skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took Beijing's subway around quite a bit last summer. At least where I was going, it seemed preferable to sitting in traffic. Payment seemed easier to navigate as well compared to the prior time I visited. I'd have said it was a pretty decent subway system overall.
Feels disingenuous to use the end-to-end CO2 generation for the battery but only the burn costs of diesel.
I fully agree with your first point. However, I don't think Quickbooks purposefully designed their software to be hard to use. I think that just happened when they grew their software organically without spending much effort and rework with good UX designers.

It's more important that B2B "work" software works accurately, correctly and ticks all the required features, than that it is intuitive or beautiful. A steep learning curve is a problem for B2C software, not so much for B2B software that is used intensely.
You're probably thinking of The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-boy-whose-skin-fell-o...
For what it's worth Musk doesn't seem to claim that he knows or does anything. He talks about his companies and what awesome things they will do, large teams of motivated and inspired scientists and engineers that share the dreams he does and for once have the money and mandate to go and make them happen.

He may not be a scientist, engineer or inventor but he inspires and empowers scientists and inventors so that counts for something.

Even if his ego should potentially have cosmic objects orbiting it.
No, Theranos outright committed fraud. They did things like used test results from some other kind of blood test to "prove" their test worked.

That isn't "We are on shaky ground with new, unproven tech." That's "We know it doesn't work. We are comfortable lying about it because money."
Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare's 128th Data Center
Oh wow. Just wow.
Theranos was a punch line in my office just this morning, and she'll forever be associated with that.

But Shkreli has brought on himself another order of magnitude of personal criticism because of his statements and actions beyond the price fixing. In my experience from the days after his sentencing, people who know nothing about tech or healthcare know his name and react to it with scorn, while quite few of them know the name of his funds or companies.
Pilot CEO here. Short answer is "A domain broker, some good timing, and a fair bit of money".

Definitely not "a large fraction," but an amount that made us think hard about it first.
Reusable Vuex Mutation Functions
Fair enough, but I guess I don't see a difference between rewrite sqlite in rust and, make something exactly like sqlite, with a c ffi but in rust.
For those interested in learning about the United States government moving from prosecuting white-collar criminals to settling, the difference between the SEC and Justice Department misses the point.

The book The Chickenshit Club https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute... by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist tells a more thorough and comprehensive, though infuriating and tragic, story.
I wonder what the actual likelihood of that is. The stock has increased at least 20x since 2008, so, assuming the employee had options beginning in 2004, they could have made a decent amount of money off that.
I feel like I'm being misunderstood. My point is that if you are a leader in a company and you sell before the dip which is based on some pretty negative event, you should not necessarily go to prison or have freedom's taken from you.

BUT, I don't think that means you shouldn't be subject to some reputational consequence.

Should we trust your statements when you get on that investor call? Isn't your prior actions relevant?
>For all those entrepreneurs are trying to "fake it until you make it" be aware that the SEC considers your strategy both fraudulent and they feel they have the jurisdiction to prosecute you.

Holmes was, in many ways, embodying that HN mentality, acting on the basis:

- that an entire industry has been doing it wrong

- that it can be fixed by a low-bureaucracy, Angel-funded startup

- that once you have enough success you can just rewrite the laws that were slowing you down

- that no one knows what they're doing anyway, major projects are 100% guesswork, and you should just "fake it till you make it"

- that any skill is just a matter of 10,000 hours of practice

- that you can outsmart an industry before even passing or placing out of sophomore level classes

- that any self-doubt must be Impostor Syndrome, and so it's not worth your time to even check if that doubt has a factual basis

Yes, I've posted this twice before but I'm citing it and admitting to it, and it got heavily upvoted both times (thanks to Algolia for making comments so easily searchable btw):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071172
Fun with SQL: generate_series in Postgres
Because most native English speakers call it soccer.
I'd actually say D would be best suited as a replacement because of -betterC mode. You could replace one piece, run all the tests, and then move on to the next piece. Most of the C code could even be reused with minor modifications. In fact, this is why -betterC was introduced. The only reason you wouldn't want to do this is that D is limited to the platforms targeted by LLVM.
Sure, in a professional environment both are inappropriate, perhaps "chick" even more so given the historic inequality in the workplace between sexes.

That said, I'm curious what is at all "professional" about the greater context that spawned this particular discussion in the first place.
Amazon recalls fire-risk power packs in UK, Europe and US
Settlement is probably best for investors because they immediately get control of the company and Holmes basically gets nothing.

