skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just throwing in my experience/numbers, for those interested.

I'm a type 1 diabetic (for ~30 years) and take Apidra (short acting) and Lantus (long acting) daily. I use about 5 vials of each per 3 months. I "think" the cost of each vial, if I was paying sticker price, would be about $250.00.

So... 2 * 5 * 250 / 3 = $833 / month

As it turns out, there's several mitigating factors:

1. I have insurance, so I pay much less than that

2. For those without insurance, the insulin creator has programs to help such people pay for the insurance (discounts for some, max out-of-pocket for others)
Anybody know if there's any progress with ADEP4? http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/13/killing-s...
How would an effective monopoly not exist in something with such a massive upfront capital requirement and vast land requirements?
Radiolab did a great podcast on this recently

http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/
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Didn't Starbucks also invest in them as part of this deal, so they got money and then undercharged Starbucks by roughly the same amount, basically trading part of their company for visibility?
Which it seems is precisely what this addon solves.
Yeah, at the time I think they were flying training jets from the 80's haha. I'm not sure of the numbers but the number of fighter pilots who die in training is a real number...

Although, my friend also knows that his piloting days from inside the aircraft are numbered. Manned fighter jets/bombers, etc. will be a thing of the past.
This is rather similar to the web scraping problem i.e. API vs scraping. Nothing new.
Charter injects into your browsing to force you to accept a Terms of Service update, even on a business connection.

I got a packet dump of it happening.

https://feld.me/pub/charter.pcapng
"Many people study and work at learning computers and engineering. Chuck Forsberg just knows."

After Chuck Norris and Bruce Schneier memes, now we can start Chuck Forsberg memes :)
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Ethics as generally portrayed costs lives and increases misery in part by preventing useful studies from being done, but also though overhead from review boards.

Pretending there is no conflict is simply sticking your head into the ground.

The real question is if this cost is worth paying and that's both more important and harder to defend.
>2) All shareholders are humans

i assume individuals (?)
Yes! Finally someone who understands that science is more magic than anything. If you pray and hope things will always change. I invented a magic shoe that absords CO2. Once the patent is done Global Warming will be a thing of the past!
So we shouldn't let refugees in, even though no refugees were part of recent terrorist events.

We should outlaw encryption, even though the attack was planned with unencrypted off the shelf technology.

We should crack down on bitcoin, even though the attack wasn't funded with bitcoin.

Do lobbying groups just wait for this kind of thing to happen? It seems completely ridiculous to me.

Then again, I'm not afraid.
He was a prolific Usenet poster. One easy way to find his posts is to search for this ham callsign, which he signed off with:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/WA7KGX$20zmodem
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I think it's the finance industry's version of the hype cycle. Every time a new financial instrument is invented it gets used, overhyped and oversold, there's a crash, and then it becomes a boring/useful tool in the toolbox. E.g. options and the dutch tulip bubble, derivatives in the '80s, CDS in the '00s.
There is a natural way to kill every single bacteria out there. They are called phages.

For every bacteria, there is a phage that will kill it.

Back in the Soviet Union they used this medical technology extensively to cure all sorts of things, and the hospitals in Georgia and surrounding areas would be sprayed down with phage to kill bacteria within the hospital corridors and rooms to prevent the hospitals themselves from becoming breeding grounds for bacteria.

If you're interested in learning more I would recommend the 1997 BBC four documentary called 'The Virus that Cures'
Plus you can only get it (at least in my area) if you subscribe to extra services that I don't need like VOIP. CableCard could've been a viable alternative and spurred a market for DIY and third party cable tuner/decryptors but it was poorly implemented and support from cable providers is typically awful so for most people it's just not worth it.

I came close to ordering a Ceton CableCard tuner card several times so I could stick a small form factor PC in the entertainment system and get the nice setup I used to have before they killed off all of the unencrypted digital QAM channels. Unfortunately, the standard is so encumbered that hardly any software can support CableCard (one popular option was the now-deprecated Windows Media Center).

Back when QAM still came through unencrypted, I could pay for cable and hook it up to my cheapo Hauppauge card and use WMC as a great program guide and DVR setup. Even back in the Win Vista days it was vastly superior to anything on a cable box. Then they moved everything to encrypted and my tuner got repurposed for watching OTA stuff on my PC.

Now I just pay for cable/internet but watch everything streaming on legit sites or torrents. Yeah, I know...but it works better and I'm still paying for it so even if it's not legal, I don't feel that it's immoral.
> I also found it strange that Elsevier forbid redistributing the abstracts of papers [3], considering that they are publicly accessible.

