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As a child I was considered to jump a whole academic year by doing two at the same time.

I went through so many tests, visited so many experts and had to hear so many people talk about me that when we soon after moved town I made efforts to not show my real potential. I tried to be average and be just one more, which led to eventual laziness and bad grades. So bad that I had shifty final grades in high school and I never got to get a uni degree. Yet, most people that know me would say I'm extremely intelligent.

Too bad life is about effort and not intelligence :-)

What I'm saying is, leave the kids alone. Let them grow up and help them accomplish their intellectual needs. Just don't treat them as something different or special, it would lead to either self-entitlement or sense of not belonging and loneliness.
Why would the Russian connected Trump hunt down a Russian spy?
There is a gulf of a difference between saying 'nothing is perfect' and therfore excusing crap - and making a reliable safe product.

That difference is engineering, and we undervalue it at our peril.
> Add that to the fact that the US has a lot more to lose if it gets caught attacking internet infrastructure than China and friends do (even just tests like this) and I would be surprised (honestly not shocked, but definitely surprised) if the USA is behind these shenanigans.

So can you give me the address of the rock you've been living under for the past 3 years?
Assuming any of those lists exist, you're not trying hard enough if you're not already on them.
Many generic forms of prescription only drugs have a cost of $5-$10. Not after insurance or anything, the negotiated price.

For people without insurance it may be necessary to whisper magic numbers to receive a better price (I say that sarcastically because the pharmacy gives anyone access to better prices, so long as they simply ask for the better price):

http://www.costsofcare.org/drug-discount-cards-liftin-the-ve...

So you might have a drug with a PBM negotiated price of $5 for the generic, a cash price of $40 for the generic and a cash price of $400 for the name brand drug.
Haven't seen any comments on the actual presentation. I'm about halfway in so far and am really enjoying it. His energy, his style, his slides, it all just fits so well together he feels like a less polished and maybe a bit more crazy mix between Balmer and Jobs. I love it. A lot of fun to watch!
Ultimately, if those people with their years of understanding have done a better job of understanding the needs of teachers and pupils then Apple will fail.

If Apple doesn't fail, then those people need to have a long hard look at their careers.
Well, you get the most basic treatment. If you are dying quickly, you can get treated. If you have a longer term issue or re-occuring issue, good luck. Hospitals don't have to treat everyone, they are legally able to stabilize you and let you die from complications.

More often, you slowly degrade due to lack of treatment. Then you can't work and end up on medicaid and get the treatments you need. However, now your disabled. It's a great system.
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Instead of remembering/finding that article perhaps you should just read the posted article which mentions the same things about "cuter" facial features.
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"...they didn't have any big attack..."

"Big attacks" are vanishingly rare. But, just for the sake of argument, they haven't had an attack until they do.

The point of this is the US is actually harvesting way more data than the U.K., and we have so-called "lone wolf" attacks every couple of months.

Mass surveillance doesn't keep you safe.
Can journalists stop writing 'AI' everywhere when it's just Neural Nets? It's all starting to look ridiculous - if you need a popular science friendly word, what's wrong with Image Recognition Program?
I don't see where Snowden said that "he specifically took the job with the intent [...] to release to journalists in those foreign countries"
Is America at risk of following the path of failing nation-states?
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I'm a JavaScript developer and I disable JavaScript on the web by default, because deep down I know it's what makes Web 3.0 suck.
Sorry, naive question here: how do we know that time's moving forward? If it moves back and forth, wouldn't we, being inside time and our own internal states dictated by the physical state of our own matter, be unable to perceive that differently from time going forward-only?
Tech startups grapple with diversity in hiring, report finds
The speaker just introduces more OOP complexity into already complex OOP code. All that’s going to do is make the code even harder to modify or step through.
He also made no effort to disclose or inform internally - it's pretty cut and dry. Even if the President personally wanted to, it's simply not a precedent any administration can afford to set.
Is 20 years actually that long for a drug? Drugs tend to have 12-15 years of actual patented time in market given the time eaten up the approval process. It's not like software where that time lag might make the patented drug obsolete by the time it becomes generic.

What "insurance laws" "subsidize" drug costs?

