skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few comments: Firstly early detection has gotten way better than the 90's. PET/CT's are standard in the USA now which is awesome for staging and diagnostics - still scarce in the rest of the World. Early diagnosis is huge in treating the big C.

Drugs that aren't chemotherapy but are biotherapies (or immunotherapies) like Rituximab (Rituxin) are available now which have improved prognosis in some cancers by 15% which is a big deal.

Pathology labs are doing a much better job now of identifying genetic subtypes which help target therapies. Right now they use staining techniques to figure out which subtype you have based on a known subtype looking the same way when stained. Hopefully one day they'll be able to sequence each pathology sample.

Also just responding to a few comments about the economics: Cancer drugs and treatment are insanely expensive in the USA and much of the rest of the World. So the economic incentive is very much there for companies like Genentech to develop drugs like Rituxin (at $5K a dose).

So my sense is that this isn't a cure or no cure disease. Instead we're accelerating towards improving outcomes by either putting the disease into remission in a lot of patients and delivering in some cases decades more life - or actually curing them.
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I want to say that they might've had a language at some point, but the damage whaling and fishing industries have wrought on them, might've had an effect on dolphins the same way more than a quarter century of no formalized school system, due to war, has been detrimental to Afghanistan's intelligentsia.

I can't prove this, but consider that hand writing is pretty much the only thing that allows humans to provide extended reach to their accumulated learning, across generations and centuries.

Without hand writing, or something like it, to act as a physical artifact and provide shortcuts to skip over expensive processes of trial and error, I doubt that a codified language, borne of strictly oral traditions among small pods of disorganized dolphin social groups, would survive across generations, to jump the inheritance gaps introduced by being hunted nearly to endangered status by predators like us.

If they're as smart as their neurology suggests, maybe they could learn our codified languages, or one we can develop cooperatively and share, through careful training on both sides.
I actually worked with CF most of my career, spoke at some CF conferences, and still run the Houston CF user group. Don't use it as much as I used to (moved mostly to Rails for the ecosystem), but it's still a very capable language.
> I wouldn't be surprised if SCS students were paid that much

24 sounds like you're excluding the summer months?

I know in Math and other fields it's pretty common for "no guaranteed summer funding" to be actually meaningful words. But Most CS PhD students at top schools have no problem pulling a summer stipend, making 30 common. I never knew anyone in grad school who had trouble getting summer funding if they wanted it.

And usually CS grad students opt for at least a couple internships; even low-paying CS grad student internships can have 2x+ compensation compared with the phd stipend.

In any case, if a CS grad student at CMU/Stanford/MIT/Berkely is making less than 30k, it's purely by choice or really bad planning/luck.
Alternate theory, there was never an obfuscation attempt. They simply ran it through a code formatter. Still, it's unattributed, so I am not sure it matters.
If you're interested, then I suggest pursuing it for enjoyment, and see how it goes.

I'm a scientist and a musician. If there's a link between art and science, I think it may simply be that both are sources of enjoyment. And maybe the great scientists are the ones who have elevated themselves to a level where they can afford to pursue science as an art form, rather than as a competition or job.

For me, playing music is like a way to recharge my mental batteries. The benefit may lie in what I'm not doing, i.e., thinking about work. And since I play in groups, it forces me into a different social environment than what I encounter at work. But it can also be an individual pursuit -- I know musicians who love to play at home but have no interest in performing.
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Aside from implementation details, I think the premise is the same: simple data access using SQL and rendering using familiar HTML-like syntax for markup and logic. CF of course came about at a time when browsers were far less capable (1995), so rendering is of course on server. Additionally, I think CF probably has more middleware, but I really haven't given Envelope much of a look (you really need a standard docs page)
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> IDA is one dude

Seriously? One lone guy coded up all of IDA and the Hex Rays decompiler? Whoa, hat off.

I always thought that there was a group of more-or-less shady highly experienced hackers, but not a single dude.
Off the top of my head, for Go, (1) the semantics around nil and closed channels resulting in deadlocks, and (2) failing to recover from an unexpected panic. I think error handling and documentation of the errors returned by methods could be improved in Go. I dislike having to comb through the Go standard library source to see what types of errors a method returns.

I can't speak for lisp because I don't have enough experience with it.
Practically, the Australian system has better outcomes at lower cost.

Philosophically, you say "earn", whereas the labor denied their fair share of productivity gains would more likely say "horde" or "theft".
-W is just a nicer wait of doing your nc command
I find articles like this pretty useful and always bookmark them. They are useful for me when I've already invested the time to learn the rudimentary basics of a language; after that, each of these tips usually provides an 'a-ha' moment and saves me from learning something the hard way...but I wouldn't start reading this before getting yourself to at least an elementary understanding of the material.
> Are you sure that figure is accurate?

