skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered why Holmes had never been forced out by investors or banks as a precondition of getting more support, but this explains why she's still there - they can't, because she has majority share power and Theranos still has oceans of cash and no need to go begging to anyone. There's simply no way to stop her or force her out aside from long-shot minority shareholder lawsuits (although I think there's at least one of those ongoing), and it'll take years or decades for all the lawsuits to finish appeals and to spend the cash down with a skeleton crew.

Indeed, given how her reputation is radioactive, why would she ever leave Theranos anytime soon? No one is going to hire her for anything anywhere else; she can continue drawing a CEO salary/benefits and keep playing CEO and a sense of self-worth; she gets Theranos to pay her legal bills (which may not be trivial by the end); and can mess around with an enormous fortune of $200m however she likes; and who knows, may even succeed in a pivot to something else - hope springs eternal.

(I wonder how much cash Magic Leap has left.)
I've been using GitLab for a couple of years now and it's true that finding stuff is not very intuitive. Even now I still have trouble finding things. Maybe you should watch many new people using it to see where they get stuck.
PICO-8 has 1MB of Lua RAM available, is this more efficient than precomputing the light levels/breakpoints and using it for each frame?
You'll get no argument from me that walking is a better experience than anything else. The important question here is why isn't there cheap housing near where people work? NIMBYs? Well yes a bit, but a big part of the reason as well is that it's easier and cheaper for developers to build cheap low density housing on the edges. This is because road users don't pay the true cost of their transportation and so living far away appears cheap to them. If more of the real costs of transportation were surfaced, then housing at the margins would not be as appealing, and there would be a greater incentive to develop denser urban housing.

This sprawl inducement is also what makes it harder to build good efficient public transit. Investment in car oriented infrastructure degrades transit effectiveness and intrenches a city and its residents in a car oriented mode.
I'm ultimately conflating emotion and intuition because I don't think they're very different, and by extension, I don't think emotion and intuition are very different from "rationality." Whether to trust someone is a feeling you get from being around them; danger is one's sense of a situation. Likewise, the way we feel about things is dependent on what we know about them, which is to say, our past experiences with those things or things similar to them (and, for that matter, "similar to" is the same sort of sense about things).

This is probably better seen from a couple other angles. Probably the most interesting thing, since you bring up cognitive biases, is that confirmation bias can be the only way we approach information. If not for confirmation bias, we'd be incapable of talking about "signal" and "noise," or else we'd wonder, how do you tell the difference?

Or to go deeper, it's known at this point that formal systems aren't decidable in their application (i.e., the entscheidungsproblem), so it's just not possible that rationality is like a formal system. But then, what is it? My view is that it's just the same thing as intuition (the sense we have of things) but more of it, which goes under the charitable name "abductive reasoning."
Not to be overly melodramatic and totally dodging the contents of the article, but aren't we already in a social dystopia? Is there any way of qualifying "how dystopic" a society is?
Thank you for this realistic point of view. Its contrary to everything i hold dear about the recycling idea- and reducing the energy footprint of manufacturing, but your points really made me think.
Thanks for the correction. I know there have been tunnels where TBMs were left behind but apparently that's less common than retrieval.

http://www.nysun.com/new-york/after-work-done-drills-likely-...

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Tunnel.html
Please don't use this internet trope on HN. It's a variant of the snarky dismissal, which we're hoping to avoid.

Instead, please post comments that add information. If something is wrong, teach us how.
Most broker agreements allow them to lend out your shares without your consent or knowledge

If you agree to the broker agreement, you're implicitly giving consent.
Do you mean SV the region or SV the industry?

It's possible, but one precondition is that you don't face VC backed competitors in your space.
Learning AI If You Suck at Math – Tensors Illustrated (with Cats)
Sure, but my point is that it's more complicated than "mad because FB streamed the thing they were streaming."
Proposed 18th Century Tax Bill Targets Single Women and Cats
Side point, but am I to understand from this that there is an email list "cs.opinion" which is "no-holds barred and often both agressive and personal"? That seems like a terrible idea in a professional environment.
> In the age of corporate greed

I see it as the reverse. In the age where people want a minimum wage of $15 without increasing their skills and asking other members of society to pay for it (either the employer or every productive person through taxation), the productive members are feeling the pressure to produce more and increase efficiency.

Basic income will only ensure that more members of the productive class move to the dependent class which would only exacerbate the problem.
New Release of GraphQL Subscriptions for JavaScript
So, what the heck is PJON? I read the whole page, and don't know.. something to do with communication. Hardware? Software? Library? Somehow JSON related?
Ask HN: What's your Git workflow for production systems?
Hi HN, I'm revisiting the topic of choosing the best git workflow. To those of you who run software in production, what works best for you? Given the preceding sentence, what's the structure of your team?
I think one positive caveat from all the very public bad press about the company is that it's pretty reasonable to think that employees had nothing to do with the demise of the company and being let go / fired can easily be seen as the company's fault rather than the employee's.

