skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't quit my job, but arranged with my employer more flexible hours for six months while I travelled around Europe, working remotely (I live in New Zealand.) It was an amazing experience and I'd recommend it to anyone with a similar background who can afford it.

Working remotely was amazing. One thing I'd recommend is to work at most 4 days per week, and preferably 3 - travelling takes a lot of time and can wear you out.

If you're an introvert like me, you'll need careful management of how social you are. For six months by yourself, you will get quite lonely unless you put significant effort into meeting people. I found it helpful to spend most of my time in hostels, but 2-3 days every fortnight in a hotel to recharge from all the socialising. Hotels are expensive but as an introvert they were a lifesaver - I could just kick back and take a break from meeting new people every day.

If it's your first time doing this, I don't recommend committing to more than six months away from home. It can be more challenging than you realise.

If you're working while travelling, it's a good idea to find an office that you can share for a while. I spent 2 months in Germany, working from an acquaintance's office. I made some friends there, and it was a good base to make weekend trips from. But also having the option to not travel on weekends was very valuable to me - sometimes I just got exhausted! There are definitely times when all you want to do is lie in bed and surf the internet. Make sure you have time to do that.

Travelling possibly isn't everyone's cup of tea, but if you're unsure, I would advise to give it a go. Most people don't get the travel bug by sitting at home. You might enjoy it. You might even love it :)
A compelling story doesn't buy $16 million for a 20 year old with no track record, no product, no customers, and no experience.

From further reading, her initial idea was just that, an idea. She thought it would be possible to make a handheld device that could do blood tests.

How you go from that to $16 million without the slightest demonstrated ability to execute is my question.
Large collection of landing pages in one place - http://land-book.com/

(Though they all seem be very similar stylistically. Clearly a selection bias on part of the site owners.)
CADT refers mostly to rewrites in which lots of new features and complexity are being added - the most likely sources of bugs - not to ones like this that go in the opposite direction.
Tried just this with Haskell, got about halfway through before I started feeling like things were being glossed over.
The scrolling is much smoother (and proper) for me. Win 8.1, Firefox.
While I would like to agree with this based on aesthetics, it didn't work that way in practice. A lot of the most successful machine learning algorithms do not have a statistical grounding or did not when they were invented. E.g. neural networks, SVM, low rank matrix approximation, k-means, decision trees/forests.
I disagree. I think the logo is nice, I think it looks ok even in small size, I don't think it unbalanced the NeXT machines when it was put on them, I think the colors are cute and the font is sharp.
It seems success has gone to their heads. Jerking your users around is a very bad idea. Building an expectation that your app does one thing and then pulling the rug out destroys trust when trust is the most valuable asset you have. These guys seem to think they are so awesome that they can do this and get away with it. Their conviction that Foursquare must build the app that only they can envison or it will never get built is nonsense. Someone else will come along and build it. They might not build precisely the same thing, but play fast and free with the trust of your userbase and someone will eat your lunch.
No, they had a domain name.
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A records (IP addresses) were changed, but also MX records:

https://gist.github.com/jedisct1/13cd60ba702d6d58053c

Mails sent to @teslamotors.com were hijacked as well.

End-to-end encryption is badly needed.
It's only "robbing" when you're losing money instead of making money - which a lot of these crazy made up systems (options, etc) can't help but do most of the time. They're just complaining about evolution :)
https://dripstat.com/
many scientific revolutions have occurred after improvement of measure instruments. If we start to have a continuous measure of our blood, there may be revolutionary discoveries about health.
Her family connections might had something to do with it. Its easy to screw poor kid, but Oil executive family that regularly has Secretary of State, a former Secretary of Defense, and a former Senator dinner guests? Better think twice.
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Let me quote from the source of the CADT term:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

"This is, I think, the most common way for my bug reports to open source software projects to ever become closed. I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch -- and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version."

The OP rightly points that there are no known tests that demonstrate the known problems in the older implementations and also no proofs that the new implementation passes them.
I totally agree. I love reading, and the impact it can have can really be influenced by environment. [My favourite place to read books is sitting at the back of a bus in a traffic jam in a tunnel that will last at least an hour, can get totally engrossed and know there's no escape, just me and the book, and the occasional bump of advancing in traffic.]
I am really hoping for a good CMS in Go, I am currently using Drupal but the overhead sometimes is really huge.
Playing devil's advocate:

- we have nowadays a life expectancy of 85+. 50 years ago was much less - meaning that we depended on family much less time;

- lower classes don't have a significative better purchasing power than back in the day - meaning that affording to stay at home is not always even a choice;

- elders caring was backed by staying at home women - roles and families have changed;

- elders have less and less children - meaning more work 'per child'. Nowadays, in the globalised world, if there are more than one child is improbable that all live nearby or even in the same country/state.

