skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how long she will be able to hold the CEO position?
That would be up to the browser's context menu functionality, wouldn't it? I really don't know, but if so, a sub-menu item (or whatever the links are called below the post title) would be sufficient for me.
You seem to be saying that C & Fortran aren't
a) Fast
b) suitable for developing strategies.

...Now I've never used Fortran myself.... but none of those arguments seem to stack up.
Interesting: it looks to switch out the value for the href on mouse down...
> "I'll end my participation in this convo here, though"

Perhaps I'm oversensitive, but when people do this it usually strikes me as a presumptuous attempt to seize the last word in an argument. There's no need to announce that one's participation is ending; one can simply end it. I don't want to end mine, because your comments raise points that have been on my mind lately about this community.

> "the usual HN nonsense"

> "nonsense which is so prevalent here"

These fall under the trope of 'dissing the community while being part of it'. There's something unbecoming about that. It feels like a status move, a way of putting oneself above others. If you're commenting here, you're as much part of the community as anyone else is.

People post such supercilious putdowns of the community all the time and have done for years, but it has slowly dawned on me that it's a kind of vandalism—like smashing windows in a neighborhood—that subliminally communicates that no one much cares about this place. (Yes I buy the Broken Windows Theory.) Somebody needs to stand up for the opposite position: that this is a community worth making better, not a swimming pool to pee in. I guess that makes it my job to do.

I'm sure you wouldn't smash windows, pee in a pool, or throw litter out the car window, so please don't do their online forum equivalents here. (When I say 'you', I don't just mean you personally, I mean all of us in your position, which is almost everyone here, including me.)

> deserves to be smacked down

No one could agree with you more strongly than I about the badness of being shallowly dismissive of others' work, and how important it is to have a culture of resisting that. But the sad fact is, there are worse layers than that in the layer cake of incivility—and if you go around smacking others down, you're doing one of them. That's incongruent with your case that people should be more considerate of others, much as it would be to point out how someone's manners need improving by socking them.
HN is currently one of the few sites where Privacy Badger [0] and Ghostery [1] tell you that there are no trackers.

Don't change it, please.

[0] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

[1] https://www.ghostery.com/
"Flying steak" you just made my night. In Chinese cuisine, there is definitely still goose served but my recollection of it is as a very fatty bird, even more so than duck.
El bebé ballena que movilizó a todo un pueblo de México – Cubadebate
There is a massive, recent hayfever problem in Japan because cedar trees planted to be used for timber after WWII weren't as construction methods changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_fever_in_Japan
Perhaps the question is "Can they really walk away and get a much better deal today?"

But yes, this does look like yet another miscalculation and failure of vision.
hopefully forever!
Hear that? That's the sound of $9B in valuation disappearing :| There is really a thin line between delusion and brilliance.
Thanks. CloudFlare and Rage4 are on my list. CloudFlare was one of the first places I looked.
Can we pattern the nanowires like we do silicon, or is alignment more difficult?
Complete rubbish....

Do you really want a list of string-heavy s/w thats developed in C/C++ and in very widespread use?

Should I start with:

- Most interpreted languages...

- Web servers....
No, please and thank you.
We disagree on that definition. The defining attribute of an HSM is protection against software compromise of the main computer.

Having provided near-perfect defense against a software-only adversary, many HSM vendors then add layers and layers of protection for the hardware. But the real key is ensuring that someone who gets root on your server can use your keys but not copy them.
Deterministic behaviour is everything....

...and Clojure is the polar opposite to this due to its structure sharing.
It's quite strange, how easy it is to build a valuation
I cant read this article. Can someone provide some backstory? What is Theranos? Why was it shut down?
A flaw in the D-LINK WI-FI camera affects more than 120 products
Zstandard compression format specification
Ouch. Sanctions mean "shutting down and subsequently rebuilding the Newark lab from the ground up, rebuilding quality systems, adding highly experienced leadership, personnel and experts, and implementing enhanced quality and training procedures". There is a chance to appeal, but "such appeals have rarely succeeded in the past". Couple that with an "unspecified monetary penalty" and this looks like a very big nail in the Theranos coffin.

