skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The analogy is that good is like enthalpy, so evil would be vacuum or even particles at absolute zero. If God created moved all of the particles in a space elsewhere, did he just create a vacuum? Or did He just move some particles?

If God decides to let individuals or populations live with the consequences of their choices, is He creating evil? Or is He letting things run their course? Giving unbelieving people a taste of the godless universe they prefer?

Anyway, at some point we're having a semantic argument about what definitions of words mean. And the objection about God and evil becomes more banal than controversial.
I don't know about Europe but the in the Middle East you usually would just go straight to the shop keeper and ask for the items you want and he would have someone grab them for you.
How Tesla Is Shaking Up Metals Markets
I think this is the actual problem, or at least the cause. So I predict that tuition costs will continue to inflate and the highschool system will continue with its deficiencies because most people don't realize the true nature of the problem.

Still, the house of cards will collapse at some point. That will be interesting.
Good point, it's depressingly common.

It's not hard to DTRT though. Eg Docker install instructions have

4. Add the new GPG key.

$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D
Recording of conversations that aren't protected by attorney-client privilege is standard procedure. If your system can't do that, you'll never get a contract.
The younger generation is increasingly reliant on gadgets too for many things. When I was 11 my friends and I would take the subway to Manhattan from Brooklyn to go to Central Park, walking and the museums. We always agreed on a meeting spot at a set time, since this was 1975. Payphones were the only option.

I've been to the mall with my friends and their children, and there is no pre-planning, since they rely on the phones to meetup. However, when the battery dies, they're lost, or they rely on a friend's phone or charging station being available. There's an implicit reliance on redundancy, and blind faith somebody has a gadget.

I always taught my children to pre-plan. I have taken them around the world at young ages, and I think they have become better planners and thinkers when they are taught 'the old ways':)

I have traveled a lot, and I have lived in other countries, some remote places, and I have been lulled by technology too. Fortunately, not life-threatening situations, but I can easily see it happening.

A few days ago while driving in East Java, we followed the GPS into a sugar cane field. The road narrowed, was muddy, and started to diminish to almost just field. The road was on the GPS, and valid, but the van almost got stuck in the mud from the day's rain. This has happened to me about 2 to 3 times in 7 years, because smaller and smaller roads have made their way to the maps as mapping increases, and the GPS uses a traffic/length of route algorithm that sometimes has you turning off and back on to main roads to make time. I never would have followed that last turn-off several years ago.

I usually set the GPS to 'main roads and highways', but in some less-developed places this will put you at the mercy of weather, the vehicle's capabilities, and hoping that the routes have not changed since they were mapped. I also agree with other posters here in leaving it in overhead view with North as up. On a highway, no, but on twisty roads, yes. It is the only way you maintain orientation and a sense of the actual location you are in.
Yeah, that's clear enough. My point is, why is the outcome so poor?
Maybe Facebook should have advertised this as a temporary "Robot Journalist Training Fellowship"
Ignoring any other aspect of your comment, I would highly suggest you to do a bit more research on Hepatitis C before suggesting it only concerns "druggies" and those who "have sex with weirdos carrying diseases." In fact, a large portion of those currently impacted (and especially those who would now be in an acute condition where this drug would most likely be literally life-saving) contracted the disease through hospital blood transfusions before 1992 [1] when there was not a proper diagnostic test [2]. As such, it is a condition that very much cuts across the population and income levels.

[1] "Before 1992, when widespread screening of the blood supply began in the United States, Hepatitis C was also commonly spread through blood transfusions and organ transplants." - http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hcv/cfaq.htm

[2] Though even that might be disputable per http://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/may/26/health.politi....
I think this is a good lesson to people whose projects aren't Emacs' size yet.

Of course Emacs can get away with it, but this sets a good example of what a nice, simple website can look like for your project.

Don't spend too much time on the website, of course (the core project is what's important), but first impressions affect adoption, right?
I always hear this argument, but never any evidence to back it up. Is it simply regurgitating econ 101? There must be some economic incentive? Any time people die from a disease, that alone creates an incentive for those left living to find a cure.

What econ doesn't teach is that people are not perfectly rational creatures. Just like we will find people who will write code for free, who will make music for free, there will always be people who are searching for cures for the sake of searching for cures.

I don't buy the argument that only Big Pharma who can deliver cures. As the article pointed out, Gilead didn't develop the cure. They bought the company that did.
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I mean this is not going to hurt surgeons just yet. It still needs human inspection, for all kinds of reasons, just less direct involvement.

