skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, no.

It's a civil suit, not a criminal one (or, more accurately, potentially in addition to a criminal one). The department cannot bury a civil suit, nor trivially get it dismissed. And the burden of proof in a civil suit is substantially less than in a criminal one -- a "preponderance of evidence" vs "beyond a reasonable doubt".

The massive fines come from the civil suits, usually, not criminal ones. And that doesn't even count the ones settled out of court because paying them is cheaper than he legal fees alone for going to court.

So, yes, significantly reducing such suits is very much in the interests of both the police departments and (more importantly) the legislative bodies that fund them.
Cannabis ruderalis maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_ruderalis
Hmm, you may be correct. The pattern seems to work generally.

example/123 --> http://www.example.com/123

facebook/someusername --> https://www.facebook.com/someusername

I tried on Mobile Safari too but it didn't seem to expand there.
Technically true but I think it's practically false. Theranos isn't in the black and won't be any time soon. They need the indulgence of investors to continue. My guess is a large fraction of current stockholders preferred this outcome.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHcYngSL8WU#t=1m38s
If they are damning, use those numbers. Stop lying. Rational people don't call you out for illustrating a problem, they call you out for misrepresenting it.
I gave it a shot and couldn't find the form. Before I got anywhere near it, Google Help seemed to suggest that the address to be blurred needed to be a violation of Google's policies or something.
Or maybe they don't, but somehow that money still exists. How does that work?

This isn't that difficult of a question.

1) Universities get money from the students who pay tuition and fees for their education.
2) Universities get money from wealthy benefactors who donate their money to a cause they believe in.
3) Universities get money from for-profit companies that have sufficient commercial success to invest into research and such for what they hope will be later commercial benefit.
4) Universities get money from people who confiscated the money from other people, under threat of force and who might not have given it otherwise, and give it to a cause they believe in.

Not necessarily in that order by whatever measure you may choose. Note that, In no case did the wealth magically just appear. The wealth to consume was produced somewhere by someone.

Sounds like you're proposing 4 as you imply that the we that is not the companies won't be trying to create the wealth you want to use in your cause.
I'm very upset to hear this. RethinkDB, and the team behind it, have been inspirational to me and it has transformed my day to day development workflow. Their dedication to developer experience (amazing docs, ReQL, admin tool,...) has been something I've particularly admired. I'm relieved that the team has a new home though and it's fantastic that a company that has similar traits is the destination - props to Stripe and the RethinkDB management team for making this happen.

I hope to see RethinkDB to live on in the OS community.
It's amazing to me that a product with so much free promotion on TV, in print, and other venues, and that seemingly has overcome many of the early technical hurdles, finds itself in a position where the only viable path forward seems to be an acquisition.
Possibly Cannabis ruderalis ('wild cannabis'): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_ruderalis. It's endemic in central Russia.
I hope they integrate it with Smarthings. Maybe make the hub a device like Google home or Echo to integrate with all the devices.
There's a misunderstanding. I agree that there is no good definition of species. However, there is a good definition of clade, taxon, or monophyletic group. The author is suggesting that paraphyletic and polyphyletic taxonomical groups that are based on biases, intuition, or morphological similarities. We should distinguish between groups based on traits and groups based evolutionary history, and not conflate the two.
> I wonder if you could make a vim code golf puzzle set

http://vimgolf.com
Actually, it's pretty cool you can do this in Arizona. Wish this was possible in California.

I've installed the Theranos app on my iPhone, and was pleasantly surprised at their very affordable a la carte clinical lab testing.

It feels pretty empowering for a consumer to order whatever clinical test they want without having to consult a doctor first (at least in Arizona).
People need to be occupied and have purpose. Many people on HN don't grok this, which illustrates the gap.
Employee bloat can take down a company of any size. They employ nearly 4,000 people. That's 1/3rd the size of Facebook, yet they have 1/6th the users and the users are of lower value due to shorter engagement times and the smaller amount of data they have to target ads.
And I ask Google Maps to direct me home and it points me at Home Depot.

Frankly both Apple Maps and Google Maps could stand some UI improvements. Google Maps won't shut up, throws up some bizarre progress bar even on mute, has mystery meat navigation, and replaces the map with some giant material design-style empty space when it decides I've "arrived" (even if I haven't).

Apple Maps used to make it hard to pan around, but that's been fixed in iOS 10. Instead now it has terrible bugs in landscape mode, and has adopted the "you've arrived, now you don't need the map any more!" behavior.

If they just let the map be a map...But anyways I'm old enough to remember pulling over to pull out the giant paper map in San Francisco, so I can't get too upset. Either one has made my life so much better.
You could use C-S-<backspace> C-y C-y, which uses kill-whole-line (C-S-<backspace>) instead of kill-line twice (C-k C-k).

