skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just googled him. He's super famous. So he probably has that Frank Lloyd Wright thing going for him, where his buildings have glaring flaws but they are let off the hook because their work is so acclaimed.

On the topic of FLW, I've visited a number of his houses. One of my friends growing up lived in a Wright house. I've visited Wright's personal house, Taliesen. In my opinion, Wright is not really an architect.

I consider Wright more of a sculptor or an artist. His designs are terribly impractical, and are not versatile in the least. Additionally, he didn't account for the limitations of the materials he was using to build his structures. So his buildings tend to require a lot of repairs, and many have structural problems, leaks, as well as general safety issues.

Wright wasn't the least bit apologetic about any of these things, and it seems like Viñoly shares the same overwhelming egotism.

On a somewhat hilarious note, when I went to visit Taliesin, there were several rooms which I thought were poorly designed, but had an element that I considered a saving grace. In literally every single instance, it was something his wife had added/altered after his death.

So, point being, I think that when you allow an egotistical architect to design something without any sort of editorial limitation, you probably end up with a worse product overall.
I know hindsight is 20/20, but it's interesting to me that they could've created Airbnb, as they had both the reach and finances to potentially create a side-project that was specific to short-term rentals. They already had sublets and temporary rentals as a sub-listing since forever.

I know that Airbnb comes across as warm and fuzzy hosts who engage with guests, but it's progressively more commercialized with a good portion of hosts either managing multiple short-term rental properties or dedicating a space specifically for the purposes of consistently having short-term rentals.
My grandfather used to tell me about a Chinese king who paid his doctors only when he was well, not the other way around.

I used to really dislike private insurance companies but after teaching about Charles Babbage using math for "Comparative View of the Various Institutions for the Assurance of Lives" I realized something:

Insurance companies are the most aligned with your wellness financially. They want as many healthy people to pay in as possible.

And thus a government health insurance system with universal coverage would be even more financially aligned with increasing health.

I think one of the greatest things you can do as a startup is to improve health for people, through diet and exercise apps and preventative checkups etc. and the insurance companies will PAY YOU to do it!
> "The manufacturers of the medical devices and software themselves are just as much to blame."

Yes, they are, but when purchasing high value pieces of capital equipment, people need to have this maintenance as a part of the purchase agreement. In cases such as MRI, CT, many of these firms are generally very large and have the capacity to do so.
Why can't Google offer an open source bridge/solution for easy migration of deprecated APIs?
as long as the marginal rate isn't over 100% it works.

That certainly wasn't my intended response. You can make the math work with realistic numbers, or at least it seems that way. Assume a 10-15% effective rate increase on highest income earners, even better if fewer loopholes are available, and you can fund such a program. That would put the US still lower but more in line with a number of other countries, so that's at least plausible. I'll try and dig up a worked example that isn't oversimplified.

I buy your argument that there is a marginal rate at which this doesn't work, but haven't seen evidence that it is necessary.
You will get a different bread.
Before putting out a volley of "what the heck", "something smells foul", etc., posts, it might be good to familiarize yourself with how HN works. Users flag stories all the time. This is a community action. It's completely routine. So is moderators marking stories as duplicate when they've already had significant attention on HN.

The (non-)controversy here boils down to (a) users disagree about what belongs on HN, and (b) not every user sees every thread. Those are structural issues in the sense that they follow inevitably from the structure of the site.
https://www.bio.org/sites/default/files/Clinical%20Developme...

> A more interesting question would be how many would have a significant safety issue without FDA approval.

tl;dr

> FDA approval (LOA) reveals that only 9.6% (n=9,985) of drug development
programs successfully make it to market

The FDA strikes a good balance I think. Its never going to be 100% successful but it does screen out many dangerous drugs.
It's definitely simpler than most other systems languages in what it gives you access too. Go, D, C++, C# are all far more complicated than Rust is. I would argue Modula-3 is not as simple because it contains a garbage collector - thus making the connection between written and compiled code less simple. Don't know much about pre scheme
Win10 bricked my home wifi and itself, once.

Laptop decided it had to update while i was also updating security settings on my wifi.

both laptop and network were unable to reboot on their own.

luckily i also have wired network and other computers. so, i was able to recover; network didn't take too much to come bac k up. needed to create and use a recovery drive for the win10 laptop.
For those who haven't seen this the early AutoDesk papers on the founding and organization are particularly interesting. AutoDesk was a kind of virtual company formed by expert programmers creating individual apps, with the idea that the company would unify behind the one that got the most traction. That, of course, turned out to be AutoCAD.
The only reason to care about centralized currency is the possibility that whoever owns the central bank will simply print more. This is equivalent to taxation.

edit:

>any number of ways

what about zero?
so you're rewriting osquery? https://osquery.io/
> The troops on the ground are generally following orders and highly disciplined.