Reciting poetry is not an efficient way of solving problems. And hard ones by the way..
id Software famously used them as well.
no. there were multiple reports of UA. Solar flare, etc... can't cause such consistency.
I have been upset with Toyota's designs, product quality, and business practices since I bought my first (and last) Toyota vehicle. Mr. Barr's testimony reassures me that I've made the right decision in writing them off.

One item I'd like to point out is that Mr. Barr criticizes the lack of hardware logic to close the throttle if the driver rides the brake.

In 1987, BMW introduced the 1988 model year 750i, with a V12 engine that has two intake manifolds and two throttle valves. The engine controls and electronic throttle system was made by Bosch. Whether the logic is in hardware or software, I don't know, but it doesn't take long for it to slam the throttles shut if you hold the brake pedal down. When this happens when the engine is delivering power, it's a very severe shock as engine power is removed and stops working against the brakes.

Due to the time it takes to go to manufacturing from the design stage, obviously the Germans had this figured out in the middle of the 1980s decade. BMW went on to use the electronic throttle system in a bunch of 90's model 5 and 7 series cars with normal six cylinder engines. The only problems that I know this system, called EML, caused were for owners and technicians who did not understand how the system works. In other words, when this failed, the result was that the car would not go anywhere.

And a colleague of mine with a late 90's Volkswagen also proved that the throttle slams shut if he rides the brakes while requesting engine power with the gas pedal.

Mr. Barr points out that in 2005, the Camry had no such logic. I seem to remember a youtube video where Consumer Reports guys test this out in some kind of Toyota, and they could have gone all day long until the brakes melted.

Toyota did not include this logic for safety even though it had been in cars released to the market decades before. The ways that Toyota handled this situation, everything they've done from blaming the operators, the potientometer supplier, the floormats, to their brazen delays in producing discovery, reinforce my bad experiences owning a Toyota and my conclusion that they are a bad actor.
His last name is wrong; it's "Knausgård".
Well, fair enough. I don't think you would be a good designer though. As brutal as that may sound, design is a full contact sport. I'd say the same to you in person.
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Why would unsophisticated investors lose money? Speaking as an unsophisticated investor, I can confidently say that these rapid trading schemes have not affected my portfolio at all, except perhaps by adding liquidity when I tried to buy or sell equities. Just because this "flash-trading" scheme exists doesn't mean that everyone could or should use it; most unsophisticated investors know enough to stay out of it.
People are not cattle but for sure there are plenty of room for automation improvement.
It would really great if you could convert it into a modular CMS with ecommerce features similar to Drupal Commerce.
In Scandinavia, Diet Coke was actually made with sucralose for a couple of years, around 2006-2007. It had a "now with sucralose!" logo and it tasted a lot better than the aspartame version, and was in fact what made me able to switch from sucrose-based Coke to Diet. I was disappointed when they (for unknown reasons) switched back to aspartame.
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Same here... although I've recently noticed some improvement in some Guardian pages actually loading without crashing. But then I also try maximize available RAM by having no tabs, assiduously closing any 'background' apps, disabling Spotlight, etc... so it's likely not representative of typical, reasonable usage.

Quite ridiculous state of affairs, overall.
Have you heard of the phenomenon of Minecraft?
You can't actually walk into a service center and order tests. You need a doctor to order them. This is one thing Theranos is trying to change: enable and simplify access to your own medical data.
What about not drinking soda pop or loading your food up with sweeteners? Might not be popular but I actually like to taste stuff.
Same here. Regular coke feels a bit too sweet for my taste.
Disclaimer: my mum is the only child, a compulsory staying at home woman, taking care of her father and mother in law (88 and 89) with my help for already 15 years. I'm also the only child, already in mid 30's and without children yet. That's why I know that this is a big problem nowadays and a capital one in the future specially among the lower income classes.
Of course they're yanking it because of "consumer concerns", i.e., Dr. Joe Mercola managed to convince people by the thousands that aspartame will make your testicles shrink and give you cancer and your kids autism. Unless you have phenylketonurea (in which case you can't eat much of anything anyway), aspartame is no more harmful than any other artificial sweetener.

