skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Drug makers have no incentive to see them.

Drug makers aren't the people looking, the regulators are.

Here in the UK, the medicines regulator operates an open reporting system for adverse drug effects. Any patient or healthcare professional can make a report of an adverse drug event, no matter how minor. The collected data is publicly available in anonymised summary form. 110 countries share detailed reports of adverse drug events through the WHO VigiBase, which is monitored for risk signals by a dedicated team at the Uppsala Monitoring Centre. Potential safety problems are then fed back to national regulators.

All of this reporting apparatus was put in place after the thalidomide disaster. It's designed as an extremely sensitive early-warning system to detect subtle or rare adverse events. For the most part, it works. I'd suggest taking a look at the WHO Pharmaceuticals Newsletter, which shows how this information sharing works in practice.

https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/
https://www.who-umc.org/vigibase/vigibase/
http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/WHO-Pharmaceutical...
trying to read around wtv font they used feels like my field of vision's being drawn and quartered.
I used R to create a method to reconcile investment accounts' position cost basis in locally installed Quicken versus the cost basis per my brokerage's online website.

Some minor manual effort required.

The effort turned up a systemic weakness across the whole of the US for stock position transfers when a dividend is retroactively reclassed as return of capital. At an individual level, this system problem causes tax obligation calculation errors. Repeat this across all taxpayers who transferred such stocks in the first 1-3 months of a year.
"VoIP" is a generic term in this case as they mean numbers that can be rented online by a customer directly, with little to no identity checks - sadly those are often used for fraud, though outright denying service on this basis alone is a dick move IMO.

Pretty much all telephony is VoIP for at least parts of the call chain, though there are still even analog circuits in place; here are some numbers that lead to analog switching gear: http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php?/topic/48166-ukrainia...
Even After a Tumble, the Stock Market's Price Isn't Right
It might be because of the crazy hiring spree they are just beginning to curb
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/amazon-is-cutting-hundreds...
"SQLite in your shell" would be a catchy title :-)
why would anyone do that with bitcoin when they can buy USD and avoid all the problems that come with btc (scamming, losing, price variation, etc)?

Inflation here merely depends on USD exchange rate to VEF, thats it.

If i need to "protect myself" (and I do) all i do is open facebook, find someone selling USD in a BOfA account, give them my zelle email wait for the money and transfer them VEF in regular venezualan banks accounts (instant transfers).

USD >>>>>>>> BTC anytime in terms of "protection agains inflation".
Pardon the blunt question, but why are you still there?
They apparently work developers to the bone and use they’re name to easily backfill with above average talent.
> Oh, I see. Thanks for clarifying! You mentioned it was merged. Does this mean it'll land in stable soon?

It has been merged into the master branch, which'll become PostgreSQL 11. First beta will be in a few weeks. Release is planned to be in September (early I'd hope).

> Will it be behind a flag, or does the planner just know when to use it?

There's cost based logic that chooses it, yes. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/jit-decision.ht...

You can change those if you want to force JIT on/off.
Shark Tank Like Contests Flourish at Business Schools
Impagliazzo and Rudich proved that one can't build PKE from one-way functions:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Russell_Impagliazzo/pub...
The right way to fix corruption is to make the state transparent - RTI was a right step in this direction. Opening up the citizen to the state feels like progress, but isn't really.
This implementation of DBT sounds crazy.

If the market price of wheat is Rs. 30, and the old system was that the ration shop used to sell it at Re. 1 + the ration coupon, then the value of the coupon was Rs. 29.

If the new system was that you put Rs. 29 into everyone's bank account, then well maybe the ATM is a longer walk than the shop etc. But if the new system is to give people only Re. 1 then no wonder there's a riot!

Am I reading your [1] correctly? The problem is a 30-fold reduction in subsidy, not a new delivery infrastructure?
You can do anything illegally but you also have to be ready for the consequences. Obtaining a PAN using forged documents has just a 10000 rupee penalty but obtaining Aadhaar card illegally will put you in prison for 3 years. Those who are obtaining Aadhaar illegally are setting themselves up for even greater trouble as their biometrics is forever stored with the GoI. Illegal immigrants will have to think twice before going down that route as once discovered will completely block their ability to legally enter India ever again (apart from a lengthy jail term and subsequent deportation).

1. http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/illegal-bangla...

2. http://www.tribuneindia.com/mobi/news/jammu-kashmir/communit...

3. https://m.indiatimes.com/news/india/here-is-why-you-should-n...
Impagliazzo and Rudich proved that one can't construct PKE from one way functions in a black box manner:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Russell_Impagliazzo/pub...
Language deprivation experiments
I was just wondering why the leave of Brian Acton would change anything significantly.