I think that's reasonably short (same number of non-modifier keys as vi!). Of course, if you find yourself doing it a lot, you can configure Emacs however you want.
> The problem was having to focus too much of my mind on how to use the editor. Muscle memory is invaluable, and Vim just doesn't let my muscle memory take over if I keep having to think about what's the most "efficient" way to move around or change text.

IME, you do develop muscle memory in terms of using more "efficient" ways of navigation and text manipulation after using vim for a while. I guess it's sort of like learning how to drive a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission. At first, you're thinking more about how to shift through the gears and use the clutch. After a while, you don't really think about it too much while you're still doing it. After driving a bit longer, you start to get a feel about which gear to choose for a given traffic situation.

So, similarly, you get a feel about which keybinding to use to change certain types of text or do certain movements without having to think too much about it.
Closer to 100%.

It's a flagship device released less than two months ago (Aug 19), notable for its stylus (that regular Galaxies don't have).
There are tons!
XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps
I don't follow this at all. I definitely have a very skewed sample, but I haven't ever met a single person who didn't know exactly what type of smartphone they own. Phones are expensive, a Note 7 would be nearly brand new and is the most expensive and highest quality phone out there. I would guess that 99% of owners know what they have. People don't just pick up top-of-the-line flagships on a whim, only the most rich, lazy, AND ignorant person could settle on getting one without knowing exactly what they are buying. Anyone who is missing even just one of those qualities would end up with a different phone or know what they own.

And again, I've literally never met a person who couldn't immediately name their model smartphone, not the most dumbass poor person I've met nor my completely tech illiterate grandparents. Also, your breakdown seems fanciful anyway, who in the world would know that they have a Samsung "Galaxy"? No one cares about that name, it's only ever said in the middle of the whole title, it isn't a thing that people think about on its own.
There is nothing "woo" about using cannabis for medical purposes. The fact that it can get you high does not mean it has no medical benefits.

Also, strains used for medical purposes tend to have low THC and high CBD (e.g. Charlotte's Web).
rather a regular http proxy that every browser supports

And exactly as expected, they have a MSFT stack so they're wedged and think changing the spec is the right way to solve it. Sigh.

> With TLS 1.2 we can ask the end user to take a Wireshark trace and then decrypt it with the RSA private key. With TLS 1.3 we will have to rely on the SSLKEYLOGFILE feature in Firefox and Chrome, so we want it to be available. Unfortunately, Microsoft does not allow this functionality, which is a problem in a TLS 1.3 only environment.
Can someone please explain why this "Google is evil" meme, is spreading without any concrete evidence?

E.g."in that they are designed to nudge users to share more and think less."

What's the basis behind the claim "think less"? If I get weather at my current location or reminder for my appointment without any friction, how does that makes me "think less"? In fact it frees up my time for other tasks.

Consider the fact that Google already has for more than 10 years, a near real time feed of your interests (via Search) and information over longer time (via GMail)? How does Google Now or Assistant using the same information that has been present for so many years, makes you "think less" or makes it "evil"? How is making an explicit Google Search instead of having recommendation automatically delivered to you (which you can turn off or ignore) is somehow better?

The other part of article is pure rambling, how is Google to be blamed for what seems like a pure market equilibrium. If the author does not likes an Android tab, he can choose another option, get an iPad or a Windows tablet, or use a burner flip phones like they did in The Wire.

The real uncomfortable fact for people (especially those on HN) to admit is the tradeoff between security and privacy. There is a reason why cars have license plates, or that opening a bank account or getting a credit card without providing identification is impossible. The equilibrium between utility, security and privacy that exists in other industries similarly exists in Tech industry.
> If something is more than 2 or 3 objects away, I approximate

set number + set relativenumber is pretty awesome for line counting. This marks all lines with relative numbers, except the current one.
I'm genuinely surprised at the number of people who vetted RethinkDB and are now really concerned with this news. With the number of solutions out there to accomplish the same or more RethinkDB almost seems like a novelty choice. Surely the decision to make it business critical came with the understanding and acceptance that the company might go bust? I'm not sure what was accomplishable with RethinkDB that wasn't with any number of other alternatives or combinations of alternatives.
No, it's important to emphasize (in case someone is not familiar), you can be arrested for pumping up a stock while you hold it if you don't disclose your position in every statement about the company you make.
Most of those points are fearmongering, outdated, opinions, or improperly cited. Every database has problems. Mongo has more than most. But I honestly think people dislike it so vehemently primarily because they've monetized so strongly.
MongoDB vs. RethinkDB: Why we had to choose MongoDB
Config files aren't inert and can be terribly problematic if you're reinstalling to fix broken config files. Case in point updating graphics card in linux, those random nodejs apps that leave broken symlinks everywhere, and the windows registry
Can you kindly also cite the studies which show that the level of social mobility in America is now one of the lowest in the industrial world?

