skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear what you're saying, in that there are some media that I read for the ads.

I'm not exactly concerned about my personal privacy, rather that of human privacy in general. I'd have a hard time explaining Tor to my Mom for example, despite that she is quite diligent about shredding paper documents.
Her story is quite comparable to Bill Gates. She's levelled up compared to her parents but they were by no means poor.
'device' versus 'service'
I upvoted without commenting because I love EV, highly appreciate the free release but had nothing to say. Random praise is just noise that can be expressed by upvoting.
I suspect the 'billionaire' was thrown in there as clickbait regardless, for some reason large numbers attract clicks.
Actually, I thought it was kind of a dick response on Gilliam's part. He completely dismisses her feelings at the time and the effect the experience had on her by half-heartedly assuring her she was safer than she thought, and then immediately goes on to ask her how well he did with her body double.
This is a simple way of dealing with repetitive error handling.
https://plus.google.com/+TheodoreTso/posts/4W6rrMMvhWU
Good point, I agree, but there is still margin for some errors. I believe a scientific journal would want a large number of tests, not a "Blood exam shown to fail once".

Proving reliability does rely on examining internal methods, and showing they are consistent and reliable.

I concur it somewhat lends to Theranos' credibility that no competitor is disproving their accuracy.
Amazing to see what Steve Jobs paid $100K for.

What's interesting is that because the logo was based on the black cube it actually would have forced the hardware to be in that configuration. Even though at the time the engineers were having a nightmare of a time trying to get components to fit inside it. If the logo was different then you could've seen the NeXT hardware in a different shape at a much lower price point. This then could've positioned them much better against Sun and SGI.

Makes you wonder if this logo never existed would Jobs have ever ended up back at Apple and turned it into the company it is today.
It seems pretty clear to me and with the lack of peer-review and technical details paints a pretty disturbing picture. When I saw those names an image formed of a company gearing up to bend the government to its business objectives through its board's political ties.

Now, I'm not sure if that's because:

A.) They don't have a game changer or it's going to come under fierce scrutiny by the larger scientific community so they need to try to mandate its use through legal means and using the military as a gateway and OUR military budget as an early source of funds.

OR

B.) Even though they have the real deal, the nature of the political landscape in which medicine operates necessitates the back-room dealing that this board can deliver on.
> I'm also surprised C is still so commonly used for mission critical software.

If you're surprised at that then you probably have not seen much of the embedded world where (gasp!) assembler is still in use and C is considered a 'high level' language.
That was from a previous redesign. There is a newer landing page within in the last month.
Yes, clearly that is exactly what I'm saying. Intelligent CEO == scam.

It takes more than intelligence to start a Biotech company. You need money, equipment, skill, and usually experience.

Medical breakthroughs usually require years of research and skills that are acquired working on a PhD. I'm not saying it's not possible for a 19 year old to make a world changing discovery, but when no one will say what exactly that world changing discovery is, I get a bit skeptical.
> If you can manage to get a working install of Postgres without pulling in half of Debian, I would be surprised.

You mean like in this blog-post: https://blog.docker.com/2013/06/create-light-weight-docker-c...
I have the same question as heliodor does - what's the disconnection do you mean? Thanks.
Is there evidence that auto firmware issues are a major cause of injury, enough to mandate such a thing? There is already a heavy burden to comply with standards.

I recent called our city's public works dept to propose changing the traffic signage/signals at an extremely confusing and potentially dangerous intersection (every person I've talked to about it hates making the turn there...). The lead traffic engineer was very understanding and agreed it was a terrible intersection. But the hard stats showed few accidents there, so he'd never be able to redirect money from more problematic areas...
1 month trip, skipped return flight; became a 6 month trip.
another 1 month trip turned into 7.
last second 2 month trip... got home 2 years later!

Not having a planned return date made it much easier to travel. I met people 1/2 way through a year trip who were having a complete breakdown. I always figured I'd be home a month or so later and just wanted to see a bit more before I headed home!
I'm very clean cut so I never had any issues with alcohol nor was I even tempted to try drugs. Remote island = cash payoff but same country caught at the airport is jail or even a death sentence! Don't get complacent. Better yet just don't do it.
I had a relative get stabbed 8 times at home while I was out "risking my life" traveling... all I got was rabies shots "just in case".
Oh.. rabies.. NO CURE.
Once Symptoms appear = DEATH in 99.97% of cases. Insurance flies you home to die.
Research it!
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Let me get this straight: because you're afraid that the NSA gets the hand on their data you want government regulation?

That's both the government.