Besides that I would never touch WhatsApp. The fact that they hand your phone number over to facebook is one of many reasons to stay far away of this messenger.
Google Docs and OpenOffice think so.
I don't think we need a system of phone numbers at all - IPv6 by itself can already do that.

The biggest roadblock there is that the scammy telco industry's entire business model is based on charging through the ass for what is essentially a 8kbps voice channel. Doing calls via IP would cut that revenue stream and would put a lot of irrelevant people out of a job so it'll be very hard to succeed, though I fully support the idea - it's complete heresy that I can download a 1GB file across the Atlantic for pretty much free but a 12 hour call that would total maybe 40MB would cost a ton.
Nice to see modafinil getting a mention. I've found it to be near-miraculous as a fast acting antidepressant that helps combat the cognitive downsides of other meds.
That’s true for most things. While everyone thought Google Drive or One Drive or Some other drive company will kill Dropbox because making syncing storage isn’t rocket science, they were wrong.

A nimble team of people focused on solving one core problem, whose entire livelihood depends on it working well, triumphs the giants.

We can assume Microsoft and Google has enough middle management that they’ll fk it up along the way for sure. Too many agendas and failure doesn’t mean much.

Therefore it’s in the best interest of giants to acquire companies that fit their mission and scale them with their marketing power. YouTube, Android, docs, are all good plays by google.
I've also rarely received accurate advice regarding the likely effects and side-effects of anti-depressants - but I think calling brain zaps a 'risk' is a bit much. Maybe my zaps were nicer than yours, but I don't remember them being particularly painful - except one time I fell in the shower.

Anti-depressants, especially something like venlafaxine, are strong meds for a strong condition. It would be surprising if they had no side effects - and honestly, if you go to a psychiatrist instead of a normal doctor, you usually get a dose that's fine-tuned to the extent that you don't get them.
And, it's still finite, right? Just a large, finite number :P
You keep saying "professional" as if that means anything here.

The professionals that without any evidence promoted the low-serotonin theory of depression. Who, after over a decade of prescribing SSRI's finally admitted that low serotonin doesn't cause depression. Yeah, those professionals. They don't know what causes depression yet they're happy to keep prescribing drugs. But it's the "self-medicating new age hippies" that are irresponsible?
I'm not sure I quite understand how this is going to fight corruption. How are you going to track money that's being moved illegally? Presumably, nobody is going to be doing this under their Aadhaar card; it's all going to be in cash. Plus, how would you even access Aadhaar card information to audit this? Are you going to call up the government and ask for them to check Modi's card to make sure he hasn't been stealing money?
Kubrick probably had no idea who he was, from the sound of it. Moorcock says "I prepared to meet the man who had contacted me a year or so earlier," implying that they had never met face-to-face but only spoken on the phone or through Kubrick's people.
French supermarket introduces ugly fruits and vegetables to combat food waste
Thank you. I misunderstood.
Couldn't OP have replaced the last comma with an ampersand?
We already know why signatures are important. It's just that existing constructions are insecure against quantum computers, and so we're looking for constructions that are plausibly secure against them; hash-based signatures are one such construction.
>>A well functioning state needs to be a strong (sorry libertarians) and benign (cf. Somalia and North Korea) to take care of its citizens.

I don't think a state being strong contradicts libertarian principles. It's the state being expansive that is anti-liberty.

A strong state that limits itself to core functions (e.g. prosecuting those who resort to aggressive violence, in order to replace the law of the jungle with the law of the market) can potentially result in the most 'libertarian' possible society.

>>In a weak state like India, the local entities are thoroughly corrupt. A blue eyed/blond 6.5 foot viking can get a birth certificate in an indian province where most citizens are under 5.5 foot and caramel colored for less than a hundred dollars.

I don't think the identification system or biometric data linked to it is the main problem. The question is why it's made mandatory to use for nongovernmental services if the purpose is just to prevent people from defrauding the government?

