skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
see, this isn't my impression. do you have data? my impression is that $150K is the cap for us regular folks and world-class programmers can make in the low $200K range... if they are willing to live in one of the highest cost of living areas around.

I mean, unless you are like the other person who was talking to me and are counting managers and business people who also have programming skills. But I count those as managers or business people, because they're getting paid as managers or business people for doing manager or business person jobs.

My impression is that $300K is pretty middle of the road for doctors, even in lower cost of living areas.

For lawyers, my impression was that the bottom half got shit, like less than we do, but the sky is the limit for the top half.

My impression is that programmers were sort of the opposite of lawyers, in that our pay bands really are pretty narrow... there isn't even a doubling between the best and the average.
I don't think your view of the situation is any less biased. The problem is that there is very little incentive to ever reject a drug. Shorting is the only case I can think of and even that assumes the drug in question is important enough to actually move share price.

Remember the FDA is primarily concerned with a drug not harming people, the extent to which it's actually beneficial is of secondary interest at best: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/HowDrugs...
Just set the font size, line height and margins to sane levels and it'll be fine

Here I set font-size to 1em, line-height to 1.2em and margins to 1em:

https://i.imgur.com/BXDrg2a.png => https://i.imgur.com/hqHFNaf.png
The case of KV Pharmaceuticals that I cited was a little different since compounding labs had already been making the drug Makena. In that case, the FDA actually sent these labs a letter essentially saying, "Go ahead and keep making the drug even though KV now has a patent for it. We are choosing to not enforce their patent because their price increase was bs."

KV never had a patent for Makena. What they did have was "data exclusivity" which meant the FDA could not approve another version of the drug for at least 5 years.

What they were counting on was the FDA clamping down on the compounding pharmacies, since they weren't selling an approved version of the drug.

The FDA, seeing KV's strategy, declined to shutdown the compounders which resulted in KV declaring bankruptcy. KV restructured, reduced the cost of the drug and created a sustainable business. They were acquired by Valeant I believe.
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Do you ever get the feeling that everything is rigged and corrupt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuuCezrAUKk

"Everybody Knows" - by Leonard Cohen:

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Which one? The one that says "Skype Down" or the tabloid one that screams "Skype DOWN: Microsoft messenger and video chat app NOT working across the GLOBE"?
No way $1 CPM for 4chan.
Me too, I used "rest-client" gem for my past project, converting image color from RGB to grayscale over webservice (small study case for distributed system).
Not to excuse them if they did know, but this could have been a way to meet an engineering goal, and nobody at the top directed this action.

It isn't likely that ALL the test-tuning that's done in, for example, graphics card drivers and firmware, was ordered from the top down. It's possible this is a similar case.
Sorry in 2001 Caldrea didn't purchase Santa Cruise Operations Group outright. It just purchased everything relating to Unix.

After this sale Santa Cruise Operations Group changed its named to TARANTELLA inc. While concurrently Caldrea founded SCO Group, which was built on the purchased Santa Cruise Operations Group software.

Agreement and Plan of Reorganization:

http://sec.edgar-online.com/tarantella-inc/8-k-current-repor...
https://youtu.be/Ja5Q75hf6QI?t=3124

the whole video is worth a watch
If you want a 1kg notebook that's 100x the power of a room-sized $40,000,000 Cray 2 from back when, you'll have to leave off things like connectors, removable covers, generalized internal interfaces, empty space (for varying-sized components), beefier batteries (to run whatever you plug in), etc. Some of us value compact over modular.

You want "repairable by user for cheap"? Such is eminently available, and will decidedly not weigh 1kg.
https://youtu.be/Ja5Q75hf6QI?t=3124
Would it be fair to say that diversification of a portfolio is only advantageous when there are relatively few others diversifying as well?

Or is it an issue of inequality - too few investing firms owning/managing too many assets?

Are the markets just so efficient that assets that once had clearly distinct risk/reward profiles are now blending together?
Unfortunately, this is one of many ways the consumer is being fleeced by the capitalist in the Rx market. I don't use the term "capitalist" to be inflammatory or generically as understood when one says American Capitalism, but rather in the economic sense. Persons who legally own capital and direct its use. Most drug discovery and research / testing is accomplished by academics and governments, and then somehow the capitalists take all the credit and the profits. They have a bunch of different strategies, but they all accomplish roughly the same thing: maximize the $ that ends up in their bank accounts.

