skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they dislike the price controls and monopsonies that exist in other countries, they can avoid those markets entirely. Once they agree to participate and begin exporting their drugs, we should have every right to import them back at a discount.

As I mentioned, both of those options would make drugs less profitable, which would lead to fewer advances in technology. Prohibiting the reimportation of drugs can be a sensible policy.

> It is horribly unjust for Americans, many of whom have no or poor health insurance, to be forced to pay more money than anyone else on earth for prescription drugs.

Unfair, perhaps, but unjust? Fixing this problem would either require selling to everyone at American prices (which could also be described as unjust), or selling to everyone at the lowest prices available. Both options would be less profitable that the current system, which would slow the rate of advancement in drug development.

> [Maybe] the government should step in and take the lead role in drug development.

That can also be a sensible policy, and the American government already does fund a considerable amount of drug development.
I agree with Tangurena 100% and I really appreciate seeing languages that correspond with the way I was taught to think in school. That is, logically! Personally, I'm partial to the basic languages because they appeal to my simple cause-and-effect way of solving problems :-)

But some of the languages I've seen just have me shaking my head. Hardly anything about them are logical.
Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development
Someone could add one word to this title and render the article superfluous.
http://faircompanies.com

We tried to make things really simple in our site. Goal: content is king. The rest, should fade away from user's attention.

Short of what Jeff Bezos is trying with the Kindle reading experience.
Sony beat the Apple TV without Google TV
I do want to be clear. That I'm not arguing against "automated testing". It's really against a style of unit test development that is all the rage: TDD/BDD. The devs I've worked who practice it, is through the use something like Cucumber to drive the development of the application with tons of unit tests.

I'm a huge advocate of automated testing. And again, just in my experience, the productivity and perceived code quality I saw coming out of the BDD/TDD side of the house didn't seem to be a step in the right direction.
Bingo. She didn't have the formal education, and was basically rote-memorizing everying:

"What she was essentially doing while studying alone was memorizing as many questions — with their answers — as possible without always knowing what they were all about."

It's surprising that she didn't end up remembering by heart all possible test answers by then. It's also sad because, if she had asked an instructor politely to explain one complex traffic word for her each day, she would have reached the understanding she needed to pass the test far sooner. Then again, it sounds like she treated it like a hobby. If she was having fun, who's to stop her?
For "open directories" like this, it's good form to use the Coral Cache in order to not overwhelm the original source: http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/
paul oakenfold 18.12.1994 goa mix :ave

edit:
i don't get it, why downvotes ?
I believe that was a quote, in case you missed it. See the bottom of the GP's post.
Surprising to see this on HN. Regardless, here's my favs:

2009-03-10 Jamie Jones, 2007-02-18 Danny Howells, 2006-10-14 Trentemoller, 2003-08-24 Sasha live at Creamfields
http://gomockingbird.com/ is pretty cool.. thanks
I'm looking for a cofounder for a new startup. Still in idea phase (which means I'm open to yours as well :)), but I have an idea+prototype for something I'm personally excited about: augmented reality for shopping.

I'm usually in the valley, but traveling at present. zhyder at dabbleboard dot com
Just much much better.

In fact ping would probably have been fine if they had had FB connect up and running.

It works like a charm in spotify and they don't seem to use any kind last.fm neighbors thingimagic.
The real metric is whether or not firearm-related crimes are significantly reduced in countries where there are prohibitions on firearms.

No, the real metric is whether or not firearms cause a net increase in the amount/severity of crimes - firearm crimes are not the only relevant ones.

There are all sorts of factors which make it a tricky question. Deterrence (burglar is afraid to rob a house, since homeowners might shoot him) is a fairly big effect. Substitution (criminal 1 wants to kill criminal 2, since no guns are around he uses a knife) are some of the biggies. If criminals stab 20 people instead of shooting 15, that's not a good thing.
Cheaper alternative to SSD:
Compact Flash card with an adapter. I'm currently working on installing one into my iBook G4.
Alan Parsons did become rather well-known for his abilities as an audio engineer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Parsons
I'm always googling something while programming although this question has me wondering what I'd do if I were still on a dial up connection! {{shudder the thought}}
Kanye apologizes to Taylor Swift, on Twitter.
I do this occasionally but never did it in earnest for reasons I hadn't really thought much about until I read "A list of N things": http://paulgraham.com/nthings.html .

You can write the longest post ever but as long as it's well broken up and important parts highlighted/bolded you'll still get people commenting etc

I would tend to say that if some parts are important and others aren't, remove the unimportant parts until there aren't any left, then publish what remains. This is another practice I use, although sometimes with more success than others.
Extra info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Essential_Mix_episodes
Who says he didn't?

