skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone presented with a startup that needs an "append-only" transaction database with consensus across 2-N servers (depending on scale), and an inherent incentive to exploit any potential "double-spend" issue, an internal blockchain with a single node acting as an authoritative "miner" (aka, controller) seems pretty cheap to roll out considering I can just modify existing bitcoin/blockchain software.

Is there any software out there that I could readily adapt to provide the same properties and guarantees without incurring hundreds of hours of development and testing?
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The radical organizations I'm familiar with (Socialist parties) are big on centralization the whole aim of that current of thought is the centralization of power within the state controlled by the workers ('Dictatorship of the proletariat' to use the Marxist term for it). So from that perspective I don't think a centrally controlled blockchain is a big impediment - may even be desirable.
I think it was in Jim Corbett's book, The Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon (Or it may have been one of his earlier books) where he describes being pounced on by a big cat while in his tent one night - From memory a Tiger - and the only thing he had at arms reach to defend himself was a small cheese knife on his supper plate. He managed to get lucky and kill it with the little knife.

Several years later, he got into an argument with a shop assistant while trying to describe how he had killed a Tiger in India/Africa (memory escaped me) with a similar little knife as he found in the shop. After the shop assistant didn't believe him, Corbett got angry, abused him and was then arrested for causing a 'public hysteria'... Or so the story goes.

A Bit of an off-topic point, I know.. But I thought it was interesting to bring up. I definitely recommend reading Jim Corbett's work, it's an interesting view of life when there was a real chance of you being eaten by a man-eater, and seeing how his work hunting man-eaters led to the establishment of the Corbett national park in India.
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"I don't like technology, it's a complex kludge, but now it pervades every aspect of development and operations" See how silly this sounds?

All new technologies are inherently more complex than the last ones, solving some problems and introducing others...
> Instead, local publicans stepped in and extended credit to their customers; the debtors were well-known to the publicans, who were in a good position to make an assessment on their credit worthiness.

I didn't know what a publican was, so I googled it...

pub·li·can

noun.

1. (British)
a person who owns or manages a pub.

2.(in ancient Roman and biblical times)
a collector of taxes.

I assume the author is referring the first definition.
it's not about negotiation at all. NZ has a population of 5M. The largest private health insurer in the US, United Health, cover 40M people. They can, and do, negotiate drug prices.

Who do you think would get a better deal?
On the one hand I see where they are coming from. On the other I sure do enjoy the genius of production of those old animations, particularly Fantasia. On the one hand I understand the criticism that Spielberg torpedoed indie cinema, on the other hand Empire of the Sun was a masterpiece. Two things can exist, in their own right, meriting praise, yet opposed and unresolved.
Dude, what is Disney known for? Retellings of old stories and fairy-tales...

Star Wars is a fairytale of our days, yet no artist can retell the story or expand the universe.
the US actually has more generic drugs as a % of total rx than many OECD countries. Yes pharma companies actively try to protect patents in ways that try to game the system, but it's actually much harder to do than it used to be bc payers are much more aggressive / consolidated. The bigger issue is probably generic drug price inflation and the high cost of developing innovative drugs. Very hard to solve the latter without stifling innovation

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/20...
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One of the bigger problems with blockchain is that there aren't many field experts working in the space. For example if you look at a voting blockchain you will be hard pressed to find an experienced psephologist working with the team.

Without experience most of the team is made of people who might have read up on the topic and thought - "Well! This can be changed via blockchain". What they don't realize is academic exhortations are vastly different from practical implementations.

For example, if everyone could implement that amazing trading system from that trading book, everyone would be millionaire. But that is never true. Another good example of this is the mistaken understanding of banking and especially Visa:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2018/04/21/bitco...

What this means blockchain solutions either run into issues during build or work in a very specific circumstances.

For example, the building block of most cryptocurrency is game theory - if someone takes over 51% then rational economical thing to do is continue the chain. But what if we have an irrational actor who doesn't care? Or what if people can manipulate the change even below 51%. A good example is the F2Pool's manipulation of Status ICO with 25% hash rate:

https://themerkle.com/f2pool-allegedly-prevented-users-from-...
You authenticate to Plaid with your bank credentials, so it's not much different than the data you can get directly from the bank through OFX (like Quicken and other things do). Plaid just simplified it and put a better API on it.
The pharmacist should do that, but they don't.

I've done it before at a doctor. "Here is the latest drug!!". "Can we start with a generic?", "Sure".

My co-pay just went from $50 per month to $5.

I work with a lot of doctors, they don't think it's their job to save patients money. They'll do it if asked though.
I respect the author's argument, and I am persuaded a bit, but my team is already using Swarm in production and it's stable. Would the author, or proponents of the author's argument, suggest we backtrack and if so, how? What's the migration path?
I still don't agree, although I respect both of your opinions as real regex implementors without a doubt.

