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> The courts say otherwise see sole focus picture in case of Nussenzweig v. DiCorcia

Well, first, the question wasn't of legality, it was about rudeness irrespective of legality; second, even if it was, that's a New York case applying New York law (e.g., many states, including California, have right-of-publicity laws that are more extensive in their protection than New York's.)
So... if i build and sell a "breathalyzer" to your local pd that simply randomly selects a number between .08 and .16, you'd be ok with that? Pretty much every other element of the system is biased toward conviction. Police have quotas. Prosecutors need convictions. Private prisons get more money for more convicts. It would be easy to dodge questions for a long, long time. Why would police administer the test to a sober person? In this one weird example a sober person registered as drunk. oh well, its still good for 99.9% of other cases.

The right to confront your accuser is there for a reason. More and more, software is the accuser. We all, at HN, struggle to make our code correct. Step back, think a second, how do you QA a breathalyzer? How do you deal with variations in sensor packages? Yes, they probably do more good than harm, but are they "accurate"? how do you know that?
Doesn't linking to a paywalled site somewhat restrict open discussion on the subject?

Perhaps HN could flag/ignore these WSJ submissions.
cool! good idea!
You've got it. Deep neural networks are currently the best performers when doing automatic speech recognition.
In part, b/c nuclear power has had a successful run in other countries. In France, for example, nuclear generates 75% of the electricity and the country is the 7th cheapest in the EU (28 countries) for delivered KwH. [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
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This only shows that Roche can either sell much more on the US market or that their margins can be much higher there.

That's certainly interesting but doesn't explain anything at all.
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Nothing strange. Cs 137 replaces potassium in meristemae, also in coleorhiza, radicle, and other parts of the seed .
mpv can directly play youtube urls, so you can just do e.g.

mpv --vo=null https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Thanks for info, didn't know that! If I understand correctly, you don't get the data about specific users, like OP did?

About me being downvoted - yeah, I figured I would be, because lots of people here use voting as "I (dis)agree" or "I (don't) like" button instead of "post is (not) useful" button. For the record: I would rather live in a world where such tracking was not possible and/or allowed, however, this is just not the case. As business you would be stupid to not consider using such data though. I personally would welcome a browser with privacy built in (for instance, browser which would disallowed all references to external domains - including images, JS and similar). But in reality this probably wouldn't fly.
I posted this in a previous thread:

By centralizing all procurement of a drug for an entire country through a single contract, of course countries are able to negotiate better prices than what Americans pay in a more free market. This is especially true given the structure of the pharma business, with massive up-front costs and almost-zero marginal costs. You could do the same with countless products. But this is it's own kind of abuse. Instead of being paid the market price, pharma companies are paid the lowest-price they could absolutely tolerate. They also have to worry about the political fallout of walking away from a deal when the government tries to blame them for the lack of a deal.

There's definitely ways in which drug pricing can become abusive and needs to be regulated, especially because government intervention via patents is partially responsible for enabling these abuses. But let's not throw out the baby with the bath water. A free market for drugs makes sure that companies can recoup their investments and make a reasonable profit. If pharma companies don't feel that they can do that, they won't invest in new drugs. Also, I don't want to live in a place where the availability of a treatment is determined by some government committee that determines what the value of a month of my life is.

A final thought, sticker prices for drugs are thrown around as evidence that drugs are overpriced, but 1) no one ever pays the sticker price, it's almost always negotiated way down and 2) these drugs provide immense value. Antiretroviral drugs, for example, turn HIV from an imminent death sentence into a very manageable disease like diabetes. Thousands of dollars a month is pretty reasonable when you consider that. Insurance makes sure that individuals can afford it.
I wonder if the author would release it to free software ?

I'm sure the archive.org people would have a runnable version, and it could be distributed as a freedos package.
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I think things will become even worse now that criminal "scouting" and even vetting is being done via learning models. So you may not even find hard filters or conditionals...instead the errors (or stereotypes?) would be embedded deep inside some neural net. I'm not even sure how one would explain that one to a jury.
Medical research is heavily government funded. I would be surprised, if the majority of the investment actually comes from pharma companies. Any R&D pharma companies invest in is also going to be heavily focused on areas that have a high likelyhood of paying off reasonably soon, much like R&D in any other company.
"Still, all photographers have the right to photograph in public."