I hope that works in the favor of the people being let go.
The demoscene is another big one.
That's fine that it's not your style, but experimentation is a huge source of new music and reinvented ideas. Dismissing any music that wasn't strictly planned seems a little silly.
FWIW, it's not really meant to be playing alongside you. The idea is for you to play a short tune, then wait for the AI to respond with a tune of its own based off of yours.
There's nothing wrong with experiments that eventually fail, but there's something wrong with carrying out an experiment that you can tell in advance can't possibly succeed.
I guarantee that big banks will be involved in any deregulation, and will be working to steer it in their favor for competitive advantage. It happens with any change, whether it's adding regulation, re-regulation, or deregulation.
> I'm not sure why you would want to hide this data.

Imagine I find your domain now and because I don't like what you wrote, I'm going to start contacting you on your private phone and start sending you mail at home. Would you still want to keep your real data on whois? Guess when I stopped.
ouch, kind of sad when you put it that way
Since it's a term of the contract, I'd upgrade that "implicitly" to "explicitly".
Marilynne Robinson's book 'Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution' talks extensively about the history of Britian's social welfare system and its degrading effect on the people it ostensibly serves.

I recommend it highly if you are interested in the relationship between people and states of the British colonial diaspora, including the USA.
Does self promotion count as advertising? If it's YC promoting YC-backed startups, I wouldn't really consider it advertising as that requires a third party, at least in my opinion.
I think it'd sound more interesting if the computer compliments what I play. For example, if I play in C key, the computer tries to guess the chord progression and play the rhythm that matches what I'm playing.
Blockchain tech is being trialed for this in a few places, by DTCC.

The benefit is primarily cost savings and speed.
I actually have the Windows SDK v3.1 factory sealed in the basement. This thing is a beast. That box is a cube.

http://imgur.com/a/FFPS3
> It's too easy to implement, so it can't be regularized

A backdoor for the state to have mic and camera access in all iPhones is very easy to implement.

But people don't want it, so it's not (currently) there.

Clipper chips have been possible for over 20 years, but as a society, we decided that we didn't want them. What people want is more important than what's possible.
IIRC Ubuntu Studio (and most (all?) professional linux audio systems) uses JACK rather than ASLA/Pulse like most other versions of Ubuntu.

JACK has a reputation for being fiddly to set up, but puts great emphasis on low-latency/real-time and other professional use-cases. I'd expect it to be competitive, but don't really have the knowledge to make the comparisons myself.

I did find this unfinished review of latency in JACK from a few years ago: http://apps.linuxaudio.org/wiki/jack_latency_tests#does_late...
This is cool! I've been trying to use ML to automate the entire production pipeline. Choose chords, synths, loops, mix and add FX. http://signalsandsorcery.com/

Im finding extracting audio features from loops the hardest part. The selection of notes is actually not as difficult as choosing a good timbre for the notes.
Are you laying or taking the 40:1. If you're laying the 40:1, I'm in, of course!
I used to work for Microsoft. A lot of shit happened at that company that I didn't find out about until I read it in the paper, like everyone else. Kinda like how the baristas at Starbucks have absolutely no idea what I'm currently working on for that company.

So as I put on my "skeptic's <hat>", the first thing I'm skeptical about is a random employee of unknown level telling me it won't happen.
One thing i wonder about is: Amazon has many initiatives where a reduced cost capital(say by 3%, the average net interest spread) , could mean a huge difference for itself . Plus it has tons of data(and software) which affords it to manage risk extremely well.

As for scale,let's be optimistic and say it's the whole of Amazon's gross-merchandise value(GMV) , i.e. $225B in 2015 , i.e. not that far from capital one's assets.

So in theory, Amazon could offer more attractive online bank account plan from most anybody, by sharing it's gains with the users. And the marketing is free.Heck i can even see activity based marketing happens - "if X people from this neighborhood open saving plans with us, we'll start-a-local-warehouse/parcel-locker/grocery-service-point/etc"

So why would they want to acquire capital one?
Remember that infanticide is a leading cause of death of infants, and accidental injury is another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Protective_Services#Chil...

> On September 30, 2010, there were approximately 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S. of which 36% percent were ages 5 and under. During that same period, almost 120,000 birth to five year-olds entered foster care and a little under 100,000 exited foster care.[41]
The reason for this is that the whole robotic industry is stuck in lots of small walled in gardens of the past.

