skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with you 100%.

There are definitely areas where a wunderkind can advance the frontier by ignoring dogma about what is and isn’t possible; but biomedical engineering doesn’t seem like one of them.

I always had my suspicions too; her idea seemed so simple that it had to have occurred to larger med device makers too. If they couldn’t solve the problems related to the small sample size with many years of engineering experience, what made her think her chances of success were any better?
I've actually never seen a HN thread that was overall positive about Theranos. The top comments were shears critical of the company, despite all the worthy surface level virtue it carried.
Yeah, basically I just set all the drivers to postscript, and every recent printer I've tried (lasers only) has been happy to take postscript.

This may mean more about the progression of cheap postscript-compat printers than Linux.

But the wireless mdns discovery thing works, which is really nice.
Cheap and near-instant transactions.
I think picking up random people for not pre-decided routes is pretty confident to me.

Disc: Googler but nowhere close to this project.
Hopefully someone will buy at least the name out of bankruptcy and rejuvenate the company. There is definitely value to be had, we haven’t seen the last of ToysRUs.
We Demand Serverless Ruby
Show HN: Our app to help nurses conduct safe deliveries in developing countries
No matter what format/tool you come up with, there will be use cases it doesn't support, yet are needed.

When it comes to the written word, the world of legitimate, needed use cases is HUGE. The word processor is the natural evolutionary response to this need: A complex hodge podge of features and ways to visualize the content you're creating.

You can tell that this article was written by an engineer because he's willing the world to fit into his neat and tidy box. It completely ignores the needs of most other industries. Were markdown to become the new standard, it wouldn't take long for a thousand ISO specs and extensions to come into being, until finally markdown is as complex as SOAP, and people go back to using Word.
I was wondering how Augur got around the need for an oracle, since on that system (iiuc), one can create a prediction market around any publicly-observable outcome.

In centralized markets, one person determines the final market outcomes - which means there can be mistakes or outright manipulation. With Augur, we'll have thousands reporting on market outcomes using a one-of-a kind consensus based system and a unique token called REPutation. As a reporter, you'll report on events every two months and, in return, receive half of all fees in the system multiplied by the percent of REP you own.

via http://www.augur.net/
The company decision makers could be making a bad decision. They're likely in dire straits to be in this position in the first place. Add in shareholders, some slick marketing/badmouthing from Bain reps, and you have a good opportunity for people to act irrationally, in their personal dis-interest.

Also, you can imagine that Bain has a few inside managers who do very well personally from this kind of deal.
There's more to the "hegemony" than just pure tech. Tight government control may be good for keeping the party in power, but it's not great for building trust with people outside the Great Firewall.
>Code generation is mostly bad(...)C structs and enums,

C macros (or "C code generation" if you prefer) is very, very different from Lisp macros.

Lisp macros are built into the language, the whole language itself is designed around this capability.
In books, probably. But this was before the web, so I don't know if there are any authoritative web sites about it. You might check the old late 1970's and early 1980's computer magazines on archive.org.

A large part of the delay is that messages were transmitted in a store-and-forward scheme (often via uucp). And most machines didn't send messages more than once a day because connectivity was expensive and measured in dollars per minute. And when they did connect to the next machine, it was usually not a very long hop. Sometimes one part of a campus to another. Or to a computer in the next town.

I really don't know exactly how the messages crossed oceans. Satellite transmission would have been unthinkable. My guess is that eventually they hit some big east coast computing center like MIT or BBN and went via undersea cable, but that's speculation.

I ran a node of one of the pre-intenet networks. Like most of the other nodes, it was connected via 150 or 300 baud dialup modem. Later there were a few 1200's, but they were rare.

My node was important because it was oddly located so that it could span two states and two area codes without incurring toll charges. That made it very busy, so the early morning (2am) message transfer sometimes took a couple of hours.

