skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually want to move away from Evernote but you guys dont have Android which is a deal breaker for me.
Forgive me; I'm not really seeing what fundamental distinction you're trying to draw between these two categories of activity.
Silly question: How sciency was Holmes? Did she personally help develop her (completely fraudulent) blood tests? Or was she merely a business woman in charge of bringing this bag of hot air to market?

(Hint: I don't really care if she supposedly helped develop it. It didn't actually work. She's not some kind of genuine scientist.)

I'm just gonna leave this here and suggest that most of whatever tech was developed by these 1000+ still active companies likely wouldn't have made it to market without YC:

https://yclist.com

(Also, this isn't intended as snark. I'm just cranky at the moment and seriously cannot see why it matters that Jessica "isn't sciency." My crankiness is for wholly unrelated reasons and has nothing to do with this discussion.)
Internet Giants Shouldn't Decide Who to Silence But Let Users Decide Who to Hear
Ethical in technology freedom, not ethical in labor standards.
Discussed yesterday (151 points/1 day ago/108 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906712
Thanks! And the movie is now 50% OFF! Yay! https://moleman4.com/
Ars article suggests this isn't the first time an errant hole has been punched in a Soyuz during manufacturing.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/russian-space-chief-...
Could it have worked with standalone systems, running in hospitals, doctors' offices, etc? That would be impossible with current (or vaguely conceivable) technology, of course. Some years ago, I was seeing a doctor who did urinalysis in house. I figured that he was money grubbing, and maybe insurance companies eventually decided the same.
>I guess at this point it's just inertia

Inertia increases velocity with age.

I'm too old to tweak every stupid thing on a system any longer.
It's the opposite, the headline is just misleading. Sitzfleisch is no concept of work ethic and has no relation with productivity. It's just a casual word to describe different types of mental endurance.
I thought that was odd too. There is one instance of the word "ethical" in an otherwise technical article and it's hardly egregious compared to the marketing speech of nearly big tech company:

> We will continue to evolve as we understand better how this subset of the industry works. The success of our phone is critical, as it will provide us with the legitimacy and leverage we need to bend hardware suppliers to our way of thinking by showing them that we have the potential to be market leaders with ethical products that respect users.
This seems like a very crude method of sabotage if committed by someone onboard. It seems as though someone with an intimate knowledge of the ISS or Russian capsules would have come up with a more subtle / effective way to sabotage if that was the intent. As an armchair speculator, I'd put my money on manufacturing defect that was patched on the ground and came apart in space.

On the other hand, the scuffs surrounding the hole suggest multiple attempts at puncturing. Not sure what to make of that. Will be interesting to see what reports find.
Windows routinely shows me error if I try to rename/delete/move a file, whose name is within the limit, but the complete path from root including all the folders make it above the limit.
I strongly doubt any tactical military response. They'd use pressure from the other countries, most likely the US given the country-of-origin of the biggest tech companies.

Australia doesn't interfere with sovereignty to a fault. Julian Assange, The Bali 9, Peter Greste. So it'll be interesting if there's any Australian response to the James Ricketson situation in Cambodia.
Don't confuse with https://www.amazon.com/Man-Full-Tom-Wolfe/dp/0553381334 (which I recommend BTW)
The ROI of learning speaking and listening is very high. I’ve been learning Chinese for 10 years and have gotten much more out of it than my 6 years learning German.

Why is that? Living in England, there weren’t many German-speaking people around so I didn’t get much out of it. Even when I went to Germany, they all spoke English better than I spoke German so we mostly ended up conversing in English.

Chinese on the other hand... there are lots of Chinese speakers in most places, and they’re mostly very happy, relieved and even excited to speak Chinese with you. If you ever go to China, speaking Chinese opens you up to a whole host of new experiences. Few people confidently speak English there so you can get a lot of practice very quickly.

