skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cuba is a really interesting example because it demonstrates the importance of least-common-denominator care. You're not getting high-tech imaging or brand new drugs, but they deliver a basic level of care pretty uniformly across its population. And the outcomes speak for themselves - on average they're just as good as the US.

The problem with US outcomes is really disparity. A lot of people have very little access to health care and that drags our averages down like crazy. If we could get these kind of "solved-problem" drugs out to everyone who needs them, our average outcomes would jump quite a bit.

Cost is a whole different situation, and that's a much more difficult one to solve. Everyone from manufacturer to insurer to doctor wants their cut, the elasticity of demand for a good without which you will die is zero, so there's very little incentive to keep cost down. There's a few places you can point that are particularly excessive (direct-to-patient marketing, excessive spending on terminal patients circling the drain, etc), but in general it's the death of a million cuts.

Pumping generics is one of those cases that's clearly abusive. With regard to the specific problem, if you try to limit their profits pharmas will simply take their ball and go home - they won't produce it. For a real-world example of this, you can no longer get the Lyme Disease vaccine for humans - nobody makes it anymore, you can only get it for the veterinary market. Evergreening is a similar problem.

In such cases the government really needs to either contract out production of a supply, at-cost (including interest, distribution, etc). If no one will do it, bite the bullet and make it ourselves. If our national labs can figure out how to manufacture high-quality biological or chemical agents, we can figure out how to make high-quality vaccines and drugs as well. Public health is a matter of national security when you get right down to it. Shouldn't we be able to ramp up production of an Ebola vaccine if we really needed it?
Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather of free online education, changes course
Also, they are still a "for-profit" entity; they just legally declare they're going to do things with said profit besides make money for the shareholders.

Going full non-profit would have stricter requirements for income, marketing, business deals, etc. Mozilla did something similar where you download Firefox from Mozilla Inc. that has business arrangements with Google and Pocket (for example); The Mozilla Foundation itself can't enter into those sorts of agreements without violating their non-profit status.

It's all really complicated and a big headache and Kickstarter's doing a good job by avoiding all that, honestly.
But it was written well and entertaining.
what the hell is this website doing

my scroll stutters so bad
JetBrains softens on subscription model, still unsure of its success
It's not really a nationality-based thing (although Toyota and VW do have the largest volumes on a single platform). There's been a significant shift toward modular automobile platforms in general. Some numbers I saw recently indicated that almost half of passenger cars were based on the top 20 platforms.
So? Out of the thousands of people that frequent this site, a tiny percentage of them make this, and it's cool for people that have never seen it.

Also, relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/1053/
Easier-to-digest commentary: http://news.mit.edu/2015/first-new-cache-coherence-mechanism...
Maybe it's just something less evil: diesel engines have some filter which needs to be cleaned automatically. Usually it happens on a highway when driving fast. It increases the emissions a lot when the cleaning is going on. Maybe this software device just made sure that this only happens on highway so they would never measure it in a lab?
I am sorry, I provided a research report in the link. I think it makes more sense to follow that rather than a person's word who traded commodities, commenting on bonds-stocks correlation for a decade without empirical data.

The bottom line is, there are many periods of time when stocks and bonds are inversely correlated and many times when there is a positive correlation. That's the whole point.
and a lot of that is by design, which is sad, and also is why I am buying older cars.
I wonder if this has anything to do with their inclusion of Skype call support directly in Edge.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=836715

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984806/web-apps/microsofts-e...

http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/19/skype-for-web-will-soon-w...

https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/18/enabling-seamless-commun...
My laptop boots in two or three sec, so I typicaly just shut it down.
My favorite scam is when the pharma industry became pro-environment lobbyists to get the government to ban generic inhalers:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/heres-why-your...
I never got a direct response from them, but since the recruiter continued to reach out to me for other opportunities they must not have been too upset about me bailing on the meeting. I did avoid using any terms like "criminal behavior" in my response. :)
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Nice way to bypass zapier.com for some simple stuff because they can get expensive quickly. I just started using it to store a log of supersaas.com appointments in a Google spreadsheet, works great.
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Project: https://www.ghostnoteapp.com

Work: Mostly fixing a bunch El Capitain related issues with my side project
Innovation happens because people are curious and want to make their (or other's) lives easier, this has nothing to do with patents, or if it's private or government run.

