skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a silly hack.

The US has plenty of market power to reduce prices for drugs sold in the US. There are reasons to be in favor of wielding that market power and there are reasons to be against it. But there is no rational reason to pretend to not wield it but then re-import a bunch of drugs from Canada. That's just a waste of shipping costs.
How is that faster than loading a single HTML template with the "dom" already rendered correctly by the server?
What do you mean by "character"? If you mean code point or "unicode scalar value", sure, but if you mean user-visible character (grapheme), it's much more complicated: even something "simple" like ö could be one or two code points.
Reading this as we speak and there are wonderful lessons inside-- it sounds like it could be written in 2017.

I'm surprised it isn't mentioned more in "must-read" lists.
Cloud computing pushes into the classroom, but not without challenges
There is ALSO a Long Play category for games, which is videos that do a full play through of a game with zero commentary, and in as few segments as possible. (Many longplays are just one video.)
We haven’t talked enough about self-driving cybersecurity
This service seems short-sighted to me. It might trick a few representatives the first time around, but if it actually succeeds in bringing in a high volume of low-effort responses it will only devalue itself the way email is currently devalued (possibly along with some collateral damage to the credibility of the class of high-effort correspondants it is disguising its users as).

The way to improve politics isn't to make political engagement as casual and low effort as possible.
At the end of the day if you don't have the money to pay for a treatment yourself then someone else is making a cost to benefit analysis.
> I would argue HTA is not without it's problems. That's why the UK has a cancer drug fund. NICE has said "no" to those drugs, yet the public still clammers for them. So a separate funding mechanism was created to pay for them.

See also: PrEP. PrEP is available in the US (and covered by almost every private insurer[0] with drug co-pays covered by the manufacturer[1]). And while it's less convenient, there are public clinics where you can get prescriptions to avoid paying the co-pay to a GP. In other words, absent the cost of your time, you can get it in the US for free.

In the UK, PrEP is not covered by the NHS. The National AIDS Trust had to sue the NHS just to get them to announce their decision not to cover it - before that, they refused to make a statement one way or the other, and kept kicking the can down the road. Now, you can only get it by paying a private doctor (out-of-pocket) for a prescription, and then fill that prescription privately, which can cost up to $13/pill.

(This is technically not HTA, but for the purposes of this discussion that distinction isn't relevant.)

[0] And, as an aside, on the rare case that your insurer does not cover it, Gilead (the manufacuter) offers assistance programs that provide it essentially for free.

[1] This is a separate program to enroll in; Gilead basically reimburses the co-pays that the insurers charge
Where is it written that programming languages can't support the theory of linguistic relativity?
The World of Null-A

I found a yellow-paged first edition on my parents' shelves as a young kid, and was heavily shaped by the idea of a character (and society) that trained themselves to think clearly.

This included years of training on how to channel (and ground) one's emotions, and a constant and deep understanding of "the map is not the territory". Or, in other words, our mental models are just that, and should be discarded or updated as soon as reality differs from them.

This allowed the character to respond with almost superhuman speed when confronted with otherwise traumatic emotional revelations, and the society as a whole to reorganize in response to an incipient alien invasion.

I've been trying to train myself to think like that ever since, and it has probably contributed to the large gap I felt between the thinking of my peers and me as I grew up.

I'm not sure how well the book holds up now, without my nostalgia colored glasses, but I still reread it every few years to remind me of the direction of my thoughts.
This. Do we need to subsidize Sweden and Germany?

I have wondered for a while why we don't make a law saying the highest price you can sell a drug for in the US is no higher than the lowest negotiated price that drug is sold to in other rich countries.

So if Canada negotiates a drug for $10 then that is the highest price you can sell it for here etc. That way they can set the prices however they want but collective buying agreements that are a part of socialized healthcare don't end up shifting the burden of cost to the US.
HTML5 Video Player Comparison
Thanks for your comments.

The styling is based on Tufte CSS, which I like quite a lot for longer works. I agree it looks out of place amongst modern sites but I am sticking with it for the moment.

I totally agree on the scattershot subject matter. Some days I like writing about C++ and Boost, and some days I just like ragging on a terrible film. Perhaps I should split the blog into different subject areas but judging from my logs it would make very little difference to the way people use my site.
In my neck of the woods burglars are mostly known for needing money for drugs.
Not to toot our own horn, but I wanted remark on how similar the issues we have had to deal with in our own framework (https://qbix.com/platform), since 2011.

When we built it, we had out of the box:

+ Tools (our name for components)

+ Pages (to support all web standards)

You place tools on pages, the framework does the rest:

+ It loads JS and CSS on demand

+ It adds/removes tools from pages automatically as you navigate

+ Support for web standards, HTML5 history w fallbacks, etc.

