skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A dataflow language overlaps with functional programming in many respects but has one key difference - components are defined to allow some form of many-in, many-out, rather than a mathematical function's many-in, one-out. This change in syntax - which comes with design concerns around how many-out manifests(e.g. static # of outs vs. automatic copy) - has large effects on programming style. It limits how cleanly one can compose dataflow modules, and compounds the possibilities of type-mismatch, but it also affords a richer definition of module responsibilities and relationships.

Memoization is one of several possible optimizations. Lazy eval may appear in a fashion by blocking a module from processing an input on one channel until its other input channels also have data, but in e.g. the J. Paul Morrison definition, there's a finite dataset and data does not get dropped on the floor, nor does it get stored in components. Eager is the default. If component implementations have broad control over when they process I/O, they can do some fairly substantial optimizations internally, though.

Dataflow works best as a mid-level system, controlled by and controlling other code in other styles. It can model the computing universe ground-up as a kind of electronics hardware in abstracted form(pure logic gates, no physical constraints), but this is a misuse of it. There are languages that can express control flow and arithmetic more succinctly. Moreover, the complexity of component relationship graphs in dataflow precludes using it for boilerplate of that type. It works best, instead, when the components are large enough to perform substantial functionality, but need some form of dynamic configuration.

Analogizing again to electronics, modular synthesis is the canonical example of dataflow in action. A modular synthesizer contains a set of building blocks - the modules - each of which turn some number of input voltages into output voltages, sometimes with physical knobs and switches on the panel. Patch cables are used to connect the modules together, allowing for a great deal of flexibility over the final signal path. In software, by comparison, a modular system operates on chunks of digital samples instead of voltage over time. The principles are the same for the end-user, while the implementation may be completely different underneath.

One should also note that analog synthesizers started incorporating digital CPUs as soon as it was affordable, for their most state-heavy functionality: tracking keypresses over time, and store and recall of patch data. This gives some idea of where dataflow techniques trail off and an imperative style can start to shine, hence why I call it a "mid-level" technique, not something that describes the whole system.
Seems like he was in bad shape according to the article.
Google will do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10155421
In London they keep supply down with the Knowledge, don't they? So instead of investing money in a medaillon, people invest time.
That I find plausible. My lips would probably need a little "lubrication" to testify against a state sponsored secret agent who goes around blowing up airliners.
most firewalls only let you go out via a proxy using port 443. Also port 80 can be used but then you have to wrap your chat protocol in HTTP which is not fun. Most firewalls do not let anything come in, so the software on the appliance/computer inside the corporate LAN has to initiate a connection and go outwards.

This implies that there cannot be a peer-to-peer setup since both peers-to-be can only go out and never connect to the other. And hence there is a server in between the two chat partners.
My wife suggested another explanation for this: his heart rate sped up so much that it overwhelmed the ECG sensors. This is consistent with the later diagnosis of hypothermia. (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15617296).
They were acquihired by Google.

http://recode.net/2015/09/21/oyster-books-shuts-down-team-he...
Wait, why would he still be employed by Yahoo? Pretty sure he left at least a year before the acquisition.
*Irrational.

A proof that it is rational is the reason why I clicked so I was let down in the end. :)
They actually ban all commonly used antenna connectors, to prevent you from exceeding ERP limits on WiFi.

The RP-SMA was introduced because it was not commonly used. Since then a large market has formed for RP-SMA antennas, so it should no-longer be allowed, however the FCC has indefinitely stayed requirements for not using them.
If it's an issue where he simply doesn't enjoy the feeling of creating Peace, as he says, selling it isn't a solution for that problem.
Yes, I think you are correct that you did not understand me. I'm sorry.
I really like Swift too, but for serious usage, I find that it still gets kinda wonky in generics land. Also, not crazy about the fact that there's no such thing as abstract classes. A lot of iOS coding for me is stuff that builds on top of each other. You can subclass, but there's so many times when it's "all subclasses gotta just do this one or two things and base class can take care of rest." So what you do is define them in the base-class and throw "Must override" exception, but still, I wish this mechanic would somehow just get built-in.

