skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone knows how to make a product for $30 that the competition charges $300 for, why not go into business and undercut their price by a huge margin? Millions of users' lives would be instantly improved with dramatically cheaper epipens. That will do far more to combat greed than a blog post.

However, I think that if someone were to try this, they'd find there are many more costs involved than the raw ingredients and it might not be quite so simple to massively undercut the competition. But still, they should go for it! Competition is is the best medicine for over priced goods.
Yes. And the reason why the vote ratio (204:6) is much higher than the ratio of eyeballs at 3pm to 2am (maybe 5:1 or so) is that most readers only look at the front page, so articles that get enough votes to make it onto the front page get a lot more votes.

Periodically looking at the /new page and upvoting worthwhile stories helps good stories not get missed, so thanks to people who do it.
Reading your comments it really seems like smart and knowledgeable people are trying to make substantive arguments replies and you're answering with woo-woo. You should probably listen more. I've learned a lot from reading them.
"Best" in everything? or best in specific aspects?
Have you tried Pantheon? (elementary OS)
Airpods
This does not work so well in regulated industries.
Lexer generators typically allow describing rules with regular expressions, but through Thompson's construction, subset construction, and DFA minimization, you can end up with a blazing fast/optimized DFA that processes your input at maximum speed.
Call4health Is Medical Answering Service Provider
Call4health is one of the nations Leading Medical and Healthcare call center service Provider.
Call4health opens Delray headquarters.
Call 4 Health CEO Joseph Pores said the business has grown by more than 50 percent a year each of the last three years. The company ran out of room to grow in Boca Raton, where it occupied 8,000 square feet in several locations, and scouted locations from Deerfield Beach to Boynton Beach before leasing 17,800 square feet at 2855 South Congress Ave. in Delray Beach.
If you care that much about accuracy you should take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol ... "IEEE 1588 is designed for local systems requiring accuracies beyond those attainable using NTP".
We used warm water and soft cotton washcloths on our 3 kids. Worked great.
IMO a sane syscall API that was built with sandboxing in mind. The unix API gives you access to basically all of the computer or at least all of the user's data. Nowadays we live with executables we can't trust. Random binaries don't need to be dangerous to execute, only the syscalls that they can make on windows and unixes make them dangerous. This also relieves you from the need to sign most programs by a central authority
Thanks for responding. Great explanation! I agree that adhering to the SPF standard has diminishing returns as support is added for the more esoteric macros. Support for every single macro in the standard is almost certainly unnecessary.

I've seen a simple recursive descent parser to process SPF records, but never considered it could be done with a VM or a stack-based machine. Even with the DNS Lookup Limit, it appears you made the right choice to avoid the call stack for a fully async I/O interface.

Your coding style is simple but since I have never studied a VM before, I have trouble telling what's going on. You've inspired me to learn more!
> $30 is probably not viable

They cost $35 to the NHS in the UK.
Call4health Nice staff and Great services
I don't have a problem with the dupe itself, as it's indeed different.

With regards to timing: earth is round. It's daytime and night time in different parts of the world in any given instant. Why does it matter what's the time in US west coast (or any other geographical location for the sake of this)?
I've been using an sshfs implementation for Windows which is based on this: https://github.com/Foreveryone-cz/win-sshfs

It works moderately well. It's incredibly convenient to have sshfs on Windows.
Magic Leap's 'chief game wizard' has big ideas for the mixed reality future
Curation Flickr style, for me, is an acceptable alternative to hamfisted policies on the one hand and 2ch-style free for all blather on the other.

Groups get to run their group/forum as they wish with only occasional direct oversight by actual employees (threats, harassment, copyright, some succession disputes, etc.)
> Enteprising folks need to jump on this to sell this as a kit (w/ or w/o the medication).

Unfortunately, that's a real great way to get shut down by the FDA. Medical devices are after all subject to regulation. Others have tried making their own epipens too, but they all keep running into the slow approval process and unfavorable laws protecting Epipen: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fda-partly-to-blame-in-epi...

