea in it. It can't just be a better implementation of something we already know how to do.

There is no standardisation. The level you are assessed against is set by your examiner.

Don't focus on the thesis or the software - those are just ways to express your novel idea, which is what is being assessed.

But yes you can do whatever you want, as long as you have a good idea and can show it works.
I use suggested responses on Inbox all the time. People tend to send lots of email that only needs a one line response, and the suggested responses of "Thanks for confirming", "That time works for me", etc. are perfect.

Likewise in social messaging apps there are a lot of "transactional" style conversations where you need to confirm receiving the text message with some expected response. In an instant messaging program these bot suggested responses will work fine for all the one line responses like "cya soon!", "looking forward to it!" , and even "I love you too!"

If anything bot suggested responses mean that the longer form less vanilla text messages you type out are more meaningful. It will encourage people to send stuff that isn't so basic and trivial that a bot can form an adequate response.
Audit Finds 'Hostile Probes,' Breaches of Weather Satellite System
Hiring a lawyer would imply less than maximum naiveté.
Interview with Kees Verruijt of CANboat
Being open source or closed source doesn't make code more secure. What make code more secure is making it more secure. Have you audited the code?
I'm a lot more skeptical than you. She could face fines, even worse PR than now, and jail time. I don't think she'd be successful running for office after her funded company tanked because it misled everybody about their ostensibly revolutionary technology for a decade.
This is an Epic Fuck Up that will be discussed for decades in legal, technology, VC, and startup circles. It makes it effectively impossible for a non-established player to innovate in the space for at least 5 years. Additional regulations will hinder innovation for far longer. People will go to jail.
As others have pointed out voltage drop is a significant problem with low voltage systems. #24 is 84 ohms per km, or 0.084 ohms per metre. Say the system is running at 13.4 V and the loads will work on as little as 11.5V before they brown out, that means we can have 13.4-11.5V voltage drop = 1.9V voltage drop. ohms law V=IR so for 3.5A and 1.9V R=0.54 ohms total resistance, and at .084 ohms per metre we can transmit 3.5A 6.46 metres before the voltage drop will be unacceptable.

You could charge a phone, but even my small laptop chargers are over 60W. The big ones are 90W.

Also don't try this in your house! pushing 3.5A through that little pinner wire it could get hot and start a fire.
there definitely are recalls and calibration issues all the time. But this is very bad, possibly a fatal blow for the company.
Honestly, I just used mine for gift/loyalty cards. Never loaded a real credit card to it.
Philadelphia allows any individual member of city council to veto any construction project for any reason[1]; it's called "councilmanic prerogative", and it is unsurprisingly linked to a number of corruption cases as well as some very murky cases of political retribution[2].

[1] https://www.seventy.org/publications/2012/01/04/councilmanic...
[2] http://www.phillymag.com/citified/2016/05/09/kenyatta-johnso...
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From the article:

“There have been massive recalls of single tests in the past, but I’m not aware of one where a company recalled the entirety of the results from its testing platform,” said Geoffrey Baird, associate professor in the department of laboratory medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. “I believe that’s unprecedented.”

Based on my ~10 years experience in device/diagnostic industry, I concur with this assessment. I don't think anything at this scale has ever happened. There are only two reasons a diagnostic company would issue such a sweeping retraction of test results:

- The product just plain doesn't work

- The administration of the product (lab procedures, etc) was so shoddy that accuracy can't be guaranteed.

Either of those conclusions is damning. Generally a company tries to limit the scope of the damage, either by scoping for type of test, i.e. "Oh well Edison is fine, but this this particular test (say cholesterol) is failing. The other tests are fine though" or scoping for time "We had some poor lab procedures from September thru December but we cleaned house and we're all better now". The WSJ report implies they did neither.
An aside: doctors shouldn't be discussing people's test results, even if they anonymize and/or aggregate the patient data, without previously receiving consent, and even then I don't think it's really wise to provide quotes like this to reporters.
I don't have first hand experience - but in the US you'd be able to enroll into part-time undergrad via community colleges immediately.
Yes!

