skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much more important than the idea is the process you learn how to vet and research the idea. That is the 'support'. Now I can independently expand on my own ideas, and reject unpromising ones. Some are born with this skill, but many who think they have it... don't.

A PhD isn't really about doing something useful, although that is typically a result. It's learning how to explore an idea and expand upon it.

Your advisor does not lead you as much as guide you. Hence the name.

While the dangers you mentioned are absolutely a threat, much of that can be mitigated by choosing a good advisor. Personally I think taking a tenured, well established prof is a better bet, because they aren't as worried about their own career advancement. But everyones mileage varies.

To expand on my original idea: imagine being given an opportunity to work closely with a recognized expert in your field. For years he will meet with you, advise you and honestly try to help you also become a world authority on this subject. Afterwards, he will always support your career and care for your future. That's what I have, and while I certainly feel fortunate, I would not call my situation atypical.

I'm happy to provide more info.
I suspect this might also make you smile then ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPZmiRi_c-o&feature=youtu.be , if you haven't seen it already
Nevermind that it feels good?
The defendant here got their initial copy of the law by such an open records request! See the mention of $1207.02 in the first paragraph, that amount being the copying fee. The state here is insisting he cannot distribute further copies. Anyone else can request a copy from the state via open records law, and again pay the "nominal" copying fee (or pay a smaller fee to Lexus-Nexus for access). What you cannot do is get a copy for free, or make a copy for anyone else if you paid for one!
India decriminalizes attempted suicide
> FWIW the anecdotal experience of people I know in the health field in the US is that pharma sales reps know nothing about medicine, are hired for their sales / "relationship building" ability, and can't answer any question about the drug they are touting that can't be answered by looking at the brochure. Very disappointing.

MSLs have advanced degrees in medicine or biomedical research. It's preferred that the traditional sales reps now have bachelor's degrees in the sciences and it is expected that, within the narrow scope of their product's science, they be well-informed regardless of prior academic background. It's preferred because they are more effective reps.

> You can't expect to get unbiased, quality advice from someone with such a strong incentive. The right way for doctors to stay up to date is for doctors to stay up to date! They need to read a damn book or journal article once in a while and takes responsibility for their own professional development. If doctors aren't doing that, regulators need to suspend their licenses.

Continuing medical education is a requirement to maintain licensure. I don't think I get your point here.
i just tried this out on the web. if you reply to a tweet, and that tweet mentions someone else's name, your tweet will have both their names included just like before (except their names are now in a link above the textbox). however if you want to remove their names, you have to click on the link, click on their checkbox to deselect them.

so it's harder to remove people from a reply, and harder for others to remove you from threads you don't want to be a part of.
The problem of Twitter is that many people (including me) have tried to use the platform n number of times, but either it is too cryptic or too useless for us in day to day life. I don't use Facebook much, I do use HN/Reddit/Quora and sometimes stackoverflow. I use the platforms which teach me something, reddit taught me a lot of things across all domains, HN teaches me new things everyday (it is also my news source), Quora and Stackoverflow are also nice, they give me some advantage.

but I can't say the same with Twitter, if you see my twitter page, I use it only to tweet to nasty companies who keep pestering me with SPAM text messages despite my DO NOT DISTURB feature!

For me, twitter has relegated it's position to become the tech support medium, I really do not understand why they do not make this a feature. A friend had got a counterfeit phone from an Indian ecommerce site, he found out after a month, after calling the site, they said "sorry, 7 day return policy", I put that on twitter, one month later, he got his money back.
Siemens acquires Mentor Graphics
Their FAQ[1] states:

Q: Will you have ads? Or sell my data? Or steal my beloved and enslave my children?
No.

So I don't think they will make money by selling data.

[1] https://telegram.org/faq#q-will-you-have-ads-or-sell-my-data...
1) That's what the If-Modified-Since header is for.

2) It's a bunch of text data; as the link posted in another comment shows, it's less than 50kB uncompressed.
Actually quite an interesting point. Consider S3. They provide unlimited storage, but their software has to be able to keep up with the insane growth of data, albeit the hardware storage demand as well.
Is there more comprehensive docs anywhere? I want to know what options to pass, and more detailed descriptions of what things do. The initial docs page looks like but after clicking through it seems like they all link to each other... so in summary I cant find anything I want :/

That currently would be the primary barrier to usage -- the docs arent very helpful.
The Linux Foundation Announce New Free Intro to Apache Hadoop Course
You talk as if the negotiated prices were permanent. The profit extraction flows like water - if most customers negotiate lower prices, then the one market that doesn't (the US), ends up carrying the bulk of the profits.