A logical explanation doesn't change the analogy. I'm aware that S&M Gimps exist. If I went into an Apple Store where someone was being led around by a gimp, and no-one was paying attention, I'd still think that was unusual.

Not to mention that an aside explaining that helper horses exists detracts from the art of storytelling.
HTML version: http://jottit.com/qd874/
The opposition between education & spirituality is also well known, as we see in the story of the garden of eden (genesis 1-3). Or in the lower levels of belief among college graduates.
but i don't read reddit anymore.
I wonder what are the odds of passing the written test with random answers. I assume it's multiple choice.
Coding music is a common theme on HN.

Most recently 48 days ago (which has links to many others):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445
And here's why you shouldn't
http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/p...
You can "contract" for a U.S. based company, work there for months at a time

Not technically legal. Just saying.
> Sun never made as much as IBM did, but the people who founded Sun made more than they otherwise would have.

And of course the startups that became possible because Sun equipment was much cheaper than IBM's thought this was a pretty good thing too.
Each ad posted to the adult services section costs $10 per post. Last year CL made an estimated ~$36 million off of their escort ads.
That's the thing about distributed version control systems -- merging is such a central operation that is has to work well.
Wow, that's beautiful. Ubuntu has always been very functional for me but in the last few releases, it's become beautiful as well.
I run Ubuntu on a Dell Mini 9 netbook and have ended up just using the regular desktop windowing UI.

The netbook UI is overly restrictive (one full screen window at a time).
I was a big fan when this was first announced, but the selection of fonts is puny ... try typekit instead. http://typekit.com/ ... there's a free plan.
I'm just glad Spotify has last.fm scrobbling built in.
Congrats to Chris! I actually integrated like.fm with http://lystener.com today and Chris has been super helpful with building the right API's for me to use.

Both ping and last.fm have a lot of potential when it comes to social integration but neither seem to focus on that. I hope like.fm will win based on the nice facebook integration and ease of use, but they'll have to work on their on-site user experience quite a lot before getting there.
The server may get more load than it can stand.
It's probably a webdesigner-thing to think of 960 as a nice round number, but that's the first thing I thought upon reading that.
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

— Wernher von Braun

Because having a worst case algorithm of n^2 is tractable, while solving for n^1000000 or bigger is not so much. The numbers are as shockingly big as in thermodynamics. And for real problems, it's not just one matrix, but thousands, all interlocked. And for some reason, the most common cases involve extremely sparse matrices. Numerical methods can only scratch the surface. On the bright side, we can't even imagine the true difficultly level. Sure computers can model the easy text book examples, but when it comes to modeling the real world, our current best mathematical capabilities don't even get off the paper.
Sculptor who uses pencils as his medium
She tried the WRITTEN test 960 times.

She passed the driving test in 4 tries which is probably like the average american teenager these days.

At $5 a pop though, she could have hired some personal tutors.
I apologize. Justification for posting:

1. As a time portal showing the evolutionary development of electronic music over the past 17 years, it also a reflection of the evolution of personal computing. From atari and circuit bending roland synths to the macbook.

2. Music is an important part of my coding or designing process.
An occasional single post that contains a multitude of links is one thing.

Encouraging people to make each of those links (and others like them) a separate post is another.
I noticed you are still in high school. Are you planning to do this on the side while you are in high school or college?
Small negative correlation: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/603536

(I have the full text of the paper, but I've not actually read it.)
You can't extrapolate from the experience of high-end strippers in places like NYC, Vegas, or Miami. That's like hanging out in major league stadiums and concluding that pro baseball players must love their millions, ignoring that the majority are stuck down in the farm system barely making a living wage.
I'm in college, but yes, like I've always done.
>>The real problem with 3D video is that it requires a lot of production work to get right.

This, it should be pointed out, is going to be the dominant problem, making 3d that doesn't make your eyes bleed is hard. It's also why 3d porn is unlikely to take off anytime soon, porn isn't in the business of high production values and carefully thought out cinematography. It will end up with people's eyes hurting after 5 minutes of constantly re focusing.
I'm not sure what your point is, but it made me think of something amusing:

You exist in the physical world. You body is in meatspace, and your mind is in the ever fluctuating electrodynamic field. Both of these can be modeled by physics equations to a very high precision.

Therefore when you say you believe you do not know something, even in reference to your own perception of your self-knowledge, you are nonetheless making a statement about the physical world.

Sorry if this sounds pedantic. :P
Look, far be it from me to always be chasing and advocating the new hotness, and declaring the ignorance of the dark ages (ie. 5 years ago), because it's very very rare in technology that something is so utterly and dramatically superior in every technical aspect as Git (or Mercurial, or Darcs) is over SVN.