I do agree that ROI on reading/writing is low, and it’s mostly due to the insane difficulty of memorizing characters. My suggestion: learn how to read and type simplified Chinese. Don’t bother with writing (which interestingly is much harder than typing on a pinyin keyboard), or traditional Chinese (there are tools which convert back and forth between the two of you need
What would you propose they do?
> We enforce 2fa for our consultancy staff.

What kind of 2FA and how are you doing it?
Exactly.

Just like 对不起人 translates to “Canadians”

;)
Market makers are also users.
> I cannot see how it could be worse than today.

I fear it would turn out equivalent. The starting stack might have been better, but the promise of money to be made and competitive pressures would be the same. We would "worse-is-better" ourselves to roughly the same spot we're in today. Bloat, tracking and clickbait.

Whenever I implore people to cut down on software bloat, I know what I'm really asking is, "fight against the market, slow the decay down just a little bit".
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17898498
Breakout implemented in JavaScript in a PDF
Google authenticator app
Ask HN: What is your most unpopular idea/belief?
I read Bad Blood and was curious what she sounded like.

https://youtu.be/rGfaJZAdfNE?t=99

The book definitely gets it right.
fuck off with your pay walls.
The Android app is almost ready! A preview: https://twitter.com/sachinrekhi/status/1036844114841493504
Actually building a working device seems like a reasonable definition of inventing a transistor.

Here's Lillienfields patent:

http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/assets/media/cl...
Ditch the almond milk
> 23 and me had the ex wife of Google as the founder

Among many things corporations can't do that natural persons can is marry.
> Except when it comes to lives and health of other people. Make no compromises there, no sacrifices.

I have not read the book, but based on the author’s interviews I have to agree with the idea that fake it ‘till you make it should never be applied to the medical space.

When Theranos went live in Walgreens they crossed a line where limitless ambition should never be an excuse for vaporware. If accountability is at all an American standard, then Holmes should be prevented from ever being an executive in the health space. People’s lives were endangered. There is no excuse. Blood tests are not some b2b SaaS customer dev experiment.
It's back online again!
Infographic: 4 strategic steps for your negative product reviews
What do the Facebook Google Microsoft logos at the bottom of this page mean? Are these companies Magic Sandbox customers?
The whole story is crazy, they were 2 women, and they couldn’t get the papers to open the orphanage, so they legally adopted the kids, one woman adopting the girls and the other one the boys (the idea is to let them inter-marry if they wanted to).

I don’t know how safe it is to give the google keywords to find the place.
Well, white collar crimes are not punishable offense.
I'd never even considered this.

Would this hurt their marketability somehow? Wonder if anyone from there is tuned in here...
I recently encountered an English equivalent 'ass glue'.
Once she gets out of jail, I have no doubt she'll be able to raise money again, although probably not $billions. There are a lot of suckers out there.
I'm with you there in not really buying into the whole security, trust, and ethics story line which mostly seems to be appealing to a bandwagon of sentiments around corporate and government spying. Unfortunately, these sentiments are probably the only reason otherwise-average people - the kind of people who don't care about recompiling the kernel for their phone, on their phone, or jiggling GPIOs to remove power from subsystems - would probably buy anything other than an Android or Apple phone. Without this both comparatively large in one respect (with respect to the set of all reasonably tech-savvy people) but comparatively minuscule in another (with respect to the set of all smartphone consumers) set of people, you're going to end up with another OpenMoko Freerunner type situation where the only people using it are the frankly ultra-fringe types like us who care more about having a pocket computer that behaves like, well, an actual computer should and are frustrated with the creative limitations of SDK-based lock-in.

I sometimes wonder how much Purism actually cares about all this security, trust, ethics rhetoric and how much of it is a bunch of geeks who just want to finally have a smartphone which can run an actual Linux distribution and figured "hey, consumers are pretty riled-up about this whole government spying thing - and it's pretty easy to audit open source software for that sort of stuff - maybe we can work an angle..."
Jail-time, surely? She has deceived investors. She's already not allowed to lead a company for the next 10 years.
See dang’s comment way down. The link was originally to a very self-congratulatory press release from the marketing person, and later changed to a blog post with details and exposition from the CTO.

