skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of what a Doctor uses to make a choice on "proof" of need is oral testimony from a patient.
thanks for the post!

by the way, there's earlier hackernews discussion at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=695893
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"I don't need privacy, I've got nothing to hide"
> I've never understood the logic behind prescription drug ads. The first rule of sales is to pitch the decision maker.

"Surveys conducted by FDA and private organizations consistently show that DTC advertisements have an impact on whether consumers request and receive a specific brand-name prescription from their physician. [...] In several of these surveys, consumers were asked whether they had seen an advertisement for a prescription drug and whether seeing the advertisement resulted in discussing the medication with their doctor and receiving the prescription. Most consumers (65 to 85 percent) remembered seeing a DTC advertisement. A subset of consumers who saw an advertisement discussed the medication with their doctor. The percentage of patients asking their physicians about a prescription for a specific drug was consistent across studies, about 30 to 35 percent of those who remembered seeing a DTC advertisement. One study estimated that the 32 percent of consumers in a 2001 survey who had discussed a DTC advertisement with their doctor translated into approximately 61.1 million consumers asking about specific medications. In the consumer surveys we examined, the percentage of consumers who, in response to a DTC advertisement, requested and received a prescription from their physician for a drug they were not currently taking was generally about 5 percent (ranging from 2 percent to 10 percent). By our estimate, this means that about 8.5 million consumers received a prescription after viewing a DTC advertisement and asking their physician for the drug in 2000."

source: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03177.pdf

The data doesn't care whether or not you see the logic behind it.
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It works perfectly as a detector of fake bombs though.
Believe it or not its a weird palindrome for me: 65059
Is YouTube allowed to legally do that?

Can they withhold money from the copyright holder (even though it's not known at the moment who the true copyright holder is) while still showing the video?
> Sure that could bite me in the ass if something were to happen to me, but I'm comfortable with that risk

Has it ever occurred to you don't have much control over that risk, and that you are a human being that like every other can become sick for no reason at all?

> and have family to help me out

Has it ever occurred to you that many people in the United States do not have family to help them out?
I also love this one.

http://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/fizzbuzz.htm

Fizzbuzz implemented as C++ compiler errors.
Jet Blue just rolled out free wifi to most of their US-based flights... and while it was pretty slow, I could still RDP into my work computer to answer emails and read HN. That was pretty sweet. You can pay $10 to get "gaming" speeds but I didn't test it out. I'd imagine most pings being >200ms. Has anyone tried it out?
Ask HN: HELP! Dealing with Meetup.com's poor customer service.
I'm the organizer of a software meetup in the midwest, and we recently had an incident where Meetup.com banned the account of one of our sponsors for posting a job opening to the discussion boards one time. I have made it abundantly clear to them that this is not spam and that the sponsor's account needs to be reinstated. They have refused all communication with me and have denied our sponsor reinstatement.

Today, they have even said that they will now immediately close all attempts to reach them about this matter. This is unacceptable treatment of us, our sponsors, and our community. We are ready to take our community elsewhere if we're not going to be allowed to inform each other about opportunities in our community.

Has anyone else had this problem? Any advice on how to get this fixed? Maybe an alternative platform?
To give this a better framing, say after Sandy Hook, I'd wager that the first response in the mind of a liberal was, "Fuck! See, guns kill! If we didn't have the 2nd ammendment, so many children wouldn't have had to die!" For a conservative, their first response might have been, "Fuck! This is why teachers need guns to protect their children from crazymen! More children didn't have to die!" May be I'm a little too naive, but I really don't think people are insincerely manufacturing rage, both are upset about the tragedy, they just rationalize it in the mental framework they already have, and they sincerely respond with that mindset.

I think the better question is why can't we be more rational/scientific about this. Forget gut feelings, put down a spreadsheet (at least) how many instances of this statistic correlate with this hypothesis. If it doesn't work, clearly your intuition is wrong, and there's nothing wrong with that, you just need to sharpen your intuition. I'd like to see government work like that, but neither side seems to want to do something like that.
how do you know?
The best reason, in my opinion, is that there are new drugs all the time. The FDA approves on the order of 20 or so drugs per year (that's new drugs, not including new generic versions of old drugs). So physicians have to learn 2 new drugs per month in enough depth to consider how it should change their current prescribing habits.
You know what really grinds my gears? The fact that on my newish surfboard modem, when I looked around for a new firmware version, low and behold, apparently Arris/Motorola refuse to release the firmware to the consumer/owner of the device, and say that it is the ISP's responsibility to update firmware!

No it's not, it's my hardware! I understand the docsis 3.0 spec says otherwise, but I disagree with it. So I call my ISP (Suddenlink), and lo and behold, they say it's not supported and therefore won't update my firmware.

