skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learn once, use for a lifetime. Sublime or any other small team project that is closed source have a tendency to get neglected past a certain point.

Other than that, emacs has first class plugins for pretty much anything, is easy to extend, and your config and extensions are easy to back up or move to another machine, and can be expected to still work.
It probably cost more to drive to prison than 10 USD for the video call from home.
That raises two questions:

* The article is about someone underinsured who went to India. Why couldn't he get free drugs from Gilead instead of needing to jump through some hoops in India?

* Wouldn't insurance companies just decline to pay for every expensive treatment? Probably customers won't want to go through prolonged legal battles fighting them for $84000 if they can get the treatment for free.

Then again, $1.3 billion in a quarter is only something like 15,500 full-price treatments. The CDC site[1] says there are 3.5 million sufferers. Maybe they expect most people not to pay, so millionaires and some insured will pay.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hcv/cfaq.htm#cFAQ21
Of course it is a problem with ecosystems that already built around APIs like JSE/JEE / Java core. It is only a problem, because people did not care much about licenses or questioned copyright in terms of APIs.

I believe that APIs are copyrightable. It should be up to the creator to specify licenses that suits his agenda. I believe, if API users care about it and like to build a business on top, only APIs and standards with Copyleft licenses will thrive.
Given the dynamics of nominal GDP per capita, and mortgage rates falling from 8% in 2000 to 3.6% now, it means real price increase of only 37.5%. Is it such a big deal? Especially since, in both cases, such a house is affordable to the high middle class only, who's income growth is certainly faster than the average because the income distribution got more unequal since 2000.
Is there a way to take the taxpayer money being spent on medicine that's priced high to recoup the research investment, and shift it to directly funding the research in the first place?

Obviously you'd have to spend a while funding both R&D and Medicaid/etc, while the new drugs are in development and the old ones are still under patent, and I'm sure there's other details I've missed, but it seems like there should be some way to make the system make more sense.
Dropbox vs. pCloud Speed test
In the meantime in Europe ...

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/29/prisons-acros...

http://qz.com/644914/the-netherlands-keeps-having-to-close-i...
The problem with being so openly self-described as a merely a way to get credit is: you're not evaluated on how many publications you get. You're evaluated on how many top publications you get.

There are a ton of 2nd tier and 3rd tier journals out there that are legitimately peer reviewed but won't help you get tenure / get academic positions, etc. This is a new journal so nobody will have heard of it (and therefore almost all will assume it's a 3rd tier venue). And I don't see that changing for a journal that is so narrowly focused on just publishing papers about open source software.
Right. And also deduct 90+% likely spam/phishing candidates, and all youtube and Netflix streams and what remains is what, 20%? 10%?
Tech accounting games: How companies spin their numbers
I was a sysadmin in the mid-90s and even back then, we had the ethos that if you had to do something more than once script it (in Perl back then) and if possible cron it. The scripts lived in CVS.

So it is very, very weird that in 2016, people are talking as if this is a new concept.
This is silly. One small mining computer would be faster than all the human hashers combined. There is no special hashing function a human can always do better than a computer.
I guess the difference is that mammograms tell you that there's some sort of tumor, while sequencing the blood can give a better idea of what's wrong with it. If you know what oncogenes it has then hopefully you can figure out how it's going to progress.
Working in Oxford university
Hello,

I am a Sys admin/Devops with over 10 years experience. At my current job, i am getting good pay and savings, though career wise , it is a hole with no career/professional growth.
I had applied to oxford university and am in final stages of hiring process. Though salary is way less and savings is also less.

With a family of 2 kids , what would you folks suggest? Jump to oxford or stay put where i am currently and make savings ?
That's the strangest "think of the children" argument I have ever heard.

It can't be too hard to avoid working for one of these companies.
If you mean this one http://tollroadsnews.com/news/french-low-ceiling-tunnelways-..., it is low, but not _that_ dramatic: 2.57m
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Yes, flying into a soft, freshly ploughed field is probably the best case scenario. Put a tree, rock, concrete or other car on the way and no crumple zone will save you at such speed.
HN seems to be getting worse by the day. If I could delete my account and all its comments I would.
Why not pay a basic income to students for passing tests?
The cave divers who went back for their friends
Get a hand-held GPS, turn it whatever way you want?
Thank you edko for good words! We're happy to help you :)
Trump's success, and Bernie's threat, seem to indicate that "the little people" passionately hate the professional political commentators.

I wonder if the media gave Mr. Trump so much free advertising because they thought him the best candidate to run against the Anointed candidate.
There have been four major changes which devalued patents in recent years. One is the America Invents Act, and the others are court decisions I don't have time to look up right now.
Associative Long Short-Term Memory
Call it by the distribution name. Calling debian and android by the same name is silly if the only common software is the kernel and a bunch of universal tools and libraries.
Oracle's core product is Oracle database. That is a product based on SQL, an API language invented by IBM's Codd, Boyce, and Chamberlin in 1970-1974.

