skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, another government program to address problems caused by government in the first place. Brilliant.
"Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful."

But not nearly as sinful as languages whose use squander human brain cycles.
It's a time-arbitrage problem: there's no one else producing it (thus no free market) so they get to charge literally whatever they want since they're the only manufacturers, for as long as it takes a competitor to build another competing production line. This is reprehensible.

Once competition returns, the price drops again, and no one makes ludicrous profits anymore. But if the expected returns in competitive conditions are miniscule, there may not be sufficient incentive to produce a competitive market for this individual drug again.
Heck, maybe it'll become economic for criminals to bribe and/or blackmail Apple engineers to put a backdoor into iOS, or to leak keys?

Or just become Apple engineers... I'm sure there's people out there who would be absolutely thrilled at the idea of working for Apple and writing code for iDevices while at the same time secretly subverting them.
This was 1973 and a pen-on-paper EKG. The sensitivity re disconnecting things might be slightly less than you are used to these days.
You should give Baseguide a try. It has all the essential base components and is very flexible.

http://basegui.de
There is in fact a fairly old (1970s) linguistics theory on this subject. See e.g. Brown & Levinson on politeness theory.

You can build some fairly easy software that applies this on conversational data (1:1 emails, chats, phone transcripts, etc), and it works pretty well.
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Looks similar to MongoDB query syntax [1]. Is it inspired by that? What are similarities/differences?

[1] http://docs.mongodb.org/master/tutorial/query-documents/
One can dream.
This is all due to IP laws, I really hope that countries like china and india stay strong on their position of "Fuck IP Laws".
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In case you haven't been following 21 Inc (formerly 21e6), this company has raised at least $121.1M: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/21e6
Ditto dennybritz
This is needlessly abusive.
Indeed. Here's what I get when I try to go to the SF page for xca: https://i.imgur.com/sOnboSV.png
I haven't seem this before.... might have to give this a try.
No, it isn't C in any real sense.
I did not mention insurance to simplify the discussion. Why would I bother listing all the possible situations that don't even change the outcome?

Of course you can buy insurance as a sort of reverse lottery to cover your costs. But you paid into that insurance and it is not required to cover everything. The co-pays/insurance can also bankrupt you.

And my main point still stands. If you cannot afford the cost of life saving medication, with or without insurance, then the free market has decided that your life is worth less than the cost of medication.

Saying the free market doesn't put a cost on human life and that it doesn't encourage price gouging is simply false.
Mind boggling, this. There's zero rational explanation other than government-sponsored profiteering, and yet still this is a thing.
I was immediately skeptical, but then I looked around and found some articles claiming that as of 2013 computing in general accounted for fully ten percent of global electricity usage. So maybe we should be putting some thought into this issue after all.
One of reasons Turing paid $55 million for Daraprim, rather than just produce the chemical compound pyrimethamine, is because it's an approved Medicare drug.
So apparently this bug is here to stay, since there's only software workarounds, but no actual fixes.
> If GitHub/Bitbucket start bundling malware into binaries one day will we tarnish all of the developers/companies open sourcing there too?

Yes. And hopefully that would be an impetus to move were that to happen. Any repo at one location that was at SF the day prior, and I knew they moves, immediately looks better in my eyes, because they are no longer helping support that system.
I think the failure is in the tax code. Large corporations able are able hire expensive lobbyists and accountants to pay much lower taxes than smaller upstarts. This gives them an advantage and allows them to crush innovative smaller companies before they can scale. Until we fix the tax code to favor small businesses this problem will continue to grow.
Are you pro DRM? Are we going to ban open source 3D fab tools too? They will only improve. DMLS can print a 1911.
Other things he could've considered:

- changing Peace into a more responsible content-blocker, if that was his concern
- giving the proceeds to charity
- putting the proceeds towards a new type of ad company, or a new type of new/media business
- funding scholarships for journalists
Yes I have personally done it myself in Kerala State India. There is lot of ants which can bite , but not poisonous. Usually when we put up a small smoke fire under the tree , the ants will scram. After reaching a branch , someone will throw a rope up and I tie the rope around the jackfruit and wrap it around a branch sort of acting as a pully system. Once the person in the ground has got a good grip on the rope. I cut the fruit and the person on the ground slowly releases the rope bringing the fruit down slowly.