Publicly accessible and the rights to redistribution are different things. Abstracts are protected by copyright, which may be held by the journal or the author, and so having a blanket "you can use the abstracts" policy is very difficult.
Don't like ATT either, but at least their service seems to be much more stable. I haven't had to speak with an AT&T customer support rep in over a year. Comcast, I've been doing their trial service run for two weeks now and I've already had to deal with their customer support 6+ times, 2 of which were during the installation. I think I'll probably just end up canceling before my month is up and going back to ATT. At least I knew I could rely on my connection to not crap out at random.
> DEC (and the other minicomputer makers) generally missed the shift from vertical integration to horizontal integration

Great comment, and absolutely right. I seem to recall that Andy Grove wrote a whole book about that ;-)

With hindsight, I should have recast my NIH statement, because those developments may have been a function of the desire to own as much as possible of the vertical stack.
Just opened at 11.20, already up to 13. The company who helps small businesses accept Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay at 2.75% of all those transactions. This company makes too much sense to me.

Going to the Blue Bottle coffee downtown SF in front of their office if anyone wants to join me. Pat them on the back.
thanks! that was very helpful, and pitched right at my knowledge level.
Only a tiny fraction of consumers actually believe that. For the vast majority of users, Internet == 80+443, and 25+983 for people with smartphones.
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Not trying to prove anything. Just reflecting on how apparently inconsequential Microsoft has become. Or perhaps it's more about how consequential everyone else has become.
Just to put things into perspective, the world population was around 2 billion when penicillin was discovered in 1928. Even without antibiotics we still know about things like sanitation and the importance of clean drinking water, so it's not exactly going back to the dark ages as the article suggests.
How exactly the Transparency International website that contains public statements critical of E.U. financial regulation backs up your point?
`-1` will underflow, so you'll effectively have a SIZE_MAX. The counting down will similarly underflow, reach SIZE_MAX and stop the iteration.
You certainly can block all scripts with uBlock Origin's "advanced" mode. There, you can block first and/or third party scripts as desired.

It's a common misconception that uBlock Origin is "just" an adblock plus replacement, but it's a lot more than that.

The one caveat is that there's no fine-grained GUI for white/blacklisting specific scripts. You can however white/blacklist scripts from domains using the GUI, and you can block / unblock individual scripts by writing rules.
I've seen this referred to as the "goes-to" operator:

size_t i = num_burritos;
while (i --> 0) // Read: while 'i' goes to zero
if (want_burrito(i))
break;

While it sounds nice, I don't think it's a good idea.

Clearly the correct solution is to use a better language, e.g.:

return next((burrito for burrito in reversed(burritos) if burrito.wanted()), None)
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Of course apple has a backdoor because they generated the encryption keys. They can sign anything they want.
Holy smokes Forbes provides a painful reading experience.

Here's a post about the same study from the American Chemical Society -- http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/web/2015/11/3-D-Printed-Parts...

tl;dr, the study found the stereolithography printing[0] method to be harmful, and less so for fused deposition modeling[1].

Many of the 3d printers you'll find around community-level makerspaces employ fused deposition modeling (those that melt plastic filament, as opposed to those that use liquid plastic).

[0] http://www.livescience.com/38190-stereolithography.html
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_deposition_modeling
Wouldn't it be SIZE_MAX since i is a size_t?
User "dang" is leads the Hacker News team for Ycombinator. He has stated that collapsible threads are on the feature list:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
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Zmodem was awesome. I remember the transition from Xmodem or Ymodem to Zmodem. Zmodem was fully duplex and was so much faster than the other protocols, until BBSes died due to the Internet. I'm hopeful he lived a very great life.
I believe programmable lego starts at $300 or more.

I also don't think the people who buy this buy it as the only toy for their kid. They probably already have spent plenty on other stuff.
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It's like that in a lot of places. I live in extremely central Berlin and cannot find a provider that can deliver above 25mbps for less than hundreds per month.

It is a real shame that anything over 5-7mbps is considered "fast enough" by the vast majority of consumers.
Yes, I have.
I share my code for three main reasons:

1) Other people sometimes find bugs I missed. It's like free outsourced testing.

2) The connections I make by doing this occasionally lead to opportunities down the line.

3) Other people being grateful and thanking me boosts my ego and makes me feel good about myself.

There's plenty of selfish reasons to write code that you share.
Why do you need to stay stealth?
Node-WebKit now called nw I think. It's simply a web browser application hosted in a desktop shell with some node services in the background.
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The article uses C examples but a more general language for the title and text, so if iterators are available in the language "use iterators" is in fact an excellent way to handle it (and you can probably build C iterators, though I don't know how convenient and efficient they'd be)
Doesn't matter. I strongly doubt Comcast allowing themselves to violate non-customers' copyright in their ToS can possibly hold up in court.
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This is the first version of Wireshark that's OS X native.
This is incorrect. If you have $1000 in bitcoin and send it to a tumbler in say 5 transactions of $200 each, and you specify that each of those transactions should send the output as 2 different transactions of $100 each, to different addresses, then there is no way to defintively link those addresses back up (unless the person sends all those coins back to the same address and even then it would take a lot of work to match them up again).