Luck, particularly how much wealth you were born with, plays a large role in your likely social outcome, in ways which cast serious doubt on the success of the layout and rules of the economic system under which we attempt to flourish.

If you follow that logic, when you look at historical state-sanctioned inequality, from slavery to Jim Crow to de-facto de-segregation to the present, what we're witnessing isn't a continuation of Jim Crow. The lack of social mobility here (a raceless consideration) has condemned those who've started off many meters behind the 'Start' line of the race.

THAT is the interplay between race and class.

The fact that we can only articulate this in terms of race is the genius of how the dialogue continuously shifts away from wealth inequality (in America the top 1% own 40% of the wealth) and into discussions of white versus black. Now, the average white person and the average black person are pitted against one another, instead of BOTH screaming against this very fact.
While you might be correct (i hope you are, love to work with GA). It is generally tougher to prefer/go-with GA in industry as,
1. Two runs of the same algorithm can not be expected to produce similar results.
2. You need to be really careful with parameters set, mutation probability, recombination probability which pose real issues after a certain point.
3. If your input size is too big, say vectors of length 100, then you might want to consider discretization before processing.

However, GA prove to be useful in many cases, such problems impede their extensive usage in mainstream industry.
just open Streetview and click "report a problem" at the very bottom right of the page.
Linters are helping in many of these cases.
Why you compare present Google experience with past Google experience as before been OK? It was already invasive, now it is taking another huge step. Common people don't see it, but us developers do.
I don't know what to think. I am angry and sad that my favorite db is going away?! On the other hand, I am trying to understand and be supportive of the team behind it, as I have huge respect for them and their work.
They are, eventually. Once they stop producing enough milk, they're sold for meat. A dairy farm I once visited likened milk cows to star football players - once they stop producing, they're off the team to make room for new talent.
I used Slava's blog to learn about Lisp and went on to build a product with Weblocks, which was a continuations-based web framework that Slava created back in the day (I only recently finally deleted a forgotten 8-year old todo about merging in my refactored Weblocks formview). Random trivia (kind of) - the syntax and concepts in Weblocks actually bear some resemblance to Goat, which is a framework that Patrick had created and used to build the original version of the Stripe dashboard (likely just because both of them come from a Lisp-heavy background).

I had just started a new company using RethinkDB, and it was definitely poised to be my go to database for new projects. Anyway, all this is to say, for someone who I know only through his works, I have great respect for Slava and want to thank him for the work he's done. Here's to hoping that RethinkDB finds a way to continue.
Thanks for the offer. I'm swamped and we moved off of GCE last spring, so I don't have the info readily available.

If we consider GCE in the future, I'll ping you before we do so we can ensure what happened to us then doesn't happen again.

Thanks!
in other words, its only a black mark from people who dont matter anyway
What every programmer needs to know about encodings and charsets to work with text
He literally said he'd be following up with lessons learned. Now is the time for pats on the back.

Communities are supposed to be supportive, too. Pity this thread is the only time I've seen that on HN as of late!
If they gave you enough info to opt out effectively, people would do it. Also, then people could check up on them, checking the list of claimed "opt ins" for spam trap addresses. Giving the user that access would allow users to definitively catch spammers and mailing services in lies, and could lead to prosecutions under the CAN-SPAM act.
> Horizon is a bit of a mini-pivot

When Horizon was announced, that's when I stopped even considering RethinkDB for new projects (even if it was a good fit, feature-wise). Call it a "business smell", but I'm not surprised to hear they've wound the business down.
I don't know about ryporter, but I sure would. I'm looking for people who are both smart and of good character. Working for what is apparently a giant fraud suggests that they may lack one or both of those attributes. I'd definitely have them talk about their experience there and what they learned, and I'd be looking both for their emotional reactions and the actions they took.

As an example of somebody who handled working at dubious place well, consider this blog: http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/
For those developers, it makes even less sense to pony up for a Macbook and an Apple Developer license and spend all their time on an app that's going into someone else's environment - especially someone who has a history of treating developers on their platform as second-class citizens.
To pile on: all of you guys reside in the US. Google Maps its data is much more up to date compared to Apple Maps in most of the world. Navigating in SE-Asia with Gmaps is a breeze. Apple Maps constantly sent me to places, only to have the current address owner (and Google Maps) tell me that the business I was searching for moved. Same in Europe. Doesn't hurt that Google Maps has public transit integrated pretty much around the globe. Apple Maps currently only has that in 10 cities.. screw that noise.
Eh, no, but actually owning the wrongdoing would be a start.