This is useful especially when the fruit is very ripe as it likely to smash into pieces on impact. The rope trick is employed widely in Kerala to harvest this gigantic fruit from the jackfruit tree.
From the original post[0]:

> A major challenge we face is that many Firefox add-ons cannot possibly be built using either WebExtensions or the SDK as they currently exist. Over the coming year, we will seek feedback from the development community, and will continue to develop and extend the WebExtension API to support as much of the functionality needed by the most popular Firefox extensions as possible.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...
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>Thank goodness you were not in charge of them.

I think we can all agree on that.
What is it that people think "an API" means, exactly?

Why not speak normal English and say "access a Google Spreadsheet via an API", or something?
Its like an airplane wheelie!
Years ago I watched a documentary on California oranges. They said the crop was basically divided into thirds by quality, with the first third going to the markets, the second third being juiced for frozen concentrate, and the last third was simply plowed under.
Your comment completely ignores reality and instead pushes a weird propaganda which equates liberal democracy with totalitarianism. I wonder what agenda you're really pushing.
There are hundreds of billions of galaxies at various distances from Earth. When we look out at those different distances, we are also looking out at time. So we have something of the full spectrum of galactic evolution. Even if these events happened "long ago" we should be witnessing them somewhere.

Locally, if these events happend long ago, surely they would have been here by now, harvesting our star.
I don't branch out onto websites that aren't already known quantity destinations for me (especially on mobile, but increasingly on desktop/laptop as well) because the race to the bottom of the web advertising model has basically ruined everything.

It isn't even the ads themselves (easily blocked, of course) that cause the problem, but the horrible user-hostile layouts that are clearly designed to maximize page views (and thus ad impressions).

What should be a one page essay is like 20 fucking goddamn pages of bullshit (rage getting to me just thinking about it). Ain't nobody got time for that.

This is, I think, basically the web version of how desktop shareware authors destroyed their own market with the downward spiral of including increasingly annoying "installer add-ons".

PS. I will note here prior to claims of blocking being the problem that I never ran an ad blocker personally (other than for testing) until 2014, and only started then because "the web" as a whole basically forced my hand by making the idea of using the web without one completely unbearable.
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He appeared to have stopped his heart for close to 8 days when buried in an underground pit.
Skipping the cruft of formatting and advertisements was a prime benefit, as I recall. How many users wouldn't immediately jump to the reformatted version?
short jackfruit trees might be crossbreeds. The original ones grow very tall. The fruits can be harvested by climbing the tree and making use of rope to bring down the fruit gracefully to the ground.
> Which means, linked lists are out. CAR/CDR? Let's not.

Data structures are dictated by the requirements of what you're doing, not the machine. Linked lists are out? The C middleware that runs everything is full of "struct foo { struct foo * next; int other_field ... }".

Linked lists benefit from caching, like other kinds of data.

> Today you get garbage collections in your web browser that would embarrass any Lisp Machine ever built.

The garbage collection in your web browser is complete, utter garbage compared to what Lisp people were doing 30-40 years ago. Sorry!

(I will add to this comment later; I have to go to Task Manager and kill the web browser.)
I don't think Lisp ran well if at all on early microprocessors like the 8-bit 8086. The Lisp community was, then, as now, committed to Lisp being the One True Way, and centered around the MIT AI lab. The PC revolution was happening, so naturally they built their own CPU, OS and workstations around Lisp. Half the MIT AI lab ended up going to Symbolics, and half to LMI. The West Coast hackers out of Berkeley and Stanford were more into C and Unix. Once the 68000 and the first Sun (especially), also Apollo, SGI workstations came out, they performed well at a broad range of tasks including even Lisp. C compiled software often outperformed similar software written in Lisp. And when volume ramped up (for 68000-based Macintosh as well) they had much better cost/performance compared to relatively low-volume Lisp machines. (like $30,000 for a decent Sun workstation vs. something like twice as much for a Symbolics)

See Hackers, by Steven Levy, also some stuff in Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics

Had a summer job doing UI work on a Symbolics machine at MITRE, which was kind of like working in the future in summer of 1985... object oriented development, megapixel WIMP interface. I don't think Sun came close to that until UIM/X, Motif, PowerBuilder in early 90s, Visual C++, VB on PCs...like a 10-year head start.