Want to see real innovation? See for example the home made radio receivers people made in WWII, that fit in a small tin can, or visit an Amish settlement (http://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/). Not to mention hacker/maker spaces and fablabs, which all work on open source principles and sustain themselves through donations or member fees.
Macros implement syntax and semantics. Arbitrary complex syntax. Check out the complex syntax for DEFGENERIC, DEFCLASS, DEFSTRUCT, defpackage ... LOOP

The syntax for DEFUN in Common Lisp:

defun function-name lambda-list [[declaration* | documentation]] form*

The syntax for lambda-list then is:

lambda-list::= (var*
[&optional {var | (var [init-form [supplied-p-parameter]])}*]
[&rest var]
[&key {var | ({var | (keyword-name var)} [init-form [supplied-p-parameter]])}* [&allow-other-keys]]
[&aux {var | (var [init-form])}*])

Lisp syntax is not atom | '(' atom* ')'. It's much more complex.

And so on.

Every Lisp has arbitrary complex syntax due to macros and special operators.
That was my point. 4Chan has pretty heavy SJW influence right now.
Permanent (?) link: https://www.4chan.org/news?all#120
I agree but a somewhat less ambitious and still workable idea would be to have post-patent stuff like this manufactured by a state entity or by a private one with state support.
The man who bought Stonehenge and then gave it away
IMHO: hipster overflow
Do you use laptops on couches at home? Cables seem hasslesome there.
I might be missing something, but has there ever been any exploit (or string of simultaneous exploits) for iOS or android which meets all the criteria?

It must be through a text message or web page, it must be remote, reliable, silent, require no interaction, must be entirely comprised of 0-day exploits throughout the whole chain, must affect multiple architectures and all supported devices, and must bypass all security checks to allow full root access.
She ruined it for them?

Do you think it’s prudent of those in positions of power to ascribe her (as you claim) mistakes and misjudgments to her gender and not their process of selection and training? I mean, you even talk about her lack of training as the reason for this (which is clearly unrelated to her gender), so if that’s the case how could she have ruined it for other women?

The fix for a lack of training is not to not hire women (that’s just a total non-sequitur), but to train more and better.

In that context it seems to me as though sexist assumptions by those in positions of power combined with a political selection process “ruined it for them for another 20 years”, not her performance.

You cannot shoulder the oppressed with expectations of perfect performance, even under adverse conditions. It’s totally awesome when they can pull it off, but that can’t be and isn’t the norm.
Tufte's article about the space shuttle:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

is the canonical example of how design could have changed the world.
In modern processors the bottleneck generally is the IO. While it is not the same think (desktop vs phone processors), this author benchmarks OpenSSL in an algorithm similar that Android uses, with and without AES-NI (Intel HW encryption): https://mjanja.ch/2013/11/disabling-aes-ni-on-linux-openssl/.

Even without AES-NI, this processor is doing more than 100MB/s of encryption. Mobile storage is a lot worse than this (like less than 50MB/s in sustained sequential writes), and you have to remember this would be the worst case (since the majority of writes for common users is small files instead of big files).

Just to put in perspective: my Moto X can write around ~20MB/s when transferring files by USB 2.0. And it can still write the same ~20MB/s with encryption on.
Ask HN: Do generic landing pages (“we create solutions”) work?
When looking for work I often find it difficult to figure out what a company does, because they just say they make "solutions to create business value."

Are those considered effective and what is the thinking behind them?

(This mostly happens with agencies/consultancies.)
Thanks very much for sharing this link - I had not heard of the fairphone before.

Predictably huge at 5+ inches screen diagonal, but I guess that's to be expected these days.
> Is there currently human technology that does anything similar to this?

Any sort of steganography tries to achieve something similar. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar would be used in military radio communications.
Yes. It requires serious engineering across the OS stack though. Also, it is generally harder and less effective to this retroactively; existing third party apps may not switch to leverage the new APIs when it is done retroactively. This makes it hard for PC operating systems to effectively adopt it, though I really hope they do it soon.

Right now it seems the low hanging fruit for Android would be to encrypt devices _at all_ (by default). Different classes of encryption is a luxury.
Perhaps your understanding of the role and capabilities of a military are too narrow-minded for you to see how to employ them in a positive and productive manner?
no. cause then eeeeeeeveryone goes "oh cool I've done the same thing." so the only take away is that people don't learn from the past. sad.
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But who provides the quality standards oversight? The drug is apparently produced in India. What if pills were shipped to the US and it was found after the fact that many batches contained unacceptable levels of iron? Who to blame?

I'm sure Canada has decent oversight, but who wants to say that the solution is no direct US agency oversight, and that we want a "Pharmaceuticals-NAFTA"? It seems funding oversight with a "homeland" agency is one issue you could get bipartisan support on.

While sure, I doubt many have a problem with medical tourism, I'm not sure bringing drugs across the border intended for distribution without FDA approval is the answer.

On the other hand maybe countries working together at the agency level to ensure their oversight measures are in compliance with some agreed upon standard is a sane way to move forward. But then who maintains the list of approved drugs? Is that power given to some international body? Or does the FDA still have to approve drugs for distribution and only alternatives are brought in? And then what about drugs that are patented in the US (like this one), but freely available in other markets from other manufacturers?