Clearly it goes far beyond corruption of government programs.
Yes, Juan and community have done a good job with Cuis. Cuis is a fork of Squeak same as Pharo, and all three use the same OpenSmalltalk-VM. Both forks arose to deal with a large technical debt in different ways. Cuis has been paring back class sizes while Pharo has been focused on a full source-code only bootstrap from a null-Image (i.e. no carried over state in an Image, that is one of Smalltalk's typical criticisms), replacing old subsystems, as well as adding new features. I'd say Pharo is more ambitious and we are starting to see the payoffs for this.

btw, which was the CUIS prototype framework you used?
There should be little reason it couldn't be made to run on Pharo.
If only when googling “sql on csv” this comments page would show up first.
It was actually a celebrated science fiction author, and friend of Arthur C. Clark, who wrote the article, not a journalist.
Yup. Even spaces are allowed if you put double quotes around the local part: “Kevin Spacey”@example.com. It’s really surprising, there’s very little that can be verified if you strictly follow the RFC.
dots-don't-matter isn't sufficient to fix this issue - any other canonicalization issues would surfacea as the same problem. That might include casing, unicode issues, the `+irrelevantsuffix` stuff, and probably more, including perhaps any kind of aliases in the hostname.

The idea that you can tell whether two accounts are the same is questionable; netflix should not be relying on it.

Furthermore, the hack is possibly much less serious (but nonetheless conceivable) even without any canonicalization issues whatsoever. Apparently, a user can trick netflix into sending email to arbitrary email addresses. Sure, this is likely not to be an issue if the recipient doesn't have netflix in the first place - but if you try 1000 times (which spammers and phishers are wont to do) - you may well happen to hit a person that'll pay nonetheless - perhaps they forgot which email they used for netflix in the first place, or perhaps they share an email account, or perhaps the real owner is dead/on vacation/otherwise unavailable and somebody else is tending the account and thus more gullible than usual.

Netflix should never ask for money from random strangers without making 100% clear what the context of that request is.

(If indeed this article is accurate, because I wouldn't rule out the chance that the author made some oversight earlier).
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>Stephen King is publicly critical of Kubrick's treatment of "The Shining", mostly about its unchanging and one-dimensional characters.

It's not like King is some king of nuance in characters himself...
What you are looking for is APL and it's descendents. While you are at it find the paper, "notation as a tool of thought"
At 6000% inflation, your $100 worth of bolivar will be worth ~$1.66 at the end of the year. If bitcoin ends up the year down 90% (not unreasonable), it's worth $10. Sure that's more than $1.66 by a lot. But if you bought USD instead and heald that, it would be worth $98 or so.

Bitcoin's valuation is too unstable at the present to be a good store of value. This is going to be doubly the case if inflation has already destroyed your savings: you need highly liquid, highly fungible reserves, and things like gold or bitcoin are just simply not up to that task.
Minimum wage is ~915,000 VEF thats less than 3$

University teacher (my mom) does ~4,000,000 VEF thats 10$

Wages and salaries in venezuela suck as you can see, there is no way that a salary is over 50$ a month for regular Venezuelans.

I dont see this guy buying 3$ worth of bitcoin monthly, this is probally a made up story or the guy is into those shaddy business that I named in the root post.

Once again, regular venezuelans can't afford to buy bitcoins, its even more expensive than USD.
Yes, I explained the similarities. Aadhaar is a core part of the 'India Stack', which is closely connected to the 'cashless' propaganda during the demonetization disaster.

Aadhaar was already flawed as a concept when it was introduced but over the last year there have been sudden mandates to link it to everything. Which makes it far more dangerous. We need to scale it back.
It seemed that there was a past where every town and village would have an executioner or hangman. I did not know they were outcasts though, with a system for that.

The funniest is the American guy who did the Germans at Nuremberg, he blagged the job and probably botched it really, making those poor Germans have even more misery than afforded by a clean execution. He was not from any genuine background of family profession.
Going by your example, the government deposits Rs. 29 into the account. The beneficiary has to pay Rs. 1 and withdraw the rest from bank.
After the time you invest in massaging the data the CRA wants, I’m curious if you would’ve come out ahead with a mature broker (at ~$5/trade).
Asking the host carrier nicely via SS7.

> Hey I'm one of your roaming partners and this phone here is roaming on my network, can you send me their calls & texts?

> Sure mate, here they are, enjoy!
Hold on. How can the mafia, or government for that matter, systematically stop people from mining small amounts crypto (possibly arbitraging a huge gulf between electricity prices and USD exchange rates)?

Other than the electricity cost how can they find you? People have found many more clever ways to hide economic activity in dangerous situations (see black markets in North Korea).

I thought the whole point of cryptocurrencies was to exactly to get around this central control. If this wasn't possible, it’s an unfortunate and interesting example of how bitcoins ideologies don’t work in reality.

Edit: Huh, what's with the downvotes?
I'd hardly say that this meta analysis is definitive, but useful.

Here is a recent meta analysis suggesting not much more than placebo.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592645/

I'm the study you referenced, did you notice if they compared it to active placebo or just placebo? It seemed they did an 8 week eval which is still within the 3 month window in which active placebo seems to be at work.