Oracle developed Oracle database before IBM offered standardized free royalty-free licensing, so Oracle's core product, according to Oracle's legal theory, belongs to IBM.
Madness. No thanks!
Ok, now i am confused. On the one hand you rail against complexity, while on the other you favor systemd.
Mercury Transit 2016 Live STREAMING
Used a GPS with outdated map (too cheap to buy the new update) a few years back. Construction with ramps in Boston, thing almost had me driving off a 200ft cliff.
This is excellent satire y'all.
Do you have a link to your blog post?
Show HN: Snippetbox – a new way to do code snippets
https://snippetbox.xyz
I am currently in the process of testing an MVP of the real product and I am hoping to get some feedback on it as it currently stands.

Thanks
We didn't even get public defenders until the mid-60s. There are presumably still people in jail from before the public-defender system.
I don't think you could get that to fly politically. While it is true that drugs require high prices to recoup research cost and that drug patents allow drug companies to charge those high prices, they don't just recoup prices. They charge as much as they can. From the point of view of trying to save as many people as possible for the money, that sucks, but from the point of view of encouraging investment in drug companies it is seen as a necessary evil.

I won't try to rehash all of the permutations of ways that might work (just search HN for any discussion of drug companies and patents and you will be able to enumerate them). I suspect that there are ways to improve the present system substantially, but I concede that the problem is much harder than I can solve. Hopefully someone will be able to do it some day.
> Everyone was happy to have $30 jeans which could last one year over their $70 jeans made stateside which could last five years or more...

My only piece of designer clothes was a $160 pair of jeans that lasted for only 3 or so years. I concluded that from now on I should stick with buying $50 jeans which last me at least 2 years.
Guess who can get them for free?
those living in civilized countries with universal health care systems.
> Also, Dylan's syntax wasn't based on M-expressions per se,

I know, my remark was more into the sense of being based as departure point, not as being a pure M-expression implementation.
How to Build Your First App
India wouldn't be able to either way.
GoPro Earnings: Beats Estimates, Delays Its Drone Launch
Thanks, will look into this.
The nub of the thread is: these sites have put up ad blocker blockers, so you can't see the content without disabling your ad blocker. And yet when you do you are either exposed to full screen or video auto play ads, or in some cases, malware:
http://www.extremetech.com/internet/220696-forbes-forces-rea...

Given that Reddit is a large source of incoming referrals this stance (if implemented) might be a sufficient lever to send a signal to get those sites to improve their environment.

In any case since the sites are still able to use curated self hosted ads (ie not JavaScript redirects to externally hosted providers) they are able to sell static ad space to make money even with adblockers enabled.

It might be worth seeing what the outcome for the experiment is (if it goes ahead) and then seeing if the same logic would work for HN.
> If you're focused on driving the best solution in some sub niche, yes...you can be successful with that.

I would be hard pressed to call securing containers, virtualization and cloud a niche, since that is exactly what SmartOS has been designed for, from the ground up.

A large part of generating revenue is not having downtime caused by data corruption incidents or security breaches (or both), which means picking and using a substrate which provides guards against that.
Use curl to get remote file size
I'm just amazed at how happy and ignorant people seem to be about giving away Facebook more and more signals about their likes/dislikes

They started the profile badges thing and folks thought that was so cool.

I had to explain to them that this is one more data point for Facebook - if I change my profile badge to a Manchester United logo, it probably means that I really, really care about Manchester United.

I can then be targeted by an advertiser that wants to sell merchandise to Manchester United fans
How about a surgeon that's been up for 36 hours, hungry, with a splitting headachy, and some family problems on the mind. A human surgeon might be awesome and can still make a ton of mistakes for reasons unrelated to their medical abilities. Meanwhile, while a programmer could easily make a mistake, other people and tests of the code could spot a lot of mistakes that could be corrected before the system reaches its first patient.
GPG and Me (2015)
I found this to be okay as a relatively speedy intro. It's quite disorganised though - some concepts and terms appear to be assumed but then introduced properly later on. I was wondering if this was intentional or not (maybe you are supposed to be patient?).
In short:

1) law change for allowing bank account opening without physically coming to Estonia is in the government and should be in force by Autumn

2) our customers are successfully using different payment providers

3) LLC is the "de facto" incorporation type for our customers

4) Becoming an e-resident won't make you an Estonian tax resident, so you don't have to worry about your worldwide income. But when you start an Estonian company then the company finances/taxes have to be done by Estonian laws/rules.

5) Going to Estonia is like going to other European countries. You need transportation and a place to stay and you get them via normal means online :). Visa requirements depend on your real residency. Being an e-resident doesn't change this. For more info: http://www.visitestonia.com/en/

6) For physical coworking space, just google "coworking tallinn" or something similar. Should be plenty of spaces available. If you wan't to see the other end of Estonia, then "coworking tartu" :).

