skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I understand that, but I thought once a drug's patent expires then any reputable pharmaceutical company could manufacture it as a generic (with the proper testing of course). Is that not the case here?
This was a pretty major exploit.

Imgur has acknowledged the exploit:
https://twitter.com/imgur/status/646109742004224000

Looks like the exploit was a combination of a misconfiguration in the way direct images are displayed on Imgur as well as some kind of Adobe Flash zero-day.
Chinese scientists row over long-sought protein that senses magnetism
I believe it's more that most companies keep making minor improvements, and keep patenting then.

But with something like this, I believe they're just hoping it takes another company a long time to get approval to ship a generic equivalent.
50,000 acres is 2 billion sq ft, for a house:land ratio of 1:1 million. The 1:10 in the suburbs is a completely different matter.
They can, but they are similarly bound to have audit records of access, restrict access to only those with a business need to the information, and most importantly, BA's have a duty to notify of a breech. Prior to HITECH it was only the provider who was obligated to notify of a breech—business associates could do pretty much whatever they wanted as far as CMS was concerned, though the data sharing agreements oftentimes had more teeth to them than HIPAA itself.
Workplaces are made up of people. People vary in their levels of honesty and transparency. An individuals level of honesty can vary over time as circumstances change. Two people might not even agree on what constitutes the truth.

So to expect any workplace to be completely honest and transparent is not only impossible but naïve.
Ad Blocking and the Future of the Web
It would be pretty awesome if we can get to a place where browser extensions are truly cross-browser. At least for some definition of "browser extension".

I'd be OK with a "common core" that's cross-browser, and the browser makers continuing to support their own extension APIs as well, IF the "core" API never becomes as powerful as the old, native APIs. I'd hate to see the native APIs go away completely though, as I don't like the idea of artificially restricting the range of possible plugins.

Then again, I am already annoyed by Chrome ditching NPAPI and leaving us in a place where, AFAIK, you can't run the Java plugin in Chrome. OTOH, JWS still works (I think) which is something at least...
Software Beats Students at SAT Geometry
Is there a curated list of deep learning startups (or AI startups in general) somewhere?
The sub-ten dollar wideband SDR is a recent phenomenon.
Shameless plug, if you have composehub installed, you can just do "ch run lemur" and it will download and run lemur for you on your machine. You just need docker installed on your machine https://composehub.com/package/lemur
To be fair, no one should be using Java applets in this day and age, and hopefully this will finally kill them off for good.
Fair point, but at what level of evidence would you personally say there was no trick?
It would be nice if somebody built a Product Hunt list for these since their UI is much nicer than tumblr - "A curated list of exits!"
The drug isn't patented anymore. Apparently the issue is that you need to conduct trials if you want to have permission to make a copy of the drug and to do so you need a supply to compare your new copy with and that was hard to purchase.
Although the headline is not referencing Daraprim and Turing Pharmaceuticals, some of the content is about that, and there is an embedded video interviewing Shkreli, the Turing CEO.

I recommend watching it; I thought it was a very good interview. Shkreli makes his case much more effectively than I'd have predicted.

Example: he claims that a treatment course of Daraprim costs less than other drugs that, in his opinion, are comparable (i.e. those other drugs are cures for other similar diseases).
Never had jackfruit, but I do miss my aunt's deep fried breadfruit. Mmmm.
The 1,000-Year GIF
Apparently the issue is the testing. You need to purchase a large quantity of pills from the original manufacturer to compare your new batch with and that was hard to obtain.
you can fax over POTS lines because common carriers (telcos, basically) are considered secure. But HIPAA's 'standards' are anything but strict. It doesn't spell out any standards other than noting the difference between data in flight and data at rest and that both should be secure. In some ways this is probably a good thing, in that it doesn't keep the industry locked to standards that are broken on down the road. On the other hand, because HIPAA does spell out lots of nasty penalties for breaking the rules, it would be nice to have some clarity about what the rules are.
Doesn't building portfolios like that correlate the previously uncorrelated risks?
Only in the particular industries they operate in. And the whole point of this essay (and the reason this is a problem) is because these are bad industries, known to have bad economics, and companies are using VC money to paper over the bad economics.

Just ignore the herd and look for overlooked industries which don't have bad economics. That's what you have to do to survive as a startup founder anyway.

It's pretty analogous to the family next door who goes and buys a yacht on credit cards even though their income can't support the payments. Yes, it's annoying to watch people have nice things they didn't earn, and yes, they do marginally prop up the price of yachts. However, were you really planning on buying a yacht anyway? They will get their come-uppance when the bills come due, and it's not worth worrying too much about what other people are doing in the meantime.
From the linked recode article: "But sources said it will end up paying investors, who put a reported $17 million into the company, for the right to hire some of its staff."