Anyway, Swift is a great language though I don't mean to discredit it. It just doesn't take the spot of my #1 -- Scala. :)
F-22 performing Cobra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUdt6ZSWUsI

But the cobra is not the definition of supermaneuverability:

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

Su-37 Kulbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZg0jZfI6Cg

F-22A Kulbit (@1:25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrBx6G2O6A4

America does the formation stuff very well, but the Russians are in different league in terms of single-aircraft demonstrations. See below @1:16 for some variations on the cobra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_wc04VQXCM
Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet
What percentage of the market would you estimate to be controlled/managed by algorithms?
It's worth noting that Oyster raised a total of $17M as of last year: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/oysterbooks-com

Runway has its limits.
War Without Reason: Kissinger's Shadow
Oh, I agree about work to revive a Modula-like language. Plus that it helps to do example projects that show why it's better. The CVSup author doing his tool in Modula made a nice, case study in Modula vs X discussions. One solution I thought of was just subsetting a language like Go or Pascal w/ runtime being limited or zero. Free Pascal still has good tool support plus was first Wirth language used in systems work. GEMSOS security kernel was also written in Pascal. You might also find BootSafe interesting: a certified compiler and checker from Java to Forth for increasing assurance/maintenance of Open Firmware components. Tool is quite proprietary but the approach could be used with Go, Pascal, etc if Forth is required.

So, there's some options on that. Far as Forth vs C, I think it's fine to think C is acceptable for firmware as being a near-cross-platform assembly suddenly helps there. I'd have made C default for this given all developers, tools, and code examples available. And then we'd have this discussion to figure out how to get rid of it.

On other hand, doing almost everything system in C then switching to Forth for just firmware? That's worse than doing everything in C. You're a better person for sparing the maintainers from that crap. ;)
#14 of "Phrases in Emails People Send to Their Bosses" is "shit". I'd like to see some examples of that usage.
This is very cool. Nice work!
> 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

Uh... no. Just from that page, it states the FDA ensures "that drugs and devices are safe and effective for their intended uses". If safety was the only concern:

1) Why does the FDA approve indications?

2) Why has there been prosecution (possibly violating the first amendment) for promotion of off-label uses?

3) Why does the FDA have a "breakthrough" designation that fast tracks approvals solely based on their effectiveness?

4) Why do Pharma companies frequently run new trials using different end points in an effort to get a drug approved when the original end points they used showed no effect? Why have there been cases when the FDA didn't approve a drug because they declared the end point used in the clinical trials was meaningless for the indication?

I think it is fairly clear that a shitload of time and resources at the FDA are spent deciding whether drugs are effective and if the data from the pharmaceutical company shows effectiveness.

Edit: I should also add the whole DESI review[1] in the 1960's shows your statement is complete nonsense. Drugs that the FDA previously approved for safety before 1962 were re-analyzed to classify their efficacy. So, the FDA reanalyzed thousands of drugs they had already determined were safe to look at whether they were effective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Efficacy_Study_Implementa...
While I sympathize with your cynicism, such an attitude results in resignation and succumbing to banal evil (see my other comment), and thus is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10255465 and marked it off-topic.
That's not a "Black Cab" which would be the equivalent of NYC yellow taxis. A private taxi cannot be hailed on the street, I assume much like yellow taxis. This was once a major advantage, but uber (and equivalent apps) make it almost irrelevant.

Becoming a Black Cab driver is much harder than renting a medallion, though. You have to pass "The Knowledge" which is considered at least as hard as passing a university degree. You have to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of London roads, and generally spend at least a couple of years (often longer) driving around those roads on a scooter so you can demonstrate that knowledge in a series of tests.

I'm not sure if the problem is similar in other major cities, but I expect there is some form of cartel in force in most of the major cities.

However, even if there isn't, there is still a real advantage to profitability from something like uber: if there are enough customers using a passenger exchange, then the likelihood of having passengers near to you is significantly higher. So less of your time is spent in unbillable transit to your next customer. In London there are hundreds of taxi firms; each of them gets some share of the passengers calling them up, so they have to take what they can get. With a central exchange, they get the passengers most suitably located for them from all possible passengers.
I looked into it and I don't find any.

It is not patented, and no law forces you to only use the brand Daraprim. If someone created a generic replacement, it would be on the fast track to be approved like every other generic.

The synthesis method is even listed publicly.

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/4993#section=Use-a...

The only roadblock to a generic version was because no one wanted to compete with $1/pill.

FDA information:

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/docs/obdetail....

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/docs/patexclne...

There are no unexpired patents for this product in the Orange Book Database.

There is no unexpired exclusivity for this product.
#2 is the big one. If you could surf 2010's web with Chrome 45, I bet it would be a better time than 2010's web on the Chrome of the day.
Please don't apologize - I'm apparently the one with reading comprehension issues.
Shkreli seems like a scumbag but how is that different from what Valeant, Mallinckrodt and others do. Buy another pharma company and jack up the price. http://www.wsj.com/articles/pharmaceutical-companies-buy-riv...

I'm honestly looking for an answer here. Maybe there is a good reason Valeant can and should be able to get away with it.
"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, this is something different -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi horseshit in which it is claimed that the yogi will develop the power to fly, Superman style.