Also, why would we want people to be less likely to stop using antidepressants (if I read your comment correctly).
prepaid SIM card (in the US), I bought it on eBay

This is highly unusual now. For instance most countries in Europe will now need to see your passport to enable a SIM card. So India isn't an outlier. The stated reason, I believe, is terrorism. Whether this is Orwellian I leave for you to decide.
I guess it depends on the taste of the developer. I really enjoy seeing newcomers posting in the mail list saying that Pharo makes "programming fun again".

But Pharo is all about the deep integration of the tooling. Its what facilitates such a tight Code->Compile->Run->Debug cycle. It can take a while for the penny to drop. If you do a drive-by taste of Pharo you probably didn't get chance to really get into the flow.

Some say... "The only programming languages worth learning are those that change the way you think about programming." And Pharo/Smalltalk tooling does that.
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You're reading it wrong. You get 29 INR in your bank account, and add another 1 INR to pay 30 to the subsidy to the shop.

But while earlier it was just a walk to the shop and getting your ration card stamped, now you must:

1. Go to your bank (which may not even have a branch in your village)

2. Hope that the network is up

3. Confirm that the money has reached your account. If not, go home and retry (1) on another day

4. Withdraw the money and then go buy your ration at the subsidy shop

Edit: This the relevant quote from the article:

>Earlier, people would take their ration cards [...] and be able to purchase rice at Re 1/kg, with each member of a priority household allotted five kg. Now, [...] – money is first transferred into each household’s Aadhaar-linked bank account. They have to then withdraw this as cash, take it to the local ration dealer and buy rice at Rs 32/kg – of which Re 1/kg comes from the ration card holder [and the rest comes from the subsidy that you withdraw as cash].
What do you mean by it does not scale well? number of users using it or size of the project?
The app should use mutually exclusive colors for the visualizations to communicate the right and intended information.
Amazon Japan and Amazon China are the only ones that have separate accounts from the rest of the Amazon sites.
Only times typing speed really comes in handy for me is when its almost the end of the work day and I want to finish one bit while its fresh in my mind or during programming competitions where it really adds an advantage. Most times I'm doing more contemplative coding.
What's your service called?
What do you mean "other than the electricity"? Isn't that enough?
Am I the only one who thinks this is a total non-issue? Neither Google, nor Netflix screwed up. Only the guy who wrote this ridiculous blog post.

This is very difficult to exploit and the most you could gain is a Netflix subscription. This is an incredibly complicated form of phishing which is entirely mitigated by the fact that it is difficult to execute for essentially zero return.

You have to be truly delusional to think that someone would waste their time trying to perform this attack when they could instead download a public sentryMBA profile and get hundreds of working accounts in seconds.
We don't really know how antidepressants work. We don't know how a lot of drugs work. Nobody knows why acetaminophen (paracetamol) cures your headache. Knowing how a drug works is useful but not essential; modern medicine relies on hundreds of drugs with unknown mechanisms of action.
it should be at worst episodic.

Except it's not for large groups of people. And for anyone with a history of multiple episodes, the long ramp up time needed for antidepressants is extremely risky to try an "as needed" approach.
(i think you meant to reply to bjterry 's comment)

> You may not realize that the author of this article is a well known serial entrepreneur

Who wrote:

"Perhaps we can all learn something from the creative geniuses at Dahir Insaat. They refused to accept traditional approaches, choosing instead to break free from dogma in favor or progress. They embraced today’s advanced technology, shunned conventional wisdom, and invented a bold, new, innovative approach that creates a geometric boost in value."

About learning from a company that has not built anything, and has only created some flashy videos.
But way, way more volatile than USD, EUR, or any currency of a neighboring country, as well as being much harder to buy anything with.
What leak exactly? What do anyone achieve by getting your number? Does this outweigh it benefits?

Now you want India to stop subsiding poor? Do you even know the level difference between US and India. And history of political/economic systems?

And who should be making solutions, Internet warriors like you ? Comparing US, then bend over and gives his DNA to get a tourist visa. Hay, I gave it voluntary !
I would love to see Microsoft release a Windows skinned Android phone which comes with all the Office apps, etc, but natively supports all the Android apps.

This would then help consumers transition to a Microsoft future. It would however be a blow to the Windows mobile operating system but that ship may have already sailed.
Plus much of the database has leaked.

Honest question: how much does this matter?

For instance, I believe in Denmark your ID number is simply not a secret at all, no more than your name. While in the US, your SSN & address basically seems to let any crook empty your bank account.
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