That sure sounds similar to the anti-poaching agreements that Google, Apple, etc already got in trouble for.

What makes this different? Why shouldn't it just be a free market for these employees (and founders), and Google is free to offer that money directly to them, instead of needing to pay off the investors?
this reminds me of http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10255387
Anybody interested in this overall topic might also find this book of interest:

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Power-Social-Networks-Understan...

It's all about applying Social Network Analysis in organizations, mapping informal power structures, etc. Good stuff.
Forth is by far the most bang-for-the-buck on severely resource constrained machines. Lisp isn't CPU hungry, but it tends to be quite RAM heavy.
Yes, all regulations, all the time, and so much evidence to boot!
It should be pointed out that we do in many places. Mobile has significant incentive to be efficient. Cloud has significant incentive to be efficient. Mobile efficiency creeps into a lot of other home tech because it's cheap to use that highly-scaled mobile technology now, because it's off-the-shelf. The worst is probably stuff headed for the home that is too big to use SOCs, like desktops and game consoles. But it's not as if the entire industry is oblivious to this issue... Performance-per-watt is an already-important metric, and it will only get more important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_per_watt
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10252308
I can't speak for everyone in Andhra, but cooked jackfruit regularly appears at my family's meals. More commonly eaten in the village than the city, perhaps. Popular with devout or health-conscious folks as a meat substitute.

My cousin's father-in-law served jackfruit biryani at his wedding banquet.
Though, now you can't make certain types of sockets in browser...
Yeah, it's a nice middle-ground curse word. "Fuck" is a little too string, and "damn" just doesn't have the same light-heated sound to it. I'd guess "shit" usually is a bit self-deprecating too; as in, "shit, I completely forgot to do that!"
Because there are assets other than just the people. Code, network relationships, reputation, service contracts, company partnerships, IP, etc. There can also be non-competes, NDAs, security clearances, stock vesting and a multitude of other agreements to factor in.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10252308
Allowing drugs to be patented.
Writing yet another file sync solution using nodejs of all things is definitely hipster.

Glibc is used by multiple packages. I simply identified the number of dependencies to install this tool when nodejs/npm are not installed.
Ah, I see. It sounds to me like the issue is that there's not enough of a market to attract the interest of another company to get over the initial fixed costs to get the drug approved. Seems like a possible reform would be to streamline the approval process for generics to make this easier.
they ran out of money and Google hired-away a bunch of their staff. simple as that. happens.
I highly doubt that. Unless something was disastrously wrong in their design, the opex for cloud services should have been dwarfed by little things like payroll and office expenses.
it seems like a lot of money to burn through though - right?
Best satire on this thread.
Yes it looks very similar, having built a query builder for it: http://youtu.be/fZ3_NGLKE2U
You can directly contribute: https://archive.org/donate/
That is what a true business is always - regardless of size.
It was a $17M joke, much like Oyster.
Well, modern states do "prop up" corporations with all sorts of perks, such as limited liability and tax benefits. So Adam Smith might not have been altogether wrong about that. How many of us would even consider incorporating if the law did not guarantee limited liability?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10253963
The Retro VGS
Yes, there are reasons to think about it. For example if I want to understand the principles that make the usual algorithm strong.

There is a reason why Apple makes every app implement its own receipt validation scheme. So a dedicated attacker can't crack all apps at once. Same here.
What does this have to do with capitalists? Anyone hungry for money/power/wealth/success will do what they do bounded usually by their morals/ethics and the law.

Since we can't just "fix" morals/ethics - what remains is the legal system and regulation.

What's unfortunate is that money can also change the legal system for the worse and remove these protections over time or keep them from ever being put in place. Not sure of solution for that.
Non competes are unenforceable in California.
I don't really recognize anyone very important besides Kissinger.
Kathal kebab is fairly close to "tandoori jackfruit".
Browsing this creeped me out in a weird, "is there a glitch in the matrix?" way.
These guys are making a profit from people's sickness and desperation. I found it distasteful to place making a profit above the mission of providing health care. Market driven economy is blind to other concerns and only listens to money.
I'm a former Zipcar employee. There are some interesting things about Zipcars, one being that if the car can't get a phone signal, it will allow any Zipcard to unlock it (since the car can't know for sure if that card has a reservation).

Also, in the UK, there were instances of the more expensive cars being taken to garages and having some parts swapped out for cheaper parts and sold on the black market.
Or perhaps the story should be about how the drug market is not normal. It is regulated, i.e. ruled, by bureaucratic policy and operating procedures.
Get+Your+FREE+Minecraft+Gift+Codes
Django's auth system handles updates safely and cleanly. Don't know about others, but the mechanism is simple:

* The value stored in the DB is actually of the form "algorithm$iterations$salt$hash".

