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> In 2004 I became really curious just how
efficient a “chest fridge” can be.

Pretty sure you couldn't easily get a chest fridge back then. I know, I looked for one a few years later.
Thanks for all the replies! (Too late to edit my question.)
Is there a reason to do something like this using a bounce address? I mean, that's what at least all the big players seem to be doing, but couldn't you just as well use something like A PING [1] or some sort of Ajax pingback? There's browser compatibility of course, but supporting old IEs shouldn't be critical for something like this.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#...
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

I think it's a case where the company had a certificate revoked as part of that process is a direct ban on the person in charge of said lab, which bubbled up to Holmes. I would've supported a direct levy on her but this just seems to be aimed at the company.
Wouldn't even the most basic JS stats package do this by default?
How about hashing - in particular wrt key derivation? Does anyone have some insight there? Is it likely passphrase+salt+stretching might be in danger from quantum attacks? (I also wonder if DNA/RNA based biologic computing (or computing inspired by biology) might somehow change things around in terms of guessing passwords or look for hash collision...)
the thing i hate isn't that there's tracking, but that it now takes an extra redirect to click on anything.

Also don't like tracking in general for privacy reasons, but it's a minor concern next to performance.
> But when does "playing marketing games" become OK?

When it comes to anything that can affect your health in medical related capacities it's tough to say it's ever okay. But duping a 9 year old into buying $200 worth of bullshit in-app purchases? Also very unethical, in my opinion, but at least it doesn't directly result in inaccurate medical care which could easily lead to serious injury or death.

So ultimately I'm not sure it's ever ethically okay but that's probably going to depend on each person's definition of "playing marketing games".
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If you're already running those, why not?
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Also, chest freezers are much, much cheaper than refrigerators. The last time I bought one, I paid around $300 for one that was quite large, vs. twice that or more for a typical upright refrigerator. Partly, I expect that's because they are so much less complicated, and partly it's because the demand is much lower.
Yes, I missed that. But does this mean Holmes has to be fired to keep the Arizona lab open?
You don't need a 3rd party or anything having remotely to do with advertising to implement this; there is no reason Ghostery would know.

HN is "tracking" you when it routes a comment or an upvote anywhere other than /dev/null. Following a link to a story would be a similar interaction with the application, which also sends you to the article.
This is not about a standard or competition. Guix just happens to be a great solution for reproducible packaging. That's why we use it at our institute.

Nix and Guix don't compete. They are different implementations of the same idea, both solving reproducibility problems.

(Two things our cultures often exaggerate are competition and dominance.)
Wouldn't Theranos be the owner and operator of the lab?
Google starts experimenting with quantum-secure connections in Chrome
I'm beginning to wonder if at any point they will pack their bags, return what's left to investors and close up shop...or maybe they'll just keep going until it's completely dead? Hell maybe they pivot to be a traditional lab with traditional equipment?
A friend of mine that worked for Azul said that older 0x86 processors didn't support the instructions that they needed. Which is why originally they built their own hardware. I'm uncertain what those are, but my impression is you can't do what they needed with a single atomic word access.
It's not just the police.

- the disaster called BER

- failure of basic public services (there are even talks about canceling the upcoming election because the citizens cannot register, due to a combination of gross mismanagement and ancient hardware)

- schools are literally falling apart and even urgent repairs cannot be done because of authority issues (who is supposed to pay for what); alone the schools would need 5B € to fix, not to mention the other public buildings

- corruption scandals

- gentrification

- complete disregard for human rights in regard to refugees
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We know the important fact already -- the chest fridge consumes much less power than an upright. The author has demonstrated that clearly. His reasoning as to why that's true is really secondary, almost irrelevant.
But that is not protectionism.
It actually describes Australia, which for the most part is uninhabited and undeveloped, and has massive amounts of mostly untouched wilderness.

Take a land mass the size of the lower 48 states, and take out all the people except for Oregon on the west coast and Florida on the east coast. Remove nearly all the interstates and all but three of the railroads. That is Australia.
Absolutely it can be dangerous, such as the use of police scanners (which will often broadcast uncorroborated information).
Trying to imagine myself willfully misleading her investors and the public for as long as she did, and at that scale extends beyond my capacity for empathy. I suspect she's genuinely delusional. I don't know how else someone could do something like that.
Yep. I don't believe the 15% but I think it has value.