Now I find out it's probably backdoored!

You know, when the NSA and everyone else start talking about cybersecurity, I don't fucking beleive a word of it anymore, because if they were really concerned about security, they would be pushing for open source firmware modems, and would be letting these companies know about the vulns and pushing them to close them. Instead they sit on the 0-days like a treasure trove of new weapons.
This paragraph is absurd. Not sure if the author was excessively exaggerating or this is true. Can someone who's a domain expert or is familiar with the device to clarify why in-flight WAPs are 10x more expensive but 10x more fragile? Cosmic rays?

Called Wireless Access Points (or WAPs), these black boxes
function similarly to Wi-Fi routers that would be found in a
home, but because they’re on an airplane, they cost 10 times more
and break 10 times more easily. Each WAP is connected by a
QuadRax cable, which is essentially formed of wires within wires
within wires.
Certainly understanding the math is very important but it is harder to get expertise on the pre-requisite math because the horizon is much bigger. I would recommend taking a case study approach and side by side learning the math stuff needed. If you are looking for an example then take a look at this,
https://www.coursera.org/learn/ml-foundations/
Such a ban would probably be damaging to many publicly traded companies (not just in health care, but also media and related) that are large components of the Health Care index funds and even broader market index funds sitting in Americans' retirement accounts... which might make this difficult to accomplish politically. (Aside from constitutionality issues, etc.)
Not enough yet, apparently.
Sure they make money, but so do chinese knock-offs. That's what Yahoo is, a cheap rip-off of better internet services. They do search, but google is better. They do email, but outlook and gmail is better. They do ads, but facebook and google are better. They do news, but there's no money in that given the ridiculous number of companies in the news space.

Seriously, go to yahoo.com and try and figure out what this company is about. It's just a portal with all sorts of links to other garbage. It's a remnant of 90s internet. Yahoo tried to revamp their mail solution a year ago and their users threw a huge fit because "it's different and I don't like change!". That's the only thing keeping them running; a contingent of luddite users.

If Yahoo's users leave, they're done. You can't say the same for Google, they're now expanding into automobiles. And Facebook is moving into video games. These are companies with vision and an outlook for the future. Where is that for Yahoo? It's not enough just to make money any more.
It's HaCon software, "exe" extensions are kept for historical reasons. These are not Windows binary for a long time already.
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Apache Geode and Apache Ignite are more similar than they are different.

Apache Ignite, based off the commercial distribution Grid Gain is newer to market.

Apache Geode, based off the commercial distribution GemFire, has a long history in the market.
I'd never heard of this, but it makes sense: satisfying fruits and vegetables (artichokes, onions, beets, apples, cherries), some bread (whole-grain, I'd guess), a little meat. Doubtless tea, too, and a little chocolate, but minimal sugar. This is definitely a diet to keep in mind!

The article's point on life expectancies, also, is timeless. In almost any era, if you make it to 5 years old, you'll make it to 70. (This was as true in the Middle Ages as in the mid-Victorian period.) When we see life expectancies of 30 or 40 years, it's a sign that most people didn't make it to 5...
Some of them.

Others are so brutally generic that they could apply to almost anyone: "Do you feel tired regularly? Have trouble getting going? Talk to your doctor about xxx".

Whilst I realize a lot of this is coded talk for "Do you suffer depression?" for people who might not have realized or be willing to acknowledge it as such, the sheer number of conditions for which "lethargy" is a symptom...
To be fair, the pharmacists should also be aware of major drug facts and interactions. But by the time you're talking to one of them, you already have a prescription anyway so...
See: tragedy of the commons, positive externalities, etc. etc.

Even the most staunch libertarian has to agree that personal choices which negatively effect society must have some sort of curtailing policy to make whole those effected
It's been established it didn't work, don't try to convince me. The 'awesome' part I was mentionning was the capacity for people to believe some less than rational assertions.
The Spotify android app supports offline playback. I've not used the desktop client in long time buy it probably still does too.

I've never been on a plane that offered wifi but I've never flown internally in the US. I quite enjoy being properly disconnected for the duration of my annual London to San Francisco flight but maybe if I did it more regularly I wouldn't.
oh great... my £2 worth Arduino project is on sale for $99.99 in a nice packaging
Our study in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (here, here, and here) shows that the majority of the Victorian urban poor consumed diets which were limited, but contained extremely high nutrient density. Bread could be expensive but onions, watercress, cabbage, and fruit like apples and cherries were all cheap and did not need to be carefully budgeted for.

Show me a grocery store where fresh watercress and cherries are cheaper than some artificial crap loaded with added sugar, sodium, and preservatives, and people will start to eat healthier.
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What are your apps hiding?
Is this YC Continuity's first investment?
Antibiotics are an obvious counter example to this.
Title: Your CEO Is Probably a Psychopath

Article: 4% of CEOs are psychopaths

That's some major clickbait in the title.
It looks better. Since 2002 in dev.
Geode and its predecessor GemFire are pure Java.