This is a must read for anyone interested on the subject: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/jul/15/the-tru...
I'm sad for your view of the world.
I'd second the Hammer's Slammers rec. Don't be put off by the lurid pictures of ZOMG TANKS!!! on the covers of some editions; it's a lot more nuanced than the name and artwork imply.

I'd also recommend his Redliners, which deals in large part with the need to re-establish empathy between soldiers and the civilians they fight for. Some elements of the plot get a bit silly, but Drake was exorcising some serious personal ghosts in that one, and his conviction really shines through.
http://bbs.progrider.org/prog/

http://bbs.progrider.org/prog/read/1442852889
From an economic and policy perspective, unfortunately, Turing is doing everything right.

This is an economically misguided point of view. Free market decision-making can only be argued to be optimal in a free market system, which pharma is not, a distinction which the decision-makers certainly were intelligent enough to understand. Free market mechanisms either need to be put in place, or we need to stop allowing its actors to behave as though it were one. As it stands, even from an economics point of view, this sort of behavior is simply immoral.

It gives economics a bad name when you try to argue that such decision-making is economically defensible. It is never economically optimal to make decisions that can directly lead to the deaths of citizens in the host society, in exchange for higher profits. The reading of free market theory with which most people, including its founder, would agree, is one where the goal is to maximize utility, not wealth. This is a vitally important distinction, and one that the layperson often overlooks. Without it, a free market system becomes nothing more than a war of sociopaths. [1]

Sadly, online discussions often degenerate into witch-hunts with the assumption that if we stop this one guy, then everything will be fine.

It's not sad at all. People are understandably outraged, as it is a natural human reaction to such callous life-and-death decision-making. If you truly believe in your statement, I'd reflect on why you are unable to relate to the majority of people around the internet who are very angry about this.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/adam-smith...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_self-interest
Did you miss the main caveat? Countries with good quality testing standards. If you have many countries with very similar quality assurance standards then surely it makes sense to rely on the work of others, or have a revised (shorter, cheaper) process for drugs to go through which have already been approved by certain countries.

I don't think anybody is suggesting mass importation of low quality Indian or Thai versions of drugs.
Used this approach at a previous company and was amazed at first. Wondered why it wasn't more commonly used. A poor mans API! Whats not to like?? Then I found out why: when put under any kind of load it completely falls over and stops sending data at all. Also randomly would throw security/authentication errors that none of our devs noticed because it only happened on windows and older versions of OSX (we were a Linux shop). Its a fun and novel approach but should never be used in a production application that needs to scale.
The paranoid side of me wonders if this is just a formalization of data collection that may already exist on 4chan.
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Is anyone here using Scrypt in production?

I had do decide on a hashing scheme recently and ended up going with Bcrypt just because of how new Scrypt is.
Well, for starters those standards don't seem to be targeted to individuals, and often the goal seems to be to just allow someone to say "I'm compliant with XXX" rather than telling them how to be secure.

The practical advice they give is in the form of obvious generalities ("setup your firewalls", "update your OS") without any concrete details on how to best do that or even a discussion on which attacks are prevented and which aren't

Threat model discussions, advice on choosing which threats you can realistically defend against, theoretical principles and talk about possible attacks also seem to be non-existent.
I don't really agree. Air pollution isn't like test notes at all, it kills people.

If you had "Followed the letter but not the spirit of a rule" and wound up endangering people's health, do you honestly think there would be no repercussions other than a "haha, clever you! You can get away with it on a technicality this once" ?
It's clear that it's not necessary for a system to scale globally to be useful.

But a political system that scales globally is definitely desirable; an awful lot of human suffering is directly traceable to sub-optimal decisions made internationally because "those people" aren't "our people." There are big wins to be had for solving that problem.
There is no acceptable outcome possible here.

Given the international nature of the internet, having things "forgotten" by google.fr, but not by google.com or google.uk, means in fact that they are not forgotten. France has a point.

But having somebody in France able to censor stuff in the US is also not acceptable. I've got to, what, go to France and win a court case there? To keep my US-based content available to the net? No !@#$% way, France. Get lost.

So there is no outcome that is remotely acceptable to both sides. I don't know how it ends, but somebody's going to be very angry.

