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Apple without Steve Jobs
I analyze what Apple could do, even when Steve Jobs is not around and it doesn't seem to have any breakthroughs up its sleeve.
While there is no "royal road" to mathematics for programmers who don't care about proofs, there is a programmer's road to proofs for those interested in Math.

In fact, the book is even called "The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming" [0]. It covers mathematical notation, proof construction, and lots of interesting portions of discrete math that should be of interest to programmers. And large portions of the results are demonstrated or used in interesting Haskell programs.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Haskell-Programming-Second-Edition-Com...
You just have to ignore the "basic human right" stuff. Generally it just means "something we think a lot of people want," but phrasing it this way can comfort people who think that profit motive is evil (despite the fact that it seems to be the most economically efficient way to distribute resources).
I think the intent was to show how humane and globally thinking they are, by showing different ethnic races.

But to me it looks as if they want to hoard blood-samples for a DNA-Database in order to clone the best of us into super-soldiers. If the military has a DNA-Database of every human on the world they think are worth living, they could wipe all of us out, then re-breed the world to their own likings. I think some billionaires would love this sick sick idea.
Great essay! I added a link to it at the bottom of my own article.
Your advice is duly noted. I am planning to talk to the director of the pulmonary team sometime this week and see if he is interested. I know most of the doctors who work in the lab will welcome the software. Seeing that most large hospitals pay 50+ million for their EHR/EMR setup, $500/month sounds reasonable.

I looked briefly into building it myself (just in case this thread did not get a good response), and I can parse out the text using the pdf-reader gem and now I just need to use some regex to match what I want and then stick those values into a report.

Thanks again for the advice.
Agreed, although I don't mind so much whether they are making money off it- anyone making money off promoting freedom of speech is welcome to promote free speech as a human right.

But there's an issue of basic human right inflation thats slightly distasteful. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to own property without it being arbitrarily taken away for you by someone stronger. Those are basic human rights, and they don't have to be provided at someone else's cost.

I'm a strong supporter of an individual right to healthcare, provided by society/government, but that's a right agreed by social contract... Saying it in stronger terms risks devaluing in a a real way the more basic rights, which billions of people don't have.

Maybe I'm being pedantic given that this is PR copy...

Edit: carbocation said this 15 minutes ago, oops, upvoted
it's weird how the founders' background is all about "dropped out from here" and "dropped out from there". Is dropping out an achievement?
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Goodness, that makes me feel old. I remember On Lisp very fondly.
http://www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2013...
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This looks pretty interesting. My friends and I are working on a game in a similar vein to this one (teaching programming through gameplay) however it is a 2D platform game. If you like this sort of stuff check the project I'm working on at www.betathegame.com .

We have done workshops with kids and have footage although we aren't releasing playable demo's just yet. We are closing in on completion. No need for donations but if you like what we're doing please share!
Maybe you could instantiate every string in a global radix tree?
I don't see how it's political to let Canonical keep the burden of maintaining code that only they care about...
What they mean is that they want to provide testing in such an easy, affordable, useful way that it can become a basic human right/the standard. It is similar to how literacy could become a basic human right once books became cheap, accessibly written and easy to distribute. Should the company that brings about this change be able to expect people to demand its (and its competitors') services? That is what you are asking. I think it depends on if the new standard is actually a positive change. Since the new testing process seems in every way superior to current standard processes, I think that the change in behavior Theranos proposes to bring about is a healthy and beneficial one, and do not mind that they have the means to provide what they want to exist.
It is the weekend. I guess that is why it is so quiet.

The full article comes out on Monday in Spiegel Int., so I'm expecting a lot more detail.
I stopped looking for ideas, and focused on solving problems. There is a difference. Ideas come with a lot of fluff. Meaning that under the right conditions they might work. Solving problems focuses on talking to people who have problems, and figuring out a way to solve it. I now spend at least an hour every week talking to people who have problems I want to solve: people who can pay. (:
I don't know the specific proposal, but I know how CBC designs with LFSR-generated IVs work, and why you'd want a deterministic generator for your IVs, and it's because it allows both sides to agree on a non-repeating progression of IVs without actually sending the extra block on every message.

LFSRs are also sometimes used in counter mode, too.

Again: obviously, a simple LFSR isn't cryptographically secure, and anyone who would deploy one in a cryptosystem probably already knows that. The question is: how are you mounting the attack you're talking about?
>"None of the other programmers had even heard of Lisp..."

