skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't start using unix/vms systems until the early 90s in college, which was at least a couple years before your "$50/month access to the internet", if we count aol and compuserve, and by that time it was most certainly the case that the era of "[the] only people who have access to a computer are people who devoted their careers to it" was long since passed.
Well the thing is, if you think about trade-offs, the current way of thinking is - I'm willing to have a text only conversation, if I could only get in touch with other like minded individuals. If we reverse it - I don't want to compromise on a richer interaction, so how can I change my own life/address/etc so that there is a higher chance of meeting like-minded individuals. For e.g. what if, it became extremely easy to move. Like, you could move your entire house in 30 minutes and go live somewhere else. All the hassles of changing addresses, packing, unpacking, etc didn't exist. In that scenario you could just spontaneously move around and be among whichever group of people you choose to. It sounds weird in my head as well, but that's just because we're conditioned to feel that way.

One other related issue is this notion of wanting to always be with 'like minded' individuals. That's pretty much a recipe for disaster if you ask me. It's probably good to have people around who challenge you or disagree with you or don't like you all the time, etc. Anyway, I think we're probably close enough in agreement on the main point.
Of course, one could click through the link to the study, and read the 3 pages that describe the methodology behind their "market basket" of drugs. You don't have to wonder, or at least the curious don't.
> USAsians

This is the most confusing new demonym I've seen in a while. As an Asian-American, it took me a moment to figure out why this would be knowledge only Asian-Americans would be expected to have.

Edit: It's not referring to Asian-Americans, by the way. It's apparently? (guessing from context) a new? way of referring to Americans, for some reason. I'm not really sure what's going on.
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So, elite kids just happen to do everything that they do out de novo, never having been told to do them by their parents?

Given the same resources and information, a large number of kids of all classes would do the same type of things that elite gatekeepers like to see from elite applicants.
Each Australian state and territory is handling Uber's entrance into the market differently, but what they all agree on is that Uber doesn't fit the current regulations for private cars.

So far it seems the states are more interested in blocking and fining drivers than reviewing the laws and regulations around private drivers.

I met a driver in Melbourne who was fined twice. He said that Uber paid the fine both times. NSW's policy is far more severe for the drivers; deregistering drivers or vehicles has very real repercussions (could lead to criminal convictions if the driver isn't smart about it). I would say its likely a response Uber's payment of fines.

In Melbourne, taxi drivers recently protested Uber by refusing to pick up passengers. Their strike coincided with a public transport strike (unrelated to Uber) and generally caused a lot of chaos. Because of the costs behind taxi ownership, those protesting drivers took a pretty huge pay hit out of their own pockets to protest.

Seems its an increasingly dangerous time to be an UberX driver.
You can "label" by just agreeing that zero is in the set of counting numbers and labelling with those. Just because it's zero based doesn't mean it has to be an offset.
Yes, but test scores are not necessarily an objective measure of how good an employee is going to be, unless their job is going to be to take tests. They're a proxy.

Suppose student A has talent 100, and student B has talent 90. Student A puts in a normal level of effort, and scores 100. Student B dedicates all of his time to studying, goes to cram school, etc., and also scores 100. Now they look the same, but A's higher talent of 100 is still going to give them an edge on the job. If you're trying to figure out the candidate's talent, what do you do? You have to look beyond test scores.

Basically, at some point putting too much effort into it is a way of gaming the system, since you're optimizing a proxy instead of what people are really looking for; and changing or expanding the proxy actually makes selection more accurate.
The core mistake here is that the applicant thought that he had far more leverage than he had. From the companies point of view they are taking on an entry level employee and they feel he should be grateful for the opportunity they presented. They want an entry level person to be low maintenance.

Instead, by the end of the week, they had the impression he was a major pain in the backside. They are thinking to themselves, this man is going to be high maintenance and constantly thinking about himself and not the team or the long term. I would have rescinded his offer as well and considered myself lucky to had dodged a bullet.
> MS is keeping software sales, but handing search, distribution, cloud, backup and mapping services to what is effectively a Chinese google? How exactly do they expect to make money from this?

There's billions of people in China. It's a huge market. They'd rather play gimped rather than not play at all. Unfortunately for China, their governmental sanctioned monopolization of businesses is stifling their own innovation. It's the reason why, with so many people, practically nothing worth-while comes out of China as far as new inventions or technology goes. Whether it be software, industrial, manufacturing, health care, what have you, China is at the bottom of the pack. To acquire those things, they either have to buy, copy or steal them. And they do all three relentlessly.

Now if you're Chinese, you may think to yourself, "Good for them, then." And while it's good in the short-term, for most things, the "getting there" is potentially as valuable, or even more valuable than the end result. It allows you to improve upon things and make further innovations. It builds a foundation for further innovation. If you don't have that foundation, you're just leaving yourself further and further behind. We can see this happening right now.

