skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to lecture someone on numbers, at least get your arguments right.

1. You should separately account for "random Americans" and americans that actually own guns. I, too, would have a higher chance of crashing my motorcycle... if only I owned a one.

2. Vehicular transportation is a worldwide leading cause of death. It is a problem that is defining the beginning of the 21st century, what with self-driving autos and all. You're setting a pattern in bad analogies.

3. Do you enjoy having that extra 1 in 10k? Do you realize it's really not that high? By your already-biased numbers, there's a 3% chance that someone in your non-gun-owning household of 5 will die with more holes in their body than they were born with.
Didn't finish the article so maybe they eventually mentioned- didn't congress pass a law against using genetic info to set insurance rates?
BurlapCraft – Using Minecraft to Improve AI in Robotics
It deeply concerns me that so many people fundamentally misunderstand the point of patents. The point isn't to grant ownership over tech simply for being the first to file.

Patents, as originally intended, are to encourage documenting the invention and the eventual transfer of this knowledge to the public sector. They were never intended to be abused and twisted for personal gain as they are today.
4chan Message Board Sold, to Founder of 2Channel (Japanese Web Culture Pioneer)
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In fact, I understand economics well enough to recognize that I've already put more time and effort than necessary into this thread.
That is a fair distinction. I believe the common thing between them is exercising untapped pricing power.
Makes you wonder about the dynamics of Facebook's upcoming Facebook at Work. Can imagine the 'interest graph' of a lot of employees will be interest in pleasing their bosses. Will they spend a lot of time 'liking' their boss's posts instead of following 'useful' people? Blogged about this recently. https://tmail21.com/blog/is-social-the-future-of-work/
> I don't think its a good thing when a single company could strongarm an entire government.

You know what scares me more? That a megacorp seems to care more about human rights than a first world western government that professes to obsess over them.
...with their fiscal headquarters in a tax haven. Dublin? Smells of double Irish and similar fiscal constructions...
I totally agree.

Anyone even vaguely familiar with the Ahmed/clock story should realise that this joke was not even at Ahmed's expense.

The Internet-at-large responded with many light-hearted jokes in support of the ludicrousness of the tale - personally I tweeted a picture of an alarm clock with a caption along the lines of "frightened the life out of me this morning when woken by my bedside bomb".

I wouldn't have done so if I had anticipated offending anybody (except perhaps the idiots involved in Ahmed's arrest).
To an extent, yes. However that doesn't change the fact that some of the mods are backing SJW causes, and banning because of it. They blew off gamergate because of all their noisy crap, in spite of the important things they were pushing for. /r/kotakuinaction has much of this information in the "best" post listing.
You will have a lot of other things on your plate that don't involve an unfamiliar stack. Experience is more important to delivering reliably. If you're grabbing at new stuff without a hard requirement, the external conclusion is that you are trying to self-sabotage by distracting from business problems.
Symantec Issues Rogue EV Certificate for Google.com
Imgur hacked?
You can pick up Jackfruit at many Asian groceries. In the DC area, Super H-Mart always has it. It's delicious.
The article is surprisingly factual for an F-35 criticism.

The A-29 is a very capable aircraft in the CAS/COIN role, and has the advantage that its relatively cheap. The A-29 can't take battle damage like an A-10, although A-29 has the major advantage in that its cheap to purchase (less than $20m for the Program Unit Cost) and cheap to fly.

Two of the best CAS aircraft are the A-1 Skyraider and the A-37 Dragonfly. The propeller driven A-1 "Spads" were used to support the rescue of downed aviators over Vietnam. The A-37B (based on the T-37 Tweet) was flown by both USAF and South Vietnamese Air Force pilots quite effectively. These aircraft were cheap to operate, and accurate at weapons delivery.