* The current preferred algorithm and iterations are configurable in the settings.

* When logging a user in, the algorithm/iterations in the stored value are used to check the password.

* If the stored value's algorithm/iterations are out of sync with the preferred algorithm/iterations in the settings, then the last step of the login process is to re-hash the (verified correct) submitted password with the new preferred algorithm/iterations, and push that value back to the DB.

Which creates a rolling refresh of the stored values as users log in, which in turn lets you gracefully change the algorithm or number of iterations.
Wealth is usually gone by the second or third generation. Her parents seemed to be employees who had to put in their 9-5, not any kind of tycoons. They did afford a prep school and Stanford though, I guess that's more than most.
At $500,000 per course of medication per patient, it is still vastly cheaper to export the patient if you can't import the drug. I'm a little surprised some insurers have not tried doing that: Send the patient to Canada or Europe for treatment.
Got something similar in Firefox for a moment, then i scrolled a page down and back up.

What i find more annoying is the behavior of the annotation scroll bar in combination with the Facebook and Google+ login buttons.
It is possible for a company or its assets to be acquired without public acknowledgement of the deal. I'm not suggesting that this was the case, just a possibility.

I understand that Apple generally doesn't announce its acquisitions:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/05/21/tight-lipped-apple...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250097
Indeed; that's where I was thinking of going instead. The system in question has 42KiB usable RAM w/o expansions.
There are three very similar fruits I've met so far:

- Durian (looks similar to Jackfruit, a little rounder, and spikier), which is very popular in Malaysia and Singapore, and has a very strong smell. It has a more creamy consistency, and tastes quite different from jackfruit. People say, it's an acquired taste. Some love it, some hate it with passion.

- Jackfruit, I got to know this first in Viet Nam, but it can also found it in other places in Asia, smells and tastes sweeter. Also the reaction to it is less extreme than to Durian; I've seen it on the Seychelles as well.

- Breadfruit, I saw and eat it first on the Seychelles. It looks more similar to Durian, in shape, but less spiky. Apparently it has a very short shelf life, but you can make great fries from it.

It's very hard to describe taste. But I encourage to try it for yourself. (Or for Durian, maybe start with chocolate coated Durian candy, or Durian ice cream, and then go for the real thing; word of advice, if you buy it at the market in pre cut pieces to eat right away, and you do not intend to make it into cake or some derived dish, go for the more expensive packs, they are usually better, less mushy. You will likely have to get over the smell already, so taking the very mushy consistency out of the equation, may make for a slightly more pleasant introduction to Durian.
Jackfruit on the other hand is pretty easy, I would say. Just pay attention to get fresh, not squishy (e.g. they are too ripe, or old) pieces.
The Title "Oyster - Indirect Acquistion by Google" is apt compared to "Oyster is shutting down" !!
One thing I can't find, given this goes back to EU rules would pulling out of France be enough?

I hope so, because if it's EU wide or could be EU wide I have no idea what they would do.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10195423
Unity is also found infected after xcode (xcodeghost) in China
I've been trying to drag my focus back around to more AI / Machine Learning stuff for a while, so to give myself a sandbox to play with (and a starting point) I built[1] an AIML[2] bot using program-ab[3]. Then I wired it up to XMPP[4] so I could chat with it. Then I turned it into an OSGI[5] bundle so it could run in Apache Felix[6]. And I installed ejabberd[7] on the fogbeam.org domain so I would have a convenient place to play with bots that talk XMPP.

Right now it doesn't do much besides replying to a few stock inputs like "hi" and "howdy" and "Hello", but I just started on this about a week or two ago. I also started adding "@ commands", and it will respond to "@time" with the current time.

From here on out my plan is to get back into studying AI techniques heavily again and see what things I can do to make this bot "smarter". I have done a lot of work based on Semantic Web technologies, so I'll probably start working on how to do some stuff with this based on using an RDF[8] based knowledge-store. There are a couple of OSS projects out there for translating natural language queries into SPARQL[9], so I might soon try wiring this up to where it can use dbPedia and / or Wikidata, as well as other Linked Data[10] sources to answer questions.

I'm not strictly interested in any Turing Test or Loebner Prize[11] stuff, as I'm more interested in making something useful than something that emphasizes "tricking" somebody into thinking it's human. That said, if it ever worked well enough, I think it would be fun to enter something like the Loebner contest, but that's not the main goal here.

Also, right now I'm reading Hofstadter's book Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, and have been playing around with ACT-R[12], a popular "cognitive architecture" for doing AI research.

