skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OTOH you cannot switch employers. That is the most significant drawback IMO.
> I mean the much narrower point of not being able to tell -- from the press -- whether a company actually has a technology that works.

There have been empirical actions which resulted based on Theranos's errors, including FDA/SEC investigations and Walgreens revoking their partnership. Those aren't media spins.
The Internet of Stupid Things vs. The Internet of Useful Things
This comment taught me a word. Separately, you are completely correct and this is extremely valid in the design of rating systems.
You can use Charter's 6rd service to get a /64 tunnel at home. They're only rolling out IPv6 to fiber business customers right now. Friend who worked there said the last modem rollouts were so they could do step 1: management of modems over v6.

So it shouldn't be too far off, but you never know...
No, it takes longer to earn trust than distrust. A continued demonstration that facebook has the consumer's best interests in mind might earn trust, but a quick response to backlash doesn't mean all is forgiven. It is a step in the right direction, though.
Related question: Does a REST API make sense for an internal interface? Or is the overhead prohibitive compared to a more specialized interface?

(By internal interface I mean: an interface that is used only by the team that created it)
looks like it's starting to get some people. nice.
The FBI dropped law enforcement from their mission statement several years ago, and now considers their mission to be intelligence work only.
VM formats are easier to migrate than the actual software they run.

On the other hand this is a valid concern for containers.
Digital Ocean's API is nice.

https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/
oops. yah.
Thanks for the laugh!

Seriously, imagine the world collective savings on energy if everyone reduces their power consumption by small modest 5%.
Sounds like a 'more rope with which to hang yourself' proposition.
Theranos technology is more like typical startup tech. How many bugs did Facebook's feed algorithm suffer before it finally got stable? How many pages of sub-optimal search results has Google returned? How many major security bugs have been found in Windows, Chrome, Linux, etc?

Healthcare is one area where many people (particularly Americans) have the absurd idea that everything has to work perfectly.

Think of the level of indignation people feel when a surgeon who spent 15 years beyond college doing advanced training (for little pay) makes a small mistake that costs someone's life. Or an OB misjudges something and ends up in a major lawsuit.

But for other jobs, mistakes are a part of life. In software we are proud to decrease our bugs through testing and improved techniques and processes, but nobody expects perfection. Even mass market products like TurboTax ship with tons of bugs. Lawyers routinely let innocent people wind up in jail out of pure incompetence.

We need to get over it. Theranos is doing something very smart and while it needs some additional refinement, it is pretty clear that doing large scale blood testing/monitoring is the future of diagnostic medicine.

The irrationality we have about healthcare being perfect is a) false (mistakes get swept under the rug all the time) and b) counterproductive because it gives us a sense of mastery over our destiny that we simply do not (yet) have.

Let's also not forget that medicine is plagued by a very irrational risk aversion, which is why many useful treatments are available around the world but not in the US.
I like tumblr's api
Zero halliburton camera cases that can be used for this project start at about 400$ a small Pelican camera case is 50-60$....

Zero halliburton makes very nice (looking) primarily aluminum cases but they are not waterproof (IIRC ZH makes no waterproof luggage unlike Samsonite for example).

If you are designing your DYI rugged laptop around a ZH attache case you might as well buy a Panasonic ToughBook it would probably be cheaper than the case.

So I really don't know what james bond style activities you perform that left a Pelican case a smoking rubble but you don't want to compare a designer brand that sells Iphone cases for 100$ and laptop messenger bags for 300$ to a tool company like Pelican.
Even though the VM image and tooling may still be runnable, the world around it with which it must interact continues to evolve and can leave your software obsolete.
Out of curiosity, why is that many of the vulnerabilities that

appear in the news, walls of fame, and websites like HackerOne

are discovered by Indians? Is this just a coincidence? Or is

there a better explanation for this?
Physical lynching is relatively common in India. And online lynch mob is responsible for a few suicides in western countries as well.
This.

I've dealt with tax issues between GB and US. Long story short - it's hairy...get some professional advice.
> The FBI dropped law enforcement from their mission statement several years ago, and now considers their mission to be intelligence work only.

That's an interesting claim, but utterly untrue: "The mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners; and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive to the needs of the public and is faithful to the Constitution of the United States."

https://www.justice.gov/jmd/organization-mission-and-functio...
All non-Oculus hardware... aside from GearVR, Samsung's HMD.
It depends on your use case. Full conversational speech recognition can't adequately fit in memory on a mobile device, but smaller packages like PocketSphinx can. Kaldi, also mentioned in the comments, can serve various use cases, but again it's limited by the lexicon size. If we're talking Google or Siri-level, it's not fitting onto a device in the near future.
Xero. The docs are accurate and complete. The API is consistent. The API works as documented. The API is capable of everything the webapp does.

https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/api-overview/
I know about them both, but thanks anyway. I follow BV and Toby Schachman too on Twitter. (and Eve, Chris Granger, CDG Labs and also HARC). You are the first new one in a year or so.
Except his school days stuff did happen. He really did walk through villages singing Hitler Youth songs.