Theranos fradulently conducted their business on a wide scale over a long period. Literally nothing they've said in public since the revelations (which just keep getting worse) have ever truthfully addressed the matter.

But regardless of the scale of wrongdoing, the bare minimum expected of both companies and individuals when they've done wrong is:

- An acknowledgment and admission of the wrongdoing, without equivocation or deflection. No "it was wrong but..." or any such thing. Own the wrongdoing, it's the least you can do to respect the people who you've done wrong by.

- Demonstration of self-awareness and introspection as to what led to the wrongdoing. Again, without equivocation or deflection. Neither corporation nor individual can be trusted not to commit the same wrong if they can't openly demonstrate why they did it.

- A plan to both prevent reoccurrence of the wrongdoing and, if applicable, a plan to make whole those who were harmed in the original wrongdoing. This doesn't need to be monetary, but may be (especially when businesses are involved).

These are the bare minimum prerequisites before anyone can be granted even the tiniest shred of credibility back.

This statement (like all other statements by Theranos) demonstrates literally no component of the above, so yeah, we'll keep (rightfully) raking them over the coals until they do.
And who is going to pay for those services? All those services are for the rich upper classes that can afford them. Your servant can't afford her own servant.
The comments section here can be brutal and God knows I've been responsible for some of it, which makes seeing comments like this all the more heartening.
I don't think that the only path forward is an M&A since they have plenty of cash, good revenue, and a reasonable product strategy. Doesn't mean, like any startup with way less traction, they wouldn't consider one at the right price.
The marketing strategy was the product itself, given that it was free, as well as the open development process.

And I do think that strategy was working to some degree; at least on channels like HN where we frequently saw posts related to RethinkDB.
Perhaps you wouldn't, but I do know people who regularly change out all their furniture and appliances for newer models that have more bells and whistles and/or are more "fashionable".

Would they do it every single year if the furniture and appliances got cheap enough? IMO, yes.
Orkut. Which was a social media site with 300 million users. Same number as twitter.
Sounds like it hasn't helped with consistency

https://aphyr.com/posts/322-jepsen-mongodb-stale-reads
I am curious whether you work for Google? I also don't think your answer would be honest and why delete your comment suggesting it's OK to monetize a persons private information?
My guess is they have an LOI (probably from SFDC), probably at a pretty significant valuation, and the board did what they should have and decided to shop it (they may have leaked on purpose to start a bidding war). The other suitors came to the conclusion that the range was more than they would pay and dropped out.
I migrated a project from RethinkDB to Postgres and replaced the changefeeds with a trigger that uses NOTIFY, does the same thing except that with the changefeeds I had the diff and with this trigger I still have to re-fetch the row and compare the diff.

https://gist.github.com/bithavoc/f40bbc33b553f2fddf9e1095858...

Something that RethinkDB supported natively :(
That's a good suite of software. But until and unless it has a personal assistant riding atop it that can couple world-class speech recognition (not just word recognition, but actual phrase semantics comprehension) with a knowldge graph to get from concept to concept, with the ability to smoothly move between pieces of data stored in those myriad services and systems, it's not really in the same league as what Google is trying to do with Assistant.

I'm just not sure how one gets to where Google is on this without, for example, several human-decades worth of actual voice samples from "in the field" to train a multi-stage voice recognizer against, or an entire Internet's worth of search data and signal on how people navigate through and associate that data to build something like a knowledge graph. These may not be systems that can be open-developed into existence without a huge donation of data, money, mindpower, or all three.
Slava is one of the smartest people I've met (and I'm sure the rest of the team follows suite) - it's indeed sad that the RethinkDB company is no more.

I feel we're at a stage where some of the key technologies/platforms are coming out of relatively small companies (docker, storm, rethinkdb, to name a few), however, it appears it can be tough to make a business out of this alone.

I'm consequently very happy to see that the RethinkDB team have found a home at Stripe and hope that works as a setup to allow the talent to flourish and keep producing great work/innovations.
Maybe because it sounds similar to > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAESH O_o
I knew I should have left out a few verbs on every page!
Google plus is still a thing?
I wonder if that is a Spanish thing. For me, in the US, the Twitter front page has looked like this since Nov 2015 (https://web.archive.org/web/20151101000851/https://twitter.c...).

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sjFY1xcd8zjgSkpU_3AF1UP7vm...