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There are companies that take orders directly from patients and provide results back directly as well. Just google for "online lab tests" and look at the top few. They go through a doctor, but they basically rubber stamp the test order. They don't typically provide interpretation services nor are they covered by insurance (afaik). They do however, return results to you as soon as their back from the lab and typically work with labcorp or quest so you probably won't have to change your routine.
They'd be dead within the year without some hefty political backing. The FDA does not play nice with novelty, ask any biomedical startup founder.
What are you even talking about? Most of the Wayland developers work at Intel.

Also, not even other *buntu maintainers are going with Mir, so unless you are equating Canonical with open source, you must be a tad lost.
Their website said you still need a doctor's note. It would be nice to avoid that in the future, I'd get cheap tests done all the time just out of curiosity.
Is technological progress a thing of the past?
I have one that never used, besides the first days as it was a gift and I already had a mp3 player.

I always found the menu wheel too fragile.
> Where does that info come from and what do you mean with "all of their time"?

It came from my memory of various articles I've read; but that's certainly a fallible source, so correct me if I'm wrong.

And with "all of their time", I didn't literally mean "all of it". I meant, with time appropriated towards working on a star-up, it was spent on only one idea rather than multiple ones.
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My point is that things aren't so cut and dry.

We're breeding out genetic diversity.

We're also substituting a more brittle ecology for the development of our food. We can both agree upon that.

My point is, let's not pretend that technology has solved the riddle of how to feed people, or that genetic modification solves the problem. There is a whole discussion to be had, beyond just "throw technology at it".

And as for the dig suggesting I study breeding and agriculture, I have a fair bit. I've created a genetically engineered organism, worked doing agriculture in the developing world, built water filtration systems in the developing world, done agriculture in the United States, grew up using herbicides and pesticides, saved my own seeds, and have a fairly diverse viewpoint. I understand that genetic engineering is just a technology, and the cat is already out of the bag.

Please don't bring up credentialing as a way to get around providing specific arguments with references.
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I don't believe it was broadly known to be wrong during IPSEC standardization.
Ubuntu is the one that decided to go their own way. Why does Intel have to support them?
When asked what he considered his politics to be, Coase stated, "I really don't know. I don't reject any policy without considering what its results are. If someone says there's going to be regulation, I don't say that regulation will be bad. Let's see. What we discover is that most regulation does produce, or has produced in recent times, a worse result. But I wouldn't like to say that all regulation would have this effect because one can think of circumstances in which it doesn't."

I think this a fabulously humble point of view. I wish more people thought this way.
Probably more like laughing for 5 seconds, then standing there awkwardly for another 120 seconds, then getting your coffee and getting the hell out of there as quickly as possible way.
i try to either get paid to build something, or build something i personally need. either way, i get something out of it :)
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I love their design and I was a huge fan of Core Wars in HS.

I've been trying to get them to give me a peek for the last week, I really want to cover them/give them free ad space at launch.

Nothing. Radio Silence.
I'm curious to see the community's reaction to these observations about LastPass and also hear what alternatives people use (KeePass and variants, 1Password, pass, pwsafe, etc.).
does it really matter? there are sites that store your password in plain text and they manage to become big hits. there are sites that completely ignore current css design rules, and they do fine as well. why are you arguing over a problem that is basically 99% solved?
sillysaurus3 wasn't banned. We autokill comments from newly created accounts using Tor, but we don't do anything to the accounts themselves.
There are loads of different ways to sandbox a given process. If they're feeling particularly paranoid/lazy running each match in an ephemeral VM would be one way. Here's a SO question with more: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4249063/how-can-i-run-an-...
Strictly speaking, the minimum should be 4, because TLDs could accept email too (resulting in a@ca).
Of course not, but as a companion piece, it's plenty fun.
You can already do that, through lef.org, among others. You get a discount on the tests if you pay for a membership with the site, but it doesn't appear to be necessary.

(I'm neither a member, nor a customer, but I stumbled across their site a while back, doing some research about a health issue I ended up not having, anyway...)
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Twitter was not a founder-focused idea - it was a side project for a video service.
Seems like an ease/cost breakthrough for health-monitoring... so I'm surprised they picked a name that sounds so much like 'Thanatos', the Greek god of death.
The point of using an LFSR for IV generation is that it allows you not to transmit the IV on every message. Can you go into more detail about how you, a passive observer, are collecting enough information to reverse the LFSR?

