skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were, if I understand the background correctly, trying to make a workalike competitor, which King/Mylan asserts they cannot do without violating a patent on the current EpiPen injector. The only thing stopping them from making a non-workalike is getting doctors to prescribe it instead of EpiPen, since pharmacies can't autosubstitute in that case.
Mainly for my own amusement, and partially for Siri integration.
Those hospitals' standard rates should be paid by direct reimbursement from the government at their set rate. In the event they're out of line with the expected market (no idea what that distribution looks like, but obviously there would be one), then the hospital would be investigated for price gouging all their customers (as customers of this industry are less able to shop around).

The problem we have here is the exact same problem as with taxis/Uber (and telcos somewhat. and actually that public code thread we argued about the other day, too). Rather than just directly subsidizing infrastructure for poor people, governments enticed businesses to provide some service at a loss by giving them special privileges across the board. As the market finds more efficient solutions, the reality disconnect becomes painfully apparent. Market consumers grow sick of the incumbents' overhead, while simultaneously the businesses gradually renege on their unprofitable obligations.
To misquote Babbage, "I cannot comprehend the confusion of mind that would bring someone to such a decision" .....

edit: oh. The guy went to court to specifically undo a ruling that was over 10 years old, that would have caused his ex-wife to owe the government a lot of "unfairly claimed" benefits. I'm less confused now.
As someone who has been there I would say this list is spot on. I'd add more about finding constructive uses of time though.
Wes's book is definitely the standard. But I would hold off buying one right now - he's currently working on a (much-needed) second edition, coming out next year (http://wesmckinney.com/).

Joel's book is a great resource for preparing for interviews or learning really basic stuff and less of an introduction to the tools.
Surely there's more fog of war when coming up with better browser-side abstractions than on the server-side.
Spotify has some tracks in there on guided meditation as well.
Is perceived experience reality?
You're talking about speculative bubbles. The high housing prices are not driven by speculation, they are driven by supply constraints.

People aren't buying houses to flip in six months, they are buying them to hold onto long-term. It's pretty clear that public policy isn't going to shift towards affordable housing any time soon. So the only options are: continue to pay high rents and wait for people to lose their jobs/homes so they can be bought cheaper, or buy now and hope you don't become one of the former.

If we start seeing houses sold multiple times in the same year, or people starting buying homes that they clearly can't afford, then we have a problem. But I don't see evidence that is where the US is. The housing shortage is ensuring that only those top earners are competing. Price are driven up by the fact that the top 20% of buyers can afford to outspend the bottom 80% on housing by a factor of 5 or more.

An additional $500/mo can cover another 100k for a 30 year mortgage. A couple making around $10k/mo after taxes can spend $5k/mo on a mortgage and still live comfortably while a median income couple earning maybe $4k/mo can only spend $2k/mo before things get tight. So, the high income couple can easily afford a million dollar mortgage, but could stretch that to $1.2MM if they really had to while the median earner can only spend $400k MAX.
Oh well, IDEs come and go. I do remember Netbeans when it was amongst the best, and I remember it as the bloated mess it became later.
Some state prisons still allow weight stacks, they post their weight lifting competitions on youtube all the time (illegally, not sure how prisoners get phones).

Here's some guy in a no weight stack prison, with a contraband phone showing off his exercise routine (and pics of the homemade water weights) https://youtu.be/WLmDkcb6JQE
The many reasons that customers love Dynatrace
Youre conflating 'working more hours' with 'doing more work' - these are not at all one and the same.

A fresh college graduate could spend 60 hours trying to spin up a new web server, where an experienced professional could do the same in an hour. Should the fresh graduate get a promotion for this?

You're right that higher paying jobs require more of you, thats why the barrier to entry is higher. You need to have more experience and know how to do more things. You're not getting paid more because you're expected to work more hours, but because you are expected to be capable of doing more complex work.
I find it funny that the United States Congress decides who takes part in the _international_ space station program.
For salaried employees or contract work with capped hours, overtime can also be banked goodwill or converted to flex time.

Most office environments I've worked at are not rigidly policy-driven, are populated with sensible humans, and the overwhelming majority of my teammates are working for the success of the team and each other.
I think the article is more about the culture than the ability of the country to provide. When people host refugees in their home and try to offer them a life as good as their own, I think they're being very welcoming and friendly, regardless of how much they can offer in absolute terms.
Sure you can put in whatever your contract says and nothing more... Or they could fire you, move you out the fast track career situation, and remove you from the "good" projects.
Yet, many people staying illegally in a country manage to live in cities (yes, they aren't in the system, but that isn't advantageous, as 'not being in the system' already is a cause for locking you up)

The trick indeed is avoiding any run-in with the government. If there's one group of people who never jay-walk and always have a valid ticket in public transport, it's illegal aliens.
New regs on sharing data from clinical trials
Take advantage of the one proven means of normalizing the negotiation power between you and your employer: join a union, organize your shop, and take advantage of collective bargaining rights. This is obviously easier said than done, but at least it's not based on magical thinking.
> There isn't that much of a reason for a more normal user with a few hundred followers (maybe) to engage on it other than interact with more prominent users

I think you've misjudged the value of Twitter for a normal user.

