skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The acceptable error level is different when the electronic version is the original and there's no external validation mechanism.

But that's true about an all digital business. I mean, I'm pretty sure most of Google and Facebook's records are digital only. There are plenty of solutions that exist to make sure that it is backed up and replicated safely.

The trick here is convincing not only the construction companies that it is safe, but their regulators.
Zmodem inspired me to rewrite the CP/M BIOS routines for reading the floppy drive on the computers we sold at my first job. The floppy format had a sector interleave of 4, which meant 4 rotations to read an entire track. 300RPM is slow enough without cutting it to 75 effective RPM.

The interleave was a throwback to the programmed-I/O days of older systems; the CPU couldn't setup to read the next sector right away, so they solved that problem with an interleave. But the new systems had a DMA controller, so I made the BIOS interrupt-driven and read the sectors out of order but into the correct RAM buffering address. Instant hot rod floppies. Everyone on the team bitched that I "wasted" two days "over optimizing a non-core feature". You know what though, they all smiled most every time they had to sneaker net something to a different department.
I'm surprised the AMA, insurance companies or the US government haven't built a simple website that compares the drugs used to treat various conditions to combat the problem of people switching drugs because they are new or are heavily advertised.

While a layman can't be expected to fully understand the benefits/drawbacks/interactions of a drug in detail, it seems like it should be possible to have an easy to understand grid of positives, negatives, retail price, etc. that would make comparing say, the brand new bipolar drug to old generic lithium.
The logic is that they make a vast amount of money.
Nmap 7 Release Notes
Seems obvious someone could sue and make money from this.

Though perhaps not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud

"But the U.S. Copyright Act does not expressly provide for any civil actions to remedy claims of copyright on public domain materials, nor does the Act prescribe relief for individuals who refrain from copying or pay for copying permission to an entity that engages in copyfraud."
I'd rather answer "no clue" in an interview than fake knowledge and wind up in a job where I'm lacking basic required skills.
I wonder why Apache would need to have two "more similar than different" products.
It's pretty impressive to look at and consider the differences in the complexity of the circuit boards in successive generations.

It would be very interesting if someone had a chart of BOM costs for the various controllers and systems, to see if the budget for controllers has changed since the NES/Famicon days.

Also of course, if Nintendo really wanted to make a killing, putting the original NES in a controller and selling that with an HDMI port on the end would be sweet. I'd pay $50 for a low-hassle, no-legal-ambiguities way to play NES games with my kid.
Former Facebook Product Manager Documents a Month Spent in Syria
Good the fuck luck. Pharmaceuticals are one of the biggest lobbying groups in DC. Advertising firms would be heavily against this as well.

I'm all for this, but it's never going to happen without severe public outcry, and even then...
The IRS answers to people a majority of your neighbors elected and could remove at any point if they cared to do so.
Upload that content to archive.org instead of Youtube.
Furthermore, given that I can buy a a jar of 1,000 low dosage store-brand aspirin for $10 or so, I doubt that the adult use of baby aspirin came about because of a vast pharma-financed advertising campaign.
Ignite vs Pivotal Gemfilre (Apache Geode) https://ignite.apache.org/use-cases/compare/gemfire.html

This is cool: "Ignite allows for most of the data structures from java.util.concurrent framework to be used in a distributed fashion."
https://ignite.apache.org/features/datastructures.html
>Geode and its predecessor GemFire are pure Java.

i know (was talking at some point about joining, already here in SV), and this is why i wrote only "3 decades" as i don't know precise dates of GemFire only suppose it to be beginning of 200x. My simple arithmetics mistake though - 2002 - 1982 is 2 decades, sorry, i see where confusion comes from :)
Sure, things that are cause for large scale disease/biohazard might be a good exceptions. The medicines patients seem to be seeking most (psychedelics, relaxants, stimulants, painkillers, erection-assistants) don't seem to fall into this category.
Okay, how is that obvious? Why would you be likely to succeed?
Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Questions about Go
In the case of cable internet service (not fiber), you'll almost never get a standard Ethernet socket. Chances are, you'll get a coaxial connection that requires a device to bridge the connectors and perform a handshake with your upstream provider.

Of course, most consumers go with whatever hardware their provider gives them (usually a gateway to provide Wifi). This presents it's own problem: in the US, cable companies are trying to set up mesh networks/guest access, and so those gateways may be running a second semi-public as a node on the mesh.
That's really great.
Has it ever occurred to you that you have a ton of control over your general health and can protect yourself from physical injury extremely well?

Has it ever occurred to you that many people in the United State don't have legs?
There is no free market for drugs or medicine. I also don't think markets converge on free over time.
> I wish all these alt-JS-haskellish language authors (of PureScript, Elm, Roy, etc.) would just work on making GHCJS better.

All three of those have very different goals and trade-offs from GHCJS.

