skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tho its predominantly males there are many women who are leading or lead large businesses. Meg Whitman for example, lead eBay from 30 employees to 15000.

The unique feature of Holmes was that she was the first woman starting and leading a (supposedly successful) start-up. Needless to say though, it was a facade. That's saddening, but having read Bad Blood I expected nothing less but the company Theranos to dissolve.
In seriousness, internet business culture makes everything look easy. Internet things have outsized impact due to the global reach of a revolution in communications technology. Smartphone things have outsized impact due to good UX finally reaching the masses when they were ready for it.

I think the lesson here is that doing anything that interfaces directly with the physical and natural world is much harder, and those problems that have high impact have had a lot of very smart people working on them for a very long time.

It's easy to think that the formula for internet media or smartphone IT success can easily translate to these domains, and it seems that the reality is "no, it doesn't.". There is no low hanging fruit on the hard problems, as there was with the internet and smartphone revolutions.
> Their technique of downloading an executable every time you open a meeting from the web is also strange and somewhat uncomfortable.

Uncomfortable, yes. Strange, no. Very common for "enterprise" conference services to do this.
It is not unfair, and there is a comparison with A sorted vector as well.
And the author correctly indicated the reason as of why the sorted vector is performing better than the unsorted vector.
The cache friendliness is key. And it shows that for small sizes of elements an array or vector would perform better. It simply depends on your needs.

I would be interested in comparing an stack based array with integers to the sets as well.
> think the most disappointing thing about this whole saga is that (in theory) the Theranos technology was supposed to be a major healthcare game changer. It could have revolutionized testing, and would surely have saved countless lives.

This reads like such a weird statement. It never existed. It could’ve never have revolutionized testing because it was entirely imagined and not based on reality.

It’s like watching Star Trek thinking tricorders are real then being disappointed when told they’re a fiction.
Yes. Normally we'd mark this one as a dupe of that one, but it seems to be taking this story a while to ripple through the system as people become aware that that document was published and try to figure out what it means. Since the NYT article does contain some new information as well as more background, we'll leave it up.
From the description, it sounds like it works with words, not characters, so 牛肉 would be one multi-character word. The screenshot even shows an example: 燃烧

That said, I wonder if it also creates cards for the individual characters when they make sense. I know that for me, it's often easier to learn a composite word if I know the individual characters, and it helps you figure out other likely words (eg: cow+ meat = beef, so pig+meat = pork).
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Infant / Adult Digital Thermometer Infraredg Device
See my reply comparing Dragonfly with Dat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915016
Does anyone know how the camera stacks up against, maybe not iPhone X, but at least 6 or 7?
The "Russian hacker" thing has become some sort of a meme, or even a joke. It seems to me there would be incentive for a non-Russian to impersonate one in order to throw out a red herring.
Would she need to work? I presume she got some money out at some point.
I use Pleco dictionary for reading Chinese books (read 20% of 三体 so far). There is a built-in copy-paste reader in the app. You copy-paste any book (it's just text) you want and it's possible to look up any word and add it to flashcards, pronounce it, etc. Minimum effort and preparation.
Oops, sorry, that's POSIX and not the C standard. I must have gotten them mixed up. Thanks for the correction!
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Thank you for this very informative comment!

Who do you think should have overall responsibility for campaign security in 2020? The parties? DHS? Some kind of private sector consortium?
And even more tellingly, 86% of the profit: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/17/apple-grabs-86-of...

Who cares about market share?
White hat hackers do not "go rogue". If a hacker uses their skills for crime they are by definition, not "White hat".

The problem here is the author doesn't understand this simple truth, and therefor is unqualified to write about the topic at all, as far as I'm concerned.
I mostly agree with A. I don't agree with the "if it doesn't happen on its own" part. If they can't make it work on their own, is it really meant to be? Should we keep making laws to support business models that worked before but don't work anymore?

When physical records were created, an industry naturally formed around them. The objective was to record good content, make copies and sell them. These copies were actually scarce. They had to be manufactured. Copying content wasn't trivial; you'd actually need to run a counterfeiting enterprise in order to do it. In that context, I'd even say copyright law sounded reasonable. It allowed the law to target and punish those counterfeiters.

Computers changed that. Now nearly everyone can suddenly become a criminal for downloading some music from sites as big as YouTube. What if 82% of a country's population engages in copyright infringement? I think it's a sign that these laws are out of touch with reality.

Instead of forcing everyone to pretend copies are still scarce, let the industry die instead. Let them go bankrupt. They should be forced to adapt by figuring out how to make money despite all the copying. If that means they'll make less money than before, then so be it.
> Their delusion is in some sense laudable, as any startup should believe it's own bullshit. But when you know better than they do about their chances, it's still hard to watch folks put themselves through this.

