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Ask HN: Is Immutable.js a dead project?
It seems like there's huge interest for this project, with almost 20,000 stars. However, the last stable release was more than a year ago (April 2016). An alpha version was released on March of this year, but it's broken for most users and almost no pull requests have been approved since then. Issues sit idle for months at a time with no response.

Did Facebook give up using this internally for something else?
do you know the name of the movie?
I mis-spoke. I meant when Protocol Labs (finally) releases something. Still hard to get my head around a team raising $700m-1.2b without having any code at all.
No private rooms?
I met the developer who was responsible when I was employed by Amazon. He was trying to reply to an email, but I believe it was a "reply all" (if I recall the details of the story correctly) and the list was massive. Meanwhile, people on that same massive list were also doing a "reply all" to submit their feedback or reply that the email didn't apply to them. Massive email storm resulted. He didn't give all the details but he was ear-to-ear grinning as he told us the story.
If our civilization falls, it will be difficult to rebuild. We've exhausted many of the easy to get to minerals. The conditions that let us bootstrap the industrial revolution won't exist again.

But more than that, technology improves every day. The only reason we aren't extinct now is because nuclear weapons happen to be very difficult to build. Imagine if the materials required to build them were common, and any idiot could do it with some parts from the hardware store. How long do you think the world would last?

Well who is to say the next world destroying technology will be the same? Maybe there's a reason the sky is empty.
> It's even arguable that his price hikes hurt anyone other than already rich insurance monopolies

It is a uniquely American perspective to assume that insurance companies are some abstracted layer of infinite money that individual people needn't worry about. But then, everyone complains about insurance premiums and they wonder why they can't be lower. What irony.
How many people died directly due to Martin's actions? I'm very skeptical of your claim and found nothing to back it up after a quick Google search. The first result was a Quora answer that even said that his moves resulted in no deaths. Do you have any citations for your claim?
These are private sites. That's not censorship. Use a competitor or create your own site if you don't like their policies. Current cloud pricing makes hosting a pretty high volume site cost less than 25 dollars a month.
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It's a way's off, but I'm looking forward to the day genetic engineering lets people see colors they aren't able to see today. Those and other sensory enhancements could revolutionize art, culture, and society.
I don't think anyone will claim that any JVM language or node doesn't handily best Racket in terms of sheer numbers of libraries. What Racket does have are solid core libraries with good docs.

I don't know about "killer" but Racket's continuation based web server was / is novel (maybe first?). https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/

Also, it's not a library, but the whole #lang thing seems to be the coolest game in town for implementing DSLs and other more fully featured languages.
Does ios still become 2x slower on old phones every time they update it for a new phone release?

I remember previously fast iPhone 4s becoming close to useless when iPhone 5 came out after an os update.
There is apparently going to be a DEF CON event in Beijing. But I'm not sure that will be any better in terms of not going to prison.
This is hardly the first time this happened, they could have easily made a law years ago.

Have they introduced the Shkreli Can't Endanger those Represented by Welfare Act have they?

This was a PR stunt.
I think you're doing it in reverse, and that doing so is likely to scare off a vast number of potential users.

You should have some initial filters in place, that the user can then optionally remove as they gradually dip their toes in the water.

There will be no meaningful content created until you do that, because the chat will just always be initially flooded for everyone with the worst kind of vile trash. The first impression will be very bad, and that'll be that.
> I don't know how musk does it but he has access to levers of power to keep himself afloat.

A well run PR machine that keeps the constant hype going. The right misdirection at the right times (we totally need to worry about the mythical smart AI, oh but don't worry about the timeline or the dangers of self driving cars). The Hyperloop and Tunnels are totally amazing building blocks for Mars so we have to build them.

I think Musk is a brilliant guy, but the cult around him is pretty ridiculous.
If that's true, that is an error of massive proportions, and you should buy blue apron stock/call options right now.

The algorithmic trading hasn't picked up on that yet.
Everything is public, but tag discovery is limited to the default list, specifically searching for a tag, or directly linking to it.

I'm planning to replace the default section with a trending list though.
Exactly. The link from thinking about doing something and actually doing it is much less if one can openly talk about doing it. Oddly enough, much like the act of pooping.
AR, but with high enough quality to offer a superset of VR's features.
Sorry I just don't understand the article. Can anyone rephrase?
That's most likely what happens after the sysadmins get notified of the issue. Take the NHS incident as an example. Within 1h and 15min the generated emails were around 500 million. A one hour response time is still relatively quick.

The more important question is, why email systems don't have default rules to prevent such an email storm?

When emails go to tens of thousands of people, a system should probably only allow it with special credentials or at least ensure that it's a read-only mailing list.