To the HN crowd, this is almost unbelievable, but it is not the worst I've heard. This summer, going on a vacation, I sat next to a working programmer who's knowledge of programming and the programming languages begins and ends with C#. He had no knowledge of Ruby, Perl, Python, open source, git, ...
Not that difficult. Instead of starting a start-up when you come out of school, go work in a few IT departments. You will find something that is needed somewhere.
Racoon is a nightmare to set up. I would say that I'm reasonably technical but gave up after trying to set up a road warrior config for home use passing through dd-wrt and terminating in a server.
The company is all hot air. They have a board full of retired military figure heads that have no experience in medical devices or retail services. Additionally, they do not have any products to show. Look at their patents. They are all very general and broad. There has been NO FDA CLEARANCE for anything they are doing, which raises legal questions. Speaking of legal, search for lawsuits they are involved in. Their core technology is not even theirs. They stole it from someone else.
It's getting really annoying though, and it demeans actual basic human rights and those that are denied them.
The syntax blocker is the biggest one for me. Are there books full of classic proofs and explanations of their syntax and shorthand? I'd be very interested.
I could explain this, but in all seriousness, I think the better answer to this question is to urge you to pop open your Perl, Ruby, or Python prompt and work the math out.
Even then, how would you know which string the one you have is, unless you compare it?
Strings are interned in Lua which means identical strings have the same reference.
From a drug designer's perspective, though, this is a problem. If you don't know why the current drugs work you're going to have a lot of trouble improving them.
> Every engineer, even fresh grads, gets an office with a door (though windows are reserved for the senior guys).

What?! An office of the size for 1 person, without a window? That sounds awful. Is it like a big closet with bright-lighting?[1] How many people on HN would like to work in the room pictured in the below link?:

http://jonnyh.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/kar-server-room-pa...
Here's an example of what you are talking about:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392586/Oxford-Engli...
Based on the url, I thought it was about design, then decided it wasn't, and now realize that it also was :)

Very good, thank you!
This is true but not particularly meaningful to me, because you can't really do anything new with crypto at all without some kind of software update. For instance, the primes and generator for conventional number theoretic DH are also pre-generated and baked into a standard.
I like how the author mentions having an executable mathematical language might be helpful. Math is a non-standard non-machine-executable programming language which means it's inherently buggy. On top of that, now I need to interpret the "code" while I'm learning and it can be pretty dense.

Much like in programming, I'm sure expert mathematicians may not see why it's so painful, but wait until a more robust language/system is developed for the hobbyist. It will be extremely disruptive.
"much perfect audio reproduction"

Yea any digital signal has to pass through things called "DAC's" that obviously come with different quality and price. DAC's along with the power supply/design greatly effect the sound of digital audio.
Does Lua do string interning? If it does then every string the same will be at the same memory location so you can do a simple address comparison.

edit: someone answered this in a sibling post with 'yes'.
This would make for an interesting experiment. Anaerobic digesters would presumably make short work of any toxin proteins, and you could probably get a fairly high jellyfish to "other" feedstocks [ratio] while retaining a commercially viable fertilizer (plus plenty of usable methane) as end products.

That said, I doubt that the cost to harvest and transport would be competitive with more conventional feedstocks such as slaughterhouse leavings, crop wastes / stalks, and plain old manure.

Food for thought, anyway. Floating digester platforms, maybe?

[edit: added missing word 'ratio']
Is that what is happening here? Intel's explanation of "The Management" handing down orders doesn't imply technical reasons were the motivation. It's unclear.

If there are technical reasons - like the one you mentioned - let's hear them, they might be valid.
That's interesting... Would interning change the speed at which strings are generated, then?
idk, but it appears like it really is and most importantly it is very important to know where someone is coming from. Finding a high profile company/institution and dropping out, because you can do better without them shows ego and attribution.
Most billionaires dropped out and became billionaires then.
Didn't know about Vagrant. Looks really cool and could definitely be useful for this scenario. Thanks for the comment.
This is a blast to play with.
their patents portfolios seems huge with 17 issued and mostly covered microfluidic diagnostics. one of them is titled "Real-time detection of influenza virus" (US 8,007,999). it would be really disruptive if they could do their claimed 1000+ lab tests with their proprietary microfludic devices in under 4hr.
What went wrong with IPSEC was that a bunch of standards group people set out to build a crypto standard that would impact every networking vendor on the planet, and did so with frank and open hostility towards academic cryptographers. The idea that NSA would have tried to subvert IETF implies that IETF was organized enough to subvert. But it wasn't and isn't. IETF is like the Internet's student council.

