skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
author here. Thanks for your point.

You hit the spot. Yes, who is it to say that we reinvent programming tomorrow and it useless by next week. Great point.

My answer is, don't look at it from a black and white perspective. I'm not aiming for a 100% future proof solution, that is impossible as you pointed out. But we can make something much more future proof that what we have right now.
The interview you quote is from 1986, nearly 30 years ago. People change their viewpoints over 3 decades - it would be stupid if Gates always thought the same things even after learning from others or having new experiences.

So he's not being a "hypocrite," he's just learning. Just because he is famous and has a lot of interviews doesn't mean he isn't allowed to change his mind.
Are you saying I'm wrong, and that that pharma companies and others will donate hundreds of billions of dollars to drug development purely out of altruism?

Or are you simply claiming that a small number of examples exist, therefore my claim doesn't follow as a hard and fast rule but merely as a trend?
Well, I think that it is reasonable to say that the practice of vendoring dependencies is not limited to Google alone. It might not be as common in dynamic languages, but it's fairly common in static languages like C++, which Go was designed to replace. `go get` is basically a better curl for _getting_ dependencies, not _managing_ them. The language authors and the community are addressing the problem of management right now.

Before dismissing Go, please try to understand its history and the fact that it is changing.
He was live streaming last night on YouTube from some hotel. Even gave out his cellphone number and was taking questions about investing and whatnot. Was he arrested this morning? He was streaming at around 3am, 5 hours ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-4D6yj-cR4
> In Brazil, only a judge can authorize someone to be wiretapped

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10749400, it is claimed that "It says basically that police can require records of visited CONTENT without a court order and the ISP is required to supply that without informing the user." He is corrected by someone saying the text means metadata and not content.

Which is true? Do you not consider grabbing metadata to be a wiretap?
It made sense during times of oil shortages, in an Irish famine "Don't export food for profit while the local people starve" sense. While oil prices were rising ever higher, there was a perpetual risk that another oil shock could be round the corner. In the current circumstances though this is clearly the right thing to do.
homeopathic encryption!

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Interests of nation as a whole regarding strategically important resources not always align with what the free market will make of them. That's also the reason why a lot of countries subsidize the food industry: if you import food, it means that in the event of war and blockade you'll have to deal with hunger.
You mean "counter-anecdote"?
hi, author here. Thanks for your comment.

Personally, I don't think we could reinvent programming and make it 100% future proof. But if we reinvented programming it will be much more future proof that what we have now. The reason is that our current stack was not invented in the first place, kind of evolved upwards organically. If we did something it will at least be purposeful.
Exactly. Cartels build their own radio networks[0], compared to that, building secure communications out of the available OSS projects is trivial.

0. http://www.wired.com/2012/11/zeta-radio/
It's also quite easy to verify for yourself by visiting the web of science search. Then one can be assured it isn't a devious lie from the Koch brothers. ;)

I would be interested to know why Duarte feels the correct number is 80, and which IPCC model, if any of them, that consensus includes. I'm going to have to catch up on his blog.
But the existence of folks willing to buy up drugs/drug companies creates a liquid market. This makes creating new drugs more profitable and induces people to make more such drugs.

If we want to claim that folks buying up drugs don't help, do we also believe that tech startups getting exits doesn't promote the creation of more tech startups?
Running, and working out at home with some dumbbells and bodyweight exercises.
Machines do figure out the protocol on the fly by asking each other; see the Accept and Upgrade headers in HTTP, for example. Of course, HTTP is itself a protocol, because you can't "ask each other", or do any kind of communication at all, without a common protocol to start with.

As for making protocols on the fly, that makes roughly as much sense as two people inventing their own language to talk to each other.
Ah yes! Thanks for the correction.
I'd say the point of security in communication is being able to verify that all participants are who they say they are. More so than hiding the content from third party. ;-)
Keep in mind that in this specific case the patents on the molecule had long expired.
Here's a newsflash: nobody, except miners, care about how fast can you hash with a graphic card. I do not buy a card for hashing. The fact that I can run some fixed opencl safely still doesn't say anything about driver quality.
It's not exactly a fine line between altruism and price gouging, there is a huge scala of options in between. I find your comments in this thread hard to rhyme with your recent post about medical tourism. After all, if not for generics and your ability to move temporarily to a country where medical care is affordable you'd be out a very large amount of money over and beyond what you paid for your treatment. Clearly - for you - medication and care where you live is too expensive and you too would have benefited from more affordable medication and care.
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I believe the icon you're referring to (man and woman with a line between them) is actually the symbol for unisex toilets.
Even in America, where kilometers aren't used on any roads really anywhere in the country, our speedometers still read mph and km/h.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/11/2002-c...
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Why can't we have the government fund pharmaceutical research?
I used to do backups to optical media with freeze.sh and melt.sh. It worked well; I never had a problem restoring files.
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Yes. I do not know this man and I have no idea of his habits, but we're entering into "You need to stop doing that damned cocaine" territory -- that is, whether the cause is intrinsic or extrinsic, it appears to the casual observer that he is suffering from severe personality problems.

