skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Cast the parent commentor as unaware of alternative ways of thinking of this subject"

They were presented with an alternative, and responded in an offended/personal/emotional way. I didn't "cast" them into that.

>"Imply that the parent is incapable of of viewing this subject in a rational manner because they are too emotionally, morally or ethically invested in a point of view that is influenced by others."

Again, the person I responded to had a very clear emotional/irrational reaction to a reasonable alternative to the prevailing thought on the subject.
Maybe I just don't remember it. I left when I was 10. Perhaps my teachers were just crap?
Thank you sir for pointing that out. This looks very interesting and I might even implement that in my own blog at some point in time. I thought about doing something similar to that (without actually knowing this technique) but I shyed away precisely because of the price you pay at insertion time.

EDIT: I've been thinking some more about this. Another possibility would be to limit the depth of the tree to, say, 8 (which should be reasonable) and then make 8 fields, one for each ancestor (parent, grandparent, and so on). Changing the tree will become a nightmare but all queries for subtrees will be blazingly fast.
Celgene are currently engaged in shenanigans in the UK.

There are currently two main chemotherapies used for pancreatic cancer in England. First line is folfirinox. But that can have nasty side effects, so the less effective gemcitabine is used because it has less side effects.

Celgene make abraxane. Abraxane (by Celgene's own data) isn't as good as current first treatment; and has many side effects so can't be used as second line treatment.

Celgene's data shows median life extension on abraxane as two months.

A charity - pancreaticcanceraction.org - has started a petition to get NICE to change the decision. The petition states abraxane gives two years extra life which is true for a few people. Equally true would be "abraxane gives two days extra life".

The shenanigans come from the amount of funding and campaigning material Celgene has provided to pancreaticcanceraction.org, while making it seem like they don't have any connection.

https://www.nice.org.uk/news/press-and-media/the-cost-of-nab...

https://pancreaticcanceraction.org/news/english-patients-nic...
Eh? I never said elephants are stupid. The elephants in question had never been to the refuge before - my problem was the writer assumes because they mated with elephants who had they knew where to go. I find that a really difficult claim to accept.

Look, I like a feel-good story as much as the next guy, but this one is a bit much.
You're the guy who won't save the drowning child because your suit would get dirty, right? No, wait, you'd ask the kid if she would pay to have it dry-cleaned, then still refuse because you could probably get her to pay even more.
In my case, the Separating Axis Theorem came to mind, but made no sense.
Ask HN: When did Apple reverse its position on notification widget launchers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8379535

About a year ago now, Apple removed Launcher (a notification center widget with icons that let you open apps that have URL schemes) from the App Store. They said it was a misuse of the widgets feature (which, to me, is quite surprising...). More recently, Launch Center Pro, Workflow.app, and a few others have gotten features that do the exact same thing. In fact, there is a new "prefs:" URL scheme that can only be launched from Notification Center and not from in an app. What changed?
“Don't Do It for the Money” Advice Is Bullshit
This looks like a mix of JavaScript, Scala and Rust.
I'm wondering when (if?) Facebook is planning to move its codebase to Rust?
I kept looking at the URL and thinking: "How are they using the same domain?" I came back an hour later only to realize that the i and n are switched in ycombniator.

That was a real "smack my head" moment.
That is actually better for private operators (aka R/C aircraft hobbyists). In Germany for example: Autonomous flight not allowed, using video downlink to fly (FPV) not allowed, in France extensive licensing is needed for aerial imagery even if you would only take a shot of your own backyard, etc.
These Realm video/posts are really great. I like the format of posting a video with a full transcription/blog post attached. Keep up the good work :)
Two major things that help:

1. Keep a routine (wake up on time, shower, eat breakfast, dress in work clothes, start on time, eat lunch, finish on time)

2. Communicate well with your manager and peers
Make sure you learn to organize your time well. Do not get distracted. Make your environment as close to an office environment as possible. Take any breaks that you would normally take in an office environment. Also, keep great communication between you and your team.
You can use slack/hipchat for communication.
I'm hoping we can one day have "vinyl burners" (like CD burners), so I can make my music collection look "cool" again.
That sort of company usually gets picked up by existing manufacturers. Like perhaps Chinese or Indian manufacturers who will be late to the game. It's a good idea to go this route.
I can only assume you skimmed my comment without actually reading it. As I pointed out, judges should not be determining which laws get enforced. In North Carolina prosecutors are elected, so there's no "the executive" involved.

Furthermore, in the federal system the executive does not decide which laws to enforce. That's a dereliction of duty - he's supposed to enforce them all. Not doing your job is not part of "the design of checks and balances".
Know when to stop. When I started remote I worked the whole day without realizing it. Started to hate it.

