skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turing Pharma (Shkreli's company) only raised the price for insurance companies. If you could not afford it, you were provided it for free or at a steep discount.

The outrage at Shkreli is misdirected. Be outraged at the system, not someone acting rationally within the system. If you're upset drugs are too expensive, argue and work towards non-profit manufacturing. If drugs aren't profitable, they cannot be manufactured. Equipment, technicians, supply chains, and FDA regulatory compliance all cost money.
Google just doesn't act like it used to, I'm glad people have woken up to the fact that it is just another faceless corporation, more faceless than most really.
Sarcastic humor, but the fact of the matter is that Uber has a history of ignoring inconvenient laws, and the FAA really doesn't approve of "move fast and break things" in their jurisdiction.
Have we seen any actual enforcement of the "cookie law" on non-EU entities (or even on EU entities?)

If you're not physically in the EU and run a service platform, could you just ignore it until you get hit with a notice?

I'm really puzzled at how the EU realistically thinks they can enforce these types of restrictions on an international scale.
Close reading of text for information is a dying skill.

If it can't be stated in 120 characters or presented as an animation, you've lost a big part of your audience.
> I think great great gp is using "feel[ing] happier" in the sense of achieving higher baseline happiness, not maximizing the "happiness level" of an instant.

I might be misreading who you mean by "great great gp", but I don't think scottie_m thinks that google is raising the happiness baseline. At least that's not how I interpret

> it’s enough for the perception to exist without the reality for Google’s purposes.

Anyway, that's enough speculation about speculation for me for one day.
As an early adopter of CoreOS, paid Tectonic user, I find this distressing, disappointing, and it leaves me wondering where I can turn.

This is the opposite direction of what RedHat should have done.

I was hoping this was a acquisition to move RedHat's technology stack moving forward and instead it's one to move an innovative and solid platform backward.

Acquire, assimilate and kill off competition, just like other RedHat acquisitions before it. :(
Justice is blind?
He was convicted in the court of public opinion for jacking up pharma prices.

He was convicted in actual court of securities fraud.
I guess if you don't understand the problem behind decentralization you can say stuff like that...
Those libraries are usually included in the APK. More specifically in the /include folder? Depending on the APK, it might have a x86, or arm version. Then its just a matter of reversing the library.
> The US military has sunk $50 Billion dollars into this problem over the last 30 years and still aren't there.

I suppose by "this problem" you referred to tilt-rotor technology. If so V-22 is combat ready, and has been deployed since 2007. Not sure what "still aren't there" means.

The next generation, Bell V-280 is in active development and already made the first flight [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_V-280_Valor
The issue is more the licensing and initial inspections rather than actual production.

And I'm a big fan of these inspections. As bad as some of our prescription distribution is, it's nothing compared to India/China and their customer nations. You're borderline lucky to get the right drug, that's been manufactured to spec, and has been stored properly.
This kind of thinking is wrong, stupid and dangerous. Yes we still pay $750. If someone's insurance pays $750 for a pill then all the people on that policy will end up paying it. This is true whether these people use one of the ACA insurance plans or not.

Saying "oh duh medical billing is just so complicated and convoluted, i guess the money just comes out of the ether." is wrong. It is actually not that complicated. If a drug company charges medical insurance companies really high prices, all people that pay medical insurance (even those not using that particular drug) end up paying these high prices through their premiums.
More than one SOAP interface that I encountered in "enterprise" systems consisted basically of:

string DoStuff(string params)

Where the response and params are strings containing XML documents :-)
if i put it to a freezer for a few minutes then I can boot it up, the it gets warm and shut down on its own in about 1 minute.

I do have a heat gun, never got a time to pry open the case and try that fix.
I'm going to offer a full website proxy service for a small price so the external JS isn't needed and hopefully these cases can be mitigated.

But surely it is dubious (another reason to fear and dislike the GDPR as it is) if a visitor is actively bypassing website contents and features - effectively changing the website - and that makes the website liable.

It's like if I have a browser extension that rewrites landing page contents to racial offenses, then I browse landing pages, get offended by them all and sue the websites.
a few years back i learned that glassdoor was co-founded by Rich Barton who founded both Zillow and Expedia (another interesting fact I didn't know until then: Expedia was a MS spin-off, Rich Barton built in-house at MS and then Gates and Ballmer gave the blessing to go on their own) - he's also a partner at Benchmark.