Side note: Anyone else have trouble viewing the WSJ article? I had to read the full text through a private news outlet, even though I tried signing in to WSJ with Facebook :/

Edit: Added a sentence of detail to the last paragraph, for those who still can't see the article.
click web > go to article from google
I have no sympathy for her. It's incredibly irresponsible to do what she did- play marketing games with medical technology. Theranos' unethical behaviour has made it much more difficult for future innovation in the medical field, and has potentially cost lives. This sanction is appropriate.

My fiancee works as a laboratory scientist in a hospital conducting patient sample testing, and her and her co-workers take their work incredibly seriously- checking, and re-checking their work, with complex protocols to guarantee the accuracy of their testing. It's disappointing to see that same attitude lacking in Theranos.
Sure, but that does not explain the remarkable similarities between the 2 artists work.
If there are raccoons in your area, you really want netting over the pond.

The standard advice for preventing fish loss to raccoons without using netting is: the water must be at least three feet deep (any less than that, and the raccoons will hang from the edge by their hind legs and grab sleeping fish off the bottom) and you MUST NOT train your fish to surface near the edge of the pond (fish have trouble distinguishing the sound of human footsteps from the sound of raccoon footsteps). Any food should be thrown into the pond at least three feet away from the pond edge.

Naturally, that advice isn't very helpful for a pond six feet or less in diameter.
Wait till this guy discovers the filesystem. "Security Flaw in OS X displays all files in the home directory in plain text."

I mean, it is pretty bad, when you think about it, compared to "freedom-hating" "user-hostile" sandboxed designs like iOS, but "all your data is available to all your programs unless you explicitly hobble a specific program" is pretty central to *nix.
> twenty per cent better ... on tests of memory and attention

> five times bigger in people who have been diagnosed with clinical depression
little more text than wsj (unsubscribed): http://medcitynews.com/2016/07/cms-fines-theranos/
Latest on the Julia Language (vs. R)
PNDA: Cisco's big data analytics platform now open source
Here're some more articles about us:

Our values: https://medium.com/tidl/tidl-what-we-value-3a05be1c23c#.t1u5...

Company profiles: https://medium.com/tidl/launching-company-profiles-on-tidl-5...
FPGA's are typically used for the real-time front-end in systems like this....

...Which means that the Java side wasn't doing anything particularly quick or real-time.

The Java side was the 'easy&slow' side.... hence they could use Java.
Sounds a bit like DC/OS. They are doing some interesting work as well with using CRDTs to building a distributed load balancer (by configuring Netfilter and using NFQueue).

This is the load balancer:

https://github.com/dcos/minuteman

The fun part is the distributed KV store and failure detector based on CRDTs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...)

https://github.com/dcos/lashup
On the one hand, hopefully not long, as she can't provide any effective leadership with this in place.

However, my understanding is that Theranos has an unusual corporate structure that gives Holmes control of most of the votes, so if she doesn't want to leave, I don't know if anyone can force her.
It may gratify curiosity but will it make HN a better site?

Genuine question, in case the tone comes across snarky.
Venture Capitalist Says “War” on the Rich Is Like Nazi Germany's War on the Jews
Hi kevin
There was an article on HN talking about the improvements go has made to their gc over the last few releases.

Umm... here

https://blog.twitch.tv/gos-march-to-low-latency-gc-a6fa96f06...

It sort of looks like language developers are finally getting the point that while you can easily deal with a throughput problem by just throwing faster processors, more processors, and or memory at at it, working around long gc pauses is just pain all around.
Your point? The multiple declaration syntax which is being discussed here uses comma separators, not operators.
> They are also holding the UK to a different standard than other non-EU countries, and there is no justification for that.

If Amex offers $500 credit to any new card holder, and if I happen to have the card, cancel it, and immediately re-apply, chances are that Amex won't give me $500. In fact, if Amex did, it would be financially irresponsible to its shareholders.