Makes you wonder who made or approved of him being CEO.
More likely, those who go against the status quo or are not the in-the-know crowd. I can't help but think that this CEO is a douchebag, but a very public douchebag. Big Pharma can't risk people figuring out that they use the same tactics he's using.
I'm tired of seeing this post in any space exploration thread that involves humans. I don't think it's on topic any more.
It'd be jarring enough to climb through such a small tunnel. But to hide there, while someone who wants to kill you waits outside? I'd go crazy.
Except in this case the patents had long expired and there was no legal monopoly involved. This was pretty much free-market business wheeling and dealing.
Yeah, I agree with your pendulum. I noted a WaPo article above that is hinting at that swing citing the mixing of old and new as a rising trend:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/apartment-ther...

Plus, if you look at some of the most sought after stuff -- e.g., Anthropologie furniture -- it's all throw back to old era. It seems to be as much about the ways in which people shop (online vs at brick and mortar) as it is purely about changes in taste.
> If privacy is a human right that cannot be violated ever, how are going to deal with criminals that use services such as WhatsApp?

By finding evidence that does not rely on services such as WhatsApp. How did anybody ever get convicted before the age of WhatsApp, or for that matter the invention of the telephone. It's not as if wiretaps and cell phone messages are the only kind of incriminating evidence that can be found on the vast majority of crimes. And if that is the evidence that stands between a free man/woman and their conviction then maybe it is better that they go free because it is all too easy to forge such evidence or to plant it.
I practice I agree, for now.

In principle, since both the Signal client and server are FLOSS, it should be possible to resist a block in some ways that might not be so easy with for example Whatsapp, but as far as I can tell, as things stand right now there is no built-in way to switch server, and asking millions of regular people to make changes to the source code of their cellphone software, recompile and manually reinstall does not seem like a recipe for success.
I wonder if one might sensibly work around these things by fallback/optional connection to the server through Tor if Tor is available on the device?
>I believe the word you're looking for is "witch hunt".

It's not a witch hunt. Dude's been under investigation for 3 years.

The article states this:

"The Securities and Exchange Commission, which according to court documents opened an investigation into Shkreli in 2012, is expected to file a parallel civil complaint against him, according to people familiar with the matter."
>We could recapture this lost value with a universal basic income

In absolute agreement. UBI may unlock extreme growth of efficiency by enabling risk taking without risk of total defeat.
Econ 101 is "look at what happened in Australia". The commenter addresses that actually but his response is really lame. "Things are just different there". Uh huh.

Actually this is pretty much a model for what would happen to McDonalds in the US:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-in-australia-vs-amer...
It doesn't. But it is a good clue that the robot isn't using a rational process to select beliefs, and is instead doing so randomly. It is far easier to come up with an invalid belief than a valid one, and if you aren't selecting them rationally, you are practically guaranteed to be wrong.

>If you believe A yet have proven B, that doesn't make B wrong.

It makes you wrong. All the time you spend as a proponent for A is wasted.
Yes, if you invest at least $1,000,000 and employ more than 10 people for two years you will be eligible to the EB-5 visa. It seems a good way to get a green card if you have the money.
I can agree with this being extremely problematic in a political sense - it's horribly wrong to rip someone off, even more so by robbing them during wartime. Quoting such stolen material is a kind of passive support and should not be tolerated.

BUT - how does that affect it from a purely scientific perspective? Is the quoted stolen material also incorrect? Because it would be equally bad, IMHO, to ignore an important and correct scientific finding just because it was produced in an unacceptable way.

If I exaggerate a bit, it's similar to someone experimenting on babies to discover a cure for AIDS - sure, they're a terrible person and should not receive praise/compensation for their discovery, their actions should be condemned. But should we also throw away the discovered cure?
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Exactly. I have some apps that don't run on Linux, like Photoshop and at work the printer driver. It seems that ReactOS is much faster than XP running in Virtualbox, and if Photoshop and that printer driver work in ReactOS, then I'm all for it.