1. I don't have first-hand information about CMU, I got the data from here:

http://www.american-school-search.com/faculty/carnegie-mello...

Other data indicate that the six figure range is definitely accurate for CS associate and full professorships at research universities:

https://www.higheredjobs.com/salary/salaryDisplay.cfm?Survey...

And it's not insane to assume that the top schools pay 30-50k more.

2. It is an average. Lots of compounding factors: Was the person running the program a Full Professor? (Most professors are not full professors, and a lot of faculty aren't professors. Note the 50k+ discrepancy between assistant and full professors.) Did he have a research lab and how does CMU factor grants into compensation? Etc. I don't know the specific details about that particular person (or even CMU), but I also don't have any reason to doubt the numbers given above.
IDA Pro used to be one dude. Right now it's at least 3-4 people.
>I've learned to design the internals of my code around a functional style that makes code composable and the data flow simple.

Curious: why not go all the way and use Scala, F#, Clojure, maybe even Haskell?
The point isn't whether it's easy to find in Google but whether people are merely repeating what they've already heard.

Again, this link merely repeats the claim but does not spurce it.

Yes, it's very easy to find people saying the US pays more for meds; and that this extra money is used by drug companies on R&D. But none of these people source their information.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Applicability

Surely you mean Tolkien said you can interpret it as you wish, ie. that there's no canonical/right/word-of-god interpretation (I get so furious when people have that idea).

Also see: Death of the Author
No. Over testing and over treatment is unrelated to the (initial) high price of drugs and other treatments.
Isn't it still the Star Trek Transporter problem? The future may be able to revive a copy of you, that thinks it is you, but you'd still be dead.
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People don't put money into ETFs to get speculative returns, but better-than-bank-account returns with diversification. Bubbles are often formed by speculation, and usually in a singular asset class.
You realise this project just flags things that you might want to think about? You're not handing control over to anyone. You can just ignore the flags.
Is it worth it to save history? Ask a few historians that question. I think it absolutely is, even if some 70% of the videos are still under copyright; that will change eventually, as time passes.
People think of "drawing a graph of a function" as drawing a line, so if y=sin(x) they end up with a wriggly line going infinitely far left and right.

What they don't think of is that the line is actually the collection of points (x0,y0) such that the equation y0=sin(x0) is true. Kids in high school don't think of the graph of a function as being a subset of points of the plane, being:

{ (x,y) : y=sin(x) is true }

Realising that opens the doors to equivalences between different ways of thinking. We can think of a permutation of objects as both the act of permuting them, and as the result of applying that permutation to the default initial position. We can think of a vector (4,6,9) as a location in space, and as the movement to get from (x,y,z) to (x+4,y+6,z+9). We can think of "3" as a location on the number line, or as the action of adding 3 to something, or as the action of multiplying 3 my something, and so on.

We can think of the graph you draw as a line, or as a subset of the plane, and we shift effortlessly between them, deliberately blurring the distinction, and from that blurring can come power.

Does that help?
Okay this could be a new hollywood introduction to an end of the world scenario. Hopefully we will make it to the end of our days without a zombie outbreak or another end of the world scenario :D
It's another way of thinking of the graph. Basically, the points on the graph are the points that satisfy y = f(x), so in that sense "the graph is a picture of all the points that make the function true".

From there he generalizes the idea to drawing the set of points that makes a statement true, without necessarily having a formal function defined.
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With which do you disagree?

Well, everything. Including but limited to your random assumptions, weird logic, and counterfactual conclusions.

Single payer enables the capitation model for healthcare. Lowering costs by incentivizing prevention.
There are a lot of research chemicals that have potential but are discarded for various reason. Usually the reasons revolve around efficacy. A lot of them can be bought off Alibaba. Something to think about if you're desperate.

Myo-inositol trispyrophosphate has a lot of potential for cancer treatment. And its use in sports doping has decreased the price.
If I came back to life 500 years from now, I suspect I might become hopelessly homesick and depressed for the vanished past. Everyone I knew would be dust, and all my knowledge useless.
Well, there's no harm in thorough examination of a literary work and sharing thereof, the problem is the educational system often imposes "expert" interpretations as "right".
Youtube's recommendation engine is pretty good
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Perhaps http://buzzsumo.com might do what you're after? Their plan that includes the API is expensive if you just want to play around with it.
If you fuck up a computer, short of messing with BIOS voltage configurations, you can reset at no cost. It's near costless to make mistakes most of the time.