No templates, no object orientation, no functional programming, its 1984.0 in the factories. There are pushes by some companies (ABB, Stäubli, Kuka, Denso) but they meet resistance by the customer companies themselves, who view code as some sort of throw away part tailored to a machine, not as something of value that could migrate and grow more powerful, and the same for "similar" lines, where only positions and sizes changed.

Just get your hand on some big manufacturers "coding standards" for robots- and you know what im talking about. They usually dont have standard libs for you to use and no static analysers (unless you count the ranting guy, who oversees standard upholding).
I'll be interested to see where Holmes ends up after all this. My bet is that she joins a hedge fund, VC firm, or PE firm after the dust settles. Only question to me is which ones wouldn't find the Theranos backstory to be a disqualification.
In my opinion family and friends is the good kind of distraction, and I don't try to avoid them.

Browsing HN or Facebook or reading Twitter is the bad kind of distraction. I block news.ycombinator.com and some other websites on my computer (by editing the hosts file) to avoid the "let me just quickly check something" trap.

But I find that I get distracted most easily when doing boring pointless work. So I try my best to avoid that kind of work and make sure most of my work is intersting. When the work is interesting, I tend not to get distracted so easily.
> trying to understand how people can retroactively justify using that disgusting mess that is the Javascript syntax & ecosystem.

Not your main point, but it's very simple: if you're building a web app (or interactivity on a web page), you don't have a choice as it's the only thing that runs on browsers. (Or did you mean "why wouldn't people use a better language that compiles down to javascript"? To which I'd reply: it's one more layer of abstraction, and depending on the scale of your project it might not be worth adding that extra layer.)
They gave me a first credit card with 1.5% cash back rewards, a nice website and easily accessible customer service over chat. Not once have I cared what the interest rate was, of course, so they could be getting you there.

The rewards system works better than everyone's current favorite CSR, because you can use it to refund past purchases instead of just buying hotels with points in the Chase store.

The benefits that try to compete with Amex (like extended insurance) are harder to use since you have to actually call in instead of just filling in web forms.
Isn't that still the same as "blood and fire"?

Sure, you can just ignore the moralists you don't like, but what if they don't go quietly? Then you have to use something stronger against them. With the abortion issue for example, it's been a never-ending tug-of-war in politics, with each side constantly working to change the makeup of the SCOTUS to either maintain the status quo or to overturn it. While not an actual, physical battle, it's been a constant political one, for decades now. It's never been settled. And with the latest election, the "let's wait for them to die off" idea obviously isn't working so well: the anti-abortion people are winning politically (at least for now), so I reject the idea that the people with strict religious moral codes are dying out. (Notice that, in the US at least, it's religious people who typically have far more kids than non-religious people.)
GM to build, test thousands of self-driving Bolts in 2018
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13667447 and marked it off-topic.
You need to use a modern browser in order to access the requested page.

Is the latest safari on iOS not modern enough these days?
Looks like the Why page doesn't really answer that question but the main site might be better:

http://www.pjon.org/
Given the realities, automation is the only real solution.
Its sounds more like the definition of a prosocial person, not reasonable. I think there needs to be something in there about, say, enlightened self-interest as it relates to the community, rather than simply asserting that reasonable people think about the common good.

In the economic sense, a common approach is to model reasonable people as trying to maximize their gain or utility, without much regard to the common good.
Haha, you sound like a great co-worker!
From the homepage:

PJON™ (Padded Jittering Operative Network) is an Arduino
compatible, multi-master, multi-media communications bus
system. It proposes a Standard, it is designed as a
framework and implements a totally software-emulated network
protocol stack.
Are these standard keys for some other piece of music software?

I keep getting confused because I'm so used to the old-style tracker keys (I keep hitting J for Bb and getting B, which isn't helping my C minor improv). Also one octave isn't great, lag is killing the rhythm, and it keeps not waiting for me to finish.

Neat idea though.

(I'm curious to know whether the training set for the version shown in the demo is the same as for the live web version, as the demo sounded way better than anything I'm getting out of it - though obviously they would have cherrypicked the results for the video.)
Unless I'm grossly misunderstanding the article, that's pretty much what we already have here. This situation came about because that central entity decided it didn't want to hear about the sheer mass of trades happening with this stock for for a few days.
I agree that retainers are a really useful tool for ensuring a consistent income and minimising time spent prospecting, but do also consider your motivations for freelancing. If you are looking to work on a variety of projects then a retainer may limit your ability to take on new opportunities when they come up.
In this case my ordered guess is: (more important first)

* It's a nice blog post that is easier to understand than a github repository. The repository has a good readme, but the blog post has more details.

* Brand recognition: twilio is more famous than you. This gives a little more confidence in the project. (Don't get offended, twilio is more famous than me too.)

* Bonus point for a tweet/photo of patio11.

