skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In my experience, poly relationships fail faster, when one doesn’t do the work, than monogamous relationships, which can linger longer with dysfunction that doesn’t get addressed.

Well it kinda makes sense. If you have other options, or even already have another intimate partner, that makes it a lot easier to just bail out of a relationship that isn't working out, instead of sticking around hoping things change.
I recall the Luftwaffe ace rolls for the invasion of Poland reporting that 300% of the Polish tanks fielded had been destroyed.
By definition, if you are handling form submission, your site is NOT static. Many ways to implement that functionality including offloading it to a third party but... your site is not static. It is processing form inputs
While Theranos was flying high, much was made of the company's connections to DC power elite - Kissenger on the board, etc.[1]. And the implication usually seemed to be that the deep bench of Serious And Important And Powerful People allowed the company to get away with things that otherwise would not have been possible.

I think it's worth pausing to consider: when's the last time you heard of a startup CEO/CTO team getting indicted for wire fraud? I'm not saying it doesn't happen, and I have no position on whether Holmes and Balwani are guilty of these or other charges.

But I do have to wonder whether the degree of attention from the DOJ has more to do with avenging the reputational and possibly financial losses of those same board members, than garden-variety "the DOJ prosecutes fraud".

In which case, there'd be a civics lesson as well. Live by .gov, die by .gov.

(Edit to clarify, lest I be accused of insufficient virtue signaling: fraud is bad, don't do it, if they committed fraud they should be punished, etc etc.)

[1] e.g.https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/03/14/theranos...
Between this and Manafort being sent to jail, what a wonderful day for the DOJ. God I love this country so much.
Or Atom’s Teletype plugin.
My hypothesis on the originality of the name “Google” (2011)
I was in that boat for a long time and only have 4 or 5 key features of awk committed to memory now.

If I have to look up something 2-3 times in a month it's usually committed to memory. Any less and it's probably better forgotten anyway, haha.
CAMPING WITH KIDS – Family Camping in a Cabin in the Woods P2 Vlog #3: Louisiana
>I don't think it would work for most people, though. You need to be effective communicators and good at understanding your own emotions. That's not true for the majority of the population.

Well, back to my original comment that spawned this mega-thread, where I opined that we'd be better off if poly were much more mainstream, maybe if that were the case, people would be forced to become more effective communicators in order to stay in relationships.
I wonder how Tim Draper will argue this is a conspiracy to take down "another great icon"[0]

[0] http://fortune.com/2018/05/11/tim-draper-theranos-elizabeth-...
Cristiano Ronaldo Scores Late Free Kick Equalizer, Sealing Hat Trick vs. Spain
That is a good way to describe it.

They also made the technology very secretive. Not even their investors could have access to implementation details.
This assumes that the person fixing the bug is either the same one who filed the bug, or they were motivated to fix the bug after finding the GitHub issue.

In many cases, the fix comes from within Facebook or from a different contributor when we/they run into the issue themselves.
> I do have to wonder whether the degree of attention from the DOJ has more to do with avenging the reputational and possibly financial losses of those same board members

The response to evidence against a conspiracy theory is not to flip the conspiracy theory.

If you defraud investors out of billions of dollars and lie to Medicare and Streisand effect the Wall Street Journal when it investigates you, you're going to get busted.
Silk Road’s Alleged Right-Hand Man Extradicted to the US
Genode: Sculpt for the Curious (TC)
ha! TIL
- You can make genuine friends at work and these friendships don't have to end when people go their separate ways. One great way to stay in touch is to have weekly, bi-weekly or even monthly 1-1s with friends you don't work with anymore. It helps to stay in touch and keep the friendship alive, and you gain fresh perspectives on problems from time to time.

- No matter how much transparent, rewarding and fair an organization thinks it is, just producing great work is never enough to get what you deserve in return. Ask for what you think you deserve, be it a promotion, a raise, more responsibility, etc. Don't wait for it to be handed to you.

- No matter how much fair a company is, if you are not vocal enough about your contributions, you'll not get as much recognition as you deserve. That or you need someone to do that for you like your manager or colleague but that is very rare.

- If people you look up to leaves the company, seriously re-think if you want to continue there. People leaving no matter how close to you will not badmouth the company so you won't know something is wrong.

- If a founder leaves, get out ASAP and look for something better.

- If you are not a founder and are the best person at your job in the company, get out and work with people you think are better than you.

- You are worth much more than you think. If you want to make more money, you almost always can.
The indictment shows "No bail, arrest warrants issued" [0]. She'll be sitting in a prison cell by tomorrow morning.