I think you think that someone sends $1000 btc to a new addres, then $500 btc to address 1, $500 to address 2, does this a few times and then sends all the coins to address 56, which then holds $1000. This would be possible to trace but would be time consuming to do.

The method I mention above would safely unlink any coins in the final addresses from the $1000 you started with.
Serious question: what's wrong with this?
While reading, it immediately occured to me: perhaps the problem can be mitigated in the stereolithography process by exposing the object to additional light for a fuller cure?

Then, lo and behold, there is a paragraph about this obvious step. Then, at the end of the paragraph: [t]he UC Riverside Office of Technology Commercialization has filed a patent on this technology.

Please tell me this doesn't refer to the painfully obvious idea of more fully curing the finished object by shining additional UV, like is done with tooth fillings and nail polish, not to mention entire pieces of furniture.
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Robo calls are going to get better!
I had a situation with our local ISP where they injected some banner on each page to let users know they were close to going over their bandwidth usage when they got to like 90%. I reached out to them and said this was essentially a man in the middle attack and that I didn't want messages injected. A week later they messaged me to say it had been removed.
Alternatively, DEC was built on a 1950s business model where customers (not necessarily final users) were skilled and educated scientists, developers, academics, engineers, and bizops people - basically hands-on hackers of one kind or another.

Its R&D and marketing machine was created to match this market. As long as most of the computer buyers in the world shared that culture, DEC did very well.

DEC had no experience designing and selling commodity/appliance computers to the general public, and not much interest in same. This may have been Olsen's fault. I suspect he just couldn't imagine his wonderful computer engineering machine selling crappy microcomputers direct to ordinary Joes through retail and mail order.

At the high end there was always an interest in taking on and beating IBM, who had a monopoly on the very high end of business and scientific computing, but for whom the PC was just a flukey minor side project. (IBM didn't understand commodity computing either, which is why it was pushed out the market by the clone makers.) DEC made some headway but never quite understood that the business high end is not the same market.

So the reason there was no DEC PC and we're not all using DEC clones is cultural. Gordon Bell was - as usual - ten years ahead of everyone else, and worrying about this at the start of the 1980s when VAX was well on its way to making DEC a giant. There are DEC memos about this period at bitsavers.org, and they provide some insights into how DEC failed.

DEC engineering, especially in VLSI, was easily the best in the world. Alpha was a thing of beauty, and an affordable Alpha PC would have killed Intel, MS, and maybe even Apple, and advanced the PC market and perhaps the Internet by five to ten years, and created a completely different culture around commodity computing.
You can read about it here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6057. It impacts an extremely small percentage of users for short periods of time.
In practice:

Developer: "Well, we can either build our website in document mode or in application mode."

Management: "What's the difference?"

Developer: "If we build it in document mode, it loads quickly and cleanly and..."

Management: "Does document mode let us put the modal popover window that got 5% of our visitors to join our newsletter last month?"

Developer: "Well, nope."

Management: "And the third party tracker?"

Developer: "Again, no."

Management: "So we can't monetize or track how many sticky eyeballs are consuming our content?"

Developer: "Nope."

Management: "App mode it is."

Developer: "But it isn't an app. It's just static pages."

Management: "APP APP APP APP APP APP. I hear you can go on a course to build apps in less than a week."

Developer: starts checking his LinkedIn for an employer who doesn't make him want to take a pickaxe to his own face
The Verizon DSL install package CD-ROM used to install a new system root certificate, and that was many years ago.
Iterators are a technique and are not bound to any particular programming language. Iterators abstract the idea of iterating through data. Instead of keeping track of the array index and thinking of it in terms of counting up or down, you instead create an iterator that will abstract this for you. You can create iterators to traverse the array in forward, backwards, every odd number, whatever way you want. Then you write your client code to operate on an iterator, and so completely separate the traversal of the sequence from the action to be performed on each element. Another useful abstraction in this context are list comprehensions (map, filter, reduce, etc.).

You can create iterators in any language, and I was referring to the abstract concept of iterators, not the particular form of iterators found in C++'s standard library.
I think your vision will come about whether or not we experiment on chimps and their like. It might take ever so slightly longer to arrive at your vision, but in the mean time we cut down on what some of us believe to be the unnecessary suffering of non-human animals.