Maybe the "best" answer is for Google to shut down google.fr, remove all their people from France, and tell France to block them at the border if they want to play that way. This would be painful and expensive for Google, but it might be the least-bad outcome...
RAM was soldered to the Amiga and ST too, back in the day. Neither they nor Macs were designed to be user-tweakable. PCs and clones were unusual.
Google clashes with French data regulator
Wow, I didn't even know there were two APAs... Well, I guess this is why trademark protection is a thing.
For me the environmental impact is also a factor.I don't need a bunch of items sitting around wasting energy because they're all pointlessly wi-fi connected, have sensors, or are "always on and ready to go". And with more complicated parts things are more likely to break, so that's more likely to go in a landfill.
Not at all. Also, Keynesian economics and Capitalism do not belong to the same category. How could I confound them? That would be very silly of me.
Do you have any evidence that hunter gatherer societies have "basically no impulse to fight over territory"?
DeepFreeze.it repeats the lies about Zoe Quinn.

http://www.deepfreeze.it/article.php?a=monster

> The overwhelming majority of their coverage consists solely of reprinting verbatim the anecdotal and often unverified accounts from controversial figures who directly profit from being considered targets of harassment — Zoe Quinn being a good example.

> Often described as an indie developer, Quinn has produced very little aside from the low-effort, unpolished free text adventure Depression Quest. More notable about Quinn was the disproportionate attention she got from the gaming press despite her limited accomplishments, from journalists such as her financial backer Ben Kuchera of Polygon and her friend Patricia Hernandez of Kotaku.

http://www.deepfreeze.it/article.php?a=unfair

> Hernandez has also promoted two Kickstarters by GaymerX while being on friendly terms with the organization's president Toni Rocca and some of the other GaymerX staff. She has also given positive press, without disclosure, to her friends David Gallant and Zoe Quinn.

http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson

> Positive coverage of Zoe Quinn in three articles, without disclosing their friendship and eventual affair. Later covered Quinn again, disclosing they "dated briefly", but not that he had previously financially supported her.

Techraptor does the same.

http://techraptor.net/content/zoe-quinn-lying-journalists

> One of the first things that seems quite possibly true about Zoe Quinn is the fact that she plays heavily into self-victimization. Now I will concede that I am not entirely knowledgeable about the psychology behind self-victimization, but what it is defined as makes it fairly easy to identify.

> The most high profile example of this was Zoe Quinn’s claim that Wizardchan raided and doxxed (acquired and revealed personal info) her. That whole affair is best summed up here. Basically, the takeaway from that is that her accusations hold little if any merit at all. What is consistently seen throughout that is how easily she puts herself forward as a victim and asks for consolation from a variety of personalities and sites. Even if you only read the text surrounding the images of her tweets and other communications, you can see this.

This is supposed to be an example of a site that doesn't promote and continue harassment? I can see why people think gamergate advocates are the worst kind of fucking scumbag.
One data point: What we use our open source commercial support contracts for, and what we'd love to have offered by more open source packages, is 24x7 emergency support and break-fix diagnostics and patches.

When a big website running on JBoss starts falling over at 2 AM, and initial triage points to JBoss, being able to get a Redhat engineer involved immediately and get a custom hotfix created if needed, is worth the money we pay.

The problem with this model for a lot of the smaller open source projects is they aren't setup or staffed to be able to provide effective 24x7x365 support.
You know very little about bug bounties and how company's handle them.
Twenty minutes ago it said "Skype down for some customers". Now both the HN title and the target website title has been edited.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977259
I am far from a HAM or radio pro, but doesn't SDR actually make some of this possible? Not using ancient sets to listen to modern signals, but using one set of kit to rule them all, as it were?
"Let's keep this really simple. Since the financial crisis, how much more dollar-denominated debt is out there in the world."

That was Rick Santelli on CNBC an hour ago. Here's the video:

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000422916

As the global economy slows, borrowers will cease to earn enough to service their debts. And the amounts are astronomical: $57T new debt at 17% debt-to-GDP ratios.

Link to McKinsey GI report on "Debt and (not much) deleveraging":

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/economic_studies/debt_and_n...
Medicare would even be in a pretty good negotiating position now if it weren't barred by statute from doing negotiations.
This is a possible strategy, but is rarely used, as it is very risky (, it is likely to cost a great deal of market share in the long term). I have looked into it, and found very few examples of a company which tried to lure a competitor into a market, then under-sell them. The opposite (under-sell competition to gain market share then hike prices) also appears to be quite unpopular in the real market, for the opposite reason (it will surely gain market share in the short term, but can cost a great deal of money). These are very popular theories, and there are a few examples of those who have tried both strategies, but those examples are almost all cautionary tales.
Javascript!