Wow.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/file/1072521/download
According to the currently most widely accepted theory of business, public companies have no responsibility to anyone other than their shareholders. In practice this means the bottom line trumps all other considerations.
IANAL and I'm not saying this works from a legal standpoint (my understanding is it depends), I'm just arguing this is one reason why people might do this (run an executable and parse the output instead of just linking a library and passing proper data structures). I've seen it happen in another context.
For your Friday drive home here is the recent Jason Calacanis interview of the WSJ reporter who broke the story. Great listen. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-startups-au...
Has Trump made any mention of displeasure over the deal? It doesn't seem like something he would be opposed to.
Wait, what?! Ramesh Balwani was Ms. Holmes's boyfriend? I don't recall seeing that covered anywhere else before.
“Facebook Apologizes After Translation of 'Good Morning' Post Sees Palestinian Arrested by Israeli Police”

http://www.newsweek.com/palestinian-arrested-israel-police-a...
Nvidia Chief Scientist Bill Dally on Where AI Goes Next – Ep. 62
My question is: Did they have a prototype or at least a concept?
Starting an Internal Riot, Let’s Break Stuff
I'll tend to do this in scripts, both for clarity and precision (i.e. when I know the specific, single delimiter).

However, for ad-hoc command-line usage, I still prefer awk, because (1) the default delimiter is white space, which means I don't have to worry about if what I'm looking at might contain tabs intermingled with spaces (or how many spaces) and (2) it makes it much easier to incrementally increase the complexity of my ad-hoc operation, such as if I decide I want to take a sum or average of one of those columns, after all.
Plus, his fixer (Eliot Cohen) took a bribe from AT&T. Even if Trump wasn't happy with all aspects of the deal, double-crossing a customer too aggressively would be a bad look.
"The defendants are charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud."

WHY DO THIS. Each count of wire fraud is 20 years in prison [1]. If 9 counts are proven you are looking at a 180 years in prison. (life sentence). You are better off doing 2nd degree murder 3 times - at least it is a challenge to prove. Proving wire fraud sounds pretty simple - they just read a bunch of emails and text messages in court. Everyone will turn nasty on each other due to the harsh penalties. Wire fraud = bad times. Just be honest with your investors.

[1] https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/wire-fraud.h...
I definitely agree that it may be a better idea to put it behind a login to prevent abuse.
For reference, here's the very first HN submission about Theranos in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349
With Google, it could also never see the light of day.
Ideally yes, but when you are a retard with a sledgehammer, your options are limited.
I would be very curious to know exactly what the English sentence was. I've found that, unless you use perfect English (assuming the source language is English) and no slang, Google translate will fail miserably.

Is this a case of really bad translation, or really bad English? The article doesn't give enough info to know!
> Did they have a prototype or at least a concept?

Not one that could do what they promised.

"The indictment alleges that the defendants used a combination of direct communications, marketing materials, statements to the media, financial statements, models, and other information to defraud potential investors. Specifically, the defendants claimed that Theranos developed a revolutionary and proprietary analyzer that the defendants referred to by various names, including as the TSPU, Edison, or minilab. The defendants claimed the analyzer was able to perform a full range of clinical tests using small blood samples drawn from a finger stick. The defendants also represented that the analyzer could produce results that were more accurate and reliable than those yielded by conventional methods—all at a faster speed than previously possible.

The indictment further alleges that Holmes and Balwani knew that many of their representations about the analyzer were false. For example, allegedly, Holmes and Balwani knew that the analyzer, in truth, had accuracy and reliability problems, performed a limited number of tests, was slower than some competing devices, and, in some respects, could not compete with existing, more conventional machines."

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/theranos-founder-and-fo...
Building a dat:// Web-portal [video]
I first learned awk precisely to replace cut. Not being able to reorder fields make it an especially narrow tool. Is there anything from cut I'm missing out on?
> "Bringing back local jobs" is the entirely wrong way

if so, what is the right way?
We have "natural" intelligence, intelligence that arose from natural processes. Artificial intelligence is intelligence we produced. What is so confusing?
It was in Carreyou's book
Andromeda was probably a bad misunderstanding/misrepresentation by the headline hungry press.

If we look at recent releases of Android, it has taken on the update scheme of ChromeOS by detaching the Android layer from the Linux kernel. Meaning that Google can push updates to the Android layer without having to deal with hardware suppliers and carriers dragging their feet.