* Sometimes the fanboys of a language can help. But I'm not sure if phyton is more popular than node.js here

* Luck. Sometimes it's just luck. HN has a system where the mods select an autoresubmit a post to try to reduce the luck factor.
> You can't regulate technology out of existence

No, but you can regulate it into regulation. This is why police need a warrant to pick the lock on your front door, or to use a thermal imaging camera on your home.
Google Chrome 56 on iOS here, same issue.
I'm an MBA student at the University of Michigan. I have a background in Engineering and software so I can appreciate the discussion topics that HN gravitates towards.

To me HN is a great source of 'frontier information' AND associated perspectives that are generally fair but probably biased towards techno-optimism (not necessarily a bad thing).

The comment quality is a huge plus point compared to other communities. I think i could probably get the same news from a variety of sources but the opinions and time taken to create quality comments is staggering and keeps me coming back almost daily as a lurker.
I get $4k if it does, I pay $100 if it doesn't (by 6 months end).
Asus zenbook :)
Good analysis indeed.

I worry that Orwell has become so ubiquitous as to be meaningless. Both sides read Orwell and take from it that they are right and if their opponents would only read some Orwell they would understand how evil they are. It's a shame we can't temporarily resurrect him so he can write: "Orwell on Orwell in the 21st Century" I'm sure he'd see it clearly, and differently than all the rest of us.
Cloudstitch founder here (YC S15).

We wrap Google Sheets and Excel 365 in an API you can use to GET/PUT data along with a number of other goodies:

- security policies (e.g., row-based auth)
- file upload support
- email triggers upon upload
- a notion of "frozen" releases versus live dev data
(released but yet undocumented -- email hello@ for details)

Very happy to provide support for anyone looking to use us as an API into their sheets.
GitHub page has a much better introduction than this beautiful yet uninformative website.

https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

PJON™ (Padded Jittering Operative Network) is an Arduino compatible, multi-master, multi-media communications bus
system. It proposes a Standard, it is designed as a framework and implements a totally software-emulated network
protocol stack. It is a valid alternative to i2c, 1-Wire, Serial and other Arduino compatible protocols. Visit the
Wiki, Documentation and Troubleshooting wiki pages to know more about the PJON Standard.

Get PJON bus id Video introduction Join the chat at https://gitter.im/gioblu/PJON Donate

Features

* Configurable 2 level addressing (device and bus id) for scalable applications

* Multi-media support with the data link layer abstraction or Strategy framework

* Configurable strategies inclusion (for memory optimization)

* Configurable 1 or 2 bytes packet length (max 255 or 65535 bytes)

* Master-slave or multi-master dynamic addressing

* Configurable synchronous and/or asynchronous Acknowledgement of correct packet sending

* Collision avoidance to enable multi-master capability

* Selectable CRC8 or CRC32 table-less cyclic redundancy check

* Packet manager to handle, track and if necessary retransmit a packet sending in background

* Optional ordered packet sending

* Error handling
Reddit Is Being Manipulated by Professional Shills Every Day
No, QDirStat is NOT a port of WinDirStat. WinDirStat is a port to Windows of KDirStat, the successor of QDirStat.
Your self-diagnosed autism is only part of your problem, your attitude is the bigger issue. You need to drastically reevaluate yourself and your expectations.

First, let me explain why I wouldn't hire you based on what you've written here. For starters, communication is a huge part of the job. Writing code is only one part - clarifying vague or contradictory requirements, helping coworkers, updating on progress, sharing lessons learned, etc are all equally important.

Hiring you also sounds like a huge risk and liability to the company. Every tech company tries to hire and retain women and minority employees and even a single accusation of a hostile work environment or a single incident can tank a company. If I hire you and one of your rude statements or misunderstood communications turns into a blog post on jezebel, I'm probably getting fired as well as putting the entire company at risk. Even if that doesn't happen, my A players are probably going to start looking for better opportunities if they're forced to deal with your toxic attitude in the workplace.

Autism isn't a super power. It's a handicap. You need to drastically check your ego and approach the world as it is rather than how you wish it was. You are very bad at something which is very important (communication).

Approach the the problem of "How can I communicate better?" in the same way you would approach any other challenge - read books, work with experts, ask for help, experiment and see what the results of trying different things is, etc. Change your perspective to accepting you are inferior at one aspect of your job and work to increase proficiency, instead of getting angry that the rest of the world doesn't share in your belief of your superiority.
I don't know your role position at Capital One but unless you were way up in the management chain, why do you think you would have even heard anything about this?
Any plans for isosurfaces?
> In that respect, what we're seeing is a return to the norm

In no way. Note that the article is about police body cameras. This is less about technology than it is about the power of the state over individuals.
Hm. I've been doing similar experiments with React+mobx - and am having trouble working out how to compare this (form system is nice, mind)