I'd even go as far as saying the USAF should seriously consider "replacing" the A-37 as the "low" part of the high-low mix with the F-35. Keep the same size and side-by-side layout, and use avionics and "stealth" features of the MQ-9C Avenger [2]. This would enable piloted CAS missions, where drones are impractical.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-1_Skyraider

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_A-37_Dragonfly

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_Avenger
Another nuisance are overlay ads like the ones on this link.
It would be nice if such an organization didn't need to exist.
They ruled out disconnecting the EKG. I'm still dubious about surviving without water.
Regulation is marketed by nice sounding goals like that, while it is actually motivated by protecting the established players and keeping competition out.
I thought he was using Ghost's ad lists? I don't think he was making the decisions of which to block at all. He just made the tool that enabled those defined blocks to be made.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
14-year-old clockmaker Ahmed Mohamed receives 3D printer from Microsoft
Great idea, and we could call it "the government".
The less than ideal technology stack isn't the one you master, but the one you don't.

Learning to do the basics in a different way can be exciting and fun for a while. You read blog posts and tutorials that have beautiful layouts and are made by people who write snazzy things on Twitter. Clearly this is a project where cool people hang out.

Then you have to get to work, and suddenly you're having to google everything you previously knew how to do. So maybe someone from the cool gang can help you? You get into a rather fascinating discussion about framework internals, and even start considering that you could perhaps contribute something to this project...

Meanwhile in the real world, you had an actual project to do, but tinkering with the new stack has taken all your time so far. I've seen this play out too many times. Wanting to learn the new thing is 99% about trying to avoid the real work which will inevitably be boring at some point.
> And who is out there willing to spend billions developing new drugs while giving them away for free?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(global_health_organizati...

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

> The patent system certainly isn't stopping those people.

The patent system does prevent people from getting at lower costs. I continue to have hope for countries that invalidate drug patents, and for further methods to be developed to drive down the cost of drug production (so as to reduce the barrier to entry for drug production).

If the patent system doesn't stop the non-profit development of drugs, then the breaking of patents and the pirating of patented drugs should in no way significantly dent pharmaceutical company profits, right?
Erin McKean on Master/slave vs. Primary/replica
How to Rebuild an Attention Span (2013)
The IP that supports the business is already common property. As far as I understand it, the outrage here stems from exactly this fact, that the IP is common property, but they dramatically increased the prices. I am not sure what the reaction would have been if this was a patent-protected drug. Presumably the patent exists to allow for this type of dramatic price change (; though I do not support the current patent system).
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What harm does listening on a frequency cause? If radio waves travel through my house I'm not allowed to listen to them?
That means lots of burnout runway!
Smoking Fingers Trick
The fall didn't immediately follow people being assholes, it followed politicians saying they might do something about people being assholes.
Do they do this because they don't have the resources to enforce the law?
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The pharmaceutical industry is just as corrupt as the financial sector. It seems capitalists will be capitalists. A lot of well intentioned companies seem to go this way too. Share holders demand profitable growth, sociopathic execs are brought in and I think the results speak for themselves.
There's an ever so slight difference between "we need to double the price to cover costs and keep the drug available" (which has now been done) and "we need to raise the price by 22 times because fuck you we can".
Article doesn't sound like it's blaming Clinton, as much as pointing out that the spotlight on the issue is causing markets to expect additional interference and thus lower returns. It's an emotional response.
I think this is a failure of anything that has very few actors making decisions. Central planning (not a political statement) does not work well in economies.
Moot sells 4chan to 2chan
Life of a Bowling Ball
Mostly backbone.js and my frontend development workflow. I've not really kept up with the grunt / yeoman / bower side of things.
There are a bunch of 'fork-n-go' github jekyl sample applications that wrap a webpage with a Google Spreadsheet datasource.