[1]: https://github.com/mindcrime/LearningAIML

[2]: http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html

[3]: https://code.google.com/p/program-ab/

[4]: http://xmpp.org/

[5]: http://www.osgi.org/

[6]: http://felix.apache.org/

[7]: http://ejabberd.org

[8]: http://www.w3.org/RDF/

[9]: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/

[10]: http://linkeddata.org/

[11]: http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

[12]: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/
So I'm not clear on this, was the employment agreement done before or after Oysterbooks officially announced that it was shutting down? BC that makes a difference...I find it odd that Google declined to comment to comment. Anyhow, great idea and really sad that it didn't work out.
Cdr-coding is a fine way to take advantage of locality with linked lists, especially when the garbage collector is doing it for you, transparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDR_coding
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10251637
Funny sad dog commercial parody
Short translation: After xcode, unity 4.6.4 – 5.1.1 are also found infected version by some Chinese labs, using the same means as xcodeghost.
They do now: http://www.patentsview.org/download/
Scared to take public transport? Technology to the rescue
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10252183
Adam Smith was wrong with the regard to the moral case for capitalism. He rightfully recognized why people acted, but he failed to recognize any substantive moral basis is such self interested actions; instead he resorted to the precise premise that the post I originally responded to pre-supposed. That argument must fail because one cannot act with self-interest AND altruistic interest consistently. The capitalist must always fail on these terms as there is always someone with a perceived greater need, and perceived greater right, to the capital of the capitalist.

If you consider first and foremost your own happiness and life as a moral value worthy of pursuit, you loose the hang-ups that Adam Smith had with capitalism. There's a whole separate discussion that goes down that path about what constitutes self-interest in the large (and no, defrauding innocents is not your best interests); but that's a bit out of scope to what the original poster stated.
The Splintered Mind: A Theory of Hypocrisy
I've actually said a few times I think it's a bad ruling - I'm just not practically impacted by it :). That said though I think being alarmist about it does not help the cause - it makes people less likely to actually listen to you once they realize you were being an alarmist. I actually agree with the points in the article - I just disagree with how they were made.

In this thread my only point is the FCC hardware restricting instead of requiring software restriction neuters SDR to begin with so is a dead end. It's all or nothing insofar as "protections" go. My view is still it should be nothing, but I don't think it is as big a deal as its being made out to be.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10216467 (80 points, 7 days ago, 71 comments)
and you can be certain that companies that make wireless routers and cellphones will take the easy route out and fully lock things down.
Yes, "bound." However those things are never really checked.
Game developers are tackling piracy with…creativity
They really should offer ways to disable public access by default. Same as having ways to disable deletes without some kind of secondary confirmation.
Shrug. Its totally possible the old wealth is gone, its totally possible its not. I should state, I don't think any less of this persons and their accomplishments. Just a bit of a nitpick on details.
I'm going to guess negative ROI advertising was a huge chunk. I saw their banners and whatnot on Facebook and elsewhere nearly constantly.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244653
That's not the same thing. A network partition is not equivalent to the the whole datacenter being off nice and clean. That would be nice actually, because it is an and easily testable failure mode. Network partition due to misconfiguration will happen and they have verious interesting corner cases -- multiple plartitions or say partitions between servers but not between clients (clients see the servers, server don't see each other).

You can of course say "it will never happen" and just let chance decide what happens do the data in case when a partition happen.
> they're only talking about modular radio systems or software defined radio systems

Which, in practice, means any computer/electronic device that has a radio in it.

> this is targeting consumer equipment

Including "consumer" equipment that is being used for research, software coding, etc.
Hah that's shocking! You should contact them. Seems like an inexperienced team then.
You got me, I've never been in a Tesla. A quick search shows that while the Tesla S has physical controls on the steering wheel, the Tesla Model X uses touchscreen (http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6...).
Awesome API, but one question. How do you prevent other people from doing a GET once they know your sheetsu API url?
> The garbage collection in your web browser is complete, utter garbage compared to what Lisp people were doing 30-40 years ago. Sorry!

Can you back that statement up? GC has advanced heavily over the years (and still is).The first paper on generational GC was published in 1984, and I would imagine that it has drastically improved since then. I don't think that generational GC even landed in SBCL until sometime around 2005.

Without anything to back that up, your post just sounds like Lisp fanboyism.
It isn't her fault. They should have had dozens of candidates with diverse background and identical training. But there wasn't, and she did what she could, after all the politicking.

I imagine, for every one of us on HN, there exist a teenager in rural China (northern Nigeria, brazilian favelas) who could have done our work better than we are, theoretically, provided (s)he had all the training and expertise. But nevertheless we do what we do, we got there on merit AND chance, don't steal out achivements and Tereshkova's too.
> With that, we will be taking steps to sunset the existing Oyster service over the next several months.

If you have a company with a product and the product is being discontinued is it really so hard to just say that in English? The word "sunset" isn't even a verb.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250120
How 3-D Printing Allows the World to Investigate New Human Fossils