Also as we know from value based pricing, things aren't priced based on unit costs (otherwise all software should be essentially free, and the software industry is the greediest industry on earth), but rather what customers will pay. And when there are no alternatives, you get to set the price.
Yeah You can visit Call4health at https://www.call4health.com/
A lot of the comments seem to miss out on the basic premise which is:
Don't sell yourself to business by taking a technical approach. (I do programming).

It is much more effective if you approach business as
- I solve problem X
>> Why would I want to use Go

Probably, you wouldn't. But it's not quite surprising if users of GopherJS and Go would prefer Go over JS, is it?
Are you seriously asking if hedge funds that pay hundreds of thousands of dollars salary to top experts from all kinds of fields have investigated using machine learning?
Note: Mother in Japanese is actually "okaasan" (or "haha"). "obaasan" is grand-mother apparently.
Microsoft deletes Windows 10 nagware from Windows 7 and 8
It is my personal experience that bad science persists not only because it is rewarded but also because a large portion of scientists just don't do good work.
> monopoly presses down costs

Yes, assuming the monopoly actually wants to keep its costs low. In the US, corporate-funded legislators made it so that Medicare is not allowed to negotiate drug prices. It willy-nilly pays whatever the private drug companies prices its drugs at.[1]

This is why it's so profitable for companies to "purchase legislation". The return on investment is 10x or something insanely high, like in this case. Spend $10 million "donating" to the campaigns of a few unconscientious politicians, and soon you are milking an extra $100 million in profits from unwitting taxpayers.

[1] http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/09/19/the-politics-of-med...
You can't beat http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-30/the-untold...
It's cheap and easy. That's what most people think is a good idea.
You can implement those as part of a linking phase during bytecode generation: emit a placeholder value (e.g. 0) for the jump address and when you've finished compiling the block go back and fill-in the placeholder with the correct address/offset.

That's relatively easy when implementing an assembler for your opcodes. Just keep track of symbolic labels and their associated jump points (as a simple array or linked list) and process (i.e. finalize or "link") the jump points when the label address becomes known. My "assemblers" often have constructs like:

L0
...
J1
...
J0
...
L1

where L? registers a symbolic jump destination (i.e. x.label[0].offset = label_offset) and J? emits an unconditional jump and registers a link request (i.e. push(x.label[1].from, jump_opcode_offset)). When a block is finished all the offsets are known; you just process things like

for (i = 0; i < x.nlabel; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < x.label[i].nfrom; j++) {
patch_in_offset(x.label[i].from[j], x.label[i].offset)
}
}

Knowing when to emit symbolic label and jump instructions from the AST is a little more involved, but no more than analyzing the AST for anything else.

Supporting computed gotos would require much more bookkeeping, I'd imagine, and I'm not surprised few languages support that construct. Or maybe not... I haven't really thought it through.

One cool thing about this whole exercise is that it helps to demonstrate why generating some intermediate representation can be easier (conceptually and mechanically) than directly generating runnable code in a single pass. It seems more complex but it really makes things easier.
Is the R&D largely based in the US?

Also, it's important to distinguish between true R&D aimed at developing actual cures and iterative R&D aimed at developing medicine that will get you hooked on long-term courses that maximise profits.
Because right now, batteries last only about one year and need to be replaced after that (I have lots of bad experience there), and because right now, my calculations show that for a 35,000 investement, the panels have to last 13 years before one breaks even, unless one lives in a sunny area. The problem is that the current solar technology isn't very good yet: the panels constantly lose capacity as they generate electricity. And integrated Stirling engine designs are only available for industrial applications, or made by enthusiasts: one still cannnot go to local Lowe's or Home Depot and buy a residential, integrated Stirling engine power plant. That's why oil is going to stay with us for a few more decades. Hopefully not too many, but it's not going to disappear overnight.
My 30 Years with PCMag, Part Four (2006-2016)
You know it, A.
> Also why on our newborn I purchased Waterwipes (wiper + fruit juice only).