It's just too complex a 'standard'. The amount of crap they had to 'retract' by the current version is telling, and features like 3.9 and 3.11 are speculative design by standards committee, which is the exact opposite of how these things should work. It's the ultimate unfunded mandate: "hooray, I'm writing a standard, why don't I shove some random crap in there that no-one implements now in existing libraries in the hope I get to set directions".

The standard should be minimal and well-defined. This is neither.

It's also preposterously self-important. Yeah, I'm so fascinated by the history of the Unicode standard I'm going to start introducing an "age" property so I can regex-match on when characters were entered. There's a certain attitude whereby these guys are just blithely shoveling junk into a standard that no-one needs. If you're desperate for all these exotic character properties put them in a godamn file as a character class and blat them in wherever you need them (yes, it would be nice if regex had macros).

Somewhere in all this nonsense is a good standard struggling to get out. They need to shit or get off the pot. Anything that they don't know how to do or that no-one knows how to do should be completely deleted. Anything that they offer 15 different choices as to how to do ... they need to figure out which is the best one and pick that. It's a standards documents, it's supposed to make choices, it's not a potted plant.
@jgrahamc your team and you do splendid work and it's always interesting to see technical posts like this. Thanks from a happy customer.

It would be really nice to read about your higher level infrastructure, e.g. how you do monitoring and alerting, your Kafka journey (have you been dealing with mirrormaker pain? as far as I can tell you;'re not using it), and similar.
Ask HN: Good ressources for getting started on modern Java development+Spring?
I'm working in a company and we're making the switch to Java (using Spring framework) for our backend code (mostly API). There are a lot of ressources for Java tutorials and I'm not sure where to start. I have a PHP/C/C++ background

Any recommendations?
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> The same people who

Is it really the same people? Do you have any examples of this?
The article does not address what I think is the Achille's Heel of crypto currencies: Controlling the money supply is one of the most powerful rights that a government has. Why do you think the governments in the EU have not unified their fiscal policies? Why do you think EU countries cheat on their budget deficits? Governments want to be able to make money plentiful during economic downturns, and tighten it up when the economy starts overheating. They set nonzero target inflation rates to encourage people to consume and invest. The idea that governments will allow some technology to remove that power from them is silly. If a crypto currency ever becomes a significant medium of exchange, it will be outlawed (following predictable reports about Drug Kingpins, Terrorists and Child Pornography).
I think the most value in docker is "infrastructure as code", basically the way to configure a unix system in a consistent language, but that was a side-effect of docker, not it's main purpose.

I see two things missing:

Systemd can already apply cgroups to a process. If could also do a process firewall and/or use vnet interfaces for a process that would be incredible.

The next thing is a cross-platform definition language for installing and initializing a process: "I need a ldap server with this init script setup". Basically bring the IOC, DI, and Hollywood Principles to IAC.
I'm not a huge fan of Walt Disney's versions of fairy tales but in fairness stories like Cinderella were bowdlerized long before the Disney team got hold of them. Disney stories were mostly notable because they were so successful.

For example, in the Grimm Brothers version the stepsisters cut off toes and heels to fit into Cinderella's shoes and ride to visit the prince with blood dripping down on the ground. Later they were blinded. The already old version I read while growing up in the US in the late 1960s left that part out.

More interestingly, the Grimm Brothers themselves altered many of their own stories substantially in the 7 or so full editions of Grimms' Fairy Tales they published before 1857. Some of the originals were pretty crude.

(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimms%27_Fairy_Tales)
Just to clarify, we're debating whether Robinhood is a success and the measure of success being used is "can early investors cash out for a gain?"

What if every company checked that box and couldn't provide lasting value beyond that? Do we still consider this a success because we're posting on a forum run by a VC?
I'd go a step further... you cannot sell a drug unless there is another company prepared to sell a generic version. It's a national security issue. Dual vendor required.

Also, no blocks on re-imports from foreign nations.
Joining the Peace Corps; deliberately and stubbornly (though often gracelessly) tackling the ways my upbringing had left me with lenses and reactions that harmed me and those around me; marrying well. There’s no way to disentangle these decisions from each other, as they’re interlinked and support and demand each other. What they all have in common is an unceasing demand that I be willing to reevaluate, surrender, and ultimately change my perspective.
For the same reason that we now understand Santa Claus as the shitty Coca Cola character invented as an early 20th century ad. The original is lost to all except historical scholars and all we're left with is the pastiche dripping in sickly sweetness.