I hope this does provide a better user experience than Wine, because I've tried that, and after a while Photoshop breaks down somehow. Elements on the page disappear, file operations don't work and in the end it all stops. I want something that is stable, and I hope this works better than Wine, even if both share much code.
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You picked an outlier top university frequented by the offspring of the upper middle class and wealthy. My point stands -- the notion is elitist and has no hope of reflecting the reality of most Americans' relationship with higher education.
Martin Shkreli Arrested on Fraud Charges
> Adults capable of making decisions that can change the course of their lives

Excellent, I agree with you. The problem is that a brain raised on poverty makes people less capable of making good decisions. That's what we're concerned about.
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Four [perhaps] plausible explanations in no particular order of importance.

1. Ars is written for general readers, i.e. it ain't a refereed technical journal.

2. Though there will be only one Will Shakespeare, the English language licenses authors to coin words [and quine quines].

3. Usage is hard, even when referencing the scientific "km/h".

4. Bespoke fact checking is expensive and the internet makes all grammar errors shallow.

My take is that while accurate attention to the specification of velocities is critical to space travel it is not nearly so to the thrust of the article. Boosting research there would little lift the major point. [caveat] I admit to the belief it's almost certainly a calculated mixture of time/money investment relative to the intellectual payload and the magazine's mission.
Not for me. It's every time, even though I can see right in the app my exact computer & browser it still wants me to re-scan.
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Absolutely, Varnish with malloc has (and still) served us well when the working set fits in RAM - that was why we started with Varnish. We still use it in front of our web servers and will for the foreseeable future!
It's a feature.
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> And yet every time I try to get Matlab users to use something else (Python or Julia) the one thing they almost immediately complain about is the lack of a GUI IDE as good as the Matlab one.

Pycharm[0] has become my prefered Python IDE about 2 years ago (when they went free commmunity/pay for pro) and it's a way better environment than MATLAB. It now has "Scientific tools" too[1], and I understand some good features, though I haven't used them yet.

The only good thing I still recognize of MATLAB is that most toolboxes work together without (too much?) hacking. Working with Python/NumPy you eventually find stuff that you need to adjust to work with that other library you just found implements that thing you absolutely need.

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/features/scientific_tools....
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Well I don't have a MBA :D, but I do have a masters degree of a similar orientation (Masters in engineering management). I can only recommend the ones I have read and found of value:

[1] Crossing the chasm (Marketing related)

[2] Peopleware (HR related)

[3] How to win friends and influence people (HR related)

[4] The Goal (Business related)

[5] Critical chain (Project management related)

[6] Who moved my cheese (Change management related)

and any of the lean / agile businessy books for ex.

[7] The lean startup

These might not be viewed as traditional MBA material, but my course featured some of these along with more traditional academic books on subjects like financial management, people management, operations etc. I can provide these textbooks to you as well if you like.

*Amazon links just for convenience, no affiliation.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-3rd-Disruptive-Mainstre...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-3...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0884271951?keywords=eli%20g...

[5] http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Chain-Eliyahu-M-Goldratt/dp/0...

[6] http://www.amazon.com/Who-Moved-My-Cheese-Amazing/dp/0399144...

[7] http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-...
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I found it curious that the article concludes with a "social justice" angle. Noting that antiques are more eco-friendly than manufacturing completely new items, and wondering why this environmental point doesn't attract young people.

For one thing, the article talks about antique furniture costing thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. Selling that to a crowd of debt-saddled Millennials on the basis of "social justice" is pretentious to the extreme. After all, my organic latte is already resting atop my bamboo yoga mat... so I've done my part.

More seriously though, I've always assumed that the antiques market is driven by nostalgia and longing for the past. The younger generation today seems to have very low levels of nostalgia and longing for the past. Specifically FOR "social justice" reasons.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not making some absurd Tumblr argument that antique chairs are racist or anything. I'm just noting that less nostalgia for the past probably lowers the demand for antiques, and surely that plays a role alongside the supply rising due to Baby Boomer retirements.
What happens if a malicious forks is introduced in the blockchain? I see two possible outcomes, with the latter much more likely than the former:

a) The blockchain protocol is the final arbiter of ownership, and those who purchased the stock in the other branch of the chain no longer own the stock. Caveat emptor.

b) Courts rule in favor of the people who actually bought the stocks and marks the attack branch as invalid. This is possible because the attack was witnessed by so many people.