If the US closes down the allowed margin, the drug maker isn't just going to blink out of existence. I would expect a set of renegotiation between all it's existing customers to rebalance what is a reasonable profit to allow - which admittedly would likely be lower than what is extracted from the US market currently. But that is likely healthier for society in the long term as it would remove all the costs of inefficiency spent on this crazy drug pricing dance that occurs in the US.
Only a small fraction of the F150 is aluminum, but yes, I'm sure it's a growing number of body shops.
I can say this article rings very true. I am generally very impressed by the accuracy of the points raised.
But make sure not to associate all PBMs with this practice. We too don't like it.
I am pretty high up at a PBM (not one of the big three), and can say our model does not play the same games (crimes!).
The point about MAC pricing is not exactly fair however. Some customers prefer to engage this way since it reflects revenue based solely on the usage of medications prescribed. It might sound odd, but this way we reduce (or near zero) other fees that we charge the customer. In general, we DONT recommend this model, but in some cases, it makes sense.
I have to stay anon, since I don't speak officially for the company; all opinions are my own.
My counter would be: what are the reasons to fight against automobile oriented infrastructure and urban sprawl?

If it's pollution, the move towards electric vehicles and clean energy will hopefully put that to rest before too long.

If it's cost or fairness, if autonomous cars really do enable lots of ride sharing services, that should come way down.

If it's accessibility, all those people who can't drive will be able to use autonomous cars.

I'm sympathetic to the desire for walkable areas. I love a good walkable area myself. But cars are great too. People want them, because they want the things they enable. Even countries that are big on walking and biking and public transport still have a ton of cars.

A future with sprawling cities where people have lots of space, things are far apart, and people get around in cheap, efficient autonomous cars sounds pretty good to me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacexlounge is its lightly moderated counterpart.
Maximum Product Subarray Problem
I'd like someone to introduce slug fields to the programmers of this API. I'd like to search for species/cats and not /species/3.
All fair points; I basically agree with you. I probably went a little overboard in my reply to your comment. However, I think it would be fair to say that even though two years between re-design and construction commencement sounds like a lot of time, given the size and complexity of the project (and the time required to do a proper redesign and regulatory approval), much of their original planning and scheduling would have been thrown into disarray.

But your point is well taken; the obligation was on Westinghouse to communicate (probably in 2011) that delays were likely and to update their timing and cost estimates. In hindsight, staying quiet and hoping everything would somehow work out probably wasn't the best strategy...
Snapchat in the '90s
For this reason, amongst others, I've made a simple Bash script to install StrongSwan: https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup
It is pretty easy to turn off any roles you don't want on Streisand. If you know for sure you will be using IPSEC I agree with you, use the ToB setup.

Specifically, compare their IKE setups:

https://github.com/jlund/streisand/blob/master/playbooks/rol...

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/blob/master/roles/vpn/te...

Algo's is much more conservative. Streisand lets 3des and SHA1 into the mix. If you allow it, users will end up using it.

Otherwise, I think you are spot on and I prefer Algo (having used both for various things and just playing around).
> React begs to differ.

React is good for certain classes of UI, granted. I use another FRP-style library (not React) to render UI in my current game, and it works well -- except that it doesn't mesh well with me trying to control it from an OO game, but I've created an interface that works.

But imagine creating Adobe Photoshop, Maya, or Microsoft Word entirely in React, and tell me again that FP would be the ideal choice.

For any particular dialog that pops up? Absolutely.

For the entire app? You'd end up with a "god object" that would make the app unmaintainable. OO gives you compartmentalization that you don't get with FP.

FP is great for problems up to a certain complexity. After that it falls apart. Thing is, 98% of apps don't come close to that level of complexity, so there are lots of people who never even work on an app that won't work well with FP.

In the RectIterable example you gave, I'm afraid I don't know enough Haskell to comment on it intelligently.

Is "instance" adding an interface to TileMap/HexMap so that either can be passed in as a parameter that requires a RectIterable? Can other interfaces be added that way to TileMap/HexMap?

In my editor, can I say something like myTileMap.iterateRect after doing this, or do I need to know that iterateRect exists and remember exactly what it's called?

The last point is salient: Discoverability is a huge part of the UI of a programming language, and memorizing all of the exact function names that are appropriate for a data structure is not fun.
I enjoyed this article and could see these things come to fruition.

> Where are you willing to live if 'access to public transport' is 'anywhere' and there are no traffic jams on your commute? Does an hour-long commute with no traffic and no need to watch the road feel better or worse than a half-hour commute stuck in near-stationary traffic staring at the car in front?

This I think is going to have the biggest impact on a lot of people. If I can sit in a pod and have a trouble-free and consistent commute to work I would be willing to commute to more places for work. Having had jobs where I commuted around an hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic each way was awful. I would take an equivalent-time commute where I can space out, read, do work, or whatever.