It seems a worthy enough goal in general, but I don't think a fully libertarian approach to the problem comes close to being the right answer either.
And if I want 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 text? I know how to get italics.

Most typographs disagree with using italics:

> If you’re us­ing a sans serif font, skip italic and use bold for em­pha­sis. It’s not usu­ally worth ital­i­ciz­ing sans serif fonts—un­like serif fonts, which look quite dif­fer­ent when ital­i­cized, most sans serif italic fonts just have a gen­tle slant that doesn’t stand out on the page.

http://practicaltypography.com/bold-or-italic.html
I don't think "Cold war era" would get the point across. To me, "Cold war" is associated with expensive high-tech planes like the SR-71 and the B-2. I think most people would think of planes like these when you say "Cold war era".
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I don't think this is the case at all. Gamergate was noisy and annoying at it's best on 4chan. However, there have been many bans for posts wildly outside of gamergate, that were on SJW talking points.

The reason gamergate was banned from 4chan is they kept posting pics of zoe and moot hanging out at conferences and bars and such.
> "We consider this law illegitimate and do not consent to be bound by it."

Which would be an astonishing statement to actually make, considering that air pollution kills people. It's basically singing the praises of corporate manslaughter.

Even more so, given that anarchocapitalism isn't really popular in Germany any more.
Colombia is inelegible for DV lottery.
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You used to be able to jailbreak one of the first iPhones and install Cydia just by visiting some page in Safari and clicking on a button, IIRC. I never did this myself, so my memories might be inaccurate though.
A Java Reactive Streams Push Engine, Release 1.1
How well does ios9 run on a 1ghz dual-core/512mb device like the 4s?
>An encrypted signal can't be "too random"

It should if encryption is good. After all, security proofs for encryption define "secure" as "indistinguishable from random".
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I would really prefer something like this to be a local library or something, adding another remote service in between negatively affects security and reliability. Especially in this case where there is no HTTPS yet.
Why would you assume that in a situation where the entire pharmaceutical industry was nationalized there would not be any more revenue going to those programs? Presumably 1) a government who chose to nationalize them would also direct more tax dollars toward them 2) at least some of the revenue pharmaceutical companies are seeing now would go to government manufacturers instead.

This is academic, perhaps, given the likelihood of it happening.
Has anyone tried a really long password ;-)
I'm a veteran. I come from a very poor family. It was through only joining the military that I was able to crawl from below the poverty line to the middle class. I'm now a software engineer in New York and enjoy an upper middle class life style.

I wish every American, veteran or not, had access to the same welfare that every Soldier, Marine, and Sailor enjoys. Easy Access to housing, healthcare, childcare, family counselling, legal assistance, and education benefits allow for greater mobility between economic social stratas. Every American Should have access to these things without having to join the military to receive them.

EDIT: Grammar.
Testing Godwin's Law
"So literally last weekend I cabled my house with 5 runs of 100 meg ethernet and a couple of long patch leads in the living room and stuffed in a cheap 8 port netgear switch from ebay. Plugged the whole thing into my router and turned off the WiFi entirely just using it as a switch + NAT combo."

Exactly. I don't give out a lot of tech-guy advice to folks these days, and most people don't even think of me as "the computer guy" in their social circle ... but any chance I have I implore people to hardwire their networking connections.

No matter how good your AP is or how nice your Sonos mesh algorithm is or how clear your airspace is ... you will deal with random, annoying, difficult to diagnose wireless comms issues. It's very easy to make that entire class of problem disappear from your life. It's also a lot faster.

EDIT: actually, this post will seem a bit disingenuous when we (rsync.net) officially announce the drive-up feature at our datacenter locations. We're stacking the deck in our favor by using Ubiquiti long-range APs ...
I don't think the movie was pro-war either. It was, imo, a satirical in flavor.
Wow. This is really interesting, it's something that I've wondered about.

So, the situation is that some vinyl recordings are just vinyl versions of digital recordings? Does this happen in the other direction? I've wondered if some of the turntables and speakers are just digitizing the output from the vinyl prior to playing the music. So in this case, you'd be vinyl-izing a digital source, and then digitizing the vinyl source. Does this happen at all?

If you have any particularly good link/sources to read up about this, please let me know, I've had a passing interest in it for a while.
Eh, I read quite a few books that say the opposite

> If you’re us­ing a sans serif font, skip italic and use bold for em­pha­sis. It’s not usu­ally worth ital­i­ciz­ing sans serif fonts—un­like serif fonts, which look quite dif­fer­ent when ital­i­cized, most sans serif italic fonts just have a gen­tle slant that doesn’t stand out on the page.

http://practicaltypography.com/bold-or-italic.html
Saying they're "nearly identical" seems to miss the point that the former is a paen to the military filled with lieutenant colonels waxing philosophical about how duty to fight is the basis of all morality, whilst the latter involves a brazenly cynical protagonist whose thoughts of war mostly involve hoping to find a way out of it...
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I had been avoiding the Galaxy client because I didn't see any benefit but after your remark, I decided to try it.