Erko, from LeapIN

Our take on e-Residency: https://www.leapin.eu/articles/e-residency
"This makes me respect people who learn English as a second language a lot."

English is my secondary language. Compared to the other languages I know or have tried to learn, it's pretty easy.
I'd say less than that. Remove all https traffic, js frameworks, identical images, video, newspapers and major blog entries, and I'd guess the remaining text traffic must be 1-2% of the global traffic.

One thing I'd guess too is that the NSA must have the mother of all password databases. Given all the login forms that went through unencrypted and still do. If I was the NSA that's the first thing I would have captured.
Why are those not goals of the US prison system? How can that be changed?
'Mark Zuckerberg has been transparent about his goal to monopolize digital news distribution. “When news is as fast as everything else on Facebook, people will naturally read a lot more news,”'

Oh lord. That's not news. Those are sensationalist, click baity headlines making us all collectively dumber. It's anecdotal, but I'm quite sure the 'news' my girlfriend has gotten from FB has made her less informed.

I actually wrote an FF plugin to hide that right bar, since I would now and then get sucked in by that crap and waste 15 minutes reading about Lindsey Lohan or whatever.
As a doctor, I am inclined to trust the software developer more.
Discovery of TCP/IP is a significant overstatement. The ants perform flow control based on the number and frequency of ants returning from a known source.

They of course have no concept of out-of-order delivery, retransmitting lost ants or even having to deal with ants accidentally duplicated as they walk their paths.
My guess is they needed the best seed they could generate for their ML algos.
Wow so many good suggestions. You are really cool :)
As a software developer and son of a physician, I'm strongly inclined to trust the engineers more.
Erasto Mpemba boiled milk mixed with sugar to make ice cream. The original experiment is much more rewarding than simply putting water into the fridge. ;-)
When your TA is a robot
What would be your alternative ?
You think that people look better in working casuals ? Suits ? From your comment I would suppose that you are living in the US.

I personally wear jeans pretty much exclusively and have no problem with it. I prefer and search for heavy jeans.

In my opinion people always look better in fitting clothes. If they are wearing unfitting jeans, they are going to look bad in it. If they are wearing unfitting suits, they gonna look bad in it. If they wear fitting clothes nearly everything works.

Many years back I've worked with an American company (I am from Europe) and they really didn't like us wearing jeans all the time (a totally normal thing to do in Europe where I am living). They said it didn't look professionel enough if you aren't wearing working casuals.
Tomtom does something like that. They have arrows at the top that indicate lanes and where you should go, they also have a exit preview feature. It could be better, but it's ok.
Good point...I should try again when I'm hungry :)
NASA to make an announcement on Tuesday
Other useful hint to authors: the Starter Pack seems to be missing on the server ...
Important, sure, for our deeper understanding of the universe. They wouldn't, however, have a detectable effect on the world around us.
> Also intermediate nodes could compress or shrink images or do similar types of things.

And we come back a full circle. Even if the image is not sensitive, I'm glad I can force https to workaround my ISP being "helpful" and shrinking images.
I would already be happy if medication for a patients wouldn't be handled by passing paper notes from one nurse to the next. There is no fancy machine learning needed to make sure that you get what the doctor prescribed in the correct dose.
Exactly what anyone with some common sense should have expected as soon as the hyped-up news reports and media appearances began[0]:

> George Church of Harvard University, one of the expert judges for the 30 Under 30 project and one of the fathers of next-generation DNA sequencing, reviewed the paper and thought that many of the key claims that had been made of Andraka’s sensor – for instance, that it was 168 times faster, 26,667 times less expensive, and 400 times more sensitive than existing technologies – may not hold up, or at least require more work to be proven. I sent the paper to five more top scientists, who reviewed it, for the most part, anonymously. Most saw holes and said the results did not match the glowing accounts reported, well everywhere.

0: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/01/08/why-bio...
> retransmitting lost ants

That's not an issue to ants and their problem.
A lot of text editors have a 1% of emacs power but a great web site and a great interface. This help them to shine in the IDE/Editors jungle. So, this new interface, will help emacs (from a "marketing" point of view).

Personally, I think that Emacs is one of the best editors. Not so simple to use (you may think if you are going to start without a tutorial), but, definely... very strong and personalizable.

