skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a figure from the article posted by Eric Topol on twitter: https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/729688822053670912

Combined with the stat you mentioned, it's a strange one. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong, but there's barely any physicians receiving above $50k in payments, so the biggest impact pharma payments have made is around a 5 % difference in prescribing. Looking at the variation at around $0-$10k, 5 % seems like a tiny change, since you have docs prescribing anywhere from 0 % and 80 %. Something else is driving it, my guess would be good personal relationships with sales reps? In that case, focusing on limiting that would have a much better impact on fixing the issue.

The big variation could also be something completely innocent like trust in a specific brand due to experience in the clinic, etc. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can chime in.
For those wondering what technology is being used. It is using this Watson product: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/engagement_.... We are in the process of revamping it and making it a self-service API that will be released this quarter in http://ibm.com/watsondevelopercloud. Some of the core functionality is already available in http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl... and http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl... in case you don't want to wait.
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Obtaining explicit approval doesn't sound like it needs a special regulation. That is standard contract law.

Does ACH have problems with actors making unapproved transactions from other's accounts?
As a Texan I love this shirt [1] both ironically and unironically.

1. http://smbc.myshopify.com/products/texas-shirt
Blogspot is one of the most frustrating software out there that I interact with regularly (from HN mostly). Desktop version feels very slow and heavy, mobile version has this moronic feature of swiping to next/prev article, and countless other things that make UX really awkward.

Same with Google Groups and some other Google products. It's super weird, they sit on a pile of money, hire thousands of 'best of the best' and can't get some simple things right.
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> To optimize one's tax situation in Texas, the ideal situation is to live in a cheap condo/house and make a high income.

That's not entirely a bad thing as it's environmentally friendly. It probably means that a higher portion of taxes are paid by the relatively less well-off, but if that suits them, so be it.
That is awesome :)
I could be wrong on this, but I recall reading that the slow refresh on most eink screens isn't so much a hardware issue as a battery issue. Quick refresh would be pretty pointless on an ereader and be using power for nothing so they're tuned down.

This was an old ereader that people managed to hack and get a faster refresh on in 2012: http://liliputing.com/2012/01/hacked-sony-reader-shows-just-...

There are also people who have run linux on kindles and it looks surprisingly usable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8aFW5wROS4
It sounds like they were near bankruptcy right before they gave up the app.

How do you go from near bankruptcy to starting a consultant firm and generating income in your first month? Would love to hear that part of the story.
You will be able to reflash all three radios on the device (although you will need to keep the wifi's bootloader for the foreseeable future). Otherwise use should be able to swap out the bluetooth image and the subgigahertz stack.

The UI is reprogrammable without touching code also with 'microapps'. You could think of them as super lightweight shortcuts for adjusting things. You can see some examples on our twitter feed: https://twitter.com/flair_co
Just like I said over Starcraft and DeepMind, an AI is likely going to be worse than a person if bluffing is a big part of the game. In our system, prosecutors and cops have immunity that basically let's them lie about severity of evidence or true results of prosecutions to force deals. They have the full set of human language and imagination to use to do this.

Machines can't barely translate text between two languages or play Poker with its simpler bluffing. Anyone saying they're going to pull this off should be considered full of it until they have solid proof it's even possible. It would have to be the dumbest prosecutor on Earth and/or simplest case for one of today's AI's to outmaneuver them.
Contractor Working on OPM’s Cyber Upgrades Quits Citing “Financial Distress”
Very recently being when?

I don't remember anytime where I've used a Java Applet on any single banking site.
http://forum.world.st/Create-a-exe-application-in-Pharo-2-0-...

PS: You should be a bit more flexible. If you insist on programming, say, in Haskell the same way you program in C, all you'll do is hurt yourself.
Same goes when you try to use an image-based environment like a standard IDE or toolchain.

Just look at how Pharo itself is distributed: it's a zip file you can uncompress and run right on your desktop. On Windows, it just works out of the box without even running an installer.
BLAS is an API, more or less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprogra...
Well, that's part of it. There's also the unrelenting jingoism for 5 years of growing up before going to school, and the fact that Texas is fucking awesome.
That reminds me of my favorite project of all time, the 7400 FPGA:

http://blog.notdot.net/2012/10/Build-your-own-FPGA
does vectorization still result in a lot of performance loss compared to loops?

Yes, but it should be fixed in the nearish future. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16285
When a reputable investor and a good engineer are in a dispute about whether a startup is financially viable, believe the investor.

When a reputable investor and a good engineer are in a dispute about whether a startup is technically viable, believe the engineer.
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> I think it has to be fixed with process improvements, because the amount of task-switching I was doing was making it impossible for me to keep each of the X0 stories I was telling straight.