The cost of regulatory approval is high, but that's justified because the economic cost of a bad or even just ineffective drug piles up very quickly. Reduce the life expectancy of 1,000 people by 10 years (or give them an ineffective alternative to a drug that could extend their life by 10 years) and that's a billion dollars of damages right there. Is there a cheaper solution than extensive clinical trials that accomplished the same result?

It's not clear there is. Remember, what really makes approval so expensive is that most candidate drugs don't get approval. So the investment into all the drugs that don't work has to be recouped from the ones that do. But the fact that so many drugs fail at the clinic trial stage suggests we don't have better ways of predicting whether drugs will be safe and effective. Drug companies don't invest into drugs that don't pass approval for funsies. If they could determine a drug wasn't going to pass approval before the clinical trials, they'd do it. It'd be pure profit for them. Also, the fact that so many drugs don't pass approval suggests that the FDA is keeping a bunch of ineffective and harmful drugs off the market. The cost of getting rid of the FDA has to account for the cost of those bad and ineffective drugs.

Also, getting rid of these things would not make the drug industry a "free market." In any advanced society, the government will pay for drugs for elderly and poor people. That creates an entity that can exercise monopsony power. Get rid of patents on drugs, then you get the free rider effect undermining R&D. And get rid of the FDA, and you end up with a market with huge information asymmetries that allow drug manufacturers to sell products that don't work without customers having a way to know that. These would destroy any hope of a functioning competitive market. You can't talk about markets while pretending only the parts of economics that comport with your world view exist.
So what's the name of your outfit?
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Ask HN: Are Diversity Quotas in Tech Really Promoting Diversity
After reading https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/12/slacks-director-of-engineering-leslie-miley-doesnt-believe-in-diversity-quotas/ it occurred to me that most of the "diverse" people brought in to tech companies are really from the same backgrounds. Sure, they look different, but they were all raised in basically the same upper-middle class or wealthy backgrounds. Same can be said for our tech PhD hires, almost all have PhD parents and academic families. Companies like Google have internships tagged only for women, and scholarship programs ostensibly to do the same (one exception is for veterans, which they recently dropped from funding 20 or so students to 2 a year). The question is, are these people really diverse? Should we look beyond mere skin deep features to define diversity? Is discrimination to hire only one category of individual based on skin tone, gender actually legal in the U.S. (perhaps elsewhere?)? As a woman, I feel very odd going into interviews knowing I can only hire a woman for the position because that is what our hiring budget has been directed towards. We take marginally qualified bioengineering grads over people who have spent their entire school careers immersed in computer science. I wouldn't want to get the job just because of my anatomy. Almost Nine out of ten resumes are for men, statistically it would make ~90% of our workforce male gendered, yet we manage to achieve almost 30% female gender (largely due to hiring directives). Is this really the only way we can improve our diversity? What now happens to the dudes once the market is more saturated (and it will be in a few years)? Are we forcing other companies ratios to be out of whack? Is this really fair to smaller companies that can't out-bid us (PR-wise)?
If you include sleeping as a responsibility.
In addition to what you said, OO to me is all about things sending messages back and forth between black boxes, such that the message contains everything the recipient needs to either do its job or find the information needs to do its job. Alan Kay (since you brought up Smalltalk) has said that he wishes he called it Message Oriented Programming instead, because people took the wrong message out of the name. In this line, Erlang and Smalltalk, and to a slightly lesser extent Objective-C more fit in with this. But you can code that way in Java or whatever, if you just think about the message between entities being an actual first order thing in your system.
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"I see the risks as still being very small, but why take the risk"

Always reminds me of the line in casino "Look... why take a chance? At least, that's the way I feel about it."
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In the UK, the Labour part is moving back (rejoining?) it's old Socialist roots. The flawed but gracious and honourable leader of the party at present has been a socialist his entire career, but could hardly be called authoritarian.
According to a journalist who gave a talk here (Stuttgart, Germany) last week, there is a speed radar and license plate scanner at the local NSA installation, and going by too slow gets you on the 'suspicious people' list.
It is the same mechanism that allowed a Jeep's brakes to be hacked remotely, extended to the steering. So yes, car manufacturers do implement and ship extremely poorly thought-out ideas.
Obviously they are busy because they are reading and responding to Hacker News.
I just checked - the latest I use is centos 7.1 which does have libreoffice already installed, however my daily machine is older and I had to install OO manually there.
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Github: https://github.com/NYTimes/kyt

I get the concept of branding, but I found it disorienting to read a tech blog with the font and layout of an NYT news story...and the journalistic style meant that the link to the repository was a mere three characters of buried lead.
I have no idea what you're talking about..
I never bother with anything but Google Flights and it listed Ryanair last time I checked two weeks ago.
It means an extremely opaque system of checks precisely in an area of the state that is particularly succeptable to abuse. That is a real risk to national security here.