I prefer to not compare with IDEs. The advantages of IDEs is that they have a particular UI and a set of tools focused for a particular language/development tool. This will allow you to have an initial set of features. Ready to use. Without spending your time to work on personalization. You may think to IDEs as editors with a restricted set of features (compared with emacs).
Dynamic Typing vs. Statically Typed Debate
Dear Dropbox: Hire some web engineers
What should you do when testing is a pain?
It would be nice if you support that claim with some data.
On the other hand, accidenct could have been avoided if the pilot had simply relied on the instruments.
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Mb_omlN...
I hear this line repeated a lot on HN (it appears multiple times in this thread even), yet I've never seen a study or any hard evidence for it. How do you know that the massive profits made by drug companies in the US are being reinvested into drug development, and not simply returned to their sharedholders? Do you have any sources for this claim?
Do you long to return to the time when more than 50% of the US labor force had to work in food production? Thanks to automation, less than 2% of our population is employed to feed us all, freeing the rest of us to develop software or drive trucks.
From your comment it's not quite clear if you feel it would be ideal to have fewer scientists or for the CEO to be a scientist, but I'm guessing the later.

A couple of years ago while promoting his book in the south bay, Peter Thiel spoke about his experience with scientist-lead biotech companies: "While engineer-lead companies are sometimes poor in terms of business sense, scientist-lead companies tend to be catastrophic".
If Your Laptop Is Open, You're Not Listening
Surprised no-one has pointed to the real culprit here: the patent system, which allows individual companies to own knowledge like this and sell it at any rate it desires... private taxation by and for the rich, on the rest of society.
I would love to, but it might take some time until I get to it. I actually added Portuguese and Russian just recently and I plan to stay with the current 9 languages for a little time to see if there is enough interest in this product (and maybe I can break even in server costs - I don't really have any monetization model atm, I might add a donate button though). But yeah I would love to add new languages :). Same goes for Japanese.
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Must have war to bring peace, etc. I even hear this from anarcho-capitalist who blame the government for everything, in effect to get rid of inherently coercive government violent revolution is probably necessary.

What I think is naive is the idea that the only bad kind of coercion is from governments, as if there's no such thing as economic coercion, or psychological coercion. And further is naive that it is possible to totally get rid of it.
If this is the state of the art, then we needn't be very worried. The demo site shows horrible results - the same plate is recognized 2 dozen times as different numbers every time, over a time span of 2 seconds.

I'm pretty sure there are solutions available that works much better though, my point is that describing openalpr as 'state of the art' isn't quite accurate.
I know for a fact that if the Emacs developers weren't
doing a bang up job, which they are, then I would
immediately allocate some of my time to help.

Development is going great IMHO. However, the bug count is steadily increasing. Any time invested into emacs is well spent.

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/05/03/emacs-bug-trends/
You missed the part where insurance companies and government programs are obligated to pay for treatment regardless of costs. A limit needs to be put on this. E.g. spending a million dollars on a treatment that is only decreases the risk of death by 5% puts a $20 mil value on life, which is too high. I don't know what the number should be, but it's something we need to decide.
What about fansubs? The right people could tell you which sub groups are the most trustworthy.

Perhaps another option could be incorporating music lyrics, as there are many sites that list Japanese, romaji (romanized Japanese), and English lyrics beside each other that you can scrape.

In case you didn't already know, subs.com.ru is a great source of anime fansubs (no video, just the subs).

There's also opensubtitles.com, but I'm not sure how to heuristically determine what the quality subtitles are.

I can understand if you're hesitant to use unlicensed translations, but I've found that licensed subs hardly compare to a quality fansub group.
Only if you violate Java's GPL license. Google took a GPL code and licensed it under a different license - that's why they are sued.
So, even if Google looses, that basically strengthens the open source case AND Java, meaning that you can not hijack Java (GPL) and make its offshot non-free (in a copyleft sense).
Ask HN: Do you know the range of price for ReactJS freelancer per hour?
How much a ReactJS freelancer is payed per hour?
Before long, there will be cross-trained surgeon-engineers. They probably exist already in small quantities.
To my knowledge TeaVM supports multi threading. See the async demo: http://teavm.org/

'Async demo that shows how TeaVM can translate multithreaded applications with synchronization primitives.'

Also see this effort trying to unify the APIs: http://dukescript.com/
The more I read about AI and machine learning the more I realize that I don't know nearly as much as I would like to know.

Are there any good resources that you would suggest?
What I'm essentially saying is that at this point, it has already become much harder for something like a Wine for OSX to be created. Because developers will have to prove "fair use" in court

You're wrong, that hasn't change at all as a result of Google vs Oracle.

Thought experiment - what would be Wine's fair-use defense ?

Interoperability, see for example Sony v. Connectix
From a technical because-we-can standpoint this is really cool, but I am having a hard time imagining actual use cases that warrant running a JVM in the browser. For modern web applications it is too slow (judging from your paper), so perhaps abandoned legacy applications?

Have you encountered any practical use cases?
The G in glinux is!
> Thought experiment - what would be Wine's fair-use defense ?

Huh? Wine exists solely for interoperability, the defense is "I have this lawfully obtained program and I want to run it on my OS". Which doesn't and can't apply to Android, because Android won't even run standard Java programs.