I tried to write a couple of articles about the old American dialup networks on Wikipedia once, but someone in another country deleted them saying they didn't exist because he'd never heard of it and if there was no web site to link to as reference it didn't happen. I stopped contributing to Wikipedia after that.
You can't claim that something is "censored" or "not being covered by the press" by linking to an article in a national newspaper.
>Also you couldn't just say "stop until I say start," but rather you had to login every 2 weeks to keep clicking "Skip delivery."

Wow, I thought this "negative-option delivery" business practice went out of favor with Columbia House.
+1 to this.

I used a Polar M600 for the last year, and the long anticipated AW 2.0 update pretty much ruined it. After the upgrade, Play Music lost the ability to shuffle on-device content. The worst thing was that the watch was divorced from the phone, and my "google managed" gsuite account wanted to install Android Device Policy manager, which then wanted me to enable a PIN (annoying) and encrypt the watch (impossible), so I lost access to Google authenticatior on the watch, which was pretty much the only advantage it had over a non-Androidwear smartwatch.

I just replaced it with a Garmin that also does BT music (which can shuffle!), and I"m loving week-long battery life vs the 1-day at most life. The notifications work just as well. I'm beginning to think that full-blown Android (or WatchOS) is just a bad idea for watches, and companies like Garmin and Fitbit have a much better platform.
As an immigrant in America, one of the most jaw-dropping fact I learned about American culture is that kids getting best grades in school are often tagged as "geeks" and often get bullied, and kids all want to be "cool". Well, though it might be common sense in America, in China and other east Asian countries, if you can't get good grades, you won't get much respect from anybody.
You also don't need to render at full resolution.

A significant benefit of higher res VR displays is not being able to physically see the pixels / screen door effect of the screen. You still get this benefit by rendering at a lower resolution and upscaling to the display resolution. Certainly you will be able to see 'render pixels', but that's a much less significant problem and just reduces the realism of the scene.
Not ELI5 but worth the read: http://observer.com/2017/04/iheart-radio-leveraged-buyout-do...
More or less. I do more PIM but occasionally play music and do calls.

I'm in Spain, so no LTE for me. Otherwise I'd bought a Series 3 it in a heartbeat. Most important feature IMO.
This is a useful package and one way in which to build a personal wiki with references to Org notes files and vice-versa. There can be a bit of a performance hit when the personal wiki grows to be quite large as the files are searched and indexed when performing visualization mode, but perhaps with additional popularity there would be people willing to tackle that enhancement.
Lightning in theory would allow for fast & cheap transactions, so BTC could really be used for payments instead of the "asset" it has become. Has been discussed for years with nothing to show. I remain skeptical. But if it works well, it could be a catalyst for mainstream adoption and increased price support.
I do not agree. I’m getting pretty tired of the shiny cartoony untextured polygon VR look. I’m ready for more R in my VR.
An abundance of nuttiness around symbolic issues is certainly another argument for why referenda in general make policy laundering easy!

There's a big difference between a manifesto mandate for a government to try to do X, which the Opposition are expected and encouraged to try to revise and thwart, and an assumption that something as little-discussed and likely irrelevant to most people's voting intent as whether to retain a Customs Union is a non-severable, non-contestable facet of public assent to leave the EU. That would have been the case even if a simple, practical customs border solution had been proposed at any time. As it is, we get "look, we can square this circle with the unilateral free trade we've been advocating for years, and to hell with the people who actually voted Leave because they wanted more protectionism not less..."
> A sunny day in Phoenix on a carefully controlled set of streets

Not all days in Phoenix are sunny and 600 square miles is not "carefully controlled set of streets".

