skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why there is a thing called public relations. You can have ten guys who are all guilty of the same crime but if one if them is loud and deliberately trolling the public then you can bet he'll get more scrutiny, given that investigatory resources are limited. If you're outspoken about doing something that may be legal by the letter of the law but which is morally questionable (by the standards of your society) then that is a good way to get legislators to revisit the law. Similarly, if you're using loopholes and "wealth managers" to avoid paying taxes, then don't talk about it! Otherwise, you better make sure your past is clean. If you think it's unfair that law enforcement is focused on Shkreli instead of others, I'd say that's tough shit -- just as he would say to people suffering from his increased drug prices.
So facebook\whatsapp is criminal in Brasil because they broke the law.
To be fair, Signal desktop is really new, the author may not have known about it. But yes, the flow of adding devices in Signal is very seamless and simple.

The issue of not supporting SMS though makes usability go down the toilet, because it's not immediately obvious who you can message or receive messages from, but I understand the reason for not supporting it.
2 years ago Google disabled their News Archive (incl historical news from the 18th century to present day) and it has never been switched back on.

Does Google have the willingness to address this and improve their services? What happened two years ago in Google that has led to all those cool things being degraded?
I believe you're right -- while mid-century modern is not technically antique because it's not quite 100 years old, I believe it is currently occupying that niche in furniture fashion.

However, there's one major difference in this market -- many of the classic midcentury modern designs are still being made. You can buy a brand new, fully authentic Series 7 or Eames Lounge Chair or many of the other things on my wife's shopping list.

And even new designs in the mid-century modern style do not have the same feel of inauthenticity that fake antiques do. Mid-century modern has always been mass-produced in a factory.
I didn't have a look yet but I guess it's a combinaison of removing all secondary content (ads, comments, etc.), compressing images, cache all the assets in all Facebook CDNs and saving them offline based on your favorite and popular news websites among your friends on a background process.
143.50€ here... (Spain).
Is it not possible for some big philanthropists like Gates, Buffett etc to buy some of these drugs and release the patent so others can manufacture cheaply? What is stopping them from doing it?
Data Analysis of Real Estate Investments
interesting the antiques market is doing so poorly while the vintage watch market is on the up and up.

Recent record breaking sale of an omega speedmaster:

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/omega-speedmaster-referenc...

And it wasn't even one that's been on the moon like this one:

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/moon-watch-sells-for-$1mil...
The ban was almost meaningless. We could export oil products like gas just fine. So, at most this was a minuscule subsidy on US refinery's.

In the long term this is bad for US independence. However, both party's seem to be happy to raise the debt even when the economy is doing great, which is a much worse idea.
> There are many people who...

Argumentum ad popularum. There are also many people who believe the Nazis passed good laws.

Yes, there are many people who are Lawful-Evil. That has no bearing on whether Evil is acceptable, provided it is Lawful.
Just to add, HeidiSQL also runs fine on Wine (it's even mentioned on the download page)

I've been using it on Linux for quite some time. Being able to work on MSSQL from Linux is just great :)
Aside from the value of the degree itself, can anyone attest to the usefulness of any particular knowledge gained from doing an MBA, particularly around running small companies and startups? If so, any recommendations for resources, books etc?

This whole issue (usefulness of MBA in tech management) sounds very similar to the usefulness of CS degree in development issue. We can talk all day about the effect the CS degree has on getting jobs in the first place, but putting that entirely aside, as a developer with a CS degree, I can certainly point to some very useful things for the job that I learned in the course of doing the degree, and I could tell somebody without a CS degree what those were and where to read about them. Ignoring the entire issue of whether or not the 'piece of paper' would help them in their career, this knowledge certainly would.

If anyone (MBA or not) has any such advice, I'd be very grateful to hear it!
Google's Move to SDN
Ask HN: Should I generate passwords for users?
I'm working on a new site and considering using Stripe Checkout for payment. However, you can't add custom form fields the Checkout, and that means the user would need to enter their email & password on one form, and then their payment information in another. I'd rather have it be seamless.

I could generate a password for the user, and email it to them. It would lead to stronger/better passwords, but I fear it would just anger users who would want to change it.

Anyone gone the route of generating a password for users? What's the experience been like?

https://stripe.com/checkout
TimelyPick Ltd. Introduces Classic Online Solitaire Game with a Twist
Taking two years out of your life to study business full-time will improve your business judgement. That this is controversial always surprised me.
Cozy was much different when I started this project, so I just checked it out again - the issue for me (and no one solution will fit all of course), is your tenant must pay through their site to track payments. That's what put me off it.
I'm not sure why you find my comments hard to rhyme.

In this thread I'm claiming that if you make it harder to make a profit off lifesaving drugs, people will probably invest their money elsewhere and produce fewer such drugs. Reduced demand (or price ceilings) lower quantity produced.