Tastes fucking narsty though, so I'll be glad it's gone. But as it turns out, just about anything sweet that isn't fruit is bad for you in the long run, so we should be treating all carbonated sodas the way we treat cigarettes.
It would be easy to write software to parse that particular phrasing of that particular relationship ("Company X in Talks to Buy Company Y"), but to catch any arbitrary relationship between two entities in a given domain? That's no longer an easy problem. Not to mention that you'll need to represent that world knowledge coherently in ontologies / knowledge bases and write complex logic around it to make the data actionable.
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It is insider trading, if you use the insider information to write a very simple tweet parsing rule instead of having to write a complicated AI algorithm to parse this information before any prior knowledge.

Also, if I understood the article correctly, this trade involved to transactions: first, purchasing the options, and then, purchasing actual stock using those options. And (once again, correct me if I'm wrong), the options themselves were purchased before the information was made public, so this transaction may have been the direct result of insider information.
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My biggest problem with the "traveler's" stories is my impression that often they tell them from the angle of a "Topper":

http://dilbert.com/strip/2012-06-24

I accept that they enjoyed what they did, but it's often that some (for my perspective) important parts of their stories are completely omitted presenting their "adventure" as much more successful than it really was.

"I've once traveled 5 months with 8K USD"

"That's nothing..." then you hear something amazing, like "for 1K" but only after you research more, if you insist, you discover that the person omitted the detail that they count just 1K of cash but not the money they got from actually working. Or that the girlfriend paid for everything. Or the parents. Or that they mostly lived in the hole. Or that they drove 10 hours per day every day. Or...

That being said, as I was younger, I made a trip through the Europe by mostly sleeping in the night trains. And I conveniently won't mention my relatives in London and my friends in some other places. But you could do the same, it's amazing. I really enjoyed it and it gave me profound insights, enough to sit in front of the computer writing this instead of doing something amazing. You're welcome.
I agree with you that more specific tests should be included for the recent fuzzing results, but the great-grandparent comment seems to suggest that there are no tests at all, which is clearly not true.

Instead there most recent test is 6 years old

I don't feel that this detail is relevant. Because file is a basic utility, and its function is not supposed to change much over time, a test written 6 years ago for file should still be relevant to file today.

Specifically, why didn't somebody just remove the ELF part from the existing code

I think this was not done because much of the file code followed outdated coding conventions, and would have to be replaced anyways. Take a look at this diff comparison of file.h: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/file/fi...
Please take the time to send diffs to tech@ instead of writing code review comments on hackernews which will most likely not be read by relevent people and therefore have no effect whatsoever. Thanks.
Honest question.

Let's say that I want to experiment with some language processing and bet some dollars on parsing news like these. I have decent general programming skills, and have experimented with parsing stuff, but never touched trading.

Where do I even start?
One thing I'd like to emphasize is the importance of capturing email addresses from potential customers. When you launch, and later, when you add features etc, even a mailing list with a few hundred customers can make a big difference.

Also, remember that getting press is just one channel; you don't need major press coverage to be successful, and even if you get press coverage it doesn't mean you will be successful.

If you do get press, make sure you get as much value out of it as possible. Thousands of visitors to your landing page are worthless if they never come back; make sure to allow them to sign up for a mailing list or even preorder your product (if possible and if you already have a beta)
Many reasonable points, but misses the biggest lesson you MUST learn to have a chance of being successful at anything.

The lesson is simple. It is that you know nothing, and nobody else does either.

On the note of cofounders... I can't understand why more people don't end up in business with childhood friends. Met my cofounder aged 12. Started our first business at 13. Then 14, 15, 16... Then 22 - and that one stuck - 31 now, both in years and headcount. Trust isn't something we even think about. It just is.
I personally feel its a great logo, for just one reason: It stands out, and is instantly identifiable.

And I think the "drivle" is excellent, as it gives a window to the way the designer has thought about the design. And I can relate with most of what he has to say.

I am sure, with multiple iterations over the current logo (just like what Apple's main logo went through), you'd arrive with something elegant with all the points made in the document in mind.