And fewer features.

(but a cool little project none the less!)
Offering a BAA is necessary, but not sufficient, to be a HIPAA-compliant service.
Is /pol/ really that noticeable from outside 4chan?

I've been a 4channer for a long time, and only recently I've been noticing /pol/.
RTBF is primarily meant to redact "untrue" information, so, I find your first response to be... somewhat questionable. In many cases, what RTBF is blocking is libel. I suppose the notion of "information not relevant to the public interest" may fall under the debate, but most of the claims of "censorship!!!!" clearly focus on concerns that are NOT affected by RTBF laws.

Google's search algorithm has no right to free speech, actually, unless we'd like to define it as an artificial person and grant it Constitutional rights too.
>I'd reflect on why you are unable to relate to the majority of people around the internet who are very angry about this.

The same way I don't relate to the "Obama is a Muslim" narrative on the internet or "9/11 was an inside job" narrative. I think appealing to outrage culture on the internet isn't the bulletproof argument you think it is.
rsync is not written in a hipster language.
Don't make bomb jokes dude, what the heck. <- Any Reasonable Person

(I've shot my mouth off and gotten in trouble for it a few times, and learned not to do this)
Exactly. Cheverolet Trailblazers are well known for this (I owned one and had to replace said air injector)
I often read comments like this about The Forever War and I'm never sure if I read the same book. I enjoyed it but it seemed an awful lot more shallow than it's given credit for. It just seemed to me that it raised lots of ideas but never really explored them fully.

I found it a bit 'thin'. Perhaps that was intentional as a corollary to the breakneck pace of time-dilation Mandella faced and the societal change he faced. I always felt out of place and behind as a reader, never really finding myself fully immersed in the story Haldeman was telling, always wanting to stop and see more about how things had changed. I guess the 'world building' wasn't as good as I hoped for.

The Forever Peace on the other hand seemed to painstakingly explore the build up to societal change, then ended as it was about to happen.

Either way, both frustrating books.
I did hear they did encrypt by default on the Nexus 6. Unfortunately, it seriously affected performance and was then turned off. I guess this may be due not having a fast hardware encryption path to and from the flash memory.

iOS encrypts, even if you don't set a passphrase or something and their security white paper does mention having dedicated hardware to make it seamless.
> They can't. "It looks like noise" isn't a metaphor, it's a mathematical truth... it is indistinguishable from noise.

That's a bold statement.

Encryption makes the bits look like noise, but you still have to turn bits into signals, and that has structure.

Efficient signaling methods look a lot like noise, but any safety margin makes it distinguishable from noise.

Beyond that, increases in noise in specific bands are still a notable event.

Even if it's spread across many or all bands, what is causing that.

Only highly directional signals would be hidden from us.

And of course transmissions might be too weak to see, but that is not what we're talking about here with the type of signal.
Disk encryption is supposed to be the security measure that thwarts that, to an extent. The attacker can probably use your device, but if you have it set up correctly, they shouldn't be able to read your data.
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And the transmissions from e36 and e39 (early-mid 2000s) are built by GM. There is actually a lot of cross platform and cross manufacturer parts rattling around in our vehicles.

Honda is a great example of modular components. Taking a d-series and swapping it with a b-16/18/20 and even k-series with just a change in motor mounts/axles/ecu. It takes an afternoon to swap it over.

Of course as you get further into the aftermarket realm things like bolt-in conversions for swapping 2jz into 90s mustangs becomes possible. Fabbing up some brackets isn't that hard, conversely, desoldering a cpu or dealing with non-modular computer components is a much more daunting task to me. The parts are too small and fragile.
> the Apple II reference manual

And then the Mac was sealed. You needed a special tool just to open the case.

I upgraded the RAM in my Atari ST by solder-sucking 16*(16+2) through-holes and soldering the additional chips and caps myself. Not exactly modular by design.
I don't think your examples are sufficiently similar to the subject matter to make this a compelling argument.
Backlash, as I will never buy another car from Volkswagen Group. I own one of the affected models and if all they do is a software update that turns it in to a gutless wonder with mediocre mileage they will lose quite a few otherwise devoted customers, possibly permanently. Lots of owners love their TDIs. Mine has been a great car. I think this goes beyond cynical corporate profits. A beloved technological possession is likely to be taken away or neutered. Once they go beyond disappointment and approach heartbreak, spurn kicks in.