I'm certainly no rabid pro-capitalist (I actually tend to lean towards socialism, specifically social democracies) but I won't deny the benefits of capitalism and its effects on a culture. It's actually why I'm pro-social democracy - I understand there are benefits to each political and economic system and think a social democracy takes the best of both worlds while minimizing (but not completely eliminating) the negative aspects.
It sucks for slicing though. In python (zero based), you can use 0:n to slice the entire array with a half-open interval. With one based, you have to either have a closed interval, so 1:n is the whole array (which sucks because what does an empty interval starting at 1 look like? 1:0?) Or you can have a half-open interval and index 1:n+1. I don't see what you saved yourself other than making things uglier.
The drugs were chosen simply as the most significant ones for the AARP's membership. The methodology is thoroughly discussed in Appendix A of the study:

http://member.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/ppi/2014-11/rx-price...

Also note that the drugs were chosen before they started tracking prices.

I totally understand your skepticism, but rather than just wonder why they chose those, why not find out?
It's fascinating to see when infrastructure in developing countries surpasses that of some developed countries.

In Argentina, for example, every single gas station has free wifi. It works exceptionally well, and is always free.
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This is really cool! Nice work.
You're expecting the article to say something else, when the point of the article is clearly laid out in the headline itself. Which is that this particular case is not the 'odd one out', but common, or common enough in the drug industry. Obviously, the drug companies want to scapegoat this dude and avoid any negative press for the other times they bump up prices.

I agree with you that to make a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate price increases is needed. But then again, I'd say the fact that healthcare is a for-profit industry has already put the incentives in place necessary for anyone interested in dabbling on the dark side.
-> get jobs at top ranked law firms, banks and management consultancies

The elite jobs do not interest me at all. Maybe that's my working class mindset.
>For most people, aiming for professional, middle-class jobs seems the most realistic goal to aim for. Ain't a bad lifestyle at all, if you can accept it's silly to try to win a game that's designed to make you lose.

Except that seems like one is still playing the same game that enables the status quo, like you state in your example, is where most people end up anyways… who then will still worry if their large mega corp will be the next to lay off the next 40k workers…
From another perspective, a floppy is also secure because it is a completely dumb storage device: it's just a piece of magnetic media in a plastic case. The drive is equally dumb, and the controller IC is usually a hard-wired logic array. The format has been around for a long time and publicly documented in standards. Contrast this with USB drives which have their own firmware and microcontrollers that can hide maliciousness, or even CD/DVD drives that also have modifiable firmware.

Someone could intercept a floppy and read/write its data, but putting malware on it and getting the receiver to execute it unnoticed is going to be much harder than with a USB drive. Putting a floppy into a drive literally does not cause any code to execute - it's only when commanded to, i.e. when the drive is accessed, that things start happening. There's no AutoPlay for floppies. Contrast this with the whole USB enumeration process.
Seems like it would be a lot better if the FDA simply had the money to commission such studies itself, rather than fucking up the market to get them funded privately. It's effectively a tax either way, just the way they actually did it here is a crazy and inefficient tax just on sick people.
Easy for you to say especially when you are not affected by the system.
Along those same lines, if you fill your prescriptions at WalMart, then for $40 per year you can take atorvastatin 80mg (Lipitor; one of the best studied high potency statins) every day.

This is about $10 per year (~3 cents per day) more expensive than cheap red yeast rice.
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Could you not buy them from another country? A quick trip across the border in either direction will save you a ton of money, and I'm sure you can mail order it too.
I don't even know what elite jobs this article is talking about. High paying professional jobs are open to anyone. Lawyer, doctor, and I guess maybe now programmer. What are the elite jobs not open to us normal people?

I'm not sure they aren't just a bogey man.
When Mac OX X 10.11 El Capitan ships, it will bring Metal to the Mac, and surely someone will do a comparison.
I wonder if there's a market for a Pygmalion- type service to help lower middle class kids learn the kinds of values and behaviours that will let them fit in a bit better with those higher on the food chain.
That's totally true: supposing there even is some objective value of merit, any given proxy metric for it will be subject to gaming.

My point would be that there will inevitably be proxy metrics for entry into the elite, and they will tend to be flawed in a way that advantages current spawn of the elite. Once a sufficient mass of people possessing "true" merit knows to chase after those proxies, they will change again to maintain the current composition of the upper class.
The same general principle applies to organizations.