In my experience as one of these "normal" users, Twitter's major use case is like Facebook before the "adults" (older people) and extended family showed up. You can type out whatever you want, and your Twitter buddies will see it (often a different circle than your Facebook friends).

Because messages are so short, interaction is much easier. Discussions take place in 140 characters rather than paragraphs. Sure, it's less deep than Facebook, but it's also satisfyingly immediate.

It's also a lot more possible to make new friends over Twitter than Facebook. It's relatively normal to interact with people you've never met before, whereas on FB that'd be a big faux pas outside of a post in a common-interest group.

All the brand stuff? Powerful users and influence and news? Not super relevant for a pretty decent swath of users (although it is pretty funny when I subtweet a utilities company or something when I'm having an issue and they send me an official DM). I personally do not follow any major brands or celebrities, although occasionally I see them through retweets.
> Refugee needs at least 600 euro/month to feel welcomed.

OK, I really hope you are being sarcastic. As a refugee, you make a choice to escape brutal violence, get a roof over your head, some (minimal) food and clothing, and you actually need some money also "to feel welcomed"?
It's interesting to see the term "weaponized" used with education -- I feel like we've (somewhat) done that for math with supermathworld.com. It's great to see education moving in this direction!
Games like this are the best way to teach programming. I first started by programming Counter Strike Source mods using EventScripts that let you write mods in Python. That changed my life.

Small 2D games are cool to look at and kind of fun, but nothing is better than taking a game you already love and scripting it. Far better than making a tortoise walk across the screen, it's more engrossing and rewarding and it becomes sort of a game in itself. You want to make your UZI shoot bananas? Figure out what that weird error is and you can.

Kudos to Microsoft.
>Twitter is forever judged by Facebook's bar, using Facebook's KPIs.

No, the criticism is more fundamental than that. The problem is that Twitter has taken ~$2.8 billion of investors' money and has never made a profit.[1] Any comparisons to Facebook regarding audience size or engagement is way down the list of priorities compared to the basic task of not losing millions every single quarter.

[1]http://www.statista.com/statistics/274563/annual-net-income-...
Herjavick said (in his Reddit AMA iirc) that most pitches are about two hours long.
What would you recommend for visualisation?
What the iPhone 7 Gained by Losing the Headphone Jack
"Fact"? When you're already willing to work for 2/3rds of your market rate? No, you've advertised your commitment to being stuck in the trenches while new people are hired over your head until you burn out.
Look, I hate Apple as much as the next guy, but I don't get the sudden benevolence for Microsoft that's cropped up in the last few years.

Microsoft has a well-known history of user-hostile and downright unethical behaviour, notwithstanding this latest bit of spyware they call Windows 10.
Lots of problems come up in meetings that you can't adequately prepare for.

Clear agendas don't solve the problem of a bad agenda.

Meetings can be valuable but not nearly as valuable as peer to peer communication in the office. Meetings are almost always a waste of time where I work.
Totally forgot that Rockstar has a studio in SD.
Dodo: 6502 Portable Game System
[Disclosure: I'm CTO at Calm]

With Calm, there's new content every single day with our Daily Calm meditation. We've got more daily content coming soon too.

In addition to the content people also like us for our tracking features and daily reminders, which people consider valuable.
The problem is that "it will figure itself out" does not imply "we'll be fine".
Vapor 1.0 released (Server side Swift web framework)
Can someone explain this to me? I have a Linkedin account, and the only time I get emails is when someone wants to connect with me. I opted out of all the other email categories, just like I do with every other site.

Do people really get emails from Linkedin after opting out of every category?
Good post, but... Never say never. Instead, say "almost never".

In this business, sometimes a crisis happens. Sometimes you need to be there more than 40 hours a week. I accept that as part of the profession, as long as it's rare.

When a show-stopper bug gets exposed two days before we're supposed to ship, and my boss called me at 9 PM, I came in and was there until 1 AM identifying the problem. When it's only happened once in seven years, well, you just roll with it when it happens.

