skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a confusing argument - how would drugs for a condition come to exist without the existence of a patient population?

Your point is well-taken for individuals who don't fall in epidemiological categories (a 20-something is less likely to be asked about sexual dysfunction than a 60 year-old). Still, questions about sexual function are standard medical history questions.

Education about the availability of drugs can be performed by disease foundations - indeed, disease foundations underwrite the most risky part of drug discovery, the basic research component. For more common disorders, hospitals, the CDC, the NIH and even Google are beginning to provide digestible information that highlight standard treatments. In our web era, the importance of TV advertising for disease education is likely less than it might have been in the 80s.
Doesn't really matter to my argument, but for fun: In general, heavier vehicles are vastly safer. If you raise the center-of-gravity off the ground a lot, and don't increase the weight much, it's probably possible to increase the roll-over risk enough to make you worse off.

But if you look at the data, you see that the deadliest vehicles are mostly compacts, and the safest ones are mostly SUVs.

http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1096667_the-most-deadly...

These differences are huge, like, factor of 100 huge.
Sounds in line with my experience of open source interfaces and GUIs. Generally technically deep and absolutely uncreative and unintuitive to the right-brain.

They are services created to have a featurelist with only a passing regard to aesthetics, and even less thought towards usability. They always answer well to "well does it do x", but almost never positive to "how does it feel to use?".
This was in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, not a small rural town. Totally different place with different dynamics.
The thumbs down exists, but is quite obscure, you have to select "Hide", and after the post gets hidden you get a set of options such as:

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If you can splurge a little, this little guy is awesome and includes support from the pfSense team:

https://store.pfsense.org/SG-2440/

Or you can buy one of these and flash it to pfSense yourself:

http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-VE-2440.aspx
Housing functions like a reverse auction. In the most HCOL areas, demand usually outstrips supply to such an extent that prices float up to a maximum ceiling (40-50% of avg income IIRC). Above which people's checks would bounce. That's NYC and SF. The average person seems to simply pay ''as much as they can afford'' for housing. In LCOL areas, it's a function of land and materials prices, and in some super LCOL areas, where demand is flat or shrinking, prices can even fall below this.

As most/all other areas of life experience deflation (iphones, education, food, travel, entertainment), HCOL residents will reallocate the savings into housing, pushing the ceiling and housing prices up. Even despite attempts to increase supply, I think. The best solution is to redesign the economy to enable and incentivize the relocation of young people throughout lower tier cities and rural areas in the US.
When I was researching them (several years ago now) the only key thing that everyone agreed on is that they have to be really honkin' bright, with 10000 lux at 2 feet being the standard. You'll need even brighter bulbs for your scheme, since you'll be placing them further away. It's an inverse square relationship, so at 6 feet you'll need a 9x as bright bulb.
Reading this I just want them all to drop the incomprehensible acronyms.
I will admit that the party support plan is a bit pricey.
Haha, we discovered that one playing scrabble last night. What are the chances?
This approach may be suitable with more experienced clients, but smaller/newer clients may lack the experience or "self-awareness" to reflect in this manner.

It's curious that inexperienced developers are bad for clients while inexperienced clients are bad for developers. Perhaps it takes experience to appreciate experience. At the same time, inexperienced developers may go well with inexperienced clients since they can learn together -- albeit with plenty of inefficiency.
How about just deleting your ex? After all Facebook is supposed to be for friends.
Cloud Pub/Sub is really a competitor to Amazon SQS, not Kinesis. It's more helpful to think of Kafka and Kinesis as databases containing first-class, immutable streams; writing to the streams and reading from the streams are completely decoupled, unlike in a traditional pub-sub system. Jay Kreps' blog post explains it better than I can:

https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
I'm having a hard time understanding how innovation can be considered starved. The steady progression of technology that's been going on literally my entire life seems to belie the notion.

edit: clarification
I initially upvoted the GP, then I read your post.

Very well put.

I knew a couple that when they split were attempting to one-up eachother with their FB posts about who they slept with or how much they were partying etc... and they had kids together and were "professionals" -- it was terrible.
There are a lot of arguments or catch phrases which seem like wise words of neutral balance, but are kind of bullshit.

"Let's not rush to politicize events" is just a defense of the status quo. It's only as noble as the status quo.

"Both sides are obstinate in their positions" ignores the fact that sometimes one side is right. If I'm obstinate about A and you're obstinate about B, it matters a hell of a lot whether there is a definitive correct answer between A & B. Whether we have lots of guns or no guns in society is a matter of preference and subject to debate, but whether there would be more mass shootings or less mass shootings if we had more or less guns, there's a definitive answer to that question.

It's not a sin to be obstinate about asserting a truth just because some people are obstinate about asserting falsehoods.
That's a great approach.