Never loved glassdoor but find it useful on a regular basis when hiring (esp. as one data point for comp comparisons when hiring in tech) and seems to fill a need that isn't served elsewhere (essentially yelp for HR, serving both sides), but it's not-very-sexy design made a lot more sense when I thought of it in the lineage of the majorly successful but also not-very-sexily-designed expedia/zillow. in any case, impressive for Barton to have so many successful businesses/exits and still be relatively under-the-radar compared to other comparable founders (maybe because he's based in SEA), definitely someone to follow for those who like to keep track of serial entrepreneurs.
Between that and delivering different responses to curl|sh vs a browser or regular curl [1] you’d think this kind of bullshittery would be abandoned, but no.

1: https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
Someone needs to maintain that API; update it with the schedule of the stylists or update it for holiday hours, or remove availability for bookings done the old fashioned way.
There's enough outrage to go around.
Privacy Aspects of the Cashless and Checkless Society. Testimony before the Senate Subcommitee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. Paul Armer 1968

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2013/P3822...
I think the person you are responding to might have been talking about those who speak the language Scots, not just Scottish people.

Many consider Scots to be an actual language separate from English. There's a good amount of debate about this among linguists, I think.

For anyone curious, I recommend reading these pages from the recent Scots translation of the first Harry Potter book to get a feel for how it differs from English.

https://imgur.com/gallery/wjkDp#gSO4FRW
That's a big leap. The entire point of buying orphan drug companies like this is the rent seeking.
I took the author of this book's course during my undergrad and quite enjoyed it. It's a good theoretical introduction to machine learning principles. The video lectures are available here: https://youtu.be/b5NlRg8SjZg

As others have mentioned this is a fairly theoretical take on machine learning which may not be useful if you just want to use a deep learning library. That said, I think there is a lot of value in having a deeper theoretical grasp of a topic even when practicing.
> Suddenly paying $2.5 Billion in late 2014 starts to make some sense.

You mean expecting that a game that's already a half a dozen years old will keep increasing its revenue for a decade straight?

Does that make any sense whatsoever?
Mate Hack Farm
Facebook knows it is in the wrong. Facebook announced last year they weren't going to use Ireland as part of its tax dodging scheme. Otherwise GPDR rulings could just extract global money out of the Ireland tax funnel.
Such a person would just be considered a "hacker". (The law doesn't care if real hacking is necessary, they go by how a typical person would experience things.)
Maybe there should be a charity or government dept making this stuff. For those margins I'd expect a generic shop in India/China to be able to make them.
I'm not the person you asked, but from what I've seen HN tends to have the attitude that you don't need to understand "maths", "algorithms", "statistics", "data structures", or any of that complicated stuff, all you need is to get your hands dirty with code. If you buy that view, then this book is the opposite of what HN usually likes.
> but it is not necessary for the website displaying the advertisements, as proven by ad-blockers.

when I was a child I stole a toy from Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is still around. Therefore, Wal-Mart's entire existence as a store does not depend on any kind of anti-theft measures, and it should be illegal for them to film my entrance and exit.
Add me to the list. Love GV as a great tool for so many use cases. Great for handing out a phone number that is not really your phone number. So for something like students and certain office hours.
Yes, that is true.

The problem is that the media coverage of the issue is like 99,5% Shrkeli, his smug face and lacking social skills. Look at the title of this post alone - and we're on the rational, reflecting side of the internet here
Sure, because Swift and Objective-C applications is all that matters. /s

This comment alone proves that Apple developers are a bunch of clueless idiots.
When all of that happened, inflation never increased above 5%.

Look at an inflation chart from 1900-today. 1984-today is basically flat. It’s never been less risky to hoard dollars.
I don't see anyone still outraged at insurance companies and Big Pharma, or doing anything about it. Shkreli was made an example of, and everyone went on with their day, grumbling that the system is still broken.
> Tony Utano, the president of the Transport Workers Union Local 100, said he would fight any rule change that could put workers at risk.

Given that any change "could put workers at risk", it seems pretty clear that the union's are likely to be somewhat to blame.

Surely the train operators are not to blame for bad signals but why then is no one else at the MTA to blame? Are the workers that installed the signals not union members too? Are none of the MTA managers union members?
> only raised the price for insurance companies. If you could not afford it, you were provided it for free

Wow I had no idea. Source? If true I certainly am guilty of misdirected outrage.
One time I tried to create a tool to do in-place conversion between Linux software RAID volumes (e.g. RAID-0 to RAID-1 (assuming data fits), or RAID-1 to RAID-5, etc.) I used disk image files and the loopback device to test it to avoid having to reformat physical partitions.

Despite reading all of the documentation I could find, and even going so far as to read kernel source code, I could never get the system to recognize my striped block data. That is, I tried to generate three files composing a RAID-5 "by hand", but mdadm would refuse to mount them. I never figured out if there was some additional id-block I was missing, or if my striping algorithm was not correct.
Yep, it's game theory at it's best and the equilibrium is indeed destroying each other or at least destroy your neighbour
I use to use Taskwarrior, using all its features until one day my work life lost all complexity. At that point I felt like all the key features of Taskwarrior were lost because I just didn't have enough complication to track.