According to https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-google-arizona-phoenix-dri...:

"Once Waymo is up and running in Arizona, it will gradually expand its service area to cover a 600-square mile swath around Phoenix"

By all signs that's going to happen this year.
I've been using Wave for my bookkeeping for years with no regrets. With that being said, I'm a single-person S-corp with no employees and my income is made up of directly-deposited checks in response to weekly/monthly invoices. I typically have one client at a time, as I do software development on a contract basis. In comparison to others, I imagine that my needs are very basic.
I advocate the same perspective towards both genes 'n memes: stop trying to preserve your current configuration verbatim, and start trying to participate in a process that iteratively adapts and improves. Some examples:

- Marry / procreate with an opposite you're attracted to.
- End stasis-inducing IP monopolies.
- Let other people contribute to your codebase when practical.
- Focus on trying to benefit from immigration rather than eliminating it.
- Don't let political units at any level get so powerful that you can never refactor your culture in a different way.

Regarding your contingencies, I put zero probability on my creations (kids, code, businesses) resembling me for long. I wouldn't wish them to as I doubt I'll be useful in their world. I'd like it if they could trace part of their prosperity to values or traits I imparted, but you have to find notions of continuity and contribution that aren't just a distance function from yourself.
The intrinsic value of a cryptocurrency is in its utility: moving an accounted and measurable unit across the internet peer to peer.
Well, because you can get a sample that's a lot more representative of the actual bulk bloodstream by a) diluting out the contaminants always present in the first part of the sample, and b) drawing the sample from a large vein rather than tiny ones in the fingertip.
Good origin story on Bain/Romney by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-th...
Why is Torrentz choosing to shut down relevant?
AI that can mimic any voice developed. (We Might have summoned the devil)
Waymo cars are all over Chandler and Tempe in Arizona. I see many on a regular basis with a good portion self-driving.

It is neat to see all the roads you normally drive in the self-driving videos and it is almost taken for granted that they are here [1][2]. Chandler has always been in early on technology due to many reasons but that lots of programmers/engineers work here due to intel historically, projects like Iridium started here, also one of the first places to get cable/broadband internet in the 90s.

With that said, Chandler is very easy to drive, square roads, good weather, clean roads, clearly marked and kept up, minimal freeway needed etc. It is a great place to start but still lots for the cars/algos to learn, however it IS happening and I see it everyday.

Many of the videos are around Chandler downtown that is a bit busy and has lots of movement/pedestrians[3], so that is good that it is able to navigate that, it is close to busy urban environments.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaOB-ErYq6Y

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8R148hFxPw (360 degree experience)

[3] https://youtu.be/B8R148hFxPw?t=1m50s
> Journalist cannot keep portraying the rise of the Chinese tech industry [...]

In the United States anyway, Trumps pandering mercantilism has all but ensured that all global trade will be treated as an axiomatic good by an adversarial press (WaPo and NYT, primarily), nuance be damned.
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
> Vulkan Compute shaders work in recent Android devices

Actually no.

Vulkan is an optional API, so unless we are talking about Samsung and Google flagships phones, there is no guarantee of it being available.

So far Google hasn't even bothered to add it to the dashboards.

For compute, only Renderscript is required.
ML-Agents v0.3 launched
That in turn requires distancing ourselves from the "ever closer union" vision and being free of the constraints that come with belonging to the EU's customs union.

Wasn't that exactly what Cameron negotiated before the referendum.
Your comment is very misleading.

Intel's state of the art fabs are for Intel use only and are NOT accessible to fabless companies.

Once you take this into account, fabless US companies who want to fabricate their chips at modern technology nodes need to either use GlobalFoundries or TSMC. GF has a large fab in NY I believe, but the company itself is owned by the UAE.

The vast majority of non-Intel fabs are concentrated in Taiwan, SK, and to a lesser extent, Singapore.
No one ever stopped to realize that they were re-creating the browser toolbar hell.
instead of immediately sending bitcoin itself you and an network of others basically end up trading signed transactions. when you finally want to settle you send the latest transaction to the network where it is settles on chain.

edit: i should say the final state of the wallets is settled on chain.
There’s no benefit to doing so; and smaller vials are harder to preserve. Measurements on blood draws are not exact, and pre-measured preservatives in the vials and the blood have to be in the right ratios.

