skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's essentially untrue in developed nations. Everyone has gotten a prescription at some point.

Unless you mean to say that drug companies can advertise to prescription drug users for the specific window when they happen to be actively taking a prescription drug. Which seems rather difficult to manage and would require a massive privacy violation to achieve. Plus I'm not clear what the delivery mechanism would be unless you're just talking about inserts delivered with the drugs themselves.
Libinfinity already does application-independent collaborative editing and it's not crippled by the license and it's also free from node.js

https://github.com/gobby/libinfinity
The RAM was only integrated on the SoC on earlier models (called a package-on-package, PoP -- see https://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware#Components)

Later versions (I think starting with RPi 2) have a separate DRAM chip on the bottom side of the PCB.
Munch treasures released: The Scream initially looked completely different
Won’t see a day of jail time while Shkrelli gets 7 years.
Chinese AI isn't beating the U.S. yet – and may never catch up
I took a taxi in beijing a few years ago. Was in it about 40 mintues, traveled about a mile. Paid the driver a 20 Yuan note (about $3) and went into the hotel. Driver came running after me with 8yuan in change.

I assume taxis are still insanely cheap, and traffic is still insanely bad. Last time I was there I took the train and metro. I do the same in Moscow - why sit in traffic?
The title would've been just as descriptive without "and it's totally brilliant"
"I have found LSTM is little overkill for NER, as your entities are limited and data will not be very huge."

Incorrect. Inducing word representations on a huge corpus, like Common Crawl, can be more effective than manually building a small Gazeeter of named entities.
> shouldn't these two simply be in prison right now?

Compare and contrast with Shkreli sentencing. Some animals are more equal than others.
On the other side of the coin, perhaps this will encourage others to follow suit.
Well he did mouth off to congress. Once that happened they were always IMHO going to dig until they got him on something.
I'd like to see a time-lapse video of that :)
I see lots of ICO ads on Instagram, which uses Facebook's ad network. Probably they banned them only on Facebook, not in their ad network completely, or just lots of ads left unbanned.

Also lots of russian money scam ads posted from temporary accounts, this may be explanation why ICOs aren't banned too: they ban, but new ads are posted again and again.
Martin Shkreli was, honest to god, an idiot. He got several chances to "kiss the ring" and show remorse, and what did he do? He put some extra oil on the fire and kept acting like an idiot until the very last moment. Sometimes you need to realise when to fold and suck it up.
I work in a Hedge Fund: my first reaction reading this article was to wonder how someone can be so stupid to even try something like that. Then I read your comment and realize that in fact, the rest of the world (people not in Finance) actually think that you can get away with this. He probably thought that everybody is doing it, so why not? Well, turns out that no, you can't do that, and yes, you can and will get prosecuted for it.

So no message sent to Wall Street, we got that memo a long long time ago. Geeks thinking they know everything and disregarding all regulations, however, should take a long, hard look at it. Finance and anything touching it (like securities, which most crypto-currencies are) is very very very heavily regulated.
I am always impressed at how people can buy a fully functional computer for $35. That said, as an engineer I often cringe at the compromises made. Like "Gigabit Ethernet over USB 2.0". Since the top bit rate of USB2.0 is 480Mbps and GbE is 1250Mbps, USB 2 only has about 1/3 the bit rate to support it.

Now it will be faster than 10/100 ethernet connections but don't expect to send a 100 megabytes/second through it.
The title on the PayPal list itself reads "List of Third Parties (other than PayPal Customers) with Whom Personal Information May be Shared."

If that's true, this is just the "worst case" scenario - you are very unlikely to hit any significant fraction of these companies for any single given transaction.

Or so I hope.
Just because people do it doesn't mean he isn't right about it being ridiculous.
SEC doesn't put people in prison, it can refer to Justice Department for prosecution. Whether it does or not, depends on the circumstances of the case. They prefer quick resolution rather than years of litigation.
> However, the researchers note that further research is required to confirm the clock-like spin rate is a universal trait of disk galaxies and not just a result of selection bias

Exactly, and that's why the article's title is misleading and clickbaity. The article also basically copies the press release [0] line for line.

Still, if this is true that's a pretty groundbreaking discovery.

Perhaps we are witnessing a previously undetected force at work, one that operates on much larger scales with much larger masses.

[0] https://www.icrar.org/cosmic-clocks/
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The Seven-Year Itch: How Apple’s Marriage to Siri Turned Sour
SEC charges former Equifax CIO with insider trading related to last years breach
https://www.quora.com/Where-did-we-go-wrong-Why-didnt-Common...

In the above answer to a question in Quora, he seems to suggest that most of the features in lisp eventually got adopted in most other mainstream languages. Or in other words the concept of 'acceptable lisp'.