Because they had been disciplined, this isn't how military used to work 10k years ago.

I agree with your parent that it probably is safer to work on disciplining the NSA (and others such) than hope that they will get pwned or do anything in that direction.
Bitcoin May Become the Main Currency for Palestinians
Western Union? Scammers have had means of collecting payouts since the beginning of scams.

One interesting counter point here is that the money hasn't disappeared. Literally every cent that has been paid to one of these Bitcoin addresses can be traced through all future purchases by anyone on the internet. The money will, of course, be combined with other amounts as transactions occur but that doesn't kill the trail. If any of it does end up in a wallet which a government can tie to a real person, an investigator can start working backwards. This is no different from marked bills in a more traditional ransom payment. Not perfect, but proven effective.
> Digg's site-killing redesign

Wasn't that all because they entirely changed the content model though? It wasn't just a UI change. Wasn't it because paid-for-junk was going to be most of what was in your face or something of that nature?
Subselects would be a pretty awesome feature.

"select name from foo where name not in (select name from ../bar where date < ...)"

I'm usually fine with `find`, but when doing things more interesting than just "find files in this directory that are not in that directory", while uncommon, tend to make me think about my pipeline a bit.
Sorry, I wasn't clear -- the text is quoted from the tumblr post. Thanks for the original link though
Haha... That's a quite negative point of view. I mean even though most startups don't survive and won't make the involved parties more wealthy, there are people who actually use that stuff. From a user perspective it's profitable ;)
> but NSA definitely is not in the business of making computers less vulnerable.

Last time I spoke with the NSA, admittedly over a decade ago at a college recruitment event, they were in that business as well. So much so that they created a hardened version of Linux that a lot of us today [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux
> Insurance companies are the most aligned with your wellness financially. They want as many healthy people to pay in as possible.

That is only true if they are forced to accept people blindly and without screening.

Otherwise, they simply create a screening process centered around removing unhealthy people and preventing unhealthy people from enrolling.
Sugar is natural (though HFCS is not)

The first cartoon tells everything I think about this: http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/cave-cuisine
Article is a couple of days old now. If you do the math right as im writing this it'd be 33.8 bitcoins. at $1721 per coin the total is over $58,000.
All points Krebs mentions are still valid however.
Is Serverless the New Visual Basic?
Future Apple Watch Rumored to Include Glucose Monitoring and Smart Bands
In theory you might be right, but pragmatically (and from an engineering perspective) it isn't going to happen and it is just fraught with possible problems. Best not to deal with an OS from 2001.

In many cases, they can probably upgrade using Win XP running on a VM in Windows 10.
Haha, you're not alone -- https://github.com/kshvmdn/fsql/issues/2.
Study highlights growing significance of cryptocurrencies [pdf]
When will Google open source the Tensor Processing Unit, or something similar for FPGA accelerated TensorFlow?
To alleviate the pattern of shutting down systems maybe you should fix your design process for services. Instead of having a healthy discussion when a service will be EOL you should ask a different question . Is this service going to be able to be able to be supported in the long run ?

Maybe APIs should have standard ways of accessing the information so that transisions can be seamless. Right now your API offerings make people distrust how long you will support any API.

I have had long healthy discussions about using google APIs but it's becoming harder and harder to advocate your products (which are great) when everyone perceives that you will shut things down.
If I had to bet which would last longer between Craigslist and AirBnB, I would pick Craigslist.

I may be wrong, but I think it's the better bet for the long term.
No motivation? How about not making your users miserable?
1. Embraces React exclusively[1]. We at ZEIT think the React Component model is the de-facto component model of the web and mobile.

In practical terms, this means that every "page" or "entry point" to your app is just an exported component `function` or `class`. `export default () => <p>My component!</p>`.

At the expense of a storm of HN downvotes, it's "more PHP than Meteor" :)

2. No data layer built in, syncing, Models, etc. We added an extra lifecycle hook called `getInitialProps` (think of it as the counterpart to `getInitialState`) whose contract is returning data as a `Promise`.