But python especially feels like the revenge of Scheme and Lisp in the sense of being the same sort of dynamic interpreted language and environment where code is data, all the data and code (including libraries) are very accessible and amenable to inspection and tweaking.
No true Scotsman.
You calculations are way off. Start putting in the values of shipping whole refrigerated containers into your calculator.

$3-$10k from just about anywhere to anywhere via sea for a 40 foot reefer. Which works out as virtually nothing per orange.

The oranges you buy in Boston could just as easily come from somewhere else and you'd probably barely notice any price difference.

"Fresh orange imports in 2012 were valued at nearly $107.4 million, an 11 percent increase from 2011. The imports originated mainly in Chile and South Africa" - http://www.agmrc.org/commodities__products/fruits/citrus/cit...
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Agreed. I'm not a lawyer, so not sure about legality, but since this clause is persisted for so long in their license, it seems they have no problems with it.
That doesn't sound like the Streisand effect. The Streisand effect would apply if ad networks actively suppressed information about ad blocking technology, sending DMCA takedown requests and threatening providers who host this type of software, which creates such a media buzz that people start picking it up, more because of the suppression than if the ad networks had just ignored it in the first place.
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Neither this drug nor the one from Turing are under patent.

Anyone can make it, if they're willing to invest the required money.
looks very similar to siftjs: https://github.com/crcn/sift.js/tree/master
It's well-understood that if your heart stops for a few minutes, your brain dies. Since his brain didn't die, we can conclude that his heart never stopped.

A human cannot live without water for the length of time claimed. Therefore we can conclude that the yogi is a liar.

The letter prints out some of the EKGs, but declines to show the moment when the flatline occurs, and the moment when the heart is again detected.[1]

You now have four facts: (1) the yogi's heart did not stop, (2) the EKG lead showed no activity, (3) the yogi is a habitual deceiver and (4) the most important data is intentionally hidden from the reader

Do you still feel confident that the yogi did not disconnect the leads?

[1] An alternative explanation would be that this 1973-era EKG machine did not make continuous recordings, in which case it defies reason to claim that it was watched carefully enough to rule out irregularities during the transition to/from flatline.
Are you being obtuse on purpose? The headline is intentionally worded in such a way to make people believe the FCC is going to ban OSX, Linux, or Windows.

If the author believes it's an important issue, he should be intellectually honest about it, because otherwise he risks having people write him off as a quack. It makes it look appear as if there aren't many valid arguments in his favor, so he has to resort to FUD.
I'm a practicing yogi and surprised myself recently in the hospital (I ate some bad food on a trip to South America). I was in a hospital bed attached to a heart rate monitor for a few hours, and I could, while conscious, consistently bring my heart rate under 50 bpm (which would set off an alarm at the nurse station). I believe I got down to 46. The alarm was appropriate, as this resting heart rate likely gets me to the high reaches of the 99th percentile [1].

I could do this by practicing a fairly technical breathing technique - basically opening up the channels of breath by joining inhalation and exhalation. Still, I was able to convince myself that by practicing a very specific relaxation technique, I could lower my heart rate enough to scare nurses. I'm standing while typing this and my thumb-to-wrist test has me right around normal (72bpm).

So, from my perspective, parts of this seem reasonable. I think a true master (I've only been doing this a few years) may well be able to continuously regulate his heart to quite low levels. I've often mused that yoga is a hack of some of your body's autonomic processes. A flatline seems unrealistic even to me, but I'm sure curious about what benefits there might be in this technique.

[1]: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr041.pdf
A lot of fuel efficiency is due to how one drives their car.[0]

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I'll bet she and her foundation shorted all those stocks.
Actually Blaise Pascal's, from Provincial Letters XVI.
That's definitely very cool - I wanted to find some more info about the project for my own interests (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528797)
Rescinding seems smart so as not to kill the goose that lays the golden egg by way of overarching regulatory overhaul.
I don't think this is actually run by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO uspto.gov), so the website owner could be risking whatever equivalent law of Passing off the United States has.

I'd also be interested as the where the data for this came from. ASAIK, the real USPTO doesn't provide any APIs or anything to their data.
I don't understand this. When big companies "sit on their profits," that capital is invested somewhere. It's not like companies have big Scrooge McDuck tanks full of gold coins.