When you're giving blood to some entity and you want to safeguard what happens to the result regulation won't get that for you, but independent oversight, sample anonimization at the source (insofar as this is possible with a blood sample, your DNA is your identity), decentralization of test locations (preferably as close to the source as possible), proven sample destruction and no keeping of data post sample destruction would be the way to go. Government oversight pretty much guarantees government access, the opposite of what you wish to achieve.

It will be very hard to create a service like this without a loophole that can be used to sneak such data out.

The best way in which this could be done is by having the tests made so foolproof that they can be done directly in the hospitals without centralized laboratories.

As for the board, you could say something similar about DropBox but I don't see them giving three letter agencies access to your account either without proper process and a court order.

Anything less could sink the company and given the amounts of money at stake here you can bet their competitors would love to do just that.

And who is to say that their competitors are not already acting in a similar manner anyway, they are after all processing about 100x more volume today.
For properties, http://www.booli.se has a very nice landing page. (In swedish, the first field says, "Street city or area", the dropdown says "for sale", the button says "show properties".) They rotate the background picture and always show something very striking, each time i open the page i just get happy by the photo. Not only the landing page is great, browsing around and filtering just works the way you want it to, with great blend of facts, picture and maps.
I've only been in CM for ~1 week and have spent most of the time working (or late night partying with Europeans / expat Americans). I spent 2 weeks in Bangkok before....

I think there is "authentic" Thai here and in Bangkok; there is still a strong majority of Thai's / SE Asians in CM and BKK. Certainly some areas of the city more-so than others. And you can find the places where they frequent...

CM is a pretty cool and affordable place. The weather is much nicer than unbearably hot Bangkok, you can get a nice quality single AC room with a queen size bed for ~$20/night in the center of town. Authentic meals cost $2-$3 (the Western-style / tourist meals are more like $5-$10). It has pretty good wifi - much better than BKK. And they have a familiarity with dealing with Westerners; though, it is ironic that Thais are particularly bad at English. I hear the worst at English in SE Asia, despite it being the biggest ex-pat and tourist country. People are pretty friendly up here too.
I remember when reading the Steve jobs biography I got very excited about the next logo and had to put down the book to look it up.

I was very disappointed.
What was unethical about it? Quantitative investment work can mean a lot of things.
Plain Threads are the GOTO of todays computing [video]
You missed the point I was making about news releases causing a drop in volatility when it confirms expectations.
Actually, there does not need to be a 'discovery' here, merely fantastic execution on existing technology. It's a bit like combining a bunch of stuff that already exists in a novel way and then playing that for all it is worth. This does nothing to belittle the accomplishment here, it's fairly amazing if what they've done is as accurate as they claim it is but from what I've been reading over the years all the pieces were already there, it's just that nobody bothered to combine them like this and the execute the hell out of it.

Classic disruptive startup, very impressive if you dig down a bit further.
I don't sign contracts like these. Actually, I refuse even to work for employers who put it in and then take it out when asked because the trust has already gone if you demanded to own the work I do on a Sunday afternoon.

Any employer who puts that clause in their contract and whinges about not being able to find good developers has only themselves to blame.
Interesting, do you have any pointers for me regarding these laws? I know that it's a very complex (and complicated, and misunderstood) area of making things. Would expect that such things would bite e.g. sellers on Tindie very soon too. I'm also an EU citizen, though living in Asia, trying to figure out how these rules work for hardware the open source hardware and prototypes I make.
> This leads to bewildered frustration with programming and a general distrust of all programs.

I think this is perhaps a more honest attitude to the state of programming today than those of us who have managed to master it are willing to permit ourselves. We suffer from the sunk cost fallacy: we are tempted to imagine that the complexity we have mastered is necessary, because if it were not, then we would feel our time spent learning it had been wasted.
> If a company approaches me there are probably some reasons for that. Because asking random people to prove how much they want to work for this particular company does not seem to be a very productive approach to me.

Why not? Make it a test that is easy to score and then finding people who do well on it and are interested in working for you is rather high, no?
As long as news releases usually increase volatility, you're fine.
Dogecoin Founder Exits Crypto Community Citing 'Toxic' Culture
I was enabling an already wealthy man to become even richer, at the expense of unsophisticated investors.
I didn't get the HTTPS error but I did see way too much JS dependency, and that animated background requires an excessive amount of CPU for something I think is unnecessary.
Interesting, I am still seeing the old homepage so maybe you're part of an A/B test (or I am part of the control group?). I can only see the new page when viewing in firefox: http://imgur.com/vl9DyA4
I didn't realize this is an active project that happens recently until you reply. It looks nice but in a 2 year ago way. You demo is in iOS6, that is so ancient. I would immediately get turned away by it
Whoa, that's super simple as opposed to a lot of the other pasting sites! I'm using this now!
Came here to post the exact same thing. Was expecting to see a diagram of beautiful code after every scroll, but no avail.