This allows you to combine and compose different approaches to data retrieval. It works just as well with REST as it does with GraphQL or Socket.IO or server-sent-events or offline-only or…

3. It hides configuration details but allows you to tap into them.

It's powered by `Babel` and `webpack`, which are exposed as a single command (`next` and `next build`), but you can completely override and customize them.

These are just some ideas. We created it to power the team collaboration aspects of our Web UI (https://zeit.co). We are committed to supporting it because we use it and we love it.

[1] Also React alternatives like Inferno and Preact (https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/master/examples/using-p...)
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What about the 18% increase for a $10,000 BI per household. The 90th percentile household makes ~$140k. Even at California's tax rates such a household currently pays ~30% in income taxes including payroll taxes if you assume no mortgage or retirement savings. If they don't live in California, save for retirement, or have a mortgage then they pay less.

Under the 18%/10000 proposal, this household would pay an effective rate of 41-42%.

This doesn't even account for the fact that BI would reduce welfare, social security, etc. After accounting for that, we're probably closer to 35% than to 40%, but you can make a rough estimate on your own.
> What mid-range device only comes with 8 GB?

The Moto G 2013/2014/2015

https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Moto-3rd-Generation-Unlocked...

> And what price range are you using to define mid-range?

$200-$250

> Is there even a low-range (lower than 8 GB) if 8 GB seems to be the absolute minimum, since the OS won't even fit on something smaller?

See above.

The only Moto G model that doesn’t offer 8GB anymore is the 2017 edition.
Yeah, I feel like they have done an incredible job with that aspect of Rust.

Like, they _are_ making a lot of progress, but because of the amount of time spent on developing/informing the community and other non-implementation pieces it feels like a rocket ship rather than "just" a well executed project.
Text-only content does not make a ton of sense for a whole lot of websites.
You do know that the exploit came from the NSA in the first place, that they somehow failed to keep it to themselves and it got released to the public.

NSA probably did some forced update of their own.
The bigger question, is how many drugs in total have safety issues? Would it be 2/3 drugs if approval was made easier or eliminated? Would it be less?
The question should be: why all the others have mobile apps?
If you're in Silicon Valley, visit the Marin Civic Center, sometimes called the Martian Embassy. That's one of Wright's later projects. It looks vaguely Star Wars. George Lucas, who lives in Marin, got some of his ideas from it.
I can't tell if you're trolling by stating deliberately untrue statements or you have some insane thought process where this statement makes sense to you. The chromebook is deliberately and consciously a closed platform. You can't write or run arbitrary code on it, you can't swap the OS, you can't even SEE the OS.

That's the primary selling point. "We got this, don't look under the hood" Getting your own boot rom on there is a huge pain (I had to remove a screw off the main board) there were like ten steps I would never tell a non expert to attempt.
0. Doing ML requires an understanding of math. One gets less mileage from making magic incantations w/o understanding underlying implementation, compared with the mileage for front-end dev, as an example.

1. Any non-trivial ML will require significant amount of computational power (RAM/CPU/GPU). Who will subsidize that for participants? It's not sufficient to have a laptop that can run a browser.

2. Notice the proliferation of data science bootcamps. Once the syllabus/infrastructure becomes streamlined (and cheap), I would expect there to be more online offerings.

That said, there might currently be a market need for a syllabus based on Kaggle or other freely available data sets, and free compute resources provided on cloud platforms.
Allegedly (back when I was an undergraduate in the 1980s) the calder sculpture outside was designed to deflect the wind to stop this problem. A great story, though I never found out if it was true or not.
I don’t actually ever invoke any bootloader directly, but instead use an EFI app which in turn loads the bootloaders.

Windows’ Anniversary Update works by adding an additional, hidden EFI bootloader, and loading that for the upgrade.

If you instead load the normal Windows EFI bootloader while the upgrade has half-way finished, then it fucks stuff up.

I’ve been through it multiple times, last time, Windows even destroyed all its own EFI entries.
Hah, apparently.
They could also make a machine learning model to take into account the part of the world, the hardware model, and other wealth indicators.
If an insurance company can "remove" you when you become unhealthy, then they weren't providing insurance in the first place.
Right! The money from all the people no longer working is not just vanishing--it's simply being captured by a different set of people, namely already-wealthy business owners and shareholders. So, a government that wants to keep being funded needs to ensure its tax system is flexible enough to "follow the money".
But their price point was set too high for their market.

Turns out that for a lot of victims wiping their old computer was deemed less expensive than the cost, nuisance, and risk of paying criminals through some shady internet fake money thing to possibly avoid having to wipe their computer.