I've always agreed with that. What I have been saying is that there are ways they can exercise that right that will be perceived as rude, and that that perception is definitely not made unreasonable by any absence of law on the matter, and is often in fact reasonable.
No, this is what the world was before globalization, which has dampened such regulatory capture effects - people just don't remember the bad old times.

Price levels of e.g. medicines have always varied between countries and continents. Some people (often in a privileged position, possibly resulting from corruption) made lots and lots of money from things like monopoly selling rights of a particular brand in a country.

Think of telecommunications infrastructure, for instance. With POTS (plain old telephone system), each and every country had their own voltage and current level specifications, ringing cadences and whatever. Companies were able to extort ridiculous amounts of money for a simple telephone connection, and you maybe had to wait years before you could even get a phone. Then came a globalized system where mobile phones bypassed this regulatory capture.
Ask HN: Can you shed some light on calculating growth?
I'm looking for some help with growth rates. I'm trying to calculate the monthly growth rate for my app. Over the last year we went from 300,000 to 1,200,000 total user sessions. However, on a monthly basis, we had approximately 75,000 sessions completed, and it stayed consistent throughout the year. While on one hand we've quadrupled our total usage, on the other hand our growth has remained flat each month. The key question here is this - when we talk about monthly growth, are we normally talking about cumulative usage or monthly increase in usage?

Based on the “rule of 72” it seems that quadrupling over the course of a year corresponds with a 12% monthly growth rate.

source: http://daslee.me/monthly-growth-and-the-rule-of-72

On the other hand, each month our usage stayed flat - 75,000 sessions were completed each month. From one perspective, we had 0% growth, as each month our numbers were the same. However, from the perspective of one year, we quadrupled the total number of sessions.

Is our monthly growth 0% or 12%?

Any feedback on this would be helpful. Thanks!
Yeah, the breeder reactors in the first generation were terrible and not good for much other than making A-bomb material.

That doesn't really have anything to do with the dozens of nuke plants that were canceled in the 70s, at the height of the Cold War, and the virtual (and in some countries, legal) moratorium on new construction that was pushed by anti-nuclear activists. Well-intentioned people dedicated to saving the world made things worse us and held back technological progress at the same time.
Reminds me of this guy who built a house with nothing but primitive materials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE
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I don't think it's different on a chemical level, but societal sure.
We know that we can put the "waste" in breeder reactors and burn up >90% of it for energy, leaving only short lived isotopes. We don't build breeder reactors because they can be used to breed Plutonium, not because they're difficult to build. It's a purely political decision.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334194
>After all, if the bridge is half-built, what's the customer going to do?

Maybe sue you for liquidated damages whilst pursuing all other possible avenues in the contract for claiming against a breach. Maybe file an insurance claim, and weather the mobilization costs for another contractor to take over your scope.

But before any of that you first have to estimate the potential legal costs and determine what's going to work more in your favor. :)
I keep hoping we'll try a thorium or non plutonium producing reactor design.
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That's probably exactly what it was - an awkward attempt at flattery. An expression of interest, in an attempt to see if the interest might be mutual. After all, there's no logical reason attractive women can't be engineers.

Are women really so brittle they have to take offense at something like that? Do they really think they're somehow Striking a Blow Against The Patriarchy by humiliating some poor guy for not navigating the PC minefield?
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interactive version

http://www.drunkmenworkhere.org/170
The essential problem is that in such environments the process of doing a task must be open to inspection, but software exists as a loophole that circumvents making process public.
You can do the same with a RaspberryPi:

http://vmwarebits.com/content/virtualhere-raspberry-pi-usb-s...
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Ask HN: Could you recommend Computer basics courses?
Hi, there HN community,

there are a lot of possibilities to learn stuff online these days. Could anyone recommend any computer basics courses? In Basics I mean that would go in details how and why processors work, how does cache fit in, why do we need RAM/motherboard/etc/etc. Why such transistor arrangement and electronics component selection make a processor work and such things..

Not a native speaker so is this basics or this is advanced (because of going in depth)?

Anyway both basics and advanced are ok for me - just want to deepen my knowledge into how stuff works down there.

Thanks.
> They also have to worry about the political fallout of walking away from a deal when the government tries to blame them for the lack of a deal.

This is rare, but when it happens drug companies have no problem blaming the government for killing people.

See, for example, abraxane. This is a chemo used for pancreatic cancer. There are two other chemos currently used. Abraxane isn't as good at extending life as the main med, and it has more side effects than the second.