About as far from "without doing any real damage" as it's possible to get.
How do you not know your cars engine is running?
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>> never run a car inside the garage with the door closed

Are you implying this is not common knowledge?
Maybe look into datomic
I'm going to go on a bit of a rant. I agree blocking access to drugs for bioequvalence is bullshit. Drug companies can do it by claiming that the law doesn't allow them, but it's BS.

The reverse payments I see nothing wrong with. Imagine you're a drug company holding a patent. A generic company decides to try and invalidate it. You think there is a 50% chance they'll win. The generic company agrees.

You have two options: 1) spend a ton of lawyers and still possible lose, 2) go to the generic company and agree to let them produce the generic 5 years before patent expiration.

With the 2nd option, you're basically agreeing to split up the pie evenly rather than risking it all.

In every case where reverse payments are made, the drug goes generic earlier then if they went to court and got the patent upheld.

Eliminate reverse payments and what you're doing is making lawyers rich. In many cases the branded drug company would win and block generics for many more years than if a reverse payment was made.
There labs were in the market for years, using a "mix" of their own tests and also standard tests from other manufacturers. What they could not come out with was any FDA approved test of their own except for one (for herpes).

The basic issue is that drawing a pin prick of blood from the fingers results in a lot of "interstitial" fluid. The combination of a very small sample and poor quality made it hard to create reliable tests. In reality Theranos labs were mostly taking vials of blood from veins for standard tests, instead of the pin pricks they were touting. Once this became public the bottom fell out.

Edit: The worst part of what they did was that they would take smaller samples than normal and then run them diluted on standard machines . This is because the standard machines needed a larger volume. This gave patients less reliable results than they would have had a larger sample been taken in the first place. And i think this is really unforgivable, because it has real life consequences for people.
Now that would be genuinely interesting to have a look through.
Yes. We were a subscription only website. Most of our users were in Asia at the time.
It's not exactly one message - this is across hundreds of film and tv shows. But basically:

1) Old Disney - The best thing that can happen to girls is finding prince charming.

2) New Disney - Girls are just regular protagonists, sometimes purposefully going against the tropes.

3) Anime - Incredibly variety, top 5% is amazing re: girls or boys as protagonists, but a lot of it written for teenage boys and has women as side characters for sex appeal.
So under your system, a drug for a super rare, low sales product would never get produced because no generic company wants to make it?
> Of note is the modern excision of the last phrase from the closing formula: "And they all lived happily ever after until they died."

I think this is true of English speakers. In German everyone knows the standard phrase "und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute" ("And if they have not died then they are still alive today.")

It's a sufficiently well known meme that people use it regularly in jokes.

Edit: added quote for clarity
Interesting to think about why this reality didn’t come to pass. Ben was clearly right about the opportunity market being huge and i think it’s timing. Without having thought too much about I think he underestimated or couldn’t compete with Microsoft. Having cheap wintel PCs everywhere made next irrelevant.
zooming out, progress in the cloud is something that should be easier

plenty of our headless jobs know exactly where they are and how big the job is. There should be a standard dash for getting this.

even things like hadoop & luigi that have dashboards built in aren't great at progress & ETA

we should surface & store stats from any long-running loop. Further benefit that you can use prev runtime to properly schedule the next run (or run more sophisticated feedback & alerting).
Is it the health insurer that negotiates though or the individual private health care providers and pharmacy chains (drug stores)?
I maybe have a counter-question. Once you identify an attack, what do you do? Firewalling the attacker is an option but not really effective, the attacker might just change IP address and keep going. We've only inconvenienced them a bit. What else can be done?
If they are enthusiastic enough, they pay extra for the privilege of getting the cool stuff early and/or taking part in it getting finalized.
It really does. This is how incrementalism works so well. The exceptions[0] you cite are for practical purposes pointless; since you would need to defend your use of them, and the regulations can be incrementally tightened.

The EU def of free speech is absurd anyway, the recent pug owner who got a fine for a dog trick is a harbinger.

GDPR is about compliance. It further normalizes the idea that the gov can regulate memory, all the way down to who visited my property (if I was in the shrinking EU).

[0] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
You are over-analysing and over-complicating something quite simple.

None of what I described is necessarily my belief or opinion I just described how that sentence can work against a job candidate.

There will be tens of resumes piled up in front of someone who is tired and overworked and they don't have the time or interest to dig into your deep philosophy about the meaning of the sentence.

When there are lots of other options in front of them that don't have the same "problems" they are going to pick those out of caution.

It's asking for a misunderstanding and asking to be skipped/rejected.

You may lose great opportunities because the HR person filtered you out on step 0 because you were so insistent to announce your interest in giving all your love to wonderful women.
I totally disagree.