Other measurements would be to detect growing email chains and block emails when the chain has reached some threshold.
You can say that difficult-to-repair Apples started with the original Mac, which required a long-handled Torx driver to open the case (which no one had). The Apple ][ was the last truly user-serviceable Apple product.
Repeating the same thing does not make it any less one-sided and misleading. In fact, Microsoft discouraged applications from putting anything into the the windows directory or the system directory from the middle 1990s onwards.

* https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms997548.aspx

* https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110620-00/?p=...

* https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120307-00/?p=...

And of course the windows directory being a subtree with everything that is part of the operating system, is exactly the same model that people have been adopting with the "/usr merge" from AT&T Unix System 5 Release 4 onwards, and only a "landfill" if one thinks having the operating system in its own single subtree off the root is a "ghastly" idea. The range of operating systems that have done this very thing over the years, with the likes of C:\DRDOS, C:\WINDOWS, C:\OS2, /System, /boot/system, and /usr, are really not for you in that case.

By the way, your description of priorities with / overriding /usr overriding /usr/local was as misleading as your idea about interference rather than the far more mundane and ordinary having a second disc. In fact, on systemd operating systems the default path is to search in the order /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin which is the opposite order to your description. FreeBSD nowadays uses a similar order, with _PATH_DEFPATH being /usr/bin:/bin , although _PATH_STDPATH is /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin . OpenBSD goes with /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin for both.

The misleadingly simplistic and wrongly ordered /, /usr, /usr/local wasn't even the historical case, moreover. Back in the 1980s people had the likes of /usr/ucb, /usr/lbin, /usr/bin, /usr/5bin, and sometimes even /etc and /usr/etc on the search path. There were actually quite a lot of these. AT&T Unix System 5 Release 4 had them all under /usr in 1988.
Regardless of big an asshole he is based on seeing the Vice interview and thinking about the big fraud pharma industry makes me think he is actually way better than the conniving people who run big pharma.

This guy speaks out and maybe he is an asshole and suddenly everyone hates him.
The rest keep their profits to themselves and we don't seem to care or mind.
Some really shocking lines in here:

…[based upon self-evaluation,] 21 percent of lawyers qualify as problem drinkers, while 28 percent struggle with … serious depression. Only [25% of] lawyers answered questions about drug use… “It’s left to speculation what motivated 75 percent of attorneys to skip over the section on drug use as if it wasn’t there.”

Of all the heartbreaking details of his story, the one that continues to haunt me is this: The history on his cellphone shows the last call he ever made was for work. Peter, vomiting, unable to sit up, slipping in and out of consciousness, had managed, somehow, to dial into a conference call.

At Peter’s memorial service in 2015, [q]uite a few of the lawyers attending the service were bent over their phones, reading and tapping out emails. Their friend and colleague was dead, and yet they couldn’t stop working long enough to listen to what was being said about him.
So here is why it's important to take Shkreli down. Congress gets paid lots of money to not regulate pharmaceuticals. 13 democrats recently voted against a bill allowing the US to import Pharma from Canada, so it's both parties.

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/139825/cory-booker-not-frien...

Congress is in hot water over the cost of prescription drugs and they need to do something, and something fast ... as long as that isn't actually reducing the cost of prescription drugs, because, you know, donors. Shkreli is the perfect mark, or scapegoat for this because he has been quite vocal. Consider he isn't the only one doing this. Many (donating) Pharma companies do this yet are quiet about it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/02/10/a-6000...

Anyway, if they take down Shkreli, congress looks like they are doing something, without actually doing anything. Notice they didn't take him down for his price gouging. Yes, that will continue to go on just as the donors planned. The masses are satisfied with their sacrifice. Carry on.
The NY Times article[1] presented by an early top level comment implies that no, they didn't.

The investors who invested all made money — by the defense’s tally, more than triple what they invested.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/business/dealbook/martin-...
fraud != stealing

fraud wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain

stealing take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it

No, Shkreli didn't intend to steal their money since they gave it to him. However, he did in fact deceive them as to what he did with said money. So he was convicted of fraud.
I'd like someone to do a reading of Martin Shkreli as "satirist of neoliberalism", and suggest that the reason so many people hate him so much is that he's a scapegoat for our collective feelings of guilt. Can anyone offer a valid critique of his raising the price of Daraprim, within the frame of neoliberalism, that doesn't just reduce to "that guy's a real jerk!"?
Oh yeah, watching his Excel You Tube video puts me in awe! Can't tell you how many people I've recommended that video to!
I would think better?
Oh so his only two flaws are trolling and he lies. But he's OK sure. How about the fact that he caused the suffering of patients needing the drug that he was raised prices on?
The operative word here is "all."
The plane hacking on Scorpian still wins for absolute worst scene: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=buHaKYL9Jhg
Gotta love the narrative here. Jack up the medicine price and become americas most hated for a moment by general behavior.. that's fine. Make a fool of couple of hedge fund investors.. oh boy, now you fucked up
I think it's fair to say that Shkreli would be left to his own devices had he not shown the audacity to charge what the market will bear. Meanwhile another person who similarly jacked up the price of a lifesaving drug beyond what many could afford, Heather Bresch, received no negative legal attention whatsoever. Ever wonder why? Because her dad is Joe Manchin. The swamp needs draining so bad.
They said "Del Rio noted that while hospitals treat many patients initially, most are then treated at home for a couple of months, so the lower hospital price doesn’t help."