You may not like it, but EU does not really need a justification to treat UK differently from Australia. The leaders of France and Germany are elected to represent the interest of French/German people, and if they believe that discouraging more countries from walking out is in the best interest of EU and their own people (now you might disagree, but they can surely believe that themselves), then they are morally obliged to act tough to UK.
The WSJ article and the Theranos press release [1] don't agree. There's no mention of the 2-year ban in the press release. The press release indicates it's business as usual for Theranos at their Arizona lab. Supposedly only their Newark (CA) lab is being shut down.

[1] http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160707006570/en/Ther...
I have read the article (there was no 'web' button but some other comment posted a working link). Still have no idea what Theranos is or what they have done.

Apparently they worked fro Walgreen or something?
Which One Is Interesting to Learn: Ruby on Rails or AngularJS?
What else is new? Have you seen the package database recently?
And if you want to go weirder, implicit int means that you can leave out the `int`:

typedef x;

Even "better", C declarators can be empty in order to allow for struct/enum declarations that do not list any variables. So you can leave out the variable, add qualifiers, etc:

typedef;
const typedef;
typedef const;

It's a really fun syntax in some ways.
> Awesome.

Thanks!

> why STM/ARM?

The STM32F415 is specifically designed for crypto and security-sensitive applications. It has built-in support for AES and other crypto primitives (though I'm not actually using any of those at the moment), a hardware random number generator, and built-in readout protection modes that prevent you from externally accessing the flash or the RAM. And it has plenty of flash and RAM for this sort of application, and it's reasonably priced. If you designed a SoC from scratch for this application you couldn't do much better than this chip.

> Are the designs of this chip at least available, and audit-able, or could it contain something like Intel's HM?

No, I don't think so. And yes, it's possible there's a back-door in there, but I think it's unlikely. The market for this chip is embedded devices with sensitive code. If it became known that there was a back door that would destroy the market for the chip.

But if you want one based on a RiskV I'd be happy to discuss doing a custom development.
If they're going to ban her from operating labs for two years, does that mean they think she'll be, in some way, rehabilitated and capable of soundly running labs after that?

Maybe there is little precedent, but that length of time seems a bit arbitrary (and too short?).
Seems like an odd arrangement for investors to agree to, one I am sure they are currently regretting...
Remind your friend these comments are only left by a small vocal minority and is not representative of the project or its maintainers.

This is akin to not liking something because you don't like the people who already like it, despite how much you'd like it otherwise.
For only statistical purposes, it would be enough to track a small sample of the clicks, right?
No Justice, No Peace – Will We Ever Get Either?
well the bar is "owning, operating, or directing" a lab. She can appeal and that would delay it.. but when this takes effect, it sounds like she's out.
> Do you really think her plan all along was to steal from Yahoo?

uh, does it matter? that's how it ended up.
Farewell to Pnin: The End of the Comp Lit Era
>> Why isn't someone making a killing by cloning the Zero?
Because at $5 it's not profitable.

My company sells ~25-30% of the Raspberry Pis in Australia.

When we spoke to the manufacturer for our region they said they weren't looking at manufacturing the Pi Zero V1.3 due to the economics. Their inventory of the Pi Zero has also dried up (as they focused on the RPI 3 Model B). When they did sell the the Pi Zero they sold it as a kit with marked up micro HDMI and USB adaptors.

As @mmosta pointed out, the Raspberry Pi is heavily subsidised by sweetheart deals from their manufacturers and component vendors.

This is all ok: The point of the Pi is to make computing accessible at a low price, not to make money.

It will be interesting to see how the ecosystem as a whole plays out.
It's hard to tell. I haven't seen an unsubsidised/non-VC company put out a "cheap" single board computer.

The Pi Zero's closest competition (https://getchip.com/pages/chip) has had a round and I suspect is getting a nice deal from All Winner too!
Waiting for Microservices with NanoSOAP and yaml envelopes.
Is Automating Your Recruiting Process the Right Fit?
Have you considered Googling Theranos?
i think wikipedia has you covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos
I agree with the sentiment, this stuff's important.