However ... when I was unemployed, I was very happy that my doctor had free samples from her rep of $DRUG_THAT_KEEPS_ME_ALIVE. Our pediatrician also had free samples for some of the things our kid needed.
Is this a cable modem or a router?

Reminds me of the inane SNL sketch, whose catchphrase was: "New Shimmer is both a floor wax and a dessert topping!"

My Arris (nee Motorola) SB6141 is a bridge and a router. It's actually very nicely done.

When the modem can't access the cable infrastructure, it turns itself into a DHCP server and hands out IP addresses in the range 192.168.100.xx. This is useful for people at home whose configurations are such that their home networks won't work properly without some sort of DHCP server provided by the ISP.

Once the modem can talk to the ISP, it turns itself into a bridge. The IP addresses the modem previously issued were valid for 30 seconds, so there will shortly be a new DHCPREQUEST which the modem bridges out to the ISP. From then on, the modem is transparent to IP traffic (but see below).

My definition of cable modem doesn't include an IP address.

This is highly useful. Once the modem has switched to being a bridge, it still responds to 192.168.100.1. There's all sorts of useful information there. E.g. DOCSIS status, Channel IDs, received Signal to Noise ratio, transmit Power Level, etc. There's even a nice (but short) log of the modem's interaction with the cable infrastructure.

The modem is outside my firewall, so I don't really worry about it much. It's like anything else on the Internet as far as my home network is concerned.

However, I do currently allow access to 192.168.100.1 (normally I block outbound RFC 1918 addresses). That is a potential problem should some rogue program on my network attempt to exploit a modem vulnerability. Maybe I'll just block all those addresses and only enable them in the firewall when I want to check the modem status.
Some low cost airlines have already begun doing this I believe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3284231/End-inflight...
They're spending hundreds of billions of dollars (just in the US) and still failing to do so.

How do you know how many attacks would have taken place if not for that spending?
I'm curious about the 17-19 police officer figure. Do police departments actually operate on a "dispatch X officers to deal with incident of nature X" or is it a function of "All officers in the vicinity of X location, we have a XXX in progress at the address X".

If the latter is the case, this would suggest that the police presence that showed up is a function of the police presence in the vicinity an affluent neighborhood.

Not passing judgement. Just asking a question.

Another consideration about why force was used is that when officers arrived on the scene, the "suspect" was still in the residence. Typically, burglaries are in-and-out operations and I would expect a real burglar to be cognizant of the arrival of police officers and they would try to escape. Another thing to consider is the way the "suspect" reacted, since it should have appeared as a potential false positive to the police officers that arrived on the scene, since real burglars would probably react quite differently.
Mexican Immigration to US Reverses
I would concede that Facebook doesn't help if you're not an adult to begin with.

When you combine a social exhibitionist platform with emotionally or socially stunted humans, what did we expect to happen?
OpenWrt is for wireless access points and gateways, not modems.
The product and IPO price have literally zero correlation.
This has nothing to do with empathy. The author took advantage of systems built to help people and exploited systems built to help people for personal gain, screwing over everyone that follows the rules and not giving back to the system that has given him so much. Not only that but he was able to use the color of his skin to land himself a job in one of the most privileged fields at one of the most prestigious schools in the world.
Really what's so wrong with living elsewhere? Dominican Republic has a high HDI and a decent economy. People move all the time, the author had no family in The United States and his mother probably had way more connections in the Dominican Republic than the US, it would certainly have been easier for her to find work in her country of origin too.
Soft errors are fairly common; in fact it allows for problems in DNS resolution such as Bitsquatting: https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-19/dc-19-presentations/...

Anyone who has bought a popular bitsquatted domain name can attest to this.
> It would be like seeing the same house on three different real estate websites and then thinking you can buy three houses.

No it's not, since with the houses it would be easy to verify that there's no 3 houses available. The trader in the Nanex article had no way to know how many of the 24800 shares were actually available. He's trading at an information disadvantage.

To your analogy, it would be similar to a real estate agent flooding the market with multiple listings of each house, but with different pictures and different addresses, giving the impression of a buyers market to a buyer (phantom liquidity).
"Working class" is a common euphemism for "poor". Often implied is "very".
Or he could have waited a few months and gotten ECC anyway: http://ark.intel.com/products/88171/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-...
> Did your great-great-grandparents ask the Native population of the United States for permission to enter or do you happen to be a member of one of the original tribes?

So...because Europeans colonized North America and for all practical purposes genocided the natives, current citizens of the USA aren't allowed to have / enforce immigration laws? I don't understand what point you're trying to make.
I have no doubt that Amazon usage of their own advantages is better than goamz.

