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The current system is imperfect, but it's not outright fraudulent. In general, if a company claims "Drug X gives 10% more pain relief than aspirin", they have to support that claim with evidence, which can be reviewed (and contested, if the methodology, outcome, or other factors don't support the claim).

That's not to say there aren't improvements that can be made: All Trials [1][2] is one campaign to improve the system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllTrials

[2] http://www.alltrials.net/
depending on your OS of choice, desktop containers using something like docker (e.g. https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk...) can achieve it and are a reasonably straightforward (for a certain value of straightforard) option (linux only unfortunately...)
What is your opinion on regulations that protect certain social classes. For example, should a business be allowed to refuse a LGBT customer their services?
I highly recommend having a look at the transparency page, it includes audio recordings of phone conversations with the FBI and more. Fascinating stuff if you are interested in how law enforcement works. For example, handling an NDA request [1].

[1]: https://cock.li/transparency/2016-09-22-subpoena/call-2.ogg
Many would not consider 900sqft comfortable for a 1bd/1ba let alone 3/1 or 3/2.
> patch Asterix so that if I text it a particular challenge and response

No patching needed. You can do that with a dialplan. (But you will need a recent Asterisk if you plan on doing incoming sms via sip.) That challenge/response processing might need an external application to validate though.
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Funnily enough, there are complaints about Go being verbose. Just look at the error handling discussion that was on here a few days ago.
The sad thing is, many might move away but the job market is unique here. The reason other housing markets are so much cheaper is in part due to Prop 13 but also due to lack of great jobs or a large number of jobs. That reduction of job risk carries a cost of living premium.
I think this is more a private competition between Larry (Oracle) and Hasso Plattner (SAP)

http://sapextremesailing.com/
News is made to scare people, so however frightening it sounds, it's probably not going to be that bad. There's probably no value in taking any action besides going to work as usual and providing value to society in the way you're best at.

One possible reason not to worry is antibiotic cycling. Bacteria lose their resistance to individual antibiotics when we stop giving them exposure to them, so the idea is that we could breed out old resistance while breeding in new resistance and always have a drug available that they're defenseless against.
The problem is anti-biotics are no longer being developed. They could be developed but it is not finicially worth a large pharma to do so.

Consider this, development takes years (>10) and costs billions due to failed attempts (over 9 in 10 fail), testing, etc. They then go to market and no government will buy them because the price is high to recoup the billions spent developing over ten drugs which only one made to market. In the end the governments force the companies to sell them at a loss should there be an epidemic. Then to cap it all some company in another part of the world where IP is not honoured rips off the drug and floods the most needed places with a cheap knock off.

Where is the incentive for a pharma to go through this.
Yeesh, that's super depressing. Not that I know anything about running HR departments, but that betrays such basic inability to uh, think that I can't really imagine how that could be ubiquitous.
I read comments about this phenomenon in SF regularly here, so it must be really bad. But as an European who has made some trips to America but never been to SF in particular, it's difficult to understand why there is such a high density of unpleasant homeless people specifically in that city, and not in others. Anyone care to explain or hypothesize on reasons?
A friend of mine closed his company in 2013 and had a full avaya system with 40 phones and latest software that he could not even give away. Eventually some kids from a local hackerspace came and hauled away the whole lot. They were after the headsets and lcds.
How could the costs be driven down? Perhaps it's because FDA is overly cautious?
Ass coverage for the execs...
Malicious exit nodes still seem to be an issue one should be aware of, especially for unencrypted connections (http).
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Added fun... New home owning families pay massively disproportionate taxes than those who owned a long time, despite probably not getting anywhere near the same benefit of those tax dollars.
Right. Tor Metrics for UAE with "Show possible censorship events if available" enabled: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?...

And for Turkey: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?...
Right. But in order to build a go project, you need the go compiler. And the go compiler comes with "go get". So my question was more: if a user has installed go (properly) should not "go get" be the sane, easy, one way to install a project?

And isn't "fixing" "go get" better than adding a dependency on make?

(and I guess this project in a sense is a way to fix "go get", but it seems thrasher fragile; any one project might end up with a broken makefile by accident)..
I'm sure someone, likely making $150k-$200k in salary and too busy "disrupting" the pet food industry via drone delivery to have the time for volunteering in their community, will be along shortly to tell you what an awful person you are for feeling such things. And while it's important to be mindful and sympathetic to the plight of those less fortunate, particularly those with mental health or substance abuse problems, I can definitely understand why someone wouldn't want to deal with the issues you've described, especially when paying $3k/month for an apartment.