Most Ethereum contracts aimed at public consumption are published at ethereum chain viewers. I like etherscan: this is the DAO's contract
https://etherscan.io/address/0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d...
> I'm amazed that people still feel this level of paranoia about stuff, when they have a clear option: do not use the product

People say that about stuff like Googlemail and Facebook. "Don't use it", except that doesn't always help when friends use it, and feed it with info about you as well. But hey, your fault for liking people who use Facebook or something. Now you can simply choose to not be friends with people who put this "home product" in their home, right? Or you can wear a disguise and talk with a false voice when visiting them, or ask them to turn it off whenever you're over. It's all voluntary, so no biggie.

At what point will all these small things combine into one big "You don't have to read or write anything, or communicate with any other person, or buy anything, or ever leave your house"? That's not even a slippery slope in my mind, more like taking 15 points which are in a straight line and extrapolating the line further. So when you talk of "this level of paranoia", I'd say the flipside of that is considering your stance a certain "level of apathy and/or short-sightedness".
Time Warner CEO leaves with $92M severance package after 2.5 years
The article says 2/3 of the power bill was network connection cost.
Hahaha, whoops. What a typo...

I fixed it now. Thanks
Your math is off. At $13.338/hour you're looking at just shy of 10 grand per month ($9763 for a month of 30.5 days.)

It looks like one of these bad boys would set you back about $40000. So you'd break even at 4 months. If you're going to go for the 3 year reserved instance, with $100K upfront, you'd be way better off on capex and opex just buying and colocating the thing (not considering other expenses.)

The bigger you grow the more the balance tips towards do it yourself because your costs for colocation, managing hardware, etc amortize out better with scale. AWS gets a little better with scale but not nearly as quickly.
I lived in San Jose back when poor people could afford to live as far north as Redwood City. My elementary school (Stonegate) had portables back then.
Minus the massive downtime that just occurred recently. https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007

Not implying that AWS hasn't had them. It's just that adopting GCE this early makes you a bit of a guinea pig because GCE isn't used internally at Google.
Ironically Holmes might end up getting her wish about all Lab Developed Tests (LDTs) needing to go through FDA approval in addition to CLIA certification, which cover the operation of a lab, not the design and validation of the machines in the lab.
Respect you putting up.

#1 Original. More importantly, I like it :) Game theory meets ideology. I reckon that an multi-agent based simulation model with enough features could test your hypothesis. I think sociology will get there in about a decade. If you do this now you'll revolutionise a part of the field.

#2 Not original. Epistemological theories have this covered. Also, you're blurring or at least not making distinct different kinds of knowing. Check out phenomenology as well. Check out cognitive neuroscience. I know these are huge areas but you seriously think nobody has thought about this following on from McCullogh-Pitts? There's knowing how versus knowing that for a start. There's knowing facts versus intuitions. Inductive reasoning has been studied. Intuitionism is a thing.

#3 Not original. Cybernetics has this covered. Also, Your steps are far far far too general.
Twitter's product is significantly less complex than Facebook's. A 1:1 comparison of engineering compensation proportions isn't very relevant.

Additionally, it's not like 100% of their MAU problems can be solved from engineering -- there are significant gains to be made from Marketing, and they can certainly leverage their current engineering talent (which is substantial) to work on product feature tweaks which will generate more stickiness.
It also doesn't look good when you fail this hard without a credited scientist on your board.

And the one who was took his life, and reportedly told his wife "nothing's working."
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That's par for the finance world. They will sell you shit with a smile as long as it pays commission even though they would never touch it (or are even short it).
I guess I was hoping that it was a bit of hyperbole on WSJ's part. Sounds like Theranos truly fucked up.
Yes. Typically devices can tolerate a voltage drop of about 3%. With that resistance, a 1A load can only go 22.5 ft from the source. Considering you might have to run up a wall, across the ceiling and down another wall, you might not even get to the opposite side of a room.
I would suggest a Bayesian decision-theory test of mean profitability: http://www.gwern.net/Candy%20Japan (Negative, so the decision is to use the old box.)
Got any loyalty cards or gift cards? That's what I used mine for.
> You can sue a doctor, you can't sue a bot.

But you can sue the company that made the bot, and the company that employed it. With humans the employer can often dump responsibility on the "fall guy" who made the mistake, while with bots you often have to (properly) consider any failure as a system problem.
>>industry average bugs per 1000 lines of code at 15-50 and Microsoft released code at 0.5 per 1000, and 0(!) defects in 500,000 lines of code for NASA

Does anybody know how useful this metric is?