It is easy to fall into this trap. In the office when it is time to go, the place will be empty. At home, you don't know when is time to go home :-(.
That statement was made in the context of the relative morality of exterminating a species or enslaving it and forcing it to reproduce in order to feed on it.

So yes, the same logic applies to humans; I would prefer the human race including myself to be wiped out if the alternative was Matrix-style enslavement.
> besides finite state dictionaries, ..., String mappings based on perfect hash automata

I'm implementing a similar library in Rust. One of the key things I've found missing in Daciuk's great work on the topic is the handling of the registry. In your code[1], it looks like you're using a straight a hash table. I thought you'd like to know that I've had great success sacrificing complete DFA minimization in exchange for a small constant memory overhead by using an LRU cache of only some classes of states.

My code still needs a good deal of polish, and I intend to write a blog post, but I bet you can make sense of the general strategy from the code and reuse it.[2]

N.B. Lucene's implementation permits sacrificing complete minimization, but they don't use an LRU cache and I think still permit the registry to grow without bound.

[1] - https://github.com/danieldk/dictomaton/blob/master/src/main/...

[2] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst/blob/master/src/fst/regist... (The data type is a map from node hash to LRU cache. That is, there is a small LRU cache for each bin in the map.)
the stagionality is true indeed. A part from that, the Chinese stock were an example by the book of bubble (for instance look at the Shanghai index). If the government wouldn't have stepped in, it would be already finished. On such matter, I can't believe they believed all those stock to be so valuable. Therefore there must be something else that I miss to know. Why supporting the price now? Looks very strange.
Usually Heroku mentions a specific region in any status updates that don't affect all regions. For example, a status update 11 days ago stated "We're currently seeing increased routing latency in the US region. Investigation is underway."

AFAIK this outage only affected dyno restarting (which may have been triggered by a number of reasons) and creation of new dynos. Perhaps your EU dynos were lucky enough to not have done either of these things during the outage?
Religion is such a nice tool to channel our tribal instincts.

The neurohormone oxytocyn, undelies not only brotherhood but xenophobia, which probabaly explains why you can find people who are both deeply religious and xenophobic.
One really stood out for me:

> A&E's 'Duck Dynasty' Stunt is a user is Steve Jobs’ Unfortunate Contribution to Computing
This seems like a more useful map for those who use the tube regularly. So the basic version is good for the lowest common denominator, but once you're used to where the stations are this map would help you find any geographic shortcuts.
What do you mean by "build a prototype and throw it away", exactly? I'm having trouble discerning the meaning behind the image.
i've been working mostly remotely for about 10 years... interning, managing remote teams, freelance, full time etc. i'm not sure i'll ever have it figured out, i'll be looking for advice here too...

working remotely, the biggest risk is loss of information.

1. communication is key

2. consistency using project management and communication systems is also key (basecamp, email, meetings, whatever your team chooses). i'm talking about advanced consistency. fix these systems if they're not working.

these may sound cliche, but they have been the most defining factors for failure/success in my experience.
I'm confused. The article is about a drug that was sold at price X (13.5) that is now offered at price Y (750).

Now, in my world every rational person has to see that this is insane. There's no way that the previous price was even remotely possible (even with a loss) that requires the new price.

I don't see any data that supports your 'no one would be willing to make it for less' argument. The only reasons that doesn't seem to happen are either technical (the monopoly on the drugs manufacturing process) or legal (can't do that or you have to pay for .. creating cheaper drugs). Can you back your unlikely scenario? Looking at the article in question, is 750 the 'right' price and no one's willing to create the drug for less? Were they losing about 700 a pop before they increased the price?

What. The. Hell?
Not to detract from anything you said, but a DIY phono stage with RIAA EQ is trivial to build.
>Being a programmer makes you more money more quickly than any of those professions and has a higher ceiling to boot. How many billionaire lawyers and doctors are there? How many businesspeople, financiers, lawyers, or doctors make six figures at 22 years old?

I agree on the first part. If you are optimizing for cash at 22, you are best off as a programmer.

However, by the time you are 30? your doctor and lawyer friends are making 3x what you are.

As for your ceiling argument, you are simply wrong. There are some programmers who made the jump to business person who have done very well but those people made their billions doing business, not programming.

You can make a strong argument that if you want to be a business person today, you should first get training as an Engineer; many of the most ambitious MBAs I have met had an Engineering undergrad. That's valid, but they are still business people more than programmers.

If you actually just want to be a programmer, you have to be world-class to make a quarter-million a year. I mean, I know some guys who do it... but they are absolutely incredible in ways that most of us simply couldn't be. For the rest of us, "six figures" means "we're going to peak around $150K/yr" - and that's only if we live in a place with incredibly high rent.

Realistically, Doctors and Lawyers cap out much higher than Programmers.

>Not only that, it's also less risky! How many programmers are $250k in debt at 25 years old without having worked a day in their lives in their chosen professions? How many doctors? How many lawyers?