Sometimes what designers consider beautiful, usable, sensible (etc) absolutely stumps a regular user. For instance, the Google Play Store icon is so pointless (but beautiful indeed) that my mom could never understand why it has a triangle rainbow in the middle of a what looks like a "lock". As the doc says, a logo must have "a promise of meaning and the pleasure of recognition" which I think the "next" logo does.

I am no designer, but I think that designers can be so "in to" certain design principles that they might forget about a majority of the population that just doesn't "get" certain things, no matter how beautiful the design happens to be. I look at the Walmart.com website, and find it well designed, with just the right amount of whitespace; and then I look at Amazon.com's design... which is a bit absurd... but functionality wise, Amazon.com, for some reason, is just more "user-friendly".
It looks at what your holdings are, and calculates what the asset price would be if you were at the ratio you set. It then makes trades on either side of this value. It doesn't even look at a ticker. The only input is whether a trade is made or not, and the balances you have of each currency.
Why not Subversion (aka SVN)? Almost every open source project moved from the older CVS to Subversion around 2005. About 2-4 years ago some moved on to Git (or Mercurial (Hg)). Subversion has several advantages and fixed issues that CVS had, beside that it is somewhat similar - contrary to Git/Hg.
The look and feel is very heavily influenced by Google product page design, e.g. https://wallet.google.com/
Now that you say that, I can relate.
Yep. And thanks for the correction.
Thanks for sharing your experience. People too often try to paint a pretty picture in their online interactions, especially if everyone else seems so "positive & cheerful"; comments like yours are very important to give some perspective, and I appreciate it a lot more than some fantastic travel story, carefully edited and photoshopped.
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When you say, "no record", it seems you haven't read (among other things) the New Yorker profile linked above.

Per that account, by the time Theranos raised its first $6 million in late 2004, Holmes had been working on it for over a year, had at least one patent in process, and had convinced her chemical engineering professor, a dean of the Stanford engineering school, to be an advisor and board member. (He's since joined Theranos full-time.)

So it's not, "kid with nothing but idea and moxie handed money" – but rather "star researcher impresses and recruits a bunch of domain-experts, which then attracts investments".
This guy is killing the startup dream.
What about changing the world ? If Google had listen to him we will be stuck right now with altavista...
I am not seeing any facts about this ... Is there any evidence that startups which are less disruptive are more successfull ?
> don't plan ahead

You must have a passport of some country which has pretty good visa agreements. For some of us, traveling the world requires sitting in a lot of embassies first.
I think you also miss that the reason the "file" got the attention were the recent fuzzing actions. Which discovered the bugs obviously not present in the quoted 6 year old tests. Otherwise there would be no discovery at all.

So no, the 6-year tests weren't sufficient. And yes, the updated tests and fixed old implementation is more important step than ""this time it will be done right", ha ha"

Additionally, replacing the "defined" constants from the file.h with the enum in another .h is hardly a reason for the rewrite.
SSLv3 is so 1996... Please, please, please with sugar on top, use TLS only. Also there are lots of changes in the software world in the last 20 years, which the SSL codebase didn't keep up with (mainly meaning OpenSSL).
But they would have to spend money on tests, wait for them to finish and there might be a possibility tests won't show what they hoped for(even if their hypothesis is true). While speculation is cheap, fast and always trueish enough to warrant an article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8382251
I'd recommend to avoid as much bureaucracy as possible and launch with minimal effort. Don't waste time and money on things that aren't necessary. Especially as a single dev, the risks are usually very low and not worth the effort to set up a formal corporation. The major competitive advantage of a single founder is speed and agility; bureacracy slows you down.
https://twitter.com/rootworx/status/592126475689545729

>Receiving reports that Julius Kivimaki hacked Tesla and Elon Musk's Twitter accounts and websites by Social engineering NetworkSolutions

NetworkSolutions has a history of falling victim to social engineering attempts and scams.

Also, Julius Kivimaki is one of the alleged leaders of Lizard Squad.
I tried on my macbook + Safari and Chrome; both render perfectly smooth.
> From further reading, her initial idea was just that, an idea. She thought it would be possible to make a handheld device that could do blood tests.

Reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
Not only that.. but depending on where you're from and where you traveled you might have more trouble with reverse culture shock. We in the west tend to be quite wasteful and this is even more acute in North America. Commercialism drives our workforce and the continuing arms race of work and buy is even more apparent once you've seen more of the world.