As an anecdote, dealing with other homeless people was by far the most difficult part of being homeless in SF as a young adult.
In my experience engineers will discuss if a solution is correct or incorrect, as though there is one global truth. But I rarely see discussions that acknowledge people have biases and that leads to differing opinions on correctness.

I follow some developer advocates on Twitter who get very angry at engineers who don't prioritise web performance above everything else (UX, accessibility, features, actually shipping code). Given their experience battling bad performance all day every day this is understandable. But from the perspective of someone who is trying to juggle a million priorities this comes across as crazy.
Is that the plural for contributor nowadays? Goose::Geese ::: Contributor::Community

Why are people eager yo forget that users are also members of the 'community'?
We bought a house across the road from the infants school (4 to 10) a decade ago. Later this year my boy starts. So glad we did that.

Having kids with two full-time working parents totally changes you. So much that it took 3 job changes to finally find the right balance - no more interesting startups, it's relatively boring web stuff as freelancer for me. It's worth sacrificing a little of my work pleasure for the simplicity and extra money.
Gambling is a (serious) game, where you're totally supposed to eat you neighbour to get on top.

Politics works on a heavily skewed sample of power-hungry people. Politicians are nothing like their people. Most are among the top 1%, which is a weird bunch: they are visible, powerful, don't have the same incentives, and don't live under the same social pressures as the rest of us.
> I think the latest iphones are safe enough.

Not sure about that. After Apple refused to help, the FBI claims to have hacked that iPhone anyway, with a tool developed outside the government.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/27/fbi-apple...
I agree. Furthermore, now that people are accustomed to not dieing all the time, even with no new technology, we would probably tolerate more serious measures to maintain this safety. Even if it came to draconian quarantine and hygene laws, or just wearing a face mask every day.

Remember how Ebola didn't cause an epidemic in any moderately developed country despite being one of the easiest diseases to transmit?
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Sorry - this is an absolute load of crap.

There is a whole field of preventative medicine (also called population medicine) that aims to reduce the burden of disease.

Ever seen an advert for exercise? Seen warnings about levels of obesity? Seen an anti smoking sign? Received a vaccination?
They are all driven by doctors, who aim to change behaviour to reduce the burden of disease.

There is enough disease and sickness to keep all the doctors of the world employed even if we were actually able to fix all the problems people currently have.

The major problem is, we don't have tools to fix the issues that are major in western societies: they suffer chronic diseases, and the problem with chronic disease is that they are very hard to treat (degenerative bone disorders, arthritis, emphysema and bronchitis, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, diabetes and diabetes-related complications, many many others)

Don't drink the cool aid that has been thrown around... the problem is changing behaviour is hard - no-one wants to do it until they start suffering, and then it's too late. The idea that doctors are sitting there enjoying this windfall from patients they allow to get sick just so they can keep bread on the table is quite frankly extremely offensive and basely ignorant
> beyond what the tool was intended for

Not sure what that would mean. I think the tool was designed to be a user's programming language. I liken to think that `awk` was the Excel + VBScript of its days.
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> I haven't looked at the browser since I started.

> I switch to the browser and sure enough, the whole thing works perfectly.

This is the general workflow in a typed language as well (i.e. PureScript, Elm) - you write some code and then fix the type errors in the editor - only that instead of running a couple REPL queries and just assuming that your app works, you really do have some hard guarantees in all edge cases, like no crashes, no type mismatches, logical coherency.

Most of the time this then means that the "app works".
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Only the paper authors can fix their PDF, I guess.
> Holy biological imperatives, Batman.

Putting those aside, from a purely logical perspective, someone has to have kids or the human race won't last much longer.
I have read about this a few times. I think the main difference is in what the folks are changing: They are changing habits and lifestyle - their input - rather than changing their base personality - their output. Naturally with different input they act differently: Same for dropping a drug that affects the way you act.

And I do somewhat understand - I changed a lot of things when I moved overseas. I likely seem different: But I'm also happier and have a different knowledge base than I did a few years ago. People's expectations of me changed as well: As soon as people realize I'm not Norwegian (the English accent gives me away), it is OK if I break some social norms - those things that I had trouble grasping anyway.
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Now, if you use up all your current supply, what do you do next time you get sick?
By the time you know you need an antibiotic

How do you know you need an antibiotic?

Even doctors are discouraged from self-prescribing, so without seeing a medical practitioner, and having whichever tests they feel are appropriate for the symptoms, how can you be sure that those antibiotics are the correct treatment?

If, say, you were experiencing diarrhea which was preventing you from going to the GP, then an over-the-counter remedy such as Immodium should give enough short-term relief to allow a visit to the GP.

