skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like an unmitigated good.

I agree that this material should be freely accessible. But I don't think it will result in unmitigated good. It will add fuel to the fire of academic legal discourse, which has been an increasingly destabilizing influence that has contributed to the politicalization and polarization of legal discourse and broader social discourse.

We'll soon see dozens, perhaps hundreds of academic papers purporting to apply statistical analysis and machine learning techniques to this new fount of material. This "data" will be used to support whatever pet theories the academics have concocted. Rather than make the law less opaque to the citizenry, this junk science will become fodder for broader social and political commentary.

Maybe improved access to the new filings will makes things better overall. Maybe the resulting fodder will make things worse overall. More than likely we'll just end up in a much more complex world heading down the same road we would have otherwise. In any event, I wouldn't call this unmitigated.

Note that my criticism is largely predicated on the fact that this is Supreme Court material. Neither academics nor social pundits have yet figured out how to mine prosaic material like building codes.[1] I wouldn't rule it out, but consider that this more prosaic material has at least as much raw substance as Supreme Court filings. The SCOTUS filings will be abused because of the meaning we imbue. You'll know all the academic papers coming out in the next few years will be bollocks precisely because, relatively speaking, these filings don't add much new substance overall. At best we should only expect this new accessibility to help budding Supreme Court litigators and other similarly niche domains. For more abstract domains the new material shouldn't move the needle; but it doubtlessly will.

[1] To be sure, there are papers that do mine this material. Their relative paucity is probably a testament to their quality.
There's also survivorship bias here. Perhaps there were a lot of poorly made 9th century buildings and barns that didn't survive.
I had the same thought! Anyone recall the details well enough to add an entry? IIRC, it knocked out the Exchange servers entirely for a while.
He can be both charming and intelligent, and a complete douchebag at the same time.
You would have to wait for 9 days to watch the 5th episode if you watch the 4th episode today.
Bill Joy Unveils a Battery to Challenge Lithium-Ion
> Shkreli seems to be trying to expose this hypocrisy, but the news loves their stories.

It's hard to buy into this when he was directly profiting from this attempt to expose.
One could argue that he hurt a lot of sick people by making it very difficult or impossible for them to afford the hundreds of percent price increases he laid upon the drugs he took control over.

Edit:

[0] "... it says that the drug is available for free to people with deep financial need. But Dr. Aberg has watched her patients have to "jump through the hoops" to get it. Patients have to prove both financial need and health status, something that's difficult to focus on when their lives are in danger. In June, one of her patients gave up on the process. The patient switched therapies, only to suffer a negative side effect."

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/25/news/economy/daraprim-aids-d...
iOS 11 SDK Features That Didn't Make the Headlines
Agreed, learning teamwork and team problem solving is useful, but only after individual mastery of the skills in question first. There's no way to shortcut mastery, it takes individual effort, practice, and time. Do that first, then teamwork later with a group of similarly skilled people.

Also, different people have different individual learning styles (aural, visual, doing) and learning paces, so when you mix a bunch of folks with those differences, before all of them have mastered the material, some are going to get left behind and others held back. Ideally learning environments and methodologies account for and adjust for that.

To be fair, Vermont Med School's methodology in the article does appear to account for this, requiring some degree of individual mastery before group work:

>A lot of the science of pharmacokinetics is simply mathematical equations. If you have a lecture, it's simply presenting those equations and maybe giving examples of how they work.

>In an active learning setting, you expect the students to learn about the equations before they get there. And when you get into the classroom setting, the students work in groups solving pharmacokinetic problems. Cases are presented where the patient gets a drug in a certain dose at a certain time, and you're looking at the action of that over time and the concentration of the drug in the blood.

>So, those are the types of things where you're expecting the student to know the knowledge in order to use the knowledge. And then they don't forget it.
I bet for every creepy message there are ten people begging to get a portion of that attention. Don't get me wrong. I'm just saying attention is badly distributed.
I would look to expand into one additional vertical at a time, and maybe consider related ones. Instead of jumping from churches to D&D, just from churches to bible study groups, where you can leverage your existing network of customers into the new vertical.
It's a subjective thing, but I feel that in the past GoT was a cake where the base was characters, dialogue, and world, topped with an icing of cliffhangers, sex, and subverting audience expectation. Now it feels like a lot of icing with too little cake.

Put differently, yes, those things were always there, but now they are ALL that is there.
Arr, the inevitable defeat by the core languages performance boost- lets allow for pointers to arrays in the core language, to not loose speed.
The locks and non-locks, the fun of value changes while some variable holds part of a array in local memory of the script languages maschine, the problem of external data corupption, without having everything under assert all the time aSSERT(Not NaN, Not Infinity).
Plus, the script languages garbage collection, making a custom allocator necessary- allmost like the one you allready have written.
On and on it goes. If it where not for the artists ease of use and fast iteration, nobody would use the script languages.
They mentioned the watermarked version of Dunkirk for composer Hans Zimmer. This makes sense... not because they distrust Zimmer, but because they distrust the chain of handlers, and his own security.