For anyone with a recent backup of their data, I can't think of why they'd pay.
With all these companies, they want to own everything about you, but will want to protect that precious IP from any other non-contracted party.

Apple is somewhat unique here in that they make profit off their hardware sales and their online stores, and thus doesn't even have to sell to 3rd party personal info agencies to make a profit.
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You're missing the point though - if all manufacturing becomes automated, either the cost of goods should drop precipitously, or the taxation on employers without any actual employees should increase significantly.

Furthermore, let's be real - the top tax bracket can and should return to where it was in the 50s. You know, the good ol' days republicans constantly talk about wanting to bring back.
Looks very cool, is the code available anywhere? Would love to take a look.
Flying without reclining my seat is pure torture to me. I find the default vertical position of the seats deeply uncomfortable. What if all seats had a slightly reclined angle already?
> Not being hindered by the compiler telling you what you can and can't do; freeing yourself from the write-compile-debug cycle, reducing it to repl-done; etc.

Yeah, I certainly understand various language trade-offs, but in my experience any of these early wins of interpreted languages come back to haunt you at significant cost.

I saw someone use the analogy of a credit card on here before: purchases are very easy to make, but have to be repaid in full, and without perfect discipline you'll be paying interest on top. Now consider most development teams (who are generally strapped for resources) like middle-class earners who don't make quite enough to pay back that balance every month. It starts to accumulate, and the owed interest compounds.

Compilers can do a lot to ensure high productivity and a good user experience: (1) be fast, (2) have great error messages, and (3) be easy to use (no makefiles or heavy build systems). Rust's compiler has learnt from the mistakes of its predecessors in other languages, and does all these for you.
If it's so simple why not support the old API in the new systems? This just reminds us all of one of the costs of trying to depend on Google.
I read the article and still haven't heard of them...
This whole thing is not adding up. You would think that MalwareTech being the great "ethical hacker" that he is, that he would at least have information hidden and his identity hidden, but a simple DDOX was able to expose his identity. This does not add up. If you're part of the community,you would know better to protect your identity,unless you intend it to be exposed. Take me for example. I dare anyone to find anything about me. I dare you to even find my real IP address.
This whole thing with WannaCry and MalwareTech seems like a publicity stunt. It is as if it all had been planned for, from the beginning. What if MalwareTech is the one responsible for WannaCry? He sure is, but it is hard to draw such conclusion, until you look at his Twitter account and his willingness to talk to the public, and his nonchalant attitude about being known in the public as the person who stopped a huge cyber attack. Anyone in his place would be freaking the fuck out,because anyone in the community knows not to mess with a hacker, let alone stop a cyber attack of presumably several hackers. MalwareTech is not scared,because there is no one behind the attack besides himself, and the whole thing is a publicity stunt. It's a hoax. He probably wants a job in California or somewhere in the US working with an antivirus company with a high salary. To that I say that he was clever in doing so.
(In the U.S.,) It's government funding and research that turns up most novel drugs (as opposed to tweaking existing formulae and mechanisms).

And, there needs to be government funding (e.g. to an independent academia) and research that follows and studies the commercial as well as research lives and implementations of these drugs.
Under Socialism, Morality Is Scarcer Than Bread
Out of curiosity, I'm interested in how folks would do the "in this not that" folder query. At a gut shot, I'd assume that diff would be used. I'm about to dig through the find man page to see if it has something directly to help.
Nuclear War Is Getting More Likely
Not just hanging on, it appears to be stabilizing. At the end of March, they had actually sold a handful of more sponsorships in year 3 than they had by the same time in year 2. The goal now is to use the additional funds to purchase a building in SF to be a permanent home for the store once the current lease runs out.
Multiple articles on the same story can get flagged as dupes even though they come from different sites/links. The test isn't "is this URL unique", it's "does this story add significant new information".

That dates from the Snowden storm of 2013, when the HN front page was dominated by copycat articles that added nothing new, and were just follow-ups to other stories which had already been discussed. Many users disliked that and we realized they were right and came up with the 'significant new information' test in response. It works surprisingly well.
This sounds like Bloomington, IN. Except that town's Wal Mart crowd is mostly dictated by location. Kroger locations are walking distance and short bus ride, Wal Mart is predtically out of town.
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Other ramsomware authors did this. I remember reading that the optimal​ amount is somewhere between 300 and 500$, but i can't find a source anymore.
Thanks for sharing! I've installed this locally and I'm really impressed by how easy to use and powerful this is! I must have missed the previous mentions on HN [0],[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8528460
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12600790