So it's not available under the cancer drugs fund.

Celgene (partially) fund a pancreaticcanceraction.org group to campaign to get abraxane re-instated as a treatment. This involves them running misleading petitions ("abraxae extends life by two years" - celgene's own data show a median extension of two months; "the only pancreatic cancer drug" - it's the newest drug, but there are teo others, one of which extends life more, another has fewer side effects).

It's pretty cynical to use dying people, and the relatives of dead and dying people, to campaign for your meds.
Via learning models? I wonder how long it takes before it just automatically selects any black poor person.
You'll get less hurt in a collision with a bicycle than I would if I get hit by a car doing 100km/h with a drunk driver behind the wheel. By any measure, I should be on the sidewalk in that case and it's extremely selfish to ask me to die just so you don't maybe get a slight bruise on your butt and a bit of mud on your sleeve.
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In India where there are dozens of languages, this plays out interestingly...
Granted, in few indian languages 'M' sound is not there.. but it uses even more basic sound 'aa'(as in used by babies earlier than 'm' sound) e.g. Aai in Marathi etc - or a similar Baa in Gujrati..
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borf? barf? can't think of many words ending in rf. bark?

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Interestingly, that can be solved by using nuclear energy too.
Not to worry, they'll cost the same everywhere in a few years, when tpp and ttip are ratified and enforced - everyone's prices will go up to match the US's.
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haha and chichi are more formal.
>You suck stupid shit. FUCK YOUUU??

Same here, but I was going for 0.
I think you guys agree:

> Should breathalyzer code be held from review just because it's a product made by somebody? Nope.
This defense attorney was creative for asking to examine the source code, but that isn't the only way to cast doubt on the accuracy of the software that DNA matched his client to the crime scene. He could simply obtain a copy of it and have an expert run tests to determine a false positive rate and also what types of scenarios cause the software to deliver false positives, then call that expert as a witness.
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I would argue that we as a society have become much more civil and the assholes stick out more as a consequence of that.

30 years ago nobody complained about stuff like this because a)no woman at these events and b)it was absolutely acceptable. And that's without the honey/darling/grope your coworkes time old media tells me about (was that real by the way? I'm from Europe and to young to have had any contact with that )
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"Typical margins in the restaurant business are around 3%"

But restaurants have much higher real-estate costs, typically need more staff, need to stock a wider range of product... plus, product that spoils in customers' fridges was still paid for.

"Also, given the rate at which HelloFresh is throwing around free boxes and discount coupons and special offers here in Australia, I would be astonished if they're profitable at all."

If they're a high growth company in a niche with high growth competitors and sticky customers, being profitable at all would be a horrible move.
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Cars should be forbidden, at least in cities. As an asthmatic person, as an endangered pedestrian, as a citizen who cares about sustainable development, as an urbanist who cares about public space and population density, cars may solve problems like how to carry 3 children to school or how to show off about professional success, but I hope we'll limit its usage. My friends in Sydney who have a family, have no car.
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Breathalyzers are known to be wildly inaccurate, to such an extent that in some jurisdictions DUI is just defined in terms of a breathalyzer result because they know it doesn't bear a reliable relationship to the actual BAC.
Instead of being paid the market price, pharma companies are paid the lowest-price they could absolutely tolerate.

Isn't that the market price, then? Market price is the price at which trading happens——above and below that are prices which at least one of the parties doesn't tolerate. And obviously volume discounts bring down the price in comparison to selling in smaller batches, this generally applies everywhere.

I don't think any single company would sell at a lower price than what they can afford to ask. Note that part of the price can certainly be in goodwill, better public relations, or to win a bigger market share instead of cash. But that still is a net win for the seller, or they wouldn't be selling.
I come from a similar position. I wasn't tested or diagnosed until age 24, solely because I was never hyperactive.

My brother was diagnosed in primary school due to his behavior, while I was always 'the good kid who never paid attention'.
How exactly do you arrive at the conclusion that they like him because he has easier material? He even says that he wanted to conduct harder tests but was forced to dumb them down/reduce the scope.
And why is it only weaker students that appreciate the class? As far as I know the class is open to anyone no matter how smart they are (assuming they are Berkeley students)

He's simply significantly better at teaching if the provided data is correct.