+ Tools can contain other tools

+ You have events for when all parent tools have activated (onActivate) and when all child tools activated (onInit)

+ JS and CSS had to be namespaced by convention from day 1, by module and tool name.

We use events instead of virtual DOM. We didn't use fancy JSX or preprocessors to do it. It's all written in ES4 JS and runs on every modern browser and IE8.

But the problems are very similar in scope.
It might be difficult to avoid google and others for tech illiterate users, but in some areas, there isn't the choice to use a different ISP.
Speeds up subsequent pages accessed at least.
Can't the manufacturers still inflate list prices by introducing heavy rebates?
this sounds like a good start.
There's a raft of articles where people share their forays into minimalism. Minimalism is mostly a way to show cultural value, like wearing black turtlenecks or making your children take piano lessons. We add maxims like "less is more" to justify these things but "less is more" is such a vacuous justification you can discard it without thought.

Yngwie Malmsteen's pithy thoughts on "less is more" (very short): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI

If you want data, there are a few usability studies on the use of multiple monitors. The general consensus is that bigger monitors are better and two monitors are better than one, three or more monitors might be too many. These studies are easy enough to find on Google so I'm not going to link them here. Data will always beat maxims.

On a personal note, I find it easier to work with multiple monitors rather than one larger monitor, possibly due to software support. I'll want two web browsers up, side by side, on one monitor, and then the other monitor can hold editors and terminal windows. There tends to be pretty good software support for dividing a monitor in half, which supports this workflow very well on two monitors, but dividing a monitor in four is a bit rare. Stuff I don't really need like mail, music players, and the like get relegated to other virtual desktops.
I find that in cities near the border, Canadian and US coins are interchangeable and usually accepted at par. In Toronto there are a fair amount of US coins in circulation, and I've never had an issue using them here.

Helps that each of our coins are almost exactly the same size and weight for all common denominations.
It wasn't a bill, it was an amendment to a budget resolution. Several of the Senators who voted against it said they did so because they didn't like the way it was being introduced, not because they are against the idea in principle.

Here's the same idea, introduced as a bill instead of an amendment, and being co-sponsored by several of the amendment's "Nay" votes: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/469
Has the US ever disallowed a patent because the company holding it refused to sell a product to the government at the price the government wanted? It's hard to imagine SCOTUS allowing that sort of thing. The US gov't is subject to its own laws.
People for whom standard cancer treatments have failed will always beg for more options, no matter how ineffective or absurd. It's good that there's a fund for that; hope adds to quality of life, and with continued testing there maybe some of the treatments will graduate.
This also means that autocomplete tools usually need to be taught how to build a project. YCM has this whole conf file where you specify the header locations and stuff and it's like rewriting half the makefile.
It's quite simple. The American Republican party is in the pocket of healthcare's biggest businesses. They accept "donations" if their policies are favorable to these companies. If these donations became illegal, the problem would be solved.

It really is as simple as that. Anybody who complicates it further has purely partisan reasons.
Any private drug negotiator is going to be in a terrible position because they don't have 100% of the market. They can't walk away, the drugs will just flow through another private drug body. The drug makers have no reason to give a discount if the drugs will be sold under plan distributor B vs distributor A.

When you compare prices in the US vs nations with governmental bodies controlling drug prices, you can validate that the US way is ineffectual for controlling drug prices.
Intel Optane Memory with 3D XPoint Technology Caches Slower Drives for Performance
I share your experience of blogging for 10 years before letting my blog go into neglect. I was a science blogger, and in 2007 we were a very small community of educators, PhDs, and science enthusiasts (I was an enthusiast). It was really exciting then because everyone knew each other and we had a yearly "Science Online" conference where just a few hundred people would show up and hang out. Then twitter, facebook, and the blogging world exploded. My traffic went up, but my engagement dropped to zero. I would gladly trade the traffic for thoughtful conversation.

It reminded me of the BBS days, where communities were small and local and we'd get together at the mall or house party to meet one another in person. Then everyone went to WWW, and suddenly I was just another post in a thread of hundreds.