Contrary, I can see exactly zero potential for jeopardising national security by any mooderately sane law on whistleblower protection in this area.

All whistleblowing is taking things into one's own hands at the risk of persecution, and here its only more so, given the seriousness of the charges one will face if one's defense on the basis of whistleblower protection ie arguing one acted in the public interest and revealed gross abuse of power fails.

Whatever is at the discretion for the potential leaker to decide, is at that discretion regardless of legal defense opportunities a leaker may have after the fact.

It is simply ludicrous that revealing rampant abuse of power by precisely those tasked with protection of the constitutional order, and precisely at the point where such control is most needed can be a punishable offense in any democracy.

But naturally any such leak needs to be able to stand up in court and satisfy some reasonable criteria of public interest and of having revealed serious violations - nobody is suggesting blatant espionage be legalized ffs.
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Yeah, I've seen multiple great YouTube-apps die because of that. The best-functioning YouTube-app that I currently know, actually scrapes the webpage to get its information. It can't do subscriptions because of that, but I can easily replace that with an RSS Reader.
You can:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/Edward-S...
I use a simple bash script[1] to paste together html headers and markdown files processed by python-markdown.

The resulting .html is pushed with the source to the github repo. This setup, while not very sexy, doesn't even need a CI.

[1] http://toastedcornflakes.github.io/generate.sh
I think there also needs to be a 'Protect all whistle blowers' petition also. A petition to pardon Snowden is a noble goal (IMHO), but there are deep rooted issues which are not addressed by simply pardoning one individual. I wonder why there is no, 'Pardon Chelsea Manning' petition also? Could it be related to transgender issues?
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Your comment actually sent me on a bit of a wild goose chase trying to see where exactly ABP folks talk about the statement I quoted from WSJ. I couldn't find anything relevant.

For now, I am going to assume that WSJ is correct and either got this information from someone other than ABP, or they know more than what has already been announced.

Ignoring massive news sites who are probably not that concerned about the devaluation of their content, ABP is really pushing this solution as a boon for small blogs and medium sized publishers [1]:

"Looking ahead, the chief improvements the AAP will offer are its feedback mechanism, the way that mechanism will turn real-time bidding (RTB) on its head and how the AAP will be an especial boon to small blogs and medium-sized publishers."

Let us just consider the relationship between ad profitability and how much data is indispensable: is the issue actually poorly solved BECAUSE people have been taking tracking for granted (including the readers)? What about using all the content on the website for better ads? Sure, it would be REALLY lucrative if you, the site publisher, could also show an ad for a product I just browsed on Amazon.com, but it is also super creepy and at some point devalues your site in my eyes.

I really wish we could hear from someone who has built an ad network which helps small publishers.

[1] https://adblockplus.org/blog/new-acceptable-ads-platform-lau...
Lots of crazy shit has been walked back over the years, and I assume it felt very doom-y at the time. That said, I don't see this being walked back. Snowden outed the US Government as ever conspiracy theorist's worst nightmare minus lizard people, and the country kinda shrugged.
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Because just about everybody in this space, except a small number of well known, mostly academic old-timers, is a noob.
It's the same in every regulated industry: auto, insurance, finance, education. All it does is drive up the cost like crazy which gets passed on and people still get scammed, but pay extra for the privilege.
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Kotlin is amazing. It takes the best parts of Scala while keeping the simplicity of Java.

It may not be supported by Google but it was created by Jetbrains, the developer of Ideaide which is what Android Studio is based on, so it's support is top notch.

The best part of Kotlin is there is near zero cost to using it. You can learn it in a day and is fully interoperable with Java. :)
> ... it is necessary to "cache" the whole Internet communication to prevent terrorists attacks and other dangers.