This is a tangent, but my wife and I switched to dry wipes and a squirt bottle (the kind you'd use in a kitchen for oil or vinegar) for our daughter. It's cheaper. It's way better at avoiding diaper rash aggravation. And it's nearly as convenient as prepackaged wet wipes. We keep the bottle filled with tap water (use purified if you're paranoid or your tap water is unsafe) and every so often run the bottle through the dishwasher.
The cost of this project includes $28 for buying the insulin autoinjector at retail. There is no way it costs $30 to manufacture. I'd be amazed if they cost $5. Injection moulded plastic is extremely cheap once you've made the moulds.
I think its clear that the US medical system is specifically not a free market. It has become (and is continuing to become) increasingly subjected to regulatory capture.
Yes, Buzzfeed has done a few good long articles. Surprising in a good way.
The author is a friend of mine and if she's been "out to get" the PACE study it's because it exemplifies bad science by drawing conclusions not supported by evidence and by changing its metric criteria midstream. It's true that it also didn't confirm the author's own experience, but had its conclusions been scientifically sound I'm sure she would have embraced them. Julie Rehmeyer has a long reputation as an objective science writer.
YouTube stands for nothing, unlike deviantArt who attracts a certain kind of public.
Don't forget the fifth category constituting 10% of people: sly and unpredictable ;)
huh i was wondering why my comment didn't show up..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12551249
Surely this problem caused by regulation can be fixed with a little bit more regulation!
Bicycle Helmets Reduce the Risk of Serious Head Injury by Nearly 70 Percent
The Log Log Prior for the Frequency of Extraterrestrial Intelligences
from youtube/google/alphabet's perspective it's a really good idea
That's a great article - really well written. It managed to explain a key point of insider trading that I've often wondered about - if I know non-public information what are the rules around trading.
Microsoft sues Wisconsin man (again) for copyright infringement (again)
Reminds me of the Ultima Online Counselor's program.

http://www.uoguide.com/Counselor#U.S._Counselor_Program_Demi...
At least some of the networking pioneers did see it as huge: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network https://www.amazon.com/Network-Nation-Revised-Communication-... and http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an... just for a start.
1. The Envious (anything to get ahead of everyone)

2. The Optimists (everyone else is basically good, have faith)

3. The Pessimists (most others are evil, favor the lesser of evils)

4. Trusting Collaborators (will go along with anything to just be included)

5. Unclassifiable (no common archtype correlating decisions, strategic decision making demonstrates conflicting tendencies)
How long does it take to index the file? I've added LICENSE.md to my project (https://github.com/tananaev/traccar), but the license doesn't show up at the top bar.
Designed Inconveniences: UX Patterns That Can’t Be Taught
Not much different from my current Xfce desktop. We now have antialiased fonts and window shadows provided by compositing WMs though.
Alan Watts mentions somewhere that USSR was essentially a single corporation (can this be said of China ?) - a disgrace to human creativity. Killing of competition using Gov. regulation and red-tape is not much different in function.
crazy thing is there'll be enough people that want to do it to keep it going..
Unfortunately there's really no equivalent pool of photographic content--including CC and public domain content. If flickr were to shutdown, a huge amount of content would be lost.

I sort of agree with you but in another sense it remained true to its roots as a photo publishing platform, mostly, for amateurs. But the mass market was fine with putting some pics up on facebook. And serious professionals have other markets more explicitly aligned with their needs.
So Go and JS are similar in that they are designed for heavily asynchronous tasks. But they do it very differently: Go has hordes of green threads "goroutines", JS has callbacks all the way down.

As annoying as callbacks can be, they do fit the model basic GUI model very well: user clicks on something, the system calls the corresponding funciton. And indeed I see a lot of that sort of thing in the README.

