skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it's a matter of view; it's a matter of fact. Consumers do not have the ability (much less the time!) to understand everything. They can't reliable figure out which bank is stable, which drug will kill them and which will heal their particular illness, they can't figure out which electrical appliance is safe to use and which will electrocute their family, the fire risks of the various buildings they use, and I don't believe they can understand IT security much less evaluate the security of products.

No matter what our worldviews, consumers won't obtain more capability and time. I'm a technical professional and educated person, and I certainly don't have the time or resources to answer those questions, even the very last one.

> What does "regulated" mean to you?

I don't understand the question. In the case of IT security, I can think of many ways to do it: Liability for bad security, rules requiring good security , etc. I don't know enough about regulation to know what works and in what situations, but some minimal rules and liability sound good.
banana pi makes a router board.
http://www.banana-pi.com/eacp_view.asp?id=64
Or, you could get the tp-link travel router and flash open-wrt.
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=325251#p325251
Proof Refinement Basics
There is a corresponding project: http://www.openssd-project.org
I thought that perhaps this article would get to the inspection of automated test suites.
After I came back from teaching English overseas, I was desperate for a job and applied across the boards of Craigslist. I got a bite on a programming job making $10 an hour. I was thrilled because someone actually considered me, a person with very little programming experience, for the job. I was just happy to take the job and get experience. Even with the $40,000 student loan debt I had. After my training period was over, my boss increased my pay to $12 an hour working in Visual Basic on auto-shop software.

I did this for a year and a half before I realized: I was being taken advantage of. And I get it: He took a chance on me, trained me, etc. I fixed tons of bugs in his system and improved his customer base by thousands. Aside from fixing bugs, they told me my job was to improve the user experience and user interface to make it more user-friendly. I did just that.

But at $12 an hour with $40k debt and bills to pay, where exactly was I going? It was corporate slavery -- which is all too common for most programmers. Coding monkeys. He was also an arrogant asshole.. one of those bosses who was a micromanager and would even make me email him our conversation that we had in meeting, and then he would critique our own meeting and my words as he wanted them. More time was wasted doing this than actually programming.

As much as I loved programming, I couldn't live on that salary, nor do anything or go anywhere with my life. He ended up offering me double my salary only when I had put in my 2 weeks. I really just had checked out and didn't want to be there, so trying to negotiate a salary would have come with too many strings. "I'm paying you do a job... why didn't you do it this way" etc. etc. Yeah, he was that type of person.

Luckily, I eventually got out of it... if you are interested in reading more about that: http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/the-opportunity/

Unless you work on the coasts, like Silicon Valley area or New York, I think programming jobs around the country are much less. When the market is saturated though and people are desperate for work, companies can take advantage of that.
So this can't happen with Stripe? You are delusional.
I have, and I know mostly those kinds of people too. Unfortunately I also know plenty of the other kind, the "Drugs are literally the devil" types. Having an addiction doesn't confer wisdom, and some people get out of active addiction however they can. For some people it's a journey back to who they always were, but some... are very different.

When I was younger, I thought I had a real problem with marijuana (truthfully I had a problem with being a putz), and I went to some Narcotics Anonymous meetings. I met some great people there, some I still stay in touch with, but I met some broken, broken people too. One guy in particular had a rough life before addiction, and an even rougher one with it. He made it out alive, but that's about it.

I used to call him, "The bag of Jesus man", because he always carried around a bag stuffed with religious pamphlets, papers, books, iconography, etc. This is how he stayed off drugs, and alive, and you have to respect what he did. You don't however, have to form policy based on his recommendations, which were frankly alarming.
I think this is missing the larger problem with the claim. Yes, using the term clashed with academic cryptography to some extent. But the larger issue was even as they intended to use it, it's not a completely accurate description of their product. They learn quite a bit of information compared to you storing the data locally.

Why the collision with academic cryptography doesn't matter: Anyone who had even a basic understanding of their product + some academic crypto background would get what they were going for: they have no knowledge of whats going on. Also, strictly speaking,the academic term is zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge proof of knowledge. Ie, zero-knowledge is an adjective used to describe a proof (and indeed, if you look at the history of how these evolved, that is exactly what happened). You could reasonably use zero-knowledge as a modifier for something else and it could be acceptable. Indeed, it's a fairly good shorthand for a particular class of definitions of privacy/confidentiality that require any transcript of the protocol can be produced by a simulator who has no knowledge of what transpired.