But when does "playing marketing games" become OK? Maybe for mobile games, but even then you have kids taking their parent's credit cards out of wallets and spending 100s... everything's important to somebody.

Clearly medical tech is extra important, and the consequences even more grave, but I hope this is a lesson to everyone that trying to dupe all of society sometimes has consequences.

And hopefully convince more people to do ... nicer things? Better things? Well, at least taking things seriously.
I wouldn't like this to become a regular feature.
Just another reason to delete your reddit account with regularity. I've lost count of how many accounts I've been through now.
> Still have no idea what Theranos is or what they have done

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos#Controversies
TinyScheme is indeed very cool, but it's a bit of a parlor trick to run it on the HSM. I don't think you'd actually want to use that in production. But it's awfully neat to run Scheme on a gadget the size of a lipstick case. :-)

Here's the original TinyScheme site:

http://tinyscheme.sourceforge.net/home.html
But does "operating a lab" mean the same thing as being the CEO of Theranos?
It's the first point in the sidebar:

Revocation of the laboratory’s CLIA certificate which, as dictated by the regulations, includes a prohibition on owners and operators of the lab from owning, operating or directing a lab for at least two years from the date of revocation

But yes.. they really didn't care to expand on that at all... or explain how it would impact their business.
So not much different to cars, clothes, restaurants, almost anything.
Yup. I'm pretty bearish on tricky corporate structure. I think a lot of the existing norms evolved for a reason, and exist to prevent people pulling these sorts of shenanigans. Board oversight isn't always a bad thing.
The way it read to me was "Give me $50 to review your resume and somehow that will stop Zika." No idea how common my interpretation is, but it's something to consider.
just grow up with a sliver spoon in your mouth and have daddy/mommy sell all their incredibly wealthy and powerful friends/contacts on the genius of their daughter and boom this is what you get.
First bullet point in the list of sanctions in the Theranos press release you linked:

"Revocation of the laboratory’s CLIA certificate which, as dictated by the regulations, includes a prohibition on owners and operators of the lab from owning, operating or directing a lab for at least two years from the date of revocation" (emphasis mine)
Err.. "Revocation of the laboratory’s CLIA certificate which, as dictated by the regulations, includes a prohibition on owners and operators of the lab from owning, operating or directing a lab for at least two years from the date of revocation "
Agreed - she should be imprisoned. You don't get to play with lives.
Interesting to see this come up on Hacker News. The Islamic Art has been mesmerizing and amazing to me ever since I've started taking note of the skill on display.

Arabic Calligraphy is central to Islamic Art, and usually verses from Qur'an are intricately carved out on the walls and doors. Islamic architecture also has subtle hints-- like 5 windows might represent the infallible 5 of Shi'a Islam; or a 100 pillars might represent the 100 exalted names of God. There's a lot of thought that goes into those patterns as well as choice of Qur'anic verses, and placement of decorations.

My favourite books on the topic are analysis of two Grand Mosques built in Fatimid Architectural style, by an Indian scholar:

1 A Living Testimony to the Fatemiyeen: https://amzn.com/0953927008

2 A Vision of the Fatemiyeen: https://amzn.com/0953927016
Oh man thats a relief!

The reason I can find stuff from pexels that they cant find is actually because I have duplicate image detection that sources the tags from multiple sources. So a different source must have tagged it as ashtray!

I've been building websites for a year. I still consider myself very much a beginner. (I worked in design before that). thanks for the compliment!
Jabber can't figure out Let's Encrypt certs
The main Jabber site at https://jabber.org/ has a bad Let's Encrypt certificate. Visit it with a modern browser and you’ll get a warning about the security of the cert.  It looks like they are switching everything over to xmpp.org, but without a domain redirect. If they want to keep this domain active, and secured by a cert, it is odd they did not request a certificate for the jabber.org domain as well. They might have forgotten they still have jabber.org. It does not cost a lot to get a certificate from LE. Also LE on Nginx supports multiple domains just fine. What gives?
For anyone wondering, I've tried throwing afl-fuzz at this. It's only been a few hours, but as yet, nothing has turned up.
>Oh, and you wonder why I say, “he”? I never have this problem with female programmers.

gedrap, please don't post sexist material on HN.
The press release doesn't mention Holmes ban, that does not mean that it doesn't exist.