The takeaway here should be...why are (other) Berkeley math professors so bad at teaching?
I guess you could question the reported statistics and if it makes sense to rely on evidence based teaching. Feel free to suggest a better approach.
...which could be much more expensive and sill not find the error you'd need to defend the client. You'd essentially be black box testing without even knowing what kind of errors you want to find. Or am I missing something?
This isn't really relevant to this site and comes from the WSJ which is hardly neutral.

Also it seems to forget that most of the engagements of the US are part of a wide coalition. There is no simple answer to the Middle East, Russia or China. Unless of course you prefer the simple bomb now, ask questions later doctrine of the far right.
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- "Please provide this gentleman with an example, Mr. Worf."
"...not navigating the PC minefield"

I see variations on this phrase all over the place, and I don't understand it. It really isn't that hard to avoid saying offensive and distasteful things to women (or anyone else, actually). It's almost always obvious that some statements are pretty offensive or at the very least make people uncomfortable, and it only takes the smallest modicum of common sense and tact to avoid saying those things. "You're too hot to be an engineer" is an awkward thing to say to a woman in an elevator, and if you're a woman in tech, you're bombarded with those statements weekly. It's not about being brittle. It's about letting people know when what they're saying is garbage. If anything, the men complaining about how they don't like having to think before speaking are brittle.

Speaking as a man that manages to "navigate the PC minefield" every day, it really isn't difficult. I promise.
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Over here in airstrip one, if it doesn't belch fumes, it's illegal. All patriotic transport methods allow you to enrich the cabinet and their families by paying Road tax, fuel duty, and of course by buying lovely oil from them.

Seriously, the only place you're allowed to use a scooter here is in your own home, and even then, your neighbours will call the police because your living room is a public Street if we say it is, sonny.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/12/hoverboard...
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Clearly a major proportion of the profits for any pharmaceutical currently comes from the US, regardless of where those drugs were developed. If the global profits for pharmaceuticals are curtailed because the US stops paying a premium it seems foolish to say that the profit motive wouldn't be impacted in regards to spending on pharmaceutical R&D.
It would be more expensive probably. However, under the current legal framework, this would be the only way to question the accuracy of the software.
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Ctrl+f "Risk" "Zero results"

Now, I don't work in software engineering, I work in traditional engineering, but I find the lack of any formal Risk Assessment, Management or Lessons Learned in any Project Management methodology/framework a little scary.
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Similarly, I found a used pogoplug at a thrift shop with a $5 sticker on it. I bought it knowing little about it but suspecting it could be hacked. At the checkout they told me the sticker color indicated it was half off, so it cost me less than $3.

With the shipping software the pogoplugs are usually useless secondhand, as the web interface is hidden if you haven't registered the device with the company (and it can't be de-authed without the original owner's credentials). But the administrative interface is still available, if you know the path. Dropbear is already installed, so you can just start it, log in, overwrite the bootloader[0] and run one of several Linux distributions from a flash drive (I use Debian[1]).

My unit[2] has a 700 MHz dual-ARMv6. It only has 256MB of built-in RAM, but it's simple to allocate 1GB of the OS flash drive as swap.

Last year I picked up a number of old MIDI keyboards a local college was throwing out. I figured they were just old and the college had replaced them with something newer, but they worked fine for me under Linux. So I offered one of them to my brother, and he couldn't get it to work under Windows. Of course, it turns out the device is 15 years old and never had a 64-bit driver. So I've been experimenting with using the Python midistream package to stream MIDI over ethernet to a Windows host. Unfortunately, the package (since subsumed by a project called scenic[3]) hasn't had a new release since 2012. But it still works, and it makes for a pretty fun hack.

[0] http://projects.doozan.com/uboot/

[1] http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,16044

[2] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B004TDY924
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If you want a real 'travesty' why are you focusing on The Greens rather than UKIP? UKIP got 3.5 times the votes that the Greens got, but got just as many seats as the Greens did. And the same argument about the votes likely being even higher if people weren't afraid of throwing their vote away could also be made.

Yet you don't hear too many people complaining about that outcome.
And whether they even have the concepts.
Theological question? If you substitute AI with God, and ask people not to starve, don't people react in a similar way IRL?
>It really isn't that hard to avoid saying offensive and distasteful things to women (or anyone else, actually).

No, actually, for some guys it is hard. If it's not hard for you, well, that's great. But the world is full of clumsy men.
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No. Why do you ask?
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