In the other thread I claimed that if you consider alternate sellers of medical labor, you can get a lower price. Increased supply lowers price and increases quantity provided.

Both of these claims are just classic Econ 101.

If medical tourism was not an option for me I'd have paid full price in the US and considered myself extremely lucky to have the option to trade money for the ability to do sex positions besides "girl on top, me not moving". I hardly think I'm alone - how many people would be willing to give up all medical procedures invented since 1970 in return for lower prices?
While you're right that as a judge you must respect the law, we as a society must re-evaluate it's usefulness and purpose.

You're looking at this the other way round. It's not that privacy makes it harder to foster a civilized society, but removing makes it totally impossible.

Is amuses me that you would see this as post Snowden or even American issue. As a Brazilian I know our state is much more corrupt and inapt, and the risks are an order of magnitude higher for us, Snowden or not.

See here for some of the rational: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/we-should-all-have-somethin...
As many have noted, it's not necessarily 1:1 useful in the context of advanced skills training. However unsavory, many mid to large tech companies have a relatively high concentration of engineers who later received MBA's in very senior positions. So yes - the cliche that it's a way to climb the corporate ladder can still ring true for tech, if the tech company you want to work for is structured in the conventional way.
An amount of money diversely invested in the stock market can generate about 4% in return even with volitility (see Trinity Study). By buying a $4,000 couch, you are spending $3,500 more today than the Ikea alternative. $3,500 invested could be drawn down at $140 per year without invading principle. A new Ikea couch only costs $100/year. You're actually spending more (with opportunity costs) on the buy-it-once couch.

This is why I don't buy nice furniture. (Also, I move too much, and it's easier to sell and re-buy Ikea than paying to move heavy, well-built furniture).
it's a great day for mouse health
Think of how much more gratifying hacking on this would be than working with bloat-ware frameworks. Maybe it's time for another buzzword? "dignity driven development" perhaps? Oh where did it all go so wrong...
I'm a judge in Brazil.

Your comment history says otherwise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167143

Seem to be a run of the mill dev to me. I'm surprised you got as many credulous responses as you did.
GOV.AU: The first 9 weeks
this company uses volunteers to the work normally done by paid employees, then after a few months gets rid of them (I know one such volunteer). Considering the point of this company is to produce a phone which is 'fair' it is obligatory to point out this disregard for dutch law and normal business ethics.
Daraprim is out of patent. He didn't buy a monopoly right, he just bought a drug that nobody else thought was worth making.

Anyway, the distinction between inventing the drug and buying the patent is an artificial one. If you're going to allow creating monopoly rights--and that you can debate--then making the rights tradable will make the market more efficient.

With drugs in particular, acquisition of promising drug candidates is a major input to the pipeline at the big drug companies. It enables separation of concerns: small startups to develop the drugs and big experienced companies to bring them to market. Creating an artificial distinction between inventors and acquirers precludes that efficient division of labor.
I updated the post with Julia running times on the same machine as the one used for Python.
Right, par2 does as well [1]. My question is: what advantage does the freeze/melt thing have?

It looks to me that freeze/melt produces a larger file that contains the recovery blocks, while par2 stores the recovery blocks in a second file (or files).

If the recovery bits are stored at the end of the freeze/melt file then you can still use your frozen file as long as your program doesn't barf on extra data at the end, while the par2 approach doesn't have that limitation.

[1] http://parchive.sourceforge.net/docs/specifications/parity-v...
More important was her connection to Larry Summers, the Secretary of Treasury. She was given a role that far exceeded her experience, which gave her an advantage over the other 2000 Harvard MBA grads in her class.
Hidden Features of Python
Wu Tang speak to him as much as Rage Against the Machine speaks to Paul Ryan.
True, but it is through drug pricing that he became widely known.

At the time of the price hike, someone, somewhere suggested that it looked like market manipulation, intended to drive down the stock prices of other small generic-drug makers by creating bad news for that sector, so as to profit from short positions in those stocks. That is what I was expecting when I first heard he had been arrested.
Python async/await Tutorial
Its possible but not a cost effective philanthropic strategy...
Here's another case in the same vein, where a very public CEO with strong opinions had lost a decision in a very nasty sexual harassment case (while stating even more of his strong opinions in the duration of the case) which wasn't going to put a dent in his net worth, but later picked up on securities fraud: https://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2015/benjamin-wey...

I don't care for their actions, I'm concerned about the subjectivity of legal scrutiny.
I hope Wu-Tang and/or Bill Murray make a move. Right now!
Hopefully this makes Bill Murray's job a lot easier: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/11/9890908/rza-bill-murray-w...
You don't determine it directly. But quick learning comes with other traits, like curiosity. You can determine those during a conversation if you're a good interviewer (which is the catch, interviewing is also a skill).