Except the most anyone has managed to achieve is lotus-position hopping.
The biggest example of this is the demoscene, where some absolutely astounding things have been done with old hardware; e.g. a Commodore 64, 1MHz 8-bit CPU with 64KB of RAM.
Agreed, it's syntactic sugar over es6 generators. But I don't agree that it's just syntactic sugar over promises, which is what the parent comment asserted.
I love this app. Sad to see it go.
Intractable character flaws.

more derp available at http://themajestichusky.tumblr.com/archive
You only need to login to save progress..
That is actually a great point, hardware refresh is such that updates get performed regularly. Also, this exploit requires hardware access to the phone, which is generally considered game over in any respect.

It would be beneficial if carriers could come up with updates faster however. I've seen Verizon drag its feet on more than one occasion, especially with phones that are a generation or two behind.
Grace: The End of Manual Data Entry for CRM
The Rolex Explorer (2012)
Sexbots development: Ethical?
Be sure to check out the powertop tool, it can be very useful in measuring how often something is waking up the processor when it should be idle.
Networks: Friends, Money and Bytes
Because I consume more music than video -- music is on all day, movies are not.
Note however that sshfs makes a file system available through ssh (with Some caching but not e.g. persistent cache across ssh reconnects), and no off-line persistence - whereas other solutions discussed (sshync, unison, lsync, syncthing) all replicate files (think dropbox) which comes with benefits (quicker access, offline availability) and problems (edit conflicts, stale versions)
That brokenness is entirely dependent on what you mean by self-interest. I recommend reading up on the concept of "enlightened self-interest," which was popular during Adam Smith's era, and theoretically leads to far less "broken" systemic outcomes.
> just cut the power steering on someone who has never driven without it and see how well they pull over to the side of a busy intersection or the like

Having had power steering (and power everything else) go out on me in an F250, it's pretty much kind of terrifying. Brakes? Sort of. Steering? Sure, if you put your back into it.
That's a good theory. Wife her again.

so, he sped his heart up somehow to the point where he could disconnect the leads without any disruption?

Also, how would someone go about faking tachycardia?
The media depend on ads for their revenue, and making noise about how bad it is has made people more aware that they can block ads...
Looks like a parked domain at park.above.com.

With Javascript disabled nothing happens. No redirect, no compressed payload of who knows what.

Their scheme appears to be 100% reliant on Javascript.
An exploit is just an input to a bug that someone else put there. The idea of it being illegal fundamentally makes no sense.
Another one for Our Incredible Journey:

http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
I think everyone's been looking for more nuanced ways to describe the tradeoffs involved in creating distributed systems. Another look at the problem: http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/people/fox/static/pubs/pdf/c18...

(Edit: Worth pointing out that comes from Mr. CAP himself, Eric Brewer.)
As the availability of machine cycles has increased much faster than the human brain cycles has, it's reasonable to assume that this wasn't true if you go far back enough in time.

I think it was Von Neumann didn't like assemblers because it was wasteful to use computers for such a mechanical process that cheap labor could do.
Where there's demand, there's supply. On the bright side, sexbots may force women in sex industries to study and pursue other careers.
For example, Chrome was bundled in Adobe's Flash Player installer (in addition to Chrome bundling the Pepper Flash plugin).
IANAL, but having just googled and read section 1, it seems very vague and easy to lawyer your way out of a conviction.

If a prosecutor were to bring suit under section 1, what would their argument look like?
You can shoot me a mail at matt@netlify.com
Also similar to https://github.com/raine/ramda-cli which was posted recently.
Tesla has physical controls on the steering wheel that access a lot of functions also available in the touch screen. HN posters who don't own Teslas often complain about the touch screen controls, while owners use the steering wheel controls.

BTW, mirror adjustment on a Tesla doesn't use the touchscreen.
Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA
Kindle unlimited. Also, I don't think there's as big of a market as they thought for people who wanted to pay one fee for all you can read.
Oyster was interesting but not a really interesting option: while the app was gorgeous, it didn't allow you to import books. I'm sure most people would rather consolidate their ebook purchases, and Amazon or Apple are better options for that.

I still miss Readmill, though… a LOT!! :(
Yeah, totally missed that they want silent deployment, and they lose the benefit of the owner unlocking the device. So this probably isn't actually a game changer at all.
Same here. Wish I had Readmill again.
Short answer is they're not different. He likely has a brash personality making him an easy target.
So a cure for cancer would be a glorified antibiotic? :-)

Kidding, but I hear you, the truth is that there isn't all that much that cannot be equated, at least at a high enough abstraction, to things that have been around for a long time.
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SOLD!
I tried Oyster and ended up canceling after discovering that the books I wanted weren't available. The case is the same with Kindle unlimited.