Please write up and publish any hints you come up with!
@patio11 Do you play starfighters? How do you ensure that the product is fun for the end user?
>But Texas is not under attack. It is merely changing as America changes with it.

Attack is too strong a term, but he massive spike in non-Texans immigrating to cities like Austin (for tech/creative jobs) and Houston (for energy and healthcare jobs) is having a noticeable impact on everything from housing prices to public culture.
Nothing quite like extrapolating a line across your entire data set when 99% of the data points are in the bottom 5% of the range.
Cool review!
Were you going to put the microprocessor under an electron microscope? No? Then nothing has changed.

I also think open hardware would be pretty neat, but software people who get really upset about layers they can't verify implemented on top of layers they can't verify sound pretty silly. Either you verify from the bottom or you can't verify at all.
It's fun to read confirmation of the comparability of these platforms.

On a related topic, I'd love to hear more from Parallel Universe, pron, or others at large here in the HN crowd about supervision models. I've been seeing the wisdom of a supervision tree for error handling more and more in golang code I've written lately.

Supervisors can be composed given channels as a primitive, but it still seems to be another thing entirely to do that, full of subtlety and careful engineering before you'll be able to reap the rewards of good sane-by-default concurrent error handling. Erlang seems to have a fantastic reputation here, and I understand Quasar has built a lot on the same theories; what are the essential elements behind that, if we want to mirror it in other languages?
Those Reddit comments, wow. Every single user that endorses the service writes with the same broken English.

Totally legit, astroturfing.

That said, anyone dumb enough to buy a hitman online would probably trust those comments. I mean, just look at all of the satisfied Redditors that have come forward to talk about the murders they helped commit. It must be true! Did you see the videos? Here, look at the videos. LOOK AT THEM!
There is something about this place. Hard to explain. You just fall in love and never want to leave.

I came as a young man and stayed for a long time. Had to leave for 10 years but I finally made it back. This place has only been good to me. The people, the climate, the opportunities.

God Bless this Great State. It is the last Bastion of Truth and Freedom.....
Distance doesn't use indexing at all, because measures are not indexes, so it doesn't make sense to say "if distances used 1-based indexing".

OTOH, for something physical that actually is indexing, or at least closely analogous to it, we could ask "what if principal quantum numbers used 1-based indexing". But, then, the answer would be "things would look exactly like they do now, because it already does."
Link to HN discussion of referenced blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542091
Conservatives as a whole are easy people to sell to. They have a fundamental revulsion to change, regardless of how positive it is, and their ears will perk up whenever they hear a point of view which matches their own prejudices. Texas, therefore, is an easy sell to Texans who tend to skew conservative. Just spend a few days in the state and listen to television and radio ads. They don't say "Texas." They say "Teckshussssssssssssh."

The culture of the state is by and large indistinguishable from that of Alabama or Mississippi with the exception of cowboy hats, large belt buckles, and a predisposition for beef over other superior forms of barbecue.

I've lived there. I'm moving back there. But virtually my entire group of friends who lived or still live there didn't originate from there... and people who have come from other areas of the country or world tend to snicker or roll their eyes when a Texan starts bragging about that particular culture.
The massive distances between celestial objects is somewhat beyond human comprehension. The scale of these objects and their orbits is so very different from the scales we encounter on a daily basis. The fact that these bodies can still be discovered proves we know so little about our own cosmic backyard, let alone the intricacies of spacetime.
That is part of the fabric of Texas for the past 150 years! My parents moved to Texas in the 1970's as part of a previous wave of immigration.
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Distances can be quantized. If you're designing something in your CAD tool, you can set a grid to, say 1cm, and never place anything on a fraction of a cm. The coordinates of points in the design are then de facto addresses.

Indices can be regarded as measures. We speak about an array having a "size" or "length": that is measurement language. Something is "3 words wide": ditto.

A given record in a file can be 25 words from the beginning, or 100 bytes, or 800 bits. All of these tell us how much storage immediately precedes that record and we can easily convert among them.

If indices support calculation, they should be displacements, and displacements should originate at zero.

Indices not intended for calculation (beyond simple successor/predecessor, perhaps) can place items into correspondence with any ordered set: natural numbers, letters of the alphabet, and so on. This is where we can get away with 1 based.

