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There was no monopoly per-se, but there is considerable cost getting a new pharmaceutical company's production spun up and FDA approved.

For limited application drugs (so annual sales smaller than Prozac... which is most of them), this effectively means there will only be one supplier.

I don't know a way to fix this that will satisfy most interested parties.
> The younger generation today seems to have very low levels of nostalgia and longing for the past.

I would imagine that they just don't have a past to long for because they are young.
I view some of these math researchers as club sandwiches, but that's probably because I'm very very hungry right now.
Wait, so he bought a million dollar record and then stole money that he gouged sick people for to pay it off? If he just kept the drugs at the same price and didn't buy the record the world would be a better place and he wouldn't be going to jail. I thought he said he did the price gouging for the shareholders, not for WuTang.
What I want to hear from BBC is not how fast they can make a web server, but what are they going to do about those 1 million hours of archive TV and radio content they are sitting on. It's a shame for that treasure to be locked in copyright limbo, while YouTube collects 100 hours of cat videos per hour.
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Actual URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/17d22fb8-cea2-49...
Wish I could upvote more. This is why private companies need to be in the space industry. They do things more efficiently because it's going to cost them and their shareholders if they don't. I was thrilled to see the ULA slides about their cislunar roadmap. I was born 30 years too early I think...I likely won't ever get to space, but maybe my kids will.
Why respond? You really think Google [or self-respecting company] would dignify some random person one-upping their self-driving initiative with an official blog post? Seriously? Elon Musk's hair-transplant-insecurity is a strong one.
That's mind blowing. I wonder how many pairs of sneakers they went through.

Also wonder if they chat while they run or just like running together.
There's a fundamental flaw in that thinking. Greed is far from the only motivating factor in humanity. As a matter of fact, I'd argue that it's precisely the belief in this status quo, that causes sociopathic a-holes to run sociopathic companies. The solution is not necessarily to make everything government run, but perhaps to simply not accept such behavior/thinking as having any place in our society.
> Humans are the weaker link in software development, we should do like with other things that humans don't do anymore, figure out a solution and put our time to do something else.

WALL·E would disagree, and so would I.
There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random()
He's the CEO of two companies.

In the case of Turing Pharmaceuticals he's the CEO because he founded the company and it's funded by his hedge fund buddies, who like him because they made a lot of money from his hedge fund MSMB, despite the hedge fund being a failure.

He'a also the CEO of KaloBios. In that case he bought, with the same buddies, 70% of the company stock. As the new majority shareholder he simply appointed himself CEO.
According to TFA, the investigation started in 2012, long before his notoriety.
That actually does diminish his feat.

An ironman each day as a workout. Just imagine that. Wow.
This is in the context of programmers-who-have-already-been-hired-at-microsoft. And possibly speaks to a lack of training/mentoring. Edit: and something Gates said 20 years ago.

Learning new things makes you a better programmer, always. My first four years, I was a copy/paste programmer. Then I turned 11 and learned algebra. Huge leap forward. Another huge leap forward with trigonometry and calculus. Again when I had access to a library with books that weren't older than me. Another when I finally met other programmers, studied FP and learned half a dozen real languages. Another with statistics, differential equations and linear algebra. And so forth.

The ascent only ever stops if you are employed at a company that has a culture of overwork and no mentoring. But if Gates believed people can't grow, then (true to the headline) he probably made it a self-fulfilling prophesy.
They are alleging that he structured arrangements with a new firm to pay off investors from an old firm. Fake consulting agreements, fake loans.

The case the prosecution has to prove is that they were fake. Tough job unless they have a snitch from the old firm.
I'm not completely familiar with data storage and access policies between the two, but I was under the impression that Telegram's main selling point was security/privacy and that you could schedule messages to be permanently deleted from Telegram's servers. Now that I've read more on the subject from you and others, it seems to be UX/UI and marketing.

I'll defer to you on this one as you're an expert in the field.
This was his previous company that parted ways with him when they found out that his crazy talk was really him being totally nuts! It is interesting that Turning was about find backing with his past grievances so visible. I will give him credit he is sticking with the batsh!t craziness it til the bitter end...
ReactOS aims to be compatible with Windows 2003 only on the kernel level. Compatibility on the user-space level is not restricted to that.
Paris attackers likely used encrypted apps
I agree and that's what I like to do too when these issues come up (time permitting). Still, I hope my basic point came through: the small modules approach isn't a panacea; it can add its own set of problems; "monoliths" can be a good choice, not always, but sometimes.
By blocking WhatsApp nation-wide you are putting the burden of losing the main means of communication on the backs of 100 million Brazilians, for a matter that concerns only to a few people.