SDK usage is all about the getting started and the documentation. For me, building an open source project around the Amazon SDK was just too much.

Obviously, documentation will solve a lot of this. I did not visit the project in months, maybe they improved on this.
Isn't this exactly what Docker-Machine does, but without the need for SSH access to the remote machine?
Sanctuary citys and liberals turn a blind eye to illegal immigrants.
The cable companies need to be able to push firmware and settings to maintain the network and avoid abuse. So they have certification standards and you need to pay to play.

For example, with DOCSIS 2 modems, you could spoof the MAC address and make some config changes and get anonymous internet access at the highest service tier.
Haven't had a chance to try GKE, but I'll give it a whirl for my upcoming project.

With Lambda, its the whole ecosystem around it which makes it better than App Engine. A file changes in S3 and you want to do something? Lambda, in a few simple lines of code.
Already posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10598527
It's interesting that you are unable/unwilling to address the points the author made and instead chose to just attack the author.
Some do.

The good parts of academia, policy journals, think tanks, etc.

But that doesn't get into mainstream media because it's boring.

(Whether that stuff affects actual policies undertaken is a good question. I think it does, both directly, I.e. politicians read them, and indirectly by influencing the elite, who influence politicians.)

There's also government agencies who make decisions based on public comments, both in law and in policy. There may be other influences, but I think the actual argument do matter somewhat.
Stanford astronomers observe the birth of an alien planet
I'm having a hard time parsing some of what you wrote at the end there. First, Google's IPO was in 2004, not the 90's, and e.g. E-Trade was very well established and not so different from today. In any case I don't see what UI/UX have to do with it.
In a lot of areas housing is deeply entwined with the education market. Uniformly high housing prices aren't a problem, high housing prices and NIMBYism in particular areas is a solution to keep out the sorts of people parents believe cause Bad Schools.
I agree the ads suck.

Banning things rarely makes things better.
Or we could have saner zoning laws that provide for more housing. The most expensive metros nearly always have lots of restrictions on land use that prevent higher-density developments. Just look at SF, whose residential areas should all be zoned to allow buildings at least up to 5 or 6 stories: http://www.sf-planning.org/?page=1569

Of course, booming cities will nearly always have somewhat high rent prices, but they're way out of whack in some areas.
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Square library: HTTP+SPDY client for Android and Java applications
Even the terms wouldn't probably make sense unless you've used them. Elastic Block Storage - I surely didn't get what it was supposed to do when I read it loud the first time.

Elastic Container Service - "Why the heck is it Elastic!?" was my reaction the first time I read the term.
Ecommerce lies that I wish were true
In my limited Pub/Sub experience, this seems to be how it works. You publish to a topic (an immutable stream), and then create a decoupled subscription that reads messages from the topic. Am I missing something?
SF yes I totally agree with you. But what about NYC specifically Manhattan? How do you make it significantly more dense than it already is?

The best answer for NYC is probably to aggressively gentrify as many neighborhoods as possible, which means (bluntly) displacing most lower income residents and moving in bicycle riding organic jam loving armies of hipsters. This comes with a lot of challenges. The biggest pressure release valve for Manhattan real estate prices has been the very successful gentrification of Brooklyn (and a few years behind is Oakland filling the same role for SF).
Dianne Feinstein isn't a Republican and she wants to take away our encryption, too.
That makes it sound like it is just going to show me less content from a particular person. I might want to see a friend's pictures of their kids, but maybe I hate when they go on a political rant or share/repost annoying memes. If Facebook can tell the difference between those types of posts I'd love to have it filter the one and promote the other.
GP is making the case that this person should leave now that they are 18 and are cognizant of the fact that their parent is an illegal immigrant and therefore they too are illegal. That's a one generation hop. It's simple induction to go from one generation to more generations. If we're going to blame the children for the acts of their parents then why stop there, we might as well go further. And then at some point we find some Welsh people, recently converted to Mormonism that decided to move to the United States. He/she received permission to move. But from someone who in the eyes of the GGP was an illegal himself, or, at least very closely related to one. Which casts doubt on the legitimacy of that permission.

See, if we're going to be irrational about immigration then I can do a pretty good job of that too. Sure it's not a defensible position, but then neither is the one the initial comment in this sub-thread is and I seriously wonder where he would draw the line.

By his reasoning all Americans should pack up and leave once they turn 18 because they realize the extent of the crimes committed by their ancestors.

Children that have lived their formative years in a country should - in my opinion - be allowed to continue as legal citizens of that country once they turn 18 (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10598346 ). To wish to throw them out once they reach 18 is collective punishment of a degree that horrifies me. See elsewhere in this thread for why this subject hits a very raw nerve with me so apologies for the pointy answer.
Not specifically tcp_collapse, but the article theorizes that some memory management done by tcp_collapse (i.e. GC) is the cause. I'd place my bets on memory calls being the cause too.