Random fact the Hawthorne Effect was BS. Perhaps it's true but the original 'lighting' effect experiment was rubbish.
Makes me think of orienteering running -- at the competitive level, you can't afford to slow down much (and definitely you can't stop running) just to look at the map and plan your route.
So not only you're not looking at how rough the terrain you're stepping on right now is, your brain is also busy with evaluating different options and trying to optimize for the least effort to get from point A to point B (and repeat this 100 times or more in a race) -- for example, should I take the long way around the hill with rougher vegetation vs go straight up 100 meters elevation and down on the other side.
You can easily hot-swap classes in a running program as long as their interface doesn't change. I.e., you can tune your algorithm w/o restarting the server.

I went wow the first time I edited a program during a debugging session and Eclipse just recompiled the class and reloaded it into the program.

Yes, there details of getting this right (transferring the state), but nevertheless.. It'd be one heck of a job implementing this _correctly_ in a MT scenario for C and C++. JVM just does "magic" here.
People downvoted because going to Wikipedia is something you could have very easily done yourself. This is like if I commented "what's China?" on a post about the Chinese economy.
> "When I was little, I would smash the buttons on arcade machines during the 'Insert Coin' preview screen, believing I was playing the game. You'll see kids do it today too," says Cox.

I did this too. I was completely obsessed by arcade machines, but never had the quarters to play them.
I'm usually a huge fan of pg, but in his essay about founders, there was one section which I wasn't very comfortable with: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

Specifically, when he talks about naughtiness, he says:

Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter.

I have absolutely no interest in trying to play language games - and maybe I'm misunderstanding what pg is saying, but it has always seemed to me that the judgement of whether the rule that was broken was consequential or not is post-hoc. For example: had airbnb gotten in serious trouble and floundered in the aftermath of when they started scraping craigslist for listings, they wouldn't be clever and naughty, but reckless and foolish. Had zenefits managed to grow even more or hire some key lobbyists and get the law changed in time, their CEO would be hailed as a visionary genius that cut through pointless red tape.

Anyway: the reason I brought that up is that a lot of the ethically dubious things that Elizabeth Homes did are very similar to things which a lot of tech companies did at one time or another. Trying to push ambitious young men and women to look at rules and regulations as something they should take pride in hacking and bypassing is a dangerous game - even more so in fields that are highly regulated.

Addendum: part of the original hacker ethic was to ignore stupid rules. For example, we take delight in Feynmann cracking safes at Los Alamos, or finding some clever hack to bypass a pointless procedure. However: I think it's one thing to hack a system to make a point about how stupid it is, but it's completely different if you add a monetary incentive, and suddenly the rules that get broken are those that stand in the way of you making money. The two sets have a fairly small overlap.

Addendum two: in a complex society like the one we live in, we have a lot of dumb rules. I'm not trying to defend them - we should obviously get rid of them, even in healthcare. A lot of economists have written intelligently about how to make the approval process of the FDA more agile.
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Most of the time you just need to show up at TED and pretend your stuff is going to change the world, despite all you have for proof is close to nothing.
At the top of this page is a "web" link, under the article title.

Many paywalled sites allow you to read the article if the referrer is Google. So, this link searches for the title of the article and then the first result is probably the article you are looking for. Then you can read it.
There is kind of a wow effect to such short code examples but I resist to see consequences for real-life use. Adding a few more features like charts and actual Excel-file export and import is no rocket science but will render that code base unreadable. I rather prefer 5 kLoc boilerplate and have a proper foundation to start with.
Here you can see a long list of use cases: https://community.estimote.com/hc/en-us/articles/207295257-A...
The article mentions that condensation collects on the bottom and has to be sponged out. It seems like what's missing is a system to deal with condensation.
Evidence A: How Paul defended shady AirBnB tactics here on hackernews.
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It's a cold fusion moment for all medical innovation perceived as coming from a 'start-up.'

Funding for real fusion research is still difficult to come by because of the shadow of the cold fusion debacle...
I live in Utah, and was just recently looking at land out there. I'm kind of sick of the struggle for some breathing room to do anything interesting here in Provo without having to ask permission from the city, and pay through the nose for real estate... I'm probably just bitter about my recent interactions with the mayor and zoning and the council, and whatnot...

I'd like to not have to care what my neighbors think about the things I'm doing.
Yep. Now to MitM an app you will have to decompile it, tweak its network security config¹ to allow user CAs, recompile, and reinstall via adb. But if you need to MitM because you are reverse engineering, none of these steps are problematic since you are already doing most of them anyway.

¹ https://developer.android.com/preview/features/security-conf...
If you haggle on an everyday basis, you eventually start trying out different strategies, from lowballing to starting with a high offer to anchoring.