Lots of smart people have involved themselves with IETF, but those among them that I have talked to about it seem universally and profoundly frustrated by the whole process.
It is still trespassing. It doesn't have to be difficult to do something for it to be illegal.

I think the bigger issue is that trespassing is usually handled with a warning and, if it does go to court, is usually a misdemeanor or a low-grade felony. For this, it seems that accessing a server that you do not have permission to use is seen as much more serious than merely trespassing.

I can't see an argument that supports that position. Certainly, if you do anything to vandalize or disrupt the server, then you have crossed a line and should be prosecuted. Anything less should be handled more reasonably.
Even with effectively searching the internet I'd agree that with the exception of web/computer/programming stuff, it's impossible to find on the internet the kind of wide-variety, high-quality information the library has in such a distilled form.
Most Economist pieces are written by try-hard underpaid 20-somethings desperate to be taken seriously.

Keeping that in mind helps to contextualize nonsense like this.

It's also why the Economist operates the way they do.
> not because of deficiencies in [Haskell], but because it’s politically difficult to get people to use a Haskell based language

I know tons of languages, but I've never really been able to understand Haskell. The whole monad thing is just...weird. I've read several descriptions, and had it explained to me multiple times on HN, but I still just Don't Get It. And I feel like I should Get It, because I have a degree in math including an upper-level course in logic.

To me, that suggests a problem with the language design of Haskell -- maybe monads are a bad abstraction, maybe the syntax should be different, maybe there's a brilliant and simple explanation that I haven't found yet. But the bottom line is that the learning curve for people coming from other languages needs to be a lot lower for Haskell to ever be anything but a tiny niche.
This is a systematized way to elicit a subjective report. My original point stands; we cannot measure it objectively (if, indeed, there is even merit to such a concept).
So excited for this. Looks like some really great hacks.
tomorrow announcment: Amazon restricts number of "next page" presses per hour.

also: now words will be written with captcas
Everyone knows Apple is doomed, of course.
It's a CDN... comparing to a VPS is not even close to being fair.

I've never seen a CDN that will let you load an ssl cert for less than a few hundred dollars. SNI isn't supported widely enough yet, so they have to dedicate an IP to you.
Do note that this is a state by state issue. You are held hostage by the medical establishment in NY, much less so in CO.
Yep, all of their technical reasons have pretty much been debunked. The reason for Mir's existence is mainly about project control. As Matthew Garrett mentions[1], they likely need that control for Ubuntu Phone to be able to relicense the code to keep their hardware partners happy.

[1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/25376.html
Should be awesome. Based on the expo, the quality is going to be astounding.
I agree. Building a medical device and/or diagnostics company is not a joke.
What sort of local things?
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I have a couple of older books that were found in the same manner. From people who studied anything computer related in the 70s and 80s. I lost some copies on a flood, but still have a small, but nice collection. Including one of those "Teach Yourself Perl Guide Books", with Internet Explorer 5 as a bonus (on a CD).
Honestly, as more media is created the worth of curated collections increases faster than the worth of the media itself. If I were in charge of libraries, I'd be looking into that aspect of things. Because, right now, I walk into libraries and they're just mediocre collections of books I've no interest in.
1. I didn't suggest that domain expertise is easy to develop. Nobody gains expertise overnight. That's the point.

2. You don't have to quit your day job to develop domain expertise. Be strategic and try to make sure your day jobs are related to a specific industry. Far too many people hop from random startup to random startup. That's not surprising: the pay can be excellent, you get to work with the latest and greatest technologies, and you get a lottery ticket in the form of equity. But many of these jobs won't provide enough exposure to a vertical to actually gain meaningful knowledge of it.

3. If you get involved in an industry, you should take the time to establish relationships, especially with folks who are non-technical. If you nurture those relationships and keep your eyes open, you will often meet highly-knowledgeable, well-connected non-technical individuals who make for perfect non-technical co-founders. These are not the "non-technical co-founder seeking technical co-founder" wantrapreneurs with no domain expertise of their own who you run into all the time in Silicon Valley.