Of course WhatsApp and Facebook are not above the law, but was the decision reasonable at all?
The countries have every right to legally prosecute their residents for breaking the local law. This doesn't mean that everybody worldwide has a duty to assist this prosecution. Even more, there are many cases (e.g. those I listed above) where a honest person should not cooperate but hinder and obstruct this foreign legal prosecution as much as their own local laws allow.

Whatsapp has a duty to protect their user's privacy. Unless they receive a binding legal order from their authorities (in Whatsapp's case, USA) it is entirely right to ignore nonbinding requests from judges in Brazil, Thailand, Iran or everywhere else. Simply submitting to out-of-jurisdiction authorities is not due process, it is sharing personal data with third parties without the user's consent which (IANAL, IMHO) is legal in USA but would be prohibited if, for example, Whatsapp was headquartered in EU.

In your examples, the listed companies (or their appropriate subsidiaries) are subject to those laws because they are headquarted there, those laws are their local laws exactly unlike the nonexistent legal relationship between Whatsapp and Brazil.

Some countries will have bilateral agreements to obtain evidence from abroad - a process on how e.g. Brazil law enforcement could cooperate with USA law enforcement to get a request that has some legal force in USA (and vice versa). In the absence of that, a provider should side with their users privacy and ignore foreign requests as a policy.
That's a debatable definition, to say the least. I'm not saying authentication is not an important part of security, but saying it is the only important part is quite a stretch, don't you think?
The idea is excellent (I've lost files to bitrot before), but what is the advantage here over using "Parchives" [1]? There is widespread cross-platform software available for "par2" format.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
> But that's because you are good people and see the matter with those eyes...

Good point. Similar thing can be said about law enforcement. They see bad all the time, so they are more likely to see everything as bad and push for legislation that is privacy restrictive because of that. Good people who see good need to be vigilant so that their rights are not diminished.
This particular rights purchase and price hike was just foolish. A compounding pharmacy responded to it by offering the same medicine for ~$1 per pill.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c1264e78de574d869519f169d5a1a...
A lot of big companies are using it, and a lot of popular apps. Top-grossing games, Apple-featured photography apps, Social networks, Utilities... In the range of 100k active apps. It's good for much more than just rapid prototyping.
> The younger generation today seems to have very low levels of nostalgia and longing for the past.

I heard the same thing about my peers. And now we have Star Wars & NES games everywhere. I'd venture to say the younger generation's nostalgia is more for digital experiences & media than physical objects.
Then why do several prominent tech companies have MBA preferred in their business job postings? I noticed maybe 9 months ago during a job search.

I also have a friend who is MBA and works at FB. They have a whole formal program set up for them.

So while it may not be advantangeous per Se I think companies do use it as a proxy for character traits or pattern of achievement. Because of that it is an advantage. Even if not if they have a formal Recruiting program then IT is an advantage.
Regarding 1), again that is how things should be, and to people's credit, they make fair attempts towards it. But the real world is messy. As an example, very frequently there are a number of ways to achieve similar results. Then often the argument becomes "why's your way better than mine"? Each party prefers a certain approach because it's better for them
for whatever reason. Hence a compromise must be reached, and this is where the wheeling and dealing begins. This is just one of many reasons why, as dragonwriter said, this becomes a political process.

While the solution you propose for 2) makes perfect technical sense, I'd say it steps too much into "inconveniencing millions of users" territory. Providing tools for migration and checking fidelity are big pain points because it does not fit into their usual workflow, which alone makes it highly unlikely to be adopted. If you wanted people to have minimum disruption, the new format would have to be a completely compliant reimplementation of the old one, and I'd guess it's inevitable that the new standard would look exactly like the old one simply because it's the path of least resistance.
Wait, have you actually used Signal multi-device? Your thesis is that it's not usable because you have to scan a QR code once, as opposed to Telegram where you have to receive an SMS on your device and manually type it in on your desktop?

The flow you're describing in your "possible solution" is basically identical to how Signal works now: you install Signal on a new device, approve it with your existing device, and are done. Anything involving the word "blockchain" here is fundamentally not going to work. It sounds like you want CONIKS, but there are some really substantial barriers to deploying that for marginal gains (and some clear losses).
I tried to use it with my backup folder and the Windows tool I used (not sure which) dies from too many files.

I gave up after that.
1986 was 29 years ago dude. Almost three decades.
Wouldn't it be more reasonable to ask for communication services to start recording after someone is suspect instead of wiretapping everyone?