When they expect it every week? No. Change your expectations, or I'll change jobs.
The advantage of Jupyter notebooks over RStudio is having text and code in the same place. Personally, I find that being able to run+modify the code in a textbook is much more informative than simply reading the syntax (for example - https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...). Sure, I could just copy and paste from the website into an IDE, but notebooks are a more natural way of communicating code and prose, IMO.
Embrace, extend, extinguish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extingui...
>"don't worry, the earth knows how to regulate itself, it will figure itself out

Yep that part is true

>we'll be fine

That part is not
I think they are mostly young adults (age groups 13-35 seems most common) and it's mostly loose networks based around geography and education. So, they sort of lie on top of existing real world networks. If you don't have an "in" to Twitter from a friend in real life, you'll find it hard to locate a Twitter network.

But once you're in, you can pretty easily seek out new people to interact with, and you can grow your little network and make friends and share cultural capital or whatever.
Speaking from my own experience, I've known quite a few people working in factories that didn't want "desk jobs" or to be "paper pushers", even if those jobs paid more. And some even had the turned down promotion offers to prove it.

I didn't miss the opportunity bit. It seems your logic there is backwards: It's precisely if I can choose to do whatever I feel like that I have opportunity, and precisely those people you agree may have other goals than maximizing profit.

Sure, if you have no money and have an "opportunity" to flip burgers, most people would take that job even if they were vegans. That's survival, but I don't think that says much about what they would choose to do.

A better example I think is when people decide to go back to school because they've realized they only get shitty jobs without education. In that situation, they could choose to do whatever. Do most people find a list of best-paying jobs and pick the one at the top to decide what they should study? I think they do not.
Does anyone know how much 'besa' is related to (or derived from) the Islamic tradition of warm hospitality towards travelers?
It would be helpful to give a relevant quote (as well as the link):

"[He was a French astronomer whose] ship was caught in a storm and dropped him off at Île Bourbon (Réunion), where he had to wait until a Spanish ship took him home. He finally arrived in Paris in October 1771, having been away for eleven years, only to find that he had been declared legally dead and been replaced in the Royal Academy of Sciences. His wife had remarried, and all his relatives had 'enthusiastically plundered his estate'. Lengthy litigation and the intervention of the king were ultimately required before things were normalized. He got back his seat in the academy, remarried, and lived apparently happily for another 21 years."
>Refugee needs at least 600 euro/month to feel welcomed.

There are tons of locals (in Greece and Hungary and Albania that would be like 20-30%) that make less than that. Like full 8-hour jobs for €400/month...
Or you could just not use it, or follow your original thought and fork it and maintain the older version. It's MIT licensed, so you're more than welcome to do whatever you want.

Instead of doing any of the things that'd require work (like the creators did), you insult them. They must be oblivious or awful at software, right?

> The huge change is because the maintainers are apparently unwilling or incapable of either A. Creating something good enough on the first, second, or third attempt, or B. are completely oblivious to the needs of devs trying to create practical software and don't understand that project stability is just as important as a good API.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the doctors are making out like bandits here. Of course they do quite well, and since they are providing most of the value in the equation, every seems to be pretty happy about that.

Insurance companies don't practice neurology.
> If your really dedicated to your project and have no family waiting at home, why should you always leave after 8 hours?

I'll work longer than 8 hours if I want to. I won't work longer than 8 hours because you want or expect me to. That's the difference.
I think the article is more about the culture than the ability of the country to provide. When people host refugees in their homes and try to provide them with a life as good as their own, I think they're being very welcoming and friendly, regardless of how much that is in absolute terms.
They're not all bad. I like sites where the sticky bar hides after scrolling down for a bit and reappears when scrolling up.
My brother had a similar experience, albeit probably outside the target demo.

When he was ~15/16, he hit a point where his grades fell hard in high school, and was very close to dropping out. I noticed he was big into Call of Duty games, and suggested that he pick up Minecraft again and try their programming classes -- naively assuming that if you like games you might like most genres. A few years later he was so engaged that he applied to college for a computer science degree.

The shit was so inspiring that I bought a Surface Pro 4 just to support Microsoft (even if I just wanted an excuse to buy one haha)
We have Minecraft on our Raspbery Pi connected to our TV, you can write Python code to add/ remove blocks etc. My 5-year-old is happy to open and run these scripts, my 7-year-old will customise simple functions I've written or write them along side me, she understands why and how they work. This is pretty much the level of coding I was doing back when I was their age on our families ZX Spectrum. But importantly the results are MUCH more compelling e.g. make a 10x10x10 cube of TNT blocks centred 20 blocks underground and then detonate them.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Taleb-esque in the sense of 90/10 (safe/risky) split, not his specific recommendation. Thanks for clarifying :)
You forgot to mention the prefect reason not to use a unique email address, its a pain in the ass and requires effort for very, very little return.
A lot of it has to do with:

1) Their increasing quantity of open source contributions

2) The rejection of the FSF's philosophy
numbers of devices, not numbers of dollars, is the distinction being made here I think.
Recent digital and application performance customer stories
Nah not our focus.