Which is totally reasonable.
"but he had a nice twitch stream" is just about the most absurd defense of someone involved in large scale corporate fraud I have witnessed in a long time
Siri rival can understand the messy nature of our conversations
I'm going to take some guesses for why entrepreneurs are choosing other countries over india but I'd rather talk about why I am going back...

Their reasons could be one or more of these:

- India is messy, idiosyncratic, language is a barrier, it's a tech backwater despite all the BPO/Backoffice work being shipped there, no one cool who doesn't already have roots in India is in India, Indians aren't ready to spend money, Indian money is less valuable because of capital controls, questionable public safety and health standards

What I am seeing are signs of green grass in the barren indian startup landscape -

1. There is HUGE pent up demand internet access as evidenced by the blockbuster launch of Reliance Jio

2. I come from a real small (even by western standards) town in eastern India. People from my hometown are on Tinder! I cannot begin to tell you how shocking this is for how conservative that part of the country is.

3. Lots of in-country migration: Our generation (1980-) has totally upended the way Indians live. They are relocating to different parts of the country, they are marrying people they'd NEVER ever meet a generation ago - its a beautiful sight to behold.

4. they have disposable money for experiential holidays

I'm sure there are a million reasons why Startup Chile or France are more attractive to the average entrepreneur. Give India a look is all I'm saying. You're leaving a billion people on the table when you don't consider the Indian subcontinent in your international expansion plans. Amidst all the craziness and weird English, you'll find people who are grateful your product reached them.
I won't hate too much on this article, but in my experience, the question always comes down to "How do you get there?"

How do you get to "being able to lead without authority"?
How do you get to "always taking blame while giving credit away"?
And so on.

By practicing, and making mistakes along the way.

Something that most corporate policies / deadlines don't accommodate.

Maybe the question companies should ask themselves is, "Why would someone whose qualities make them a good PM want to work for us?"

Good luck with that.
Ask HN: Are ORMs overkill for using SQL databases?
SQL is something fundamental we learn with programming. The syntax is mostly standard.

Why trade this 'CONSTANT' with myriad variations of ORMs across languages/frameworks for using same flavour of SQL.

I feel ORMs are overkill. For simple queries ORMs are ok but with complex queries - there is extra effort spent on translations/debugging/optimisations etc.

- -

Having said that - ORM can be helpful in one-off cases like below:

- if-and-when database migration happens from one type of database to other (eg: postgres->mariadb etc)

What is your take on this ?

edit: rephrased sentence
The outrageous price increases directly led to people dying because they couldn't afford life-saving medication.

There's no redeeming yourself from that just because you're charming or intelligent. Psychopaths often are.
Oddly enough, just got some coverage today: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142908-siri-rival-can-...
I feel the key AR advantage will be that we don't have to spend half our time glancing down on tiny rectangles anymore.

The Oculus is already less than an order of magnitude away from competing with regular LCD panels. Google glass and maybe that magic leap thing give us hints that it will eventually happen for mobile.

No more displays, now that's something I would pay for.
Electron apps aren't really my standard for "reasonably sized CLI applications"...
>I think it's reasonable that some items can be scanned upon entry into the warehouse, e.g. on a laser triangulation turntable that also grabs a video as it rotates

If it could be done quickly enough with enough volume, maybe, but the constraint is that items have to be loaded off the truck, scanned and stowed into a bin (which makes them available for purchase on the site) as quickly as possible.
Of course they are legal. It doesn't make him any better as a person.
HP's consumer line isn't/wasn't great (I've had scant experience with it over the years), but their business products are generally great to take apart and repair. The EliteBook series in particular, e.g. the 8460s are built like tanks and are great to pick up off-lease.
I don't know, but it is common in HN.

I'd like to hear someone explaining why it isn't awful to use with a mouse.
You're right, the title is misleading. This is a gateway, not a search engine.
Shkreli was blunt and open about a sleazy thing that many others are cagey about. That doesn't make him better than them, just more visible.
Even if I restrict myself to two fingers clamping around something, I can do ridiculously better than the robot. You could even give me the actual robot's hand on a grip. The control logic seems to be the much bigger problem to me.
Casper launches a humidity fighting duvet on Kickstarter
Yes, hat was rather my point, I guess I was just trying to put it more delicately
Yes, because the money is going directly back into things that benefit the company and returns cashflow which will (presumably) be taxed at a later date.
Last year, I replaced the alternator on my Ford Escape and you have to either disconnect the U-joint going to the front passenger side tire or remove the air intake plenum and fish the alternator up the back of the engine by the firewall.