Isn't that's how it works with phone calls?
Editing podcasts makes me very aware of these types of speech patterns--both in people I interview and myself.
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All three countries have better HDIs than Brazil. Argentina and Venezuela also have higher incomes. So lets hope you're right!
It still won't run caffe because you don't have a powerful GPU to train neural nets on
The media has decided the is a villain? I do not think so. It is quite evident he made that decision himself, look at the interview linked in the top comment, or at his actions.
You are right but you are not giving full respect to the fact that it is a company doing business there.

The company is free to chose not to operate in their country.
It can chose to not answer to any official /judicial question (I'm not even saying agree with, only answer).
It can do so even if it concerns a citizen of the country in question.

But if it does all that, it cannot expect said country to let them operate their business freely on "their soil", and that it is on the Internet does not change that, it's still accessing the Brazilian market.

I'm not agreeing with what Brazil is doing here, but I don't like the "I'm not on your soil so I can ignore you and still operate on your market" logic.
> I license things under the MIT so that people don't have to OSS their apps that links against it, which I don't consider modified works.

Then you could use the LGPL license. Consider the advantages of, for instance, its patent grants.
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I fully agree, random today means one of the following very different things:

- we know with certainty that it follows a <xy> distribution and there is no way we could know more

- we don't know enough so it appears random to us.

If I were forced to bet on one of these, I'd say it's always the latter except in the case of Heisenberg uncertainty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
Wait, it has been proved that QP != EXP?

That's great! Do you have any pointers?

EDIT: Wikipedia has pointers. It's not exactly what I thought at first. The paper:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/pubs/bbbv.ps
There are many people who have a philosophy of "Anything's Fair Within the Rules". There is no law against buying up the only manufacturer of a lifesaving drug and squeezing out as much profit as you are able, so there are many who would say it is fine to do.
Neat and thanks.
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the reason they fail to understand the proof seems the same everybody else fails at math. funny even the greatest mathematicians can have this problem.
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i take umbrage:

"Television programmes such as “Antiques Roadshow”, where octogenarians find out how much the contents of their attics are worth, reinforce the perception that antiques are for oldies."

to the contrary. i'm 40 - octogenarian around here - and the show has done nothing but increase my interest in old "things".
> What I want to hear from BBC is not how fast they can make a web server, but what are they going to do about those 1 million hours of archive TV and radio content they are sitting on.

So nobody at the BBC should be allowed to say anything publicly unless it's on that topic? That's idiotic. The guy writing this blog post probably has absolutely no control over archive content at all. Why should he be silenced?
Languages do not require human interaction. I do not argue that there is no mathematical language.
This is a false choice. Apparently in Brazil, if you are suspected of a crime, you have no right to privacy at all. The reasonable alternative to that is not an absolute, unviolable right to privacy, but a limited right to privacy with a presumption of innocence.
More likely, those who go against the status quo or are not the in-the-know crowd.

Isn't that the same thing? You won't pick morals that say you're in the wrong.
Its worth pointing out that the BBC continues to use Varnish in the way Graham described in that presentation.

As you say, its about finding the right tool for the job.
Interesting, as others mentioned X3D similarity is obvious.

I wonder how would A-Frame compose with D3.js though .
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TARP made money for the Treasury (and thus the taxpayers) - $441b in for $426b out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
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This has been my experience as well - getting a deeper, business insight into the applications that I was building for my customers.

It has also helped me in one more way - getting a feel and helping me understand why my own company behaved the way it did - including business strategy, sales dynamics as well as HR policies and practices.
I graduated in Computer Science in the early 2000s
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> Do you guys think that pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the right to privacy ?

I have to disagree with you on this Sir. Criminals have the essential uncontested right to privacy like everybody else. However, law enforcement have the right too to collect and gather info on subjects to prepare a case and prosecute in a court of law but that gathering and collecting should only be limited to the scope of investigation and suspected criminal activities without going after their personal lives and tiny details of their intimate relationships and also without feeding the shameless media these bits of information because if you cross that line, you'd gradually but assuredly lose the moral high ground for your position and then those suspects/criminals would look like victims in the eyes of the public and you guys as the bad guys and trust me you don't wanna lose the public opinion battle.
...or a gay person. Or a Jewish person. Or a Christian. Or a woman. Take your pick, somewhere on this planet it's against someone's law to be that and communicate freely.
Well, actually, this whole discussion IS about Shkreli and your comments are within the context of the discussion so don't disclaim that.