While at the same time ChromeOS is getting the ability to run Android apps.
> "The indictment further alleges that Holmes and Balwani knew that many of their representations about the analyzer were false. For example, allegedly, Holmes and Balwani knew that the analyzer, in truth, had accuracy and reliability problems, performed a limited number of tests, was slower than some competing devices, and, in some respects, could not compete with existing, more conventional machines."
The -w option in cut isn't universal which makes it unreliable for the extremely common use case of fields separated by arbitrary whitespace.
Genode has an ABI for userspace (which includes OS components and drivers) that works across multiple kernels, which are mostly microkernels, but also Linux.

Considering Google designed both Treble and Fuchsia, it's not such a crazy idea.
It's fairly straightforward to install LineageOS on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 32GB [1], but they make you wait 72 hours before you can unlock the bootloader and I had to use a Windows virtual machine to be able to use the unlock software...

1. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Global-version-Xiaomi-Redmi-...
https://www.acceleratewithoptane.com/access/ has the server info. We aimed for a balanced configuration to enable the widest variety of use cases. Not everyone will need to use everything provided, and it might not fit everyone's needs!
Engineering Process Is Overvalued
OK, but what's that have to do with today's modern secret aircraft?
> WHY DO THIS

They don't think they will get caught. For a live example, see HN's cryptocurrency threads. A common theme is talk about faking KYC or laundering money or how their scam is too small to garner federal attention.
It all boils down on the ratio between shooting and interacting with other characters, exploring the world etc. I wouldn't mind being 1 hour cowboy if I could also live 5 hours as explorer. For instance, I loved Mass Effect 1 and 2 for having just the right balance between action and the rest.
The American Criminal Justice system rightly faces many criticisms, especially serious charges for being used against minorities. But yes, knowing that even the most powerful person in the country is not above the law and can and is prosecuted seriously, and that scammers like Holmes and Balwani are made to pay for their crimes.... this kind of thing is certainly what makes the US unique among nations.
It's been reported, although I don't think it was reported as a headline story or anything.
I didn’t know this, as the various Macs I use are all 2015.

That startup sound is a great idea example of the importance of the utility of affordances in interface design.

After you’ve done something that might have hosed your whole system, the sound alone can bring a sense of relief that at least some life is left in the machine.

Because the stakes are actually kind of high for those making a living with their computer.
Have a few SSH commands handy and set up aliases for them so you can just type `$ server_name` and boom you are there! tab completes and all that too.
I agree with you, but there's a joke about npm and leftpad in here somewhere.
>Despite its flaws it generally works in terms of creating a stable social structure and especially in raising children.

>But still — in a world which is increasingly isolated and people are more atomized and mentally ill than ever, is it really a good idea to abandon “the family” as it currently exists?

Given the fact that more children than ever are growing up in broken homes or with single parents, I'd say the traditional monogamous family unit is failing, and unless you're willing to go back to the days when women weren't allowed to have real jobs, it's not coming back. Having two parents both work and try to raise kids with no help whatsoever is incredibly stressful, so it's no surprise to me that this whole arrangement is falling apart.

To me, if polyamory were more widely adopted, it would actually be better for a stable society and raising children, because you could have larger family units (I mean with more adults), where the adults would be able to share parenting burdens and finances better, somewhat like the "old days" where extended families resided together and grandparents helped with child-raising.

Of course, the big problem I see here is that it's hard enough to find one compatible person, and trying to put together 3, 4, or 5 people in such an arrangement would be really difficult, but it is my belief that if poly were widely accepted, this might not be quite so difficult because people might have lower expectations of any one partner, and be more willing to compromise and work together. Of course, I could be completely wrong...

But again, it's clear to me that what we're doing now isn't working. And we can't go backwards.
I have a sibling who has 20,000 followers on Instagram, doesn't save a penny, and blows everything on superficial bullshit to paint a life she doesn't have.

I don't have sympathy for my own family member. The obsession with portraying yourself as someone your not and getting validation from people you don't even know is a cancer. I blame my parents but I also blame these platforms and their jackass developers who think they're saving the world with their "innovation". Again, I blame my parents on this mostly.
Yes, they did. Which involved humans walking over the blood sample to a regular lab setup where they would dilute it and use regular machines to output wrong results. Now all they had to do was find a solution to replace the humans, not having to dilute the sample and output correct results. But pesky investigations got in the way.
It took us a while before opening up. We only did after building tools to handle abuse, and after hiring someone to help us monitor.
As far as stopping password reuse, I recall seeing a while ago on HN a "joke" tool to do just that, by attempting to log into a bunch of services with the email / pass provided. I believe it was called Evilpass.