I don't know the laws regarding this, but the title of the article states that Holmes can't operate a lab, not that Theranos is unable to. So it sounds like they are taking her to task rather than the entire company.
MVC is a buzzword now. It means nothing except that you use the words model view controller somewhere. Initially the observer pattern was an essential part of MVC. You don't see that in web frameworks.
>> At least in my mind, the defining attribute of an HSM is protection against physical compromise of the device.

FIPS definitions help a bit here.

A hardware FIPS 140 Level 2 cryptographic module (HSM) is only required to show evidence of tampering. A $5 broken seal if often the solution. Note that applying a seal to the module in the link is not sufficient because I can compromise the thing without opening it (just press the button and reflash with non-signed images).

Level 3 is a step up in that you must have some degree of tamper resistance, but in several cases, most of this security behemoths just drop a layer of epoxy on the board and call it a day. Then they sell it to you for $10.000.

With Level 4 things get serious, but then you can count your suppliers in on hand and pay accordingly (and Safenet is not one of them).

I agree that smartcard-based solution would be ideal, but specs and native firmware and SDK are never open, so you cannot build an open-source product with them.
HFT trading is so obviously time critical that I would be very, very surprised if time synchronization to the few ns level (e.g. GPS steered Rubidiums, available for a few $1000 per Rack/Network) wouldn't be standard feature on all computers involved in the timing critical end of the business already, someone please prove me wrong here...
Thanks, everyone else just downvoted. Thanks for taking the time to link.

Has there been any clue as to why this ban has come about? That seems rather harsh for a "simple" (I'm using that very loosely) mistake. Is there evidence of faking data or other nefarious deeds on the side of the company?
I think that's the problem. It hasn't been linked to deaths yet. I fear it might be impossible to link a ~year of invalidated blood testing as the cause of death.

Did Theranos test for fatal diseases? Did they just test for mundane stuff?
Sure, two of them! :-)

1. Are you in California? If so, can you comment on how easy/hard it is to get Tilapia for a setup like this? I know someone living near Campbell who had trouble legally getting any of the Tilapia species that are suitable for aquaculture. The California department of Fish and Wildlife apparently considers most or all Tilapia to be invasive species. (Oddly enough, I see T. buttikoferi in pet stores every now and then, but they're too expensive to eat.)

2. Is using PVC really that bad? I've been in the aquarium hobby for over half my life now, and I can't remember ever seeing a single DIY aquarium plumbing project that didn't use PVC. PVC seems particularly ubiquitous for elbows and fittings--how hard/expensive is it to get PEX fittings at retail?
Run iTunes through your CLI
I take issue with the "they'll never be ready to open ___ and start coding." Sure they can. It just might take them a lot of training. But so what? You know how long it takes someone to become competent with a guitar? Piano? A wrench? Hammer? ... It isn't exactly overnight.

I am also question that actor based programming is somehow something that provides a more concise representation of ideas. It may, for some cases. However, I suspect anything actually of real world use has moved beyond what anyone would consider concise. Indeed, after fumbling through something I was certain should be doable in fewer lines of code, yet again, I am coming to believe that the pursuit of concise solutions is the biggest fallacy in programming.

I confess I am ok, however, with people preaching to a choir to drum up support. I don't have any actual data, but I do feel that this keeps the topics in people's minds, which does increase the likelihood of an idea finally having its time.
Megamalls from the Future [Vernor Vinge, audio]
It's a time out in the corner , with two years of lost revenue, to think about what she did wrong and make a plan to build a proper lab
Jeeezus... I've been writing Java since before many HNers were born, and somehow I never noticed that class.

The Oracle people are right about this one. Rip it out and sterilize the wound with fire.