It is going to lower down the prices of such surgeries, which I believe, eventually will benefit the whole society.
While we're at it, couldn't you make all the conversations protected by attorney-client privilege? Just have the lawyer host an acoustic coupler in their law offices. All calls are to your lawyer.
Will this in any way actually impede intelligence agencies from getting that information if they want it?
If you remove a bunch of constraints, you can imagine governments paying for country-wide license to the patent, and then individuals just pay enough to cover manufacturing and delivery. I'm not sure if there was any payment that went along with granting India the $1000 price. I know India carries a big-stick of "invalidating" the patent. Sure, they could have just taken the IP for themselves, which basically means Americans just bare a larger share of the overall cost. The fact is that this drug is tremendously valuable for India, so I'm glad they were able to come to some pricing agreement.

Selling those drugs back into the US market clearly goes against the pricing agreement. Based on what I read in those articles about Paul Le Roux, these online drug outfits have way more volume than you might expect, and they apparently can run for a long time before being shut down. This is partly a submarine ad in that sense, even naming sources. You also might expect customs to intercept these packages, but when Le Roux can share the same FedEx account number across all their pill shipments, clearly inspection is expected to be lax. So the result is these pills could actually be pouring back into the country, and hiding within the inventory being sold for consumption actually inside India. It seems like Gilead revenue is strong for now, I don't know if they consider this to be a significant risk.

In some cases insurance will not cover if you are not showing symptoms. But if they do cover it, you will be on the hook for just the out-of-pocket maximum for that year. Any other health care you receive that year will be free, so that could also help justify the cost. But in this case the insurance company didn't want to cover it anyway, so the patient was forced to pursue a gray market purchase. I'm pretty sure Gilead is pushing hard for insurance companies to cover anyone with detectable disease regardless of symptoms, and ultimately that's what we want. There's a huge population that avoided the prior treatments, but would jump on this in a second.

Everyone who has HepC should get this drug. But if we can't afford to cure everyone today, how do prioritize access? And how do you limit access to an FDA approved drug for a diagnosed illness anyway, when the alternatives are more expensive and less effective? Well I guess in some places, like the NY AG is requiring coverage for commercial insurance plans. NYT reports that Medicaid is still denying coverage until the disease has advanced.

We want people to pay the "right" price for this drug, really a miracle cure which is lowering the cost of treatment actually. So how do you price it? The price to the insured patient today will vary based on the financial means of the patient. The revenue to Gilead is negotiated with insurance companies / benefit management companies, and is far below the sticker price.
The Federal Circuit didn't remand on the question of copyrightability, it reversed. In other words, it explicitly held that the Java APIs at issue in the case were entitled to copyright protection, not merely that an API could be.
For those who might not realise it, the distribution is 600kb(!) in fonts, 400k in images, 100k in other stuff
America subsidizes the health care of the entire world. Because such a large portion of health profit comes from the US. If the US ceased to exist then global prices would increase and global research would decrease.
Not only that, but everyone, bar pacifist peoples who could only survive if isolated, committed atrocities of one kind or another. Some peoples kept better records of their deeds, others not, or things get lost to time.

That's not to say one can't acknowledge that bad things happened in one's lineage (history), but to think one's lineage is worse than another is oversimplifying things or a case of selection bias, among other things.
The implementation details of the American criminal justice system are considered (by mainstream media gatekeepers, as well as politicians) to be much too unsightly, and fraught with difficult philosophical conflicts (i.e. the matter of whether imprisonments primary purpose is to rehabilitate or punish). The closest they'll go is discussing issues at the scale (and emotional distance) of demographics - racial disparities in arrest/incarceration rates, etc.
you can't teach an old dog new tricks
In 20 or 40 years, emacs will still exist, as will the hooks and tools you've integrated and built up to support it.

VS, Eclipse, and IntellijIDEA very likely won't.

And I say that as someone who doesn't use Emacs much -- I'd learned it at one point and used it pretty heavily for a job, with a very nice set of modes for a proprietary software tool I was using at the time, but made the critical career error of working for an idiot boss who didn't believe any software other than what the vendor provided was necessary on corporate servers.

So yes, I use vim.

But I've learned ... at least a dozen editors and development environments which are either dead or proprietary and not availa ble to me. Time which I could have devoted to learning persistent tools and extending them.

That's among the strongest arguments in favour of using Free Software tools generally, from a technical PoV. Your knowledge tends to remain relevant far, far longer.
But stronger patent protection won't improve pricing... competition will. I think we should reduce extension patents to 5 years, and possibly even have compulsory licensing fees ($10 per day, per prescription for the first year, $8 for the second ... 6... 4... down to $2, then $1) for prescription drug patents starting at 5 years. And the penalty for an insufficient patent application for a third party to properly apply within the first 8 years would mean a loss of said patent.
Wouldn't that just be a disk?
Indeed, though that is exactly the sort of reason TTIP is starting to attract attention for all the wrong reasons here in Europe.
I can think of a few good reasons:

- Microsoft benefits when Google's mobile platform is hurt.

