skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. For a while I've been wondering (in no particular depth) what a scripting language would look like if you designed it to be spoken.
Is it certain that JUMP_FORWARD is faster than a few NOPs?
> Steve Jobs came within $5k of going to have cracked unsolved Zodiac Killer cipher

I wonder why he stopped then?
Having had one of these old cameras I can tell you they are not immune from the ravages of age! They do need a good service periodically!
D'oh. Yes, of course.

It'd be interesting to know whether peculiar basic block graphs upset PyPy's JIT. Apparently Lua's JIT is much less good at optimising programs that don't look like normal Lua.
See: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/883092715/smart-froc-th...
Skype outage sees internet calls go down in many countries
PracTutor Unfurls a New Teacher Dashboard for Back to School
The nuclear option for the business is to shut down. (And perhaps re-open in another country.)

Shutting down is mutually assured destruction. But like mad in the cold war, it might work to keep the demands at bay. Iff you can make your commitment stick, and people have nowhere else to go.
The answer is obvious to me: the chances of life are very small. The universe is very big (that's some underestimation). So it is likely, that we are not alone in the universe, but we may be so far apart in terms of space and time that there will be no contact ever.
Just take a look how far our signals have travelled since we began transmitting — they only covered a small part of our own galaxy.
Look at https://www.theverge.com/ and you know the answer.
It's funny how you get redirected to a mobile version of a website when you're on the phone, but not to a desktop version when you're on the computer.
I use a W530 for work. It's a true beast of a machine. But I cannot stand the way all the plastic flexes. It feels cheap. I had to replace the keyboard the first week I had it due to a defective key (it happens, no big deal), but there's a little plastic strip at the top that was way to easy to bend and so now it's just ... there. reminding me of it's cheapness.
More training will reduce it.
Breaking News: America doesn't understand making profit in business
"Jesus, why do Android engineers keep getting security so wrong so often?"

Security is hard. Really profoundly hard, not just superficially hard.

And despite the fact that nominally I'd expect to get upvotes for stating what you'd think would be the groupthink consensus, my observation is that in the field, even engineers explicitly tasked with security still often think it's really easy and they're really good at it, so there's no great need for them to budget lots of time for it. This turns out poorly. I do not toss this around lightly because it's become cliche to just fling it around without much care, but there's a lot of real, no-foolin' Dunning-Kruger effect operative in this area.

(Your test for Dunning-Kruger on this matter is: If you're told you need to secure something and you're going to be personally responsible for its security, do you A: Say "Oh, that's easy, I'll 'just'..." followed by pretty much any series of words, or B: get the cold flop sweats, regardless of how easy it may superficially seem?)
Hmm true - very good point.

Worth noting that for short strings this is unlikely to matter.

There is [1], titled APPROXIMATING EDIT DISTANCE IN NEAR-LINEAR TIME. Wikipedia also has a reference[2] for better time complexity versions.

I haven't explored these though.

[1] http://www.mit.edu/~andoni/papers/compEdit.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance#Improved_algorit...
He didn't hit his kickstarter target, obviously
18 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248459
62y old drug still under patent ? isn't it going public after 20 years ?
Users. Skype is the replacement for MSN Messenger, which people just used for chatting with friends.
It’s a common misconception that Javascript precludes accessibility. JS can in many ways help accessibility if done considerately.
> I guess the question I'm asking is, this bug is entirely fixable right ???

Of course. The problem android has had in the past, though, is that actually getting security updates to users could be incredibly convoluted - with every vendor and network having their own, slightly tweaked (and heavily branded) versions of android.
Damn, I thought I was having a stroke.
Volkswagen Stock Plummets as CEO Apologizes for Emissions Cheat
Hm, don't think so. Real sciences such as maths, physics, chemistry, biology, geology etc apply globally and, indeed, beyond globally. The science of genetics is global even though genes vary with geography. Real science is also consistent over time, even though it changes when new information is added.

This is different from, say, religion, fashion, and psychiatry.
Revolting business practise. Nothing more to say about it really. At least in other businesses there's more degrees of separation between the profiting and misery you cause.
>increase animal welfare

More like, all domesticated meat animals will go extinct since they're not needed anymore and they can't survive in the wild.
Or a compensating control.
It's not under patent anymore.
Hell, lets scrap them all for a fleet of modern drones supported by advanced AI.
Talk about clickbate, it's a shame to see this up voted on HN.
Skype down. Here's a secure alternative with better audio
The same thing happened with ACTH, a hormone around since the 50s. [1]

It worked; the company with few economic prospects ended up being sold for $5.6 billion [2]

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/business/questcor-finds-pr...

2. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023046401045794870...
Drug creation needs to be nationalized, 100% tax funded all the way from researcher to trials to manufacture, and the drugs sold at cost thereafter.

And the pharmaceuticals industry needs to just go away.
The money wouldn't be use for research because that's not how the economy works. This is covered in the frequent HN submission "Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa"

https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...
The surprise voiced in this article is suprising. Now that the NY Times has told me about it, this idea of buying the one company that makes a particular generic drug and then raising the price ridiculously high makes a lot of sense. I wonder if they thought they'd lower the price as sales dropped and were themselves surprised when this didn't happen.

I gotta agree with jug5: "Breaking News: America doesn't understand making profit in business."
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Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/799/
As a meta comment, I can't get to the forbes story on a direct link because I adblock and scriptblock. I googled the title and got in via the google search free pass and I now see I'm blocking 19 social scripts/ads which provide zero to negative value for me. The point is no one wants spam or pointless interruptions or endless big brother tracking. The future of "smart devices" is your overhead lightbulb connecting to an absolute minimum of 19 social media and tracking sites and government offices to permanently record your every activity and no one wants that except spies and corrupt people.

If there's no end user benefit unless they can get the government to force the population to use them, most "smart" devices will end up doing the equivalent of the 80s/90s VCR clock flashing 12:00. Maybe the strategy to work around that is light bulbs of the future will refuse to turn on unless you give the home factory in China full access to your complete facebook, twitter, and linkedin profiles and perhaps your credit card number so you can purchase "upgrades" to run beyond 100 hours or beyond 50% brightness levels.

I'll be using dumb bulbs and laughing at people stuck with inferior smart bulbs.
The Backwards Brain Bicycle [video]
Passwords are obsolete
The Anatomy of a Google Community: Introducing the Chronicle User's Group
What's your source of revenue? That needs to be clear before we can comfortably use a service for business purposes.
Show HN: Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API
Paste Google Spreadsheet url and get a link to an RESTful API. Read (GET) and save (POST).
Quick Guide to Customer Development Process Pt1
Desktop Nirvana: The browser wars are back. Thank goodness
Maybe you could pull that off in some country, but not the USA.
When I see "treating a life-threatening disease" and $750 a pill, formerly $14, I think people need long prison sentences to solve that.

If we can put food processors who knowingly ship tainted food in prison in this country for endangering or even killing people, we can certainly imprison people for endangering lives by preventing the reception of medication.
As I pointed out above: "there were only three problems with it: (1) you couldn't sell PCs running OS/2 -- IBM tried; (2) you couldn't get software houses to write programs for OS/2 -- except maybe Lotus; and (3) you couldn't get end users to install it. You had to install a whole OS to run OS/2, but Windows installed just like any other DOS program, and you could delete it if you decided you didn't like it."

Microsoft realized that you couldn't force people to buy something they (rightly or wrongly) didn't want, and decided to sell them something they did want. Small companies are like that. Being a global giant with a long history of monopoly power (going back to the 1930s), IBM didn't think like that.
The title changed, which means the Algolia search for previous discussions (click the "past" link in the header) is broken.

This submission is a dupe of (killed, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250576

and (not killed, many comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248459

Dupe checking is clearly broken. Most of this page is dupes: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com
New Recliner from La-Z-Boy Is Built for Mouse Potatoes(2000)
Or it is _news_, but in a 19th century pre-telegraph kind of way.
In 80s, Soviet bands also recorded their own albums on tape and they distributed those by copying from tape to tape.

How they got hardware to make records is another fun story entirely, or more like a hundred: there's this book "100 tape albums of Soviet Rock" (100 мангитоальбомов советского рока) with in-depth comments on notable examples.
This simple link crashes Google Chrome
They appear to be parallel lines at an angle of about 12 degrees off horizontal. In a quick check it doesn't appear they are noticeably curved.

So in that case, a specific (small) region of the Fourier spectrum of that image should correspond to just those lines. So convert your image to Fourier space, locate the region (.. yeah, best to calculate where it should be, cause it won't really stand out enough to spot as the dashing is quite subtle), and then blur, or content-aware heal, or even just blacken the area. Convert back. Dashes gone.

Easy as pi! cough
It's similar to a standard map pin alright, but nicer to use in a "go here" situation. Sending via sms is nice for one-to-one, plus the sender gets to see if the pin was viewed or how far away the receiver is (if they allow it).

You can also reserve location URLs: e.g. gohere.io/party-here which are handy for events, HQs etc.