I get what you are saying, and I feel the same way. But I think what people try to imply here- If you are using Lisp for a certain set of features, most of them are now available else where.
on a somewhat tangential note, how on earth did they secure that domain? Surely buying it would cost a fairly large fraction of that $15M investment if they were to have done it at market rates.
Show HN: Light weight and portable development environments with Coffer
Now, "Dude" - that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
Agreed, we've updated the headline here.
A Pilgrimage to the Ancient Phallus Monastery
Busy day for the SEC!
Here's the danger of "Fake it till you make it."
It is now, but for a long time investors lamented Amazons self investment and long-term outlooks.
What is the black bar at the top of Hacker News?
Is there a CSS issue going on, or is this an intentional design change?
C is significantly more complex than Java. The memory model of Java is simple (multithreading notwithstanding), because it's memory-safe and garbage collected. Not so for C, which has very subtle rules, which result in undefined behavior if broken.
The OP is saying problems exist before even deployment concerns:

> even if it actually starts working nobody really knows how to deploy such an app on another computer (especially if it runs a different kind of OS) correctly.

emphasis mine.

(and portability could obviously be solved the same way it was in Python: ship sqlite as part of the core system)
Alternative take: it's disgusting and offensive to the foundational concept of blind justice that punishment is more highly correlated with charisma and obsequiousness to judges than it is to actual crimes committed.
Well, Holmes and Balwani didn't actively and loudly antagonize most of the country.

Most rich criminals know that when you scoff at the law, you should do it quietly.
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What punishment would that be?

People inside the company sold right before the dip. That is a fact.

Seems like you are arguing they should be free of consequences. We judge people on their actions all the time, it is difficult to know their intentions.

Other people have to be on the otherside of that trade. It’s publically good to know there are possible untrustworthy actors in a company, especially when it is extremely difficult to prove white collar crimes
f0lio for iOS is finally here (with some freebie)
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Honestly, it just hadn't occurred to me at all that DNS was the only thing stopping a blackhat from generating valid certs and siphoning or modifying traffic without anyone's knowledge. And users literally can't stop this other than to only accept EV certs, breaking most of the web. This is pretty nutty.

At the very least, a public key in WHOIS should be required to generate certs. Why in the world isn't this being done? And is there some way Let's Encrypt can start checking for this (to not issue invalid certs for domains that do list a public key), so maybe the above insanity can be stemmed?
See what I have listed is coming from my personal experience. I am not reiterating anything seen or heard anywhere just to be contrarian. I have struggled for more than a year with various doctors across two countries.

My thinking not against diagnostic but clumping a broad range of symptoms which affects life very differently is just lazy.
Pussy Pass.

Ask Skillrelli.
Now I can't un-see it... thanks! :|
I can't possibly know for any certainty, but is it possible this girl was abused? I know first hand normal and reasonable children will go crazy (simplified description) after trauma. And it doesn't just go away after time, some effects stick around forever or until they are faced and overcome. And even then it's hard to behave normally. (ie, massive amounts of anger and frustration but no way to relieve the pain)

It may do a great disservice to someone who is really suffering to get the label sociopath or psychopath undeservedly. But I also know there are people (I personally have dealt with) that just want to destroy you, and hate everyone...
Here's the complaint: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-4...
As a counterargument, here's a reddit thread about CA small claims case that (possibly?) got appealed to a higher court: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/7h9tn2/i_sued_...

I haven't parsed through the updates so I don't know what the current status is, but I remember the consensus being that this guy was fucked if Equifax actually was able to drag this into a 'real' court. So, YMMV.
I've commented several times before that I consider "C" and "C with analysis backing" to be in practice two different languages. SQLite is the latter: https://sqlite.org/testing.html

Writing SQLite in "plain C" without all that would, well, simply not work.

I agree that "C with analysis backing" is the best language for SQLite right now. However, it should not be used as an example of "How C is a great language for programming in" unless you are also planning on skillfully using a very significant subset of the tools listed in that document. SQLite doesn't prove C is great; it demonstrates how much additional scaffolding is necessary to wrap around C to get that level of quality, and given the quantity and diversity of tools we are talking about, it is not particularly complimentary to "plain C".
I love C for system-level coding. As mentioned in OP, you don't need to study much about language implementation e.g. how GC works, the internal structure of objects. You have the control of every espect of system and that's why Linus prefer C over C++.

But I have to admit that the biggest downside of programming in C is people make their projects complicated. I saw some projects that have compilcated Makefile build systems and have hidden definitions. The worst part is that they leave these hidden stuff UNDOCUMENTED. This is often very frustrating when contributing open source projects.
I love learning and reading about the technology behind some of my favorite features. Motion Photos (and Apple's version as well) has been one of the biggest "I didn't know I wanted this" features on modern smartphones for me.