4. If you're not prepared to invest the time in understanding a specific market, that's fine. Be the best engineer you can be, try to maximize your income and consider whether it's worth continually beating your head against a brick wall to find an "idea" so that you can create a "startup."
Of course the ARM future is not all that glorious. The open-source friendly ARM vendors are not that common, most ARM GPUs do not have (1st party) opensource graphics drivers.
How has the book aged?
I know exactly what you mean. I haven't seen a website scream "ulterior motives" quite so loudly in a long while.
management resembling zombies...
asking for people's blood....

aha!... now we are getting somewhere.
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Not true. iPods were regarded as having crummy DACs until the Shuffle, which was a paradox in that it had incredibly limited features but also very good audio quality.
Why would any party make such a hostile announcement in the FOSS scene? I'm not all that involved in that scene, but surely this approach is counter-productive? Especially if you can't back it with a sound technical reason.
I'm very tempted to write a blog post pointing to this comment, so that it might be reposted in 3 years - but I think it'll be neater if someone else does!
That's actually pretty nifty, and shows what a little bit of corruption does to an image.

Hopefully more systems will start shipping with checksumming file systems by default. Even better if they have error correction.

I still have some of the first MP3s I ripped back in the late 90s. They still play, but it sounds like a scratched CD. HDDs aren't as robust as we'd like to think.
You appear to be interested and aware of the current state of clinical chemistry. Are you aware of any HN/Slashdot-esque sites for this pursuit? One of my main areas of hobbyist interest this year is biochemical assays and health diagnostic mechanisms, but there is a lot of chaff in my google searches.

Any pointers would be appreciated. My email is in my profile if you would like to discuss it more in depth.
no, you're not. That site looks like an advert for Elysium
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They do lack a driven visionary, which was instrumental to all their revival and recent success.
Do you think you'd get away with photocopying and scanning a paper book?

It probably doesn't violate laws against circumventing DRM, but using it is still potentially copyright infringement.

What it does do that might be useful is legitimately strip DRM from files that aren't protected by copyright or for purposes which are allowed by copyright, where you might otherwise be in trouble for breaking DRM.
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On the bright side, route is pretty strongly parallelizable. So even if it takes the most CPU time, it doesn't have to be the long pole.
I would argue the right to literacy is already a human right. The price of books is orthogonal.
The only lawsuit information I've found so far shows Theranos as the plaintiff, represented by Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP. That would be David Boies, fwiw.

Are there others?

Edit: Here's some background: http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020121203541
http://www.propublica.org/article/remember-when-the-patriot-...
I have an honest question then, "What benefit does the why post have?". I can see it if you're trying to warn someone of something, but otherwise it just comes off wrong.

If you are going for a teaching moment, then saying "I wanted the same thing and I chose to solve it with rsync with the following alias / script" is better than telling someone they are just a waste of time.
Well, let's put it this way. It is in no way any less healthy than anything else you eat. Gluten is a mixture of proteins that are all useful to the body, and while you can get those proteins from other sources, none are as cheap and plentiful as wheat.

The beginning of agriculture caused an overall loss in lifespans, but in different agricultural societies the reduction was inversely correlated with primary crop protein content. If you restrict yourself to grass crops, high-gluten wheat is one of the most healthy things you can eat. (Only surpassed by properly cooked quinoa, because it has even more proteins than wheat.)

> And why is it "rather" healthy?

What is this, the fifth grade? I in no way implied any downside to gluten (to non-celiac people).

> I thought it causes "absolutely no health damage" for 6.9 of the 7 billion people out there?

And that would be correct.
There's no need for aggression, especially when you're spectacularly wrong. There's nothing more dangerous than a confident yet totally inaccurate fact-checker.

The right to trial by jury is not fully incorporated against the states. That's a common myth. It only applies if the term of imprisonment is six months or greater. Otherwise, the right is not incorporated. See Baldwin v. New York, 399 U.S. 66 (1970) Hence, the end-run I described where police charge a variety of lesser counts, try the case before the local magistrate, and the cumulative sentence ends up as years without a jury ever examining the evidence.

There are plenty of black defendants in the South right now who would be happy to explain to you the intricacies of partial incorporation, if you're so inclined.

As for this statement:

>"Intent still the primary factor of most criminal laws at the federal level, and all criminal laws at the state levels (excluding infractions punishable by fines)." (Emphasis Mine.)

Let me list a few state criminal strict liability statutes that certainly come with incarceration:

Statutory Rape

Terroristic Threat

Driving While Intoxicated

Sale of Restricted Substance to a Minor

Corruption of Minors

I noticed you limited your comment to federal laws, while I did not, and even explicitly falsely denied the large trend in states toward strict liability criminal laws. We could also have a lengthy discussion about the various ways in which the necessary intent is being obfuscated in dozens of commonly charged statutes.

The mens rea requirement is being rapidly eroded. Yelling loudly on the internet won't change that.

As for where I got my information, that would be Princeton University, and four years as a paralegal under an attorney with a JD/MBA from the University of Chicago.