The problem is that publishers make sure that the high demand books just aren't available via an "all you can read" plan so these end up with the scraps.
"I'm gonna hit the brakes, and he'll fly right by."
Wow, I think you could not be more spot on.
I couldn't disargee more about Microsoft's current place in tech markets. They've lost quite a lot of weight since their 800lb gorilla days in the 90s.

You are aware that the "World Domination" being referred to was talk of Linux's World Domination, right? So you're not disagreeing, you're supporting the observation that Linux eventually dethroned the 800 lb gorilla and that the 800 lb gorilla is a shadow of what it once was.
It's probably not too different from the other statements, e.g.

"Shit, I'm really sorry, I'll get that done soon"

"Yeah, I'll talk to the other team and tell them to get their shit done"

"No problem, I'll tell Bill his shit's not that important, and I'll get this done"

(But, since it's Enron, there was probably an inordinate amount of just "Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit The books aren't adding up")
http://www.path.org/about/measuring-impact.php

It's from 2011, a quick search didn't find a more current report:

"After collecting data on indicators, PATH project teams use an online tool to enter results, which are aggregated by phase of development. A team developing a malaria vaccine, for example, reports completion of clinical trials with children in Mozambique. This result is aggregated with data from other teams conducting clinical trials of other products.

Top-level 2011 findings include the following:

PATH had 199 technologies and products in our development pipeline in 2011. Fifty-one products moved forward one or more phases in the pipeline. Six products were registered, three were licensed, and two were prequalified by the World Health Organization.

PATH had activities in 68 developing countries. We trained more than 91,000 people in 2011 and worked on 101 policies, strategies, and guidelines. At the global level, eight guidelines and one strategy supported by PATH’s work were approved by global decision-making bodies. At the national level, 36 policies, strategies, and guidelines supported by PATH’s work were approved.
More than 74.5 million people benefitted from PATH’s work. More than $100 million in funding was mobilized to scale up PATH-championed interventions.
PATH was awarded 83 grants valued at nearly $160 million."

Regarding the Gates Foundation, they don't directly research drugs, but contribute heavily to those working on polio, malaria, and HIV.
Not everything Apple does is for executives. The iPod Mini came in crazy colors too and Apple sold woolen "socks" for people to carry them in. This was under Jobs. They also did animal-print plastic for the early iMacs and iBooks--the products that cemented the Ive/Jobs relationship and defined the new Apple.

Steve Jobs once held a mock funeral for OS 9 with organ music and a coffin. Apple produced plenty of crazy / weird stuff under his leadership. This is one reason that speculating about "this wouldn't have happened under Steve" is a fool's errand.
Credit freeze incomin', fellas.

SHIELD WALL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYz439cA5w
I live in Cambodia and have always been put off jackfruit by its smell. With plenty of other fruit I love, I've just never bothered to try it...till today. I shall give it a go this evening. I doubt the pork taste very much, as a vegetarian I hear that a lot, "it taste just like bacon", no, no it doesn't.
I don't care about Shkreli, I care about whether the practice is ethical.

There are plenty of pharma analysts who have used the same techniques who have medical degrees, have worked on clinical trial design at pharma companies, etc. They often aren't the names you see when pharma complains about people shorting their stocks because pharma only wants to point at the head of the hedge fund who has no life sciences expertise. They don't want the public to know about the dozen experts the hedge fund manager is paying to analyze the filings in order to challenge the filings and decide whether to short the stock.

No one complains if your analysis shows the molecule is great and you go long, it only becomes evil if your analysis shows the molecule is crap.
An EEG Headset Gonna Launch Crowdfounding
tldr: It's a market. If demand that day is greater than the supply, then you'll make money. The cost of bitcoin is dependent on the demand, not the cost of production. If/as demand goes down, the cost of production will go down commensurately. There's always a fixed supply of coins entering the market every day. It does not matter how many people are mining, or at what price those people are mining.

Also, it's 'stolen'/'subsidized' energy that is being leveraged. Not computing time.
Even if it does apply, the radios on modern phones are already black boxes and completely detached from the rest of the phone. Some consider them a significant security threat already.
It's good that they're putting some work into the memory subsystem. My experience on Windows 7 has been that it occasionally makes really bad memory management decisions; in particular, if left overnight with a backup client running (which will read the whole filesystem once through), I'll come back and find everything has seemingly had its process memory paged out, so each program and each tab will take some time to recover when I start using it again.
Ah, should've given it a closer look! Apologies for the mixup.
Go ahead and ban new OSes on radio hardware. These are radios. Anyone can build them (see the ubertooth). My startup will be called "locked down radios" and our products will come with a very serious EULA instructing you to never ever ever cut that one little wire blocking you from flashing on new software.

(serious business to do now. The new Muppets show is on.)