For example, employees who spend most of their time doing a good job will by definition have less free time to promote themselves politically within the company. If management is not of sufficient quality to resist it, the perverse endgame for this dynamic is for the hardest working individuals to be mismanaged by their less knowledgeable peers, who spent more time working the system (and were thereby promoted).
"Food" is not a single commodity, but rather about a million different items which largely substitute for one another when it comes to basic "or die" sustenance. If bananas suddenly cost $100/pound, my choice wouldn't be to pay $100/pound or die, I'd simply stop buying bananas, and buy more of other food instead.

Drugs are not comparable, because there's typically only a handful of drugs that are effective for a given condition, and often just one.
Sure, but it wouldn't have seatbelts or airbags and the "non-polluting" would come with 2 pages of fine print redefining what pollution is (and it would probably give you cancer).
How do you figure? The t2.micro is ~10 USD a month with 1GB of transfer. The comparable ~10USD/month plan at DO includes 2TB of transfer. And Amazon doesn't have a 5USD/Month plan, which is probably enough?

Apparently 2TB out of a t2.micro comes to an additional charge of 0.09 * 1999 ~ 180 USD. What am I missing? That you probably don't want to use bandwith because no-one will use your hobby projects?
If this is a tech bubble, it's very different to the last one
Google's action is infinitely better than Facebook's "Facebook for everybody!" push (another current India-related news item)...
What sort of organization do you propose would obtain and manage those $100/month contributions, and how would that organization differ from "a government"?
> open to anyone. Lawyer, doctor, and I guess maybe now programmer.

The elite (or the highest paying, most prestigious) of those jobs are open to those who know the right people. The basics of those jobs are open to anyone who has the money to go to school for them.

The path to the elite of anything is 'who you know.'
Mr Mucus? You mean Mucinex/guaifenesin?

I'm confused about this example since guifenesin has been approved by the FDA since the 1950s. But it was the time-release formulation of the molecule that was given data exclusivity to Reckitt in 2002 (after purchasing it from Adams). There was no "unknown efficacy" tag attached to this medicine.

I asked a similar question about Ambroxol a while back (Europeans know this as Mucosolvan). For some reason nobody will take up this one in the USA? I find ambxorol works way better than guifenesin on my kids.
Or we could raise the ceiling on the SAT so only one kid on average gets a perfect score each year. And then filter students into institutions purely based on SATs. Studying for IQ tests has steeply diminishing returns. This would likely prevent these horrible signalling equilibrium where we burn our brightests' childhoods, forcing them to learn antiquated hobbies they don't enjoy. Test scores should be the only factor. Admissions could be replaced with a Python script. What ever you think about IQ tests, I promise you ad hoc admissions and unblinded admission procedures are drastically less meritocratic.
This is smart. By offering free WiFi in 400 train stations, they're undoubtly getting the Right of Way allowances to run fiber along the majority of the rail system

This will allow them to spread a Google-owned backbone across the country that they can use as the start of rolling out Google fiber in different cities.

This isn't about free Wifi. It's about free Right of Way for their infrastructure.
This is true if you assume that people spend 100% of their waking time working.

But it's possible for someone to spend the working day self promoting and their nights working. This kills the social life
> You might argue what's the difference between a tablet of lovastatin and Red Yeast?

The tablet of lovastatin has a precise amount of active ingredient. Red yeast rice has some random amount that may or may not be clinically significant.
I have recently started using React JS with an existing python/django project.

My experience from someone who is fluent with JQuery/Dom manipulations:

- Javascript has come a long way. But syntax still is ugly.
- With ES6, I predict coffeescript will fade away in the near future.
- Development on the front end is getting complex

- Use a tool like Webpack or Grunt or Browserify
- IDEs haven't caught up to javascript development...yet.

- Thinking in React JS takes some getting used to but pays off in the future when viewing everything as a component.
They did find out. Why go digging when you could just make a comment and get all the work done for you.
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I'd like to see Facebook investigated for antitrust violations. If Google can be investigated, Facebook should be more so.
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> 'The best thing Atlassian could have done for the local sector would have been to list in Australia'

It is my understanding that, and in the layman's terms I understand it, the Australian taxation system is not well suited for IPO's like this, as you are taxed at the time you acquire the shares and again when you sell them.

Plus, an US IPO makes far more sense, given that Atlasssian's biggest clients aren't in Australia.

Still, somewhat sad for Australia's tech industry.
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> So yeah, take stuff from nature, patent it, then get the natural version banned, profit!

That is a total mischaracterization of the situation. The patent on lovastatin was not on "stuff from nature"; it was on a way of reproducing "stuff from nature" in a controlled manner to guarantee purity and potency, and to put it in a form that can be made into pills.
it's been "pretty cool" for at least about ten years. to me, that IS Nashville.
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That's the internet for you. Ask a question and nobody answers, state the wrong answer and you get the right answer instantly. It's not my fault, I'm a victim of an oppressive system!
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I'd identify it as high finance, big consultancies, and upper management for large corps. Of those you listed, only a small subset of attorneys might qualify, and they're just as closely bound to class as any of the real elite jobs.