Now I just use todo.txt and that seems to cover everything I need.
Google is pretty amazing for sharing their secrets. Who would ever think they would give away Borg?
Healthcare is such an emotionally driven topic. It's the only industry where people have the audacity to say that companies should make a drug for cheap, losing money in the process, because it save a small handful of people per year.

Yet this logic can be applied to anything. Should food companies make healthy food cheaper at a loss so that more people get the nutrients they need and thus live longer?
Yes I can see that happening, but do you also get stressed out by a long list of things to do? This maybe leads to avoiding the todos and then you are worse off for making a list in the first place?
Yeah if you want to name a dog park after your brother-in-law who died in Iraq, that's how legislation is enacted. A giant change in how commerce is conducted, directly counter to the interests of major political donors? You can't be serious...

In case it wasn't clear, I certainly support Shivetya's excellent suggestion to improve society for humans who live in it. I'm just not as optimistic about personal lobbying as you are.
"they are still organized enough and have the capacity to initiate direct action and mobilize people when needed, and the last events in catalonia are good proof of it"

Do you have first hand information on this claim, or do you asume it was the anarchists organizing it?
Because as far as I know, they are not really important there. They do exists and they certainly push things, but I doubt in a crucial way.
Most anarchistic groups I met, were rather anachronistic and lived and thought in terminology of the 19. century ... and had as much vitality.
I would argue that there is a good argument to be made that gold is a speculative investment. Look at how similar the scammy "buy gold now" ads are to the crypto ads. There is also a large contingent of the gold market that is holding it not to make money, but as a store of value for after government collapses. The preppers that buy gold aren't that much different than the crypto-libertarians that fear currency collapse/manipulation.

Never mind the fact that if widespread inflation or deflation occurs, the value of bitcoin will suffer as well.

Although bitcoin is a speculative investment, it can be argued to have some utility. Unfortunately, that utility mainly revolves around making purchases the government doesnt agree with.
I'm of two minds about this.

Companies who are buying into the idea of the GDPR being scary, and who think this sort of thing is a good way to ignore the GDPR, are leaving money on the table.

But those other companies, who actively want to defy the GDPR; who don't want to protect their servers from hacking and think they can ignore my requests to stop calling me or emailing me, those are companies that I don't want any involvement with anyway. This sort of script doesn't protect them, and they deserve what they get.
me, an idiot: "This company that is not investing in R&D is probably not creating drugs."

you, a genius: "This company that is not investing in R&D is magically creating miracle drugs through the power of Ayn Rand"
> It showed a direct link between the West Chicago tower and another tower right by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange!

It's pointing at the top of 10 South Canal, one of downtown Chicago's main tombstones for data communications. The building has 3-6 foot concrete walls, no windows for the first 23 stories and was reportedly designed to withstand an overhead nuclear blast. The standing joke used to be that if Chicago were nuked you'd still get a phone bill because of that place.

There's a lot of underground fiber in that area too. Including 24-count bundles mounted near the ceiling of the old underground tunnel delivery system -- the one that accidentally flooded during the 90's. They were installed by Metropolitan Cable back in the late eighties/early nineties during the "politically connected" fiber gold rush to replace dedicated copper with light.

It would not be speculation to think there's fiber running directly from the MERC to 10 South Canal or that the MERC's location near 10 South is a coincidence.

The line-of-sight out to Aurora is interesting too. There are high spots out there with tower clusters reminiscent of East Texas in the 1930's. I believe there are backup trading centers out there as well built after 9/11.
Years ago I used Remember the Milk and then hopped between multiple "other" solutions over the years. Decided to give RTM another look last month and was really impressed.

In hindsight I should have never left it.

IMO Dropbox needs to purchase them to integrate with their growing offering.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/martin-shkreli-pharm...

"In one breath, he calls himself a capitalist and in the next an altruist—the latter because, he claims, his real goal is to invent new drugs for rare diseases. Turing recently announced discounts of Dara­prim for hospitals, and Shkreli says that for people without insurance it will cost only $1 a pill. For everyone else, insurance, which he argues is paid for by corporate America’s profits, will cover the cost. “I’m like Robin Hood,” he continues. “I’m taking Walmart’s money and doing research for diseases no one cares about.”"

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/25/news/companies/turing-pharma...

"Turing said it would offer smaller bottles of 30 tablets to make it easier and cheaper for hospitals to carry the drug, and free sample packages for doctors needing to treat patients in emergency situations. The company estimates that "nearly all patients will receive Daraprim for $10 or less out-of-pocket per prescription.