The job of the SEC is to protect investors so they are probably doing the right thing here.
Didn't she sort of demonstrate that it worked? Or least that is the headline I read.
I have known 'Stellar' since its beginnings as Ripple. I have no expectations of changing your mind or obligation to convince you otherwise. Just thought I'd share my viewpoint.
Can you explain how it saves those hours? Do you no longer have to input invoices and expenses? Is that all automated?
A poster above wrote that Slack had 10x yearly growth, that sounds like it might be like that.
The number of Common Lisp programmers who are also ace system and assembly programmers (people like Luke Gorrie, Paul Khuong) disproves this hypothesis.
While I see the same distinction and it's hard to watch, we can enumerate Shkreli's mistakes:

1. giving the finger to Congress

2. refusing to settle and going to court

3. talking shit the entire time he was on trial, both to court journalists and on TV ("junior varsity", etc.)

4. offering money for Clinton's DNA while on bond shortly after she lost the most embarrassing election of all time (while hilarious and obviously satire, of course "they" used this against him)

And I'm sure someone else could add to my list. Meanwhile, I don't even know what Holmes looks like, let alone what her voice sounds like.
My opinion: if you think this is about race and gender (as opposed to about wealth and power) you're being played.
> commits a securities crime

>> the 2008 financial crisis

The problem evidenced by the 2008 crisis was that many destructive behaviors were not, in fact, illegal. (Some were, and many of those people are barred from industry or going to jail [1].)

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/03/news/libor-scandal-tom-hayes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcC6FYyL4U

EDIT: Stephen Hawking singing Galaxy song
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16217241 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16556000.
Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now
I'm thinking something like this could be used for a depth sensing application; a visual rangefinder.
The joys of RSS readers: I basically don't know that a site has redesigned itself until they make a blog post about it or i have to click through because the RSS post is truncated.
The question here isn't whether it's easier to write correct C programs than Java programs, it's whether C is a simple language.

Subtle UB, as much of a headache as it can be to a programmer using the language, in this case leads to simpler implementation of a compiler.
I've been in cabs where it was clear the driver did not have a license, or had somehow cheated the system in order to get one. One man did not understand basic concepts like how to turn left at a red light. He believed he had the right of way to turn left at all times (I guess he was confused into thinking having a "green arrow" was standard for all lights even if they didn't have one) and when oncoming cars would keep coming at him he would slam the brakes out of fear instead of punching the gas - stopping in front of traffic! Thankfully no one t-boned us but when the oncoming traffic drivers would honk at him he would honk back and get angry (whilst stopping in place due to slamming the brakes). I was only in the cab for about 1.5 miles but this happened at 2 or 3 lights. This was in Queens! I shudder to think of what would happen to him and his passengers in Manhattan.

Horrifying.
You're comparing indirect emissions with direct emissions. For a fair comparison, if you're including manufacturing costs for the battery on one side, you should also include manufacturing costs for the fuel on the other side.
I am waiting on the backlist for the FHD mod... I already have the IPS screen forgot to mention that!
No it means there should _not_ be a performance question.

It does however mean that there is an issue with supported platforms. Rust has support for all the major platforms already, but C is probably the most widely supported language in existence at all.
You can commit most crimes in this world with relative impunity, but the number one rule is never steal from the rich.
It's also very othering and very blamey. It labels the guy a sociopath and comes from an assumption that this is all downside, some kind of defect that he needs to work at compensating for.

Surgeons typically lack empathy. It is what allows them to cut into people. I could never do that job.

The guy is probably an excellent scientist because he's a sociopath. The article doesn't address that fact.
they don't have the authority to do that...

yes, people should inform themselves before talking. Jail time and other penalties will depend on the Justice Department
wait, since when can gigabit ethernet transmit more than a gigabit per second?
It should absolutely be the same as situations where "non-AI" systems fail and kill someone.

It's too difficult to define "AI." So if a legal loophole emerges because "AI" software is held to a different standard than traditional software, then we will have people exploiting loopholes either way. People can claim nested ifs are decision trees, or their linear adaptive filter is a neural network. Or the other way around.

The legal system can't figure out prior art vis-a-vis patents, so it's pretty clear they are far from able to tackle technical decisions regarding AI.
top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16585892
For clarity: the finding is about the rotation of the galatic structure (e.g. the spiral arms), not the orbital speeds of the individual bodies, which is different. Google the "density wave" theory of galactic structure for details.

Mass distribution is obviously a factor in that analysis, but it's not as critically determined as you think.
>Scrolling to the end of an article jolts you back into the main feed.

That's absolutely insane! Who had this idea?
What does "charged" mean here? Is this criminal or civil?
Because it does not have the authority to do so.

https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-bulletins/ib_invest...
I'm still pretty convinced the CLOUD act is a disaster but the Lawfare article makes some persuasive points:

* There already is foreign access to US data about non-citizens under the MLA process, which is slow but has very few safeguards or privacy controls, unlike this new proposed process.