If you really are so severely unwell that you can't reach a GP, then perhaps an ambulance really is appropriate.

To address your question of hospital-induced bankruptcy, that's a dysfunction in the US healthcare system: it doesn't make it medically appropriate to keep a stash of antibiotics, although it does contribute to unsafe practices such as self-diagnosing and self-treatment.
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I don't think DPI is the answer here:

o In the case of Turkey, they had more than 10k direct users, the DPI-based censorship yielded a 50k spike, that's a 1:5 ratio, whereas in the case of the UAE it's a freaking 1:30 ratio and it doesn't stop from increasing.

o In the case of Turkey, the spike was followed by a spike in bridge use, most using the obfs4 pluggable transport. There's however no such apparent spike for UAE, in fact it's only a nearly constant 300 obfs4 users https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.htm...
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It means, at the very minimum, a massive pain in the ass. Quite likely you will have significant difficulty gaining a visa.
It helps if you start investing when technology was a novelty. In the 60s!
My advise : baby steps. Yes Elixir or Ocaml or Rust or Elm would be a "step back" (i would disagree for the erlang ecosystem. No type system but the paradigm is as solid. Just widely different. There is a reason SPJ or John Hughes are close to the erlang community).

But it would also be a "step up". You would feel better than with Java and you would have an easier adoption than Haskell. And in a couple years, you would add a Haskell dependency to them. And then a bit more. And in a decade you will have help clean the mess we are in a bit.

Have a goal. Try to find a path to reach it. Look at how to improve things :)

I know for a fact that both the Elm and Elixir and Rust community would be really happy to help both the transition and evolving the tooling if needed. Come talk to us. Try to make your life a bit better :)

(I do not know well the OCaml community, but i bet you would also find helpful people there)
Having kids for emotional fulfillment vs economic assistance (free labor) is a relatively new concept in the history of civilization and America though. Unfortunately the last couple of generations had economic factors that enabled this attitude, but now the current crop of potential parents are finding all the pressure and drive to mimic their childhood but a distinctly worse economic climate. I foresee a weakening of the concept of the traditional family if it keeps up.
I have tried to start one from another alias (whoisfiring) but hacker news shadow banned me after my 2nd submission so I created this one. Unfortunately the latest thread didn't have many comments.
Previous discussion on IPFS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12772093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10187555

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069836

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11134766

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9321209

Does anybody have any info on the development of Filecoin (sister protocol of IPFS)?
I've been pulled up by the kiwi's their basic problem was me not doing drugs in their country. Similar approach was used on my buddy "I'm glad you answered yes to pot, because if you'd declined I wouldn't have believed you and pulled you in anyway".

So we were all pulled in an at that point I figured there was no reason to lie. I discussed all the drugs I'd done previously and they stated there was no way for them to prove I was (or was not) smuggling as trace amounts were found in the bag I admitted to carrying them in for previous ski trips.

I stated it was illegal in my country but had no plans to do it in theirs. I was allowed in on the condition I didn't do illegal drugs in NZ... I accepted their terms and didn't do any gear while I was there.
It's not concerning. The flaw was 1) only about hidden services, 2) was patched the next day it was released 3) The Tor Project have been doing some extraordinary work on creating a stronger and secure onion service infrastructure which will be deployed by hopefully mid-2017.
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We honestly don't have a great handle on it's prevalence.

It would only spread quickly through the population of there was also a lot of selective pressure from antibiotics in the community. There's definitely some selective cost to multi-drug resistance, but it's proving to not be nearly as big a hurdle as conventional wisdom suggested it would be.
What I would really love to see are "usecase recipes" like "I would like to share this data like that with those, what would be a good way to do so?". IPFS looks so cool and useful but I am always totally overloaded with its technical details and apparent complexity.
That answer depresses the shit out of me.
Yeah, but that's an iPhone 5C, which is three generations old.
Yep. thelayoff.com does... not exclusively tech, but very good source. The Oracle layoffs where rumored and discessed there months ago.
Herbal medicine still isn't medicine
I really think HR is a job that nobody should ever do full time. It should be a responsibility that is only ever allocated to someone who has another job to do - ideally someone who has to deal personally with the consequences of HR idiocracy.
Except new antibiotics are in use. Fidaxomicin is currently on the market, and is not being held back just because Vancomycin still works.
You're proving their point: you had an "unfair" advantage.
The comment you're replying to appears to be explcit sarcasm, albeit oddly put.
I agree - basically. The scheme is designed to be a half truth essentially. One that you can mentally convince yourself of in a tight situation, which would relieve you somewhat of the need to be "tough", psychologically speaking. At least for a while, anyway.

wrt giving up the key under extended duress, I was thinking the same thing and aside from simply wiping the disk I can think of another scheme that might serve you well: give the header to a trusted 3rd party who could simply be the one actually controlling access to your data. Your lawyer for example.
You will have a hard time finding it, because nearly all "mainstream" language use that subset of CSP.