(This is aside from the fact that we're talking about an extremely elaborate way to construct a CPA attack against a protocol that does not automatically give attackers chosen plaintext).
I don't think - no, you just don't understand the point of the disclaimer.
I've been waiting so long for this. As someone who avoids syringes like the plague, I always wondered, how come we have robots in Mars, yet we can't come up with something better than injecting a large piece of metal into our bodies? Now I just need to find a way to give them my money.
It's odd how little information is provided about the actual new technologies behind this.
How would spam filtering or searching work in such a service?
In a ideal world, but if you get a lot of "contributions" some might slip through. Remember, no one can match NSA's budget, manpower and maybe brainpower.
The French wine industry in the 19th century grew many different cultivars of grapes. Yet it still fell victim to phylloxera. In the end, they had to switch to American rootstocks that came not just from different cultivars, but from different species of grapes.

This was in some ways more drastic of a change than the switch from Gros Michel bananas to Cavendish bananas. The bananas were two different cultivars of the same species.

When the phylloxera plague struck, the French were already growing dozens of different cultivars, in a variety of environments, from Champagne to Provence. But it didn't matter. The grapes all died.

Genetic diversity can provide resiliency if a crop disease happens to attack the genes that are different. If the disease is indifferent to those genes, then genetic diversity will not save your crop.
I'd recommend "pcp," for "progress copy"...I'd use it for the name alone!
By "other such services", do you mean something more specific than "anyone"?
The standard provides a standard set of curve parameters and a NIST-sanctioned way of generating new curve parameters using the exact same method.
This comment looks strange to me. While I'm pretty new in the US, I find the exact procedure you're describing quite easy. All I need to do is leave an online message for my doctor asking to prescribe the test. They usually answer within hours - and I can go to the nearest lab. That, of course, given that I actually need these tests done and don't just fall on my doctor out of the sky. It sounds like you have a known condition so the doctor should have no problem figuring out why you're asking for a test.

Time to change your healthcare provider, maybe?
I was going to write a response adding that adding a picture of the actual location would've been just as easy, instead I made a post about how I was going to make a post about how ready it'd be to use a snapshot of the actual location.
Globally speaking, there is less poverty and warfare than there has ever been in human history

I have always been curious how people come to this conclusion.
One advantage to growing older is that since you can no longer hear the difference between lo-fi and hi-fi, audio equipment gets a lot less expensive!
Quite nice for a hackathon.

Some comments:
1) Want to choose a price range. $3k for a jacket?
2) When I click "Like", the animation to get a copy of a new one should be the same as when I click "Dislike", or at least in the same direction. I expect new items to always come from the right, them coming from the left in some cases is strange to me.
3) The default example "men's skinny jeans" should work as-is. It would also be useful if there were a button "Choose" or something on the home page.
This essay's "analysis" reads like it was written by a high school student. It's first-level analysis and doesn't really take into account Apple's (long) history.

We are in the tail-end of the lull Apple's top-level product cycle. iPad was released in 2010. That's just shy of 3 years ago. I can't promise Apple's next major product initiative is going to be successful, but commentators whose opinions assume that Apple is not working on anything other than iterating on existing product lines are pretty ignorant. There are tons of exciting trends in hardware and software now that Apple is well poised to take advantage of. They surely have plenty of stuff cooking in the labs, it's just a question of when the stars align enough in their prototypes, their supply chain, and consumer demand for them to release them.
The only thing you want not to happen is for software to start generating and negotiating its own curves, because that then requires all interoperable implementations to parse and validate random curves from attackers.
This is not about FOSS, it is about one man's vision to circumvent the mainstream developer community. Ubuntu chose to make the transition from pre-configuring Debian and making compiz themes for Gnome to trying its hand at systems-level programming. It would be somewhat self-assured of them to assume that all hardware vendors, who are already heavily invested in Linux, as a platform, would necessarily pick up the slack, especially when those investments did not foresee a move like Mir.
Most parties seem to be OK with it, so I expect it to get even worse.

Are they OK with it, or do they just not see that they have a viable alternative at present?

I can think of numerous cases where from a personal and/or professional point of view I would have happily spent real money on upgraded/alternative software to what I've got if it fixed bugs that waste my time or make the results I get worse than they should be. Obviously some people will just rip off software whatever you do, but for paying customers, I'd be very surprised if quality alone couldn't drive a significant movement in a market, other things being equal.