Eh, there are plenty of people who wash out of computer science programs. That's true of both doctors and lawyers; you do have a point that because doctor and lawyer training takes longer, you have the risk that if you wash out later in the process, you will have wasted a lot more money.
Between this and JetBrains' unpopular licensing changes, this has been a bad week for Czech software companies.

The only thing that could top it would be allegations that Bohemia Interactive are selling military simulators to North Korea. :)
Actually, this is perfect evidence that it isn't heavily regulated enough.

Technically, both are possible, but you're describing the situation inaccurately:

and kill those who can't afford the increased prices in the process.

The article says that they're providing the drug for free for those who can't afford it. So no one is dying due to the price being raised.

Anyway, one poor outcome doesn't mean more regulation is needed. You need to weigh the costs against the benefits, and when that is done, the costs end out higher, even on the existing regulation regime.

Can you propose specific regulations that would fix this, and not cause more harm elsewhere?
Exactly 1337, eh?
Certainly there are situations where killing is more ethical than prolonged suffering. We kill injured or sick animals to 'put them out of their misery' all the time.

Isn't killing someone preferable to enslaving and torturing them and forcing them to reproduce so that you may do the same to their descendants?
>More generally, the underlying message here of course is not whether or not this particular story is true...

This is a news story. There's not supposed to be a "message" at all.
Awesome – Makes Slack Better
How is it better than https://pypi.python.org/pypi/memory_profiler/?
Creating a Web App CMS with WordPress and WP-API
this is amazing! light of my day!
Yup, now we all have to download and run extension "Disable Pocket" in order to not have third party commercial services embedded directly into freshly downloaded Firefox. Its soon time for me to give the Palemoon distribution another go, at least its maintainer seem principled.
>"And frankly, I'm so sad that you really think that way. In my world, society is meant to support people in need."

And in my world, I have chosen to bear the responsibilities of taking care of the ones I love. Because they are the most important individuals to me, and my morals necessitate that I do not impose my will on others by virtue of the state.

>"Here's the thing: You cannot make sure that you can take care of a child's needs. You might be prepared to support a kid and looking forward to a family of three."

I get the general point you are making. And I fully agree with you. Unforeseen circumstances happen, and they can be unplanned for. However, in my comment I meant more in terms of general care, which is something that is sorely neglected in today's world where we all expect the state to foot the bill. I.e. Food, basic healthcare, education and safety.

I do my best to mitigate all of those. Life insurance, disability insurance, and unusual amounts of saving.

>"Actually, that's the only thing a state is good for. If it cannot provide that, why would you associate yourself with it in the first place"

Agreed. And yet it does not do that. And doubly-so, we are not calling the state out on it (referendum?). Yet we're perfectly content on espousing it as some sort of "ideal" to bash horrible free-thinking individuals with. As far as I am able to, I don't associate myself with the state. But we both know there is no place for us to go "across the border". It's either another state, a war-torn country (Somalia, etc), or inhospitable water.
Wouldn't the equivalent of burger flipping be Java development, perhaps in a standardized framework ?
Further information from the MM-M wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_pil...

The lesson is basically, when you're designing a new system or product - make one with the knowledge that you're going to scrap and it start over. The value in doing so is that you expose flaws and design challenges that you can't anticipate through the speculation that occurs before you've actually started.
Try registering an account in the name of your business.
> It was pretty obvious that phone/data would be
> added to PDAs soon.

Indeed. I had a Handspring Visor with the cellular add-on in 2000. And then there were the Palm Treos, awesome PDAs plus phones with a thriving app ecosystem. What Apple did was add a touch rather than a stylus interface. And the rest is history.
McAfee thinks this is porn. Cute.
I don't see any data that supports your 'no one would be willing to make it for less' argument.

There are currently no other companies that are willing to make and sell the drug.

* The only reasons that doesn't seem to happen are either technical (the monopoly on the drugs manufacturing process) or legal (can't do that or you have to pay for .. creating cheaper drugs).*

The patent is expired, and saying "monopoly" is describing an outcome, not an input. Yes, it's a monopoly, because no other company is willing to go into that market right now.

Looking at the article in question, is 750 the 'right' price and no one's willing to create the drug for less?

I would deny that any price is "right". If you want to refer to "right", define it and give a way to calculate what price can be right.