Personalised markers are a great idea. We've drawn up a few specialised ones already (beer, coffee, beach, surf, football etc)
http://pinlogic.co/images/general/GoHere-Stout.png

Appreciate the comments!
VSphere Web Client SUCKs So Bad
Indeed. If your site is down, it's your fault - no-one elses. Yes it may be down because someone downstream is down, but ultimately it's your choice where and how you host.
How we are attracting the best talent here
Zesty (YC W14) is hiring a senior back end Rails engineer
Oddly enough, I think the story buries the lede. Near the bottom, refers both to the fact that distribution of the drug very recently became controlled and that Shkreli -- now owner of the drug -- has previously talked about controlled distribution "as a way to thwart generics."
The title is claiming exactly that. If it's not what they meant then they should have chosen a better title.
The drugs might end up being cheaper, but there will be much less research for drugs (aka less drugs in the future). Greed is a good motivator.
It's not that America doesn't understand, it's that when you actually take a step back and look at it, the idea of it is so deplorable it's a harsh reflection of our society's values that it's legal at all.

I'm thinking about ways to elaborate and explain why it's so awful, but I'm imagining it's obvious to you. I'd imagine this story is making its rounds through all the major news outlets because it evokes soul-searching, not because people didn't know it was possible.
As a consumer, why would I ever buy a "smart device" from a startup that may not exist in 2 years?
Previous discussion of same article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248459
Build your emails with dynamic timers
I'm not much familiar with the system in the US, but I got the impression that the state already subsidises a large amount of the research anyway?
Often when people talk about trees as data structure what they actually want are DAGs (e.g. filesystems usually are used as DAGs not trees, because they can have links (although on linux you can actually create cycles in practice people try to avoid it)). Nice to see a good example.
I saw this a couple of days ago, I'm still astonished that it works.
Why wouldn't it work in the USA?
Interesting strategy idea: Work remotely for a SFO company for months/years at a time, then visit SFO as a tourist between jobs. There are also other interesting places to visit in the USA while between jobs or contracts.
He didn't change the title, the article's title actually was changed. Compare page and URL.
It's surprising because most people are not pathological arseholes and would find this kind of shenanigans repugnant.

This company and this example of abusive trading will single-handedly drive further regulation of the pharmaceutical industry.
I wonder if my kids found something similar to this on their Kindle Fire Kid edition. I have parental controls enabled but sometimes the tablet is still running after the predefined cut off time. I remember seeing one time that the PIN entry was popped up with a really long string of numbers in it. They are very very young and wouldn't be able to Google something like this so it was trial and error if they found it.
Lufthansa plans to offer broadband access on flights in Europe
> The drugs might end up being cheaper, but there will be much less research for drugs (aka less drugs in the future). Greed is a good motivator

The article pointed out that the drug in question is over 60 years old. I doubt the original creators thought about profitability at a time frame where they are most probably dead anyway.
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Ah, thanks. Sorry.

I edited my post.
Keeping voters in good health is a good motivator too.
It is about time to understand, that making business and money must not be the only standard valid in society, but also some moral standards must apply.

If not, humanity as a whole will fail. What will be left of humanity: Some trillionaires hiding behind barb wire finding out, that living without the rest of the people is even worse than having only millions.
It's not easy to make a peer to peer system that can get past most corporate firewalls.

So Skype is more complex than you'd guess.

Your best bet is something using WebRTC.
I want my goverment helping people avoid health issues, rather than subsidising costs that could have been prevented. I've yet to see any one industry that has been nationalised and is performing better (in every sense) than the private sector.
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I used to work for a generics manufacturer, and indeed this was their MO. Seek out old drugs that sill have a very viable market but are under the radar of the big guys, undersell until they're the only supplier left, then jack up the price when patients have no choice. It's despicable and seems inevitable with the current regulation model.
We don't know how other women would fare. Maybe something will go slightly wrong and there will be a tragedy that might break the whole space program for a few years.

Space is the world of chances anyway.

Think about this: USSR could select whatever they likes into this position. There probably was 10 million girls: Russian, party member, of common ancestry. But they did enroll Tereshkova in this program. Means she at least passed basic tests.
It should be pretty obvious by now that the pharma sector is completely out of control. Again and again I read about the rising cost of healthcare, how we can't afford to support an aging society, and now even "solved" problems are used to squeeze even more profits from those who can afford the least.

And I'm not talking about the US, this is a world wide problem. Instead of making international treaties that make enforcing medical patents even easier, we should be talking about making the medicines we have more accessible. I don't want to live in a world were only a fortunate elite has access to modern treatments, but it looks like that's the way we're going.
Guided waves would also be possible. I wonder what we'd think of alien civilizations, if we'd discovered fiber optics before radio.
You are correct that the UK nighttime raids were safer - but worth noting that they weren't safe in an absolute sense - 44.4% of Bomber Command aircrews were killed in action.
> ... obsessed with nighttime raids that just carpet bombed cities

The US and Britain agreement was to divide sorties in Europe into daytime (US) and nighttime (Britain), and pre-GPS accuracy at night pretty-much dictates aiming for vary large targets.