Secondly in this fantasy land I would also be willing to go to more places on a whim if it were this easy. Lots of cool stuff might not have to be solely concentrated in big cities if it's more affordable for business to pop up farther out from centers of population.

In a more weird twist what if this autonomy was so good that you could send pods containing entire dinners on the road? Looking past how one would keep it fresh, it would be cool to order food and get it delivered without knowing there could be a 45+ minute wait until it gets there.
Pretty sure it's just for funsies.
On the other hand if the speculators also reward people doing the work, they incentivize lots of them to do that work. Hence startup economy, where many companies blatantly lie that they care about users, where in fact those companies are only vehicles for the founders to get a good exit.
I am curious, why would you go into the project thinking rsync and not git? It seemed to me most of these syncing folders are really a special case of source code control.
Where are you going to go? All the OTT providers are similar, it's just fewer channels for less money. No one has an incentive to sell you individual channels and the channels don't have an incentive to sign contract with someone who would sell you individual channels (because they can just do that themselves for $10/mo). Remember that a cable operator can't just decide to start carrying a channel, they have to sign a contract, so a channel can ensure that they can always under cut someone who's selling unbundled channels and still make a healthy profit.

If you're interested in more than a couple channels then it's going to be cheaper to get a package through someone like Playstation VUE or Sling. You're paying anywhere from $20-$75 for one of those services and once you put it on top of your monthly internet how much are you really even saving vs. a Double Play from a cable provider?
Reminds me of the video/book from Daniel Pink on Drive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
I have the same problem with Project Fi. Every time I try to register they claim my number is a 'voip' number. Duh! Pretty much all numbers are 'voip' at this point.
I tried Gunnar products years ago and was not impressed. What are you trying to solve with them? If it is eyestrain and dryness, trying taking regular breaks from the screen and blink more often.

This sounds silly but when we are focused and in the zone, we often blink far less than normal, this contributes to eye discomfort.
Maybe this https://immortal.run/post/nginx/
> Vertical take-off, vertical landing (VTVL) rockets scale to any size. Wings don't. The Falcon 9, the Falcon Heavy, and future mega-rockets will all be able to use the same basic technology. Wings don't scale well at all.

You are correct about the disadvantages of wings, but wrong about why SpaceX isn't using them.

SpaceX has always had the goal of landing on Mars and returning home. All their rockets have been developed with this in mind. They tested their first rocket, and got it to work. They sold it to Nasa and the like (and even developed it with some of their requirements in mind), but the goal was always to learn how to make bigger rockets that can get to Mars, that Nasa is willing to pay for the smaller ones is a side benefit. Mars does not have enough atmosphere for wings to work, therefore SpaceX is not interested in Wings.

Even if reuse of the rocket was clearly more expensive that building a new one each time (it isn't) SpaceX would be working on reusable rockets now because when they get to mars they need to land the rocket and latter reuse it to return back to earth.
> There are many very cheap ways of keeping physicians up-to date, such as a conference presentation of the drug, followed by a Q&A session, with a recording freely available online.

5 minutes of face time with a busy physician and supplying them with a useful article targeted to their specific needs can be far more effective.

> Which are covered in the already mentioned 20% that goes to R&D (source pending). Are you purposefully ignoring information you dislike?

The dev part was an honest error while I was editing, and I don't think the accusation is called for. Regulatory costs, and I think of quality also being in that group, is not an R&D cost and is substantial.
Roger Bannister found time to break the 4 minute mile while in med school!
It's not the platform, it's the content.

I feel maybe you haven't been lucky enough to find your content-suppliers.

There's some gold there in the nooks and crannies.
A thing every hiring manager should ask, at least for Software jobs, is for you to show him code you've written. The best way to understand if someone has spend two, three or five years doing this, is to read his code. In case the interviewer doesn't ask me for my code, I would do it anyway. There is always this piece of code you are particularly proud of. Perhaps creating 10 ways to achieve the same thing. Senior developers write clean, efficient code ( if they don't, they should ). Junior developers find a way and if it works, hey it works! Mid level developers write a piece of crap code, but they see it as such. They make the difference. Once the difference is maid, you can go and ask the senior developer. Or do some research. Or both. This became visible to me once I wasn't in the phase "Oh shit, I don't know how I'm going to do this."
If doctors were hyperdiligent about researching treatment options rather than "meh, it's a job, we don't have anything for you, next!" then I would agree completely. But sometimes they have to be reminded of what is out there, which may have changed since they were in med school.
Yeah, and from what I understand the crazy thing is that no one even really makes that much money, or as much money as a 2-300 percent increase in costs over other countries would suggest... It's mostly just an unbelievably inefficient system.
I think scientific research should be funded at higher levels than they are currently being funded, as a grant-applying scientist myself. He is proposing replacing all carbon-outputting power with fusion. That impose draconian costs on society. Undemocratic regimes in the past have diverted resources from people's basic needs to techno-utopian projects to the detriment of all.
We should stop using Pythagoras' a^2 = b^2 + c^2. The last commit to that was like 2500 years ago. (Core engine only, not counting some syntactic sugar).
what's "the GCI" here? I don't recognize that acronym, I couldn't find any term in the article it could be, and googling doesn't really turn anything up...
I've actually grown a bit fond of twitter over the last months. For some communities, it's very much the place where the news happens, and you can watch it unfold life.