Dont know how effectivr that would be in an 8 figure deal, but I reckon the lessons are somewhat applicable
It's only ever OK. That's just a societal agreement. It's never good. It seems like an extremely conservative application of innocent until proven guilty. Advertising has been deemed necessary despite the ways it can be abused. We should likely be more critical in "serious" markets. It's insane that we let Coke/Pepsi regularly subject us all to babes in bikinis sensually consuming fizzy sugar water. That or whatever other psychologically invasive scene they've contrived. But even then, we still require that you not tell outright lies about your product. This ruling was definitely fair. If not lenient. It would be nice to see fewer marketing games it's just hard to find a good place to draw the line. Not lying is a very low bar.
Theirs a few reasons at play that motivate people to NOT return the money.

* Sunken cost fallacy (we can still make a come back!)

* Failure is unacceptable (returning money is accepting utter failure)

* Returning money means you no longer possess it or the power / reputation it yields (you will no longer get a generous salary for example)

* Returning hundreds of millions of dollars with a multi-billion dollar loss is a joke to begin with
The previous dotcom bust happened when the property bubble was just building in most of the US which crashed in 2007-8. So in a dotcom bust property prices might not follow the same pattern as previously. In todays silicon Valley most people apart from the tech workers have been priced out of the market and they have left. Now a bust won't have the support these buyers or renters to stave off a collapse.
Britain wanted to delegitimize Sinn Fein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%9394_British_broadc...
Red's author here. In all fairness, for that JS spreadsheet to not look ugly, you need to account for the CSS code too, which is ~35 more lines of normally spaced code. Also, there's no realtime reactivity like in our demo where the cells update as you type.

For the "no library", well, you have tons of libraries included in a ~100MB runtime (browser) required to run and render that demo, while Red's one runs on the OS directly (our runtime is 0.6MB uncompressed and entirely written in Red, not a single 3rd-party library). ;-)

That said, that JS demo code is very nice, and its slickness impressive.
Holy shit that's a thing
I've personally heard Tim Draper blaming regulation for her downfall. So in the eyes of SV giants, it's us and the government who are delusional, and we should let her do her thing.
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Moving to Japan right now, and 600 sq ft is freaking huge.
It looks like a very nice piece of kit - I just might have to get one :-) But speaking of hardware, I was recently reminded of the new BBC:Micro[m] project thanks to an email by the PythonAnywhere[p]-team.

I wonder how much of the features could be implemented on that? I'm guessing that while the micro-usb might allow for power and data connection to the host - there'd probably not be a way to prevent compromise when connected (I'm guessing malware could reprogram the device without overwriting the stored keys). Thoughts?

[m] https://www.microbit.co.uk/device

[p] https://www.pythonanywhere.com/

[ed: As for adding (some) tamper-proofing to either device, remember the glitter-nailpolish-picture-trick: https://www.wired.com/2013/12/better-data-security-nail-poli...

I wonder if it would be possible to epoxy up the BBC:Micro's micro USB port, and use the connectors/headers for communicating, possibly emulating USB 1.1 or something, with an soldered connector. ]
Hah, they're still in business?

Mine was one of the "stolen" servers from their old colocation provider or whatever whenever drama with them went down ~3 years ago.
Most of the grodan producs are made from rock wool. From a plant perspective it is a very good substrate, good capilarity, inert, stable.

But it is not compostable and recyclable.

For a classical ebb and flow grow bed, the rock wool fibers are too fine grained.
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I honestly think most entrepreneurs are capable of it. The hype level of Theranos is present at MOST start-ups.

I.E.

A Large software company that allowed user data to be stolen because of known security issues. Software company does not inform the public of the breach until forced to.

A large medical company that allowed a very large failure rate of testing devices from known issues. Medical company does not inform the public of the breach until forced to.
Or there's this article about how to change the temperature range of a chest freezer with one simple screw adjustment.[1] Or this off the shelf external mechanical thermostat.[2] Designing your own analog electronic thermostat is not really necessary.

[1] http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=249612
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Johnson-Controls-A19AAT-2C-Temperatur...
Can you point out some similarities?

I'm looking at the paintings of Peter Doig but I have a hard time finding something that looks like the painting of Peter Edward Doige. The strokes, technique, use of color. They are all different.
First, remove rock that is under you, second, go to site named Google, third....
The Juno spacecraft has a Lego crew on board
Why is it that people are constantly looking for prophets and the one true way to live their lives?
Evolutionary traits are usually hard-coded.
Yes and No. I mean, the whole relationship between government, local government and business I described might be similar, but in China that's still the only activity going on. It's improving to some extent, but for example in London or any city really, you might have a genuine creative scene that can jump on a government investment in 'innovation', so the wave will be filled with half- opportunists and half genuine businesses maybe. In China it's more like 95% opportunists, because for years and years that's been the only way to work.
PVC-U is just fine for aquaponics. It can be considered food safe. PE is nicer to recycle, but when you have a sound system design you are not going to change and discard pipes very often.
People should more concentrate on quality than on amount.
App/Android Stores are full of such '100 games in 5 years', '1 game every week', '1 new app every day'.. it sucks.
Many building societies became banks over the last couple of decades. However, some are still mutually owned, such as the Narionwide and the Co-op.
> I just might have to get one

Better hurry. My stock of prototypes is very nearly sold out.