Purism’s style in press releases is pretty annoying, but I really appreciate the blog posts.

I backed the phone. I’ve backed most GNU+Linux replacements for my iDevices.

If it half-works it will have wildly exceeded my expectations!

I wish them the very best.
This is actually a very insightful comment. I don't have experience with the VC part at the end, but tight iteration and measurement loops are key, especially early on.
Despite published papers to the contrary, a lot of people think I only have an unrealistic goal. And I'm here to tell you the product barely exists as a single prototype. Four years ago, the idea existed only in my mind. I started the work 7 years ago.

I'm no Theranos apologist. Based on the conversation, I'm ordering the book to see if there's really any more detail. But keep an open mind. Assume people are no worse than you.
I would say, foreigners always do more than locals. They feel, they have prove something, maybe less social contacts too. I observe the same behavior like your Canadian lab mates with my young German colleagues. All day long sitting in mobile Facebook or drinking coffee for 30 minutes every 2 hours. Germans aren’t majority among department’s top performing people.

Edit: it’s IG Metall company and you can’t fire people easily. So low performers accumulate over the time. Talents come and go.
The article points out that, for the author's use case, memcpy doesn't generate the fastest code.
How many startup founders are scientists? Not including engineers and computer scientists, I mean. And how many startup founders are female? So it's not surprising that there aren't many.
Nor Google nor Apple can – to the best of my knowledge – decide what code is run or not run on my PC. That is evidently a plus point for security, if one doesn't blindly trusts these companies.
Robert Graves: The Reluctant First World War Poet
That’s not the VC game. These are high risk companies that may never generate a profit. Because the failure rate is so high you need a few outsized winners. Value investing where 95% of your portfolio is generating a 10% IRR doesn’t work. Investor invest in VCs to make money. Investing in companies with VC risk profiles and lifestyle business return profiles doesn’t work.
It depends. There are Point-Of-Care systems already, usually for things like urinalysis as you mentioned. If they did have a small, accurate, fast (~10 minutes or less per test, definitely not 4 hours) new system that could do multiple tests on a single drop, then yes, putting those directly in doctor's offices and hospitals would be the right idea, as long as you can make the financials make sense for the doctors.

Really, there are already small systems for just about any test you might want to do, it's just that economies of scale for a big lab like LabCorp usually make it too comparatively expensive to run your own system, because you need to pay for the system and hire a licensed technologist to operate it. That's not just bureaucracy, either. Most current systems can have lots of weird problems that affect the results, and you need someone who understands both the medical relevance of the test (and normal/abnormal results), as well as some statistics, in order to know when the machine is operating correctly and when it's giving you subtly biased results and might need re-calibration or something.

In big cities like NYC, it's more expensive to ship the blood out of the city to LabCorp/Quest's big regional facilities, and the "big" labs inside the city are way smaller (so they cost more). So doctors are more likely to be able to swing operating their own system.

Also, some doctors charge way more than normal for their services, particularly IVF/fertility clinics. Those places always have their own machines (their clientele are also more demanding, and would expect results faster than you can get by sending out to LC/Quest).
This deserves the king of making decisions:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/marriage-decision.html
An image could be serialized to anything, including edits...

Aside from the code, all other user data is message sending, so it could also be serialized (if needed).
AWS Tutorials for DevOps tasks
WikiReader – Offline Wikipedia “The Internet Without the Internet”
> I have two keywords which I am targeting and have a very nice 50% conversion rate but mostly all of my installs come from keywords that are not listed and get placed in the "other" category.