Here is a sample (from a github employee) that I've used in the past. Source: https://github.com/jlord/hack-spots and live site: jlord.us/hack-spots/#info - not sure how they are caching the spreadsheet, but I've never seen it not perform (not sure about concurrent users or whatever though).
> “If you have WhatsApp on your phone and your battery’s low and your phone goes dead, suddenly you can’t get access to your messages. It’s over. It’s not cross device. It doesn’t have cross-device sync. You can’t send documents or big media. There are lots of limitations in the group chats, in your communication. It’s not private. So I’m not sure I was a big fan of WhatsApp about three years ago, and I’m not sure I am now,” he said.

Unfortunately, E2E encrypted chat doesn't work when using these multi-device features, and so most contacts of mine don't use the privacy or security features of Telegram.
How could killing the engine cause an accident? I guess it could be a problem if you were stopped on a railroad crossing, but really?. Pretty much all cars on sale today come with an immobilizer built in, and services like lojack and onstar allow you to activate it remotely.
Eric Brewer discussed his CAP theorem earlier this year on SE-Radio: http://www.se-radio.net/2015/05/the-cap-theorem-then-and-now... In the interview, Brewer mentions that the nuance has always been part of it, but a decade ago the unnuanced "pick any two" elevator pitch was what upset database vendors and developers. And it was close enough as a model to be useful.
Taking shortcuts instead of delivering quality is usually very badly seen.

The repair bills on my BMW are in contradiction to "delivering quality". The car instead appears to have been optimized for "delivering ongoing repair business" to the local dealership.
I'm only just now starting to get on the Lisp bandwagon a bit... I've been working my way through Practical Common Lisp bit by bit (no pun intended) and I have to say, I'm really liking this so far. I could see really getting into Lisp in a big way.

But... could one of you guys who knew the Symbolics machines help me out with something? What exactly made them so special, hardware wise? I mean, Lisp seems to run just fine on Linux on x64 hardware now. What advantage does one get from running Lisp on hardware which is custom tailored to it? Or would that even make sense nowadays IF something like the Symbolics Lisp Machines were still made?
I'd go with "ssh sync".
You're clearly an optimist. I find that the tendency is for software to get slower -- and generally worse -- over time.

Five years ago I was using Chrome and it was fast, lightweight, and stable. Now it's slow, uses 500 MB of RAM, and the renderer crashes on a regular basis.
It's worth noting that the author of Ikarus has written a tutorial so you can write your own compiler in Scheme.

This has been covered on Lambda the Ultimate: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1752

Ghuloum's Compiler tutorial in Scheme is quite good http://t.co/oOzo8sP6In and coding guide https://github.com/namin/inc/blob/master/docs/tutorial.pdf?r...

In addition Nada Amin (of Strangeloop keynote fame) has completed the Compiler tutorial here: https://github.com/namin/inc
> The only exception to this line of reasoning is that S3 buckets have the option of being open to the world

So do many/most cobbled-together solutions, many of which depend on FTPing files to a random web server and depending on .htaccess for protection.
As an Irish citizen I once again have to apologize for my erstwhile government's perpetuation of this chicanery. The country is becoming the European equivalent of Delaware.
I understand that they have currently secured a de-facto exclusive distribution right for the US market from the FDA. Ok, it isn't classic IP, but it has the same effect and as far as I understand it is transferable property, as otherwise this company would not have been able to acquire the rights in this way.
Are developers making $150-$200k/year working for startups really a sizable chunk of the population?
WebRTC is peer to peer. I'm going to guess that it's not particularly expensive to run the service.
So given the huge push towards buying index funds and the general Bogleheads approach, does this just mean Main St. investors are setting themselves up to be trampled again when equities drop if bonds follow suit?

Is there even a good hedge available for Joe Investor and his 401k?
Building the atom bomb: the full story of the Nevada Test Site
They didn't. Just because one group of observers didn't find the trick doesn't mean there was no trick.
From https://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/wiki/index.php?n=M...