Shkreli has foolishly attracted attention to himself by comically absurd price-gouging. Whether it is illegal or not, it was dick move and in the end probably not even likely to net much profit. It also has understandably destroyed the good-will of anyone other than Ayn-randian maniacs.

Now he's been arrested for what sounds like illegal and extremely irresponsible financial shenanigans that happened before all this stuff. Greedy, amoral business people that break the law are usually able to maneuver themselves around getting jail-time. Shkreli's going to have a much harder time with that (because as you noted the media has decided he's a villain) and its his own dumb fault.

Personality defects have consequences.
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> the way storage media devices have been going...

My experience is that drives have been getting substantially better in this regard. If a drive is failing, it will usually collapse into read only mode and let you know that it is failing, giving you ample time to recover data.

That said, I do think backups are a good idea, and that Reed-Solomon codes are a good way to protect your data. I also think that managing bitrot is really the responsibility of the drive itself and maybe of the filesystem. Zfs and btrfs both offer bitrot protection.

And even solving bitrot, risks like fires, earthquakes, or war (for less fortunate countries) mean that data should be backed up in multiple physical locations anyway.

These are problems I've been attempting to address at https://sia.tech for the past two years. It's still in beta, but a full platform should be ready by March.
Navicat the Premium[1] edition includes all the databases. But to your point, you still have to pay separately for each operating system, and paying $599 for a single platform is expensive.

That being said, I've tried a dozen SQL utilities and the only one that is fast and responsive for large tables is Navicat. The other utils such as RazorSQL, SQLMaestro, Firefox XUL plugins, NET LINQPad, etc are memory hogs and very slow for browsing tables with 100,000+ rows. I haven't tried JetBrains yet but the 3 others that were written in Java and used JDBC were very slow so I wouldn't be surprised if DataGrip is slower than Navicat.

If one is mainly using SQL frontend tools to help with syntax completion to speed up typing in commands (ALTER TABLE, SELECT INNER JOIN, etc), any of those utilities will work fine. But if you happen to need the tool to provide a responsive "Excel-like datagrid" for browsing big tables, my experience has found that Navicat is unmatched.

[1]http://www.navicat.com/products/navicat-premium
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> Even in the tech industry, if you're not a coder, you're going to be dealing with a completely different sort of life.

My company's IT personnel are all full-time employees, with decent salaries and medical coverage. I'm actually underpaid relative to my peers, but I've managed to negotiate certain perks that are pretty important to me.

But social inequality has always existed, you have to compare rungs on the ladder to what those rungs looked like 10-20 years ago. I'd argue that if you look at it that way, life is only getting better and better for people.
So what does this tell us about Telegram?
Are they willing and able to provide the authorities with the relevant info should a request such as the one made to whatsapp be made to them?
Rather, a brain raised by parents who don't foster brain growth and reinforce bad decisions what we're concerned about. Poverty is incidental hence the correlation but not proven to be the cause.
Thank you for the recommendation, I will check it out.
Huge costs related to creating a generic version of the drug, unless it gets fast tracked.
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I don't know brazilian law, but in my country (Sweden. I'm ashamed...) the Military office for Radio Communications (FRA) is recording all data crossing the border (which of course includes the data of all citizens, since the internet is borderless).

They certainly do not have evidence that every citizen and every foreigner (total 7 billion people) is a pedophile, terrorist or even a jaywalker.

I for one have lost any faith in governance in the information age, and will happily encrypt my communication. If I can sabotage for the organisations spying on me, that is a net win.
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He's getting downvoted because, as the adjacent wall-of-text reminds us, there are only two countries in the world: the US and the USSR. Since they have diametrically opposed ways of doing things, any change to the US system would instantly turn it into the USSR.

/s
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A machine-learned system is only as good as its training data, at best. In this case, it was trained on natural-looking images, so results on "unnatural" images will be unpredictable/random/wrong.

One way to fix this would be to provide "bug bounty"-style rewards for producing images that makes the system deviate significantly from mechanical turk workers performing the same task. I wouldn't be surprised to see google/fb etc starting such programs in the near future, as their ML systems reach maturity.
I guess that Wu Tang album really spoke to him
I thought he was talking about reception glitches in radio.
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That sounds awesome, like an update to the old Covox Speech Thing. I sometimes miss my parallel port (or the even weirder BeBox thingamajig).
Can't you sell yourself the system? The OEM edition is intended for system builders, and you have to provide the device drivers separately, but that seems to be the only difference between the home/business distro and the OEM one.
I do a good bit of weight lifting, typically 4 or 5 times a week. I find it a great way to disconnect and focus on something very simple / straightforward for an hour. Its also a great way to relieve stress.