I'm not going to write the usual dissertation, because I've done it before, and I personally could not care less what you use in your shop. But suffice it to say that subversion conflates the notions of repository, directory, and branch in such a way as to leave the entire system crippled beyond hope of repair, and it will always be full of nasty edge cases internally in order to support this "simplified" model.

Now I understand there are many many valid reasons why it might be necessary to use subversion, but an easier transition from CVS is not one of them. As a professional developer you undermine your credibility in the community when you say things like that.

Version control is a developer's bread and butter. Investing in using one of the good ones may be the single greatest skills ROI a developer can get. Unless you understand both git and svn intimately, you won't grok this, but let me state from hard-won experience that in SVN you can occasionally hit nightmare scenarios requiring days or even weeks to sort out a problem that could be solved in under an hour in git. Similarly, many minor hassles in SVN (such as hot fixes) become trivially easy in git. Finally, git's repository model lends itself to better understanding and knowledge transference to other VCSes, because the conceptual model (not the UI) is elegant and well-defined. I understood git's internals after 6 months of daily use better than I understood the internals of SVN after using it for more than 6 years.

Okay, I guess it was a dissertation after all.
The offending statement is:

"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

In essence, this appears to be the claim that women are by and large not libertarian voters, and less so than men. This is a mere statement about the world. Believing this statement does not commit you to believing Women Must Not Be Allowed To Vote.

If you object to the statement then you are committed to Women Are Just As Likely To Vote Libertarian As Men; I'm guessing Thiel has some actual empirical data to suggest this isn't so.
I might be misunderstanding you, but surely there must be a line between encouraging people and telling them to go to other sites.
I have two, possibly three questions:

How many users are there in that "community" right now and how much time do you exactly, roughly, spend on the "community"?

How does the time you spend now compare to the time you spent right at the beginning?

The third optional question is, how did you actually build the community? Did you use those techniques, like, posting through different accounts and starting discussions with your own self and other techniques?
Awesome! I usually download three or four of these a year from the DJs I like.

And Yes! I'm glad this came to HN, otherwise I wouldn't find it and I love the Essential Mixes.

From 2010 I recommend the one from John 00 Fleming at 13-FEB-2010.
This reminds me of something: I saw a documentary about championship Scrabble players and a lot of them aren't English speakers or even Latin alphabet language speakers. They treat Scrabble as a visual pattern game rather than a verbal one.
Similar thing happens all the time with powers of 2...
This is probably the most inane and anti-intellectual thing I've read in a while.
Oh, I didn't realize that either. Clearly, I don't post in adult services much...
I confess: I thought "960 Times" was a newspaper fixed width stylesheet template of some sort at first.
The problem is prostitution is not victimless crime like most men want to believe.

No-one can possibly believe someone wants to be a prostitute.

Not only are some girls forced into it by pimps and syndicate hooking them on drugs to guarantee their "employment", even if others just enter into it out of desperation for quick cash, once you are down that path it can screw up your life forever.

So yeah, condoning it and promoting it and making it easily available on sites like CL has to be prevented for the better of society over the desire of men to have effortlessly accessible sex.

I consider that taking the high road, thinking of others before yourself. I'm under no delusion that it's going to drop even 1% with CL's listings gone, but it's still the right thing to do.
Here's what we know from the article: (1) 40 question test, (2) Multiple choice, (3) She passed it with "60 out of 100"

My assumptions:
(1) It's graded on a simple "percentage right" basis, so 24/40 questions necessary right to pass, (2) 4 options for each question

Her score on an individual test is a random variable X following a binomial distribution with 40 trials and chance of 0.25 for each trial. Her chance of passing by guessing randomly, P(X >= 24), is an infinitesimally small 2.826E-6.

The probability that she fails all of the 960 tests, assuming independence of tests, is (1-p)^960. So the probability that she will pass at least one test is:

1 - (1 - p)^960

Plugging in p = 2.826E-6, the chance is still practically 0, so a naive guessing strategy would not work.

However, under the above assumptions, she could practically guarantee her success by combining this guessing strategy with a simple test-taking strategy like eliminating 1 or 2 obviously wrong answers per question, or just remembering the answers to several of the same questions that are probably being recycled from test to test.
Wow is using NX without a commercial license really that painful? We use it at work amd it's great; much snappier than VNC.

Xpra sounds great but I'm concerned about the lack of support for various features, and -judgung from the FAQ- the author's perception that they're not important.
Nowadays participation mostly depends on gear, not abilities. Parties will seek players with for example "at least 5K GS", which means 5000 GearScore points according to a popular GearScore AddOn which analyzes your equipment.

