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by tacos 11y ago
Reporter Roger Parloff certainly isn't winning any investigative reporting awards here. He seems genuinely confused why Theranos, despite having the ability to use its own technology, might also be using existing technology. One explan
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Doesn't seem to be in production yet. The part numbers you reference are SOT23-3 voltage regulators.
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by tacos 11y ago
68HC11 versions are still in production, though not nearly as fun as the 6809.
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by tacos 11y ago
Azure recently added it for logging scenarios. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-storage-release...
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by tacos 11y ago
old bio.
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by tacos 11y ago
Alex Rosenberg - https://twitter.com/alexr
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by tacos 11y ago
Sony just lost their top LLVM open source proponent to Apple. Read into that what you will.
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by tacos 11y ago
"stacks of folders... each stuffed with hundreds of pages of equations" is prima facie bullshit. I've been reading weirdo articles about this technology for 15 years. Here's a good summary of where the coverage goes wr
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by tacos 11y ago
"When we asked him to provide a simple explanation of what happens, computationally, when a voice signal enters his software, he opened his desk and pulled out thick stacks of folders, each stuffed with hundreds of pages of mathematica
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by tacos 11y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10707442
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Any site that you find interesting likely has an element or structure that causes it to skew that pattern. Wikipedia doesn't follow that ratio, for example. Also the metrics around social media stuff are so bizarre (and so easily manip
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by tacos 11y ago
The article fails to provide a single example where those are the specific ratios (versus arbitrary curves), provides a number of counterexamples, then concludes "proven!" To wash off the stupid, I found myself re-reading this exc
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by tacos 11y ago
Like that time they told every one of their users that a pending bill in Congress was going to kill Tumblr, set up robocalls that required a single click, and achieved a 0.2% response rate?
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by tacos 11y ago
Like Yahoo Maps, Yahoo Green, and Tumblr...?
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by tacos 11y ago
Notwithstanding the fact that "age is unrelated to wisdom" was a gentle contextual device used to dismiss the commenter's odd assumption about my age, a search for "age is unrelated to wisdom" turns up actual resear
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by tacos 11y ago
It's clearly an outlier. Try an image search for "Google Wonder Wheel" and you'll see a few Ferris wheels among lots of spoked diagrams -- but not the Wonder Wheel. The gorilla example is more to the point. Google pushed
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by tacos 11y ago
Age is unrelated to wisdom and I'm talking about the full experience. A Google Image search for "Wonder Wheel" (the famous Coney Island Ferris Wheel) shows this spoked diagram within the first page of results: http:/&#x
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by tacos 11y ago
As for "spectacularly well" -- well, the person behind the curtain wiggling the levers retains a lot of influence. Garbage in, garbage out, remember? I'm reminded of the time Google Translate autodetected "Gesundheit&quo
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They sell ads, including those that show up on your competitor's business page.
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Literally every local small business I know reports some type of shenanigans with Yelp. Some of it is surely false-correlation by emotional shop owners. But there is, at best, a critical mass of unethical salespeople, because I've hear
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by tacos 11y ago
Even Intel, of course. Windows NT started development exclusively on RISC: the Intel i860 ("N-Ten"). Shipped supporting MIPS, DEC Alpha and PowerPC.
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One form of this article might be: "Here are some best practices for hosting a high-traffic WordPress site." Another form is "I saved the world from a trillion lines of PHP! And if we did this on AWS it would be many tens of
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by tacos 11y ago
AWS has a horse in this race. Odd not to see it mentioned yet... https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/pricing/
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Starbucks gave them $25 million. Square lost $71 million on the deal so far and it won't be done for another year. So Starbucks got discounted payments, plus equity in Square, plus a board seat. (Looking at it another way: Square got a
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by tacos 11y ago
Or too much technology in the hands of people who have no idea how to run a business. Cut a deal to process payments for Starbucks and manage to lose nearly $100,000 a day? Every day? For three years?
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The "future" of AI is systems, not code or data individually. It's also the past and present. Funny, that.
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I predicted "more drama" when this thread hit the HN homepage two days ago, and now we have it. Given what's going on in the world this weekend I'm not sure a "Twitter petition for f.lux" really should be on th
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by tacos 11y ago
I like the idea of the product but after sundown frankly it could be replaced with a 20 cent piece of plastic.
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Github recipes are the "works on my machine!" of the new millennium. Just like pecking in programs from computer magazines in the 1980s, only better! I like the ones that are hardcoded to a specific name in a home directory best.
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Top link points to a non-existent AMI so this "recipe" -- like almost every "here's how to ..." recipe on GitHub that gets posted on HN -- doesn't work. I swear, it's like 100% fail on these types of posts

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