With finance, high voltage electronics, and explosive chemistry, you can have very high cost consequences if you screw up. And people often delude themselves in finance.

There is a also a return aspect in finance. You need a large amount of starting capital until 80hrs/wk of work will outpace what you make 80hrs/wk in your job.

For example, lets say you make $250k/yr as a smart engineer. We assume best case scenarios and say you make %10/APR (very generous) over the index fund return. You would need $2.5million in starting capital before you can start matching your working self in returns. Most people don't have $2.5 million lying around. You would get better returns starting a business or investing in yourself and leaving your savings into index funds.
I think that not too many folks have tried that hard, really. But whatever, I'm giving it a shot. (Setting up and running a fun experiment today). I got 60k in funding from crowd funding, which is great for a startup nonprofit with no reputation. This is enough to do a mouse equivalent of the kaplan-meier curve.... But not enough to pay myself (I variously drive for Lyft and contract code to make ends meet).

Worth noting the salk and Sabin polio vaccines were not patented.
This is not true, unlike C++, Haskell's syntax is enormously clean and easy to parse.

It's in no way comparable to learning math notation or music notation.
Notably, the first article is arguing that the evaluation of medical effectiveness (or as they say in the USA, "death panels") is a good thing.
Some of those strides would still have been made in a world with less private money in R&D research.

If the entire private side of the industry dried up and blew away, we would still have great improvements in human health in our future.
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Mozilla is not a company. I actually have a lot of trust in them (unlike actual tech companies).

That trust is built on their past actions - particularly in comparison to those of their profit-driven private peers.
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APL/J/K is way more "operator soup-y" than Haskell, but there are pages like this http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/action/show/Vocabulary/AET?ac... that for the newbie followed by http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVoc. Someone needs to make Typeclassopedia for operator soup.

For the record, I can read both standard notation music and guitar tabs. I'm fairly competent at Haskell have written APL/J/K derivative languages for a living. "Mastering reading Haskell" certainly has to do with a lack of "go to this page on the wiki/hoogle/haddock and you can read the meaning and idiomatic usage of the 95% most common operators", not a lack of conceptual grasp of anything difficult.
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yes i'm sure the parent was upset because "rape my x" challenged his unexamined beliefs and not because it's juvenile edgelord shit
He didn't seem to have realized fully what a 'graph' was. He probably went with the 'standard procedure' for drawing a graph (pick a x, and draw a point f(x) places above the x-axis, repeat).

He later realized that functions are a type of relation, (which is made explicit with the notation "y = f(x)") and that the graph is the set of points that satisfy that relation. Of course if you realize that you can also generalize to g(x) = f(y), f(x,y) = 0 etc. Which he seems to have done.

It also seems he hadn't completely realized that a graph is merely a collection of points, not a nice line-like object. This last is more explicit in non-continuous functions, but you don't usually see those in high school.
In my first calculus class, they introduced integrals to us through Riemann sums, and ever increasing numbers of regions for those sums. It makes thinking in this manner somewhat easier to come by, as it was touched on in the introduction.
For anyone else who got here late: http://web.archive.org/web/20150912044113/http://apple.com
We can, but that kills the patient.
Well, of course. The whole of ocaml is still a smaller language than anybody's recommended 20% subset of C++.
So it's okay to steal from MS but not one dude. Maybe you should get reevaluate ethics/morals.
An English teacher telling you "this is what it means" is NOT the right thing for that English teacher to do! It alienates those who see that the teacher's "right" interpretation is arbitrary.
The notion of free markets sounds interesting. Can you point to a real world example?
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I ran across this article on Daring Fireball while checking out the non-Apple kernel extensions in the /System/Library/Extensions/ folder on my Mac. The article is ancient history now, but it's still useful and worth reading, especially if you're new to OS X. Also, the comments by Dean Reece on lists.apple.com are still available.
Old enough to know that writing "rape" means nothing.
Check out the live demo. The docs are very extensive, but they work best inside the IDE.
Thanks! Seems like I'd been getting it right since the beginning, so I've missed the point.
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> Google making the project non-profit would not have saved them from the lawsuit. The Author's Guild, separately, sued a non-profit partner in the Google Books scanning project -- HathiTrust.

> That lawsuit was not resolved until 2012 -- when, without a settlement, HathiTrust won on fair use.

I think you're mixed up on some things. HathiTrust wasn't sued until after the settlement was rejected, meaning Google was getting sued simultaneously.

It is good the original settlement was rejected, though I agree with the author that a modification to the settlement, similar to what the Internet Archive was asking for, was a much better solution than another decade of court battles and no orphan works for another century.