The original engineering expertise came from the team that built the Gemstone OODB.

Beaverton isn't so forested anymore, but lots of indigenous object oriented expertise for sure.
Dark matter might cause fundamental constants to change over time
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One I see in the field as a paramedic?

"Any drug allergies?"

"Aspirin, Tylenol, Tramadol, etc"

"Oh, so you're allergic to 'all' non-narcotic pain medication? That must be ... inconvenient."
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I think they consider revenue share payouts as something more akin to a gift than a purchase.
Wasn't the GUS limited to 1024k RAM though?
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I do think advertisements make a difference. For example for a given health condition if the advertisement says X is cutting edge, then automatically the patient who receives something else from this doctor would think he is not receiving the best medication possible.

This also explains why VISA and MasterCard advertise so much when you as a consumer simply take whatever the bank offers you.
There is that. It is interesting to see how television in particular seems to have lost a lot of advertising diversity, excluding advertising for other shows on the same network, these days just drugs, cars, lawyers, and pay-to-play games, with the occasional movie trailer for good measure. Bad news for television networks.
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Landing page and documentation should be reconsidered.
lots of unanswered questions,

- distributed, in-memory database - how does it compare to SAP HANA? or Redis? if "... database" where is the querying language? if you have own querying language other than SQL please show us.

- Performance is key - tell us about some benchmarks

- Consistency is a must - CA or CP in CAP theorem?

- Can I fully drop RDBMS in favor of Geode?

- web site built as Landing page/PR for product, then all of a sudden starts Community/Contributors/Getting started columns, with loooooong list of mailing lists, smaller content for contributors and very important part(getting started) presented as tiny small link :(, please put there some useful info about product, you already have Community/Contribute menus.
Why not remove a ban on buying whatever you want WITHOUT prescription.
Sounds like it's more of a joke, but I bet it feels like they break down more often - it's probably not trivial to just powercycle it mid-flight like you would your router at home.
Alwayhs thought this was a nice depiction, I am guessing it comes from the same time: http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0e8cy88A01qzcdwho1_1280.j...
I've been calling it for years: welcome to the return of the cryptowars. The 90's were just a stalling tactic, as admitted by a DoJ attorney to Eben Moglen back then. Expect creeping legislation to appear declaring more encryption "munitions grade", or some other such similar nonsense.
hi, you might give it a try. Many who used emacs for 10 to 20 years wrote to say they absolutely love it and switched. You can see them in the testimonials section.

Matthew Fidler introduced a theme system, so you can change any key you don't like, or disable the Windows style shortcuts. He's also quick to answer questions or fix bugs. Almost always within a day.

PS Matthew Fidler has been working on the project in the past 4 years. It's also part of GNU Elpa. :D
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All of the Paris terrorists who have been identified so far were European citizens. Yet countries are closing their borders to Syrian refugees all the same.
This is a good thing in one way. People should be free to buy chemicals at will. The disturbing part is that it's a forced tax paid to doctors to get RX's written each month.

Even worse, this further kills equality. A worker desiring to boost performance can easily afford top-notch medicines -- speed's only $20 a month for a starting dose at a pharmacy. But the prescription alone can be 10x that, and sometimes may be required every month. Not to mention the cost of a higher-end doctor that will assist customers. Poorer patients are thus denied medicine, creating a negative feedback loop.
Oh, I didn't know "Show HN"'s had to be "demo-able". Can you please just remove title and not remove from front page?
What do you do while you're disconnected? (Other than sleep, I assume that the London->San Francisco flight is probably over eight hours.
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The comments on the article are quire interesting, at least to me, as they show a community that is very confident (even when they disagree with each other) about broad food "right-ness".
I have WOW internet, and their provided modem was an Arris modem. It was a piece of garbage, so I bought a Netgear modem, sent the Arris back, and got $10 savings on my internet bill (for renting the crap modem). I'm even happier about that choice now. And yes, my new modem is DOCSIS 3.
And then he leaves the slide about lisp blank.
Even though it's the prime example of a language that one can generate by programs.
Summary of answer from both common sense and the article: Yes. I suspect the answer would be the same if the question were simply "do good manners matter?", but that is probably much harder to study. This is not meant to diminish the study; confirming seemingly obvious things is important.
As noted, I'm sure you mean aspirin.