> BBC:Micro[m] project

I have no idea about that particular device. But very few things end up being secure by accident. But if it's not designed for security like the STM32F415 is, then I'd say odds are good it's not secure.
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> Because the Oculus headset works on Steam games, but the Vive doesn't out of the box work with Oculus Home. You can make it work, but it's not quite official.

Works with seated SteamVR experiences, but not room scale ones, which I think is a more compelling experience.
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Schadenfreude is probably merited in this case, but I for one think one needs to consider that this could quickly spiral down and end up in Holmes taking drastic action that we will all regret. Hope my meaning comes through here.
Following a link is, by default, an interaction with the target of the link rather than the source. Hacker News is fundamentally an application that gives you a HTML document, which contains instructions for your browser to request further content from linked sources. Actually getting the content from the linked source goes to that source directly, unless HN implements some non-standard tracking system.
Hence the existence of Revolution Analytics (from which this blog is posted).
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The article says it isn't clear what the monetary penalty would be.. but the letter CMS sent to theranos in March (re the newark lab) proposes a 10000$/day penalty for noncompliance that would continue until the lab is brought into compliance.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/cms20160412...
Funny how this Open Source hardware screen uses half of it to display the copyright. I know they are not related, but it still feels weird.
> I take issue with the "they'll never be ready to open ___ and start coding." Sure they can.

They can, but they would be upset if they had to (at least the ones I've seen). Making them develop what they did visually in code would be maybe like telling someone who is using Python to start writing assembly. Sure they could become competent, but when they are delivering products quicker with this other, better tool, they wouldn't want to do it.

> I am also question that actor based programming is somehow something that provides a more concise representation of ideas.

Not just actor programming, but the constructs available in Erlang/OTP library. It includes abstractions built on top of actors -- server instances, finite state machine, event handlers, logging, etc. But going back to actors, in general I find, actors map best to real world concurrency scenarios. A connection is an isolated actor, it processes data sequentially internally but there are multiple such instances running concurrently. A customer as an actor works, it has state, it issues purchase orders, it fails, it wait for response and so on. But there are multiple such instances running concurrently. You process an data file in a pipeline, each step is an actor like factory worker, doing some work and passing it along to next one on the conveyor belt. At least from what I've seen it represents the real world problems better than say an epoll event loop or a lock.

> I am coming to believe that the pursuit of concise solutions is the biggest fallacy in programming.

Concise doesn't mean a pure contest on line length. That usually results in obfuscated code. Conciseness includes clarity and operating at the right level of abstraction. If an order is being processed, it means seeing clear steps: load_price_list, submit_payment, check_inventory and so on, perhaps instead of lock_thread_1, handle_promise_callback_5. Some frameworks have better abstractions in place than others. Maybe Matlab has better abstractions for multiplying matrices and solving signal processing problems. Other languages are better at graphics, and so on.
It compiles fine with mingw-w64 on Windows. MSVC is a bit more involved due to the GCC extensions used. When LZFSE first came out I made a fork with the changes to compile with MSVC [1], but there wasn't any interest in it.

[1]: https://github.com/jibsen/lzfse/tree/msvc-compatibility
I shouldn't be hearing of this through a different news site though. I received no email about this, nor a private message.

It's not even in their announcements.

This message is only in /r/changelog, and going backwards they first introduced this 4 months ago, had to roll back and have been rolling it out again with other options.

This is not a nice way of introducing what is, to me, a fairly large privacy change.
It looks like a thin line in one plane but 1AU in a different plane.
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.

Challenge accepted! I bet I could port Arc to it. Hmm...

It'd work. Eventually.

Thanks for the link. I'm intrigued by the idea of lisp-powered businesses. I wonder if there's a survey of the state of non-Clojure lisps circa 2016? Nothing against Clojure, of course.
It powers many businesses. I'm just curious how the rest are faring.

I think I'd like to work somewhere that intentionally uses a less-popular language just because they feel like it. Or that makes Scheme-powered devices the size of a lipstick case.