I think it's all the unrelated things that aren't equal that are holding back that kind of competition. An interesting question is therefore at what point the willingness to use good software to develop more good software could cost less than putting up with poor quality incumbents, given that the real cost of both strategies is high. Even as a glass-half-full kind of guy, believing that a relatively small part of the industry could begin to pull that off without requiring the entire mainstream to shift, it would still have to involve far, far more people than are involved at the moment if we're going to create a sufficiently comprehensive foundation of development tools and essential libraries to bootstrap a whole quality-first ecosystem. The good news is that if you can establish that foundation, everything you do afterwards is easier in quality-first world has that advantage over the quick and dirty status quo, so momentum is on your side.
As a systems and PL researcher/hobbyist, there would be no greater gift you could give my field than to do this.
The only defense for superstimulus is the hedonic treadmill. (And vice-versa.)
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With that kind of firepower (no pun intended) Ms. Holmes may be setting her sights on the larger World market. Lots of people to be helped beyond the borders of the USA.

Could she become the Elon Musk of the healthcare sector?
What about the FUD storm about Wayland that Canonnical released? When Mir was announced Canonnical and Shuttleworth basically shat on every Wayland developer. They even edited and/or removed their statements later on, it was so bad.
With the volumes they're dealing with and the automation they tout I bet they're using integrated microfluidic chips with built in sensor technology. That's so cool and it makes sense given the time they spent in stealth mode since that's a rather new technology and getting it certified must've taken some time. Looking a patents and bingo, they have patents on microfluidic techniques. Awesome. Eventually they might have a medlab in a box -- neat.
Like book shops libraries need to move with the times. Adding a DVD section isn't it. That just makes them like blockbusters.

They should be local archives of local things, with content online. Plus free Internet terminals and wifi.
Ubuntu is creating Mir for political reasons. There's no reason for upstream projects to maintain code that only benefits a single distribution.
Yes, of course if you have domain expertise and there is a need you can recognize a niche to fill with a company. I think getting domain expertise is easier said than done and could probably require quitting one's day job to go work in industry X for 5 years. Possibly just to find out that filling a niche is hard.
I was excited until I noticed it hasn't launched yet. Looks fun though since Python is one of the choice.
The DACs are pretty much the same as you could find in any other mp3 player. The cowon ones and so on were somewhat better, but not massively so. You can see a battery of tests performed on various ipods as well as professional DACs costing thousands of $ here: http://www.daefeatures.co.uk/rmaa.php

They don't kick out a lot of power, so they don't cope well with fancy headphones.

The bad reputation of the ipod's sound stems largely from those white earbuds that came in the box, which are genuinely abominable. That and confirmation bias/placebo/etc.
Is that how it works in the US?

I can get any blood test I want in Poland, everyday, as long as I pay for it. You need a prescription for procedures like X-rays, which have possible adverse effects, or for blood tests if you want them to be covered by the state health insurance.
I agree with "anyone" these days.

I'm responsible for a huge amount of private financial data and it has started to scare the shit out of me.
If you use oh-my-zsh, gcp is binded to "git cherry-pick" (with auto-completion etc.), so I did:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcp /usr/local/bin/cp_
It's funny that that is the easiest thing the author can do to summarize the rules.

I'd think a grammar (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt) would work just great.
I think "The lives of others" was a great movie. I'd recommend it.
I don't say otherwise, just that Intel as a company is a corporation like any other, with contributions to FOSS also driven by internal politics.
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I would like to show you a quick guide how you could update your drivers automatically and easy!
Your summary is worth a thousand web sites.
Icky is probably the best word to describe it. There is a certain power to understanding how to maneuver a situation and use it to your advantage.

With Laws, I found the 'never outshine the master' principal to be invaluable when meeting a new group of people.

As an aside, tomorrow is your first HN birthday. HB!
Wow...one of their board members is Henry Kissinger - http://www.theranos.com/our-company

I wonder how they pulled that off.

This is interesting....I wonder what the technology behind this looks like. Is it really that difficult to achieve 'instant, accurate' results?

Why is that? Is it because the traditional way is to just put a blood sample on a fungus and see what happens?
There's a sufficient mass of people with dots in their e-mail addresses that it's worth checking for an at and a dot, even if you don't require it - just to check that they haven't typed a comma or something instead.
Speculation: it's nice for civilians, but for monitoring military personnel their systems could be enormously useful.

That and the veteran health care cost reduction potential.
For those interested, this comment is caused by this commit revert: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/com...

So originally the XMir support was merged in, then reverted on instructions from Higher Ups.