Does that mean goroutines will fade into the background in Gallium?
Silicon Valley Brits: We Had to Leave the UK Behind
It's not about creating new filesystems, but using filesystem ui to browse any filesystem like hierarchy. For example using a potential implementation you as a user could be browsing S3, remote NFS, or gmail account where labels would be represented as folders and emails as text files.
An AVR-Based Analog Plotbot with an E-Paper Display
Java / Scala Web Development
Bugs me to bits. I'm very glad I live in a much 'cleaner' country i.e. Sweden.

Transparency could strip off lobbying. If we know who gets what money, and we know how people vote, a bit of clustering etc ought reveal patterns...

What's needed is something gimmicky that gets popular appeal and covered on mainstream media for fifteen minute fame...

E.g. an iphone app that you point at the live news on your TV and it OCRs the senator's name and queries opensecrets.org or something bigger and better and tells you how much money they got, from whom, and how this correlates with their voting record etc.

Something that makes politicians accepting money very counterproductive.
I'd be interested to see a comparison of the contrasts between YouTube's new "Heroes" program and the disgraced AOL "Community Leader" program that was successfully sued for $15M USD in the past. [0]

Participants in the AOL Community Leader Program claimed that AOL was using them as employees without paying them. Thus the lawsuit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program#D...
Update, yeah with an iPhone 6 it works
And R&D aimed at developing replacements for perfectly-fine drugs that are soon to go out of patent, or R&D that is put on a back burner until some other drug is about to go out of patent etc.
You don't. Where this comes in as useful is when you have a dual boot system, and you want to access your ext3 filesystems from Windows, for example. It would also be useful for running FUSE ZFS, since ZFS can protect data in ways which are science fiction for NTFS.
> Try viewing it on a real desktop monitor!

You keep saying this, but many people don't have a real desktop monitor. Laptop sales exceed desktop sales and both are dwarfed even by tablets alone.

So whether it's technically the correct approach is irrelevant for a large proportion of potential end-users, for whom it will look broken.
I have an unidentified repetitive stress injury (RSI) and doctors have universally tried some treatment, failed, then told me I'm simply working too much. This happened after I stopped all my hobbies and took a 30h/week job (flex time, with frequent breaks). The identifier RSI lends itself to this diagnosis.

When the symptoms show signs of improving, the doctors immediately conclude "Well, you're getting better now, so just continue as you are now and we'll consider this resolved." An acquaintance suggested I overwork myself before going to the hospital so I don't risk being dismissed by a temporary improvement in my symptoms.

I've had several sprains and a broken wrist that were resolved quickly and without complications.

This article and your comments resonated with me.
"Hacking" medicine doesn't really work. See Theranos.

First, epenephrine degrades when exposed to light so your epipencil may be ineffective from the start.

Second, parents when measured took 2.5 minutes to fill a syringe with epinephrine which is not fast enough in an emergency.

The price gouging is terrible. There are cheaper alternatives but Epi-pen has the most well known brand.

People buy Tylenol and Advil not Aspirin and Ibruprofen.

Drs have appealed to ban drug advertising. Medicine should have no place in capitalism.

Source: http://www.aaaai.org/ask-the-expert/effect-of-light-on-epine...
I'm off to found Ellis (ls), the company that displays current directory information, file creation information, and file ownership in an easy to use dashboard, but with websockets, Golang and React. Quick somebody give me a super new log structured merge tree db to use to store Ellis data.
The $70 price tag has been an amazing gift to the developer community as well. Without it we wouldn't have so many options for great editors that are totally free and open source.

Had they simply priced sublime around $30, they would have sold 10x or more licenses and not have to deal with the piracy problem nearly as much.

Sublime is a great product, but that's one of the worst business decisions I've ever seen.
I've been in tech for 35 years and never flashed a pc bios. My MP3 player, sure. You think tech means installing servers?
There's a bounty of $100M (at the very least) for cracking 256-bit (128-bit strong) elliptic curves. It's called Bitcoin :)

So if they're broken - we'll know that very, very fast.
"install Gallium ... This will fetch a 92MB framework containing ... Chromium"

"Both Electron and Gallium use Chromium under the hood, and in fact some of the C components for Gallium were ported from Electron."
The OP said they're happy to pay for it. Open source doesn't necessarily imply zero cost.
This is the first time I'm reading about that sort of restrictions at Google. What are your sources? Or did/do you work there?