But... they never went to the next step and confirmed that tcp_collapse was making lengthy system memory calls. They kind of gloss over the details of why reducing rmem alleviates the problem.

Is it because with smaller rmem tcp_collapse aggregates segments into smaller sk_buffs, and these smaller-size memory calls don't take as long to return?

Or is it because tcp_collapse has less memory "stitching" to do, since it can't fit as many segments into the smaller sk_buffs?
The Spectrum of Open Source Philosophy
It's not unfamiliar or different, it's extremely familiar. Like when you get an answer wrong in class and one of the other kids goes "HA HA Dummy!" His intent is clearly not to help you learn something or to simply state you're wrong, his intent is to elevate himself at your expense.

The word to describe this, among many other behaviors, is to act childish.
Probably the most important part: https://storywriter.amazon.com/faq

Is my script safe?
Yes. Amazon encrypts your screenplay when storing it in the cloud. We will not access or read your script unless you submit it to us for consideration. To further protect your work, you can also register your materials with the Writer's Guild of America.

Register your screenplay with the Writer's Guild of America, West (https://www.wgawregistry.org)
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No, but I also don't think people should be free to buy any chemical at will. Alcohol is heavily regulated and still causes massive issues for society.
Nice. I would love to try the opposite experiment and "thumbs down" literally everything in my feed for 48 hours :-)
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Who cares? What purpose does it solve? What end do we work towards by berating someone publicly instead of simply acknowledging the error and moving along with the fix? What is accomplished with public mocking that is accomplished with a professional note?

There is one thing, and only one thing that is different; one gives into ego, one doesn't. I take ego out of my work because involving ego in work is the best way to ensure shitty work is done.
> Sure, a subset of miners can learn to code.

Anyone can learn to code, it isn't hard what we do. Granted some do push the boundaries, but that is a tiny % of what actual programmers do
only the US and NZ allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs.

let that sink in a bit.

from germany to japan to ghana to timor leste - everyone else has disagreed on this approach.
Sounds like we should throw more parties ;).
Or that the exact same drug may be 1,000 times cheaper in another country but it is illegal for you to buy it there and bring it here.
Ask HN: Best way to learn async development?
I'm a relatively novice Python developer. I've dabbled in multithreading and multiprocessing, and am trying to learn more about single threaded async coding. I tend to learn by trying, and my test project is an asynchronous web scraper that doesn't block the i/o thread when parsing.

However, the combination of learning about generators, futures, callbacks, coroutines, and event loops sort of all at once is making my head swim. There are lots of moving parts, and fundamentals I just don't get, like how to run a callback function outside of an event loop, or what the hell is actually happening when I call a coroutine from another coroutine.

Can anyone share any particularly good resources on learning the fundamentals of async development, the kind of thing that explains how all these things fit together and work at a basic level?
Also, check out Show Me a Hero[0] or the HBO miniseries based on it, which is excellent and informative while doing a better job than any book I've read at evoking empathy with people trying to find a better place to live. Although, I'm not sure if it's unfair to the existing homeowners, or if they deserve their portrayal.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Show-Me-Hero-Lisa-Belkin/dp/0316088641
Failure Monuments: cadavers of dead IT projects are buried under mounds of cash
I learned a little while ago of the kinds of techniques games use to stay in near-realtime. One of these was "UDP spraying", repeatedly sending the same data packets (in a tight loop, using a significant amount of bandwidth) until they're acknowledged.

By your description it sounds like your current location is temporary (which is fortunate ;P) but that you'll revisit this location in the future, so it might be worth your while to explore different UDP data transfer algorithms once you're back with sane Internet, then test said techniques when you revisit where you are now.

Best case scenario, you might be able to tunnel TCP over some kind of "best effort" UDP retry algorithm that overcomes a proportion of the losses; it should be possible (while complicated) to implement a more intelligent packet-loss mitigation system that handles significantly broken connections better than TCP does.

A far simpler system might be a VT100-esque text terminal running on top of a best-effort transfer layer like those described above. The only problem with this method would be the input latency, although it may fare better than a browser overall (!).

Also, I'm not sure if it's relevant (my understanding of networking is sketchy), but I find it amusing that 67.201.56.75/0's description is "Zerolag Communications" xD (http://bgp.he.net/net/67.201.56.0/21)
I like the idea of search metasploit and I'll be making use of it, but the models mentioned in the article aren't in metasploit's database yet either. So while it is a good step, it is not very conclusive.
Alcohol is mostly regulated for taxation, not usage. (To the point of poisoning untaxed alcohol to make sure you get hurt if you sneak around the tax.)