Sometimes you'll fail. But I've yet to see convincing proof that the alternative reduces failures (but it does reduce the willingness of people to admit failure).
The title is "EPPS rescues hippocampus-dependent cognitive deficits in APP/PS1 mice by disaggregation of amyloid-β oligomers and plaques" and it does not say that it reduces memory, it says "EPPS reduces Aβ-aggregate-induced memory deficits in mice" but they also say that "We observed substantial rescue of working memory deficits in Aβ-infused mice by EPPS treatment".

Of course this is only small part of the paper and I have no training to appreciate it more.
The animal that lives for 10,000 years
Our home is filled with antiques. Not expensive ones... cheap, practical ones. We scour the stores for old farm tools that are in good enough shape to still use. Much of our furniture was inherited, not bought, and we can trace it back to great-grandparents.

We didn't plan it this way. We just happen to live on a hobby farm, trying to live sustainably, and would rather keep our old furniture for both financial and family reasons.

Of course, this also proves the point of the article - even in a home furnished mostly with antiques, we aren't part of a market for it. Our antiques are functional objects in our life, not investments.
P-code machine
If you haven't heard the story before -- I'm a big fan of Cliff Young: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/10/a-61-year-ol...
I'm not sure why you think dander is an "orphaned" word. It has a known definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dander and I would presume "get one's dander up" originally referred to the material an animal would shed when it gets angry and starts eg. flapping its wings.
But the problem lies in the fact that for 'medical tourism' to be an option at all you first have to achieve a certain amount of wealth and your social situation has to be one where you can just pack-up-and-leave for an x amount of time without your life ending up in disarray upon your return. For many people these are not options because of money in the first place so they would not be able to pay the full price in the US to begin with.

It's just another wealth-begets-more-wealth story, your jump off point is already one of considerable privilege, one that relatively few people in the US have.
Why you can't raise money
You can't explain your business to a five year old.

Years ago, when I had the best job of my life I worked for an accomplished Wall Street Legend. It was a great experience.

One day I met one of his clients. A tall, lanky Texan. He called everybody "Boy". He would fly the big bird up to NYC and more often or not crash in the brownstone where my boss both lived and worked. He could have stayed anywhere in NYC but I think he was lonely and liked the company. Over time we got to be friends. One day he said, Boy, "The Arabs made me". I looked at him with a confused face and he explained that they had all this oil and oil was being sold for $2 a barrel. It cost more then that to bring it up. The Arab Oil Embargo raised oil from $2 to $8 a barrel. He explained this to me as I helped him balance his checkbook. This was 1985. His monthly spend was between $250-500,000 per month.

Hey boy, you want to know how I figure out who to invest in?

He replied, Someone shows me a deal, I ponder it, shake my head and say I don't get it. I pause. Explain it to me like I'm a 12 year old. They do. I pause, shake my head, I don't understand it and ask them to explain it to me like I'm an 8 year old. They do. I pause, shake my head, I don't understand it and ask them to explain it to me like I'm a 5 year old. If they can, they get a check.

After I have known him for a year and we got friendly I picked up the ringing phone and he was on line. As soon as he said, "Boy", I knew it was him. I'm coming to NYC. Can I pick you up from the airport? "Boy, I don't fly commercial". Feeling that we were friends enough i asked him, "Can I borrow the jet?". There was a long pause. "Sure, Boy, where do you want to go?".

Paris was wonderful that time of year.

Originally posted on SiliconAlley.com
http://siliconalley.com/part-1-of-many-why-you-dont-raise-money/411/
Do be sure to note the mention that the new algorithm is not considered a cryptographically secure PRNG.

Also because the specification has very little by way of requirements in that regard, no matter how good some implementations may be you should always assume you code may end up being used in an environment where Math.random() is no better than the worst generator you can think of.

If you need specific properties in your PRNG then you still need to provide something in place of Math.random().
My brother used to tell me that I need to hit rock bottom first before I will decide to activate the inner strength which is required to get up. I wasn't very successfull after receiving my "Higher School Certificate" because I started studying computer science but quit it after a year. I had no job, no money and I felt miserable. That's the point where I hit bottom and step by step I started to improve my situation.

I still don't see myself as successfull but I'm definitely grateful considering I picked up my first job as a frontend developer at the beginning of 2011 and after 3 companies, I'm working for a subsidiary of eBay in Germany since August 2014.

I apologize if telling a bit about myself is off topic but I think being successfull isn't just about the mindset but there are so many other factors. One of the most important ones is the willingness to take risks. I had a very comfortable job (before I joined eBay) but I realized that I won't be able to grow there at some point. A lot of people thought I was stupid because I quit my job. These are the same type of people who refuse to step out of their comfort zones.
The AI Effect: if a computer can do it, it must not be thinking.