It doesn't look like they're a startup as far as I can tell, they're a laptop manufacturer with 2 products on the market for a few years, doesn't look like there's any VC money in the mix either.
The alternative path is pretty simple. We decided that we wanted to get out of the traditional interview process that no one on the team felt was all that great. So we came up with a simple plan. If you want a job we will give one to you. First step is we have an exploratory conversation to make sure you understand what your getting into and make sure you understand the requirements. Then if there is still interest we will ask for at least one reference that can talk about your past job performance. We will sign the candidate to an agreeable contract not to exceed three months, and at any point during that contract if either party feels its not working out they can cancel the contract. At the end of three months the candidate would be brought onboard if thats what everyone still wanted. The idea is if we explain what we are looking for and are very up front about the requirements you will either have enough confidence to take us up on the job risking unemployment if you can't perform or your will be able to really show your capabilities in a way that no two hour interview is capable of showing.
Your service badly needs `<meta charset=utf-8>`.
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Causal inference using frontdoor adjustment
Do You Trust Australia?
So much this. All the pipeline and delivery stuff is glued into github’s API. Most companies aren’t using git any more but github and git is just a dependency. I’ve even seen developers who are unaware that git can exist without github.

I incidentally think this is a completely terrible outcome.
Or badly configured CI, that redownloads dependencies all the time instead of caching them locally.
It doesn't really mater what service provider you use. You can't do anything that requires a sync if the server is down. You can do a bit of local development, but things like automated tests and deployment to staging servers will tend to break if they can't access the source.
I think URLs will die; it's just a matter of when

Most people don't go to addresses; they go to sites. In other words, people don't care about putting that "https" before they visit Facebook; they want Facebook and know that typing in "facebook.com" gets them there

Additionally, most of today's browsing isn't even done by web browser; it's done through mobile apps. That's why Apple wants to make the iPad the primary computing device; they already have a market-leading position on apps, so once iPads become the way that people compute, the efficacy of web browsers greatly diminishes

Additionally still, Chrome sets itself up to use Google as its primary search engine. Thus, if I type "facebook" into the search bar, the first result is almost always what I want (facebook.com). As well, Google (and other search engines) already do crazy-accurate location-based and context-aware searching so that they know that typing "ford" in Akron, OH likely means "ford.com" and typing "ford" in Toyko likely means "ford.co.jp."

So it makes sense for Google to think "What if people just typed the name of the thing they wanted without having to worry about whether it needs "https" or if it's a .com or a .org? What if objects on the internet can be located via some other means?"
The tent and plant are in Fremont, in the East Bay of the SF Bay Area. You’re thinking of the Gigafactory plant, which is where they make the batteries.
Nice tool. I'm interested in Chinese websites primarily so here is some code I wrote to dump text from a Chinese website.

import re
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url='http://www.36kr.com'
r=requests.get(url)
soup= BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
RE = re.compile(u'[^⺀-⺙⺛-⻳⼀-⿕々〇〡-〩〸-〺〻㐀-䶵一-鿃豈-鶴侮-頻並-龎]', re.UNICODE)
# txt = soup.find_all(string=RE)
txt = re.sub(RE, '', soup.get_text())
print(txt)
I'm not myopic and I see those too.
It would bring in whatever crap the standard libraries from the compiler or the system happen to have.

And those libraries aren't written with the mindset of "when this code runs on an A380".

Even most non-certified projects will grow their own standard library once they get past a certain size, and this is merely for convenience, consistency, and features.
Streaming of videos
How can I upload videos on some storage service like cloud & stream them through Learning Management Service without allowing end users to download/ share the videos? Which services are suitable for this? I tried MS Azure. But videos become downloadable.
> Of course, all my builds are failing because of some stupid formatting issue that Prettier usually would solve, so yeah..thanks MSFT.

Is failing builds due to formatting issues really a sound setup?
I have been using Evernote for over 10 years now. The core note taking experience has never been close to good, but two things have made me stick by it through the years (powered through the nagging for business subscription)

1. Web clipper, which I use as a bookmark replacement, as well as for keeping copies of articles. Great for searching and knowing that I will always have a copy if a site suddenly disappears.

2. PDF ocr / search. I store a lot of receipts, contracts, invoices, manuals and other docs in Evernote, most of which are in PDF. I find the search-in-pdf feature indispensable.

I would love to move to something simpler like Bear (http://www.bear-writer.com), which has a superior writing experience. However, the two points above always make me come back to Evernote.