This is easier to do consistently in larger vials, reducing the error in this part of the process to acceptable levels. It’s the same reason why a recipe will normally be more consistent when making a larger batch.

So you could collect less, but the way the modern lab industry operates (collecting samples, preserving them, and shipping them to an offsite lab for analysis) there is little business benefit to using smaller collection vials.
Then presumably, you are either comfortable with LaTeX or else are capable of asking your publisher to respect your wishes. For writers who are not familiar with publishing tools, I would humbly submit that a markdown language that formats deterministically for publication would be superior to wrangling with MS-Word.
I was excited for Lightning until I've learned about Nano (formerly Raiblocks). It promised and actually delivered totally free AND near-instant transactions. Worth checking out if you didn't knew about it.
Among the things I care about are clock skew issues in distributed systems.

Over and over again I've had to explain to people that they don't need their hand-rolled solution because a better solution has been in HTTP since 1.0 for purposes of cache invalidation. It's as accurate as NTP without opening up an attack vector (hijacking NTP or NTP DOS).

Any time you contact a server your User Agent tells it what time it is. Any time the server responds it does the same. Both parties can calculate offsets just fine with just the HTTP headers. The only consensus that matters is between the hub and one spoke.

When the server says "It's 12 noon and this response document was generated at 11:58:50" you know it was 70 seconds ago. Nevermind that your browser thinks it's currently 4:30 pm. The age of the file is 'now' - 70 seconds. If you PUT a file at 4:35 the server will say it was created at 12:05.

Anyway, this is my favorite thing about the HTTP protocol. Human readable from traffic dumps was #2.
You probably mean the one about the 14 standards https://xkcd.com/927/ but there's one even more relevant about creating a geohashing algorithm https://www.xkcd.com/426/ Truly there's one for every nerdy occasion.
I can't agree with excellent build quality. It's nice, but it's still far away from the mbp. The case flexes a bit more, the hinge isn't as smooth as the mbp, and if you use it directly on your lap in a weird position (like on a couch), then it's possible flex can make the case rub against the internal fan and make a bit of a noise.

Also, the trackpad isn't as nice.

Razor blade is a nice laptop, but unfortunately it's still a big step behind mbp in build quality.
In my experience, pseudo-LaTeX syntax pseudo-works.
> why these offers keep getting accepted?

You only hear about the failures, not the successes. So the likely explanation is somewhere between, "because it works" and "because they don't have much choice."
Interesting. I guess I thought that discussing how to model a software problem would be an acceptable and interesting conversation on HN. Do any of the downvoters care to contribute in a productive way? I'd be curious to hear what people found disagreeable in my question.
Actually, Waymo (Google) is behind schedule. They said that we'd already have self-driving cars available to consumers now[1]. They're still running trials right now. There is no commercial service, either through the purchase of the vehicle or taxi-like services.

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/147940-google-self-drivi...
Which chips are those? Most of those solutions I had seen were not actually a single output stage but rather each band had dedicated pins that went out to dedicated PA's in many cases. So wifi/BT has its own antenna and front end etc.. same for the other bands..
It's horrible isn't it?! It's insane that companies thing they can just keep abusing our attention!
Biologists solve the puzzle of why Platypus milk is so potent against bacteria
This was a personal struggle for me, as a first generation immigrant. I'd try to explain to my parents why I was getting bullied and having a hard time making friends, asking them for advice.

In response, they'd assure me that obviously the students with the best grades should garner all the respect like it was for them in their childhoods, and that's just how the world's supposed to work.

::shakes my head::
It's not part. It's all. It's well known people can claim a video then get ALL the revenue, or disable it altogether. Also, don't get 3 strikes or you're fucked.
Spotify stock to begin trading on April 3
>Has been discussed for years with nothing to show

Yes, it's literally an overnight success. I think they started coding this last night, and it's in beta today /s

On a more serious note, a lot of work has firstly gone into making sure all the different implementations work well with each other, aka the standardization problem. That's a big win in and of itself.