> The OP should ask, why didn't Google go to trial?

Google did go and the district court ruled that scanning, searching and snippets were fair use in 2013[1]. The case is still ongoing, the Second Circuit heard arguments last December[2]

[1] https://www.publicknowledge.org/files/google%20summary%20jud...

[2] https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-google-part-ii-fai...
I share this sentiment, in regard of -pretty much- everything.

And like you, I don't like some of the Firefox novelties. Still I feel they are doing well, and attentive to complaints like yours.

Lets look back to the 2008, for example:
http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/09/ubuntu-firefox-...

The outrage was high, and Baker, Mozilla CEO, ended up admitting they did not even know if that box was legally useful or not ("gray area").

In the end, they settled on a perfectly acceptable nagging bar on the bottom of the window, and everybody was fine with it and happy and drinked jack morgan's and rode ponies.

I'm not saying we will for sure settle everything, but I feel the chance is high.
Vanguard is the company founded by Jack Bogle, one of the first, and arguably the biggest, proponents of a method of investing called index investing. The goal is to match the aggregate performance of the market while paying the least amount of fees. Vanguard has a large selection of mutual funds[1] that match various stock market indexes[2].

Generally a mutual fund's value (called it's Net Asset Value or NAV) is calculated once at the end of each trading day. When you put money into a mutual fund, you buy at that price. An ETF[3] is a special type of mutual fund that is itself listed on a stock exchange. When you buy an ETF you're still buying a share of the underlying mutual fund, but the price changes throughout the trading day. The difference between the price you pay and the NAV of the underlying fund is called the premium (if you pay more than NAV) or discount (if you pay less).

You don't have to call Vanguard if you want to open an individual, joint, or retirement account in the United States. You just go to their Open An Account page[4] and select which account you want to start.

[1]: a company organized to aggregate many people's money and invest it in a particular way

[2]: a list of companies that share some quality. For example, the "S&P 500" is a list of the 500 biggest publicly-traded companies in the United States.

[3]: Exchange Traded Fund

[4]: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/openaccount
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That's a "trueism". However, the CLOC was on the Go part of the repo. Go's GC isn't implemented in GO.
What a macro fest: https://github.com/concurrencykit/ck/blob/master/include/gcc... https://github.com/concurrencykit/ck/tree/master/include/gcc

This might not be the intention of the author, but if you want someone to use/hack with your library, please make it human-readable. Those macros reduce the amount of duplication, at the cost of legibility. At least include useful comments... /rant off
> "Grey believes that defeating aging is feasible and that the pro-aging trance represents a huge barrier to combating aging."

Had not heard that term before. I'm glad someone gave it a name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey#Pro-aging_tranc...
I would much rather us go mine lifeless asteroids than destroy geothermal vents.
Your comment was a simple personal attack, and added nothing to the discussion. People can disagree with you without being stupid, you know, and not admitting that makes the anti-systemd side weak.
In our world, we also save many people, even when they can't pay for it. And when we don't, we at least admit that it's a problem. (At least in public. In private, I can totally imagine many people having no problem whatsoever with people dying by the millions.)

You're living proof of this. (Me… less so. I don't donate much.)

Amalcom on the other hand formulated things in such a way that it would be normal, expected to receive no outside help from the future. I disagree with that assumption. Expecting from the outset that the future will not help us is ludicrous. It's not guaranteed, but come on, we still have people like you, philanthropists, governments, and mutual funds —there's some things to say about the effectiveness of collective action vs individual choice: it's easier to donate or pay up when you know you're not alone.

So I ask again: in what kind of bleak world would NO ONE be willing to pay?
>Ollydbg2 […] supports all the 64 bit registers and x86-64 instruction set.

No, it doesn't yet. We have to wait for OllyDbg 64 (http://ollydbg.de/odbg64.html).
> But HathiTrust's court victory helped establish at least some fair use rights for scanning of books -- more than Google itself did

er... https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-google-part-ii-fai...
Your inability to see that the pro-systemd side has actual reasons for holding its views makes you and the rest of the anti-systemd side ignorant and unable to discuss this on a sound footing without resorting to insults.
The backtracking in sicp's logic language is more like minikanren than Prolog. What minikanren offers in addition is better integration with Scheme (and more painful syntax).

Upvoting; just had a well-actually to add.
I could say the same about your comments thus far.
> For a $49.99 a month, you can have a return of 71.78%.

That's a hell of a thing. If you can make those kinds of returns why do you even need to play in the $50/mo market? Seems like the kind of thing you can sell for millions, or not sell and make billions.