I'm not sure how to get those small, close-communities full of engagement back. The best I have now is hanging out in-person at my local gaming shop and chatting with the locals on facebook.
Going along with this thought, I think providing educational tools for people seems to be one of the things that could help empower those who would be targets of sexism. It seems simple but just educating people on what harassment is and how to react is way better over nothing. Prior to my current job, I'd only worked in companies that had less than 50 people, and not located in CA, so once I went through harassment training I was surprised to learn how much of the frat-boy behavior I'd experienced in small startups was sometimes straight up illegal.
MediaWiki's original parser is a nasty pile of PHP and regex, but there's a new officially supported parser you can use called Parsoid. It's used extensively in production on Wikimedia sites and basically does MediaWiki wikitext to HTML roundtrip.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid

If I were parsing lots of MediaWiki wikitext, I'd put Parsoid at the top of the list as the rest seem incomplete or unsupported.
I generally enjoyed Iron Fist, but I definitely felt it was slower paced than any of the other Netflix Marvel series. It really felt like they were staging things for the Defenders (whenever that ends up coming out, although I hope this year).
Why would that appeal to Donald Trump? It would hurt the profits of the drug industry in America which will cost jobs, pharma execs will tell him how bad this is for America and how harmful it is to drug R&D, etc etc. Donald Trump may have campaigned as a negotiator for the common man but he identifies with CEOs, anything that hurts them is not something that appeals to him.
India’s SV has the cheapest engineers, but their talent is another story
That's true. It's an implementation of several similarly old techniques. Imaging and image processing scientists have been doing this stuff for decades.

From the results I think they did a great job, but at least for the parts I've heard discussed in any technically detail they haven't really broken any ground in the imaging sense - what they have done is apply it to consumer electronics. They aren't the only ones doing this, mind, but they've done a good job on a mass produced platform. So that benefits a ton of people.

Really it is sort of an "obvious" next step, because physics is limiting what the sensor & optics can do while packaged in the size we seem to have converged to on a phone.
Has the US ever fought hard to institute a travel ban in order to prevent people of a certain religion from entering the country, despite judicial intervention.

That's the thing about governments: they can do whatever they want. And your recourse is to deal with it or spend years fighting against it (or die in the streets fighting it, lest we forget that option).

Disclaimer: I'm for breaking patents when necessary, although 3D printing drugs is around the corner making it a moot point.

EDIT: @refurb:

I love coming to HN and having people say "its too hard, it'll never be done". ;)

I can run the laser sintering machine in my garage and build metal parts from a fine powder, parts that are aircraft grade, but I won't be able to 3D print drugs at home? No imagination.
if a company has a monopoly there isn't by definition a functioning free market.
> I don't think the onslaught of new frameworks and transpilers has been due to JavaScript's weaknesses as a language.

I whole-heartedly disagree. TypeScript, Flow, and Babel are all ways to address JavaScript's weaknesses. You could argue Babel is a result of out-dated browsers, of course. But fragmentation of targets is certainly an issue of the language -- earlier versions didn't have to be so poorly designed.

Would we have all these transpilers if we were using a fully-formed, general-purpose language for the web from the start? No. If JS had a type system, there would be no TypeScript, Flow, NativeScript, PureScript, etc. If JS had a sane way to handle parallelism from the beginning, Babel wouldn't be nearly as useful.

Yes, it's true that JavaScript wasn't designed for what it's being used for now. That doesn't mean it's a good language (or ever was).
Intel Optane Memory: What It Is and Why It Matters
This has probably been said, in this thread even, but if curl is insecure (for some value of "insecure") then its ubiquity and ease of embedding are a problem rather than a feature. Fuzzy thinking.
Intel Optane Memory Is SRT CacheAgain
Milton Freidman's solution was to allow re-importation of drugs from countries where they were less expensive. Either the drug companies could raise prices abroad, accept lower prices domestically, not sell abroad, or some combination of all of the above.
Make in China?
iTWire – Intel Optane – Epoch-Making 3D XPoint Memory and SSD
The First International RoShamBo Programming Competition
Psychology Today has an article debunking this poorly executed "experiment." https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201310/wh...
I think you'll find most people drug dealers interact with don't take kindly to being passed funny money.
Intel Optane Memory has a mission: Make hard drives faster than SSDs
Yeah. I got a NZ$1 in my change the other day. Didn't bat an eyelid. Time for a trip to NZ I guess
> At the end of the day if you don't have the money to pay for a treatment yourself then someone else is making a cost to benefit analysis.

Exactly, that's the point. You can label it however you want, and set up whatever system you want to allocate the resources, but that doesn't change the fact that this decision has to be made.
Live Training: IoT Firmware Exploitation (April 3-7)
Know any good longreads on this?
I also was influenced by this book, it opened my mind on existentialism and challenged my thinking about what is happiness / contentment and being able to find these things in difficult circumstances.
What's wrong with just "owning it"?

Why do entertainers whose viewers come for edgy jokes apologize for occasionally delivering a joke in excess of poor taste? It seems like most of the outrage comes from non-core audience members. It's a long-tail kind of thing. I'm willing to bet a big portion of any given entertainers' audience is willing to excuse the occasional bad joke for all the funny ones.