I post a link to his past because his present - leading a fascist party using fascist tactics - is so obvious it doesn't need linking.
It's a metaphor, not an equivalence. It doesn't even have to be in the same field, as long as the meaning is conveyed. Bit rot is an excellent metaphor, even though it's nothing like physical rot if you get pedantic about it.
Passive TCP/IP Geo-Location
> Healthcare is one area where many people (particularly Americans) have the absurd idea that everything has to work perfectly.

There's a line between not working perfectly and not working at all.
How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman
I've gotten to the point where I scoff at projects that expect me to install hours of crap and dependencies at specific versions and can't bother to encode it as a Dockerfile. Like, come on, you had to figure out how to get this installed, eventually you're going to have to do it again, why not document it with code (Dockerfile) and never do it again?

Ironically, just watched someone whine about open source projects using Docker for dev on the 19th and then praising Docker for basically the same thing on the 22nd. Docker isn't magic and no one says it is and people yelling against that strawman are just making themselves look ignorant.
"Bureaucracy, Greed, Idiotism to name a few. " which country doesn't have these enemies?

btw: it's Gerhard Schroder, not Kohl. ;o)
Especially by them.
They should all be using http://www.leadactivate.com/ - it takes an inbound email and then places an inbound call to a phone number or multiple phone numbers and then uses text to speech to notify the agent about the call.

Typically used for sales, but it reduces response times down to about 20 seconds for inbound emails and leads.
> The Go GC is constantly improving, and its performance in Go 1.6 and 1.7 is considered very good my most users.

Also true of Ruby or PHP. Which perform abysmally.

"Most users" needs aren't what we look for to define technical excellence - if anything, I most often see "most users" used to guide the compromising of technical standards.
Obligatory horrific Churchill quote: "I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
So the guy before me spouts a bigoted conspiracy theory, and i get downvoted? cool. Thanks HN!
What is OData? The website does a poor job of explaining it from a high level. The only discernible feature I see is adding "functions" to url's (ex: http://services.odata.org/V4/TripPinServiceRW/People("russel...)

I've seen "OData" mentioned here and there, but I've never understood the difference between OData and a classic REST API.
Right now, among all industrialized economies, there is a crisis happening as deindustrialization is taking place. This has fundamentally altered the assumptions of steady and stable middle class economic growth that was an anomaly mostly between the 1940s-1970s.

As a result, people are mad "at the system", what what we're seeing is political movements redirecting public anger at whatever target they wish. In the US, anger is being redirected at Mexicans, in the UK, apparently, it's Immigrants and Brussels.

But realistically, how is tinkering with trade or immigration policy going to fix the underlying issues that say, a retired Mill worker cares about? He's being told that regaining sovereignty, or stemming the immigrant flow will "make Britain great again", but there's no logical connection between A and B.

What's happening is, we seem to be coming apart at the seams. We are facing an economic transition period perhaps more important than the transition from agriculture to industrial economics, and it may leave vast numbers of people with no recourse, especially as more and more automation happens in the future.

There are policy changes we could make, like figuring out ways to tax automation productivity and supply a basic income for those displaced. We can argue over specific remedies.

But building a "wall", either a real one (Trump), or a virtual one (an isolationist Island), is not going to restore the former economic compact that the 65-and-over crowd grew up with.

I really see whats happening as quite exploitative of people's anger and fears. Our politicians are preying on our worst tribalist instincts peddling non-solutions in order to punish people and institutions who are not at fault.
sunk-cost fallacy.
You're the first person I've heard say that the metaphor doesn't make any sense; meanwhile, a lot of people regularly use it, which implies that it makes sense to them. You're welcome to not like the metaphor, but you don't really get to declare that it's objectively wrong… it's a metaphor.
Those facts are true, yes. I wouldn't characterize them as "Hellenisation" and "child of classical antiquity" is all. Koine Greek was the lingua franca at the time. It makes sense that the writing would be more accessible to the Greeks as well.

Why wasn't Christianity more popular among the Jewish people? The Bible has some theological answers to that question. I wouldn't consider a Greek heritage to Christianity to be a main cause of that though. Jesus and the apostles were all Jews, after all.
I would say that "online lynch mob" is not possible. There's a big difference between being consistently and doggedly harassed, and being physically murdered by a vicious mob.
One for one thing, another for another.
Software rots because everything does.
In a way, isn't this a form of make-work for software engineers? Plus, I'm not sure what is worse - having to remake things every 5 years or so slightly differently, or not having jobs.
They don't lose no matter what they do.