True, aspirin as a daily regime for people with no CVA/TIA (stroke) or cardiac history is of dubious efficacy, but worthwhile of consideration. It is however, certainly not going to alleviate chest discomfort indicative of an impending cardiac event (or prevent said event).
You don't trust your email provider? Today your email provider is already implicitly your underlying IdP for almost every website you visit that uses that email (if it has a "Forgot Password" button that sends you an email, your email provider is your IdP). All Persona attempts to do is make that implicit assumption an explicit part of that email's identity, and even tries to make it somewhat more secure than sending random tokens via often insecure/semi-secure SMTP channels, as most "Forgot Password" systems do.

Ultimately yes, if you want to sign in to a website with your email address you typically have to trust your email provider. This is true on the web almost universally with or without Persona.

Why is any IdP required by Persona? Identity protection and reuse across browsers are two big reasons. If I want to say that I am/use the email "wm@example.com", Persona tries to verify that I actually have access to that email (can sign in to my email provider, or can do the classic click a random token link in an email cycle if my email provider isn't supported).
FWIW, GemFire is all written in Java and has native clients for c++ and .net ( as well as REST clients). The product was built from the ground up in Java and runs highly scaled up , low latency systems across the globe. The place is called Beaverton and while there are many beautiful forested riverbanks, the Pivotal team does not sit next to one.
Try uploading classical music as played by yourself or a computer. It will be monetized by Sony/BMG nearly instantly.
Wasn't there a project a while back where someone was building a open source modem/router from the ground up? A kick starter or something?
How do you respond to such a thing? If a patient is allergic to aspirin, concerned about liver toxicity from APAP, doesn't want stomach issues from NSAIDs, etc.? Do they just have to suffer or do you "give in" and provide them desired relief?
Hmm, I am not 100% sure, but I recall the NES gamepad uses an 8 bit shift register not a microcontroller.
Can someone compare Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation in simple form (main advantages or hurt)?

Thanks.
I'm a .Net developer myself but I honestly think that C++ and JS have become prime examples of OSS communities. In contrast, if you want a good story .Net is the way to go - it has definitely gone down an interesting road.
Just Rails right now - Sinatra is high on the list. We're testing it for our apps internally now.
I don't really follow the rant, but let me try again:

Some people are poor. They'll risk everything to come to the US or other wealthy countries. That's the economic reality.

You have several options:

* Become like North Korea. Walls, "papers, please", etc...

* Ignore it and pretend like you can keep them out or that there's a viable "legal path". This is kind of what we're doing now.

* Make it easier for them to come legally so that you can keep track of who is here, kick out the people who actually misbehave, and otherwise run a lawful and orderly country.

This has some parallels with the "war on drugs".
For now, perhaps. But to not look further is a serious lack of foresight.
* Note: not a women, Do not fashion trends. This is purely based on my observations of the women around me (wife, sisters etc etc), and some cursory reading on Zara etc.*

1. Things come and go into fashion, you have trends and 'mini-seasons' or something like that.

2. This is still driven by the major fashion labels

3. A critical thing has changed though: quite a number of companies have optimized their supply chain. I believe the term is called "Fast-fashion".

5. Examples: Zara, H&M, Mr Price (South Africa).

6. They are cost effective.

7. This means they get can a new design in stores within 2-4 weeks.

7. In other words, you could wear something that is 'in-fashion' at the same time as other high-end labels, previously with the long lead times and manufacturing in china you would get the item a season later. The followers were always behind.

8. This has resulted in changing behavior. Buying items from these stores. Using them for a few weeks or 1-2 months. And then getting rid of the item.

In other words, i believe the value proposition for rental of 'every-day' wear is quite weak.
That definitely changes things.

And yes, I am. :-)
Maybe I'm missing something in this story, but it just seem like a disagreement? Two parties disagreeing about something (like if to mark some particular symbolic day or not) is not censorship.
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I think some things are taught best to the priorities of the local job market. For example, business-oriented New Yorkers would probably benefit from skimming calculus and focusing on probability and statistics. Boston, where knowledge and research is highly valued, should emphasize total understanding of the math that is taught, which takes up more of the curriculum but provides value to the community. And in Silicon Valley the schools might better serve the community by skimming most math in favor of teaching software development.

While I believe in high standards, I also am skeptical about how those standards are set and measured, and what the benefit truly becomes. If we teach the entire nation to be exactly one type of citizen, consumer, and worker, then we don't really benefit or diversify our job markets, do we?
The 16 pin "microcontroller" in the NES controller is actually an 8 bit parallel-in/serial-out shift register.
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It doesn't look like it was implemented following TDD.

No recruiters would accept it.
Just try to find a public figure, any public figure, on any side, who has changed their mind on any policy question as a result of recent events or the information that has come to light from them.

It's obvious if you pay any attention that approximately nobody is examining facts and then reaching conclusions. They all reached their conclusions long ago, and now they use facts to justify those conclusions when suitable.