As I said in the other comment, there's no good system to determine who should capture the value from a product that costs less to make than it's worth to purchasers, other than a free market.
People who keep touting the benefits of a college degree keep forgetting the cost of a degree.
(worked remotely in the past and now manage a few remote workers at my startup) To add to the other great suggestions, keep in mind that the company might have more to learn than you do. Be sure to communicate...but also expect that the rest of the team will communicate as well, and speak up when this isn't the case (i.e. it's not just your responsibility to communicate).
yes, "but" just makes it sound like a bad thing. let the crash begin!
I still don't use anti-virus software. Am I still nuts?
Not really super fast camera but more sequential instances of different but similar events in time.
You can now find out if GCHQ spied on you
Hey Marco,

Thanks for the kind words on the service. On your feedback, here's my take:

1. Stepping back, isn't it more absurd that people are, by default, charged more unless they spend significant time dealhunting? The claim is not that the disparity itself is unjust, just that it's time for this to come to an end.

2. For all of the biggest e-Commerce players (Amazon, Walmart, etc.), their biggest business lines (and ones where they're investing the most) are in the sales of basic necessities (food, household goods, etc.). So considering how dynamic pricing will impact people (esp. re: basic necessities) is important. I'm not sure why you're dismissing the key point so quickly -- if we care at all about helping bridge the income divide, we should care about helping the poorest get the most affordable prices.

In any case, I wrote the article because it really did shock us. Joe is a real person and a friend and we hope it does some good to show a small slice of what we're seeing.
^^^ this
Really interesting point: Sacrificing short term performance for long term efficiency
To repeat, from an active participant in this economy:

for the first time in years and years, I felt joy. Joy!
and the next step forward should be something like this https://isocpp.org/blog/2015/04/n4402
Abstract from the author's Publications page:

>In just thirty years, Gurgaon has grown from a tiny hamlet to a city of nearly two million people and it has done so based almost entirely on the private provision of public goods, including transportation, utilities, and security. In some rankings, Gurgaon is the best city in India in which to live and work (Behl 2009). Gurgaon, however, lacks important infrastructure, especially in areas such as sewage and electricity where the optimal scale exceeds that of most builders. Thus, for large-scale infrastructure, important externalities are not internalized. We examine where Gurgaon has succeeded, where it has failed, and how people are adapting to both the successes and the failures. We compare Gurgaon with other private cities built on a different model, including Jamshedpur in India and Walt Disney World in the United States. The developing world, including India, is urbanizing rapidly. We draw lessons from Gurgaon to suggest how new private cities could be built on an even-greater scale, thus internalizing externalities while still keeping the advantages of private provision.

[0]: https://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/TabarrokPublishedPapers.html
If the proposal is "set up a single payer system in the US", this may be relevant.

Do you know where I could find out whether the NHS is covering Daraprim at the new prices?
Yes, for about 30 years. My uncle used to work as an engineer on an oil rig in the Gulf, and he had some fun stories about his experiences writing remote-control software for underwater ROVs.

Due to the intricate nature of the work the ROVs sometimes did, and the limited size of the onboard battery, the software had to be incredibly efficient. For instance, it had to take into account the variances in water temperature at various depths, since signals travel at ever-so-slightly different speeds depending on temperature. So the pillars carrying the rigs had temperature sensors every X feet that reported the water temperature in real-time, and the software took that into account to minimize latency and increase responsiveness for the pilot.

This one time, a ship was transporting a $500,000 computer onto the rig, and the crane snapped, sending the computer into the ocean. They were going to give up on it, but my uncle pulled an all-nighter and wrote a piece of software that calculated the possible locations the package could travel to given currents at various depths, and the next morning they sent ROVs to scan the ocean floor at those locations and were able to find the computer and carry it back tot the surface. The outside casing was crushed due to the pressure but it was still intact. :)
Actually, that's not what I wanted to write, I exagerated your point.

You don't think they're smart enough to communicate that kind of information and act on it.

I know little about elephants, but from what I know of them, it sounds possible that it actually occured.
> You can make a strong argument that if you want to be a business person today, you should first get training as an Engineer

It sounds like we're in violent agreement on this point. It's much, much easier to become a millionaire/billionaire if you can invent/write/build some kind of prototype yourself than by raising investment capital and finding/convincing others to build it for you.

> Eh, there are plenty of people who wash out of computer science programs. That's true of both doctors and lawyers; you do have a point that because doctor and lawyer training takes longer, you have the risk that if you wash out later in the process, you will have wasted a lot more money.

Not just that: If you're a mediocre programmer you can still make $50k working 9-5 writing enterprise Java CRUD apps. If you're a mediocre 'businessman' or lawyer you're working at Starbucks if at all.
Should all trade secrets be outlawed, then? Or only in medicine?
There are tens of thousands of donor organ recipients who wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for motorcycles.
Some really good thoughts on this, here they are: http://staxmanade.com/2014/12/thoughts-on-working-remotely-f...
My wife and I are kicking around the idea of building one as a detached office. haven't looked into local laws yet, but it seems like it shouldn't be regulated as more than a shed (if no one is sleeping in it).
Don't Call Us With Medical Malpractice Cases [audio]
I still don't understand. Why do you need to set prices for private companies if you're competing with them yourself?