Edit: Also forgot to include the ability to take unstructured notes and sketches using the Apple Pencil on an iPad, while a bit cumbersome in Evernote, at least works.
For a take on what happens when smalltalk and the web browser and js meet, see:

https://lively-kernel.org/

For a more "traditional" smalltalk for js, see:

https://www.amber-lang.net/
I'm always stunned by the confidence with which forensic analysts state their conclusions (or is it just the journalists portraying them?).
For other professions (doctors, archaeologists, even mathematics if you think of the crisis in the early 20th century) time has showed us that such confidence is not appropriate and the interpretation of the facts can change considerably.
Ubuntu 18.04 Workspace Grid Issue
If you wanted to be literal it would be sit flesh, perhaps sitting muscles, like working memory and in the broadest sense it might mean composure, patience, dedication in a restricted sense, or in a literally broad sense it means the buttox. Probably not a fat ass gotten from sitting around and neglecting exercise but eating like a weight lifter, although that was my first association in context ... compare "Arsch in der Hose haben" - "to be a hard/bad-ass", referring to courage, abillity and composure more generally, not too different from the massive balls meme.

Great story bbc, very tabloid vulgar after all.
Yeah, because it hasn't worked well with other CEOs...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/ceos-often-have-psychopathic-t...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/15/silicon-v...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/21/apparently-psychopaths-make-...
Having your finance manager lose access to spreadsheets for four days is also not tenable. The trade-offs are complicated here.
Surely the final solution to this problem is a community-based one - one that decentralises the tech giants?

I'm still struggling to figure out why a cohesive, widespread, community-driven solution hasn't emerged yet. Anybody have any ideas as to why?
How often do we do this for our customers? Honestly, if a customer wanted to know that much detail about my process, I would be quite bothered, and I suspect most people would be as well. Wait for the recap, everything will become clear then. You don't need to know everything in the moment.
I've seen this kind of consolidation for "foreign" brands (French + Korean/Japanese), but I think most BMW (+ Mini) and MB (+ Smart) dealers are still pretty exclusive, as well as VW (+ Skoda + Audi), which all belong to the same umbrella company. A dealer chain can switch OEMs, but it's not so much a switch as a complete tear down and rebuild of the business. Sometimes even the dealer's buildings reflect the OEM's brand, not just through signage and colors, but architectonically.
Why? Becuase it won't be good enough to work in China?
I mean the government doesn't take on basic IT security responsibilities for corporations. It's up to each campaign.

The parties can provide support but there are so many races up and down ballot, plus primaries it's impossible. Plus why should the DCCC or whoever waste resources on some non-winnable tiny race.

If say DHS did get involved proactively there would be huge trust and legal issues; any top down direction from govt to politics would be perceived as interfering with political speech/democracy.
2 Comments:

- It's common Chess vocabulary. Sometimes you need to work for hours to be able to win a technical position. Sitzfleisch is what it takes to do this.

- The same word (with the same meaning) exists in Dutch: zitvlees.
I wish that Twitter were like Hacker News whereby tweets older than x minutes are made permanently immutable. People would wise up quick if that were the case.
OK, so it seems to be different in the US; I've been thinking about the situation in Germany, where at least for domestic brands, dealers are pretty much exclusive.
Bad Blood is an awesome book. Really disturbing. There's a story about a naive stanford grad who joined Theranos and tried to blow a whistle internally when he realized that the "Edison" (a Theranos-based testing equipment) was BS. Holme's right-hand-man destroyed the kid, fired him, and even turned his grandfather against him (who was an investor - these Stanford fucktards and their legacies). Of course that stanford person is now pursuing his own startup...

Bad Blood has not had the impact in SV that it should have. The stock market needs to crash and the myth of steve jobs needs to die :-(
No, it could not have worked as desired with any system, because it is fundamentally impossible to use a drop of blood to detect chemicals which are present in the circulatory system from which it was drawn, but are not present in the specific drop being tested.

Blood is not a homogeneous substance. In order to be satisfied that you can detect substances that are present in the person, you need to extract more than a drop of blood.
Punctuation Restoration With Recurrent Neural Networks
The one thing I am very surprised so few people bring up is that finger sticks hurt like heck compared to a venous puncture. I give blood all the time, so much that I have scars from giving blood (and donating plasma in my youth). The only thing about giving blood that hurts is that darn finger prick to check your hematocrit. Sometimes I can't type the whole rest of the day. I would never choose a finger prick over a regular sample.
I think the problem is at DCCC, which is supposed to be the liaison for Congressional campaigns.
Experienced the same thing in Austria: I'm from the most western part, which mostly has alemannic and rhaeto-romance influence and the work ethic is "german". You have Sitzfleisch, I go to work/university at 7am and after maybe 5-10mins of relaxing, I get start working/studying. I take a break at midday and a short one in the afternoon and leave around 5.30/6pm

People at the very eastern end of Austria, like Vienna, are far less "German". Their work ethic is much more relaxed, and like user wirrbel pointed out, they stay late to work, simply because they start later and get less work done in the same amount of time.
Programmable Memristive Threshold Logic Gate Array
an upper paleolithic shakti shrine in india 11kya

https://www.harappa.com/content/upper-paleolithic-shrine-ind...
The article includes binary search of sorted vectors.
Yeah. His Facebook account was hijacked by someone pretending to be him / created a fake account and added Terry's family members.