Maybe your app simply did not do what the user wanted, as they found it with an irrelevant keyword? So basically they are just adding noise to your data as they aren't your target market.
To get another taste of the kinds of systems possible in the 70s, in spite of the constraints, see Kay's demo of a revived Smalltalk-78 system: https://youtu.be/AnrlSqtpOkw?t=3m3s (I believe this system is about 10-20K LOC software in total)

Notes about the the revival are here: https://freudenbergs.de/bert/publications/Ingalls-2014-Small...
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17881157
Sunsama, It's Like Trello and Google Calendar
The face of modern day apartments in kochi
Sure, there are words that are relatively opaque based on their components, but 離婚 isn't one of those words. Look at the 6 definitions given for 離 in the ABC dictionary:

1. (verb) leave; part from; be away from -- 我的夫人離我而去 My wife left me.

2. (verb) separate

3. (verb) defy; go against

4. (preposition) distant / apart from -- 北京離上海有多远？ How far is Beijing from Shanghai?

5. (noun) name of one of the 8 Trigrams

6. (noun) name of one of the 64 Hexagrams

The sense of 離 is separation; it makes perfect compositional sense in 離婚. A divorce involves two people starting together and going apart.
> Nothing is infinitely repairable or upgradeable, and neither of those things are ever free.

Well yes, there's heat death of the universe that we still have to contend with :P. But beyond that, what you wrote is not a problem. The biology itself works around it - it "repairs" by copying and checksumming, and does so using energy. It's not perfect (this is what enables evolution), but it's perfectable. We already know enough to realize that we can design systems which allow for reducing the probability of incorrectable errors to arbitrarily low amounts - that's practically infinite repairability. No one is saying maintenance is ever going to become free.
NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990, s28: "An existing right or freedom shall not be held to be abrogated or restricted by reason only that the right or freedom is not included in this Bill of Rights or is included only in part." [1]

[1] http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1990/0109/latest/D...
Did anyone ever follow that $100 million a hedge fund dumped into the company like a year ago, well into the crap htting the fan? What was that about? Why would you do that?
> We rarely watch movies (...), but when we do it is a spur of the moment thing so we just run around the corner to redbox and grab something (...)

I find it fascinating that this is core idea that made Netflix so successful, they just rely on much lazier customers than you!
Also written by the same guy who did a large chunk of the open source synthesis toolchain for the FPGA mentioned above.
Comparing lookup time of unsorted vector and sorted set is unfair. The vector should be sorted and then we might compare plain binary search against BST performance.
1. MacBooks are really, really nice pieces of hardware. Windows laptops tend to run the gamut in quality (even Surfaces), and getting support for them isn't as easy as heading to the Apple Store. (Surfaces can be serviced and replaced at Microsoft Stores, but there are less of them around.)

1b. MacBooks have the best displays on the market. Surface displays are a close second. Everything else is a mixed bag. Some represent colors poorly; most have terrible viewing angles.

2. The terminal feels like home for Linux and UNIX devs (which there are a lot of).

3. Cargo cult factor. Linux devs hated all things Microsoft for a long time because of the whole embrace, extend, extinguish thing, but there weren't many "portable" Linux options out there, so many settled on Windows machines. OS X, being a UNIX, was an easy sell, and because devs tend to make a lot of money on the average, buying one (or getting one from work) wasn't hard. Microsoft has done a lot to change their image, and I think many folks are catching on, but the inertia is real.

4. People still think that Windows is crash-prone or easy to hack and that OS X is immune from all of that. (See Google's latest Chromebook commercial.) That hasn't been true since Windows 7, but, again, the inertia is real.
side note but funny to see mattis on their board considering where he ended up now
As a German, I'm often sick enough that I don't want to infect other people, but not sick enough to feel particularly bad. Like if I have a runny nose and maybe a sore throat I can still work fairly productively. Since I have the option to work from home basically as effectively as from the office, I'll rather stay home and not spread my illness.
That's clever! I wonder if they would go to all that effort just for a Skype balance. Maybe tried to use the Skype as a staging point for attacking other things?
I agree with you, but having a user-replaceable battery is the single-best thing for the questionable-labor-per-device-lifetime ratio.