Still, I wouldn't trust that. I can think of enough cases in which algorithms fed with that information would do things not in my interests. (You could easily imagine some internal scoring or profiling a lgorithms taking advantage of the data for example)

Telling "it's only algorithms" doesn't make it secure it I don't know what the algorithms do. (Which of course I can't as it is the core of their busyness)
On the other hand, my first thought was Wikipedia.

Imagine a group of 'heroes' that goes on a crusade for something it deems desirable, such as gender-balance, right-to-carry or 'kid friendliness', and creates fairly strict rules as to how to present a video clip on YouTube ("yes, your video may be sarcastic, but some people may fail to see that, so we added the standard YouTube disclaimer; we also bleeped out your usage of the word 'ab*ion', as per rule 451)
Self reporting. Excuse my scepticism, it doesn't have a great track record. Additionally, the users are not exactly experts on radiation safety or knowledgable about radiation dosage, and I don't see how manufacturer reporting can cover what happens in the field.
Depends I guess on how you approach healthcare. If healthcare is a business then of course a considerably profitable way of producing a drug is necessary.

If healthcare is public service then profitability is not a primary concern. Data-driven decisions shows that approaching healthcare as a public service is much more effective.

The choice here is rather obvious, yet for some reason, average people who would benefit immensely from a public health system in the US seems to disregard it as socialist, paying for someone else and so forth.

Please note that drug corporations are insanely lucrative in Europe too, so a public health care system doesn't seem to harm drug companies all that much, financially speaking.
Not an issue at all but I am curious. Why "Spanish" has the Mexico flag? Was the spanish language modeled with that specific variant?
*Scripter-kid created a website - now off to save the world! At least they've resources and 83 years...
Mordern batteries last a lot more than one year. Tesla is providing ten year warranties on their batteries for their daily cycle batteries. https://www.tesla.com/powerwall
I miss the text of the tabs turning blue, letting you know the page is completely loaded, although this was probably more important on dial up. These day chrome does even render until you switch to the tab, causing a noticeable delay.
If it's simply checking one credit agency, you could let the user enter in a credit score from whatever credit agency you use to get a quote, but let the quote be contingent on their credit score exactly matching that.
> All of the things he mentions are easily approachable engineering challenges.

If they are so "easily approachable," feel free to solve them any time. I think you'll find that solving problems in living systems (let alone in the clinic) is much more challenging than it might appear from a CS/physics perspective (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Andy-Grove-fallacy?share=1).

I'm not saying it's not worth trying (it's certainly a more worthwhile endeavor than getting people to click on more ads), but that it's important to be realistic (for example, that all disease is unlikely to be cured by 2100).
Not just *NIX! When I was forced to use Windows at some employer I had a blast tweaking 'litestep'.
Swift versus Java: the bitset performance test
I was a psychology major. My first job as a recruiter, there was a training on personality types. It was taught to better help us with client interactions. Some people said it was actually helpful. I didn't care, I did fall under the logical bucket (usually wanting convincing data vs how it makes people feel, or how it would reflect on me as an employee).

Lucky that I work for a company that's data focused for arguments. And if I didn't, lucky enough to be financially stable to leave a company that's overly political.
> The whole point of finance is maximizing profits; I think that people need to understand and accept this for us to have a meaningful discussion.

Former finance person here. I understand but don't accept. The individual's point may be maximizing profits. The societal point of what we reward, permit, hinder, or ban? That is definitely not maximizing profits.

One way to look at it is to compare it with video games. An individual player's proximate goal might be to maximize points scored. But the game designer's goal is broader. The society's goal is broader still. One could even look at the evolutionary purpose of play itself.

For those interested in this sort of distinction, I strongly recommend James Carse's "Finite and Infinite Games": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004W3FM4A/