I agree that it would be nice to share more work/knowledge though. One of the nice things about AltJS is that several languages can coexist in the same codebase.
The English show "The Supersizer" did a great take on the Victorian diet. Too bad that it is not on their youtube channel because it is on many other youtube channels.
Yes, the market works the buyers are the doctors (or organizations with medical expertise such as Surgeon general, Insurance company). They are informed enough to make a transaction with the producer of a drug.

A patient will never be able to make a rational decision when buying a drug. So the market economy clearly breaks down if you ever consider patients to be the customers.
Ask HN: As a thought experiment, how would we ban encryption?
I like to sit around and listen to everyone argue about whether encryption should be regulated. I know it's infuriating to some, but I rest assured that, realistically, it can't happen. But can it? How would we go about curtailing the use of encryption technology given that strong encryption tools have already propagated?

I think this would be a useful exercise because it shifts the argument from "should we" to "can we." It also forces us to think about the side effects of regulation, e.g., will it have an impact on the competitiveness of individual states that choose to limit cryptography education, practice, and tools?
I'm not exactly sure who gets the info every time my passport gets scanned but I would imagine both the country I'm leaving and the country I'm entering know about it. I've never been out of country for more than a few weeks at a time (and never was it to move there) but I find it hard to believe that moving to a different country would be less strict than just visiting for a couple weeks.
Nah that's consistent with my point. Plus leads one to think of even more issues that exist. :)
Since you need a DOCSIS modem box and a router, I would suggest people put a router box you fully control behind your ISP's DOCSIS brick, and just assume the latter is compromised continuously.

I use pfsense on a usb stick in a little box with 2 ethernets.
Watercress and cherries are relatively expensive but I think you'll find that onions, cabbage, and apples are all priced quite competitively with a lot of processed food.
How does this explain communities where there is a lot of rudeness and bullying, and yet the projects themselves are successful?

Are those projects successes despite their manners?
So long as you can keep usage of class B very low, especially if you can quarantine anyone being treated by class B until they are not contagious, you don't have to prohibit all use.
Using Paris Attacks as Excuse to Expand Domestic Spying
OpenWrt is the closest thing I can think of.
Complex objects can be stored by key and automatically partitioned and replicated. Query the data with OQL (an ODMG standard). For example:

select * from /person p where p.name = 'foo' and p.age > 42
I'm a grumbly old man despite my age, and am rarely in favour of new laws. That said, I find outlawing prescription drug ads entirely reasonable.
> - Consistency is a must - CA or CP in CAP theorem?

There is no CA. So, they must mean CP.

Remember, kids: if they promise CA, run away.
Exactly. You got the message easy enough. Makes me lean more toward sophistry for the other person.
Demonstrating that consumers have trouble with insurance decisions implies nothing about their ability to make care decisions.
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The depreciation issue is offset by the fact that you could get more usage out of a single outfit before it goes out of fashion if it was shared. People aren't wearing the same thing every day. Clothes sit unused in closets for weeks at a time while they are still in fashion.
Ok, now we need a ridiculously simple version in C, that will probably fit in 64 characters and require a page of explanation :-)
There are some things that can not be undone. Putting this particular software genie back into the bottle would require either a global EMP or a targeted destruction of each and every technology device produced after ~1998. So there you have two somewhat workable proposals.
I think part of the issue here is that back in the day with less automation, you could prove yourself useful merely with the skills that come along with having a pulse and a functioning brain. Your utility one just doing the unskilled parts of your job would let you keep a job long enough to learn the hard skills to really be useful within a few months to a year. Automation of all these menial tasks has gotten so good that you no longer have low hanging fruit to justify employment that the level of skill a recent college grad has coming out of school.

Take some of the skills cited like statistics. Most people in the workforce have atrocious practical stats skills, but enough to get by. For recent grads, it's abysmal to non-existent. A few years ago to back in the day, you wouldn't have been expected to apply such skills on day one. You'd have enough time to realize your skill gap and address it. Not anymore.

Anyone thinking about university is best served by choosing schools like University of Waterloo, where there is a strong culture of having kids do real work during the summer months at real companies (instead of summer school). Any school where kids are doing summer school or goofing around all summer are going to be left behind.
The first rule of sales is to pitch the decision maker.

You may need a prescription from a doctor to get a drug, but that doesn't mean you aren't the decision maker.

After finally getting a proper diagnosis for my condition, doctors began asking me "What typically works for you?" or "What drug do you like/is your preference?" I had a long history of health problems, thus lots of experience with what worked for me. After they gave me a proper diagnosis (and thus quit acting like dismissive assholes), I could walk into a doctor's office and say "I am having Yadda problem. I want (this list of meds) and am open to suggestions as to what else you think might help me." And get it.