I have read NASA uses C, C++, Java and Ada, of which the last three have a lot boilerplate. Heavily commented C can be verbose too. I realize there is probably a lot of review, commenting and redundancy built-in, and that adds to the overall LOC too.

An MS bug might mean Excel crashes, or a bad business decision is made, unless somebody is using MS software for more critical end points. With NASA, it can be guidance systems, and other low-level routines running in radiation-hardened electronics.

Rosetta lander used Forth onboard, so there were probably a lot fewer LOC to make mistakes in. Just one way to approach bug-free programming vs. ADA's or Java's verbosity and checks.

I write J code, so one error usually amounts to 1 in 5 or 10 LOC ;) But then again, I can see all my code in one glance, and I program iteratively in the REPL.
So, essentially, it's just easier to get in and out of the hellhole.
Um, no. I work with individuals and people in my community to help others. Most issues that people really need help with don't need money so much as someone who will listen to them. That's the essential beginning point. How would it help to involve the government?
Other concepts to discuss:
> API versioning, perhaps in Services DSL, and toolset to enable factories and testing more easily against multiple versions
> Modular 'apps' from singular codebase: could single Rails codebase support multiple individual apps / services, consolidate onto single CI > deploy path, simplify / automate hot updating. Perhaps overly ambitious...

Great ideas in your article.
20% -- I hope it's that high. That's a high enough number to get peoples' attention and challenge the prevailing meme of "nobody cares about privacy or security."

(Privacy IS security. There's not really a distinction.)
This is exactly why you leave biotech to PhD founders and not to undergrad dropouts. I remember my professor used to take pride in failing premed students because she thinks it will save lives!
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Idk to be honest. I have been able to morally justify using electricity, nuclear energy, certainly all of the "modern medicine" I enjoy at other people from histories expense, ect.
We built this in a day including the icon. My doctor recommended the 20-20-20 rule, which says those who work long hours in front of a bright screen should look at least 20 feet away every 20 minutes for 20 seconds.
Bill Gates is into biology because (A) he's curious and (B) his foundation pursues innovations in diverse fields all of which are not software. I don't know if he writes his own copy or not but I appreciate these reviews and TIL Nick Lane's books sound awesome and I did not know that before.

Also, for you to win it is not necessary for others to fail :)
Nope, this is a big deal. Carreyrou's been pretty even-handed throughout his reporting. Hard-hitting, but he's not telegraphed an agenda other than trying to figure out if there's anything really behind this company or if it's all a massive fraud.
External memory kills your power budget. Efficient processors, whether they be GPUs, cpus, or asics all gain efficiencies by keeping data local to computation. Having your chip focused on off chip data is difficult to optimize power for if you don't have compute bound problems.
We launched AngularFire2 into beta at ng-conf earlier this month:

https://github.com/angular/angularfire2
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Did you ask what traits were on offer? What do you think it would have taken for you to taken the offer?
Call it research and just say we're not launching a product until we figure this out, even if it costs us a hundred mil. That is OK. Minimum Viable Producting your way in a space like this is NOT OK.

That is where they effed up and that is why she is liable. Imagine a car manufacturer falsifying information about a faulty brake in a new line of cars.

uBeam's only crime is hyping their half-baked product tooo much.
If you're dead, what's to own? If anyone takes specific exemption to it they could opt out - but for everyone else we address a legitimate public concern (lack of organs for donation) by accessing an otherwise wasted resource.

And it's not like this is a readily producible resource - people die on organ transfer lists precisely because other avenues of acquisition can't meet the necessary levels. It's a question of priority IMO, maybe not philosophically ideal but in a cooperative society compromise can save many lives.
Only if the person actually plants a tree for every fire they burn. Even then, that does not offset the ash and other chemicals in the thick smoke ejected into the air that causes huge pollution problems at any scale.
I thought of the SoftCell song immediately when I saw this headline. "Tainted Drugs, woo oh oh"

That said, I have often thought there was a link between cocaine use and early parkinsons. Its interesting to see that bad opiates can also cause similar symptoms.
The analysis is likely correct. But the will of the people is not always right and sometimes law is at its best when it protects you from the will of the people. This may be just so, in which case I applaud the insight and, perhaps, bravery of the legislature for doing the right thing.
same...would love to sign up to play around with this