Lots of fake screenshots are circulating around, so "proofs" by screenshots of emails are doubtful at most.

The guy who admittedly impressioned Terry on social networks is also known for taking money from Terry's PayPal. (Along with at least another guy who manipulated Terry into giving him $200).
He said he did all of this "out of concern for Terry"
It's the same guy who first claimed Terry's death on twitter.

He's now in damage control and wiping his internet presence after the infinity Chan crowd is trying to link him to the events.

Lot of disinformation around.
Some people refuse to believe Terry's death until confirmed by a third party.
Some other are spreading FUD and flood with stuff like "he's dead lads. Let's all forget and move on, shall we?"
Some are just trolling around falsifying screenshots and "proofs". And some are just derailing threads to pull down any constructive discussion.
And in this shitfest, kiwifarm is avoiding the blame and accuse others and whenever someone point a finger at them.
IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2018 [pdf]
A lot of great advice here, mixed with some sales pitches and some questionable advice.

App reviews seem to have gone unmentioned - are you getting any negative reviews?

If you are, see if they contain anything actionable or even a hint of what the problem might be.

If not, the uninstalls may or may not be a problem - for a paid app that’s free to install, you could be getting a lot of window shopping. Once people realize there is no free lunch, they move on. If this is the version of events playing out, then these were never your target market to begin with - they were not willing to pay and could have been just trying to get something for free.

Only way to know for sure is, like many other comments stated, talk to them - forums, support sites/emails, even reddit could be a good source. Try to figure out who your customers are and look for the place where they communicate.
Google bought Mastercard data to link online ads with offline purchases
Greg and Linus are also some of the most visible participants, and as far as I understand, neither is considered particularly expert in the platform intricacies that would be involved in mitigating something like Spectre. Disclosing vulns to high-profile targets is a risky practice; their activity, both public and private, attracts a lot of attention. It makes sense to avoid that risk if possible.
Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Stake in Digital-Payments Company Paytm
On Qualcomm SoCs, a chunk of the memory area is reserved for the baseband, and another section is reserved for TrustZone kernel, but it does the same as an integrated GPU in a PC. Then it connects via a pseudo tty with a kernel driver, but as the baseband has more privilleges than the main cpu, it really could do whatever it wants, just like TrustZone.
Uh yeah.. cool? What makes it relevant for HN?
I'm mildly curious what your device does. Based on reading random past comments, it sounds like it might have something to do with cancer and embryology...?
Your experience is not mine, and I'm not sure it generalizes.
I think copyright reform has come about the same way GPDR has. Large tech corporations have been ignoring the concerns of governments, steamrolling those governments citizens, and then when given a few choices on how to act the companies argue out of both sides of their mouth.

In this case corporations like Facebook, Google, et al have stated that they are platforms and can't be responsible for what people post on their systems. At the same time they are selectively removing content based on their beliefs or economic concerns, and not solely under court order.

There are two options. One is to be a dumb platform serving anything someone wants to out up, and thus free from any copyright claims. The other option it to be an arbiter of the content, which means they are responsible for said content and so they are responsible for the endemic amount of copyright violation on their systems.

The companies didn't want to pick their role, so governments are picking for them
What happens in a merger?
> So low performers accumulate over the time.

This is an incredibly offensive statement against unions and I want to see some proof from you for this. All large corporations in Germany have unions and Germany is still one of the world's economic powerhouses.
Yes, for the casual internet users like my parents. I rather have my passwords stored in an encrypted container with a password I'm sure it's not linked to something I have online.
One of the candidates I've trained tours his district full-time in a campaign Winnebago, and doesn't have a campaign office. He interacts with his staff mostly remotely. Almost every candidate is constantly on the road.

It's not that people are lazy or feckless. This is a genuinely hard problem for working campaigns to solve. It's a fascinating environment.
Rx-Caffe: Framework for Evaluating and Training Deep NN on Resistive Crossbars
I'll tell you what not to do: spend $10-30,000 on letting a MVP company build and support your MVP for you. (Enterprise variant: spending $x00,000's on a proof-of-concept or "MVP" of some product without any consumer data or analytics backing it up.) Fool's errand. I haven't met a company that succeeded this way. (I never used such a company, but I've known one or two.)

MVPs should be "easy", dirt cheap and highly accessible. If shit breaks because too many people want in, then that might be an idea worth building on. If the app is too hard to build and isn't getting traction quickly, it might be too hard or the wrong thing.
I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on