"Rsync is a mirroring tool; Unison is a synchronizer. That is, rsync needs to be told "this replica contains the true versions of all the files; please make the other replica look exactly the same." Unison is capable of recognizing updates in both replicas and deciding which way they should be propagated."
When was the last time free market economics 'sorted out' anything? I'd like to know. Interesting to me that despite our comments that you've read, your initial blog remains unchanged or has any mentions of this feedback. But if you really truly believe moving all ads to a handful of platforms is 'sorted' then make a case for it. What would it improve?
Since he retired and his wife became a presidential candidate? Hillary is active on the world stage. Bill does some speaking, occasionally, but isn't that active otherwise; He doesn't make diplomatic gestures the way Jimmy Carter does, for example.
I doubt it was that much at a loss to warrant a 55x price increase, though. Even 2x is kind of a stretch, although I can see making up for past sales or something (or they were being really generous before).
You're right about these. I think the distinction I should have made was about how much effort they put into the different products. I think the three you mention have not have a ton of Apple's resources put into them like their other products. If they're going to actually produce a car from soup to nuts, there is no real way to half-ass that like they have the TV.
Sounds like handling the PR of buying drug patents and jacking up their price multiple orders of magnitude just became more expensive.
Show HN: TimeChat app lets you send messages to the future
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Wrapping your software in a $400 dongle seems like a really roundabout way of driving Bitcoin adoption, but I suppose it will ensure that all the customers are true believers.
I think I might have misread the article as the companies performance falling, not biotechs as a whole.

Knowing it was broader then that, It makes a bit more sense that the hit came after her comment around releasing her plan for pharmaceuticals.
This is what a real bomb looks like
For systems within a single datacenter, redundant networking makes partitions almost impossible,

derp, nope. No amount of redundant networking can avoid administrator mistakes or accidental "our redundancy all runs through the same conduit and ninjas chopped it in half during a new buildout."

better researched anecdotes: https://aphyr.com/posts/288-the-network-is-reliable

enough hosts makes losing more than half almost impossible

Losing network connectivity is indistinguishable from losing hosts though, and losing hosts is indistinguishable from your application just not responding any longer (dumb programming language GC pauses? kernel panic and halted? infinite docker deploy loop? SSD slowly failing and now writes take 1,000,000 times longer than before? Y2038 bug? All applications run on the same timer or compaction schedule and decide to blip for the exact same 30 seconds?). So, the failure mode for hosts is your network failure probability and your host failure probability, and host failure probability includes software failures.
Timechat lets our users send hidden messages (text, photos and video) to a future time, giving them control over when the receiver will be able to see the complete message making this a fun, creative and unique way of communicating with everyone.
In Memory of Scott Dinsmore
http://www.theworkhouse.co/postmortem/

http://college.usatoday.com/2015/09/15/university-of-michiga...
Oh - and I agree there. In case my post seemed supportive of the U.K/Frances "Right to Censor Information". I don't agree with it in the slightest. From where they are trying to argue from, I can at least understand their viewpoint. I simply don't agree with it or how it is being done.
Adding higher gain antennas without decreasing transmit power is a common way for people to exceed authorized transmit power.
The regulatory theory was that by using a "uncommon" connector only people who know to decrease transmit power (the "professional installer") would be changing antennas: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/kdb/forms/FTSSearchResultPage.cfm...
Abuse of power comes as no surprise.
Do you go to 110x first for quadrupling?
The Lossless Self
Topic was discussed earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10252308
Well, guaranteed consistency requires coordination and if your coordination mechanism is over a network, then the speed of your writes will be multiple factors of your network latency.

"network" doesn't necessarily have to mean high latency ethernet though. You can have a network running on top of an embedded backplane in a blade system. There are ways to minimize latency, but latency is as latency does.
Growing Diversity in Docker Use Cases
Well, yeah, it is certainly possible for software projects to go the other way. It depends on what the focus is.