It's not bug-free but so far I like it.
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Correct me if I am wrong but this is literally a felony under HIPAA
Yes, the stagefright vulnerability in Android (http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/950-million-android-...)
I feel bad for moot. He'll probably be known for the rest of his life for creating a cesspool he never made much money from.
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You're correct. jailbreak.me I think it was called
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"The whole exploitation/jailbreak process should be achievable remotely, reliably, silently, and without requiring any user interaction except visiting a web page or reading a SMS/MMS (attack vectors such as physical access, bluetooth, NFC, or baseband are not eligible for the Million Dollar iOS 9 Bug Bounty. ZERODIUM may, at its sole discretion, make a distinct offer to acquire such attack vectors.)."

Can someone explain this part? Jailbreak from a website, sms, or mms seems ... impossible. Has this even been possible with older jailbreaks?
You're probably think of this Ars piece: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/new-data-uncovers-th...
> The bottom line is, there are many periods of time when stocks and bonds are inversely correlated and many times when there is a positive correlation. That's the whole point.

This is a gross simplification. Historically, to the 1930s, stocks and bonds were inversely correlated. Only recently has that behavior not held true (around 2008, according to the very PIMCO paper you cited).

To put it simply, it all comes down to interest rates. The only reason stocks and bonds are no longer inversely correlated (in my opinion) is the Fed's QE efforts. Historically, funds would move between stock and bond asset classes based on market sentiment (stocks when bullish, bonds when bearish).

Now, with an excess of cheap funds available (thanks QE!), both asset classes are being inflated artificially.

http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2014/sep/pdf/bu-...

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/07/25/why-arent-stocks-a...

http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-smarter-mutual-fund-...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-26/something-...

http://time.com/money/3981692/what-the-bond-market-says-abou...
You'd be surprised (or many not!) of the percentage of healthcare companies which aren't HIPAA compliant.
You deserved to be kicked out. Many, many school shooting start with similar jokes about "bringing a gun to school lol!" Example: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93924&page=1.

All I see in this thread are a bunch of whining millennials bickering over policy details. How about: Don't joke about killing people at a public event? Your words and social media posts are your public record and indicate your intent, don't post stupid things online, learn that now before you do something really dumb that gets you fired.
Direct line of communication. But they could still be lying, so I guess I should say it was a guess.

Actually, I got a psychic to get me direct access to their brain, so I'm sure they aren't lying. But they could be incorrectly remembering it. So we still can't be certain. For it to be 100% not a guess, I'm going to need to get go back in time with my time machine and have the psychic come with me, but he is saying something about how that could cause problems.

So sadly we are stuck just inferring (guessing) with the information given.
Take a cube, half the size of each edge, and the cube weighs one eighth as much.

In this case, the 20% reduction in diameter, while keeping the same shape means the projectiles are less than half the size.

In a counter-insurgency role, the A-10 fires roughly 65 13.3 ounce high explosive shells in one second. Roughly 54 pounds of high explosive shells per second.

The F-35 is planned to fire 55 6.5 ounce projectiles per second. That's 22 pounds of shells per second.

54 lbs vs 22 lbs is a significant difference.

Though, as others have said, it's the ammo capacity that is the major problem with the F-35's proposed gun. Only being able to make one or two guns runs before being out of ammunition precludes any kind of sustained ground support.
Not enough Web knowledge to easily dive into the codebase...

Could anyone be so kind as to compare this with: https://github.com/pyramation/LaTeX2HTML5
"We have a legal obligation to our shareholders to maximise our profits."
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I think you mean the Diesel Particulate Filter delete.
http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2013/01/epa-says-dont-touch-pat...
4chan has shaped internet culture for better and for worse. I think that to have created something so influential is an achievement to be proud of.
Which does not help me when most typographers say to use 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 for emphasis: http://practicaltypography.com/bold-or-italic.html
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> the thinly-disguised harassment campaign

I am not convinced that repeating a lie a thousand times will make this claim the truth. The propaganda may have worked well back when gamergate was completely unknown to the general public, but we are past that, I think.
Any nationalized program would have to be funded, meaning there would be yearly appropriations bills. Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think this could become a circus every year.

As for the NASA comparison... I don't really want drug research to be chronically underfunded.
Users do not want unobstrusive ads. They may be willing to put up with them, but that is not the same than wanting them.

Nobody in his sane mind wants ads, unobstrusive or not.