I am still working on explaining it well myself, but i am working on trying to write blogpost about it.

My main problem with CSP concurrency is simple : synchronisation. That does not work in face of possible errors. Period. The only way to make it work without breaking the laws of physics so much is to bet that there is no hardware errors and that everything stay single threaded.

Generally, look at the body of work against RPC and about consensus in distributed systems. Because your computer itself is a distributed system. It just happened that it hide it well for decades, but not anymore. We are even seeing timing problem between cores in some chip.
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Or "Parrot".
Ebola didn't cause an epidemic in any moderately developed country
despite being one of the easiest diseases to transmit?

Ebola isn't airborne, and an infected person isn't contagious until they start to present symptoms. Although it's a very serious disease, its presentation makes an outbreak relatively easy to recognise and control.
Declassified is fine, and that's what this is about ... I just see too many people with no respect or knowledge thinking that secrets are by nature some sort of problem, and wanting classified things to be in the public domain.
But you can get added to the no fly list, which is effectively the same thing, as no carrier will take you. (You have to fly to e.g. Canada and cross at a land crossing.)
Absolutely.

In a great text written in 1880, Émile Littré, author of a great French dictionary that took him over 15 years to write, says this:

> je suis corrigible, ayant de bonne heure compris qu’il était peu sage de répondre aux suggestions d’amendement «Je suis comme cela» [1]

> I can change, having grasped early that it's not very clever to answer "that's just how I am" to people giving you life advice [my translation]

[1] https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AEmile_Littre_-_Etudes_...
OK. Seems the salient point is that once you've been denied entry once, returning in future becomes more challenging.

That'll be the case regardless of whether you've been eligible for ESTAs or had to obtain visas via embassies in the past.

The "banned from ESTA" phrasing had me scratching my head.
Wow. Seriously wow. I thought this was the kind of shit that they do to Julian Assange and other big names, not standard procedure.
Two thoughts

1. Screenshots of data can be manipulated

2. Digital signatures exist.
Using a current example, Fidaxomicin, it's not currently the most widely used therapy for C. difficile infections, but it is used - and admittedly the price is very expensive. But there's also very little evidence of it being used in grey markets or for off label uses.

And I'm unconvinced its destined to be a commercial failure given Merck is pushing money into it.

Even if something is being used as a "drug of last resort" may have fairly high volume. For example, colistin, which is one of those drugs, are often used in combinations with other antimicrobials to help combat resistance, and is pretty much universally available to hospitals in the U.S.
And in MAGA land, probably many other thought crimes. Like, going to a women's rights march.
> Why would a city actually want kids?

Long-term planning over short-term exploitation.

Being a good place to raise children is crucial to keep people in the city long-term. When people decide to stay in the city long-term and put down roots, they develop a stronger emotional attachment to that place, and invest more of their personal energy into making it better. Investing solely in young people who plan to leave introduces a pump-and-dump mentality to the city's voters and thus into its municipality. It makes it politically untenable to invest in, say, large infrastructure projects which will cause much discomfort in the short term but are necessary in the long term.

It's also necessary to combat discrimination, particularly ageism. If every "old" person who has kids moves away, then there are fewer "old" people in the city's labor market. The less visible "old" people are at work, the more that they are stereotyped and ultimately discriminated against. This reinforces a common work culture of valuing inexperienced workers over experienced workers and hurts the industry in the long term.
I've actually flat out said "that it isn't really relevant, but can you share your range and we'll see if that makes sense once I learn more about the role?"

It has worked a few times. Some get surprised when someone tries to flip that on them. The ones that balk get dropped from consideration.
My guess is that this is a state sponsored attack that uses HTTP Injection at the ISP level to hack as much users as possible, and the C&C is most probably a hidden service that's why they also deployed Tor.
I did that for languages with pull request as metric https://madnight.github.io/githut
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I agree, that's why the number of contributors in the last week have the most weight in the metric. See the about page (http://krihelinator.xyz/about) for more details.
Restored film about Camp Century, "The U.S. Army's Top Secret Arctic City Under the Ice!":

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Why not just use Google Drive to back up your "essential" data, after encrypting it?

All of these models people here are coming up with eventually secure against your adversary once they obtain your encrypted data, so why not just start there?

Feels like people are just playing into some kind of fantasy, rather than trying to come up with workable and practical security measures...