But think about it this way. Maybe it'll force us to ramp up computer bio-simulation, and that might be very successful, and that might mean that it might take ever so slightly shorter to arrive at your vision!

I want to comment on this assertion of yours, "I strive to pull people and things as strong as possible towards my vision, and hopefully one day the future will get close enough to it, and at least my grandchildren will enjoy some of it."

What happens if someone else's vision is at variance with yours? Or they disagree with the means to achieve your vision? No amount of pulling will make people move in your direction if they really don't want to go there. How are you going to get to where you want to go without conflict? Is there a place for the element of compromise along your path? :)

Thanks for saying you appreciate what I wrote! Keep on dreaming big!
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I'd suggest you head on over to:

http://opensignal.com/coverage-maps/US/

And look at signal strength from the major networks. Most smartphones use "off the shelf" cell radios with "off the shelf" antennas. Phone shell materials make a little difference (metal Vs. plastic/glass) in particular if they're poorly grounded[0][1]. But overall I'd say look at network coverage first and foremost, and then look into if you can get a femtocell from the carrier to install in your house.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-loses-reception-when-a...
[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/202371/smartphone_antenna_tes...
It seems like these kinds of "studies" are only made to write headlines and to write books (notice how half of the people quoted in the article have some surprising new "facts" that they reveal in a book they wrote?).

The only paradox is why researchers still latch onto a calculation of health based on just height and weight that was concocted in over 150 years ago. What other field would rely on such a primitive, outdated formula and use it as the base of research?
What's wrong with good old registered mail?
They're compatible approaches, you could use pledges in a unikernel for exactly the same reason in order to further reduce the application's attack surface: a unikernel includes only what the application needs but it can't take advantage of the application's needs varying (reducing) over time[0], which is pledge(2) allows.

[0] one of the reasons for pledge(2) was the realisation/understanding that many applications have an initial setup phase followed by a "stable state", where the stable state needs significantly less services than the setup e.g. setup might require reading config files but the steady state doesn't and just listens on a socket, so you can call pledge(2) multiple times and further reduce the application's abilities (attempting to increase them will fail with EPERM)
Many of the antibiotics are variations of the natural antibiotics produced by fungus and other bacteria, so it's not a new arm race. It's clear that not all the bacteria become resistant to all the natural antibiotics, because it usually increase the metabolical cost.

I think that in the long term this will be a draw, we will need to discover new antibiotics, some bacteria will discover new resistance. (For the more nasty variants we can have to use other tools like vaccines.)
I do my best (customer support is not my day job) - if you are having issues I'd encourage you to try out the tool I helped build here: https://speedexperience.xfinity.com/
Perhaps users that don't give you a good email don't want to hear from you.

If you've sent emails, letters, and phone calls already - just stop.

It's called consent, fuckers.
It is not traceable if done correctly, regardless of how many beefy servers you throw at the problem. As long as you don't collate all BTC in one address at the end of your tumbling then there is no way to absolutley link it to the original sending address.
You surely have a plan from having studied competitors and their weaknesses. You also have a domain-specific network to target after you go public or soon before to start with traction. Finally, a tailored landing page / media pack for the buzz and the early birds.
Title should be "Cleffy - Everybody will play Music". The Live on Kickstarter is confusing, anyways.

Interesting that the founders use 4 different social networks (but neat that they offer funders to reach out to them)
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> Couldn't you add detection for when the reverse transformation isn't bijective, and then report an error in those cases.

I was thinking something along those lines too, but then it kind of undermines the goal of the hypothetical tool the previous article was proposing. To get programmers on board with adding breaking changes to the standard, I think you really need a tool that works near perfectly (which is the ultimate problem). Large codebases use macros and templates a lot in my experience and if the tool chokes on some those then people are going to be lazy and say "no thanks." My gut instinct is that it'd have to be down in the range 10 errors / 100kloc before "lazy" (read: busy) programmers would accept it. More crucially, it needs to be sure that it recognizes 100% of errors... it can't make any mistakes about when it does decide that a given transformation is correct because bugs introduced by a mistaken translation are probably going to be extremely subtle and difficult to identify.

It's a crappy situation. I think the author was right in the previous article that a magical perfect transformation tool could allow them to make serious and beneficial (but breaking) changes to C++, but such a tool is unbelievably difficult to actually make.
ATT business plan here... I have no issues only 20Mbit down and 2Mbit up but when I call customer service I have someone on site to fix things in 3 hrs or less

I wont ever use Comcast again... I had to get the local govt involved to get them to stop billing me for a place I hadnt lived in for 6 months. ( yes there is an agency here to deal with them they are that shitty )

The smaller speed with usable internet speeds and decent customer service is worth it.