I can't really blame them, if they make driver changes Intel would have to adapt the XMir code to cope with them.
It's a complete crock. Most MP3 players today, and iPods for their entire history, offer pretty much perfect audio reproduction (modulo lossiness in MP3). Plenty of folks don't like the earbuds and, to be sure, the iPod was not technically superior to its rivals on first release -- the thing that made the iPod successful was end-to-end near seamless experience including purchasing of music, redownloading lost content, ripping music, managing library, syncing to devices, and so forth, which Apple's rivals repeatedly and ineptly failed to reproduce (Microsoft came close, with Zune, but it was too little too late). And yes, iTunes on Windows is a slug, etc., but rival products were always in some crucial respect worse.
Indian Govt scanning Internet traffic as well
can you elaborate on the types of headphones that appreciate in value?
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Am I the only one here who thinks all those people imaged on the web site have really weird eyes?

Creepy.
I think the point stands, since that test is reliant on a patient reporting a sensation of pain. In the same way, psychiatrists must rely on patients expression the emotional problem they're feeling.

Reading that wiki entry, it looks like any objective measurements that arose from dolorimeters are not in active use, because they weren't helpful.
Universities tbh are more for meeting likeminded people nowadays: most of the stuff taught at CS can be learnt on your own given you're disciplined enough.

Just to underline some of the points others have made, here is a short list of things I found most valuable from my CS degree:

- Algorithms, Datastructures & Computational/space complexity (ADC). <-- This one is huge imo and will allow you to discern efficient code from inefficient ones.

- Discrete Mathematics. It's the lingua franca when talking about CS and you will need it to understand ADC for example. It introduces set theory, graph theory and so forth, which are used in ADC/AI etc... to describe and solve problems.

- Linear Algebra: if you ever want to work with 3d stuff, this one will be essential. It'll also work out nicely for 2d work, and seeing as you mentioned you've got a knack for UI work, you probably will appreciate this one. It'll allow you to get an understanding of for example affine transformations etc... You will need a computer graphics course too, but this is definitely a prerequisite course to do those.

- Probability and statistics. I really hated this course (it's also one of the harder ones coincidentally), but once you "get it", you really do "get it". Ever wondered how gesture recognition works? Or how spam filters work? Well, the math required for this will be addressed here, together with the following subject.

- Artificial Intelligence. Extremely useful if you're interested in game dev, or just want to learn to solve problems in a smart and efficient manner. It combines ADC with discrete mathematics with probability & statistics.

- Calculus. If not for the math, it'll definitely make you look at things in a different way, which imo in turn, contributes to your way of looking at problems. Partial derivation / integrals and how it can relate to 3d surfaces for example. And let's not forget taylor series etc... It'll give you an idea of how mathematical functions such as sin(1) etc... can be implemented etc...

- Operating systems, Computer Architecture/organization. Essential for understanding what happens under the hood. Allows you to reason about what the best code path is for solving a problem. Should you use the GPU for example instead of the CPU etc... and if so, why? etc... It also introduces models such as finite state automatons etc... which are also applicable in language processing for, say, compilers.

And that brings us to the last, but certainly not least subject, my all time favorite:
- Compiler construction. Gives you an insight in how languages are being processed, and how to design your own language and build a compiler for it. It should also give you additional insights on how runtimes/virtual machines work.

The software engineering courses were more about processes, philosophies and patterns etc... and even though they're definitely useful, I think most experienced software engineers have already "got this". Either via books, company policy/culture or via experience.

Again, these are my experiences, YMMV :) Good luck!
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I agree that domain expertise is often lacking in startup founders, especially the "business" founder. For several years I wanted to form a recruiting startup without having built up a solid understanding of how recruiting works. After I had several years of recruiting under my belt, I was able to build a reasonably successful small business (originally a startup that couldn't scale) that exploited a nice little niche in the recruiting world. That small business wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't known a lot about recruiting.
Interesting mostly because of the insider quotes.
That looks nearly a year old, the post isn't timestamped but the dates from the emails are from September 2012.
I like the concept, I actually got sucked into it myself. I'd keep going with it, I think it's great.
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"We believe access to accurate, affordable, real-time diagnostic information is a basic human right."

There's a bit of a conflict-of-interest if the company that makes money providing "X" declares that "X" is a basic human right. Even as a non-profit (most hospitals are non-profit, but that just means the corporation doesn't keep earnings), you can't justify that statement.
Lower bounds are useful and important quantities.