The Reverse AI Effect: if it's thinking, then surely it can't be done by a computer.

Because Humans Are Special.
I'm sure that the phone operators were very happy to comply to ban, they hate WhatsApp. When WhatsApp first got popular here it ended their very lucrative business of SMS and more recently they introduced VOIP calls which considerably cheaper than normal phone calls, especially long distance.

Three of the major phone operators (Vivo, Claro, TIM) implemented the ban, while the fourth (Oi), did not. The CEO of Vivo, one of the major phone operators, came out a couple of months ago saying that WhatsApp is "piracy", since they are not affected by the same regulations as the normal phone operator.[1]

[1]: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2015/08/1666187-whatsap... (portuguese)
Fact of the matter is, if the Metropolitan police came to Facebook with the proper paperwork requesting data on a British user as part of a criminal case, Facebook would cooperate with them.

That's because they are British. No, seriously.

Some countries have most favored nation status in diplomatic and economic affairs. As a result, if you piss off the wrong partner nation then you will get stomped on locally.

Brazil doesn't. So the US is not going to force the whatsapp guys to do shit.
The question is: what's cheaper in the end? Having the government develop these drugs, soup to nuts, or giving private industry do it and having medicare/medicaid pay for those who can't afford it? If private industry is more efficient at bringing these drugs to market, then the latter option might be cheaper, even if it creates "unseemly" profits for private companies.
I enjoy sports as a great simultaneous physical and social outlet. Team sports like soccer and basketball and also individual sports like squash. When I don't play them, I miss the feeling of competitiveness and camaraderie that sports brings. It can be a great emotional sandbox, to experience the highs of winning and the lows of losing without actually having to win or lose anything of value. I find it to be a good emotional calibrator and I'm a better husband, father, and everything else when I'm regularly participating in sports.
My question too! I"m using PyCharm with the DB plugins tools installed. It works very well. And it looks like this product is intellij with only the db plugin installed. What more features does it have?
IMO, you can go a long way by picking up a few basic textbooks for whatever your coding. A basic understanding of terminology is really useful and takes far less time than going to class.

PS: If you have never looked into the topic an MBA has plenty of useful ideas. But, I find the cost / benefit of getting an MBA is a negative indicator.
Crazy idea: just use C

You can even mix python with it if you want, or shave that off and free up some packaging sanity points.
158 euro here. (Morocco) maybe a pricing algorithm that increases price based on demand?
> context has been omitted for the sake of brevity

Such omissions should be forbidden. Writing down the context in comments and in any other ways available should be a minimum requirement for any new code written. I do enjoy a good puzzle once in a while, but I don't want to reverse engineer someone's brain every time I read code. We should really focus more on helping other people understand the code we write. Some tools can help, but if the original author keeps most of the information to himself it's going to be really hard to follow the code.
From your comment it's not clear why you're surprised. Do you expect Greece to go up or down? But just to clarify terminology, for those who may not be familiar, buying a put option is a bet that the value will decrease.
Wow; its amazing that the school called him back and confronted OP on his political views. OP mentions that HR people would never do that for fear of being sued, has the university some form of immunity against being sued? Is industry a more liberal place than academia?

Also what exactly was the keyword that put him into the 'enemy camp' - was it support of Israel, criticism of Carter or both of them that raised the red flag for them ?
Are there any command line tools that provide more functionality than vanilla psql?
I gave them a dollar, so I'm not terribly "invested", if you will. I can't get a handle on how people will react to this... but I'm assuming there will be a minority that still lose their minds with impotent rage. I think the majority feel this is a smart move and will have no ill will, even if they're disappointed they have to wait longer.

It will be interesting to see how they compete and position vs. all the VR gear coming out. I hope it doesn't end up as "Dungeons and Dragons players over here, First Person Shooters over there".
Hands-On with Microsoft's Hololens, One Year Later
But is it going to be a general standard implemented in other browsers?
Well, you can't have it both ways. Either some of his stuff is prosecutable and then the timing hardly matters as long as it happens within the statue of limitations it's all the same to me. Or, none of it should be prosecuted because someone will always say: "oh, this is because of 'x' that he also did but is not prosecuted for".

You can't win like that. If he did something that is illegal then fine, go after him. Clearly being a douchebag and an immoral asshole is not illegal so I don't see any link with this particular case there, other than maybe that being of such a character caused him to do this in the first place.
How California's Fair Pay Law Could Narrow the Gender Pay Gap Worldwide
Yep, we went JBOD and saw the performance win as expected :)

> dying in all of the weird and wonderful ways that they do

It's only been a few months, but there have been plenty of great surprises thrown out by those disks. Both in the ways that they've failed and how the kernel has handled those failures!