The problem is Spider Oak's cloud backup cannot be zero-knowledge or no knowledge. It almost certainly leaks when you update files and when you delete them. Perhaps they don't log this or delete the logs, but they could. And this meta data could matter to businesses.
Aren't there fewer nuclear warheads now than there were 5 years ago? And 5 years before that.

Or maybe you meant trucks, there does seem to be an ever increasing amount of those.
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There's lots of drugs that everyone knows are safe and effective, but no one wants to shell out the money to get them approved. Just because the FDA says it provides proof of safety and efficacy doesn't mean that's what actually happens.

But, even more, your argument as presented is self defeating. If the companies already have to do enough research into the drug to make it safe (because 'You really don't want to find out that your compounds causes adverse effects once it has hit the market, it's a guaranteed win for the lawyers'), and that it works ('your health insurance will be asking for proof before they pay'), then why do we need another organisation that requires a different set of tests?
How would you incentivize donors? Are you saying we should force people to donate organs? That is horrible.
there's the rub: even if nearly everyone agrees it's unethical and will speciate humans, there's a huge incentive for, say, china to defect from this consensus and develop a class of superhumanly gifted citizens. even if that class lacks genetic diversity, that seems like exactly the kind of issue that genetic engineering exists to solve.

welcome to the new arms race.
Just to be clear I understand, in the car, you only need to run the forward pass, right? One frame of data at a time through the network, get the result, pass it on. The 1000W machine would be more likely used for training on large datasets, no? Aren't these different platforms for different purposes?
The local public library has it, too.
It's not the relative number of times that counts.

You can live for years in a place and have the wrong impression about it. In fact, you can even be born in a place and leave there all your life and have and have the wrong impression about it. And you can also have historical reasons to disagree that don't apply to the general population (e.g. one's relatives being big-shots under the previous regime).

It's also easy to visit a place and just see what you wanted to see. Tourists traveling in utter misery do it all the time -- they have a great time, and people a few km from their hotel might be dying in slums.

I'm not saying that you did those things and I didn't. Just that measuring how many times more one has been there is not really relevant.
I would really recommend reading Eric Schlosser's phenomenal book Command and Control. I don't know who told you that about safety, but the book paints a very different picture. There have been numerous very close calls that could have resulted in accidental detonations and it's luck, not safety checks, that they didn't.
This was recently submitted, but flagged to death. Most likely readers felt it to be misleading, and the fact that the dates in the article are in the future didn't register.

So here's a second attempt, with a title here that points out that this is fiction, but genuinely extrapolated from existing UK legislation.

I think the story has a serious point to make - legislation will be exploited - if possible - by those will less than pure motives.
Paypal has this as a feature. It's buried but you should be able to find it. It's called Auto Sweep.
I'm not that familiar with France's system that much, but if national insurance is mandatory, wouldn't private insurance be essentially subsidised by it? Which is why you think it's so cheap in comparison. Can you even opt for private only insurance in France? It would be the only way to compare costs.

Don't take it wrong, I agree France is less entrepreneurial, I just don't think healthcare is the reason.
That gives me more reasons to experiment with DragonFly BSD by building a NAS using HAMMER file system.
> But the cures are demonstrated, for type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis over the past five to ten years.

Are you talking about the "Burt" full immune system reboot method (repeated by Snarski + Li)? I've never seen any follow-up studies on the participants, how are they doing after 5-10 years (meaning still insulin independence?)
many (most?) podcast apps have 'skip' buttons that allow you to set (say, 15 or 30 second) increments. if you have your podcatcher downloading mp3's of the shows, you can control what you listen to
Probably because it's difficult to explain E2E to users in an easily-digestible way, and most users don't know the cryptographic definition of zero knowledge. I'm not excusing their use of the term, but I can see why they think new terminology is needed.
Yes it is. But I assume the OP wasn't talking about eBay.
You haven't explained why 10% of total healthcare costs should not be subject to price transparency.
Because most vehicles have a pressurised liquid cooling heat transfer system bolted in at the factory and a refrigerant cooling system.

HVAC in automotive and industrial machines is a solved problem. I don't know why you would think otherwise.
> Unfortunately, there are many millions who do, and they tend to be loud, and politically organized.

There are millions of religious people. The ones who view the world that crazy way are a tiny minority and are not particularly politically organized, but are very loud. They're the right's equivalent of the people who advocate the murder of all men as oppressors, or who claim that racism is justified as long as you're not white.