I've taken a lot of pictures of my dogs over the years but the pure joy I had when one of the first photos I took with my new phone turned into a looping 1 second video was surprising to me. I'm really looking forward to this summer when I get to take too many photos of my new kid.

Now if only I could directly upload these to Instagram without having to manually loop them...
Maybe because the docs are good enough and easy to understand. I can't remember if I ever looked up things on SO for Vue.
>Prices in Denmark would go down, or Pfizer profits would go down, both would be bad.

I'm struggling to see what's so bad about reduced drug prices and reduced profits for a large corporation which doesn't, to put it lightly, always play fair.

> Of course drug companies "hate negotiating with large parties"--because countries can exercise monopsony power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony.

Monopsony means single customer - hence mono. As in 1. If Pfizer wants to not sell to Denmark and sell to every other country in the world - of which there are several - it is completely free to do that.
It's a mark of respect when someone known to the community or highly respected by the community passes away. Prof. Stephen Hawking has died today.
I wish we could do this to politicians, once caught in lie and fraud, bar them from taking any public office for 10 yrs :).

I agree she got away lightly.
Awesome. Congrats on the launch. If you're giving away all these Amazon gift cards, how are you making money?
It's a memorial to Stephen hawking.
Take a TV from a truck that's left open behind a warehouse; get months if not years in jail.

Deliberately commit fraud for years and steal millions and millions of dollars; slap on the wrist.

Our system is so ridiculous.
> The language specs is 700-page long, I wouldn't call that tiny

To be fair, that now includes a substantial standard library. The language + preprocessor spec ends on page 197 and starts on page 19, for a total of 178 pages.
Rust has no runtime... so... not sure what you mean by that.
Has this actually happened to you or any of your acquaintances?

The retail-dispute resolution clauses of most credit agreements are very biased towards the consumer. If you can document that you made at least one good-faith effort at resolving the issue yourself before requesting that the credit issuer handle it for you, then the retailer has to overcome the presumption that the customer is always right in the arbitration.

As it's all about the money and private agreements, it is always possible that someone who has more of it than you could use it to buy a more favorable outcome. But it is also very unlikely that anyone would ever see a criminal indictment over credit fraud before the damages exceed thousands of dollars. No credit company wants to lose customers because they got a reputation for grassing on their customers, but they would want to discourage their petty frauds--they know they have some, with statistical certainty--from growing worse by occasionally prosecuting the worst of the grand frauds.

If HSBC can knowingly launder drug money, and Wells Fargo can knowingly open fake accounts, a credit bank can knowingly screw the retailer when one of their credit customers does a bogus chargeback just because the cashier was rude at the checkout.

I won't say bogus chargebacks are not a problem, but there is a threshold below which it does not negatively affect the revenue of the bank, so no one there will be paid to care about it. A computer program might evaluate it. It might get randomly selected for human auditing. And most people are mostly honest, so the fraud rate would still be low, even if no one policed it more than a token amount. The credit banks's mission isn't to catch the frauds; it's to make money. So they catch just the right amount of frauds in order to make the most money.
That was not a valid example:

$ perl -c /tmp/test.pl
Missing right curly or square bracket at /tmp/test.pl line 1, at end of
line
syntax error at /tmp/test.pl line 1, at EOF
/tmp/test.pl had compilation errors.
$ cat /tmp/test.pl
!@77 {{} #!@3 = ++ 90 x (%}[.
The hilarious thing was that when I worked at Amazon, the majority of Amazonians I met thought Amazon was a Retail company...
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Opioids don't need marketing. Opioid aficionados will seek them out at great expense and difficulty. In a sense, that's good, because the question of appropriate pain management is complicated enough even without considering marketing. Physicians who didn't know that opioids were addictive before prescribing them weren't victims of irresponsible marketing; they were poor physicians. That isn't to say that pain shouldn't be treated, rather it is to say that treating pain is difficult and we've done a poor job so far. Part of that is vilification of opioid users, part of it is abdicating all decisions to physicians. When I was 13yo I was capable of saying "no I don't need another shot of Demerol" while barely conscious in a hospital bed. Just the same, as long as I live, I will never forget the first two shots I did receive. They were that great. But that isn't pharma; we've used opioids for centuries.

When economic historians of the future consider the current era's pharma industry, they will marvel at how much money was spent for how little benefit. The cure to cancer will not come from pharma. (Quite possibly from biotech, but that's a different thing.) The incentives are wrong: cures are less valuable than indefinite treatments. Look how much they have to charge for the hep C cure. If that were a mere treatment, they could amortize their "research costs" over a lifetime. Even better than treatments that work are treatments that might work. One poor suffering patient might be prescribed 15 such, multiple times a day for the rest of her life.