The capital might be invested in fairly generic, low-return assets but it's still invested and doing work somehwere. It doesn't mean it's a failure of capitalism. Capital allocation doesn't need to agree with your (or anyone in particular's) preferences at every point in time, for capitalism to work.
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Interesting. My experience with jackfruit trees has been from the western coast of Mexico, so maybe there's a difference there.

Though a google image search for "jackfruit tree" seems to show the trees I'm familiar with. Not very tall with a good portion of fruit within arm's reach.
>So the A-10 is getting squashed from two sides: The F-35 can penetrate the high-threat environment, and provide CAS in a lethal SAM environment, while the A-29 can provide CAS/COIN against militants in a low to non-existent threat environment. There is no middle ground.

Oh, but there is. The A-10 was primarily designed as a tankbuster. While the A-29 is fine for the CAS role against irregulars, in a war against a country with lots of armor you'd really want to have the A-10.
It's more like it's obvious, we all know it, and we all are pretty damned tired of the content-free repetition because it doesn't advance any conversation at all.
To that end, I'm really excited to see where InterimOS is going. http://interim.mntmn.com/ (it was on hackernews earlier but I can't find the article)
That rule was put in place in the early, analog, days of cell phone usage to help build confidence that J Random Somebody wasn't listening to your calls. Cordless phones at the time were well known for being easy to listen to, and the wireless industry didn't want that stigma on cell phones.
This was 40+ years ago. If such things were actually possible, with the advance of information technology we should see more, not less, of these accomplishments recorded. We should see cellphone footage from every angle of yogis who can fly. We should have ground-penetrating radar and webcam thermal imaging of those burying themselves.

There is a line in the movie Close Encounters about how car accidents are real but had never been filmed (the point being that a lack of footage does not mean UFOs are not real). That was 1977. We now have millions more cameras and plenty of recorded car accidents because car accidents are in fact real. Conversely, bigfoot and UFO footage has all but disappeared with the increased numbers of cameras. Bigfoot is not real. Neither are these superhuman yogis. No doubt they can survive longer in harsh environments than the average person, but they cannot violate the laws of physics. If they could, we would rewrite those laws and hand them noble prizes for their work.
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People need to realize that while the A-10 is a good morale booster, it only carried out 20% of CAS missions in A-stan. The numbers just don't support its continued existence for anything but anti-tank warfare.
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Well, there's Bitcoin. Its very existence encourages a lot of energy to be spent on a fairly small transaction volume.
I'm not old enough to use medicare so I don't know the details.

But I am willing to bet that if someone started making a cheaper generic version of Daraprim, it would put on the approved list. The reason pyrimethamine isn't on the list is because no one wanted to make a generic version that hardly anyone uses for $1 per pill.

And even if it wasn't, the drug was being sold for $1 per pill just a few years ago. You can easily pay that without any insurance at all.
1 is explained in his previous article: he doesn't want to be the arbiter of what is blocked and what is permissible

2 he addresses in the linked piece: which charity?

3: he tried this already with The Magazine and learned that he does not like those challenges

4: this is a bad solution and I'm assuming you offered it as a joke
And yet so many people with aforementioned gobs don't. Stand-up guy is stand-up.

The Apple side of this is intriguing. I guess this is pocket change to them, but did they do this after reading about his thoughts and decision? Or was it simply cost-effective to batch return the money vs. reviewing and processing an unknown number of individual requests?
"Resting State" is a description of a normal, non-active person who is awake. The resting mind is still pretty active. Calming yourself down further is entirely possible, so it is not particularly noteworthy that you achieved 99% percentile.
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Chrome won by being bundled as shovelware into Windows installers.
No. If you back it up, you can keep it forever (but it might stop working on a later version of iOS).

See http://ipod.about.com/od/theappstore/a/How-To-Install-Apps-R...
I have the information that is public, and nothing suggests they are doing anything different than what is already being worked on by others.
Yeah, you're right. Sorry I'm not being clear & maybe sounding argumentative too. I'm really responding not to the study itself, and not to the direct conclusions they make, but to the suggestions and implications they leave open.

The study says one thing, but the presentation says something else, and it is implying that this is a stepping stone to showing that violent games do affect the crime rate, and "negative outcomes" in general for children who play violent video games.

I'm responding to this speculation. You're right that the overall crime rate doesn't say anything about this study, but it does say something about the implication they're trying to make in this press release, and the future work and courses of action they suggest in this study's conclusions.