It's unlikely that a fork would be resolved with (a), but if it does, there would be a lot of very pissed of investors and lawsuits. All it takes for such a fork to happen is someone with the motive to do it and the means to lean on a few mining pool operators.

It's more likely that we would see outcome (b), in which case, the courts are the final authority and then what the heck is the point of using an expensive, slow, poorly scalable, decentralized consensus system?

I totally see the value of a decentralized system despite the shortcomings, but if you're coming to do away with that aspect, what on earth is the point?
That sounds like having wrong organisation of data and then using wrong tools to do the job. Interesting article though.
In the past I've found that sendfile is not portable. FreeBSD and Mac OS X require the file that is being sent be a regular file[0] while Linux will take any file descriptor[1]. That being said, I can't imagine what benefit memmapping would have in the context over the file system page cache.

0 - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sendfile&sektion=2

1 - http://linux.die.net/man/2/sendfile
The actual title is perhaps more political than technical: Why we’re going back to the Moon—with or without NASA. Hacker News has committed a bit of editorial discretion, it appears.
I'd assume that you would only hide in such a tunnel temporarily and not in sight of an attacker. Just stay in there until it's night, the situation calms down and it's easier to slip away completely.
This distinction between metadata and data is getting old. Metadata is personal, revealing information to a large degree. The analogy with envelopes and the address written on the outside is absurd. There is a huge difference between that and the huge electronic logs they create from our mobile phones and internet activities (such as cell tower based location, search keywords on http sites, etc)

Metadata is still privacy infringing personal data.
This opinion was born and raised in an environment of government funding for space. There is no fundamental reason why it should cost dozens of billions of dollars to get to space. If private industry brings it down to a cost more related to the true, fundamental price, it goes flying out the window. Merely millions to put people in space is of a kind with oil exploration, building transport networks, and all sorts of other situations where private industry under solid government routinely invest by the millions or even billions. At that point the argument actually completely flips around; anywhere we can afford to put a human, it is more cost-effective to do so than send a robot.
Said optimal media already use RS encoding internally and theoretically there shouldn't be problems with these either. Even if you pile several layers of RS on top of each other you can still have bad luck.

Better to have several backups. :-)
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No, most CEOs of publicly traded companies are at least smart enough not to brag about it.
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"No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don't have it."

You determine who is a criminal so you determine who has the right to privacy? Maybe you are a reasonable person but I think it is naive to operate under the assumption that governments/judges will always be reasonable. I think indeed that you may be spied upon when you are suspect of a crime but to force Whatsapp to store all messages (diminishing everyone's privacy) due to a couple of criminals sounds like a bad idea to me.

So the right to privacy should be absolute, until you disrespect other people's rights (the only thing that should be a crime). So do good policing, don't take privacy away from innocent, free (wo)men.
Interesting bookend to this [1], which felt like the best possible endorsement for Varnish I'd seen, and was a driving factor in me building it out where I work. As others have pointed out, it seems more like an issue of being the wrong tool for the current needs, and not so much a problem with Varnish itself.

1. http://www.slideshare.net/grahamlyons/varnish-at-the-bbc
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> But are statistical conclusions really necessary? Or the
> only conclusions that matter?

They are in the sense that without any further information, let's make other claims:

- Would she really be the COO of Facebook if she wasn't a woman?
- Would she really be the COO of Facebook if she wasn't an Harvard alumna?
- Would she really be the COO of Facebook if she wasn't Jewish?
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> there are many factors for why she got her position. But
> I doubt that she strictly speaking knows which of them
> contributed

Precisely; nor do we. There seems little point speculating. (However something statistical like 'x% tech COOs have an MBA' would be more interesting).
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dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10746547
top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10750928
I appreciate that Brazil has implemented this well. Suppose I told you that it was exactly the same in China - the police provide reasonable justification, judges approve the request and only then is someone's privacy violated. Would you buy it? Or would you point out that judges in China are merely rubber stamping authorities?

And lest you think that this is only a problem with China, America has the exact same issue. The FISA court was supposed to hear requests for people's private info but it was a glorified rubber stamp, granting 99.9999% of requests. And that's the problem, you cannot have a free and vibrant democracy when people's privacy is negotiable.

Perhaps that sounds like hyperbole, but have a look at what other commenters are saying about fishing expeditions and tell me if you still think so.
Don't know why you're getting down voted, it seems like the best way to go about it. Share the cost of this research among all of us, just like we (in some countries) do with education, healthcare, police, etc.
I thought the article read he was arrested for Securities Fraud, not something to do with pricing drugs.