The Dungeon Finder (with which you can find random parties for random instances) also employs a gear filter, albeit less outrageous than human players.
excellent ...

now if only we could go get everyone who posted listings to sign off on allowing us access their data we could build an API in no time.
Thanks, Mark. I am very impressed with what you have accomplished to date. Keep up the great work!
I wouldn't call it a different league.

MySQL had severe data consistency issues before InnoDB came around and even today, on InnoDB, there is a variety of situations that will cause silent data truncation or silent data loss.
Can any attorneys here tell us how much of this settlement would likely have gone to the winning lawyers?
It's a relatively common number in computing. It's similar to how numbers such as 512, 256 and 1024 are intimately familiar to me.
I'm looking for a co-founder with experience in the online payment industry (preferably non technical but will consider technical if you're bringing something new to the table). See http://www.payfacade.com.
that's just delusional! k was niche at best, took 10 years to get that far, and was then dropped for the next generation. How many k programmers are there worldwide? Big Dave said less than 10
Pretty much been my experience playing. It's more about memorizing lists of words without really bothering to know what they mean and figuring out which words to use when and how to place them to maximize your point total on each play.
Off-Topic: Most stories... they'd cover on TV news [or newspapers], [are] probably off-topic. A story that man bites dog I think would be in this category.

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes... anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

That she took the test 960 times is interesting to know, but hardly gratifying.
It's a lot easier to remove all the junk from OSX.

It sounds like you haven't seen a brand new Windows machine in awhile. They are cluttered beyond belief. The OSX clutter, in comparison, is unnoticeable.

The other nice thing about OSX though is that the migration tools have always been totally painless for me - when I get a new mac I DON'T have to go remove that stuff because it saves my settings automatically. I haven't had to remove the clutter since my first MacBook in like 2006 - the settings were carried over. In Windows this rarely works, and when it does it takes a lot of work and doesn't do a complete job.
America Has Become Too European
Off-Topic: Most stories about... cute animal pictures.

On-Topic: ...anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Perhaps it is only me, but that things are amazing certainly does not gratify my intellectual curiosity. That things are amazing is a given.
What's a reddit?!
That's a pretty ridiculous analogy. Strippers don't have to toil in a minor league strip club in Idaho for five years before finally "making it" to NYC. All it takes is a bus ticket and a lot of balls (figuratively)
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At one time it was compulsory for all Indonesians to officially have a religion. Is it still so? I believe the reason was opposition to Communism by the Indonesian government.
This is quite possibly the most inspiring story of human tenacity and sheer grit I've heard in quite a while. It really made me smile.

Clearly her method was not optimal but it... eventually worked for her. Just goes to show that perseverance pays off even when starting from absolute zero.

Good for Cha Sa-soon!
Most expensive holiday? I marvel at the lack of imagination. I know a lot of fun ways I could have alternatively spent the $125,000. God, I can't even afford a Virgin Galactic flight for that.
The article says that her scores slowly crept upwards, not indicative of answering randomly.
You are simply repeating what I said. Of course I understand that you do not allow the govt. to pass laws restricting speech, and of course you allow and even celebrate hateful speech. And yes, you dearly cherish the quaint notion of an armed rebellion: That's how you were founded.

But nothing you have said explains why your laws celebrate freedom for the first two cases: You trust citizens with the right to speak and the right to manage their own deadly weapons, but in the third case you are suddenly "You can't be trusted to make your own choices."

Thus, I find your answer is a non-answer, because it does not explain the dichotomy. Furthermore, your third point confuses me. Are you saying that it is an American value to avoid sex before or outside of a marriage conducted for the purpose of raising children?
I voted it down because I didn't think the tone was constructive. It seemed to be accusing Thiel of not considering the big picture, when in fact Thiel is considering something much, much larger. You're asking about differential pricing of prescription drugs, while he's wondering about the impact of a spot market on human organs. What did you think of that part?

Thiel isn't arguing that globalization is a done deal. If anything, he agrees that what we have is astonishingly incomplete: "we stand at a level of globalization that compares with the previous peak year of 1913". Rather, he's asking whether the economic world as we know it could withstand true globalization.

But to answer your question: yes, I think it's only to be expected that corporations will seek to maximize their profits through price discrimination. And also to be expected that true globalization will make this more difficult to do. But while it's clear that those paying the higher price would benefit in the short-term from paying a lower price, it's not clear to me who would benefit in the long-term from forcing companies to choose a single set price somewhere in the middle. It probably depends on how this would be enforced.
according to this article, 30%: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g3yF0MKx3...
Nasty. Is that common in the tech industry? I knew Microsoft was ruthless in business, but this is just shameful.
You sir are a god amongst men. Wasn't aware that so many HN readers were into house, techno, trance, etc.

Anyone ever been to Ultra Music Festival? Most amazing time of my life.
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