That being said, I wish they'd do more with the potential they have. For example, I have tried at various times to find out what's happening when I heard the distant noises of a large demonstration (I'm in Berlin, Germany and it's a weekly occurrence, at least in the summer). Not once did I succeed with twitter's search, not even in cases where I later found out that there were many tweets about the event.
Wait, so following suit would then lower prices in the US and pass on the costs to the rest of the world?

..Sold!
I can't find a reputable source for this. A google search comes up with sources like Breitbart. The top source is marketwatch, which I can't remember if they've a slant or not. Even in that, it mentions that, "Note that this does not necessarily mean they won’t owe their states income tax". Of course, it includes a chart, but considering the other sources in the first page results, I'm not sure I can trust this source.
It's not a protection racket but it is close to becoming a monopoly, which is also illegal in some circumstances.

This sort of anti-competitive coercion through overwhelming market power is why monopoly laws exist in the first place.
No, I looked, but couldn't find the exact one I was looking for. It had a lot of responses and was in a purer poll form.
The bar to ban things has dropped so low because of that handwavey line of reasoning, despite real economic effects to people whose livelihoods are at stake (i.e. farmers).
I've been using baobab[1] which is:

> a JavaScript persistent and immutable (at least by default) data tree supporting cursors and enabling developers to easily navigate and monitor nested data through events.

It's a fairly simple library to read and understand and it's well written. I have a couple decent sized SPAs working on top of it, and I store the full data tree using localForage for offline use.

1: https://github.com/Yomguithereal/baobab
Long live the Confederacy! That's all this is, aristocrats who believe in pay to play. There is no right to be part of civilized society, you must be useful, in which case you can pay to play. If you're not useful you can wither and die.

They lost the war, so now it's this neo-feudal free market applied to everything. The democratic free marketers should be bothered by this because they're going to take your system to its natural conclusion: the gangs of New York.

Voting is also becoming pay to play. You must pay $$ for a government issued photo ID that proves you're a citizen if you want to vote. And this can effectively be any amount of money, established by the necessary cost of production, using patented, proprietary technology owned by a corporation.

It's corporatocracy, kakistocracy, plutocracy, aristocracy - all in one.
Of course, because we have the plane fixed at 1 unit in front of the camera, instead of moving that distance we have an adjusting factor that we multiple the co-ordinates by to change our field of view.

Thanks, I looked at scratchapixel but only found the stuff about how pinhole cameras work.
It's a modern version of Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener". You should read the original, it's very good.
that's sounds like a trip to snap city waiting to happen. I was a D1 athlete and saw way too many people wreck their back doing heavy deadlifts, not for me.
>How does this tracking really works?

Cookies and/or pixels - edit If you've opted out of being cookied, then you may be "targeted as an balding middle aged man with erectile dysfunction."
I've seen firsthand evidence that jumping between subfields of a given discipline can have great results. A couple of the seminal papers in our field came from super senior researchers moving into simply different areas.
What's with attaching the id to the url when scrolling with the next section, its a bad user experience. Jacked my back button.
Is discovability a problem for Apple, Microsoft, or Google? And note that Microsoft and Google sell primarily to experts too (advertising and IT professionals).

As to advertising. As for as I know, what other nations ban is direct to consumer advertising, which is a minority of advertising spend. And as to DTC advertising, you can level the very legitimate criticism that it's directed to convincing people to ask for drugs they don't really need. But that's true of most advertising. Does anyone really need a new iPhone or to upgrade to Windows 10? Also, getting rid of DTC advertising wouldn't really address drug prices. It would just force manufacturers to recover their R&D + ROI from a smaller pool of buyers (the ones who really need the drug). On a cost per pill basis, whatever would be saved through lower DTC advertising expenditures clould be outweighed by the reduced sales.
> Read the link I posted.

I read it, and the point you are using it to support is still not true; the government could, Constitutionally, do what you describe (and what the linked article is part of the author's failed Senatorial campaign advocating), but it doesn't, for the same reason that the Fed exists; moneterizing spending and not unlinking fiscal from monetary policy undermines faith in the currency.

> But seriously, just read the link, you don't seem to understand the basic facts I'm expressing.

There's a difference between not understanding your claims and their relation to reality and disagreeing with the first and with your assessment of the second.