If people knew that their own choice for speed improvements was optimization (and to a certain extent, that is true already), then they might focus more on that instead of adding features.
There's no way for node A to distinguish between latency and partitioning in regards to node B until node A receives a response from node B. Partitioning is just another name for timing out.
"Mr. Hasler said this was probably not done because foreign manufacturers were not willing to bear the expense of applying for regulatory approval in the United States to serve a tiny number of patients."

Or we could reduce the burden of applying for approval?
Exxon's own research confirmed fossil fuel's role in climate change decades ago
And I bet those people would never concede that their favorite political commentators that whipped up a frenzy without any evidence were 100% completely wrong about what Obama was going to do. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people think that Obama actually did ban bullets. And they still listen to their favorite loud mouths and take them seriously.

The FCC thing is based on actual information, not the fevered mind of deranged anti-Obama conspiracy theorists.
Ask HN: How do you find an honest and truthful workplace?
I'm looking for a job where people highly value honesty and truthfulness in all areas of the company.

Where do I start?
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Wayback has the "e-pistle" link saved https://web.archive.org/web/20070715184101/http://www.maltma...
I'm still hoping for the whole stack to flatten significantly with PL guys managing to allow for multistage/multilayer JIT optimization over evaluation towers.
and in the human ecosystem we also have organic (or pseudo-organic) entities that exploit and parasitize the human population, not using biological viruses, but propaganda viruses.

The voter bases of the liberal and conservative political tribes of the USA are infected with propaganda memes created by large corporations/the media in order to further the financial interests of the large corporations. But if you say that, a lot of people will call you a conspiracy theorists.

But it is no more a conspiracy than the wasps using biological viruses to exploit caterpillars. Just nature in action. And man and his society are also part of nature.
That's a fair point. However, by proxying that list to his users, he's still in the position of choosing which ads to block — even if he's delegating that authority to others (in essence, he's choosing who chooses).
Doesn't make it any less true to the point that's a trivial observation: people with more money can more easily afford to give some of it where "their mouth is".
Amen to that. I am seriously thinking about going out and buying a 1975-1985 or so Chevy C-10 pickup with a small block V8. Those things are dead simple to work on, parts are cheap and plentiful and readily available, and there's plenty of room in the engine compartment to get in there and work.

Contrast that with my 2000 Ford Expedition where you have to jack the truck up and crawl underneath just to change spark plugs. Never mind the need for more specialized tools when you're dealing with fuel injection and messing with the ECM, etc.

Yeah, I think it's time to go back to older cars. I want something I can work on myself without needing a $5,000 tool that I'll use once, and that you probably can't buy in the first place. :-(
Australia has the 'PBS' system. It largely works in 2 parts; One the medicine is subsidised with a user co-payment. And secondly the government negotiates with companies to be in the PBS program. This way, especially where there are multiple drug choices there is massive negotiation power. They essentially offer access to our entire country or none.

Another effect is this scheme encourages generics so people don't pay for brand names, and if they do they're likely off the PBS list so you would pay full price so the government doesn't have to subsidise the premium.

It's not a perfect system and it's getting more expensive but it works OK in the privitised medicine system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Benefits_Scheme
wow, I had the same reaction but had to think for a second.

Have we been trained to associate falling stock as always a bad thing?
Experience the first manned lunar landing (Apollo 11)
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Given the multiple issues Martin has faced over the years, I think it's fair to say that 'impartiality' is the least of his motivations.

"If an analyst looks at the data and sees issues" - what are they? A stockbroker, or pharmaceutical scientist? How many are both?

It would only make financial sense to push for the drug not to be approved -if- you had a position that made a gain from that, but let's not pretend like Martin was doing so out of any source of ethics.
About this guilt for ad-blocking thing: wasn't Marco's entire fortune (pre Tumblr buyout) made by selling a service used to bypass content owners entirely and read their articles without ads, in one page, and in his own templates?
Very nice self referential quote. Who coined it ?

ps: LMGTFM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevlin_Henney