The routing problem isn't trivial either. Lightning currently uses an 'onion-like' routing scheme where, similar to TOR, the nodes have a very limited information on the origin and destination addresses. This is great news for privacy.

The lightning network has been running on the testnet successfully for many months now, and some early adopter merchants even accepted testnet coins for small purchases. Over a 1000 lightning nodes are currently running.
I'm a bit surprised by that comment. I actually find Prime to have pretty good content and typically better movies than Netflix (who's movie library has been shrinking pretty drastically over the years).

If you haven't already watched it, I'd highly recommend Season 1 and 2 of "The Expanse" on Prime. There are a lot of pretty great shows on there as long as you don't rely on DC/Marvel shows for all your entertainment. Other shows that are reasonably acclaimed are:

- The Man in the High Castle

- Avatar: The Last Airbender

- The Nightmanager

- Mr. Robot

- Boardwalk Empire

- Downton Abbey

- Sneaky Pete

- Orphan Black

- Dr. Who

- Veep

- The Good Wife

- Transparent

- Hannibal

- Deadwood

- Curb your Enthusiasm

- The Wire

- Six Feet Under

- The Sopranos
The low trade barriers seems to have led to many US tech companies becoming dominant globally in their fields. It seems like if there were more trade barriers it would've been harder for those companies to expand in the first place.
There was a time in my life when I would have noticed that, but I haven't actually written LaTeX in years.
Here's a (partial) porting to TypeScript https://github.com/gcanti/money-ts
For work, server-side Javascript (not Node.js)

For fun, Java servlets/JSPs
>The problem is that both CL and Scheme communities have very little to do with each other.

At first I thought this was absurd, but after some time learning Lisp this was more obvious.

Scheme and Common Lisp are built around totally different philosophies, and thus not only the languages diverge, but also the way you program in them.
Yes, in that hypocritical "this is the strongest, most inevitable way for people to organize, so we have to build hyper-indoctrinated enclaves to protect it" way.
Serious question, why does HN seemt o be in favor of lightning over BCH’s approach of not neutering the block size?

LN has so many drawbacks. Have to always be online, need to hold hot walkets, need liquidity provided at both ends (kyc/aml)...
I think they mean that a third of the users but holy shit is that a confusing sentence. That's such a hilarious catch!
I was under the impression the market would take care of everything. No?

Maybe private interests don’t have enough influence on politics.
What you're refrencing is a pactice by emerging or developing nations to protect what economists call "infant industries". None of that is applicable to China.

They don't even brother with tariffs they prohibit all competition and coerce rivals to hand over the fruits of their research. It's diabolical.
Those location codes look more like (difficult to remember) passwords to me.

Perhaps this xkcd is more relevant: https://xkcd.com/936/
The first precursor of the EU was the European Coal and Steel Community [1]. It had the express purpose of putting control over coal and steel under supranational control, thereby making war between the members materially impossible.

It's also important to note that NATO does not provide prosperity (that was the goal of the EEC through closer trade and cooperation). So it does absolutely nothing to prevent the rise of extremist movements that could cause a repeat of the 1930s. There is also nothing it can do to prevent a member from quitting, just like Germany quit the League of Nations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Commun...
Spotify’s sure-to-be-volatile first day of trading will be April 3
From my experiences, I think there are several completely different axies of quality.

If it’s a cartoonish game, the imaging doesn’t need to be photo-realistic. If it’s ‘toon style or lit and textured by photography of real environments, the polygon count doesn’t need to be high.

What it does need, beyond the hardware, is immersive physics, and a gameplay-justified reason for why you can’t run through the furniture/wall/cable that you can no longer see. The game “I Expect You to Die” does that perfectly because you’re sitting down the whole time.