Them changing course should mean that they receive LESS backlash. But not no backlash.

Thus, their situation goes from "really terrible PR problem" to "moderately bad PR problem".

If they didn't want the PR problem, then they shouldn't have tried to screw over consumers in the first place.

Trust has been broken, and if they want that trust back they need to build it up over time by consistently making good decisions that don't hurt consumers.
not yet, but we'll be.
> The problem is that the EU should have remained the Common Market, instead of growing into a largely unaccountable, largely undemocratic, largely technocratic, ungainly nightmare.

Sure if you want to sell coal and steel to each other, then the original common market works. If you want to freely trade food, then the lack of product equivalence means it requires far more work and yes burocracy. The next level up is services which requires incredible effort and reams of regulation; ironically the UK has benefited from this more than most EU countries as it is a service oriented economy. The last WTO talks collapsed for a reason - trade deals for stuff that isn't a simple commodity are complex and difficult.
It is and it's a horrible thing to inflict on others. Innocent as well as guilty. It's savage. It's worse than ordinary murder --it has the imprimatur of the crowd (and the host society at large).

Yes it does happen with frequency in some places, yet it is a terrible reminder of how savage we humans can be to one another.
The easiest way to get a work visa to the US is to first get a job offer from a US tech company. Then all you need to do is get a TN visa from the border and you can work and live in the US. A TN visa has to be renewed every 3 years and does not get you American citizenship nor can you apply for it. To that you must get your employer (once you start working for them on your TN visa) to sponsor you for an H1-B visa. That is lottery based and if you are lucky enough to get one, then you can start your journey towards a green card (this may take up to 8 years).

In short, apply to jobs in the states and once you have an offer you can think about getting a visa. You don't need to worry about three citizenships. That is a long long process. The real challenge is finding a job.

Being a Canadian, the Toronto/Waterloo region as a multitude of job openings right now for CompSci grads.
Their top spokeswoman just resigned today:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Theranos-spokesw...
Seems like this would have been straight forward with a virtualenv?
Are we relying on BuzzFeed for serious journalism now?
The Turks and the English were brewing coffee in the 1600s. Could you point me to a source for Kyoto doing iced coffee in the 1600s?
Not when your bug can kill a person or damage his organs due to wrong medication give because of a wrong test result.

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/theranos-voids-two-years-of...

There is a reason Healthcare is regulated and required multiple degrees of testing before it can be released to the general public -- imagine every new "health startup" pushing new drugs and then saying they'll "fix a bug" when a couple of folks die. The comparison is immature.
> market cap of tech companies is usually rather based on NTM EBITDA

This is almost entirely false.

> 40% is a valid EBITDA margin for telcos

Uh what? I didn't state that 40% wasn't valid. I simply stated that gross margin != EBITDA.
Someone in HN yesterday was literally ranting about Polish sausage shops in London. I don't think they'll be happier with Indian restaurants...?
Your reasons are very similar to mine: http://akkartik.name/about.

A. Backwards compatibility considerations.

B. Churn in personnel.

C. Vestigial features.

Awesome! Comparing the two, I merged your 2 and 3 into a single reason, considering both as cases of environmental change. In its place I have a new one: changing personnel causing evaporation in system knowledge. Did you consider this? Now I think about it, maybe it overlaps with your 1 (my C).

So the final mapping is perhaps:

1 <-> B, C

2, 3 <-> A
I find that integrated tests in software projects go a long way to reducing rot. When something eventually invariably breaks due to some external factor, the test suite greatly reduces the time to identify and fix the problem.
> According to the polls

Let me stop you right there.
I can vouch for this. It really helped me when I was getting started with REST APIs.
And in fact there is freedom of movement between EU and EFTA (some exceptions apply to Liechtenstein).
If not for that one lady speaking up the story would have ended quite differently. Mobs are very scary. Still, if not for recognizing his customer he'd have gone through with the robbery and he did give the gun back to the murderers.

Strange how the claim of 'rape' apparently is what set off the crowd to lynch, but the murder apparently was not nearly seen as being as heavy.

Surreal how there are people smiling in that photograph with the corpses hanging.
I renounced my US citizenship
No, it's a recognition of the tragedy of the commons. If there is a super-entity that regulates the commons you get better results for every individual.