Indices not intented for any calculation whatsoever can use a set: like associating character strings with objects via an "associative" array or whatever.
I don't think that's an odd reaction at all given what they were responding to:

> Everyone that does not have shit for brains knows that security through obscurity doesn't work .... it should not take to long for someone to exploit the dumb asses that buy and use their allegedly "secure" closed source product.
R and Mathematica are also 1 based. And R really is popular (http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=index - ok, popularity is droping right now, likely b/c of Julia ;-))
When I tunred 5, a beloved great aunt gave me a crip $20 bill for my birthday. My mom helped me open a bank account, and deposit the money (along with the contents of my piggy bank). About a week later, I wanted to know if I could get my $20 back out to admire it. I was told that I could get a $20 bill, but it would not be the same one. I found this very upsetting, and I think I may have cried.
It doesn't really matter how you get an education. What's important is you get it. I still don't understand why its still such a big deal between paid and government seats; merit or non-merit. As long as education is being provided, its great.

We have to understand the nature of Private universities in India. Their primary source of revenue is either some generous patron/family (Tata/Birla etc.) or, more commonly, the students themselves. Its very different from the US, where alumni connections are strong and alums often make sizeable donations to their alma mater.
Yes! Look up ACH fraud. ACH is such an antiquated system. The only pieces of information that you need to do an ach pull (transfer) is the routing number and account number. Lo and behold, this is the same information that is on every check that you give out.

Edit:

To answer the other part of your question, originating financial institution (ODFI) can issue a chargeback up to 60 days after the money was sent. Unlike credit cards, there isn't a process for the merchant/service provider to refute the dispute.

So, the bank account owner can dispute the ACH transfer with their bank a month and a half later and it pretty much assured that they'll get their money back. Their bank isn't going to fight their own customer for it.
Ah, interesting. They'll be discontinuous dots along that line, true.
I see Java has spiked this year. Is there any accounting for that other than the vagaries of how the index is calculated?
Having family in both South Texas and in Mississippi, I wouldn't even compare the two places.
I understand the difference between SOLD by Amazon, and Amazon doing fulfillment. Products SOLD by Amazon are still not 100% guaranteed legit.
That being said, I have not had any problem returning/getting credit for knockoff (or questionable) product.
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That's actually Amazon's fault. They send a personalized email to the customer, saying e.g. "You purchased thing, and another thing customer has an important question about thing that you should answer by clicking this button." Sophisticates like the HN crowd know that clicking that button to say "n/a" isn't actually helping anyone. Amazon should know that most of its customers are not that sophisticated.
I expected it to work for most cases - especially trivial ones like that.

Where I was skeptical was around new features added to the kernel. I do not know how careful musl is when it is built on a kernel which includes a new feature (say something like F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, added in 2.6.24), but is then copied and run on an older kernel (2.6.10) which would return -EINVAL from that system call.

A quick glance at the musl sources shows that in this particular case musl is careful to notice the -EINVAL and emulate it (via F_DUPFD and F_SETFD FD_CLOEXEC).

But without seeing documentation from musl that this is guaranteed for everything that could be added in later kernels (I'm not even sure everything added could be emulated easily, but perhaps it could be), then I'd still be skeptical making the claim that musl and Rust could be statically linked on any version of Linux after 2.6 and run on any other version of Linux after 2.6.

It's not really about the kernel ABI being compatible (programs built on older kernels run on newer ones quite nicely). It's about newer features from newer kernels still being supported (or their absence detected and their features emulated) on older kernels. That's a property of musl, not of the kernel.
What's so terrible about asking for civility? You don't have to be happy about the change, you can register your displeasure and that you will no longer do business with them civically and in a forceful tone.

Why is 'it's on the internet and they did something I do like so I can be an add' so accepted no matter what the circumstances are?

Seems like a very reasonable and measured reaction. It's not like they're banning all discussion of the topic, just trying to keep civility.
Life-long Texan here, and I couldn't disagree more. I grew up in the rural pandhandle area and lived in Amarillo, Austin and Houston. Now, I'm living on the road in an RV, driving across the nation, and I've found many places more beautiful, friendly and accepting than Texas ever was. Texan exceptionalism is a bizarre and subjective phenomenon that I'll never understand.
This sounds like a neat concept but then again is this something that really needs to be automated with an app?

A friend of mine made a kanban board for chores. There's some chores that have to be done within a week, and there's some that are optional. The optional one has money clipped to it and when the card for that chore is done the child can take the money. And the mother is the one that moves the card to done.

So kind of the same thing as this app, but a physical board. And I don't see how moving this to an app really enhances or disrupts the physical board.
They left the eerily influential Texas textbook commission and troll-friendly patent courts off the list of things that make Texas distinctive.
The Norwegian government's BankID system (used by all Norwegian banks, and also supported as a login mechanism across all the government's digital solutions, including the national paperwork portal where everyone files their tax returns) only migrated away from Java 18 months ago [1].

[1] http://www.dinside.no/931165/dnb-dropper-java-fra-november
Do I have to be aware of some other language with such a trivial FFI in order to question the claim that Nim has such a trivial FFI?