- Microsoft has many APIs so why the heck would they want to overturn a decision that puts them in a position of power?

If those weren't enough, Google has poached Microsoft talent for years. Maybe there are people at Microsoft who just don't like Google and will work to screw them over. Most likely though it's more to do with the two reasons I listed above.

Plus, a little too much emotion in your post. Hard to believe you can feel any emotion about this whatsoever let along being basically pissed off. This is super boring tech news.
I'm not convinced that the goal here is actually to obstruct intelligence agencies, I think they'd just use a shell company or flatly demand access if they wanted it. As far as I'm aware, the Library of Congress is archiving all tweets.

It feels like a cheap way to generate press portraying Twitter as a staunch defender of liberty. I'm not sold.
Twitter built fabric and it's free because they say "they want more developers using their platform" to help them with building apps
I bet if they committed to spending $x billion, they could get it at half price just by asking. Probably even quarter or 1/8 price too.
The author could take a camera on the road and shoot pics for a day or two, then use OpenALPR to predict the plates and check this dataset to see how accurate it is. If it's good enough, it can be used to train a CNN model with real images of cars and no manual labeling.
Reminded me very much of the scene in Mystery Men[1] in particular the quotes of the Sphinx[2]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132347/

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132347/quotes?ref_=tt_ql_trv_4
Interesting on one hand, nothing new on the other.

Complexity through a few iterations of a very simple algorithm is one of the corner stones of Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science"[1] and has independently been proven feasible by VPRI's "STEPS" project [2].

I had to google (again) for documentation on STEPS and it's not the document I was looking for, but one of the for me astonishing insights was that correct text flow in typesetting is just a special case of a cellular automaton. If anyone finds the document that highlights this, I'd be grateful for a link.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science

[2] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf
I find the entire premise of the chosen alphabet rediculous. Long, random IDs are not for typing nor reading. It doesn't sound like they are even being used for user facing URLs.
exactly which deep learning technique do you propose unleashing on protein folding? Deep learning is not 'magic', it is a set of tools good at a certain subset of machine learning tasks, and the impressive thing is how many machine learning tasks can be shoehorned and contorted into the deep learning rubric, i.e. 'fuzzy classification via scoring'. It should be obvious how image recognition and voice recognition fit this rubric.

"Playing Go", which does not fit this rubric obviously, I think, is conquered by deep learning because there is a discrete matrix of 'moves' which looks awfully lot like an image recognition matrix, and so a move which optimizes score ('classification') can be selected.

Fundamentally one of the problems is that we don't know how to score proteins. We also don't necessarily know how to score go, but it's trivial to generate solutions by running hypothetical matches because the game outcome is deterministic, solvable, and definite. While there is a decent subset of proteins whose known structures could be used to seed a database for scoring, it is very small in comparison to the universe of possibilities (20^n, where n is the length of the amino acid chain).

In short: Given an arbitrary "end-board layout" I can with our existing human knowledgebase tell you which go player has won. Given an arbitrary amino acid sequence and a proposed structure, I cannot with our existing human knowledgebase tell you if the structure is correct. Because of this limitation in creating a scoring system, while I won't say that deep learning won't be used to improve protein folding (maybe it will, indirectly) it almost certainly won't be used directly, because it is not in the same class of problem.
Isn't such uncertainty by itself a death sentence for a vast range users relying on incorporation of APIs into their software? Can open source projects and small developers employ lawyers to decide if their particular use is "fair"? It seems to me that anything other than an extremely clear cut decision is going to be a disaster for the software industry here.
But pharma companies aren't competing in a free market... I can't by (prescription X) from a canadian drug store. So it's not globalized, except for the protectionist patent laws and treaties surrounding them.

It's time to reign in patent protections, specifically regarding extension patents, and bring in compulsory license maximums for prescription medicines. Give drug companies 5 years exclusivity once they react market... after that they can only charge X per day for licensing... imho that should probably be $10/day/prescription, and drop every year.
That actually depends. If you profit from your parents crimes knowingly, then you are an accomplice. If you profit from your parents crimes unknowingly (as young white people have) then it's less clear.

The author is in a situation now where she knows she is profiting from her parents crimes by continuing to live her life.

Most white people, when faced with that realization, will next try to imagine a way not to profit, and, seeing no easy choices, absolve themselves of responsibility. They say things like "What am I supposed to do, give away my house?" and most people find that idea absurd, so that acts as proof that people are not responsible for blood spilled acquiring the infrastructure they rely on. The notion is, as long those systems are sufficiently difficult to dismantle, they can be used ethically.