Ultimately, I was the decision maker. The doctor's job was, in part, to inform me what my options were. But no one just crammed their medical opinion down my throat, even before I had a proper diagnosis and doctors were routinely being jerks to me and acting like I was some kind of hypochondriac.
Kinda. I think it'd be better if the aspnet team's CI system would upload new dnx packages to myget... and then also build a new docker image with the latest dnx bits baked in.

That way I can try the latest and greatest of rc2 without having to rebuild my container every time new packages go up on myget.

It's a pretty minor ask... I'm probably one of a very small number of people that are stubborn enough to be on the bleeding edge (using rc2 when rc1 is the latest release, etc)
Don't miss the very interesting blog post http://www.a1k0n.net/2015/11/09/javascript-ft2-player.html
Pyro Mini Fireshooter
I experimented with an alternative HTTP authentication scheme (like basic or digest, using the "WWW-Authenticate" header) that used ssh keys to authenticate the client. Some of the idea was based on this Joyent blog [0] post about signing the date header, but more robust and meant for a user rather than scripted access. The idea was that the browser would interface with a specific ssh-agent with specific keys loaded for specific sites.

Unfortunately, I didn't get very far and stopped working on it a while ago, but one thing I did learn was that the source code for links was much easier to come up to speed on and use for rough experiments than the source code for a full-on graphical browser.

I still have notes for it... somewhere.

[0] http://joyeur.com/2012/01/03/a-bit-more-about-the-new-joyent...
Thanks for the follow up. I shall look it up.

The intellisense feature (or whatever the Eclipse folks has called it) on Eclipse is pretty good if is able to resolve its indexing paths correctly. This is not always possible.

I also want Eclipse to be a lot faster. I come from a vim background, and Eclipse feels glacier.
There's certainly a cynicism present in some providers - we're definitely not a perfect bunch, and some areas will have more explicit policy on the use of narcotic pain relief.

For me: I look at physiological symptoms. You tell me you're in 10/10 pain (the "worst of your life"/"worst you could imagine") and you're in no visible distress with normal vital signs, then I'll factor that into the decision.

That being said, I believe it is unethical, immoral to withhold something that could benefit a patient who is in genuine distress, regardless of anything else. For those patients, we have options, too. Fentanyl, for one, is used a lot pre-hospital as it is both an effective analgesic with a short lifetime in the body.

There used to be (probably still is) doctors in the ED who don't want a patient to come in with pain meds onboard because they want to see a "baseline presentation". Again, I think this falls into the realm of poor provider care. We have diagnostic tools for objective analysis, and having a patient in pain just so we can measure it is inhumane.

Bottom line: if a patient requires pain medication, they will get it from me, subject to analysis of circumstances. In your example above, if it's not "drug seeking" but concerns about side effects, then the patient and I can have a discussion about benefits versus risks (the flip side to that being if a patient has a broken femur, for example, that conversation is likely to be limited to 'give me the damn drug!").
It's not necessarily an obvious conclusion. Many people look at the success of Linux and of Apple under Steve Jobs and conclude that a rude leader is a positive.
Though the majority of AMA members voted for it.
"I'm definitely not proposing isolationism. I'm proposing we spend aid money actually helping the populations of nations instead of funding whatever militant promises to protect US interests."

Bingo!
Yup! It's a humble 4021N.
Not everyone thinks that the health problem they're having is treatable - an ad can let someone know that there is a drug for condition X, prompting a trip to the doctor that would otherwise not happen.
Over and over people on HN come to the defense of advertising. Doctors tend to be Republican and free-market adherents. So why would they be against drug advertising?

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
- Upton Sinclair
Yeah, we only gave that candidate the document because we were had just come up with it, we figured he would completely ace it. When he came back with really bad answers for all of the questions (including, "I've never heard of Powershell and I'm not sure how I would use it to do this" in 2012 with claiming the last 10 years as a Windows admin), my boss called me into his office and we just stared at the answers in shock.

Awesome. I was a bigger Total Annihilation fan/community member than I was for Homeworld, but still, it tickles me when I see names I recognize from gaming being 'real people' somewhere on the internet years later.
I'm guessing that the produce referred to was cheap when in season and possibly unobtainable out of season unless preserved. Apples Sept/Oct, cabbage pretty long season.
Imma thinkin a "staunch libertarian" would be okay with not regulating advertising and letting people pop pills.
> People should be free to buy chemicals at will.

this would introduce a myriad of acute public health issues and do great harm to the public good, costing taxpayers billions of dollars for remediation.

Edit: the DHHS's report on prescription medication abuse is good reading in this area: http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/hhs_prescription_drug_ab...
Overheard three college students at the next table in a restaurant two days ago talking about how free speech is outdated and the Constitution should be changed to limit it so that you can't speak in anyway that was offensive to others.

I was flabbergasted.

These are students who are supposed to be going to school to get exposure to ideas different from their own and learn about the value of freedom of expression especially when it comes to expressing views the majority might not agree with.