I think that technology is driven mainly by waves of simplification, not added complexity.

Indeed this is exactly why I don’t like docker because it introduces fresh new deep complexity.
First off spending more on marketing than R&D is bullshit. That's only true if you add up S&GA which encompasses a lot more than just marketing.

Second, marketing is costly since a lot of it is done in person. Hiring thousands of sales reps doesn't come cheap. It's not due to DTC commercials since only a small number of products actually have those.

Finally, you don't market something unless you bring in more money than you spend. So marketing pays for itself.
I think of docker as a learning tool, it is a repository of systems others have created that you can learn from. I agree you can use any build system or write scripts by hand and get similar results but docker has created a standardized ecosystem you can quickly learn how to do just about anything from.
They needed to polyfill blink.
Be sure to watch So Dear to My Heart if you get a chance. Made two years later, it's kind of a sister film to Song of the South: similar animation + live action techniques, some of the same actors, and a bit (but not so much) of the same racial controversy.

There are certainly things to be criticized about both movies, but I think much of the criticism came from people who never saw them.

Walter Francis White's NAACP statement (quoted in the Wikipedia article linked above) is a good example. White didn't see the movie himself, but commented on it based on reports from staff members. As you mentioned, he mistakenly assumed that the film was set during the era of slavery.

The thing that sticks in my mind about Song of the South is that Uncle Remus is the hero of the movie.

To me, the real tragedy of this film - which portrayed people of different races as friends and companions - was that James Baskett, who played Uncle Remus and voiced a couple of the animated characters, couldn't attend the premiere festivities in Atlanta because it was a segregated city. But how could Disney be to blame for that?

And right now I'm regretting having given away my old laserdiscs of Song of the South and So Dear to My Heart. :-(
I don't self hosting anything right now other than my side projects. But if you want to self host anything cool there's an awesome list of that [0].

[0] https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
Surely though the best marketing is the effectiveness of the product, if it's a good product then doctors will prescribe it.

That's true for very few physicians. The ones that are leaders in their field and do research know the ins and outs of new drugs, but your average doctor knows very little.
I wonder how long before Comic Slack
Yes - especially considering over 15,000 times that died in crashes.
Saint Nicholas is still alive and well in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Or even better, just describe each shortcoming as an opportunity.
> Go dependencies are a little odd the first time you run into them. I suspect this is because Google runs a mono-repo and as such the decisions around it were made with that in mind.

I think the oddness is around the directory structure. It may also be because Go was developed by UNIX old hands. When UNIX was designed, it was not just for ordinary users, but also developers. When developing in UNIX, you can use all of UNIX as an IDE ( grep, find etc ). Most Unices have a folder called /usr/src [1] where sources are stored. When you want to build a package, you cd into it ( say 'cd /usr/src/make') and then say 'make && make install' and it builds and installs the packages to your /usr/bin.

I am assuming, Google's internal monorepo, which is derived from Perforce [2] encourages you to keep the /usr/src under source control. Since Piper is not released to the public and most people now use git, GOPATH was probably conceived as a way to relocate '/usr/src/' to another location. This is probably why 'go install' ( which probably mimics 'make install' ) installs everything at 'GOPATH/bin'. If this is true, I think we have a mental model on Go's directory structure.

Hopefully someone can tell me if I am off base.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

[2] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
It's the insurer who negotiates with the drug companies directly.

And they do negotiate hard! United healthcare has over 100 products on it's exclusion list which means they told the drug company "no, we won't pay for your drug."
The intersection of pay-or-die, competitor lock-out, and sky-high prices.
That's exactly what the tool in the link does.
While Rust is not "extremely popular", Rust releases every 6 weeks.
Javascript can write to a file.. see jsshell, node and a number of other runtimes. However, you do not want browsers to have unfettered filesystem access. The language is perfectly able. You could possibly write an extension to do what you want.
curious about the explicit true and false in one of their code examples. any good reason for that?

// dispatching an action based on state change
componentWillUpdate(nextProps, nextState) {
if (nextState.open == true && this.state.open == false) {
this.props.onWillOpen();
}
}
Only if you iterate over a fixed-length iterable.

[x for x in itertools.count()]

will never terminate.
You completely demolished that argument by picking an extreme example. Well done!
> While arguing with people with people (who are attempting to help you) coupled with displays of intellectual stotting when you feel threatened

Precious.

> may seem like a good way to get a job offer, ask yourself: “How is that working out for me so far?”

I'm under the impression you think I'm OP (original poster). I'm not and I don't know why you'd assume I am or looking for a job.
Too bad The Lord of the Rings movie got a Disney make over with the happy ending where the Shire was never destroyed. This is so Non-Tolkienish that he must have turned in his grave.