* In the absence of sustainable process, there's good evidence that foreign governments are simply going to require data localization, which completely eliminates any safeguards and also potentially puts some US citizen data at risk.

* If DOJ wins at SCOTUS in the Microsoft Ireland case, the US government will get access to foreign-server data without any of the safeguards in the CLOUD act. If CLOUD passes, it moots the SCOTUS case.

But the idea that this DOJ, in this administration, could ink a deal with any country in the world --- on its own recognizance --- to give them access to data on US servers? If you can't imagine providing that access for this administration, you shouldn't imagine doing so for any future administration either.
google has right to do this but I do think this is a bad move. Filtering and censoring is opposite to what google claimed what they were doing.
SB 822 Would Secure Net Neutrality for California
Without Elon Musk, do you think humanity would currently be in possession of reusable rocket boosters? (Regardless of Page and Brin's accomplishments.)
I love it for the efficiency it provide to the developpers. But, as a Linux user, I won't use it for my personnal projects.
Hmm, I though its called football in the rest of the world except the US.
Apparently there are other countries that call it soccer too.

http://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-1...
I've never owned a smart phone and likely never will.
"fake it till you make it" is one thing if your product is a new dating app to compete with grindr, or a clone of flappy bird... entirely another thing if you're making tangible claims about the ability of a medical device.
Even if the claim were true, then you could still make more money using someone else's capital.

It's the basis of the financial industry: You can make X using your own money, but you can make X+n using other people's money too.
> * Scrolling to the end of an article jolts you back into the main feed.

Yeah seriously, what on earth is this. What if I want to scroll back up and read some tidbit earlier in the article? Well, it actually _navigates_ you away, so you have to hit the back button - can't just scroll back to where you were, even though it doesn't seem like you navigated at all. It's fucking confusing and it takes control away from me that I have on literally every other website. And there's no indication that it's going to navigate you away besides a little check mark.

Who the heck thought this was a good idea?
I'd love to give reddit gold (if I had any) to anyone who could point me to a source for the Pi Zero at the price point it was originally supposed to be selling at: $5.00

I have yet to find it - you can get them cheap, but no where near what the RPi Foundation advertised them at when they first were announced/launched.
languages are actually eager to target it
Indeed. I often feel like I don't fully accept something until I've arrived at it in my own way somehow. It's similar to how a test for understanding a subject is whether you can put it "into your own words". I wonder if a similar effect could account for his ignorance of others' opinion of him. Almost certainly compounded by psychopathic inclinations to manipulate those around you, but never be manipulated.
There is an endpoint that measures accuracy.

Long-term accuracy is 69%.
How do you add that public key to the WHOIS register - Via your domain registrar (and it would have to be updateable/changeable outside of renewal cycles). Who is your DNS provider 90% of the time? Your domain registrar...
Spy prisoners are useful to trade, as Skripal and three others were traded for Illegals Program spies in 2010.
By the time we can do this on pigs, the ethical disaster of the fact that billions of people will have died preventable deaths will be at holocaust levels. The only ethical action is to do this well before it's possible, roughly at the point where the probability of it happening at some point in the future crosses the cost-benefit threshold.

The idea that there is a less than 1-in-10000 chance that in 10,000 years we will be unable to run brains in simulation given over the last ~50y of development we've produced hardware literally nine orders of magnitude faster than that of the brain, done so in a mass-producible fashion, made unbelievable strides in neuroscience, discovered CRISPR and make synthetic biology, gone from AI-as-theory to computers that can talk, describe images, and synthesise photorealistic faces, gone from technology as niche to CPUs on plastic that cost literally a since cent... is frankly an blunt unwillingness to consider the issue.
I truly hope this works, and that Equifax is forced to close down. They have repeatedly demonstrated they do not deserve to continue being a company.
Interesting! Articles like this make Hacker News stand out.
Thanks, poster!
It's sad, but likely true. Binding arbitration anyone?
It's a true open standard developed collaboratively by multiple competing top-tier companies, has multiple interoperable implementations, has been designed from the ground up for running untrusted code in a sandboxed environment, has been designed to be a general-purpose compilation target rather than with tight coupling to a specific source language, it has enough killer apps that is will likely continue to be developed and supported by these multiple companies, and it was developed with the hindsight of many of these previous failed or only partially successful efforts.

Some of these previous efforts might have one or two of these features, but none of them meet all of these criteria.
Yeah which is too bad.

If you're reckless in your car and get into an accident, can you be jailed? Yes, for reckless endangerment.

Why is there no such thing in the financial world, especially after 2008 :(
I agree. It looks pretty random. Its probably even more random since we can't reliably eyeball the chirality in most of photographed galaxies so half the angles in one of the axis are practically mirrored at first glance.
> No, not all of marketing spend is zero-sum...