If there was a phone made in the USA by unionized FTEs I’d buy 20, but I’m not sure that the factories even exist in 2018.

‘Assembled’ maybe. Their laptops are assembled in South San Francisco.
In addition to GA and/or Mixpanel, I recommend fullstory.com for web based apps to see individual user sessions in very high fidelity.
I'm not personally involved in the hiring for that position, but I feel like the hiring in general is fair and straightforward. No obtuse puzzles, riddles and whiteboard style interviews. We mostly want culture fit first, willingness to learn and grow second (with an exception for when we're looking for a specific skill, like the Azure developer position). We've hired people with different tech stack backgrounds, for example.
Discussed yesterday (473 points/21 hours ago/128 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17907506
Please don't post like this. Even if you're right, an unsubstantive single-word comment is not the thing to post—and certainly not that word, which leads to the nether regions of the internet barrel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> and most don't pick up new technological skillsets after ~30

That is not my experience with people close to 40. There have been so many changes in the last 10 years, so if they hadn't kept up, they would be out of a job.

In 2008 the typical webapp where hosted on a physical server with server side generated content for desktop users (old versions of IE was in the majority).

There has been such a shift in the required skills and mindsets that many underestimate how different the daily work of a developer is now.
>Rails was about the first time a functional language (probably other types too) had a programmatic proponent, it leveraged ruby to create an easy way to build web apps and people/companies wanted web apps. Just about every other language was full of smug proponents who just wanted to show how little code you needed to generate Fibonacci numbers, as if that was at all relevant to most developers.

Yeah, that wasn't it. Maybe you weren't there? This sounds like a third hand experience of the era.

Functional languages have been used in major programming projects (and had popular apps, from Eclipse and AutoCAD) for decades before Ruby, not to mention AI work.

Besides, PG's company used CL to build one of the first web stores way before Rails was even a thing.

>That doesn't appeal to me at all. I don't want to be debugging in live environment, I don't want users or testers having that power and I don't get stuck in compiling/deploying steps.

That's because you haven't used it.
I was always fascinated by Terry Davis work, but for some strange reason I also watched a lot of his more casual videos, like "Picnic Monet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtkHMdh_V8.

I'll make sure to tell the legend of "el solitario programador de dios" to my fellow countrymen.

Descansa en paz Terry.
How sciency was Holmes? Not very. She dropped out of college after one year. Although many people have had great success in software with this level of education, it's kinda hard to imagine somebody making major contributions to the life sciences without even a bachelor's degree.
I would expect everyone who was in market for Evernote to already have Evernote installed. They've been a big name for close to a decade now. I got their Android app in... 2013, if memory serves.

I mean, is this the point where Evernote realizes products eventually reach market saturation, and you need to start playing some bullshit business games like planned obsolescence or recurrent payments to keep up the growth curve (or, alternatively, realize you've done a good job, and move on to do something else)?
This is going to be a great equaliser if it actually ends up having an effect. It's empathetic to the fact that journals need a revenue stream in order to be viable but at the same time, ensures that everyone has access to knowledge and it is not a privilege only afforded to those who attend universities that can pay subscription fees to these journals.
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I think prestudying vocab before doing more extensive reading is a great technique and I haven't seen it mentioned much.

I've got a rough prototype of a tool for finding unknown words in text with european languages, but you've gotta mark them as known rather than integrating with anki: https://words.sh/
> It wouldn't surprise me if we eventually get a film adaptation

A film adaptation, staying Jennifer Lawrence as Elizabeth Holmes, is already planned:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5795144/
I like that at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View they tell you his story and don't sugar coat it. They paint him as a genius who was petty and an insufferable person to deal with.
>They are still using bitmapped graphics under the hood, which explains some of the limitation. The community has shrunk, which means there's no one to take them to the world of vector.

Most (all?) commercial OSes don't use vectors for their GUIs either.