Still, for many hep C sufferers even an expensive cure is a good thing. Many other conditions respond in agreeable ways to some medicines for some patients some of the time. Maybe the research costs too much for some of them. One suspects that a more rational FDA process could cut costs for most drugs, but no one who would benefit from that has any control over the process itself. The whole edifice is a bit monstrous. Just the same, if the golden goose requires drug marketing, do we really want to do away with drug marketing?
It comes down to basic human decency. Of which he has none. And that does not make him very likeable. You can raise drug prices like he did and do it in a moral way. He was basically laughing in people's faces about what he did.

I agree courts, juries and judges are to be neutral, but a person like him just ends up getting under most people's skin. Even if there was no rational decision to go hard on him, I wouldn't be surprised if people subconsciously make that decision.
Have you seen Beijing's subway? I travelled to and from work off hours, so I would go to work around 6:30 and come home around 3:30-4, taking the taxi to and from each day was totally feasible and affordable. Even in peak traffic, you still might win in a taxi vs. a subway depending on where you are going. When the whole system melts down, sure, take the subway as a last resort.
On the face of it this looks like a USS Liberty style false flag. It would make sense if, once again, Israel is facing enemies on its doorstep and is looking draw others into the conflict to come to their defence.

The novichok agents are not that hard to make and many labs around the world have the capability and the research licences to make it. The factors tying them to Russia would be trace chemicals, similar to how you can trace gold. It'll be easy to lie about the origin so long as no-one else has access to the chemicals to test them.

Theresa May is a very weak position politically. The industrial size gang rape cover ups that came out recently didn't help. The ongoing Brexit negotiation failures are not helping. It's only a matter of time before she's replaced. Picking a fight with Russia makes her look stronger. If you want another laugh, consider that the UK thinks it has a 'special relationship' with the US which will allow them to get a favourable trading deal afterwards.

Until I see more evidence, e.g. play by play surveillance, I will remain unconvinced.
It's extremely unreliable on the Pi 3. I gave up on full diskless (cardless?) boot and just put u-boot on an SD card.
I don't think "stability" and "changing rapidly" are incompatible notions. Stability implies that code written today continues to work years from now on later versions of the compiler and language. Rust has always (well, since 1.0) striven to provide stability in that sense, despite the rapid pace of language improvement.
With an average 13-15k miles a year, at 20-30mpg that's about 400-750 gallons a year, or $1000-$2000 a year in gas, leaving the vast majority of expense in deprecation and maintenence.
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If you are convicted for drug trafficking or plead guilty to it, any asset that you can't prove you received through other legal means is likely to be subject to seizure.
I worked with the author on getting it published and the code is on GitHub (linked from the post) for people to try it out, sorry if that doesn't meet the requirements. Should I have posted the Github link directly?
Ok, this is the money line in that press release for me:

“The charges against Theranos, Holmes, and Balwani make clear that there is no exemption from the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws simply because a company is non-public, development-stage, or the subject of exuberant media attention.”

For all those entrepreneurs are trying to "fake it until you make it" be aware that the SEC considers your strategy both fraudulent and they feel they have the jurisdiction to prosecute you. And while I doubt the SEC is going to go after every CEO that raised a Series A on a pitch deck that was pure fantasy, the people who participated in the round might bring them in if it served their purposes.
Thanks for the question!

We're not making $ right now. Our goal is to learn what users want from a game standpoint before monetizing.

Eventually, we'll look to monetize through in-app virtual goods or tangential products focused on sports betting in the US market, should it be legalized (lots of movement right now in New Jersey)
There are other correlations like being rich and having connections.
Maybe a better more accurate title would be "Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos charged with fraud".
In the last 18 years or so I've been reading kottke.org, I don't think a single day has gone by without finding something delightful or fascinating.

It's the best site on the internet.
Could be an artifact of the preconditions required for the formation of disk galaxies.
Is Holmes still rich after this? I can't tell just how much of her wealth she's being forced to return in form of shares.
This will hopefully spur the company to lobby congress for government identification that is NOT the social security number, and in keeping with modern standards of information security, so that they can limit damages.
You can charge batteries using hydro power. You can't (economically) produce hydrocarbon fuel using it, though.
Practical Bruteforce Attacks in Web Applications and Web Services
I'm always so impressed with the supply chain of the Raspberry PI foundation. I woke up today, saw the HN story, and during lunch went to a local store and picked one up. I live in a small-ish town in Sweden. I know it's not like a iPhone release or whatever, but still impressive that they manage to get it out to my local store on release day.