The only reason anybody notices them at all is that they're so conspicuously wrong that their opponents find it convenient to elevate their platform because it's so much easier to knock down than the actual positions held by the majority of the other side.
In the US a lot of non-specialty doctors make around $150-$200k, meaning they're in line with some snot-nosed kid with a bachelor's in CS and an offer from Google. Becoming a doctor isn't the end-all it used to be unless you really love it and/or are really good.
I'm still waiting for the case where somebody shoots a police officer in a civil asset forfeiture and uses the argument that it was an armed robbery.
Is it actually `undoleves` or is that a typo?
>Expecting reality too adjust to your personal whims and desires is kind of messed up.

Man made things, like programming environment and the web, are not some immovable physical reality.

And when it comes to man-made "realities", Rosa Parks probably has one of two things to say about wanting to adjust them being "messed up".
"4Chan As a Service" and "8Chan As a Service"

2$ for simple shitstorm

10$ for advanced shitstorm
The title is misleading. It says "value" but only ever discusses "price" which is a related by distinct concept. That confusion is actually emblematic of the wrong-headed approach the media takes to the pharmaceutical industry: it ignores the value created by innovations in drugs.

Just in my adult life there has been enormous advances in treating HIV, Hep-C, and various cancers. When I was a kid in the 1990s, HIV was a death sentence people talked about in hushed tones. With modern anti-retrovirals:

> What did this do to life expectancy? In 1996-97 the life expectancy at age 20 of an HIV-positive person was 19 years, in other words they could only expect to live, on average, in the absence of any improvement in treatment, till they were 39. By 2011, this had improved to 53 years, i.e. death on average at 73.

(http://www.aidsmap.com/Life-expectancy-in-HIV-positive-peopl...)

What is the value of living to 73 versus living to 39? Big enough where the $10-12k annual cost of anti-retrovirals is a bargain in comparison. Probably a way better bargain than a $700 iPhone.

When you make something that creates a ton of value for people, you are able to charge a lot for it and make a big profit. There is nothing nefarious about that, and indeed those outsized profits are essential to making the system work. Turning drugs into a price-regulated ghetto is going to do nothing more than drive investors to areas like advertising where nobody will blink when they see a 30% profit margin. Unless you're willing to replace that private investment with public investment (as we have done in the defense industry), that's a terrible idea.
We're not still fighting over abortion and contraception because of a "tiny minority... not particularly politically organized."

The reason we notice is because there is no way to ignore them, and increasingly around the world they're seizing power.
Yeah, definitely not high powered, I just wanted to highlight that it's also not low powered compared to what others may be try to use PyCharm on, such as myself
If you paid doctors less, there's no reward for spending your entire 20's and early 30s in training, already earning almost nothing. Nobody, especially nobody talented, will do it.

It's already probably not worth it from a purely financial perspective, when you consider the options would-be doctors have (they are among the highest performing students already -- they could easily be lawyers, professors, engineers, etc).

The real growth in medical costs are from administrative overhead and the vast new amounts of paperwork that doctors have to spend their time shuffling.

If doctors spent 80% of their time in patient interaction or actual diagnosis, there would not be a perceived doctor shortage. Instead, it's 70% paperwork and filling out forms to check the right regulatory boxes. Increasing productivity by culling the paperwork and regulatory bloat will be vastly more productive than pumping out more low-quality doctors.
The margins are much higher in Rx. About 8% for payors, 12% for providers, and 20% for drugs.
When I was a kid, both the local park and elementary school playgrounds had climbable constructs made out of widely-spaced wooden logs, with many sections partially hollowed out. That meant you'd have bees, hornets and wasps nesting in there frequently. Add to that the risk of splinters.

To make matters even more interesting, these things were tall. Probably 20ft at the very top. If you fell, you'd either fall from that height into the stones and probably be fine, or you'd get unlucky and break your fall on protruding wood from the equipment on the way down. There were no rules governing how you could or couldn't play on the stuff, just common sense.

Of course, it was fairly easy to see how something like a bee sting, splinter or just plain bad luck could have resulted in a kid losing their balance, falling from a decent height, and ending up paralyzed (or worse) in the process. I knew of no serious incidents, but in the mid 90s all of that equipment was replaced with un-fun plastic stuff that was maybe a third of the height and impossible to fall from. I can only imagine how the earlier equipment would be received today.
Tests don't always add time/overhead and I find quite the reverse true in practice, that by using a simplified version of TDD I write code faster than I used to. Writing new features/functionality in isolation while writing tests along side it to run it. Experience is probably also at play here as I've learned this habit after 20 years of programming, but when forced to write code in other ways (eg. working on legacy spaghetti code that resists this method) I find it takes significantly longer.
I feel a lot of people in this thread must not have any chronic health conditions. I see comments about how this is a free market and that this is okay. I suspect if Pharma was bankrupting you like it is me, your stance might change.
I use Netvibes: https://www.netvibes.com/en
I got a full window advertisement and immiedately left. I'm glad the HN comments provide a good summary.
Fantastic, thank you. I didn't know Robinson had a (deliberate? unlike the Mars trilogy) cli-fi novel.
And 25-30% for Facebook/Google...
I wonder if this a a compromise for tuition free education? Start with medicine.
The line is blurring between city and suburb
Somewhere a truck just killed someone right now.