I feel like an old man wondering what is wrong with kids today and I'm not that old.
Could you explain these lines:

> int (* PC[15])(int i) = { i,i,f,i,b,f,i,i,f,b,i,f,i,i,fb }; // Printer Cycle

> int (* LC[2]) (int index) = { go, stop }; // Logic Cycle

I can see they behave as functions, but I don't understand what exactly are they or the logic that makes then work.
There clearly committing fraud.
So, this basically kills the ecosystem, right? Has anyone reverse-engineered and documented their client API?
If you had bothered to at least read the abstract, you might have found that there is no claim that projects like that will always fail, as you insinuate. The authors merely claim that politeness is positively correlated with with a number of key metrics like time required to fix an issue and duration of project participation.
I'm using the same stack (minus immutable.js, but I'm thinking on it), combined with redux-simple-router. Apart from the usual problems associated with Javascript, it works pretty well, and I feel it's easy to understand what is going on.

On the other hand, there are some pitfalls. Since you may need to trigger actions based on some transient state (eg, fetching data from the server), you occasionally need to set flags in your store ("my state is dirty"). Forgetting to clean up a flag will lead to tears.
How to use WP-CLI
A one-second google search turned up this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1118198/how-can-you-figur...

They should just use that to find the highest z-index, then add 1. Totally future proof.
Yeah - to the point that I can't stand it. I can't even watch football anymore. I generally end up muting the commercials and forgetting to check back when they're over.
from docs at[1] they only support SELECT statements in OQL, calling object method in query reminds me Esper complex event processing engine.

[1] - http://geode-docs.cfapps.io/docs/getting_started/querying_qu...
Mkiehl
See also "Zugradar" of the Deutsche Bahn:

http://www.bahn.de/zugradar

Also made by HaCon (http://www.hacon.de).
The US doesn't consider it a violation. It grants private entities ownership of extracted resources, not celestial bodies.
Can't speak to the fragility, but when a home WAP typically only costs $50, a 10x increase in cost for an aerospace item is trivial.
NY has illegalized hoverboards
> Doctors tend to be Republican and free-market adherents.

Where did you get this idea from?
It's interesting that you admit that this is a topic on which you are largely ignorant and yet you speak with such confidence about your beliefs.
It's an impediment because, when you're applying for jobs, you're older, poorer, and have no extra job experience.

There are absolutely jobs where it would help, like research. If you wanted to work on the super-technical stuff at Google or Facebook, like developing new languages, you'd probably need that MS.

But generally speaking, employers care exclusively about your experience (partially because there are so many self-taught people that do good work), and a Masters just says, "I'm going to demand a higher salary".

On a semi-related note, I'm self-taught, like you are, and I considered a Masters. I now laugh at that idea -- I don't know even a tiny fraction of what's needed to get a Masters. It was very humbling to talk to people with CS degrees and hear all the things they learned.

When you miss out on an undergraduate CS degree, you miss a lot of theory and math. Jumping right into an MS program would be incredibly difficult unless you're a prodigy of math and logic (and have the time to spend on catching up).

(None of that is to say that your typical web development job requires a CS degree at all. We use high-level languages and, oftentimes, widely-used, lightly-customized software.)
Captagon, the drug fueling Syria’s war
There are already systems that provide that - stream over the inflight Wifi from a movie box somewhere on the plane. Provided I have a power outlet I prefer it to the usual system because my laptop screen is so much better than the in-seat TV.
U.S. clears genetically modified salmon for human consumption
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This is what I expected would already be setup - it'd be a pain to deal with cross-browser stuff when implementing it, but it'd be a dream for app developers (me).
Regarding global state and React, this looks relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu4Yz2HmCgE&t=11m37s
Redis is single-threaded, so everything it does on a per-node basis is implicitly atomic. You can also force the single thread to handle a block of commands from a single socket at once by using MULTI (otherwise commands can be interleaved with other commands from other sockets).
Actually she's not that far off. It's a stupid way to phrase it, but the global apparel and global entertainment market sizes (as well as their corresponding USA measurements) are pretty similar (~500B/2T).

http://www.statista.com/statistics/279735/global-apparel-mar...

http://www.statista.com/statistics/237749/value-of-the-globa...
While on a flight recently, I realized... Why doesn't Google sponsor free in-flight WiFi? It would be much easier than Google Fiber or Project Loon, and it would let them deliver more ads to a fairly wealthy group of people.
It looks like you can always avoid needing signals of signals by declaring one signal for each type, not a signal for each instance.

All instances of the same message type can share a signal, as long as the messages contain a unique key to distinguish between objects, and the code that lives downstream filters events by key.

It's much like a database-backed app where you don't dynamically create tables while your app is running. Instead, instances are stored within a table and identified by their keys.
DLL/PIC Injection on Windows from Wow64 Process