That's why I said "mostly". The first 10% of marketing spend may well be useful. The last 10% is the case of being louder than competitors, and is zero sum. Where the line is in a particular market varies and is subjective.
IANAL, but from what I understand in California, if a small claim is appealed a lawyer may represent on either side.
> Let's not flag and ban this discussion when it arises.

It has nothing to do with Google banning crypto ads so should be flagged as it distracts from the actual topic we’re trying to discuss.
There's a lot of countries I don't trust to keep sensitive data in. But my point is that Wosign was provably untrustworthy, rather than speculation on government interference in other CAs. I saw from your Github that you live in Kazakhstan, I would remind you the government is less than trustworthy as well[0] in regards to digital privacy.

[0]: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/12/14/kazakhsta...
I wonder how much of current ad revenue (Google/FB) is coming from cryptocurrency related companies and how this might negatively impact their earnings.

However, it may be a small amount or they both factored this change into their forecasting before announcements.
I fixed the rubric to be more factually accurate:

"He was the physicist who went to Microsoft and made his fortune. These days he’s a patent troll, extortionist, bad chef and a litigious piece of shit"
Worked for the tobacco companies.
I've already read that -- it does not explain why. It simply states that it cannot. What law restricted it? Why was that law put into place? How often are recommendations for prosecution followed up on successfully?

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the information -- very interesting.
> miracle berries

Is this commonly used to refer to acai berries? The only "miracle berry" I know of[1] is named for the effect on perception of flavor caused by the chemical miraculin, which is produced by the berry.

They're also extremely fun to introduce to people who have never tried them before, and I highly recommend them for your next party.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
And Energous.
Can I set my watch by that?
Right, but that doesn't mean that fraud can't happen with very early stage companies....there are plenty of b2b SaaS startups out there who are raising on non-GAAP metrics like "bookings" and who are grossly inflating both the certainty and pro forma value of these projected numbers.
Computer Science often attracts people who have been told they are good at math from a very early age and often people who aren't that are intimidated away from pursuing it.

I was decidedly not one of those people who was told I was good at math and it caused me a lot stress before I started studying CS and early on in my studies.

But it turns out, a lot of what makes people get the reputation for being 'good at math' is about a very specific subset of math that is taught to young students. That very specific subset is important for CS study, but its a very small part of the maths breadth that you need. For instance, I'm terrible at Calculus but found an aptitude for logic only after I began studying CS.

TLDR: Yes, you can study CS while also struggling with math. You have to do things to make up for those struggles such as engage with the professors/TAs more aggressively, get outside tutoring/help & work harder than your peers in those classes.
House Rejects Bill to Give Patients a ‘Right to Try’ Experimental Drugs
Quite impressive temples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temples_of_Humankind
Just for the record, almost nobody accepts the thesis of that book. Penrose is a great fundamental physicist who believes (or did back in 1990) that new fundamental physics is needed to explain how brains produce intelligent behaviour.

The dominant contrary opinion is that this can be done using some form of computation. Other opinions are that something other than computation in the Turing sense is required, but that current physics is probably sufficient to describe it. Very few people think that a theory of e.g. quantum gravity is the right level of explanation for the phenomena of intelligent behaviour.

I think Penrose fell into a common trap: when you are an expert on hammers, every hard problem looks like it needs a whack with a better hammer.
Ugh Finally.

More than just the financial fraud, these folks engaged in behavior that actively endangered the public. I hope this isn't the end of the government actions against them.

Her public behavior was exceptionally bizarre and almost none of what's been revealed comes as any real surprise. For timeline purposes:

Dec 24, 2017 - They get $100m lifeline investment
https://www.wsj.com/articles/blood-testing-firm-theranos-get...

June 21, 2017 - Walgreens settlement
https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-walgreens-reach-deal-t...

May 30, 2017 - Crisis on the Board
https://www.wsj.com/articles/court-documents-shed-light-on-t...

April 21, 2017 - Caught using outside lab gear to fake tests
https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-secretly-bought-outsid...

April 5, 2017 - Holmes found to owe $25m to her own startup
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14047457

Jan 19, 2017 - Closes last lab after failing inspection
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13433840

Jan 17, 2017 - second lab fails inspection
https://www.wsj.com/articles/second-theranos-lab-failed-u-s-...

Jan 6, 2017 - Lays off 41% of workforce
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13338996

Nov 17, 2016 - Whistleblower comes out
https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/283681/theranos-whistleblow...

July 8, 2016 - Banned from operating a lab for 2 years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053721

Jan 27, 2016 - Letter from the feds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983747

Dec 20, 2015 - Some skepticism
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10765562

Oct 16, 2015 - Struggles with tech
https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-has-struggled-with-blo...