Keep in mind that while we're trying to prevent terrorist attacks against us, we're actively and have actually used those same terrorists to further our goals in other countries.
Turkey is at this time no longer a democracy. It's very sad really, although the military coup d'état would have been worse imho. I hope for the Turks to realize how dangerous the current administration is and overthrow it before it is too late.
That is the current standard (Ph 3 clinical trials against standard of care). There are rare exceptions to this, but the ones I can think of are drugs for which there is no current standard and drugs for which the current standard doesn't match the intended indication. In modern medicine, we don't just take diagnosed patients who meet criteria for a trial and let them progress without disease.
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Okay, not to break up the tinfoil hat party here, but you're not going to get dragged off to US prison for following Birgitta Jónsdóttir (Icelandic, not Swedish) on Twitter.
The original Bolshevik revolutionaries believed in democratic elections as well, they just saw the legitimate institution of government starting from the worker's councils (called soviets) that sprung up in workplaces around Russia during the 1905 and 1917 revolutions. This is why they called their system the soviet socialist republic, and why the prime government body was the supreme soviet.

What actually happened in practice was a bloody civil war made democracy of any kind impossible. And out of the ruins of that civil war "pragmatists" like Stalin rose, purged the former revolutionaries completely, and restored the authoritarianism of the tsarist era.

If you look at the Communist Party of the 1930s there are none of the original Bolshevik (and fellow travellers) cadre left. They were all brutally assassinated. The most prominent being Trotsky but there were dozens of similar cases.
This won't have negative consequences for the public at all.

/s
I thought it's a known fact that people got smarter through social competition. That supports the assumption that people got smarter after they got friendlier, but that was by no means "by accident".
Where's your study proving the opposite? Or is your proposal to do absolutely nothing without a study first telling you to? G&T programs try to utilize the diversity of students, rather than just ignoring it or trying to will it away. In a world where things actually have to function prior to the conducting of infinite studies, that makes a lot of intuitive sense.
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Since 9/11 the US already states very explicitly that it doesn't want me as a visitor - I'm not going to go through the (visa) hoops they hold up to me.

It was actually administratively much easier to cross the iron curtain in the form of the berlin wall back then than it is now to get into the US (me being german).

(This is a bit unfair because there were special regulations for germans inside berlin, and US visas weren't that easy back then either.)
Dependents typically take a lot more than 2 hrs/week. More like 2hrs/day if they are in school and involved in any extra-curricular activities, at least until they are of driving age. On days where they might have e.g. a game, or some other performance or event, this can easily double.
Effectively, in that it's "tradition" for the president to issue a bunch of pardons right before leaving office, largely because it's the last chance to do so, partly because at that point it's too late for any political opponents to use it against him.

But the sitting president can issue pardons at any point during the presidency.
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This is usually true. The patent is filed before you start clinical trials, because it must be described in publications. Those trials together often take 5 years or more. Only after that can you even file the New Drug Application or foreign equivalent.

Edited to add: Also, people often lump the market exclusivity extensions in with the patent. The FDA offers companies and incentive to try their drugs in children. Without this, almost nothing would be approved for kids because the trials are ridiculously expensive (even compared to adult trials).
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It's not hard to understand. Pick a medical commodity that costs a few dollars in Europe or anywhere else in the world but is exorbitant in the US. Could be insulin, an epipen - whatever. Try and bring some back in to the country with you. You're breaking the law. Try and bring back a whole box of it and you're off to jail. Without the government-backed threat of jail, the market would very quickly find the proper price.
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But it's also worse in a way because many people who sign these petitions think they are actually helping so they are less likely to do something more which might actually help. If they forward it to five people and create awareness then they are helping a little. If they just sign and go on their way they are doing no more than the guy who does nothing.
If you aren't willing to risk being on the NSA's shit list, we will never be able to break free of their oppression. Action breeds confidence.
The AMA says: "Direct-to-consumer advertising inflates demand for new and more expensive drugs, even when these drugs may not be appropriate."

Doctors have the final say on whether or not a patient gets a drug. It's funny to hear the AMA say that it's a problem when they could stop overprescribing entirely on their own.
Drawing attention is not an effective remedy against abuses by people who aren't held accountable:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130923/11543424624/borde...