Also: what does HN recommend for creating such a diagram for my code (say C# and C++ codebases)?

Not that I'm sure it is really an ok measure: I'm a heavy adept of DIY and have a ton of small utility functions which are used all over the place (mainly missing pieces in the STL). This should lead to a whole lot of extra lines in a diagram which might look like spaghetti as well.
has anyone succeeded learning a language with technique like this? this feels like more of a reference for someone who knows the language already....
Rabbits: https://ilikerabbits.com/
Honestly I wish that golang forced you to acknowledge all return values from methods even if you simply ignore them ( _ = Method() ). When I read the docs for any method calls in golang I like being able to see that something returns an error just by looking at the function signature. Certainly I might not know how to handle all the error variations, but not having to decide if I need to wrap something in try/catch... I dunno it just resonates with me.
"the deal"... Is still being negotiated
Company x has been looking "to acquire" a player in field y for some time and hasn't found any candidates yet.

Keyword analysis by itself is almost completely useless.
Neat tool and neat landing page (though the colors are really haphazard). Very much like the YAML homepage:

http://www.yaml.org/
presumably if the company goes bankrupt and it ows money to someone (i.e. the sued company) the assets of the troll (the patents) should go to the debtor, so hyow would this work?

Or does US law permit you to close a company keeping all it has while not paying debts?
In the beginning the elderly among us lived in homes, taken care of by family members, and often, offering wisdom in return to their grandchildren.

Then, in the name of economic growth and labor specialization, we push the elderly among us into nursing "homes", to let people who are more "efficient" take care of them.

Finally we realize efficiency can mean inhumane treatment, and in a bid to restore "dignity", put them back in homes. Without us living with them, of course.

Oh, the irony.
We really liked back when NeXT was a thing.
Git is pretty easy to learn

No generalizing please, this is not true everyone, maybe not even for a majority of it's users. I know enough people which after having used it for months still do not really grasp it. Sure, they can sort of get around with the 5 commands they need, but anything slightly beyond that and they are lost.
Impressive that a founding student (not the professor who sponsored the research) has retained 50% equity at a $9B valuation. The history of those negotiations will hopefully become a Harvard or Stanford Business School case study.
>Classic disruptive startup,

I don't think you can call this a classic disruptive startup. Look at the board members; they are some of those most powerful people on the planet, and yet the founder still maintains 51%.

Either she is insanely charismatic or she discovered something earth shattering (either a novel discovery, or a novel use of existing discoveries).
Not him, but my interpretation is that we're writing C with little testing (treating a few fevers) conforming to modern standards over C with little testing conforming to old standards (leeching).

We have languages like Rust and we have proof tools like Coq which can be leveraged to become more memory safe or more provably correct... using those tools would be like using modern medicine.

I don't think the analogy is really that great because those tools are still incredibly immature in terms of actual usability.
We have to thank such developers for the rise of Ada in High Integrity Computing Systems, outside its original military domain.
Well, it's still insider trading if these trades were not disclosed by the people who had inside knowledge and did make these trades.

Also, I wonder if it even has to be all that complicated as some kind of computer program monitors keywords. For all we know, it's just a guy sitting in his living room with with 2 Chrome windows opened, continuously refreshing the Dow Jones Newswire, with the trade all setup and ready to go in the other window.
This is not a new company and that board was not in place from day 1.

If you've got the money, you too can have a board like that.
Your staff should be experts, your board should be ambassadors.
It seems to me that the obvious conclusion here is that short-term options are underpriced due to the risk of people trading on news before the market-makers find out about it.
Seems like this is just integrating over random walks and interpreting as skill
A little off-topic:

The famous Forbes-List estimates her wealth to be 4.5b, because she owns half of a company that has raised 200m. If she is somehow reasonable with the finances of her company, it is likely that her actual bank-account (or real-estate etc) is well below 10m - which is a hugh difference to all the old-money people far below her in the list.
Right, I would argue that for many companies it doesn't though. Look at how many news articles mention aapl every day and it has no measurable impact on the volatility. You also have to be careful not to get wiped out by macro volatility which tends to move around a lot more than individual stock vols.
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To pick up the basics of a language similar to one you already know? Sure. I used this site to write something in Nim just a few days ago.

Do I know the conventions or idioms? No. Do I know the advanced features of Nim? I sincerely doubt it. But I know Python, and seeing the syntax written out is enough for me to correct my informed guesses in how to write it.