I am not convinced. The other rationale is that by changing hands, resources become clean. But that doesn't make much sense to me either. We don't generally think that a purchaser of stolen goods is entitled to the goods. Unless it's land, and the original owner was murdered. Somehow that is acceptable, while keeping someone's stolen jewelry is not.
So what would actually happen for reals in a copyrighted API universe? If someone wants people to interact with their API (such as a website) they will obviously license their API in such a way. And if they don't they won't.

So, what terrible things would happen? Most programmers agree it'd be terrible. I trust the masses. But for discussion's sake could someone provide a concrete example or two?

Somewhat related, I believe ARM's instruction set is protected. Probably by patents? I've always felt that source code should NOT be patentable but SHOULD (and is) be copyrighted. Where an API falls and how to draw that line I'm not sure.
Automating work will probably be a good thing in a vacuum. Unfortunately it's happening in an old economic system established during a period of scarcity of labor and capital that rewards and encourages things that will not be very important anymore.

We really need to be thinking about how to distribute the benefits of automation but right now our answer is only those people who already have capital will benefit from it.
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

If you have a belief about how reality works, normally you would expect that belief to pay some dividend in terms of what you can expect to happen in this situation, or that. Otherwise you're just believing a thing for no reason at all. So you can call this anticipation of a certain result "evidence", and to have it not materialize is, in fact, a solid reason to suspect the truth of what you believe.
Sovaldi is a unicorn. Returns for VC firms who were early investors in Facebook were 200-100x. Sequoia and Kleiner-Perkins got 160x on Google's IPO. Sequoia's return on Linked-In was almost 30x.
Eminent domain is not just for land. In extreme cases like this where a profit motive is the only thing keeping us from curing huge numbers of people, the US government should write a single check, take the rights, and start handing out pills.

As far as the company is concerned, that could even be a preferable outcome. Cash now and the marketing benefits to promote its other drugs.

Edit: Just a reminder that eminent domain requires paying the property owner. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_compensation
> Can you apply for a STEM extension now?

Unfortunately, I can not. I spoke with our international student advisor and it appears that I cannot get STEM extension. I need to be in post-OPT phase to get a STEM extension which I forfeited when I joined the PhD program. I can only get another post-completion OPT after I complete the PhD program.

I can get a pre-completion OPT, but as I quoted in another comment that is a limited option.

As each day passes by I am trying to digest the reality that I have to complete the PhD program. I am trying, but TBH I don't know how much I can force myself to do it. I am scared of my future, and I can't find a way out of this mess :'(
Many episodes of The Wire were headlines. Or ought have been.

See David Simon's "Audacity of Hope" speech. One version of it at UC Berkeley on YouTube.

(Simon's a great writer and has wonderful ideas to express. He's an abysmal public speaker. I actually edited out all the "ums" and "ers" from that, and cut it by 10 minutes (70 minute preso).
Understood. Apologies for my tone.

Actually it appears I can't edit my comment anymore.
Right, the notorious peak group of 14 Foxconn suicides was in 2010, but still being referenced as if they happened yesterday. This compares with a national suicide rate in China of 22 per 100,000. Given the ~ 1 million workers at Foxconn, statistically it's far safer to be employed there than not. And, having chatted with Foxconn workers from the Zhengzhou iPhone factory, the main problem is that it's mindnumbingly boring, though the pay is deemed relatively good.
Miller 4: variables, begin/end blocks, pattern-action blocks
This is not done in practice. Be careful getting engineering advice from the Free Dictionary.
"The suicide rate at Foxconn during 2010 remained lower than that of the general Chinese population at the time as well as all 50 states of the United States."
Or who they want to catch.
LOC was archiving in 2010, but that project is no longer going forward: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/library-of-congress-tw...
I don't think I understand the rest of your comment, but I don't agree that "RL is well understood".
> a bot stitched up a pig’s small intestines using its own vision, tools, and intelligence to carry out the procedure. What’s more, the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) did a better job on the operation than human surgeons...

I'm curious if they took into account how a person will do a better job when said job is important/risky to themselves. I. E. stitching up a human where a mistake has dire repercussions vs stiching up a bit of desposable flesh.

Was the pig even alive?
The article does mention several volcanic plains and vents. The craters seem to be a direct result of volcanic activity.
So Palantir's business gets better?

What about any of a thousand front companies these Intelligence Agencies run for plausible deniability purposes?

This move does pretty much nothing.
When a common idiom becomes the wrong way to do something, someone messed up pretty badly (and preexisting idiom at that).

Arguably the designers of amd64 should have caught this before releasing the ABI or the language design could have been specified so this wasn't an issue in the first place.
Thanks a lot for explaining in such detail. Really helpful.