Doctors, lawyers, and programmers count solidly in the middle class, and I agree they're relatively accessible.
Dude! Do you really think that KS is a quick and easy pile of cash, or let alone has anything to do with freedom?
Have you talked to anyone who got funded that way, or maybe read a postmortem on a failed hardware campaign?
Not that it is frequently prosecuted in the US, but in many (most?) countries it is illegal to import pharmaceuticals without a license.
I'm saying that given that the current market is totally on fire, you don't really have to worry too much about your negotiating position because the rising tide will lift your boat, even if it has a hole or two in it.

I don't necessarily know if I'd recommend "making hay while the sun shines" as a career strategy -- it would depend on your circumstances, values, etc.
I don't think there's anything wrong with Digital Ocean, but other options are virtual servers from OVH, leaseweb, ramnode.

I haven't tried Hetzner's VPS/cloud offering, but they're budget "used" servers are nice, if you want to play with your own hardware. People often forget how much overhead virtualization can end up having due to disk contention, and especially in the network layer/stack. A dedicated server is more expensive than a (low end) VPS, but can be more fun! :-)

https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/

While the listings are mostly self-explanatory, a couple of points: if you want to experiment with cloud storage/zfs - you probably want ECC Ram (you probably want ECC ram. Full stop.). That'll be more expensive. You might also want to search after servers with at least one SSD, as eg. ZFS can use that to speed up the file system (and Linux also has different flash cache, or you might just want to use it for DB storage etc).
Meanwhile, Obama nominates Robert Califf as FDA chief. A guy who has been feeding at the pharma trough for several years:

http://hcrenewal.blogspot.sg/2015/09/turn-that-door-around-p...
Not to say the above isn't true, but just want to mention that all of the above and more are standard for Asians getting jobs with Asian companies in Asia.

If you want to get at the top of Keiretsu, Chaebol, etcc., you'll have not only a degree from a prestigious local school but a degree form _some_ north American or UK higher Ed institution.

So, Asians in America are brought up by parents who grew up in Asia instilling education above all else and that has certainly fit nicely into the ivy leave pipeline (or if you were in France the sciences Po or grandes ecoles).

That's to say, their culture of stressing education is reinforced by the American labor market.

If you were to meet any Asian exchange students in North America, you'd notice not only did they all go to cram schools after normal classes but also took music classes and English classes -all of which are expected prerequisites for jobs back home.

And, to get a lowly government job, you typically need to go to a cram school and prepare for the ministry of examination exam which is necessary to qualify for a gov't job.
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I didn't read Krugman's article about his chart and its reasoning, but I always found the Nolan Chart to help me understand political leanings and preferences: http://imgur.com/mPbmgVk

Using that chart it is a little easier to understand why there might be few Libertarians for the same reason there are few Statists; the terms both represent the pure ideals of those concepts and most people aren't totally studied in those areas to be able to fully dive in to either. Instead people have grasped some concepts and grafted them into what their political worldview already is.
We plebs are fully aware that the odds are stacked against us. I don't expect it to change soon, if ever. And if anything, it just makes us harder than our marshmallow-like upper-class counterparts.

Yeah, I want to be successful and make "fuck you" money; but that's not the only reason I study hard.

Pleb power.
It was optional until the 1960s. It was changed to be mandatory because the market was full of safe but useless drugs. Considering how mere differences in marketing requirements have not stopped a flood of useless homeopathic remedies, I expect that useless drugs would come back in force if that change were reversed.
Nobody who's ever seen the clip of him flipping the bird without realizing the camera was rolling.
According to Wikipedia the solution is along those lines but more complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_%28book%29#Solution
It would be more news worthy if the news were newer. The tablet's discovery was announced in 2014.

From the exact same website:

http://www.ancient.eu/image/3061/
Of course there is. But the goalposts will move as soon as it makes a difference.
I grew up with two blue-collar parents and was the first one in my family to go to college (while working full time for most of it). I now have a BS and MS in computer science, and along with my wife we probably make 4-5 times what my parents are currently making. We certainly aren't rich (considering cost of living, etc), but I must say that I'm glad I went to school and broke the pattern of (1) maybe graduate high school (2) find the first job you can and stay there as long as you can.
Why did the author write "RIP IronRouter"?
You say that like upper class people want to exclude lower class people just because. Instead I think they're just happier hanging around with people they can relate to.
Thank you for both the plaudits and the corrections!