The obsession came with Dresden, but that seems to be a different point to the one you were making.
It's disheartening, but I think the logic in your first example is that the manufacturer did not give the consumer a choice; in the second, the consumer can choose not to pay, and die instead.

It's a horrid way to think about it, and it's a horrid ethical system that gets developed when it all comes down to money.
What surprises me is that I've never really seen Malthus argued as a reason as a cause for implosions of civilizations and hence the Fermi paradox? (Think Moties, etc.) Humans might be lucky, since (so far) we tend to get fewer children when we get richer.

I assume this is probably just too politically sensitive to elaborate upon?

(I'm Hellbanned, but this would be a small step from being removed anyway. :-) )
NAT / Firewalls cause a lot of issues. Peer to peer data isn't as straightforward as you'd expect.

The Skype people actually came from Kazaa, so they had a lot of experience with sending peer data across corporate / educational firewalls.

WebRTC is trying to generalize the technology, but it's new.
Typically in the news process the copyeditor chooses or edits the title of the piece for brevity and "punch."

By saying "WWII-era," the title very succinctly sums up the idea that "hey, there's this interesting airplane that's been in the works alongside the very expensive F-35, but it's actually much cheaper and much less technologically advanced, but actually much better suited for the war in Afghanistan--and it resembles the types of fighter planes that you've seen in 'Pearl Harbor' and 'Saving Private Ryan'."

The title is meant to convey as much information to the audience (a general, non-technical audience) in as few words as possible, and it mostly does its job.

If you read the article, it's clear that the authors understand the difference.
iOS 9 allows access to photos and contacts on a passcode locked iPhone
As a coherent story this chair is terrible. The parents start off saying they couldn't find a good chair for their kids. So they designed a decent looking chair and it seemed like a great idea that it would work for kids until they were about 10 years old. That's a great solution, adult chairs can be pretty bad for kids at the dinner table. Anyway.

Then inexplicably, halfway through the video this crap about measuring the child's weight every time they use the chair. Nothing in the original problem says anything about tracking weight? Ridiculous leap from "can't find a good high chair" to "high chair with built in wireless scales".

Is there something in the kickstarter ts&cs that says "projects must have wireless connectivity and an app" that I'm missing?
Because the device is just a neat bauble and deep down you know you almost certainly won't be using it 2 years from now no matter what the company does?

After two years either you'll realize that you didn't need that sort of thing at all or you'll realize that that sort of thing is exactly what you needed and you buy a a newer and better one.
The IBM PC design was a fabulously successful attempt to co-opt the much more accidental S-100 eco system. S-100 software and hardware could be easily ported to the PC, solving the chicken / egg problem inherent in creating a new ecosystem to compete with established ones.

The one mistake they made was assuming they could keep control by controlling the BIOS.
For example for writing Python C extensions using 'Pythonic' C: https://github.com/paulross/PythonExtensionPatterns/blob/mas...
To clarify - more users are going to read and refresh pages than actually post, so making certain not every GET request results in a new database query would probably improve performance more than trying to limit the number of rows in each query.

Query performance obviously matters, but with a HN like site, it's probably not going to be so critical that limiting the depth of threads is even worth the effort.
Two-star clusters found in the Milky Way vertical border
most drug research is done in university anyway, and in most countries government funded. big pharma does the part after that in order to get it to market. trials and tweaks etc
pyrimethamine (the generic name) is listed several times in WHO's list of essential medicines.

http://www.who.int/selection_medicines/committees/expert/20/...

It's not a huge list of medicine. It would seem to be reasonable to allow people to make and sell the meds on this list for profit, without allowing them to engage in the scumbag behaviour submitted article talks about.
Big, estabilished open source projects? Real life programming jobs are usually about working on large and old code bases (these kinds of jobs are also the least desirable, so they could be a good entry point for someone looking to get into the industry).
Prima facie evidence of monopolist behaviour?
I have a feeling the motivated researcher is not the one getting the money. We just need to cut out the middleman.
Would you live in a shoebox?
The same greed makes the drug industry to develop drugs which treat the illness rather than cure it. Regular drug users are much better for them than one-time users.
Show HN: The Red Flag of Functional Programming
I was under the impression that this was entirely the purpose of generic versions? At least in the UK (yes, I know we are relatively spoiled by the NHS), almost every popular drug has a generic version easily accessible.

If I'm reading this right, the UK NHS price for BRANDED Daraprim is £13/30 tablets:
https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/formulary/bnf/current/5-infectio...

and the purpose is listed as primarily an antimalarial.