We are going to interop with keras with our scala api:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/Scalnet

That will allow us to benefit from what that community is building in terms of neural networks. We want to be the "deployment path" for those kinds of models while we focus on making c++ on the jvm as fast as possible.

We basically focus on the hadoop and spark crowd. We're already the industry standard in java/scala:

https://tech.knime.org/deeplearning4j
https://www.rapidminerchina.com/en/products/shop/product/dee...
https://www.lightbend.com/blog/meet-deeplearning4j-and-bidda...
http://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/dl4j-in-the-wild
I like how the Y-Axis shows a 2 degree "difference from annual mean" when the trend is very clearly a 1 degree difference for every month.
Not Even Wrong
More and more countries are hostile to US citizens. The US applies all sort of pressure, especially on banks, to deny them bank accounts and others.

I had a friend who was born in the US, while his parents were on vacation, so he automatically got US citizenship even though he never lived there. And dealing with banks in his "real" home country was becoming more and more difficult. He was even forced to file taxes with the IRS, even though he literally lived in the US for the first 2 months of his life at most.

So, even if it's a one way ticket, just the fact that you have US citizenship can make daily life a little complicated .
Uber drivers go to war against self-driving cars
btw, the price recently dropped on powerpack by 5% and 19% on inverters.

https://electrek.co/2016/09/09/tesla-quietly-reduced-the-pri...

"At the time, the Powerpack was being quoted at $470/kWh, but now we learned that Tesla brought the price down to $445/kWh."

Incidentally Goldman sachs estimates the cost to be around $200/kWh back in February.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:n5WQK1A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_BBC_television_c... - "The BBC is forbidden under its charter to directly undertake any commercial operations on-air within the United Kingdom; however, no such restriction applies to operations in other countries"... perhaps "on-air" applies to the internet as well?
> Real-world friends are the basis for your FBK graph, work colleagues are the basis for Linkedin. But Twitter? What's the community?

Your political network ? Fans network ?

In which case, it is most useful for celebrities or wannabes but not for regular people.
If your employer expects constant overtime from you, start looking. When you have an offer from a sane place in hand, quit your current job. On the way out, tell them why. It might help the others who are still there.

In a world that complains about a shortage of programmers, you have more leverage than you may think.
That's just part of their tax avoidance schemes. And they did not get negative rates on them.
They probably join groups and don't take the time to unsubscribe from the email digests.
They can't "extend patent protection" for the drug. Only the improvement. The existing drug loses patent protection.

And no, the Epipen thing doesn't bother me. It's narrow minded to think about issues one crisis at a time. The only question is: how do you create a system with the proper incentives? At the end of the day, Mylan runs a very capital intensive business and has a profit margin about half what Google or Apple do. I think it creates perverse and absurd incentives for it to be more profitable to be in the advertising business than to be in the business of saving lives. That's the bottom line.
Twitter is being judged negatively by the business community and elsewhere because, simply, it's a terrible business that's losing money hand over fist.

I consistently fail to understand why the present company isn't just 75 people in a basement somewhere. If that was the case they'd be raking in cash and Twitter would be considered a smashing success.
I see value in it as a news spreading platform... But the short messages and tagging system really mess with trying to have any sort of actual discussion.
I think Twiiter spreads news better than Google Now/Plus, so it's what I use to stay current in news/tech.
>Can someone shed light on what I am missing ?

The fact that there are people that make enough money, or not care enough about money, to prefer the convenience on just clicking "subscribe" on an app they downloaded and like, over searching for meditations books with meditation tracks on CD, ripping it to your phone, etc.

For more pinching-penny types, they could also expect the app to offer more/different tracks over time too.
You're assuming people getting emails have LinkedIn accounts. When someone with your email signs up for LinkedIn and then lets LinkedIn access their contacts, everyone of their contacts receives and email from LinkedIn and they now have your email address to do with as they please.
Still waiting on a formal way to denote namespaces in bash
This was brought up in a Fresh Air interview I listened to recently. Nowadays most of our devices use DC, and our grid is also on the verge of becoming much less centralized.

You could reap some easy efficiency gains by omitting the DC-AC-DC conversion of a solar panel powering a house that charges a laptop.
Really depends on how much distance that expertise leaves between you and your competition. If it's enough of a barrier to entry, then yes you have time, otherwise you better be going fast. A better funded competitor might Uber you after that first MVP has been derisked.
Per capita would hide lurking variables like differences in crime rate among different communities. Comparing to overall homicides surfaces this effect more.
Yep, that was my point.
> why is the United States the only country in the world where advertising prescription medicine to consumers is allowed?

I believe it's also allowed in New Zealand.

But I totally agree with you, it's a ridiculous practise