I personally prefer the "zxcvbn" method, which is why I wrote a Java library for my company inspired by it called nbvcxz.
Any and every password is BAD.
From "Bad Blood": they had a prototype called Gluebot which used a robot arm to do standard tests involving a pipette autonomously. However, their tests (using blood collected at Walgreens) were done on "hacked" (altered to cope with much smaller amounts of blood -- by increasing dilution) Siemens blood-testing machines.
This goes beyond subsidies. We're talking about espionage, theft, forced technology transfers, and mandatory joint ventures if you want to set up shop in China.
The teacher has a twitter account here: https://twitter.com/KateClanchy1

Some of these poems are amazing. Here are my two favourites:

https://twitter.com/KateClanchy1/status/1006824514112638976

https://twitter.com/KateClanchy1/status/1007566927022252034
> when's the last time you heard of a startup CEO/CTO team getting indicted for wire fraud?

One pled guilty a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16313612
I'm a developer who is mostly back-end and created this minimal website with a simple CSS framework (http://getskeleton.com/) at http://jryan.io

I'm no web dev so I have no idea how it looks but it looks okay to me.

If I need to print it I just "Print to PDF" and it looks good, so best of both worlds imo.
Really? Wow, that's a weird couple...
History repeats itself. Ma Bell had to be broken up once; the Baby Bells have since largely reorganized into AT&T and Verizon, and now they're pulling in companies from other fields, too.

We already learned this lesson once. I guess we're going to have to learn it again.
Oh awesome. You can probably also use it for docs. You can now hide keys in a .env file https://repl.it/site/docs/secret-keys.

Edit: lol re slug. Sometimes I think the title gen aglo is prescient
George W. Bush was so inspired by this essay that he did the same thing after leaving office.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/27/politics/george-w-bush-painti...
Not only did fast food exist in ancient times, so did takeout windows for faster food distribution. https://www.history.com/news/ancient-fast-food-window-discov...
IMHO, the reason is not really to protect US manufacturers. It is about long-running negative balance of trade between US and the rest of the world.

Protectionism rhetoric is a sugar-coat for Americans who will have to foot the bill by paying more for imported goods, but honestly, who else should?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Balance_of_trade
Sure. And while certainly "possible", how likely is it that a 19yo college dropout (who wasn't studying medical sciences) was able to discover a technique that did so, after forty years of multiple multi-billion dollar companies researching the same (after all, the brave new world offered by her dream was hardly new or unpalatable to other players in her field).

And her actions demonstrated she had done no such thing. Buying, hiding, deceiving around traditional venipuncture machines, etc.

This is someone who "had a dream", had connections, and was determined and stubborn, in a bad way. Even now she, and one or two of investors, still believe she has been robbed and wronged, and that the world is worse off without Theranos.
Holmes is a charismatic delusional sociopath. Potent mix.
Three years later, Google still has big-time diversity issues
I have a hard time believing that the reduction is anywhere near substantial enough. Friction heating was a major issue for high speed aircraft like the SR-71, and they "only" fly at ~3500 km/h at 20+ km altitudes.
>From what I have heard in interviews they started with the thought "Doing xxx would be super useful" but didn't have an approach for accomplishing this but instead took in money and tried to figure it out.

So, just like most VC favorite startups?
I'm guessing they struggled over those questions but were reassured by the chorus of "fake it till you make it".
I've never really been able to keep a significant amount of awk in my head. Mostly I use it for splitting out columns in output, especially when the fields may be padded for output. So "{ print $2 }".

Awk has great abilities, but when I want to use it I always have to spend a lot of time reading.

I've always wanted to come up with something in Python that combined the awesomeness of awk with my ability to pick up and hack something together in Python, but I've never been able to come up with the right semantics.

One thing I think could be really useful is the regex lines range, where you give it two regexes and that block of code gets executed on every line in that range.
Maybe that guy who said that their approach to diversity wasn't working was on to something?
China Vows to Retaliate as U.S. Imposes Tariffs in Trade War
Fascinating to read, thank you.

“There are more soldiers in that board there than doctors” is one of the original comments!
The bar for inventing something new in medicine is not "Eh, if you squint, it sorta looks like it works, ship that shit."
Security things in Linux v4.17
>It's illegal to say "I have a working antimatter drive prototype; give me a million dollars." Holmes and Balwani did the latter.

It's only illegal if you don't actually have one.
IIRC from the book, Gluebot was actually the prototype that eventually became the Theranos Edison.