It was a four hour job when on my older cars it would have taken less than one hour.

It's maddening.
Realistically, DEF CON should move to the Caribbean.

Marcus Hutchins is a British citizen. Extradition before the event was feasible and would have been a far more honorable path than the snatch and grab that transpired.

British security experts might insist on Grand Cayman for any further conferences in the Americas.
Are there any actual cases of people saying they can't afford the drug any more?
You have no clue what this court case was about, do you?
"He lost everything in MSMB Capital after a bad trade in February 2011, and hid that fact, sending investors statements for more than a year and a half showing strong returns — even though the fund didn’t trade after that month, and had no assets."
The crew flew a visual approach (guided by human eyes) instead of an ILS approach.

In the words of the investigation: "At 2346:30 PDT, Northern California TRACON cleared ACA759 for the FMS bridge visual runway 28R approach."
I used the server tutorials in howtographql.com, they were very informative.

Scroll down to the hands on tutorials, the ones on the right are server-side tutorials. I still recommend you read through the beginner material as well!

https://www.howtographql.com/
The reasons he is hated aren't the same as the reasons he is on trial.
There's PostGraphQL, which serves a PostgreSQL database as a GraphQL schema: https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql
But that's not why he was convicted, which means his conviction does nothing to discourage that.
I personally do not like the experience of interop in any language, or using FFIs. Perhaps that is why on any project I've had, I make sure to use high-level Clojure libraries that handle all the interop for me. So far, after nearly 4 years, that has not been a problem.

But then again, all my projects have been raw Clojure from the start, and never projects where I had to deal with an existing Java code base or handle internal Java APIs at a company, etc.

If you approach Clojure for a fresh project with the plan that it will just be a Clojure project, as I have, you will rarely if ever need to know a thing about Java.

This is slightly less true for ClojureScript where some knowledge of JS can come in handy if you want to use JS libraries (which nearly all front-end developers eventually require). But even there, most needs are already wrapped up in Clojure libraries.
This is not true. The drug was given away for free to people who could not afford it. Are there any cases of what you're saying actually happening?
To be fair, the quote itself says "according to prosecutors" so this is only one side of the story.
It is very common for "psychopaths" to play charming. That is one of many ways in which they manipulate others because it makes the victims lower their defenses.
You mean he made it more difficult for insurance companies to pay for this drug? People don't buy these drug if they don't have insurance.
Is it me or the DOJ so the flight manifest and then went to a grand jury to indict? He did what he did in 2014-2015 and the charges were filed in July 2017, a couple of weeks before Defcon...
Oh I would show up a hot sweaty mess. I then never rode my bike when it was over 65 degrees.
The talk in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnq0UfOUTlM
Watching Excel power users is really fascinating.
Lots of sociopaths are charming. Fun article: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbxb4m/charming-manipulat...
It's amusing to read the alarmism in this article, on bbc.co.uk, while keeping in mind that the UK already filters, surveils, and blocks websites nationwide and has statutes to censor sites that advocate against the monarchy or "imagine the death" of the queen.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...
The popular telling of the story is that the team behind Mono asked for too much money to allow the Unity3D team to have a commercial license exception to newer versions of Mono.

(This comes from the Unity team's explanation to the Unity community about why their runtime remains out of date. It's since become a meme to paint the Mono folks as a bunch of jerks over this. This endured for a few years. In the meantime, however, Microsoft has released .NET under permissive terms that would allow Unity to use Microsoft's own runtime royalty-free—no need for a commercial license exception. Despite the opportunity it presented, an upgraded runtime failed to materialize from Unity. Maybe the transition from Mono to .NET Core was too big of a leap? Fair point. Thing is, Mono itself is now also relicensed under MIT, by way of Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin, so Unity is free to make commercial use of newer Mono versions on proprietary platforms, just like Unity always wanted. Still, no upgrade to the Unity runtime.)
The court case doesn't have to be about that for the argument to still hold true.
There is also a Chinese case but he did it for a whole year.

http://nypost.com/2014/01/29/man-uses-first-class-plane-tick...
I have seen videos where he explains: insurance pays for the medicine, not individuals, and people who can't afford/have insurance gets them freely from government programs/their company programs.
He raised the price of Daraprim in order to fund R&D to find alternative treatments as Daraprim caused some nasty side effects. It was free to any individual who wished to obtain it, with Martin footing the bill. The side effect of the price hike was the insurance companies has to pay more, not individuals. So no, one couldn't argue he hurt a lot of sick people.
> "That would be great if he wasn't one of many"

You could say the same for almost any crime. Why should those who commit white-collar crime be allowed to continue without repercussions, whilst those who commit much smaller offences get jail time?
'Pharma Bro' Shkreli is convicted at securities fraud trial
I know United checks your ticket and flight info before they let you in. That's been my experience in the U.S. at least.
> You will have friends and family using this thing! Warn them, get them onto LO!