This just states that people at home, after being treated at a hospital, still need the medicine. Hospitals get 50% off, which is what your unrelated statement is about.

The medicine is a cure, you need to go through about 100 pills of it. The cost of people at home is paid by insurance. This has nothing to do with the medicine being available literally for free if you contact the company.
Because we're here in hacker news, we're biased to think that's the only thing screenwriters get wrong. The truth is, nearly every single profession is misrepresented by Hollywood. From doctors, to chemists, biologists, physicists, mathematicitians, psychologists, policemen, detectives, nearly every single profession looks absurd from the perspective of people who actually understand it when it's staged in a movie.

There's a reason why films about directors and movie making seem more realistic than the rest - they are the only movies designed by people who actually understand the subject.
Dell is the same, consumer level stuff is difficult or impossible to repair, but the business laptops are well thought out and designed to be repaired.
> If the username becomes a form of self-expression on your service, users will want to change it from time to time.

IMO separating identity from display-name is an under-used design choice, especially if you think your system needs to scale up to lots and lots of unique accounts.

I think Steam is an easy example of a service which does it right: Many people (usually in different social circles) can use the same name, you can change your display name easily, other people can see some previously-used names, and you can assign custom names to friends to avoid confusion.

> Pre-supplied questions make the guessing problem worse.

Personally I've love to have the option of choosing my own question.

All too often the pre-supplied questions suck in various ways. Some might be patently insecure (ex: name of highschool), inapplicable (name of first pet) or just too ambiguous to rely on (name of street you grew up on, if you moved a lot.)

With a custom question, I could craft something both secure (at least against non-family) and also unambiguous to future-me. Ex: "Your worst encounter with bees occurred in what place?"
And what's wrong with that? Be upset that the FDA only approved one company to make the drug.

And it's not like anyone was hurt. Overall, insurers ended up paying a bit more (drugs are only 10-15% of US health care costs, and very few people need Daraprim). Big deal. If more people did this, then the system would get this issue addressed, maybe.

On top of that, he said he was investing the profits into researching better drugs, though of course that's not a requirement.
and then what do the people inside do?
I don't know if this is the solution, but I agree improvements in human-computer-interaction is one of the big things holding back tech for a lot of problems. Obviously a non-invasive brain interface would be the holy grail.
They're used so consumers don't take apart their iPhones. I thought that was pretty obvious.

> That's a responsibility for customers, not Apple.

That's incredibly naïve. If Apple does nothing to make it hard to open up their devices, then consumers who don't know any better will decide to try and "maintain" their devices themselves (e.g. swapping the battery) and will end up breaking them. Apple has a responsibility to their customers to avoid making it easy to break their devices. And besides just protecting their customers, this also saves Apple money because they don't have to provide support to customers whose devices "just broke, no really I didn't open it up".

Using custom screws is a fairly minor roadblock all things considered. It won't stop anyone who knows what they're doing, but it will prevent the average customer from trying to muck with their device and breaking it.

> Apple could release the kind of documentation that would prevent customers from breaking devices when opening them up

Haha no they couldn't. There's not a chance in hell that Apple could provide any sort of documentation that would prevent the average customer from destroying their device, unless that documentation simply said "DO NOT OPEN YOUR DEVICE". Apple devices are not designed with end-user repair in mind, and the only people that should be opening them up are people with expertise in disassembling electronics, not average consumers.

> That should really be the choice of the customer.

What choice? "Do I want to break my device, or not?" That's not a useful choice.

> your neighbour pulling apart their phone is none of your business

Not my business, no, but it definitely is Apple's business. Not only does Apple not want to see its customer destroy their phone, but Apple also doesn't want to have to provide support to that customer now that they've done that.
Isn't this an extreme example of the core problem why the US health system is so expensive? Even you are suggesting that an increased price is fine if it's the insurance companies paying the money.
And this comment is the reason why Trump was elected president; that we believe everything we hear without doing our own due diligence.
There is no early morning flight from SFO to LHR. In fact there are no morning flights (on United) from SFO to LHR. It just doesn't make any sense in terms of timings.