I doubt I could use it to pick up Haskell or a language whose paradigm I was unfamiliar with though.
Yep, it's like the someone else said in one of the other comments, don't dig for gold, sell buckets and the shovels to those who do. :)
Oh. Furry dice.

I had never thought of the reason why people put furry dice in their rear mirrors - apart from knowing the "I know it's kitsch and I want it" part - but this triggered be to look it up.

And according to study linked by Wikipedia, it's not even actually suggesting a reckless driving style:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8166776
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Thanks! It uses highlight.js for the syntax highlighting, and I just kinda unleashed it on the home page which isn't any kind of valid syntax, hence the haphazardness, but it looks better than just plain black on white monospace imo.

The yaml homepage is pretty much my ideal website, (though I'd prefer a dark theme, but Im picky) never visited that directly before, I'm a fan. :)
And we thought it was the ugliest part of absilutely stunning machine. It had zero correlation with the product and stuck out like a sore thumb.
Just wanted to say this comment made me wish there was a way to nominate comments for a "best of HN" section :)

Also: http://www.ebay.com/itm/0-Calorie-Pure-Newtame-powder-10-tim... ships from San Diego if anyone is looking to replicate OP.
Yes, but why do they have so much money? So a 19 year old walks up to an investor and says:

"Give me $16 million. I've got an idea for a new way to do blood tests. It doesn't work yet, and I've got less than a year's experience in the field. But I'm wicked smart because I learned Mandarin as a child, and my professor believes in me. Oh and by the way I'm going to maintain control of my company and never want to give up more than 50%"

That surely didn't happen. She must have something that at least looks very impressive to have negotiated those terms, but what I don't understand is why no one is talking about what that is. They have patents to protect them. Why aren't they releasing peer reviewed studies?
The thin font on Y Athletics used for "A Revolutionary Shirt" and "The Odorless Sock" is too thin to read easily. I suspect they may have not tested on all types of displays.

Web developers, no matter what platform you like, ALWAYS test your thin fonts on as many platforms as possible and make sure it is easy to read.
Erm I don't understand the disagreement, I tried to argue pretty much the same as you. Maybe I didn't put it down too well.
I loved street rod so much... hard to reproduce it.
I also created an SDK and CLI application for Mashape's Mockbin (http://mockbin.com/) service using Spring Social Bootstrap SDK and Bootstrap Shell:

* Spring Social Mockbin: https://github.com/robinhowlett/spring-social-mockbin

* Mockbin CLI: https://github.com/robinhowlett/mockbin-cli
It doesn't seem that hard or labor-intensive to me. Have volunteers who were going to have a battery of tests done at just one provider visit a second the same day. (At most, 2x the retail testing costs – but far less if any of the providers is a partner in the study.)

When the results come back, tabulate and compare.

If there are major discrepancies, they'd probably turn up in the first few dozen tests. But you could run this for hundreds of people with a single analyst, and just a few doctors soliciting their patients' participation, and without needing cooperation from Theranos.
The NeXT logo probably would not be the choice today as it doesn't scale down small enough for favicons, mobile screens and so on.

However, nobody really ever got to see a NeXT machine apart from Tim Berners Lee. The web really was 'next' so it all worked out well in the end.
If there's anything that is class-warfare it's not adopting the very proven model of municipality networks. Of course government doing something good doesn't sit right with 'those who can afford'.
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Could this method be used as a reversed way of creating Unikernels?
When I worked in options market making, this was the whole reason the firm closed its single stock desk. If you don't have the flow, you are the guy who ends up holding the bag. With single stocks, it's especially hard because costs are high, you have extra operational risk, and you need a sales desk to get you the juicy structured products. My company was an old school ex-floor trading shop. They'd get run over by the banks over and over.

The other side of this can be pretty sweet. You get lots of flow from sales people, who are basically ripping off clients 3-7% on structures. If you have a variety of stocks you can also do some dispersion trading against the index.

One thing to note is you aren't betting on the options expiring worthless. It mostly pure vol spread, just dump everything in a book, hedge the deltas, win if it realises different than implied. Maybe back book some out-of-the-money options so you don't get killed on bleed (Taleb's book Dynamic Hedging explains this).
Stevia is actually ~four sweetening compounds, not one [1]... the after taste you're discussing comes from stevia extract with the four compounds in their natural ratios.

I believe Coke is starting to use stevia because biosynthesis is bringing the cost down, and allowing you select which of the four compounds you'd like[2]... although I haven't managed to taste yet it myself, I believe this solves the after taste problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steviol_glycoside
[2] https://www.google.com/patents/EP2645847A1?cl=en -- can't find the news link where I read about the application of it though :(