I just installed LO 5.4 on HiDPI Windows. The LO home page (localized) advertised that "LibreOffice 4 (sic!) just arrived". Unfortunately it went downhill from there: the HiDPI support is kind of not really present. Icons have negative margins (are halfway visible) and what's even worse the hit targets are not where the icon lies! So you select item N from a list and item N-1 gets selected.

I get it that OO is now evil due to Oracle but LO is just not usable. I know, I know free software but advertising LO to my family and friends would be the quickest way of getting them to not to ask me any IT related advice. Which may be a good side effect in itself.

Edit: I just tried AOO. It works. Looks a little bit dated but the controls are where they should be and everything I tested works correctly.
The Lawyer, the Addict a High-Powered Silicon Valley Attorney Dies
It's the same obnoxious minute long ad before.

At least it's only HBO shows.
Avoid This Common Anti-Pattern in Full-Stack Vue/Laravel Apps
Maybe Sir Richard Branson could host it on Neckar and stream it live on Virgin.com -- I'm only slightly kidding.
If you think you've got a really good solution for robotics grasping you shouldn't be competing in the Amazon Picking Challenge given the IP terms. We (Righthand Robotics) think we've got a handle on the problem but didn't want to get involved for that reason. There are some other companies out there with interesting solutions who weren't involved either.

EDIT: Pun retroactively intended.
Do you have evidence of this happening? Shkreli said publicly that if anyone couldn't afford his pricey drug he'd ensure that they got it. I have no idea whether he ever followed through.
>The outrageous price increases directly led to people dying because they couldn't afford life-saving medication.

Who died? I'm curious because if that happened, I figure we would have heard about it. Do you have a link to a story I can read?
Well, 12 jurors agreed.
Price gouging by pharmaceutical companies almost certainly drives up health insurance costs. It's not a victimless crime.
Interestingly, his fraud seems to fall into two categories. Lying about his fund's bonafides and status on one side, and working hard to make sure those same investors got what they were expecting by founding a company, making it successful and paying them out from the profits.

It sounds like he definitely lied to investors, but he apparently didn't intend to steal their money, and took pains to make sure he did not cost them money in the end. Apparently most investors in the fund that lost all it's money ended up close to tripling their investment after he worked to replace the lost money in the end.

That leaves me thinking that "up to 20 years" is a bit harsh given the facts. Hopefully the judge will take that into consideration and give him a more lenient sentence.
To be fair, he was not convicted of that, and it's arguable whether that entailed committed a crime.

The particular crime that he was charged with and convicted of was "victimless"-ish. That is, he lied to investors, basically running a Ponzi scheme (specifically, reporting that their balance was higher than it actually was to prevent them from trying to pull out their money), but instead of the usual deal where the scheme collapses, he managed to make enough money to make his investors whole.
"Thinkpads are the easiest machines to dissolve into atoms and back."

I did that too with my ThinkPad, a couple of times, and I got at least two more years out of it! https://jeena.net/repairing and https://jeena.net/thinkpad-t410-speakers-fix
He tried to expose "hypocrisy" by committing fraud and pricing vital medication out of many people who need it's ability to pay? All the while acting like a complete asshole and working hard to disrupt his own trial?

How will society ever survive without this white knight's protection?
"Problems" #1 (seed round) and #4 (controlling dilution) are standard operating procedure for startups. Either silicon valley has been doing things wrong for a long time and cryptocurrency people have suddenly discovered a better way... or cryptocurrency is a bizarro parallel universe where bad ideas have become best practices in a pretty short amount of time.
For those who haven't read the article, Martin is being charged on cheating his investors, he himself admits to his "broomsticks", not the immoral arguments he was previously known for.

Also that aside, he was quite a easy target.
Also, according to the NYT article, all investors tripled their money.

"The investors who invested all made money — by the defense’s tally, more than triple what they invested."
Oops, I was wrong. You type in a word and you get search results.

Seems pretty dangerous, though. I mean, people use tor so that their ISP and others can't find out what websites they are visiting, so what is the point of using a proxy to visit a tor search engine, and then have your ISP see which links you click on. In fact, it wouldn't suprise me if the whole thing is a blackmail scheme.
> those who have chosen to subscribe to HBOGo

Are cable subscribers. HBO Now is the standalone. Anyway, piracy is about as convenient for something like GoT. The back catalogue is great though. I also pretty much stopped pirating because I have the money now, and the content is easy to get.
Are you kidding? He's human garbage, let him rot. It's astounding how people are being taken in by this con man.
The most dangerous person in the world is someone with nothing to lose. If you have nothing left to lose then you aren't constrained by worrying about tomorrow.