If each entity acts in their own self-interest — which nations very regularly do — then you get worse results for every individual.
Did you read the piece at all before posting?
Well... Otherwise we are basically shipping them more water from drought-stricken California, which isn't the greatest thing either:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26124989
-Early adopters take considerable risk when buying new hardware. If the market ends up crowning a different system king, your options are:
Accept that objectively/subjectively superior technology isn’t the only thing driving sales and adoption.
Or be a sore loser (which I’m not admonishing; VR tech is expensive) and complain loudly on message boards.

-I doubt that what Microsoft chooses to do with Xbox games in the future is due to regret or guilt about past decisions regarding exclusive content. Halo served them quite well at the height of the console wars.

-If I’m a dev making VR content and I am doing it to make a living, not just to make something cool to show my friends or as a fun project, my dream is that a VR hardware manufacturer pays a premium for exclusive rights. The hardware manufacturers can currently afford to pay more for exclusive content than they can hope to actually earn from the content, simply to drive hardware sales and platform adoption. I suspect it will be rough for developers, especially small teams, that are unable to negotiate exclusive deals. They will need to optimize and maintain their content for multiple platforms. And what can they hope to earn? <50,000 units in the wild, ~$25 per title Without an exclusive deal, it looks a lot like the movie industry. You either make a hit and do well, do really bad an move on, or worse, you do kind of okay, and then feel obligated to maintain the games and support the few that bought your game for the next few years.

-Exclusive content makes sense for many businesses. Doing it flawlessly, without causing potentially debilitating PR backlash is clearly easier said than done.
There's a theory that after war, the people want to make it never happen again. Then they get older and die, and the fourth or so generation lacks all of that experience or motivation, and so someone is bound to start a war because people don't learn from the past.

The EU itself is likely still very far from starting that war. China and its superiority complex seems much more likely if they can find someone willing to stand up to them. Or maybe Russia is going to overstep its boundaries for real sometime. Either way we're probably close to our 80 or so years of "Western" (relative) peace, certainly fear and populism are not helping to avoid that path.
Then it is a non-starter, right? If you are starting a company, then you do have controlling stake.
Freedom to Texas! Than we'll discuss Crimea.
There are also gas pipelines connecting Algeria to the EU. Is Algeria in Europe?
> A bureaucracy in Brussels is hardly necessary to enact simple pan-European tariff reductions.

The bureaucracy is likely a bit expansive, and not least it's much too centralized and appears remote to us in the remote countries. But a lot of bureaucracy is needed.

In order to trade in a single market you need single market laws, meaning basically a common (sub)set of rules for product safety, environmental regulation, building codes, ... Having free movement of people needs its own set of common laws. It looks expensive and bureaucratic to agree on the exact standards for everything, and the bureaucracy is very visible when it sits in some glass fort in Brussels.

What we must compare with is the massive bureaucracy of negotiating individual bilateral or block agreements between 20-something countries (and non-EU countries -- deals that can now often be negotiated for all EU countries at once). That is a massive apparatus that each country paid for before the single market.

> what globalism truly demands: a de facto European government, complete with dense regulatory and tax rules,

I smell sarcasm :)
A de facto government would be required for having a functioning common currency. The failure of the Euro is really a sign that the union wasn't enough of a state (with a government able to extract taxes, do massive emergency transactions of wealth from rich to poor countries, and with a central bank allowed as a lender of last resort). Because this doesn't exist the Euro can't be successful. The Euro itself is a failed idea. Even though the UK are outside the euro, the troubles of the Euro are likely to have been enough to make a difference in this referendum.
Love this!! Thanks for consolidating everything I use!
Buzzfeed's had good journalism for a while now. They've got quite a few articles that really go in depth on serious issues. Just because they're associated with clickbait doesn't mean their actual journalism isn't good.
It's absolutely noteworthy. As a person who creates apps, I love reading about these vulnerabilities. Not only does it make me ask "Did I do something like this?" but in general tends to shift my mind to be more security focused.
Capped Users Rejoice: Netflix to Soon Let Users Download Videos
I don't know what point you are trying to make, but Theranos is not some reality-bending exceptional case. You might say it's possible he is correct, but, yes, one can dismiss "There's nothing wrong with Theranos." There have been documented wrongs that nobody has tried to refute.
> "Bremainers tend to be better informed"

What a load of bollocks. The majority of people on both sides have been getting the bulk of their information from mainstream media, which is heavily biased towards a limited set of narratives. There's a fair amount of compelling information that has been omitted from or suppressed in the public debates.
Let's take it further - they can kill you because murder happens all the time.

The fallacy is strong with their reasoning...
>> _less than half_ the data package in 2016 from AT&T and Verizon as it would have bought you in 2012?

I pay the same price and I'm getting 6GB instead of a measly 2GB