(C++ has such a trivial FFI, as well as non-GC languages which compile to C code... there may be more as well)
This is a great idea. It wouldn't have supported every use-case, but it would have executed the minimum viable requirements to get traction (I'm guessing, anyway).
A lot of the "fake" reviews are by real reviewers. It is a common tactic to reimburse reviewers for purchase of the item so they then show up as a verified purchaser.
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I am curious about hardware Bitcoin wallets, because transferring from an address reveals the public key. Do hardware wallets like Trezor do single-use addresses?
You nailed it. We wanted the TLD to be open, and anyone will be able to use it regardless of whether they use WordPress or not.
What about IpV6
Actually, I think that's probably the only workable solution to the whole fake-review problem. The only reviews you should trust are the ones written either by people you already know and trust, or people who are trusted by people you trust, and so on.

Currently, it's really easy to bribe a random person to write an anonymous review. If the maker of some product has to bribe a friend of mine in order to get me to buy that product, it's going to be a lot more work for a lot less gain. Eventually it starts to look a lot like a company bribing all of its customers at once to buy its products, which if they can pull that off and make money, more power to them I guess.

The social media companies have the data and infrastructure to implement some sort of "product reviews weighted by the reviewer's proximity to you in the friend graph" feature, but I don't see users trusting Facebook or LinkedIn to be an impartial source of trustworthy reviews. (Also, a lot of Facebook friends aren't necessarily people you'd use for product recommendations, but that's a separate problem.)
If you were to do this, you'd be violating multiple federal laws and regulations.

You have basically created a stored value and money transmitter business without the proper license. In addition, you've created a conduit for criminals to launder money.

See:

* Liberty Reserve -
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founder-liberty-reserve-plead...

* Ripple - http://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-technology/fincen-fi...

* FinCen MSB fines list - https://www.fincen.gov/news_room/ea/

Disrupting finance is hard for a reason.
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If life is a dice, even the biological immortal throw it every time they climb into a car. In the long run, every methusalem is bed ridden, when statistics catch up to him/her.
See this gif: https://i.imgur.com/loW46yj.gif

Humans have the luxury of being able to charge into an uncontrolled intersection and trusting other drivers to make room. Sure 1% of the time it's going to cause a fender-bender, but that's just what you have to do in order to get through the intersection.

There's no way that taking chances like that would fly with a self-driving car. Even though the human passenger would have done the same thing, they're still going to feel like the car company owes them for "the car's mistake" when it's involved in a collision.
Tomorrow on Hacker News, Tesla remotely bricks the modified car and releases months of logs detailing every word spoken in and near the car, and every time the car drove to a liquor store or adult bookstore.
deep in the heart of Texas
I Germany, the web site of the German equivalent of the IRS uses a Java applet to do the Umsatzsteuervoranmeldung (don't ask me what that is in English, though).

So it's not banking per se, but it's finance-related.
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Sigh, not Planet X: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astronomers-s...
This and the questions that have three or four answers that are all identical.

The email from amazon makes it appear as though the question is being posed to you directly, and you can't see other answers while replying.

If it just showed answers others had given it would cut down on that a lot.
And Dallas, who now has the most people moving to it than any other state in Texas and percentage wise, more than any other major city in the US.
I found Houston to be quite cosmopolitan. I'd call it "working-person's cosmopolitan." There is a tolerance there borne of abundance and tradition, which has become its own common-culture sort of thing. People in Houston almost never get high and mighty or self-righteous on you for anything. On the downsides: Get mistaken for a teenager on a prom date, and you can be refused service in a fancy restaurant. Wait staff will "sir" and "ma'am" you. You can encounter some testosterone. Sometimes, this will even come from the cops.

At the very least, there is an expectation you will be polite, if you stay away from the rougher spots. The ethos there is live and let live, for the most part. Here in the Bay Area? It's definitely not "Live and Let Live." Many here feel free to splat you in the face with their judgement.

EDIT: Also, to debunk a stereotype, I know from a friend who worked with the DA and also as a private defense attorney, that Houston juries are not blindly Pro-Gun. There are certain things you do not do, certain things you do not have, or a Houston jury will put you away because you are a "gun nut." From another source, I know of a retired military DOD contractor who lost his job and his house because a Houston jury looked askance at his shooting a burglar in the butt as the burglar was climbing through the window of his house. Why? Because the burglar at the moment of the shooting, was leaving. Even in Houston, property isn't more important than human life.
Taylor (@DefuseSec) is one of the organizers of the Underhanded Crypto Contest at DEFCON; it started as an open invitation to try to social engineer him so he can improve himself. It wasn't a marketing stunt, at all.