While Turing is dropping the price for hospitals, it is not reducing the list price of Daraprim at pharmacies, because that would not help patients, Retzlaff said."

https://www.thepharmaletter.com/article/turing-pharma-reduce...

"Additionally for the outpatient setting, Turing will continue to:

* Participate in federal and state programs such as Medicaid and the Section 340B discount program having costs as low as $1 per 100-pill bottle, which currently account for about two-thirds of Daraprim sales. (!!!)

* Commit to patients with commercial insurance that their out-of-pocket obligation will be no more than $10 per prescription when Turing's co-pay program is used.

* Contribute to Patient Services Inc (PSI), a longstanding independent charity that provides financial assistance for Medicare patients' cost-sharing requirements on toxoplasmosis therapies, consistent with PSI's advisory opinion from the HHS Office of Inspector General.

* Provide Daraprim free-of-charge to uninsured, qualified patients with demonstrated income at or below 500% of the federal poverty level through our Patient Assistance Program."
I'm not much into smart watches but this is big news. The current Qualcomm chip is 2 years old and totally outdated. Essentially Qualcomm killed the Android based smartwatch market by not innovating.
Insurance premiums have been going up long before the ACA was passed into law.
Have a pixel book and love it. Fantastic piece of hardware.
> batch processing

Not necessary. ETL these days can be streamed, realtime, etc.
Yeah but since then the 747 model has fallen out of fashion, since the market is now linking smaller airports to each other rather than relying on very few large hubs - and regulations have also made it possible for bi-reactors to fly much longer distances than before, accelerating the transformation of the whole routes model.
This has already happened. Daraprim (Pyrimethamine) is available today in India for pennies.[1] You can't import it into the United States without breaking the law. The American public should be outraged at the FDA for disallowing drug importation and their overwhelmingly onerous ANDA policy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrimethamine

[1] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/daraprim-like-drug-costs-less-0-07...
So, yes and no. These approaches to blocking EU visitors do somewhat protect you from having to comply with GDPR. However, "targeting" can mean a lot of things. If you have global adsense campaigns that advertise your service for EU customers, you're still targeting those data subjects. If you end up sponsoring any events in the EU with your company name where people may be able to draw a connection between your service and it being available in the EU, you're still targeting those data subjects. I mean, if you write a blog post on your branded company blog about a subject you know people in the EU would care about (let's say you're selling $foo_service and you are musing about $foo_field in the EU) and it gets really popular in EU circles, one could say that you were really just targeting advertising to those data subjects (a stretch, but I don't like to leave things up to lawyers).

Something like this needs to be a multi pronged approach - warnings displayed to EU customers, complete non-advertisement to EU sectors, and you should probably include terms of service as well.

A single page insert does not completely cut it. A lot is left open to interpretation in this regulation, and you need to effectively black out any interaction you have with the EU.
Why do you say gold jewelry has utility? Because people are willing to pay for it? How does that distinguish gold jewelry from Bitcoins, which people are also willing to pay for?
Do you mean to say that Facebook's existence isn't entirely dependent on selling personal information to advertisers?
And who pays for insurance payouts? The insurance companies out of their own good will? Shkreli?

No, society does though raised insurance premiums.

EDIT: The drug, per TFA, was profitable. Just not profitable enough for Shkreli et.al.
Now there's a thought!

What if we used a storage method that didn't grow?

In JavaScript we have typed arrays, we could use a `Uint16Array` to store UTF-16 code points as integers in each element, then we could define the amount of eels that our "hovercraft" could store ahead of time in a way that it won't expand.

const hovercraftEelCapacity = 331 // We can define our hovercraft to have room for 331 eels
const eel = 'eel'
const hovercraft = new Uint16Array(new ArrayBuffer(2 * eel.length * hovercraftEelCapacity)) // Each "eel" takes up 3 16-bit integers

for (let i = 0; i < hovercraftEelCapacity * eel.length; i += eel.length) {
hovercraft[i] = eel.codePointAt(0)
hovercraft[i+1] = eel.codePointAt(1)
hovercraft[i+2] = eel.codePointAt(2)
}

console.log('Your hovercraft full of eels: ', hovercraft)
Brexit data transfer gaps a risk for UK startups, MPs told
This was actually my original approach. I meant to mention that. And I got it to work but then I had to figure out how to control the hardware from the pi and I just gave up. To be fair, I didn't try too hard. I'm sure there is a way to communicate with peripherals through
I can't see that argument going well: Since they let users opt-out of targeted advertising, which is probably the only thing "tracking" is useful for, they tacitly admit that "tracking" is not necessary for them to providing their service.