Some groups have louder voices than others when you make bad jokes at their expense. Why not say, "that's what this channel is about"? There are plenty of twitter personalities I follow that occasionally go on shit posting tirades but I ignore it because everything else they post is gold.

Seriously, why not say "fuck you this is what my channel is like if you don't like it don't watch"?

You think the people who walked out of Amy Schumer's show in Florida were her core audience? Why'd she apologize? She jokes about how bad her pussy smells. I mean, there's a certain group of folks who love her stuff and they probably aren't easily offended by her brand of vulgarity, but would light their clothes on fire at someone else's. To each his own. Find a niche and unabashedly own it. I mean... it got Trump elected.
Because Medicare has, in a sense, too much market power and could unreasonably distort the market in favor of the short term incentive of getting the best possible price (the marginal cost of production) and against the long term goal of profitable drug companies that produce new drugs in the future.

Now, there are plenty of people that don't find this reason compelling and thing that the US gov't should do otherwise. But that's the reason.
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Review – Tom's Hardware
No, it's twelve-sided, therefore cannot be.
> As most people well know, all programming languages have their faults. ... However, JavaScript is especially bad.

> I’ve been writing web applications for over a decade and it’s utterly shocking how little JavaScript I know!

I've noticed that most people slamming js either have zero or very little knowledge of the language itself as well as environments it works in.
Maybe, just maybe, it's worth learning a bit more about how and - more importantly - when js works.
What about the edge cases? If I understood you correctly, the poorest developed countries dictate the pricing.
You're conflating the issues of running untrusted code with running trusted code on untrusted input. JS is untrusted code that you run on your computer. Your other examples generally do not fall into this camp.

Java being an allegedly safe server-side language has nothing to do with it being a very difficult language to sandbox when running untrusted code. It doesn't matter what language the malware I just downloaded was written in, because it's malware and it's running on my computer. What makes Java different from C in this case is that when I run a Java application on my server, I can be more confident in the fact that I will not have a buffer overflow, even when I expose the service to the entire internet.
The cancer drugs fund is an absolute travesty, and a direct transfer of wealth from the UK taxpayer to the pharmaceutical industry.

The lobbyist who devised the value proposition to Cameron's government must be very proud of him/herself.

The only reason the public clamours for these drugs is because opportunity cost of treatment is very hard to distill into a newspaper headline.

The cancer drugs fund, at base principles, implies that cancer patients lives are more valuable than the rest of the public.
My guess is they'd just use price as a gatekeeper, rather than spending time to do a background check of their customers. I doubt any of these data feeds are cheap.
IIRC they had a central server for coordination, but the code was run on the clients machines. You submitted the compiled CLR bytecode version of your C# program, and it was run in any machine. A part of the objective was to show that the bytecode was sure enough to be freely distributed, downloaded and automatically run.
Orange is the New Black is the one show that doesn't fit in with the rest for me. Consensus wise, it isn't any better than the other shows mentioned for Netflix. Again, consensus wise Sopranos and Mad Men are considered better but that they are rare shows.
>Firm inequality is an expression of many of these factors.

Exactly. It's not the cause, like this article is claiming.

Considering that most people consistently grossly under-estimate the divide between the wealth 'classes', I'd say that it's a bit premature to say the debate has been poisoned. Most people think it's not nearly as bad as it is, despite the work of many people, like Wilkinson. His findings should have been on the fucking news every day until people got it, not a Ted Talk.

The uber-wealthy control the vast majority of media, politics, and distribution of resources. The signs that they're working in the interest of equality or the common good are sparse, to say the least. Focusing on inter-firm inequality may in a roundabout way touch on those issues, but as you say yourself, it's not the cause.
Ikea is getting into home automation with a new smart hub – The Verge
tl; dr; A single application does not represent a single mental task/context.

Yup! I work on web applications and run a three monitor setup roughly like this:

* Web Ui with what I'm currently working and the occasional api doc
* Editor with code and probably a few shell tabs
* Third for incidentals (hipchat, chrome dev tools, Jira Ticket, etc.)

On top of that I'll use Virtual desktops to switch between task sets or email etc..
Desktop 1 - Email/Jira Overview/HipChat/Toggl
Desktop 2-7 - What I'm working on right now or "quick bug" type stuff
Desktop 8 - pianobar, loose gmail/inbox window

The middle desktop set is usually pretty sparse, but it helps. One monitor doesn't have enough "logical" real estate to to maintain the context of a single problem for me. I wind up using multiple desktops and bouncing back and forth between them all the time, sometimes several times over a single edit because I loose context in the desktop switch.
MOMO realtime stock discovery for Android 1.0 released
The high price of medical care costs lives as well as jobs in other industries...