I rest my case.
Popular ideas about the working class are woefully out of date
I'm not arguing that's it's not useful to know design if you're working with designers. My comment was just that I think it's reasonable for some developers to want to stick to development. I also think there are plenty of roles available where the lack of desire to learn design isn't a stumbling block.

I do think it is possible to be good at design and development, I didn't say it was impossible. But if you want to keep growing in both, you have to invest time in both. Inevitably this means less time spent on each of the two things individually.
Translation: you've been there zero times and only know what you've read from your Progressive news sources and Michael fucking Moore.

I went both times as part of a humanitarian mission to bring medical supplies. Cuba sucks. Great people. Horrible government.
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others." ~ Harry J. Anslinger

By comparing the anecdotal regular users in the 1930s to the current population that has had at least one use you are purposefully making a faulty comparison. Why did you not compare past and current users?
Given that list, and given the facts, the two broad options seem to be:

A visionary leader who can make these issues clear to people (haha)

The course of history and civilization will change.

Now, when you look back on our history, how often do we as a species anticipate and prevent the .001% calamity, and how often do we need to be neck deep in it before we realize that there's some trouble?

The only thing that's changed here- and it isn't us as people- is that once we're in it with nuclear weapons, there is no coming back, but so what? That hasn't changed people at all.
Because this is the cost that the consumer meets more often (if you've maintenance medications at least) and it generally costs more.
Detonation? No. Compromise of the physics package so that the whole mess is radioactive?
> An Adroid SDK project is a monster. Here, on my installation, the "PilBox/"
folder contains more than ten thousand files!

It's sad when a clean slate project for a platform created when we should have known better decades ago still ends up with this kind of overhead.

It perfectly matches my recollection of doing Android development too: a big uncontrollable mess of different kinds of files whose inter-dependencies and relations are completely opaque.
Please stop spreading this misinformed statement. I assume you are referring to the ZFS ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache). It works in much the same way as a regular Linux page cache. It does not take much more memory (if you disable prefetch) and will only use what is available/idle. We use Linux with ZFS on production systems with as low as 1GB memory. We stopped counting the times it has saved the day. :-)

ECC is a nice to have, but ZFS does not have special requirement over say a regular page cache. The only difference is that ZFS will discovery bit-flips instead of just ignoring them as ext4 or xfs would do.
A <$250 laptop purchased today is more powerful than the Air mentioned above. I think it's a reasonable baseline. It's still possible to get a 2GB laptop today, but it's becoming more rare, and the CPUs are very much more powerful than your old netbook.
> Why isn't there a larger focus on reducing the costs of hospitals and healthcare professionals?

Because the public interest media is well-intenioned but largely irrational/innumerate.
Dean Baker makes the important point that while our politicians are happy to support the outsourcing of manufacturing, they're in favor of protectionism when it comes to doctors and medicine[1]. This is part of what drives up costs for the average American.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/the-tpp-and-free-tr...
There absolutely is a practical use for checksums and error detection, even if you cannot do error correction.

Error detection allows you to:

* Discover and replace bad hardware (like the author of the article),

* Avoid unknowingly using invalid data for calculations or program code,

* Stop using the system and corrupting more data over time,

* Restore files from backup while still in the retention period of your backup service.

I once had a computer with a bad disk that somehow corrupted 1 bit out of about 150MB written, and probably only in some regions. I only found out after the GZip checksum of a very large downloaded file mismatched, and it took a while to figure out the real cause. By that time I had been using it for months, so it's unclear to this day what other files might have been corrupted.
I should have offered to help if there is anything you can think of to look into.

For this, honestly I'd start with something simple. So, right off, no. A script that just periodically dumps whatever ps or friends could give would be a start. If you have a suggestion on what you'll try, I can run a similar experiment on some of my computers. Warning, I don't really have easy access to MS products. :(
2) 6x Nuclear cruse missiles, W80 variable yield (150kt). I find the public story hard to believe, there's a window that is mandatory to check to see if the warhead is real. On the positive side people actually got fired.