And random flight cancellations happen on any airline (and rebooking options can be limited depending on time of year). Its part of flying, deal with it.
I don't see anyone riling against the strongarming lobby of the big fraud pharma. This dude just seems more like a character from Big Lebowski or The Wire to me than someone say from big pharma who reaps billions by lobbying for sustaining their own monopolistic behavior....
I don't particularly like the guy, but I do believe him to be pretty smart. How can he be convicted of fraud if he got them a 3x return?
> This case isn't about that.

That wasn't your question, was it? You asked why he's human garbage, I explained why. I wasn't defending or attacking this case, I was explaining why some think he is human garbage.
It's frustrating. Most people seem to know about OpenOffice as a free alternative to Microsoft's Office Suite, but hardly anyone has heard about LibreOffice. Which leads to people trying out OpenOffice and concluding that Open Source Software isn't up to the task.
Based on the information to be found in this article it's not at all clear whether it will be an easy case to win.
I've read a few articles but I feel like I'm missing something. What's with the sensational quotes like "I had folks afraid that their own involvement in investigating WannaCry would get them arrested."?

Everything I've read points that he created banking Malware "Kronos" which was sold on various "underground forums" (whatever that means). What's with the WannaCry conspiracies? He wasn't arrested for being a security research, he was arrested for being a malware creator selling malware. Why is this "sending a chill through the security community"?
You think raising the price for a drug only used by about 2000 people raised insurance premiums at all?

It's amazing how Europeans expect Pharmaceutical companies to invest R&D into rarely used drugs when they can't make a profit.
>He's not human garbage.

Yeah, but he is.

Spare me the faux "logically objective" pose. There is a reason he's known as the "most hated man in America". His actions have earned him this reputation.
I am sure the "unidentified co-conspirator" is unidentified because they have a deal to talk and will likely not be charged or has a plea agreement so no trial
What is the Chinese state going to do about the 'harmful' information that is encoded in various blockchains, Bitcoin's[1] being one example?

[1]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z4k73w/someone-pu...
Yes, it absolutely was a PR stunt. I mentioned earlier that congress gets paid a lot of money to not regulate pharmaceuticals, this was them trying to save face so the fleecing can continue. Just an example of absolute corruption of our federal government.
Yes, my "safely" meant "without destroying the device".
The first time I saw that video was when referenced in a HN submission about Excel use[1]. You might find it interesting.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448545
Find one person who got it for free
Why not let everyone moderate or delete it's temporary, but one should be able to delete too.
Can I presume you offer your skills to anyone who asks at a wage that reflects a minimum cost of living (ie no iPhone or other luxuries the bare minimum cost of living). If not what is your reasoning beyond apparent greed?
Just because his investors made money doesn't excuse him.

Suppose you lent 10,000 to a friend and the friend promised to return it within a year. A year later, your friend doesn't pay you back and makes a bunch of excuses. Instead, he takes the 5,000 he has left to the casino, gambles it on the roulette wheel and by luck manages to turn that into 30,000 and pays you back 1.5 years later. I don't think you would be happy with that situation...
So, are the gonna sell off his stuff and more in particular, is the Wu Tang album coming up for sale?
I would agree 95% of the time, but honestly this one is just absurd.
It's worth noting that most airlines can view most tickets given the name and ticket number (you can use the saudia website to view the gory details of tickets issued by most TAs and airlines yourself if you wish). Whether or not they do is a separate question, but United certainly do check (partly since the itinerary can grant lounge access even if the flight you are taking next doesn't).
Have him take it by Louis Rossman's shop. He does board-level repair on Apple products.

https://www.rossmanngroup.com/
If your code is used in an exploit and that is now a punishable crime, maybe next the NSA will be in the hot seat since the code that was used in wanacry was their own. Or perhaps Israel for their effort in Stuxnet.
I hope he takes it to trial and we find out what is really happening here. Pretty suspicious that this happens years after the fact and only weeks after he helped prevent the further spread of wannaCry. WannaCry being created on top of the leaked NSA exploits they held on to instead of responsibly disclosing to Microsoft.
I'm surprised they didn't have "sneakers" on this list. But then that is a bit of a counter example.
My current project - https://oppslist.com - caters to software developers.

I googled how many software developers there are, then used a calculator to guess what fraction of them might ever buy it, and what that might mean in terms of revenue.

Also, the product solves (sort of) a problem I have.
The government and media couldn't have asked for a better outcome. The actual criminals on Wall Street and in Big Pharma, who had the foresight to line the right pockets, go ignored and the outsider who drew the ire of the public - for a decidedly amoral business decision with poor optics - is very publicly castigated. It's a win all around for a monumentally corrupt establishment, which has once again deferred meaningful scrutiny.

Shkreli made the mistake of setting himself up as the perfect loudmouthed, flamboyant patsy.